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Chapter Six - Urban Transformations at Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: Destruction or Intentional Preservation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2018

Diana Y. Ng
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University of Michigan, Dearborn
Molly Swetnam-Burland
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary, Virginia
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Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture
Functions, Aesthetics, Interpretations
, pp. 160 - 185
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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