amphitheatre, amphitheater
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Equivalent to Getty AAT "amphitheaters" aat:300007128 (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300007128).

aqueduct
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

arch, triumphal arch
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

archipelago, island group
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Any grouping of islands or an archipelago that are treated as a unit in antiquity or in archaeological analysis.

architectural complex
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A group of rooms, spaces, built features or structures that makes up an individual architectural unit within a larger building or group of buildings.

basilica
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

bath, spa
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

bay
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

bridge
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Equivalent to aat:300007836 (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300007836).

canal
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

cape, promontory
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

causeway
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

cave
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

centuriation
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

church, monastery
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

circus
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

cistern
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A waterproof receptacle for retaining liquids, as described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistern. Equivalent to aat:300052558 (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300052558).

city gate
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

city wall
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

shoreline
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

coastal change
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

dam, dike, levee
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

desert
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. As defined at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert

ekklesiasterion
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A type of Greek building used for public assemblies.

estate, villa
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

estuary
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Equivalent to aat:300266571 (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300266571).

erroneous place, false name
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

findspot, place of finding
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

forest
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

fort, tower
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

fort group
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

fountain
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: An architectural feature that furnishes water for drinking, washing or aesthetic display into a built basin of some kind.

frontier system, limes
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A border defensive system, as described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes

garden, hortus
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature, as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Garden

grove
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: a small wood, orchard, or group of trees.

hill
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

island
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

isthmus
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.

lagoon
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs.

lake
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Lake or Lacus (Latin), abbreviated: L.

lighthouse
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

marsh, wetland
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

military installation or camp, temporary
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

mine, quarry
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

mosque
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

mountain
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

oasis
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

palaistra
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A square or rectangular court, usually surrounded by colonnades, that formed part of a Greek-style athletic complex.

pass, "gates"
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

peninsula
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

people, tribe
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Equivalent to Getty AAT category "historical cultural groups" aat:300387177 (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300387177).

plain
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

plateau
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: an area of relatively level high ground, as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau.

agora, forum, plaza
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: An agora, forum, or other plaza-like civic space.

port
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

production center (manufacturing, fishing)
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

province, diocese, nome
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: An administrative region

cataract, rapid
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

region
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

reservoir, hafir
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

ridge
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

river, drainage
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

road
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

salt-marsh
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

salt pans, salinae
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Salt evaporation ponds, also called salterns or salt pans, are shallow artificial ponds designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines, as described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_evaporation_pond

settlement
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

settlement-modern
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

spring
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

stadion
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A space in which the stadion footrace was held, usually consisting of a flat rectangular track about 200 meters long with a starting line at one end and a semicircular area at the other, with seating areas sloping up from the track on the two long sides and the end.

station (road or coastal)
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

stoa
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A rectangular building with an open colonnade along one long side.

taberna, shop
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: A taberna is a Roman single room shop most often covered by a barrel vault, as described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taberna.

temple, sanctuary, shrine, monument, tomb
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

theatre, theater
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

townhouse
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Designation for a private residence or individual mixed-use residential and commercial complex within a planned urban environment. A townhouse abuts neighboring residences, either directly through party-walls or indirectly through lot-edges or shared alleys.

treasury
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: (i.e., ancient Greek Θησαυρός) Equivalent to AAT:treasuries (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006050)

tribus, Roman voting assembly
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

tumulus
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

tunnel
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

undefined
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

underground structures
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Equivalent to Getty AAT category "underground structures" aat: 300008047 (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300008047).

unknown
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

unlocated
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

urban area
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

valley
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

vicus
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Small, rural farming settlement of the high Roman empire and later periods, often associated with a villa.

villa
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories
scope note: Equivalent to aat:300005517 (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005517).

wall, earthwork
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

water, inland
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

water, open
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

well
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

water wheel
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

whirlpool
type: Concept
in scheme: Feature (or Place) Categories

Feature (or Place) Categories
type: ConceptScheme
creator: sgillies
description: Once we called these "types", but as they are not hierarchical and not exclusive we have changed them to "categories."
modified: 2013-01-15 14:18:56