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Silchester

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Silchester (sĭl`chĭstər), village, Hampshire, S England. It is noted for the ruins of the Roman-British town Calleva Atrebatum. The outside walls (2,760 yd/2,524 m in circumference), forum, amphitheater, and entire plan of the city, including baths and several temples, were revealed through excavations beginning in the 1890s. Small articles were removed to Reading Museum.


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This book examines its principal manifestations, including the Pompeian atrium-and-peristyle format and the imperial residences on the Palatine hill in Rome, along with less familiar material from as far afield as Silchester, Antioch and Volubilis (Morocco).
 
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