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The final report on the Veii survey by the BSR - ROBERTA CASCINO, HELGA DI GIUSEPPE and HELEN L. PATTERSON (edd.), with contributions by A. Bousquet, R. Cascino, W. Clarke, M. Craven, F. Del Vecchio, F. Di Gennaro, H. Di Giuseppe, M. T. Di Sarcina, F. Felici, S. Fontana, A. Kirk, H. L. Patterson, C. Phillips, M. Rendeli, M. Sansoni, A. Schiappelli, C. J. Smith, D. Williams, R. Witcher and S. Zampini, ‘VEII. THE HISTORICAL TOPOGRAPHY OF THE ANCIENT CITY’. A RESTUDY OF JOHN WARD-PERKINS’ SURVEY (Archaeological Monograph of the British School at Rome 19, London 2012; distributed by Oxbow Books). Pp. xiii + 431, figs. 141, colour pls. 2, Tables. ISBN 978-0-904152-63-0. £85.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Angela Murock Hussein
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 520 - 524
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