Dr Janet DeLaine

Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Iaonnou Centre, faculty of Classics

phone: 01865 278248

email: janet.delaine@classics.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Roman architecture, art and urbanism in the Mediterranean, especially the Roman building industry, Roman baths, and the urban development of Ostia.

 

Current Activities

The urban development of Ostia; Survey and excavation at Regio I, Insula IV.2-4 at Ostia.

 

Publications

  • 'Designing for a market: medianum apartments at Ostia,' Journal of Roman Archaeology 17 (2004), 146-176
  • 'Building activity in Ostia in the second century AD,' in C. Bruun and A. Gallina Zevi (eds), Ostia e Portus nelle loro relazioni con Roma (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 27, 2002) 41-101
  • 'The Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus and Roman attitudes to exceptional construction,' Papers of the British School at Rome 70 (2002), 205-230
  • 'Techniques et industrie de la construction à Ostie,' in J.-P. Descoeudres (ed.), Ostie. Port et porte de la Rome antique (2001) 91-99
  • 'Building the Eternal City: the building industry of imperial Rome,' in J. Coulston and H. Dodge (eds), Ancient Rome: the Archaeology of the Eternal City (2000), 119-141
  • 'The East baths at Leptiminus: an overview and suggested reconstruction,' in L. Stirling, D. Mattingly and N. Ben Lazreg (eds), Leptiminus 2, JRA Suppl. 41 (2000), 9-24
  • 'Bricks and mortar: exploring the economics of building techniques at Rome and Ostia,' in D. J. Mattingly and J. Salmon (eds), Economies beyond agriculture in the Classical World (2000), 230-68
  • Roman Baths and Bathing. J. DeLaine and D.E. Johnston (eds), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Roman Baths, Vol. 1, Bathing and Society; Vol. 2, Design and Construction, JRA Suppl. 37 (1999)
  • 'High status insula apartments in early imperial Ostia – a reading,' Mededelingen van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome, Antiquity 58 (1999), 175-187
  • 'The romanitas of the railway station,' in M. Wyke and M. Biddiss (eds), Uses and Abuses of Antiquity (Bern) 145-60
  • The Baths of Caracalla in Rome: a study in the design, construction and economics of large-scale building projects in imperial Rome, JRA Suppl. 25 (Portsmouth R.I. 1997).