Circus Maximus (Rome, Italy)

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection is composed of notes taken by Esther Van Deman during all her archaeological surveys and travel excavations in the Roman Forum between 1907 and 1929. It is a rare example of both a personal and a professional archive.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection is composed of notes taken by Esther Van Deman during all her archaeological surveys and travel excavations in the Roman Forum between 1907 and 1929. It is a rare example of both a personal and a professional archive.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection is composed of notes taken by Esther Van Deman during all her archaeological surveys and travel excavations in the Roman Forum between 1907 and 1929. It is a rare example of both a personal and a professional archive.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection is composed of notes taken by Esther Van Deman during all her archaeological surveys and travel excavations in the Roman Forum between 1907 and 1929. It is a rare example of both a personal and a professional archive.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection is composed of notes taken by Esther Van Deman during all her archaeological surveys and travel excavations in the Roman Forum between 1907 and 1929. It is a rare example of both a personal and a professional archive.

Abstract Esther Van Deman's work focuses on building materials, working to establish a chronology of construction for the ancient sites. In 1907, while attending a lecture in the Atrium Vestae in Rome, Van Deman noticed that the bricks blocking up a doorway differed from those of the structure itself. Such differences in building materials provided a key to discovering the chronology of ancient structures. Van Deman's basic methodology, with few modifications, became the standard procedure in Roman...