The urban development of a city is often closely linked to its fortifications. Comprehensive research, undertaken by a multidisciplinary team from the University of Vienna between 1974 and 2001 in the Lower town of Velia, studied the evolution of the city walls in relation to the urban development of the Phocaean polis on the Tyrrhenian coast and provided new information on the development of the city mainly between the 5th and the 2nd c. BC. The study focused on the architecture of the...

The third volume of the Velia studies is devoted to the Greek stone inscriptions at Velia, and represents the first scientific presentation of the whole of this material, whose chronological framework extends from the turn of the sixth to the fifth centuries BC to the first century AD. The volume is broken down into cult, honorary and grave inscriptions, followed by the inscriptions whose contents could not be defined beyond doubt. The first two groups contain a series of inscriptions already...

The recognition and definition of different cultural identities on the basis of material culture is a central problem for all archaeologies. It was the aim of this book to create a new basis for the discussion of the cultural identity of Elea, a Greek town on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy, by presenting a large and important complex of finds found in the living quarters of the town according to its context. The first part contains ceramic vessels and architectural terracottas from the mud-brick...

Contents: MOREL, Jean-Paul: Hyélè revue à la lumière de Massalia; KRINZINGER, Fritz: Die Monumentalisierung der Akropolis und die urbanistische Entwicklung von Velia; DAUM, Johannes: Die Terrassenmauer II auf der Akropolis von Elea; CICALA, Luigi - FIAMMENGHI, Carla Antonella - MAFFETTONE (†), Rosanna - VECCHIO, Luigi: Problemi di topografia storica dell'Acropoli di Velia: L'edificio ellenistico ad Ovest del tempio; TOCCO SCIARELLI, Giuliana: Spazi pubblici a Velia: L'agorà o un santuario?;...