Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2014. — 240 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 18). La spécialisation de plus en plus grande et le cloisonnement de nos domaines de recherche (histoire, histoire de l’art, archéologie...) conduisent le plus souvent à étudier et à publier séparément, malgré leur complémentarité, les sources épigraphiques et les...
Society for Libyan Studies, 2019. — 218 p. — (Society for Libyan Studies Open Access Monograph 1). This title is a key new addition to literature on the rural economy of Tripolitania during Antiquity. The chapters explore the geography and climate of the area and present the results of the author’s archaeological survey. Settlement types and their constructions are examined,...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 166 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 90). Celebrating the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian’s visit to Britain and the building of the Wall, this book presents studies from from the point of view of those living, visiting, researching and working along it. The book offers a realistic discussion of current issues and solutions in the...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 554 p. The fully revised second edition of this successful volume includes updates on the latest archaeological research in all chapters, and two new essays on Greek and Roman art. It retains its unique, paired essay format, as well as key contributions from leading archaeologists and historians of the classical world. - Second edition is...
Routledge, 2004. — 302 p. Using archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400 and investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued. The book...
Augusta Raurica, 1975. — 92 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 2). One of the first clues in establishing the dating of the finds from Venusstrasse Ost came in the form of negative information in that only a few of our sherds were covered in Dr. Elisabeth Ettlingens now classic work on the excavation of the Frauenthermen in Augst. Since these baths were in use during the Second...
English Heritage, 1988. — 150 p. — (English Heritage Archaeological Report 7). During the examination of a sequence of timber forts underlying the third century military base at the Roman site of Corbridge, the remains of an iron-bound wooden chest was uncovered. Although much of the wood and other organic remains had rotted away, the contents, a remarkable hoard of metalwork...
BAR Publishing, 1989. — 238 p. — (BAR British Series 201). An illustrated catalogue of ear-rings with drawings or photographs, and distribution maps of the types; discussion of fashions and their use, manufacture, materials, workshops, distribution.
University of California Press, 1999. — 486 p. — ISBN-13 978-0520208681. The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann gained this status as an archaeological hero partly by...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California Press, 2004. — 272 p. Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art-historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behavior. This book is concerned with contextualized Pompeian household artifacts and their...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 257 p. Abila of the Decapolis is the largest Graeco-Roman city in Jordan with a tremendous wealth of funerary remains, and thus has the potential to improve our understanding of ancient culture and mobility. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of burial types, practices, and evidence for societal collapse in the growing field of bioarchaeology of...
Augusta Raurica, 2011. — 486 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 46). Unsere Bemühungen, nebst einzelnen Fundgattungen auch die Befunde und Kontexte von Altgrabungen ausgewertet in Buchform vorzulegen, tragen seit einigen Jahren Früchte. Dazu gehören die Aufarbeitung der Grabungen im Trassee der Autobahn respektive in der Flur Kurzenbettli, der Glasmanufakturen in Kaiseraugst, des...
BAR Publishing, 2010. — 892 p. — (BAR International Series 2059). Between 2002 and 2006 the Albanian Rescue Archaeology Unit excavated at Apollonia, one of the most important Archaic Greek colonies in the Mediterranean, and one of the three major sites of Albania, with Butrint and Durres. The city is located approximately 10 km from the Adriatic coast. This work presents the...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 323 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 101). Ce livre réunit une vingtaine de contributions regroupées dans cinq parties: - De l’atelier à l’objet: artisanats, productions et instrumentum; - Croyances et cultes; - Iconographie, épigraphie et archéologie funéraire; - Habiter et organiser un territoire; - Décorer un édifice, qui reflètent une grande partie...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 453 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 26). Abordé généralement de façon ponctuelle à travers une activité particulière ou une zone géographique donnée, l’artisanat en Afrique du nord antique fait ici pour la première fois l’objet d’un ouvrage. Centrée sur la production urbaine en Algérie durant l’Antiquité, cette étude critique rassemble une nouvelle...
American School of Classical Studies, 1975. — 193 p. — (Corinth, vol. VII,2) In the first section of this book, Amyx catalogues and discusses more than 200 fragments of Archaic Corinthian pottery with figure decoration, selected from those previously unpublished or inadequately published. The authors have also given attention to vase-painters of the Protocorinthian and Corinthian...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1996. — 229 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 28). Two important contributions to Greek pottery studies. Aftermath, by D. A. Amyx, is a catalogue of material supplementing his work in Corinth VII.2 but found after the cutoff of 1969 or omitted for some other reason. This article and Corinth VII.2 together stand as a full compilation...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2001. — 400 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 19). Wanborough, near the modern town of Swindon, was a thriving small Roman town located on Ermin Street that stretched between Cirencester and Silchester. This report summarises the 1966-76 excavations that took place in advance of development and presents the finds (coins, metal objects,...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 666 p. The House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations ever to have...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 664 p. The House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations ever to have...
Harvard University Press, 2000. — 272 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs. Book 11). The fabulous wealth of the Lydian Kingdom (in what is now western Turkey) was renowned throughout the classical world--in fact, Lydia's kings created the world's first coinage. The Harvard-Cornell Sardis Expedition has unearthed a gold refinery from the time of King Croesus...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 399 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 27). Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: 1st Century BC – 6th Century AD is a detailed examination of the production of glass and glass vessels in the eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic Age to the Early Christian period, analysing production techniques and decoration. The volume establishes the...
Archaeopress, 2009. — 198 p. — (BAR International Series 2009). This study focuses on Qasr al-Buleida ('the countryside castle [or] palace' in Arabic), a small hamlet located six kilometres to the northeast of the modern village of Ghor al-Mazra'a on the Dead Sea Plain. The hamlet comprises the archaeological remains of five free-standing, fortified architectural complexes, as...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 206 p. — (BAR British Series 557). In 2002 the fullest evidence so far recovered for the Roman settlement at Nantwich, a historic salt-producing centre in Cheshire (north-western England), was revealed by an excavation carried out at Kingsley Fields, on the west side of the town, ahead of a housing development. This uncovered a previously unknown Roman...
Augusta Raurica, 2007. — 338 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 38). Die vorliegende Präsentation eines Teils der Insula 36 in der Oberstadt von Augusta Raurica hat eine – fast schon übliche – lange Vorgeschichte von der archäologischen Rettungsgrabung im Jahr 1984 anlässlich eines Neubaus bis zum Vorliegen der Abschlusspublikation 23 Jahre danach. Die Notgrabungen wurden damals...
Routledge, 2009. — 120 p. Memphis was one of the great melting pots of Mediterranean and African culture during the reigns of the heirs of Alexander and under the Roman Empire, a vibrant and complex community well after the end of the age of its ancient Pharaonic founders. For too long, its importance during this critical period has been wrongly eclipsed by the younger city of...
Routledge, 2009. — 120 p. Memphis was one of the great melting pots of Mediterranean and African culture during the reigns of the heirs of Alexander and under the Roman Empire, a vibrant and complex community well after the end of the age of its ancient Pharaonic founders. For too long, its importance during this critical period has been wrongly eclipsed by the younger city of...
Harrassowitz, 2019. — 160 p. — (Ager Aguntinus 3). The second Aguntum workshop focused on the location of the Municipium Claudium Aguntum on the upper reaches of the Drava. The contributions published in volume 3 of the series Ager Aguntinus investigate to what extent the Roman settlements along the river route were in contact with each other - from the source of the Drava to...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. — 225 p. — (Ager Aguntinus: Historisch-archäologische Forschungen 4). This volume, edited by Martin Auer and Christoph Hinker, unites 13 papers presented at the 4th Aguntum Workshop. This international conference was dedicated to the discussion of the so-called crisis the Roman empire experienced during the 3rd century CE. The aim of the workshop was...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1990. — 341 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos X/1). Der vorliegende Band stellt den Beginn einer systematischen Vorlage von Skulpturenfunden aus Ephesos im Rahmen der „Forschungen in Ephesos“, aufgeteilt in mehrere Einzelbände, dar. Bisher wurden zwar Teilgebiete der ephesischen Plastik in größerem Rahmen bzw. in Monographien...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 482 s. Hunde in der roemischen Antike: Rassen/Typen, Zucht, Haltung und Verwendung deals extensively with the living environment of the dog in Roman antiquity, based on literary and iconographic sources as well as archaeological and archaeozoological finds. The knowledge gained from this is documented by numerous images. Older research opinions, some of...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 482 s. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 84). Hunde in der römischen Antike beschäftigt sich umfassend mit dem Lebensumfeld des Hundes in der römischen Antike. Als Grundlagen dazu dienen die Quellen der griechisch-römischen Literatur, der Kunst und die archäologischen sowie archäozoologischen Funde. Durch zahlreiche Bilddarstellungen werden die daraus...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 778 p. The Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea presents the Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Sir John Boardman, President of the Congress since its inception. It was held in Constanţa in September 2017 with the same theme as the first of these congresses, which took place just...
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — 590 p. This book offers a fresh and timely perspective on the study of ancient art and archaeology. Through a series of essays, the volume explores the links between text and image and offers innovative readings of narrative scenes on pottery and sculpture. Topics treated include gender in antiquity, myth and art, and Athenian ritual and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — 590 p. This book offers a fresh and timely perspective on the study of ancient art and archaeology. Through a series of essays, the volume explores the links between text and image and offers innovative readings of narrative scenes on pottery and sculpture. Topics treated include gender in antiquity, myth and art, and Athenian ritual and politics....
Publié sous les auspices de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres ouvrage illustré de 1.100 dessins par saint-elme gautier. — Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1895. — 764 p. Каталог античных бронз, предметов металлопластики, хранящихся в коллекции Национальной библиотеки в Париже. Составлен известным специалистом по античным древностям Эрне Бабелоном и Адриэном Бланше. Содержит...
Including the Architecture, Sculpture and Industrial Arts of Chaldea, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Phoenicia, and Carthage. Translated and enlarged by B. T. A. Evetts, M. A., Of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum. With Two hundred and forty one illustrations. — New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. London: H. Grevel & Co., 1889. — 312 p. Каталог архитектурных...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 336 p. The Colossus of Rhodes is both the most famous and the least well-known monument of ancient Greece. Numbered among the Seven Wonders of the World, this bronze statue of the god Helios, 34 m in height, was created by the sculptor Chares of Lindos between the years 295 and 283 BC, only to be destroyed by an earthquake in 227 BC. The legends...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2004. — 358 p. The thousand years of Egyptian history from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest (332 BC-AD 641) are rich in archaeological interest and well documented by 50,000 papyri in Greek, Egyptian, Latin and other languages. But travellers and others interested in the remains of this period are ill-served by most guides to...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2004. — 358 p. The thousand years of Egyptian history from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest (332 BC-AD 641) are rich in archaeological interest and well documented by 50,000 papyri in Greek, Egyptian, Latin and other languages. But travellers and others interested in the remains of this period are ill-served by most guides to...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023. — 50 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos XVII/1). Für die urbane Topografie des antiken Ephesos war ihre zum Hafen gewandte Stadtansicht mit dem Theater von besonderer Bedeutung, die jedoch bislang kaum erforscht ist. Dies gilt auch für das Areal oberhalb des Theaters, das von einem beeindruckenden Gebäudekomplex an einer...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023. — 341 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos XVII/1). Für die urbane Topografie des antiken Ephesos war ihre zum Hafen gewandte Stadtansicht mit dem Theater von besonderer Bedeutung, die jedoch bislang kaum erforscht ist. Dies gilt auch für das Areal oberhalb des Theaters, das von einem beeindruckenden Gebäudekomplex an einer...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023. — 649 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos XVII/1). Für die urbane Topografie des antiken Ephesos war ihre zum Hafen gewandte Stadtansicht mit dem Theater von besonderer Bedeutung, die jedoch bislang kaum erforscht ist. Dies gilt auch für das Areal oberhalb des Theaters, das von einem beeindruckenden Gebäudekomplex an einer...
Society for Libyan Studies, 1985. — 280 p. — (Supplements to Libya antiqua V). Volume III: Part 2: The Lamps (D. Bailey) consists of a catalogue and discussion of the many thousands of lamps and lamp-sherds recorded, of which over 1200 are illustrated. The evidence of a substantial, but derivative, local lamp industry may be compared with the huge volume of imports from Africa,...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2011. — 188 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 94). Bei Ausgrabungen in bedeutenden griechischen Heiligtümern wie Olympia oder Delphi wurden große Mengen an Waffen und Rüstungsstücken aus dem 8. bis 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. gefunden. Sie gelten als Beutestücke, die griechische Stadtstaaten nach siegreichen Schlachten den Göttern gestiftet...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 173 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 36). Augustus: From Republic to Empire is the product of a conference entitled AUGUSTUS. 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD – 2000 years of divinity organised on 12 December 2014 by the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University, the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations at the Jagiellonian...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 312 p. The ancient town, discovered at the site of today’s Marina el-Alamein, located on the northern coast of Egypt, developed from the 2nd century BC to the 6th century AD, finding itself at the crossroads of several civilisations: Hellenic, later replaced by Roman, and eventually Christian – and always strongly influenced by Egyptian...
Éditions De Boccard, 2014. — 233 p. — (Orient & Mediterranee 14). Là où l’eau est rare, donc précieuse, il s’agit d’en maîtriser le flot pour la diriger où elle est utile, la retenir pour l’accumuler, puis la redistribuer le moment venu de manière efficace. Dans cette perspective, les barrages constituent un outil privilégié, mais d’une grande diversité. Le choix de leur...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 256 p. This book shows how a military colony became a large, impressive and prosperous city. Legendary for its walls and port, it was able to play a basic role in the great strategy of ancient Rome between the Po and the Danube, spanning the centuries from its foundation (181 BC) to the fateful days of blood and violence of its fall (AD 452). Based on a...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 256 p. This book shows how a military colony became a large, impressive and prosperous city. Legendary for its walls and port, it was able to play a basic role in the great strategy of ancient Rome between the Po and the Danube, spanning the centuries from its foundation (181 BC) to the fateful days of blood and violence of its fall (AD 452). Based on a...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2019. — 403 p. — (Monographien des RGZM 149). Gli Etruschi erano straordinari artigiani del bronzo: lo dimostrano sia i numerosi ritrovamenti archeologici sia i riferimenti delle fonti antiche. Soprattutto tra il VI e il V secolo a.C., le officine dei bronzisti etruschi raggiunsero un elevato livello di abilità artigianale e si...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2023. — 450 p. From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World celebrates Janet DeLaine’s seminal work on Roman architecture and construction. One of the foremost scholars of the last decades, her pioneering research has offered important insights not only into individual structures in central Italy but also into the...
Cornell University Press, 2024. — 610 p. Households in Context shifts the focus from monumental temples, tombs, and elite material and visual culture to households and domestic life to provide a crucial new perspective on everyday dwelling practices and the interactions of families and individuals with larger social and cultural structures. A focus on households reveals the...
American School of Classical Studies, 2008. — 282 p. — (Ancient Art and Architecture in Context 1) This beautifully illustrated book represents the first full publication of the most elaborate metal vessel from the ancient world yet discovered. Found in an undisturbed Macedonian tomb of the late 4th century B.C., the volute krater is a tour de force of highly sophisticated methods...
Roma: Carocci Editore, 2007. — 128 p. Introduzione Raccontare le strade: Dalle piste preromane a un sistema statale La costruzione e la gestione La vita lungo le strade Per riassumere
Carocci, 2007. — 126 p. Le strade di età romana non costituirono solo uno strumento decisivo di affermazione militare ed economica, ma anche un fondamentale fattore di civiltà nell'ambito dell'Impero. Per il loro significato eminentemente culturale, esse offrono una straordinaria opportunità di lettura del passato. Il libro presenta una sintesi degli strumenti per conoscere...
Augusta Raurica, 2021. — 186 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 54). Bereits kurz nach der Entdeckung eines Bleisargs in Augusta Raurica im Jahre 2016 war klar, dass dieser aussergewöhnliche Fund im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts ausgewertet und in einer ansprechend gestalteten Publikation vorgelegt werden sollte. Das sauerstoffdurchlässige Bodenmilieu in Augst und...
BAR Publishing, 2024. — 242 S. — (BAR International Series 3181). Bronzene Rahmen, Profile und Zierleisten waren einst ein weitverbreitetes Phänomen. Schriftquellen aus der frühen Republik bezeugen bereits die Existenz von Architekturornamenten aus Bronze. Die in diesem Buch beschriebenen Verkleidungen waren besonders in iulisch-caludischer Zeit beliebt, es existieren aber auch...
Augusta Raurica, 1987. — 116 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 8). Zwischen den beiden Grabungen «Im Liner» (Gemeinde Kaiseraugst/AG), über die im folgenden zu berichten ist, liegen fast vier Jahre Abstand. Die erste, die Freilegung der Wasserleitung (Beilage 1,2), im Juli 1964 stand sozusagen mehr am Beginn meiner vierjährigen Tätigkeit in Äugst, die zweite, die Untersuchung des...
Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2010. — 164 p. — (Mediterranea. Supplemento 5). Poche aree dell'Italia antica hanno conosciuto un incremento della documentazione archeologica paragonabile a quello che, negli ultimi decenni, ha permesso di rinnovare radicalmente le nostre conoscenze sull'Abruzzo antico, dalla tarda età del Bronzo alla piena romanizzazione. Le indagini condotte con...
Augusta Raurica, 2005. — 248 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 36). Als Urs Müller, der Leiter der Ausgrabungen in Kaiseraugst, seinen Kollegen am 9. Juli 2001 in der einmal wöchentlich stattfindenden Geschäftsleitungssitzung der Römerstadt Augusta Raurica einen kleinen verbogenen Bronzefingerring als neuen Ausgrabungsfund präsentierte, war den Anwesenden nicht sogleich bewusst, was...
Augusta Raurica, 2002. — 126 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 32). Als Ludwig Berger 1957 die erste Zusammenstellung so genannter Messertheken mitsamt Verbreitungskarte im Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte vorlegte, wird er wohl nicht im Traum damit gerechnet haben, dass ihn dieses Thema – gewissermassen begleitend durch ein langes Forscher- und Dozentenleben...
Schwabe Verlag, 2012. — 394 S. Die vorliegende siebte Auflage des «Führers durch Augusta Raurica» ist gegenüber den älteren Auflagen nach Form und Inhalt neu gestaltet. Ein von Anfang an vorgesehener Mehrumfang, ein grösseres Format und eine kleinere Schrift ermöglichten es, der angewachsenen Stofffülle einigermassen gerecht zu werden und den Inhalt durch die Einführung von...
Philipp von Zabern, 2006. — 354 S. Die knidische Halbinsel und im besonderen die Stadtanlage an ihrer Spitze haben Forscher und Reisende stets in ihren Bann geschlagen. Die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, deren Prsentation hier mit der Vorlage der archologischen Funde ihren Anfang nimmt, haben alle Erwartungen bertroffen. Inschriften und Mnzen geben Auskunft ber Funktion, Dauer...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. — 344 p. Sardis, in western Turkey, was one of the great cities of the Aegean and Near Eastern worlds for almost a millennium - a political keystone with a legendary past. Recent archeological work has revealed how the city was transformed in the century following Alexander’s conquests from a traditional capital to a Greek polis, setting the...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 514 p. — (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 17). Proceedings of the Roman Amphora Contents International Interactive Conference (RACIIC) (Cadiz, 5-7 October 2015) Roman Amphora Contents: Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity gathers together the results of the RACIIC International Congress (Roman Amphora Contents...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 264 p. Da Roma a Gades/De Roma a Gades is dedicated to the illustrious and beloved archaeologist Simon Keay. It collects the scientific results of the International Workshop held in Rome in September 2019, which discussed the management, elimination and reuse of artisanal and commercial waste in maritime and river ports. Two relevant archaeological finds...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 361 p. — (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 14). Transport amphorae are one of the best archaeological indicators for evaluating the economy and trade of societies in the ancient world. Scambi e commerci in area vesuviana: i dati delle anfore dai saggi stratigrafici I.E. (Impianto Elettrico) 1980-81 nel Foro di Pompei, produced by researchers...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 213 p. — (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 6). In this book Philip Bes summarises the results of his PhD thesis (Catholic University of Leuven) on the analysis of production trends and complex, quantified distribution patterns of the principal traded sigillatas and slipped table wares in the Roman East, from the early Empire to Late Antiquity...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2006. — 486 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 36). This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III). An...
American School of Classical Studies, 1985. — 126 p. — (Corinth, vol. XVII) The large Roman bath situated on the Lechaion Road must have been conspicuous in the architecture of ancient Corinth at the beginning of the third century A.D. and for several centuries afterward. The author relates the history of the site and its excavation, most recently in 1968, and discusses in detail...
Routledge, 1992. — 120 p. The museums of the world are full of statues and other artefacts of the Greeks and the Romans. All are given a date. But how are these dates arrived at. What is the evidence? This study provides the student with an introduction and explanation of the ways scholars date the archaeological remains of classical antiquity. Specific examples from...
Aarhus University Press, 2014. — 390 p. — (Black Sea Studies 16). The late Hellenistic period, spanning the 2nd and early 1st centuries BC, was a time of great tumult and violence thanks to nearly incessant warefare. At the same time the period saw the greatest expansion of 'Hellenistic' Greek culture, including ceramics. Papers in this volume explore problems of ceramic...
Edited by Susan Rotroff. — Brill, 2024. — 900 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 28). This book opens up a new window into the Hellenistic world through a close study of mouldmade bowls, their places of production (both in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean), iconographies and distribution. The author’s unique access to material in the Black Sea Region provides the backbone to a...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2017. — 415 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 131). Die zivilen Vici zeigen in Bauformen und Siedlungsstrukturen in den Westprovinzen andere Charakteristika als die in den Ostprovinzen. Als Bindeglied musste Pannonien eine besondere Bedeutung zukommen. Hier findet man eher dörfliche Siedlungen mit starken vorrömischen Wurzeln neben den...
American School of Classical Studies, 1930. — 74 p. — (Corinth, vol. III,1) The main discoveries during the 1926 season of excavations on the citadel above the main site of ancient Corinth were the foundations of the temple of Aphrodite and a remarkable Hellenistic concrete vault erected to protect the spring of Upper Peirene.
American School of Classical Studies, 1964. — 344 p. — (Corinth, vol. XIII) The North Cemetery at Corinth was originally discovered in 1915. Excavations in 1928-1930 uncovered 530 graves and cleared 54 deposits. The graves represented remains from the Middle Helladic, Geometric, proto-Corinthian, and Corinthian periods and continued through the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. There was...
Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2013. — 699 p. Romėniškasis ir tautų kraustymosi laikotarpiai – dinamiški baltų kultūrų raidos etapai, teapimantys kiek mažiau nei 800 metų. Tačiau tai laikai, kuomet buvo apleisti ir vėl apgyventi piliakalniai, laikai, kuomet baltai pradėjo deginti savo mirusiuosius, laikai, kuomet didėjo visuomenės turtinė atskirtis, o sukauptu turtu buvo...
BAR Publishing, 1985. — 412 p. — (BAR British Series 141). he site is situated at Ironmongers Piece (pl. 1) in the gently sloping valley of Broadmead Brook in the South Cotswolds, 2.8 kilometres north-east of Marshfield, Avon (fig. 2) (Grid Reference ST 798760). Nettleton Roman temple lies 2.5 kilometres east north east, whilst 1.6 kilometres south-east is the stretch of Fosse...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2004. — 229 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 58). Mit der Studie wird das Ziel verfolgt, die Wesenszüge der Grabrepräsentation der ritterlichen und senatorischen Bevölkerungsgruppe im Untersuchungsgebiet und -zeitraum anhand archäologisch-epigraphischer Zeugnisse aufzuzeigen. Dabei wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob es verbindliche Formen...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2006. — 414 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 67). Als einzige Vertreter ihrer Art werfen die Schiffsfunde aus Mainz neues Licht auf die spätrömische Militärgeschichte. Ihr Erhaltungszustand gewährt Einblick in teils komplexe bootsbauliche Verfahrenstechniken und Maßnahmen, aus denen Verflechtungen mit dem romano-keltischen Seeschiff...
American School of Classical Studies, 1995. — 284 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXVIII) A comprehensive, three-part study of the sites and procedures of Athenian lawcourts in the 5th, 4th, and 3rd centuries B.C. Part I discusses various courts, their names and possible sites, and reconstructs their history and daily workings, synthesizing literary, documentary, and physical evidence....
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2011. — 208 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 9). Les récentes découvertes d’épaves de barges fluviales gallo-romaines à Lyon (place Tolozan et Parc Saint-Georges) et à Arles, auxquels s’ajoutent les épaves de Chalon-sur-Saône, ont non seulement attiré l’attention sur la batellerie fluviale et lacustre...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017. — 270 p. Athenian governance and culture are reconstructed from the Bronze Age into the historical era based on traditions, archaeological contexts and remains, foremost the formal commensal and libation krater. Following Mycenaean immigration from the Peloponnesos during the transitional years, changes in governance are observable. Groups under...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 119 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 38). The Roman Bridge between Dolni Vadin (Bulgaria) and Grojdibodu (Romania) presents all the available data on the Roman bridge over the Danube which connected Dacia and Moesia at this point. The toponyms Vadin and Grojdibodu themselves mean ‘ford’, a crossing over water, in this case over the Danube. There have...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 356 p. — (BAR International Series 2614). The study explores patterns of interconnections between the coastal zone of the Corinthian Gulf and its surrounding hinterlands, between c. 600 and 300 B.C. Archaeological remains point to a substantial expansion in site numbers during this period, and the growth of identifiable central place sites in connection...
American School of Classical Studies, 2010. — 315 p. — (Corinth, vol. XVIII,5) The fifth part of the Corinth volume dedicated to the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore publishes the large-scale terracotta sculpture found in the sanctuary. Extending from the late 7th through the 4th century B.C., the sculpture consists of fragments from 132 to as many as 147 statues, from half- to...
American School of Classical Studies, 1997. — 618 p. — (Corinth, vol. XVIII,3) A careful and detailed presentation of the architectural remains of the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on the slopes of Acrocorinth, beginning with the earliest traces of occupation in the Mycenaean period and ending with the Late Roman cemetery. The first chapter presents the ancient testimonia for the...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 232 p. Picenum and the Ager Gallicus at the Dawn of the Roman Conquest: Landscape Archaeology and Material Culture is a coherent collection of papers presented at an International Workshop held in Ravenna (Italy) on 13-14 May 2019. The event, organized by the Universities of Bologna and Ghent and Arcadria, focussed on the transition between Italic culture...
Augusta Raurica, 1992. — 216 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 16). Die hier vorgelegten Reliefs und Rundskulpturen stellen einen verschwindend kleinen Teil des Fundmaterials dar, das die römische Stadt Augusta Rauricorum in den letzten rund zweihundert Jahren Ausgrabungstätigkeit hervorgebracht hat. Während zu Beginn der Forschungen das Hauptaugenmerk bei den öffentlichen Anlagen wie...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2014. — 240 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 17). Les poissons et leurs dérivés sont durant l’Antiquité une des bases de l’alimentation en Méditerranée. Pour autant, l’état de nos connaissances sur ces produits souffre aujourd’hui encore de nombreuses lacunes, que cet ouvrage tente partiellement de combler....
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 238 p. — (BAR British Series 658/Archaeology of Roman Britain 2). In the summer of 2000 archaeological excavations on the periphery of the Roman ‘small town’ at Worcester revealed extensive evidence for timber-framed buildings, probably representing the lower status homes of some of the settlement’s inhabitants. Major changes during the later Roman...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2013. — 304 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 13). La recherche sur l’expansion grecque en Méditerranée occidentale à l’époque archaïque a largement progressé en France pendant les quarante dernières années grâce aux travaux d’Henri Tréziny et aux pistes qu’il a lancées dans l’interprétation des découvertes...
Archäologisches Institut der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, 2000. — 254 S. — (Spisy archeologického ústavu AV ČR Brno 16). Festschrift für Jaroslav Tejral zum 65. Sammlung von Beiträgen zum Lebensjubiläum von DOC. PhDr. Jaroslav Tejral, DrSc. In drei Themenbereichen (Römische Provinzen und deren Umland, Barbaricum, Spätantike und Völkerwanderungszeit)...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. — 814 p. — (University Museum Monograph 154). This book presents the results of the first systematic archaeological study of Roman peasants. It examines the spaces, architecture, diet, agriculture, market interactions, and movement habitus of non-elite rural dwellers in a region of southern Tuscany, Italy, during the Roman period. Volume...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 215 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 54). Stamps on Terra Sigillata Found in Excavations of the Theatre of Aptera, Crete presents a group of stamped fragments of Italian and eastern sigillata found in excavations of the theatre of Aptera (Crete). A total of 258 stamped sherds have been discovered and identified: 28 already published by the author and...
American School of Classical Studies, 1974 — 251 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XVII) This volume presents the funerary inscriptions found in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1968. In addition, all Agora fragments of the public casualty lists known in 1971 have been included, together with fragments associated with them but found elsewhere, although the latter are not discussed in...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 128 p. — (Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen 14). Antiochia am Orontes gehörte neben Rom, Konstantinopel und Alexandria zu den größten Metropolen der hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Unser Bild dieser Stadt wird im wesentlichen von den Berichten antiker Autoren geprägt. Gemessen an der überaus reichen schriftlichen Überlieferung ist die spätantike Stadt...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 128 p. — (Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen 14). Antiochia am Orontes gehörte neben Rom, Konstantinopel und Alexandria zu den größten Metropolen der hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Unser Bild dieser Stadt wird im wesentlichen von den Berichten antiker Autoren geprägt. Gemessen an der überaus reichen schriftlichen Überlieferung ist die spätantike Stadt...
Philipp von Zabern, 2005. — 156 S. — (Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Sonderbände der Antiken Welt. Orbis provinciarum.). Die Provinz Lycia et Pamphylia gehört nicht nur zu den am besten dokumentierten Regionen des römischen Reiches, sondern sie ist zugleich das attraktivste und populärste Ziel moderner Türkeitouristen. Dies liegt zum einen an der bezaubernden, mit...
American School of Classical Studies, 1962. — 134 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. VIII) This volume reports on Athenian pottery found in the Athenian Agora up to 1960 that can be dated from about the middle of the 8th century B.C., when the appearance of a painter of sufficient personal distinction to enliven the whole craft marks a real break from the earlier Geometric style, through...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2016. — 442 p. The demolition of Victorian villas in the 1970s led to an excavation of a Roman fort at Bearsden, near Glasgow, on the Antonine Wall, and the discovery of a Roman bath-house and latrine. The bath-house is the tip of an archaeological iceberg. Over ten seasons a substantial portion of the Roman fort was examined and its history...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 106 p. The aim of this publication is not only to inform about historical and archaeological facts on the Limes in Serbia but also to act as a guidebook as well through the Danubian Limes. The frontiers of the Roman empire together form the largest monument of one of the world’s greatest states. They stretch for some 7,500km through 20...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 110 p. Slovakia was situated at the edge of the classical world but still was a close neighbour of the Roman Empire. The Roman influence left distinct traces not only at the territories along the frontier but also in its broader fore field. The frontiers of the Roman empire together form the largest monument of one of the world’s...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 100 p. The frontiers of the Roman Empire together form the largest monument of one of the world’s greatest ancient states. They stretch for some 7,500 km through 20 countries which encircle the Mediterranean Sea. The remains of these frontiers have been studied by visitors and later by archaeologists for several centuries. Many of the inscriptions and...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 76 p. The Antonine Wall lay at the very extremity of the Roman world. This volume, presented in English and German, presents a concise introduction to the wall which is, in many ways, one of the most developed frontier in Europe. Perhaps of greatest significance is the survival of the collection of Roman military sculpture, the Distance...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 100 p. The frontiers of the Roman Empire together form the largest monument of one of the world’s greatest ancient states. They stretch for some 7,500 km through 20 countries which encircle the Mediterranean Sea. The remains of these frontiers have been studied by visitors and later by archaeologists for several centuries. Many of the inscriptions and...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 98 p. The Roman eastern frontier stretched from the north-east shore of the Black Sea to the Red Sea. It faced Rome’s formidable foe, the kingdom of Parthia, and its successor, Sasanian Persia. Rome’s bulwark in antiquity was the area known as Syria or the Levant, roughly modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine. To the south lay the Nabataean...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 100 p. The inextricability of the connection between the Roman limes and the lands it ran through is easily observed and there is even a regularity to be noted: some modern borders actually follow the line of the ancient defenses. At the same time there are significant differences between particular sections of the limes, resulting primarily from the...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 98 p. The frontiers of the Roman Empire together form the largest monument of one of the world’s greatest ancient states. They stretch for some 7,500 km through 20 countries which encircle the Mediterranean Sea. The remains of these frontiers have been studied by visitors and later by archaeologists for several centuries. Many of the inscriptions and...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 144 p. The Roman frontier in Lower Germany was one of the earliest to be created; surviving into the early 5th century, it illustrates the whole range of Roman military installations. The Rhine delta boasts incredible organic remains including ships while upstream are great military bases supported by forts and fortlets. The frontiers...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 100 p. რომის იმპერიის საზღვრები: რომაული სასაზღვრო ხაზი საქართველოში From the times of Pompeius Magnus to the period of the Persian Wars of Justinian I the Great, Roman military expeditions passed through Colchis and Iberia many times. However, the Roman Empire never permanently conquered the territory of Georgia. For this reason, diplomatic relations were...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 190 p. The frontiers of the Roman empire together form the largest surviving monument of one of the world´s greatest states. They stretch for some 7,500 km through 20 countries which encircle the Mediterranean Sea. The remains of these frontiers have been studied by visitors and later archaeologists for several centuries. Many of the inscriptions and...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 98 p. Towards the end of Caesar’s Gallic War, Rome had reached the Rhine. Since the campaigns under Emperor Augustus (15 B.C.), larger troop contingents were stationed along the river, with focal points around Mogontiacum/Mainz and in northern Switzerland. After the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9 AD), when the attempt to occupy all of Germania had...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 104 p. Pannonia province existed from the occupation during the reign of Emperor Augustus to the 20s and 30s of the 5th century A.D. Its border stretched alongside the Danube and was always one of the most important European frontiers in Roman times. The frontiers of the Roman empire together form the largest surviving monument of one...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 98 p. The economic and political challenges along the maritime borders of the Roman Empire were multiple. The North Sea coasts were the focus of the attention of traders within the framework of commercial exchanges, of the General Staff preparing for the conquest of Britain under Claudius, and for the defence of the coastlines from the time that their...
Departement für Erziehung und Kultur des Kantons Thurgau, 1992. — 191 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 1). Seit langem ist die Vorlage der Untersuchungen in den drei nordostschweizeri schen Kastellen Arbon, Pfyn und Burg/Stein am Rhein geplant. Nach dem ursprlinglichen Konzept hütte dies in einem Band geschehen sollen. Die Umstünde zwingen uns nun zu einem anderen Vorgehen....
Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — 696 p. This richly illustrated book presents in detail the sanctuaries built during the reign of Antiochus I of Commagene (ca. 75-36 BCE), including the three large tombs and ten cult places, and discusses Antiochus’ rule in the context of his religious program and cult of the divine ruler. This book is the final publication of the results of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — 694 p. This richly illustrated book presents in detail the sanctuaries built during the reign of Antiochus I of Commagene (ca. 75-36 BCE), including the three large tombs and ten cult places, and discusses Antiochus’ rule in the context of his religious program and cult of the divine ruler. This book is the final publication of the results of the...
Luigi Pellegrini Editore, 2016. — 190 p. This book, which is handy and intuitive to consult, collects the preliminary results of the study of the archive of Frank Brown’s excavations in 1964 and 1965 in the Regia of Rome. The meticulous reexamination undertaken by the authors was necessitated because Brown’s well-conducted excavations were for various reasons only partially...
Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2016. — 153 p. — (Mediterranea. Supplemento 14). Il volume, parte di una ricerca più ampia dedicata al Santuario di Monte Li Santi - Le Rote di Narce, dà inizio alla pubblicazione del primo fondamentale studio sistematico di questo importante luogo di culto, dislocato immediatamente al di fuori dell'insediamento falisco, sotto le pendici di Monte Li...
Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2016. — 668 p. — (Mediterranea. Supplemento 15). Il secondo volume dedicato al Santuario di Monte Li Santi - Le Rote a Narce presenta il catalogo del materiale ritrovato nel corso delle varie campagne di scavo. I materiali sono divisi in diciassette categorie tipologiche precedute tutte da una introduzione contenente indicazioni sulla tecnica di...
Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2016. — 94 p. — (Mediterranea. Supplemento 16). Il terzo e ultimo volume dedicato al Santuario di Monte Li Santi. Le Rote a Narce contiene l'analisi dei materiali epigrafici (iscrizioni sia su ceramica sia su due cippi-altarini tufacei dedicati a divinità) e un'analisi archeozoologica dei resti ossei animali rinvenuti nell'area del santuario e...
Routledge, 2009. — 476 p. This book provides a thorough, area by area companion to the region's wealth of monuments, excavations and artefacts, from Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer to Strasbourg and Lyon. Over ninety sites are treated in detail, including major attractions such as the parc archéologique in Lyon and the amphitheatre at Autun, numerous local museums and secluded rural...
American School of Classical Studies, 1930. — 359 p. — (Corinth, vol. IV,2) The oil lamps found during excavations at Corinth represent a good sampling of different periods, from Archaic Greek to Byzantine times, with a particular wealth of material from earlier periods. After an introduction dealing with some general problems, the author proceeds directly to a classification of...
American School of Classical Studies, 1932. — 168 p. — (Corinth, vol. X) The Odeum is situated on sloping ground west of the temple of Apollo and a short distance to the south of the theater. It was first identified in 1907 but not excavated until 1927-1928. Three periods of use are described: the building's first construction in the late 1st century A.D.; its decoration with...
American School of Classical Studies, 1954. — 186 p. — (Corinth, vol. I,4) After a discussion of the fragmentary evidence for several buildings of the Greek period which were swept to construct it, the South Stoa at Corinth is treated in detail. Careful description of all the remains, both those in situ and reused blocks, forms the basis of the reconstruction of this extensive...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 409 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 43). Excavations over a period of eight years uncovered at least ten pottery kilns, waster heaps, ditches and pits, but only a few definite structures. The pottery from the site indicates a period of operation extending from the first half of the 1st century AD to the later 2nd century. The pottery made at the site...
Propylaeum, 2020. — 66 p. — (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018). The province Germania inferior is an interesting candidate for investigating town-country relations. While its southern part borders on the distribution area of oppida, its northern parts had no Iron Age...
Sidestone Press, 2018. — 236 p. Vanaf de late middeleeuwen tot eind 18e eeuw kwamen aan de kust bij Katwijk regelmatig de resten van een mysterieuze ruïne tevoorschijn die vanaf 1543 als curiosum regelmatig op Nederlandse kaarten werd afgebeeld. Volgens Romeinse bronnen moet hier een fort gelegen hebben op het eindpunt van de grens van het Romeinse vasteland. Al eeuwen proberen...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2002. — 332 p. — (Cataloghi E Monografie Archeologiche Dei Civici Museu De Udine 6). PRIMA DEl ROMANI F. MASELLI SCOTTI - Aquileia prima di Roma C. EIBNER - La via dell'ambra in Austria. L 'esempio di Stilifried an der March dall'età dellapietrafino ai Celti I PRIMI FENOMENI DI ROMANIZZAZIONE A. STUPPNER - Rinvenimenti germanici a nord di Carnuntum M....
Archaeopress, 2017. — 427 S. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 28). Die Reliefs der Marcussäule in Rom bilden seit Langem vielfach verwendete Vorlagen zur Illustration römischer Soldaten. Doch obwohl in den letzten Dekaden mehrere Fundplätze am Donaulimes aufgearbeitet wurden, an denen zahlreiche Militaria aus den Markomannenkriegen zutage gekommen sind, fehlt bislang ein...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 247 p. — (BAR International Series 2770). Collet Est was a Roman pottery workshop located on the Catalonian coast near Calonge. In active use from the 1st century BC to the middle of the 1st century AD, the workshop was used to produce dolia, local amphora, domestic pottery and building materials. In a later phase the site was reused as a necropolis by...
BAR Publishing, 2001. — 269 p. — (BAR British Series 324). The supply of unpolluted water was of high priority throughout the Roman Empire and in Britain, as elsewhere, organised water supplies played a fundamental role in the development of forts, settlements and towns. This detailed and highly informative study gathers evidence from over 800 archaeological sites, including...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. — 1008 p. In A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire , distinguished scholar and archaeologist Professor Barbara Burrell delivers an illuminating and wide-ranging discussion of peoples, institutions, and their material remains across the Roman Empire. Divided into two parts, the book begins by focusing on the “unifying factors,” institutions...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. — 1008 p. In A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire , distinguished scholar and archaeologist Professor Barbara Burrell delivers an illuminating and wide-ranging discussion of peoples, institutions, and their material remains across the Roman Empire. Divided into two parts, the book begins by focusing on the “unifying factors,” institutions...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. — 1008 p. In A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire , distinguished scholar and archaeologist Professor Barbara Burrell delivers an illuminating and wide-ranging discussion of peoples, institutions, and their material remains across the Roman Empire. Divided into two parts, the book begins by focusing on the “unifying factors,” institutions...
BAR Publishing, 2001. — 109 p. — (BAR British Series 323). The excavations undertaken at Chiltington in East Sussex revealed two Roman pottery kilns, as well as remains from prehistory and from medieval period.The kilns are well documented, and all the finds were examined and catalogued. Three phases were identified. The pottery produced on the site indicate a strong New Forest...
BAR Publishing, 2011. — 147 p. Between June 2000 and April 2004 four sites within the City of Worcester were subjected to archaeological investigation by Birmingham Archaeology (formerly Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit) and Mike Napthan Archaeology. The results from these four sites are documented in this volume. One site is located to the northeast of the historic...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 120 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 66). The Urban Landscape of Bakchias: A Town of the Fayyūm from the Ptolemaic-Roman Period to Late Antiquity summarises the results of field research conducted on the archaeological site of Bakchias, located in the north-eastern part of the Fayyūm region. Historical, historico-religious and papyrological studies are...
Peeters, 2022. — 385 p. — (Cahiers de la Revue Biblique 102. Series archaeologica 4). Jerusalem had a turbulent history and an urban evolution, which we find described by the historians of Antiquity. For 130 years attempts have been made to trace the lines of the ramparts, understand the sieges, reconstruct the great buildings and reveal the underlying planning. Crusader eyes...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 238 p. El asentamiento visigodo en la Península Ibérica y su relación con el registro arqueológico de los siglos V-VI d.C. continúa siendo en la actualidad una de las cuestiones más controvertidas de la arqueología española. Gran parte de esa controversia tiene que ver con aspectos que trascienden a la propia investigación arqueológica y nos sitúan en el...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 228 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 97). Palazzo Sanvitale è situato a Parma sulla sponda sinistra di un rivo, al limite del quadrante nordorientale dell'impianto urbano, di cui l'ingombro e il giardino occupano quasi interamente due isolati separati da un decumano minore. Scarti ceramici e fittili da una fossa sottostante datano il tracciamento del...
Catalogo della Mostra. — Cortona (AR): Tiphys Editoria e multimedia, 2014. — 136 p. — ISBN 978-88-97582-11-3. L’antica gente dei Falisci costituisce oggi una presenza estremamente marginale sui nostri libri di storia: pur rientrando tra quelle popolazioni dell’Italia centrale che la nascente potenza di Roma riuscì a conquistare solo dopo una lunga serie di guerre sanguinose,...
American School of Classical Studies, 1980. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 19) Religion played a part in almost every aspect of civic life, so shrines, temples, altars, and dedications are conspicuous at almost every turn during a visit to the Athenian Agora. The author of this booklet shows where and how the major Olympian gods were worshipped, and then turns his attention to...
American School of Classical Studies, 1998. — 40 p. — (Agora Picture Book 24) This concise and beautifully illustrated book demonstrates the many roles played by the horse in the lives of the Greeks, from its place in myth and early history to its significance as a marker of social status and its use in warfare, transportation, games, and festivals. From their arrival in Greece,...
American School of Classical Studies, 2004. — 48 p. — (Agora Picture Book 16) In a newly revised version of this popular site guide, the current director of excavations in the Athenian Agora gives a brief account of the history of the ancient center of Athens. The text has been updated and expanded to cover the most recent archaeological discoveries, and the guide now features...
American School of Classical Studies, 1984. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 21) While this booklet is illustrated solely with materials from the Athenian Agora, it also provides a concise introduction to building styles and techniques that will be useful to anyone interested in ancient Greek architecture. From financing to tools, and from mason’s marks to the clamps that held blocks...
Yale University Press, 2001. — 352 p. — ISBN13: 978-0300101515. In this definitive book, prominent archaeologist John M. Camp presents an up-to-date survey of the monuments of ancient Athens and Attica to create a complete archaeological tour of the area. Camp’s lavishly illustrated work will appeal not only to scholars and students of Greek civilization but also to visitors...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 1205 p. The most authoritative illustrated reference book on the urban history of ancient Rome. The Atlas of Ancient Rome provides a comprehensive archaeological survey of the city of Rome from prehistory to the early medieval period. Lavishly illustrated throughout with full-color maps, drawings, photos, and 3D reconstructions, this...
American School of Classical Studies, 1936. — 331 p. — (Corinth, vol. III,2) The defensive walls that surrounded both the site of ancient Corinth and the citadel of Acrocorinth above it are the focus of this volume. The book starts with a detailed account of the classical fortifications on Acrocorinth. A narrative tracing the walls of the city is supplemented by an account of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 368 p. The focus of this book is on the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC, when Italic culture seems to have reached its peak of affluence. Scholars have largely ignored these people and the region they inhabited. During the past several decades archaeologists have made significant progress in revealing the cultures of...
BAR Publishing, 2006. — 154 p. — (BAR British Series 418). Oxbow says: To what extent did the indigenous population change their appearance and identity with the arrival of the Romans? Gillian Carr's revised thesis explores how we can detect shifts in modes of physical appearance and social identity by stuyding evidence from around 40 sites in Essex and Hertfordshire. Her study...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 392 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 88). The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate presents excavations and analysis of material remains at Vagnari, in southeast Italy, which have facilitated a detailed and precise phasing of a rural settlement, both in the late Republican period in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, when it was established on land leased from...
The University of Michigan Press, 2006 - ISBN: 0-472-11477-8 - 287 pages. Though the ancient Greeks are generally thought to have been city dwellers, with primarily urban culture, the polis also included a sizable agricultural territory where farmers worked and lived to produce the means of subsistence for the urban population, as well as a surplus for trade. Discovering the...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 440 p. — (BAR International Series 2890). En el presente volumen sobre Mas Gusó se exponen extensamente los resultados obtenidos a lo largo de catorce campañas de excavaciones, referidos, en esta ocasión, al establecimiento de época romana. Un complejo levantado hacia finales del siglo II a.C. sobre un antiguo asentamiento ibérico, el cual, a su vez,...
Council for British Archaeology, 1993. — 366 p. — (CBA Research Reports 90). The report describes the excavations carried out in the south east quarter of the fort of Segontium (Caernarfon) in Gwynedd, North Wales. Approximately 2,000 square metres were explored by area excavation to natural sub soil levels. The 2.27 hectare fort was erected in the governorship of Gnaeus Iulius...
Oxford University Press, 1928. — 83 p. THE site itself has never been sufficiently encumbered either by the buildings or by the debris of later ages as to cause it to be forgotten or to lose its title of 'Hippodrome', or for any dispute as to its identity to arise. Its place in the history of the city and of the whole of the Near East was always too fixed and certain for its...
Routledge, 2018. — 257 p. Mr. Casson's book is designed to show that the prehistoric and Hellenic sites in the island deserve much more notice than they have received. Mr. Casson emphasises the peculiarities of Cypriote art and usage; the Greeks evidently had reason to regard the Cypriote " character " or style as exceptional. Mr. Casson's illustrations of sculptures at Nicosia...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 225 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 48). Over the last decades, discussions about the functions of the Roman army in frontier areas have contributed to a complex understanding of the military and its interactions with local geographies and peoples throughout the Empire. Nevertheless, in the region of Arabia, there is still little consensus about the...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 336 p. Change and Resilience offers a view of the main Mediterranean islands from West to East in Late Antiquity because Mediterranean islands can contribute in fundamental ways to our understanding not only of earlier colonizations but also later periods. The volume explores specifically the time frame from the fall of the Roman empire to the Medieval...
British School at Athens, 2005. — 359 p. — (Supplementary Volume 36). Over the past 30 years many hundreds of small rural sites have been identified in Greece (and throughout the Mediterranean) through intensive field survey. Their exact nature and function is still a matter of hot contention. This volume reviews the current theories on the variety and character of rural sites,...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 151 p. — (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 12). The occupation of the territories on both sides of the Rhine was an enormous logistical challenge for the Roman military administration. In the last two decades of the first century BC, several territories were conquered or partially occupied by the Roman legions, establishing a large number of...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2003. — 490 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 33). This tribute to Professor Immerwahr comprises a short biography, her full bibliography, and twenty articles written by scholars who thus celebrate her contributions to the field of Bronze Age painting and art history, as well as her encouragement and generous support, over the years,...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017. — 470 p. This book has its origin in a conference held at the British School at Athens in 2011 which aimed to explore the range of new archaeological information now available for the seventh century in Greek lands. It presents material data, combining accounts of recent discoveries (which often enable reinterpretation of older finds), regional...
Préface de Jean Pouilloux. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 1982, 88 p. (Collection de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen. Série archéologique)
Les ressources naturelles de Chypre amenèrent tout naturellement les Chypriotes à devenir de grands bronziers et les fouilles dans l'île ont produit un nombre relativement important de vases en bronze....
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 406 p. — (BAR International Series 2799). Report of the archaeological rescue excavations carried out in 2005 and 2006 by the joint Iranian-Italian mission of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and the University of Bologna, with the collaboration of IsIAO, Italy This volume contains the final report of a rescue excavation carried out in 2005...
Atlantis, 1982. — 247 S. Die Provence, deren Schönheiten allgemein bekannt sind, bewahrt in ihrem Namen die Erinnerung an die weit ausgedehntere Proviucia Narhotiensis, von der in diesem Buche die Rede sein soll. Diese Region Frankreichs, die am reichsten an Denkmälern aus der Römerzeit ist (Italia vérins qnam Proviucia, Plinius NH III 31), ist merkwürdigerweise lange Zeit ohne...
Phoibos Verlag, 2023. — 382 S. — (Monografien der Stadtarchäologie Wien 13). Mit der Vorlage der oxidierend gebrannten Gebrauchskeramik der Ausgrabungen in Wien 3, Rennweg 44 wird ein langjähriges Projekt zum Abschluss gebracht, das der Untersuchung mehrerer Parzellen im Zentrum der römischen Zivilsiedlung von Vindobona gewidmet war (siehe auch MSW 11 und MSW 12). Diese Keramik...
Palermo: Regione siciliana, Assessorato dei beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento dei beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2014. — 48 p. — ISBN 978-88-6164-257-7. Le ricerche condotte sul Colle Madore, nel cuore della Sicilia centro-occidentale, hanno messo in luce resti archeologici che documentano uno dei periodi della storia antica dell’isola più interessanti per...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 150 p. — (BAR British Series 660/Archaeology of Prehistoric Art 3). This volume presents a new approach to decorative practices in Iron Age Britain and beyond. It aims to collapse the historic distinction between art and craft during the period 400BC-AD100 by examining the purposeful nature of decoration on varied Iron Age objects, not just those...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. — 324 p. This multiple authors volume, edited by Roksana Chowaniec and Marta Fitula, describes the results of interdisciplinary archaeological research and excavations conducted between 2009 and 2020 within the zone of the residential area of the Graeco-Roman town Akrai/Acrae and its vicinity. The town, situated in the central part of...
Routledge, 2012. — 424 p. Core tourist sites for the classical world are the ruins of those many and scattered examples of 'lost' and abandoned towns - from Pompeii to Timgad to Ephesus and Petra. Usually studied for their peaks and growth, rarely are their ends explored in detail, to consider the processes of loss and also to trace their 'afterlives', when they were often robbed...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. — 224 p. The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on numerous sources, interweaving the latest archaeological evidence, to reconstruct the period's landscape and events. In the process, he rethinks some of historians' most widely held and long-established...
Archaepress, 2020. — 126 p.; 39 figures (8 plates in colour). — ISBN: 9781789695991; ISBN: 9781789696004. Before/After explores various aspects related to transformation and change in the Roman and Late Antique world through the archaeological and historical evidence. The seven chapters of the volume range from the evolution of settlement patterns to spatial re-configuration...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 191 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 7). This volume is focused on the cataloguing of glass conserved in the Archaeological Museum of Tripoli. This is so far an unpublished corpus of objects identified from investigations into the necropolis and other burials in Tripoli and its suburbs, in conjunction with the activities of the Italian Government in...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. — 454 p. This Festschrift dedicated to Professor Aleksander Bursche contains forty-five scientific papers written by sixty-three authors, from over a dozen countries. All contributions present both archival works and absolutely new discoveries and studies, and are all richly illustrated. Many papers fill so far existing significant gaps in...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 251 p. — (BAR International Series 2795). Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Proceedings of the International Conference) San Vito al Tagliamento, 14 Febbraio 2013 The international conference Funerary in Friuli and the neighbouring regions between Iron Age and Late Antiquity (San Vito al Tagliamento (Pordenone, Italy), February 14, 2013) was organized as...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 455 p. Capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the center of Christian Europe, the city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world. Here, Amanda Claridge presents an indispensable guide to all significant monuments in Rome dating from 800 BC to 600 CE. Included are such breathtaking structures as the Capitoline Hill, the Roman...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 607 p. — (Winchester Studies 3.2; Pre-Roman and Roman Winchester 2). Outside the north gate of Venta Belgarum, Roman Winchester, a great cemetary stretched for 500 yards along the road to Cirencester. Excavations at Lankhills from 1967 to 1972 uncovered 451 graves, many elaborately furnished, at the northern limits of this cemetery, and dating from the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 550 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-19649-9 Hardback. This book describes and analyses the development of the Roman West from Gibraltar to the Rhine, using primarily the extensive body of published archaeological evidence rather than the textual evidence underlying most other studies. It situates this development within a longer-term process...
Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008. — 338 p. Our knowledge of the dawn of the Hellenic civilization—ca. 900 to 700 BC—is heavily reliant on found artifacts and artisinal matter. Geometric pottery, a leading art of its day, is of special importance for the historians of early Greece—in a large part because it’s plentiful enough to establish a chronology for a period without any...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1986. — 258 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 21). When the site of Elean Pylos was threatened by the construction of a dam in 1968, a team from the University of Colorado moved in to salvage as much information as possible about the ancient town before it was submerged. This report is divided chronologically: Middle Helladic,...
Routledge, 2024. — 588 p. The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion explores trends in urbanism across Italy in the period when Rome extended its power across the entire peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. Chapters present the most up-to-date archaeological data in the first broad and detailed treatment of this topic,...
Routledge, 2024. — 588 p. The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion explores trends in urbanism across Italy in the period when Rome extended its power across the entire peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. Chapters present the most up-to-date archaeological data in the first broad and detailed treatment of this topic,...
Routledge, 2024. — 598 p. The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion explores trends in urbanism across Italy in the period when Rome extended its power across the entire peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. Chapters present the most up‑to‑date archaeological data in the first broad and detailed treatment of this topic,...
The Council for British Archaeology, 2010. — 186 p. — (CBA Research Reports 162). 'Finds from the Frontier' brings together the papers given at a conference held at Newcastle upon Tyne in 2008. The aim of the original conference was to elucidate the life of the 4th-century 'limitanei' of Britain through their material culture. The period had traditionally been seen as one of...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 265 p. Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented here to celebrate her many achievements all represent...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 461 p. — (BAR International Series 2813). With contributors by Sergio Cascella, Emiliano Arena and Benedetto Carroccio Nonostante il suo nome non ricorra frequentemente nelle fonti letterarie antiche, la città greco-romana di Kalè Akté - Calacte, nel sito dell’odierna Caronia in provincia di Messina, offre innumerevoli spunti di studio che la rendono non...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 148 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 96). The Roman frontier with Persia in north-eastern Mesopotamia investigates the Roman city of Singara and the fortifications and roads in the surrounding area. The physical frontier between Rome and Persia has been little studied, in part because of the difficulty of access for scholars. In comparison with other...
American School of Classical Studies, 1949. — 433 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 8) Among many other accomplishments, T. Leslie Shear was Director of the American School excavations at the Athenian Agora when they began in 1931. He was also closely involved with excavations at ancient Corinth, excavated by the School since 1896. It is fitting, therefore, that the majority of the 45...
Knopf, 2014. — 512 p. Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values...
Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2012. — 344 p. — (Biblioteca di «Sicilia antiqva» 5). Il volume presenta i risultati degli scavi condotti a Palermo dal 1989 agli inizi del 1999 lungo l'odierna Selinunte, affacciata sul Mediterraneo e protesa verso l'entroterra occidentale della Sicilia, si mostra oggi con l'estensione impressionante delle sue rovine, racchiuse entro una cornice...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 272 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 113). Square bottles came into use in the AD 60s and rapidly became the commonest glass vessel form in the empire. For the next two centuries their fragments dominate all glass assemblages. Hitherto this material has not been exploited to any great extent because there has been no close chronological framework....
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 220 p. — (Archaeological Histories). This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist destination, Pompeii attracts millions of visitors each...
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 220 p. — (Archaeological Histories). This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist destination, Pompeii attracts millions of visitors each...
Brill, 2020. — 228 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 27). New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World is about Classical Archaeology at its broadest and is important reading to all Classicists. As part of a recent movement to highlight the rich diversity of the subject it overcomes traditional disciplinary boundaries to show the variety of current...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 157 p. — (BAR International Series 2635). In the late 4th century AD, the site of Kourion, Cyprus was destroyed by an earthquake that struck with little or no warning, trapping victims and objects where they lay. Although much of the site was reoccupied and rebuilt, some areas were not, thus providing a unique example of a moment truly "frozen" in time....
Council for British Archaeology, 1994. — 740 p. — (CBA Research Reports 97/Roman Alcester Series 1.2). The 1964-6 excavations at the Roman small town of Aleester, Warwickshire (NGR SPO90575), were directed by Christine Mahany for the Ministry of public Buildings and Works. The work was concentrated on the southern extramural area at Birch Abbey, where a housing estate was due...
Harvard University Press, 1991. — 288 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs. Book 9). The Byzantine Shops at Sardis form a complex of commercial establishments lining the south wall of Sardis’s renowned synagogue and bath complex. They offer scholars a unique opportunity to study urban life and commercial architecture in the Late Antique period. Remarkably well...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 523 p. — (BAR International Series 3107). This book contains the results of the 2nd International Conference on Classical Antiquities, held in Rome on 22 - 25 November 2021 at the Department of Humanities of the ‘Tor Vergata’ University of Rome. Ancient landscape is a broad and perfect theme for international and interdisciplinary research, and is...
BAR Publishing, 2024. — 395 p. — (BAR International Series 3178). III Convegno Internazionale di Antichistica Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ This book contains the papers presented at the 3rd International Conference of Classical Antiquities, entitled ‘Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 3’, held in Rome on 29th to 31st May 2023 at the Department of Literary,...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 310 p. — (BAR International Series 3015). This book represents research presented at the 1st International Conference on Classical Antiquities, held in Rome from 15th to 17th May, 2019 at the Tor Vergata University. The conference focused on the ancient Mediterranean between the 6th century BC and the 7th century AD, stimulating dialogue across different...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 148 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 116). Double-Sided Antler and Bone Combs in Late Roman Britain offers the first detailed study and catalogue of a comb type that represents a new technology introduced into Britain towards the end of the 4th century AD and a major signifier of the late fourth- to fifth-century transition. Their end-plates were...
Roman Society Publications, 2007. — 524 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series, 24). This detailed volume is the final report from excavations at Stanway, on the outskirts of Colchester which took place in stages between 1987 and 2002. A Mid-Iron Age farmstead represents the oldest structure found on the site, but it is a series of Late Iron Age burials, probably from one high-status...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 255 p. — (BAR International Series 2947). Il presente volume prende avvio dalle riflessioni generate dall'analisi di tutti gli affreschi nelle catacombe cristiane di Roma, per identificare e catalogare le c.d. gammadiae, rappresentate sul lembo del pallio dei personaggi, e provando a comprenderne il significato attraverso una suddivisione per temi...
Konrad Theiss Verlag, 1990. — 707 S. Dieser Band aus der Feder sachkundiger und bekannter Archäologen des Landesdenkmalamtes und der Landesmuseen bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die politische Geschichte, beginnend bei den ersten römischen Eroberungen im 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis hin zum Zerfall des römischen Imperiums im 5. Jahrhundert. Alle Facetten der römischen Kultur...
A. Ascher & Co, 1897. — 15 S. Olympia - die ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten ausgrabung, im Auftrage des Königlich Preussischen Ministers der Geistlichen Unterrichts- und Medicinal-Angelegenheiten: Karten und pläne.
Editor: Roger S. Bagnall. — NYU Press, 2021. — 346 p. A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman period by a leading scholar. Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern desert during the Roman period. The fort excavations that she has directed have uncovered a...
Editor: Roger S. Bagnall. — NYU Press, 2021. — 346 p. A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman period by a leading scholar. Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern desert during the Roman period. The fort excavations that she has directed have uncovered a...
Editor: Roger S. Bagnall. — NYU Press, 2021. — 346 p. A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman period by a leading scholar. Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern desert during the Roman period. The fort excavations that she has directed have uncovered a...
Editor: Roger S. Bagnall. — NYU Press, 2021. — 346 p. A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman period by a leading scholar. Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern desert during the Roman period. The fort excavations that she has directed have uncovered a...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 385 p. — (BAR International Series 2804). The previous publications of the necropolis of Campovalano in the BAR series, started in 2003 and continued in 2010, concerned the sepultures dating to the period between X and V century B.C. The current volume represents the conclusive part, which investigates the funerary contexts dating between IV and II...
Princeton (N.J.): American school of classical studies at Athens, 2009. — 352 p., 145 figs., 9 tables — (Hesperia Supplement; 42). Intended as a tribute to a pioneer in the field of Cretan cult study, 28 of Geraldine Gesell’s former students and colleagues present aspects of ritual and religion on Crete. In a variety of approaches the discourse ranges in time from the Iron Age...
Routledge, 2020. — 200 p. Roman-Period and Byzantine Nazareth and its Hinterland presents a new social and economic interpretation of Roman-period and Byzantine Nazareth and its hinterland as a whole, showing the transformation of a Roman-period Jewish village into a major Byzantine Christian pilgrimage centre. Although Nazareth is one of the most famous places in the world,...
Routledge, 2020. — 200 p. Roman-Period and Byzantine Nazareth and its Hinterland presents a new social and economic interpretation of Roman-period and Byzantine Nazareth and its hinterland as a whole, showing the transformation of a Roman-period Jewish village into a major Byzantine Christian pilgrimage centre. Although Nazareth is one of the most famous places in the world,...
Norfolk Field Archaeology Division, 1993. — 462 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 60). The Roman defended site at Caister, hitherto viewed as a small town, can now be seen as an early coastal fort probably contemporary with Reculver and Brancaster, both of which appear in the Notitia Dignitatum as forts of the Saxon shore. The Caister fort is of earlier Roman type, with a...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 96 p. The Roman frontier In Dacia combined several elements, each relating to the landscape: there were riverain and mountain borders, some supplemented by linear barriers, and all connected by roads. The complex system of the border consisted primarily of a network of watchtowers, smaller or larger forts and artificial earthen ramparts...
American School of Classical Studies, 1943. — 172 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 7) The range of material discarded by citizens attending the Athenian assembly on the Pnyx hill is hardly notable for its art historical interest. However, this catalogue of different sorts of objects found during excavations between 1931 and 1937 provides interesting insights into the social history of...
Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.— Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1952. — Reprinted by offset by Meriden-Stinehour Press. — Meriden, Connecticut, U.S.A., 1987. — 383 p. This catalogue of over 3,000 items presents a huge variety of ephemera from ancient Corinth, fascinating for the glimpses of...
Springer, 2011. — 498 p. — (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology). Human settlement has often centered around coastal areas and waterways. Until recently, however, archaeologists believed that marine economies did not develop until the end of the Pleistocene, when the archaeological record begins to have evidence of marine life as part of the human diet. This has long...
BAR Publishing, 2006. — 219 p. — (BAR International Series 1576). 15 papers on research (1970-2001) into Roman Dalamtia in honour of J. J. Wilkes. The prehistoric background to Dalmatia: Dalmatia from the 8th to 4th centuries BC (Dunja Glogovic) The Greek background (Branko Kirigin) The battle at Taurida (Sinia Bilic Dujmuic) Promona: the site and the siege (Sinia Bilic...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2003. — 145 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos VIII/5). Die vorliegende Arbeit umfaßt eine Vorlage der Elfenbeinfunde aus dem Hanghaus 2 in Ephesos. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf einer detaillierten Darstellung der Restaurierungs- und Konservierungsarbeiten, welche die Rekonstruktion des großen Frieses sowie weiterer...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 515 p. — (BAR International Series 2419). A collection of thirty-two papers dealing with the development of the city in the Adriatic area, on Italian, Dalmatian and Albanian coasts. The time period stretches from the Iron Age right through to the late Roman period.
Archaeopress, 2018. — 131 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 44/Ricerche archeologiche nell’isola di Ventotene 1). Ventotene è una piccola isola del medio Tirreno conosciuta nell’antichità con il nome di Pandateria. In questo luogo si conservano gli imponenti resti di una villa romana di età augustea destinata all’otium. Nel corso del I sec. d.C. l’isola funse da luogo di...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 360 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 57; Ricerche archeologiche nell’isola di Ventotene 2). La raccolta e la distribuzione dell’acqua a Ventotene in età romana si compone di due parti. Nella prima viene esaminato il problema topografico e tecnico relativo all’approvvigionamento idrico dell’isola di Ventotene, in rapporto alla sostanziale assenza di...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 125 p. — (BAR International Series 2882). This volume contains 11 articles that spring from the conference 'Bridging the Danube: Roman Occupation and Interaction in the Middle and Lower Danube Valley, 1st-5th c. AD' (Timişoara, 2014). The papers present current research by East European scholars at sites such as Novae, Viminacium and Drobeta. The volume...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 461 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 102; Ricerche archeologiche nell’isola di Ventotene 3). La villa romana di Punta Eolo è una “villa a padiglioni” situata all’estremità nord di Ventotene, dove si protende nel mare per circa 300 m di lunghezza e 100 m di larghezza, sviluppandosi per oltre tre ettari attorno a uno scalo portuale. La residenza,...
Portsmouth, R.I., 1998. — 243 p. — (Journal of Roman archaeology; Supplementary series 26). Part 1. Introduction Part 2. Surface remains of Umm El-Jimal and its surroundings Part 3. Stratigraphy Part 4. Material remains Part 5. Historical conclusions
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 290 p. When studying later prehistoric societies, it is evident that shared practices, as well as variations, exist in the settlement record. Traditionally, the emphasis has mainly been on the elements shared on large scales, the widely shared norms. Variations in material culture have received little attention. This is regrettable, because through the...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2018. — 208 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 24). La colonie grecque d’Agathé, établie par les Phocéens de Marseille, déjà citée par des auteurs de l’Antiquité, a fait couler beaucoup d’encre parmi les historiens modernes qui cherchaient surtout sa localisation précise et sa date de fondation. Les premières...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2012. — 288 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 11). Ambrussum doit sa notoriété aux recherches menées depuis les années 1970 sur l’oppidum du second Âge du Fer et son rempart, sur la ville du Haut-Empire, ainsi que sur l’agglomération gallo-romaine qui s’est développée à son pied, le long de la voie Domitienne...
Harpercollins, 1985. — 222 p. — ISBN-13 978-0060153762. A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 191 p. — (BAR International Series 2847). Esta publicación incluye todos los datos recientes recuperados en "El castro" (Pendia) durante las campañas arqueológicas desarrolladas entre 2003 y 2013. Por esta razón, el libro reúne un amplio abanico de temas que incluyen:- El estudio de las arquitecturas perecederas.- Otros estudios acerca de las...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 304 p. Roman Architecture casts new light not only on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known examples from across the Roman empire. Rome and its empire were fundamental to the development of western architecture, and its forms and motifs remain significant elements of our own built environments. Roman...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 304 p. Roman Architecture casts new light not only on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known examples from across the Roman empire. Rome and its empire were fundamental to the development of western architecture, and its forms and motifs remain significant elements of our own built environments. Roman...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 312 p. — (BAR International Series 2607). The book is the result of three years of excavations (2005-2008) on the north-west side of Rome's Via dei Fori Imperiali, directly behind the Forum area. Contexts and landscapes extending from the Archaic period (6th century B.C.) to the time of Augustus have been discovered. Two wealthy houses from the Archaic...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 722 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-9966-7. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can contribute to a greater understanding of the formation of the Roman Republic. - Brings together the experiences and ideas of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 722 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can contribute to a greater understanding of the formation of the Roman Republic. - Brings together the experiences and ideas of archaeologists from around the...
Augusta Raurica, 1991. — 160 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 12). Erst seit den 1970er Jahren, als die Grabungsintensität infolge mehrerer Neubauprojekte in der Rhein-/ Ergolzniederung von Kaiseraugst zunahm, wurde nicht nur das eigene Insula-Netz der sog. Unterstadt von Augusta Rauricorum allmählich erkannt, sondern auch die Existenz eines Grabensystems, das in mehreren Grabungen...
Augusta Raurica, 1999. — 244 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 28). Vor acht Jahren publizierte der Autor dieses Bandes, Eckhard Deschler-Erb, seine erste militärgeschichtliche Arbeit über Augusta Raurica als Band 12 der «Forschungen in Augst» mit dem Titel «Das frühkaiserzeitliche Militärlager in der Kaiseraugster Unterstadt» unter Mithilfe eines Autorenkollektivs mit Markus Peter,...
Verlag Dr. Faustus, 2012. — 178 p. Überreste der Bewaffnung und Ausrüstung römischer 'legionarii' und 'auxiliares' gehören zu den markantesten Fundstücken republikanischer und kaiserzeitlicher Militärplätze, in erster Linie an den ehemaligen Grenzen des Riesenreiches. Dabei muss man sich vor Augen halten, dass vor allem metallische Gegenstände oft eingeschmolzen und wieder...
Augusta Raurica, 1998. — 436 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 27.1). Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich dem - mit Ausnahme der Fundmünzen - bisher umfangreichsten Artefaktbestand von Augusta Raurica: den bearbeiteten Objekten aus Knochen, Geweih und Zahn, im speziellen Elfenbein. Die seit Jahrzehnten minutiös geborgenen und aufbewahrten Beinartefakte umfassen heute 5902...
Augusta Raurica, 1998. — 464 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 27.2). Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich dem - mit Ausnahme der Fundmünzen - bisher umfangreichsten Artefaktbestand von Augusta Raurica: den bearbeiteten Objekten aus Knochen, Geweih und Zahn, im speziellen Elfenbein. Die seit Jahrzehnten minutiös geborgenen und aufbewahrten Beinartefakte umfassen heute 5902...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2017. — 209 p. — (Monografie di Archeologia Libica 39). Ceramica importata e produzione locale: un contributo alla storia economica delle città di Tripolitania fra il I sec. a.C. ed il IV d.C. Per un profilo del capitello a foglie lisce: i capitelli del tempio di Liber Pater ed il capitello a foglie lisce di Sabratha Giorgio Rocco, Presentazione...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020. — 196 p. Even though, at death, identity and social status may undergo major changes, by studying funerary customs we can greatly gain in the understanding of a community’s social structure, distribution of wealth and property, and the degree of flexibility or divisiveness in the apportionment of power. With its great regional diversity and...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008. — 288 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 37). As one of the most famous religious centers in the Aegean, the island of Samothrace was visited by thousands of worshippers between the seventh century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. All known inscriptions listing or mentioning Samothracian initiates and theoroi (a total of 169...
American School of Classical Studies, 1941. — 171 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 5) The well-preserved Temple of Hephaistos, standing on a low hill to the west of the Athenian Agora, was one of the only monuments visible when American excavations began on the site in 1931. Known throughout its early modern history as the “Theseum,” it is still the Agora’s most conspicuous landmark....
Routledge, 2007. — 705 p. This all embracing survey of Pompeii provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available. With contributions by well-known experts in the field, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also – for the first time – the buried surrounding cities of Campania. The World of Pompeii includes the latest understanding of the region, based on the...
Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books, 2016. — xii, 436 p., 282 figs., maps. The main source of archaeological evidence for Late Roman Republican camps is a complex of installations around the Iberian city of Numantia in Spain, excavated by Adolf Schulten in the early 1900s. This book reassesses Schulten and concludes that much of his interpretation is questionable. Radically different...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 144 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 71). Excavations at Chester: the northern and eastern Roman extramural settlements presents the results of fifteen archaeological investigations carried out within the canabae to the north and east of the Roman legionary fortress at Chester between 1990 and 2019. The results demonstrate that there was sparse...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 208 p. — (BAR International Series 3100). Este libro se centra en la caracterización de las producciones de cerámica común presentes en contextos de época romana de yacimientos del entorno de la antigua ciudad de Lucus Augusti (Lugo, España). A través de un enfoque que apuesta por el análisis de una cultura híbrida que tiene su eco en el registro...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2014. — 326 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 122.1). Das römerzeitliche Gräberfeld Halbturn I gehörte damals zum westlichen Teil Pannoniens; die antike Großstadt Carnuntum befand sich etwa 30 km entfernt. Das Gräberfeld wurde durch systematische Ausgrabungen vollständig untersucht, was für diese Region eine Besonderheit darstellt. Das...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2014. — 432 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 122.2). Das römerzeitliche Gräberfeld Halbturn I gehörte damals zum westlichen Teil Pannoniens; die antike Großstadt Carnuntum befand sich etwa 30 km entfernt. Das Gräberfeld wurde durch systematische Ausgrabungen vollständig untersucht, was für diese Region eine Besonderheit darstellt. Das...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2014. — 420 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 122.3). Das römerzeitliche Gräberfeld Halbturn I gehörte damals zum westlichen Teil Pannoniens; die antike Großstadt Carnuntum befand sich etwa 30 km entfernt. Das Gräberfeld wurde durch systematische Ausgrabungen vollständig untersucht, was für diese Region eine Besonderheit darstellt. Das...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2014. — 424 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 122.4). Das römerzeitliche Gräberfeld Halbturn I gehörte damals zum westlichen Teil Pannoniens; die antike Großstadt Carnuntum befand sich etwa 30 km entfernt. Das Gräberfeld wurde durch systematische Ausgrabungen vollständig untersucht, was für diese Region eine Besonderheit darstellt. Das...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 392 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 61). The Busy Periphery: Urban Systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd – 3rd c. AD) considers the reconstruction of the urban geography of the Balkan and Danube provinces at the time of the Severan dynasty. Four basic parameters governed the focus of research: the origin and socio-economic character of the...
Society for Libyan Studies, 1989. — 324 p. — (Society for Libyan Studies Monograph 1). This is the first report on the finds from K. Kenyon’s and J. B. Ward-Perkins’s excavations at Sabratha from 1948-1951, and contains full discussion and catalogues. This volume constitutes a landmark in the study of Punic and Roman pottery from Sabratha and Tripolitania, not only covering new...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 356 S. — (Urban Spaces 6). In diesem Buch werden die archäologischen Befunde Athens zwischen dem späten 8. und frühen 6. Jh. v. Chr. erstmals systematisch zusammengestellt. Die sich daran anschließende Auswertung hat das Ziel, das vorhandene Material in die Kontexte der urbanen Topographie einzuordnen und in Hinblick auf sakrale, soziale und...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 330 S. — (Urban Spaces 6). In diesem Buch werden die archäologischen Befunde Athens zwischen dem späten 8. und frühen 6. Jh. v. Chr. erstmals systematisch zusammengestellt. Die sich daran anschließende Auswertung hat das Ziel, das vorhandene Material in die Kontexte der urbanen Topographie einzuordnen und in Hinblick auf sakrale, soziale und...
American School of Classical Studies, 1937. — 259 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 1) Prytaneis were the executive officers in charge of the Athenian council (or boule) after its reorganization by Cleisthenes in the 6th century B.C. This study presents all documents recovered from the Athenian Agora relating to the prytaneis, beginning in 327/6 B.C. and ending in the reign of...
Herder, 2003. — 456 S. — (Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte 55). In der vorliegenden Arbeit verbindet Dresken-Weiland archäologische Fragestellungen mit statistischen Untersuchungen an epigrafischem Material und greift zugleich Anliegen der Gender Studies auf. Die Materialgrundlage bildet vorwiegend die stadtrömische Überlieferung,...
Oxbow, 2009. — 200 p. A larger than usual selection of papers from the annual TRAC conference. Sessions included Supplying the Army, Imperial communication, The role of the deceased in Roman society, Military identities and Experiencing space and place in the Roman world. Forced labour, mines, and space: exploring the control of mining communities (Hannah Friedman) Feeling like...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 512 p. The recycling and reuse of materials and objects were extensive in the past, but have rarely been embedded into models of the economy; even more rarely has any attempt been made to assess the scale of these practices. Recent developments, including the use of large datasets, computational modelling, and high-resolution analytical...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 512 p. The recycling and reuse of materials and objects were extensive in the past, but have rarely been embedded into models of the economy; even more rarely has any attempt been made to assess the scale of these practices. Recent developments, including the use of large datasets, computational modelling, and high-resolution analytical...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 134 p. This volume was derived from the twenty-first annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, which took place at the University of Newcastle (14-17 April 2011). Introduction: The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Turns 21 (Eleanor Scott) She Said ‘Emic’ (Lindsay Allason-Jones) R.G. Collingwood – An Early Archaeological Theorist? (Stephen...
Proceedings of an International Symposium at Newcastle University, March 2014. — Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020. — 160 p. — (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 15). The Atlantic Seaboard has attracted increasing interest as a zone of economic complexity and social connection during Late Antiquity and the early medieval period. A surge in archaeological and, in...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 159 p. This book is concerned with social stability and change. Despite continuing interest in both aspects by various disciplines of the social sciences they are still not fully understood. Unlike the natural sciences, where Darwin's principles of random variation and selection are commonly accepted as mechanisms of change, the social sciences still...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2021. — 332 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 34). When Roman objects are discovered in rivers they are commonly interpreted as accidental losses or as rubbish deposits revealed by fluvial erosion; this is in contrast to prehistoric assemblages, which are often seen as ritual offerings. Our project challenges these assumptions by...
American School of Classical Studies, 1975. — 272 p. — (Corinth, vol. VII,3) This report focuses on the pottery produced in Corinth in the Hellenistic period down to the time of that city’s destruction by Mummius in 146 B.C. Imported pottery of the period, as well as Corinthian Hellenistic ware found elsewhere, has been deliberately excluded except as comparanda. However, in order...
American School of Classical Studies, 1933. — 184 p. — (Corinth, vol. VI) Rather than discussing the historical, political, or economic deductions that can be drawn from coins, this report simply presents an illustrated catalogue of all coins found during excavations in Corinth from 1896 to 1929. The range of different periods published is great, from Corinthian mints of the Greek...
The Danish Institute at Athens, 2004. — 544 p. — (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 5). Transport amphorae were chosen as the theme of this colloquium because of their great potential for elucidating ancient economic history. As Peacock and Williams have noted, amphorae provide us not with anindex of the transportation of goods, but with direct witness of the...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1978. — 216 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 25). Ces fouilles ont été achevées en plusieurs saisons (1959-1963). Je n'étais pas le seul qui y travaillait, mais nous travaillions, mes assistants et moi ensembles dans ce vaste ancien site de l' agora de la ville Xois l'ancienne capitale du 6e nome de la...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1949. — 150 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 10). Whether public baths ever existed in Pharaonic Egypt is not certain. The fact however that excavations have so far yielded mostly tombs, no considerable city-sites having been discovered, makes us hesitate to suggest that such baths did exist. Homer...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 779 p. This is the first of four volumes that present the results from the University of Cincinnati's archaeological excavations of the Porta Stabia neighborhood at Pompeii. These excavations targeted two town blocks on either side of the via Stabiana (insulae VIII.7 and I.1), which comprised modest houses, shops, workshops, food and drink...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 779 p. This is the first of four volumes that present the results from the University of Cincinnati's archaeological excavations of the Porta Stabia neighborhood at Pompeii. These excavations targeted two town blocks on either side of the via Stabiana (insulae VIII.7 and I.1), which comprised modest houses, shops, workshops, food and drink...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 166 p. Purple dye is extracted from the glands of the molluscs Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus Brandaris and Stramonita Haemastoma which, through a chemical reaction of photosynthesis, produces hues ranging from dark red to bluish purple color. The importance of purple dye since ancient times as a status symbol, a sign of royal and religious power is well...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 166 p. Purple dye is extracted from the glands of the molluscs Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus Brandaris and Stramonita Haemastoma which, through a chemical reaction of photosynthesis, produces hues ranging from dark red to bluish purple color. The importance of purple dye since ancient times as a status symbol, a sign of royal and religious power is well...
École française d'Athènes, 2018. — 497 p. — (Exploration archéologique de Délos XLIV). Un siècle et demi après les premières fouilles à Délos qui ont concerné le sanctuaire d’Apollon, et malgré de nombreuses publications, il subsistait des lacunes dans la connaissance du sanctuaire. L’objet de cette publication est de tenter de les combler. Il s’agissait tout d’abord d’établir...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 224 p. Macedonia is a region that provides its own intriguing questions due to its position on the fringe of the classical Greek world. It is also an area which is of special interest to students of history and archaeology of Roman period Greece since it was the first to be incorporated in the Roman state. Macedonia shared a similar path of development with...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2000. — 570 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 16). Although Caerleon is now a subsidiary town of Newport, Isca , as it was then known, was the permanent base of the Second Augustan Legion for over 200 years. This substantial volume concentrates on the area around Mill Street which originally was thought to lie outside the area of Roman...
Departement für Erziehung und Kultur des Kantons Thurgau, 2003/2008. — 625 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 8.1/2). Die Grabungen im spätrömischen Kastel l Pfyn begannen 1 976 und dauerten mit Unterbrüchen bis ins Jahr 2003. Bereits im Verlauf der ersten Untersuchungen stellte sich heraus, dass nicht nur mächtige Mauerreste, sondern auch ein ausserordentlich vielfältiges...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 212 p. — (BAR International Series 3022). La provincia bética en época romana fue una importante región productora de trigo, aceite y vino. Este último producto se conoce por las ánforas vinarias en todo el Imperio, pero no se habían localizado lugares de producción. En el Bajo Guadalquivir se encuentra la colonia Hasta Regia, en un área que actualmente...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 112 p. — (Elements in the Archaeology of Europe). This Element volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeology of the Roman conquest, combining new theoretical and methodological approaches with the latest fieldwork results. Recent advances in conflict archaeology research are revolutionising our knowledge of Rome's military...
BAR Publishing, 2003. — 88 p. — (BAR British Series 359). Did the Romans survey the lands that they conquered? This study puts forward evidence in support of the idea that geometric patterns can be discerned in the angles of road alignments and the position of forts and towns to suggest that the Romans surveyed Britain shortly after the invasion. With lots of maps and diagrams,...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 236 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 80). Visions of the Roman North: Art and Identity in Northern Roman Britain is the first book to present an analysis of art from the northern frontier zones of Roman Britain and to interpret the meaning and significance of this art in terms of the formation of a regional identity at this time. It argues that a...
Routledge, 2022. — 268 p. The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban space in Roman Italy. As a consequence of these new imperatives, sociological studies on ancient...
Routledge, 2022. — 268 p. The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban space in Roman Italy. As a consequence of these new imperatives, sociological studies on ancient...
American School of Classical Studies, 1951. — 216 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 9) Horos markers were used to indicate when a property was mortgaged and who the creditors were. This study publishes known examples from ancient Athens and explores how the mortgage system may have worked. The book contains eight chapters: Chapter I presents 35 new horos mortgage inscriptions. Chapter II...
J.-C. environ. Premier bilan. — BAR International Series 990. — Oxford: Archaeopress, 2001. — Pp. 260. — ISBN: 1-84171-275-2. Настольная книга для археологов, занимающихся периодом позднего эллинизма. Посвящена хронологии родосских клейм. Скан сделан с ксерокопии, поэтому: а) пары-тройки страниц не хватает; б) номера страниц не везде проставлены. в) иллюстрации еле видны. Но...
BAR Publishing, 2001. — 256 p. — (BAR International Series 990). Detailed and Revised Chronology of the Eponyms Dating Rhodian Amphora Stamps from circa 270 to 180 BC is a detailed analysis of the chronology of Rhodian amphorae stamps. The research was then applied by the author to the large amount of material unearthed in the course of excavations in the Southern Levant,...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 252 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 23). Persistenza indigena, consistenza, articolazione, forma e funzionalità urbanistiche dei municipia della Puglia centrale consentono di leggere la complessa vicenda storica e insediativa di questo comparto nel lungo periodo esteso fra l’età della romanizzazione e il III sec. d.C. La raccolta e disamina...
Augusta Raurica, 2009. — 198 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 37). Die Vorlage der Gläser aus Augusta Raurica durch Beat Rütti 1991 beschäftigte sich zwar u. a. auch mit den zahlreichen kleinteiligen Werkstattabfällen in der Insula 29 in Augst, jedoch nur am Rande mit den Kaiseraugster Glasmanufakturen. Der lang gehegte Wunsch einer detaillierten Vorlage der Ofenbefunde und die...
Routledge, 2017. — 272 p. The studies included in this volume supplement the work already published by the author on the imperial cult in the Roman West, focussing on the monuments of two cities in Roman Spain, Augusta Emerita (now Meridda) and Tarraco (now Tarragona). The introduction gives the general background and context of the four following studies and argues in favour...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 336 p. Between 58 and 51 BC Julius Caesar conquered Gaul. He campaigned across much of present day France and the Low Countries, crossed the Rhine to Germany, and sailed the Channel to invade Britain. In doing this he achieved immense personal wealth and glory and the loyalty of a battle-hardened army of veterans. Caesar’s eventual return to Rome began with...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 336 p. Between 58 and 51 BC Julius Caesar conquered Gaul. He campaigned across much of present day France and the Low Countries, crossed the Rhine to Germany, and sailed the Channel to invade Britain. In doing this he achieved immense personal wealth and glory and the loyalty of a battle-hardened army of veterans. Caesar’s eventual return to Rome began with...
BAR Publishing, 2013. — 161 p. — (BAR International Series 2501). In this volume the author presents a full study of the topography and landscape of Roman Dacia (roughly present-day north-central and western Romania). The work begins with investigations of the Roman road network and a discussion of the Roman geographical perception of Dacia before and after the conquest, which...
American School of Classical Studies, 1932. — 258 p. — (Corinth, vol. I,1) The aim of this volume, the first in the Corinth series although not the first to be published, is to describe the surroundings of the ancient site and then document the main buildings identified during the first 30 years of ASCSA excavations. The authors start with a general review of the place of Corinth...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 799 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 42). Le verre incolore, volontairement décoloré au manganèse ou à l’antimoine, est celui qui est le plus souvent utilisé entre le milieu du Ier s. apr. J.-C. et le début du IVe s. Verres incolores de L’antiquité romaine en Gaule et aux marges de la Gaule rend compte de la diversité de ce mobilier (vaisselle,...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 145 p. — (BAR International Series 2881). Cette monographie porte sur l’étude d’un établissement portuaire (Bey-144), qui a fait l’objet d’une fouille de sauvetage à Beyrouth en 2003. Elle comprend un essai d’interprétation des vestiges architecturaux et stratigraphiques du site ainsi qu’une étude du matériel céramique qui en provient, dans une...
American School of Classical Studies, 1988. — 156 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXIV) This book collects for the first time the archaeological and historical evidence for the area of the Athenian Agora in Late Antiquity, a period which spans the last flourishing of the great philosophical schools, the defeat of classical paganism by Christianity, and the collapse of the late Roman...
American School of Classical Studies, 1971. — 57 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XX) The Church of the Holy Apostles stands at an important crossroads in the southeast corner of the area of the ancient Agora. The earliest church on the site, built over a wall of the 5th-century B.C. Mint and the foundations of the Roman Nymphaeum, is here dated to the last quarter of the 10th century...
American School of Classical Studies, 1961. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 7) The story of the Agora did not end in A.D. 267, when the Herulians invaded the city. From ornate Early Christian carving to the colorful green and brown glazed pottery that distinguished the city, this booklet shows how medieval Athens was a lively, bustling town with a rich artistic tradition. Finds and...
Karolinum Press / Charles University, 2015. — 400 p. For the ancient Romans, lamps were more than just a way to be able to see in the dark - they were mythical muses, witnesses to secrets, and instruments of the supernatural. Far more familiar to the average Roman than the high art of mosaics, statues, or frescos, lamps created the atmosphere of day-to-day life in the homes,...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 272 p. — (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology). This book assembles all sources for Archaic city walls in the ancient Greek world, and argues that widespread fortification of settlements and towns, usually considered to date from the Classical period, in fact took place much earlier. The book discusses the types of fortified settlement...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2012. — 64 p. During many years of field work in the 1970s–1990s, David French traced Roman roads, bridges, road stations and other archaeological features, and recorded milestones and related inscriptions in all the Roman provinces of Anatolia west of the Euphrates. His first monograph relating to this project appeared in 1981,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2012. — 411 p. During many years of field work in the 1970s–1990s, David French traced Roman roads, bridges, road stations and other archaeological features, and recorded milestones and related inscriptions in all the Roman provinces of Anatolia west of the Euphrates. His first monograph relating to this project appeared in 1981,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2013. — 217 p. During many years of field work in the 1970s–1990s, David French traced Roman roads, bridges, road stations and other archaeological features, and recorded milestones and related inscriptions in all the Roman provinces of Anatolia west of the Euphrates. His first monograph relating to this project appeared in 1981,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2014. — 392 p. During many years of field work in the 1970s–1990s, David French traced Roman roads, bridges, road stations and other archaeological features, and recorded milestones and related inscriptions in all the Roman provinces of Anatolia west of the Euphrates. His first monograph relating to this project appeared in 1981,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2014. — 160 p. During many years of field work in the 1970s–1990s, David French traced Roman roads, bridges, road stations and other archaeological features, and recorded milestones and related inscriptions in all the Roman provinces of Anatolia west of the Euphrates. His first monograph relating to this project appeared in 1981,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2014. — 83 p. During many years of field work in the 1970s–1990s, David French traced Roman roads, bridges, road stations and other archaeological features, and recorded milestones and related inscriptions in all the Roman provinces of Anatolia west of the Euphrates. His first monograph relating to this project appeared in 1981,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2015. — 192 p. During many years of field work in the 1970s–1990s, David French traced Roman roads, bridges, road stations and other archaeological features, and recorded milestones and related inscriptions in all the Roman provinces of Anatolia west of the Euphrates. His first monograph relating to this project appeared in 1981,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2016. — 87 p. During many years of field work in the 1970s–1990s, David French traced Roman roads, bridges, road stations and other archaeological features, and recorded milestones and related inscriptions in all the Roman provinces of Anatolia west of the Euphrates. His first monograph relating to this project appeared in 1981,...
BAR Publishing, 1981. — 236 p. — (BAR International Series 105/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 3). This and succeeding fascicules on the Roman roads of Asia Minor will contain the preliminary results of research undertaken alongside another project, namely, the preparation of a corpus of milestones for Asia Minor, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum volume XVII,...
BAR Publishing, 1988. — 602 p. — (BAR International Series 392/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 9). The publication of individual fascicules of RRMAM has been so retarded that early in 1986 I decided to prepare a catalogue of all the Asia Minor milestones (known to me) in a form which might be seen by interested scholars as an indication of results and...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1989. — 373 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 9). This volume describes the exploration of three successive forts at Strageath, Scotland, and makes important contributions to the study of the Roman North and to Roman military archaeology. It reports on the excavations at the Roman fort of Strageath in Perthshire, focusing especially on...
Archäologisches Institut der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, 1994. — 520 S. — (Spisy archeologického ústavu AV ČR Brno 1). VI. Internationales Symposium “Grundprobleme der frühgeschichtlichen Entwicklung im nördlichen Mitteldonaugebiet”, Wien, 23.-26. November 1993 Der Tagungsband der internationalen Tagung veröffentlicht die Forschungsergebnisse auf dem...
Ancient Treasures from the Museums of the U S. S. R. 3000 B.C-100 B.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin No. 5, Volume Xxxil, Number 5. Special issue. N.Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973/1974 – 160 P. Cultural exchanges are of profound importance in promoting understanding between two peoples, and we would like to commend the vigorous efforts and initiative of The...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023. — 464 S. — (Forschungen zur antiken Religion 3). Die vorliegende Untersuchung eröffnet eine völlig neue Perspektive auf die römische Katakombenmalerei. Als Schlüsselmonumente der Christlichen Archäologie stehen die Katakomben Roms seit ihrer Wiederentdeckung immer wieder im Fokus der Forschung. Dennoch sind...
Roman Society Publications, 2006. — 404 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series, 22). The Society of Antiquaries' excavation of Silchester's Insula IX in 1893-4 left most of the stratigraphy undisturbed. A new programme of work has shown that the Insula underwent radical change, c. AD 250/300, with the construction of new workshop and residential buildings on the orientation of the...
Roman Society Publications, 2015. — 232 p. This volume presents an assessment of the contribution that developer-funded archaeology has made to knowledge of the major towns of Roman Britain. It contains papers on the legislative and planning framework; cases studies (London and York); regional reviews (towns of the South-East, South-West and the Midlands and North); and...
Society for Libyan Studies, 1994. — 244 p. — (Society for Libyan Studies Monograph 3). This is the second part of the second volume of the first report on the finds from K. Kenyon’s and J. B. Ward-Perkins’s excavations at Sabratha from 1948-1951. It contains full discussion and catalogues. Part 2 of this volume constitutes a landmark in the study of Punic and Roman finewares...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1989. — 274 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 10). This companion volume to Britannia Monographs Nos. 5 & 15 throws new light on one of the principal monuments of Roman Silchester and examines the functions of urban and military amphitheatres in Britain.
Augusta Raurica, 2006. — 400 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 35.1). Die mehrjährigen «Autobahngrabungen» in Augst fanden im Jahre 1975 mit den archäologischen Begleitungen an der Lärmschutzmauer ihren Abschluss. Lange Zeit schien es, die der Archäologie zustehenden Mittel aus den Treibstoffzöllen seien damit erschöpft und die Grabungen müssten unausgewertet «ad acta» gelegt werden....
Augusta Raurica, 2006. — 420 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 35.2). Die mehrjährigen «Autobahngrabungen» in Augst fanden im Jahre 1975 mit den archäologischen Begleitungen an der Lärmschutzmauer ihren Abschluss. Lange Zeit schien es, die der Archäologie zustehenden Mittel aus den Treibstoffzöllen seien damit erschöpft und die Grabungen müssten unausgewertet «ad acta» gelegt werden....
Augusta Raurica, 2015. — 460 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 51.1). Mit der Publikation über die römischen Gläser aus Augst und Kaiseraugst legt Sylvia Fünfschilling neue Glasfunde aus den Ausgrabungen von 1981 bis 2010 vor. Der Katalog der Gläser aus Augusta Raurica, dessen Umfang damit auf beinahe 7000 Nummern angestiegen ist, schliesst an die 1991 publizierten Gläser von Augst...
Augusta Raurica, 2015. — 262 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 51.2). Mit der Publikation über die römischen Gläser aus Augst und Kaiseraugst legt Sylvia Fünfschilling neue Glasfunde aus den Ausgrabungen von 1981 bis 2010 vor. Der Katalog der Gläser aus Augusta Raurica, dessen Umfang damit auf beinahe 7000 Nummern angestiegen ist, schliesst an die 1991 publizierten Gläser von Augst...
Librum Publishers & Editors, 2017. — 388 p. Die römische Stadt Augusta Raurica bei Basel erbrachte u. a. zahlreiche archäologische Zeugnisse der frühen Metallverarbeitung, insbesondere Grabungsbefunde von Bronzegiesser-Werkstätten und Hunderte von mobilen Zeugnissen ihrer Tätigkeit: Fehlgüsse, Halbfabrikate, Schmelztiegel, Gussformen usw. Die 893 Schmelztiegel bilden den bisher...
Augusta Raurica, 1992. — 492 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 15). Die römische Kolonie- und Zivilstadt 10 km östlich des Basler Rheinknies ist Gegenstand jahrhundertelanger Ausgrabungen und Forschungen (Laur/Berger 1988). Seit der Monographie über «Die Keramik der Augster Thermen» von Elisabeth Ettlinger, entstanden als Dissertation in den Jahren 1939-1941 und publiziert 1949, waren...
Augusta Raurica, 2009. — 256 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 44). Emilie Riha hat 2002, unmittelbar nach Erscheinen ihrer letzten grossen Monographie über eine ausgewählte Fundgattung («Kästchen, Truhen, Tische – Möbelteile aus Augusta Raurica»), den Vorschlag gemacht, mit Rücksicht auf ihr fortgeschrittenes Alter (81) ein «kleineres» Projekt anzugehen, nämlich die Siegelkapseln aus...
Eisenbrauns, 2022. — 320 p. — (Ancient Jerusalem Publications 2). This is the story of the landfill that operated in Jerusalem during the first century CE and served as its garbage dump during the ca. 50-year period that followed Jesus’s crucifixion through to the period that led to the great revolt of the Jews just prior to the city’s destruction. The book presents an...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2016. — 424 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 20). Cet ouvrage réunit les résultats de deux manifestations complémentaires : d’une part, la table ronde intitulée « Rendre à César », organisée le mercredi 20 juin 2012, à Paris, au Musée du Louvre et, d’autre part, les « Rencontres autour de la sculpture romaine...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 302 p. Two Cemeteries at Takhtidziri (Georgia): Late Achaemenid-Early Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic-Early Roman publishes excavations at two cemeteries located near to the village of Takhtidziri in Shida Kartli, the central region of Georgia. The first features Late Achaemenid-Early Hellenistic graves belonging to the representatives of the ruling...
Essay and catalog. — Tbilisi: Otar Lordkipanidze Centre of Archaeology of the Georgian National Museum, 2014. — 140 p. The present book discusses the history of the Roman period in Colchis and Iberia (1st c. BC – 4th c. AD). Modern Georgia lies in the central and western part of Transcaucasia. The political-economic situation of ancient Georgia differed in various periods....
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 316 p. — (BAR International Series 3026). Gli scavi archeologici nel centro indigeno di Garaguso, nell’entroterra della Basilicata, hanno restituito una documentazione eccezionale di questa comunità nel corso del VI e V secolo a.C. Le aree sacre di Filera e delle Grotte delle Fontanelle avevano rivelato una forte componente greca nel sistema delle...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 373 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 39; Estudios sobre el África Romana 1). Esta obra colectiva, llevada a cabo por investigadores seniors y jóvenes, va dirigida a aquellos estudiosos con la mirada puesta en el fascinante mosaico de culturas que fue el mundo norteafricano cuando Roma hizo su aparición en la región. Ya antes de esa fecha, la llegada de...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 275 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 112; Estudios sobre el África Romana 3). Dinámicas históricas, religiosas e iconográficas en el norte de África constituye el tercer volumen de la serie Estudios sobre el África Romana que Archaeopress edita desde 2018, derivada de una fructífera colaboración entre la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, la Université...
Université Michel de Montaigne — Bordeaux III, 2019. — 198 p. Cette étude propose un nouvel éclairage sur les cultes domestiques grecs antiques en privilégiant une approche archéologique jusque-là très peu exploitée. Les fouilles archéologiques attestent, certes souvent de façon lacunaire, la présence de structures (autels fixes et portatifs, foyers et autres), de mobiliers...
Université Michel de Montaigne — Bordeaux III, 2019. — 93 p. Cette étude propose un nouvel éclairage sur les cultes domestiques grecs antiques en privilégiant une approche archéologique jusque-là très peu exploitée. Les fouilles archéologiques attestent, certes souvent de façon lacunaire, la présence de structures (autels fixes et portatifs, foyers et autres), de mobiliers...
Université Michel de Montaigne — Bordeaux III, 2019. — 38 p. Cette étude propose un nouvel éclairage sur les cultes domestiques grecs antiques en privilégiant une approche archéologique jusque-là très peu exploitée. Les fouilles archéologiques attestent, certes souvent de façon lacunaire, la présence de structures (autels fixes et portatifs, foyers et autres), de mobiliers...
Cambridge: The University Press, 1897. – 95 p., 41 Pl. The catalogue of a collection of vases such as that which is exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum may be regarded as serving two purposes—to publish and make accessible to archaeologists a record of the vases it contains, and to assist the visitor, and more especially the student in observing the history and technique of...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2024. — 737 S. — (Archäologische Forschungen 32; Velia-Studien IV/1). Die österreichischen Forschungen in der West- und Unterstadt (1974, 1990‒1993 und 1997‒2001). Mit Beiträgen von Gert Augustin und Roman Sauer Die urbanistische Entwicklung einer Stadt ist meist eng mit den sie umgebenden Stadt-mauern verbunden. Die...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2024. — 1003 S. — (Archäologische Forschungen 33; Velia-Studien IV/2). Die österreichischen Forschungen in der West- und Unterstadt (1974, 1990‒1993 und 1997‒2001). Mit Beiträgen Renata Cantilena, Mechthild Ladurner und Luigi Vecchio Die österreichischen Forschungen in der Unterstadt von Velia, die von 1974 bis 2001 von...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997. — 373 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos XIII/1.1). Im vorliegenden Band der „Forschungen in Ephesos“ werden Keramik und Kleinfunde vorgestellt, die aus den archäologischen Grabungen beim Südtor der TetragonosAgora in Ephesos stammen. Der zeitliche Rahmen reicht dabei vom 7. Jh. v. Chr. bis in die Spätzeit der Stadt,...
Antik Yakındoğu, Mısır, Yunan ve Roma’da Kentsel Yaşamın Arkeolojisi. — Çevirmen: Barış Cezar. — Koç üni̇versi̇tesi̇ yayinlari, 2024. — 616 s. — ISBN: 9786055250522. Antik Kentler’de antik Yakındoğu, Mısır, Yunan ve Roma’nın kent ve medeniyetleri arkeolojik bakışla sunuluyor. Odak noktası kentsel merkezler olan kitapta mimari ve diğer maddi kalıntılar, tarihsel ve sosyoekonomik...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2022. — 498 S. — (Arete: Publikationen des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Athen 1). Die Terrasse um das Theater des antiken Aigeira zählt zu den interessantesten Bauensembles hellenistischer Zeit auf der Peloponnes. Ihre Erforschung ist einer der Schwerpunkte der langjährigen Tätigkeit des Österreichischen...
Editura Mega, 2020. — 554 p. Papers on Roman hoards of coins found around Europe. M. Rotaru. The Roman hoard from Turda (Potaissa III) M. Asolati. Il lascito del cardinale. Un ripostiglio di antoniniani dall’Italia Setentrionale (?) S. Bitrak, P. Josifovski. Hoard of Roman silver coins from the Roman forum in Stobi R. Bland. Coin hoards in the Roman Empire: A long-range...
American School of Classical Studies, 1967. — 231 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 12) This book aims to examine the text of every known Athenian inscription datable to the period after the new constitution of Sulla (ca. 68 B.C.) and to reconstruct information about the civic offices and institutions established in this period. The author therefore presents all the evidence he has found...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 290 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 120). The well-preserved marble theater that Balduin Saria uncovered in 1924 at Stobi was thought for many years to be the only theater in the city. Following Saria’s initial campaign, the remainder of the cavea, orchestra, and scene-building, but not the parodoi, were uncovered to the present ground level by Saržo...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2015 г. — 408 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 48) Pindar’s metaphor of the Isthmus as a bridge spanning two seas encapsulates the essence of the place and gives a fitting title for this volume of 17 essays on the history and archaeology of the area. The Isthmus, best known for the panhellenic Sanctuary of Poseidon, attracted travelers...
BAR Publishing, 2003. — 308 p. — (BAR International Series 1101). Sin duda, el estudio de un yacimiento arqueologico en el que se ha recogido informacion a lo largo de quince campafias de trabajo de campo es una tarea compleja y dificil y presenta el peligro de no poder gestionar de manera adecuada todos los datos que proporciona la excavacion. Por otro lado, esta informacion...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 205 p. — (BAR International Series 2896). Il libro prende spunto dallo studio dei reperti del relitto di Rena Maiore, scoperto nel 1997 lungo le coste nord-occidentali della Sardegna. La parte del carico, costituita da 72 lingotti di piombo e 4 serbatoi di piombo (cistae), ne mette in luce il ruolo svolto dal lancio sia per uso privato che come metallo...
Brill, 2022. — 350 p. — (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 18). This edited volume examines the construction processes and the mechanisms of transmission of knowledge between the eastern and western Mediterranean lands from the late Roman period to the early centuries of Islam. The essays explore issues of material culture, craft techniques, technological and...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2017. — 430 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 140). Am Rhein nördlich der Mosel trafen Caesars Truppen auf eine mit Gutshöfen besiedelte, fruchtbare Beckenlandschaft und einen florierenden Mühlsteinhandel. Die germanische Okkupations- und Urbanisierungspolitik des Kaisers Augustus bedeutete u.a. den Beginn der Steinbauweise in...
British School at Athens, 2003. — 290 p.— (Supplementary Volume 35). Butrint, an Epirote port on the southern Albanian coast, was a cultural and political centre throughout classical antiquity and into the middle ages. The Italian Archaeological Mission, directed by Luigi Maria Ugolini, undertook major excavations of the Hellenistic and Roman theatre between 1928 and 1932. The...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 504 p. Through an analysis of recently discovered Ptolemaic pottery from Mut al-Kharab, as well as a reexamination of pottery collected by the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the oasis from 1978-1987, this book challenges the common perception that Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden increase in agricultural exploitation and a dramatic rise in...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011 г. — 520 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 44) This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium on the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in Ierapetra in May 2005. The 38 papers presented here range from a discussion of household activities at Final Neolithic Phaistos to the domestic correlates...
Eisenbrauns, 1996. — 572 p. These two volumes chronicle the pioneering efforts of Theresa Goell and international teams to record accurately and comprehensively the material remains of Nemrud Dagi, to interpret their meaning, and to provide access for the scholarly community to the wealth of data heretofore unavailable. Donald Sanders has here brought those efforts to fruition...
Eisenbrauns, 1996. — 208 p. These two volumes chronicle the pioneering efforts of Theresa Goell and international teams to record accurately and comprehensively the material remains of Nemrud Dagi, to interpret their meaning, and to provide access for the scholarly community to the wealth of data heretofore unavailable. Donald Sanders has here brought those efforts to fruition...
Routledge, 2012. — 416 p. This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research. Written by an expert on Greece's landscape and archaeology, the guide is unique in exploring a wide range of sites off the beaten track. It also tours all...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 619 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 65). Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus deals with small, but highly captivating and stimulating artwork – engraved gemstones. Although in antiquity intaglios and cameos had multiple applications (seals, jewellery or amulets), the images engraved upon them are snapshots of people's...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 94 p. Se aborda en el presente trabajo un estudio arquitectónico sobre los dos bastiones que configuran la puerta sur del oppidum ibérico de El Cerro de las Cabezas (Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real). Se trata de dos construcciones defensivas cuyo espacio interno cumplió con una función socioeconómica relacionada con el almacenamiento de cereal. A través de este...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 456 p. The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered by barbarians, aristocrats, citizens, and priests over the past two millennia. Enough remains, however, for archaeologists to reconstruct its spectacular buildings and monuments. This richly...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 248 p. — ISBN13: 978-1789691368. The type of monumental tomb that developed in Macedonia in the late Classical period was undoubtedly the most impressive of all the Greek funerary complexes. It was a burial chamber with a vestibule, built of stone blocks, vaulted and furnished with an architectural facade, concealed under a large tumulus rising...
Ante Quem, 2007. — 85 p. — (Percorsi di archeologia 5). Nel 1551 il frate bolognese Leandro Al berti nella sua Descrittione di tutta ltalia, dedica alcune righe ad una antica città dislocata sul pianoro di Misano, nei pressi di Marzabotto, che le conoscenze del tempo non gli consentivano però di riconoscere come etrusca. Dopo questo breve cenno si perde memoria della città...
American School of Classical Studies, 1979. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 6) Although this booklet is based on broken pottery found during the excavation of the Agora, the author ranges far beyond the confines of Athens in her discussion of the purpose and significance of different amphora types. Amphoras were used in the ancient world to transport various different types of...
American School of Classical Studies, 1961. — 118 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. VI) The volume contains a short introduction, a classification by types, a critical catalogue, a register of the dated contexts, concordances and indexes, and an excursus by T. B. L. Webster on the theatrical figurines. Nearly half of the 1,100 items are illustrated with photographs. The subjects of the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1989. — 122 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 23) Over 100 clay molds found between 1931 and 1977 in the fills within the three great Hellenistic stoas that once lined the Agora (the Middle Stoa, the Stoa of Attalos, and the South Stoa) are published in this book. While the repertory of images that could have been cast using them, comprising 25...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 491 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 33). This publication presents the results of over 30 years of investigation into Roman Godmanchester, (Cambridgeshire), by Michael Green. The book accurately locates the 25 “sites” investigated, and pinpoints the trenches against the modern street layout. Although some sites covered large areas, many often had to...
Council for British Archaeology, 1993. — 192 p. — (CBA Research Reports 93). The excavations at Verulamium between 1930-34, the publication of ‘verulamium: A Belgic and Two Roman Cities’ in 1936 and the opening of the Verulamium Museum in 1939, each significant landmarks in the study and interpretation of Roman Britain, were celebrated by a conference in St Albans in late 1989....
2nd Edition — Amsterdam University Press, 2009. — 288 p. This volume explores the role of animals in the rural communities of Civitas Batavorum in the first to third centuries AD. Large-scale excavations of two settlements and a cremation cemetery in Tiel-Passewaaij have yielded an animal bone assemblage of around 30,000 fragments, and a valuable reference catalog of the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2016. — 262 p. — (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies). The civitas Batavorum was a settlement on the north-western frontier of the Roman Empire, and it is now the site of numerous archaeological excavations. This book offers the most up-to-date look yet at what has been discovered, using the newest archaeological techniques, about the town and its...
Augusta Raurica, 2003. — 436 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 34). Die abenteuerliche Fundgeschichte des Silberschatzes von Kaiseraugst hat 1995 mit der Rückgabe von 18 Silbergefässen aus einem privaten Nachlass an den Kanton Aargau eine weitere spektakuläre Facette hinzugewonnen. Zwar war seit langem bekannt, dass der Fund in seinem 1984 publizierten Umfang nicht vollständig war;...
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2021. — 510 S. Seit ihrer Entdeckung in den 1960er Jahren gehört die Macchiabate-Nekropole von Francavilla Marittima im nördlichen Kalabrien zu den Schlüsselfundstellen, wenn es darum geht, die Begegnung zwischen den Griechen und den einheimischen eisenzeitlichen Kulturen im südlichen Italien im 8. Jh. v. Chr. zu beurteilen. 40 Jahre nach Beendigung...
Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022. — 104 S. — (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018, Band 32). Überregionale wirtschaftliche Verbindungen sind Triebkräfte des Kulturkontakts, denn Warenaustausch ist zwangsläufig auch kultureller Austausch. Die Analyse von Warenströmen bietet sich...
Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2014. — 714 p. Il monumentale e ancora utilissimo volume che Amedeo Maiuri dedicò agli 'Scavi di Ercolano', nel 1958, dopo aver rimesso in luce gran parte di quel settore urbano antico che tuttora visitiamo, dedica ai pavimenti e ai rivestimenti marmorei degli edifici solo semplici segnalazioni, talvolta corredate da illustrazioni o brevissime...
Electa Napoli, 2006. — 147 p. "Crederà la generazione ventura degli uomini... che sotto i loro piedi giacciono, sotto il peso della terra, città e popolazioni?" (Stazio, Silvae). Proprio ad Ercolano, nel 1710, un contadino ignaro 'scopre' in un pozzo le tracce di un mondo misterioso che avrebbe rivoluzionato la nostra comprensione del mondo antico: una città intera, sepolta nel...
Nuoro: Ilisso Edizioni, 2017. — 556 p. — (Corpora delle antichità della Sardegna). — ISBN: 978-88-6202-353-5. Monografia su storia e materiali di epoca fenicia e punica, nasce nel contesto del progetto di catalogazione "Corpora delle antichità della Sardegna", ed è composto da una serie di saggi e da un catalogo di reperti risalenti a queste civiltà, con un ricco corredo...
Sassari: Edes, 2012. — 120 p. — ISBN 978-88-6025-246-3. Le più recenti acquisizioni nel campo dell’archeologia fenicio-punica della Sardegna consentono di delineare un quadro aggiornato sulle più antiche presenze levantine e sull’egemonia cartaginese nell’isola. L’evoluzione degli insediamenti verso forme strutturate in senso urbanistico è ridiscussa criticamente a partire...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 336 p. — (University Museum Monograph 156; Gordion Special Studies 9). This book is the first major study of Lydian material culture at Gordion and also the first published monograph on Lydian painted pottery from any site excavation. Richly illustrated, it provides a comprehensive definition and analysis of Lydian ceramics based on...
Amsterdam University Press, 2013. — 252 p. This illuminating study offers a comprehensive analysis of the rural habitation in the northern provinces of the Roman empire. Transcending the traditional studies, the author traces developments in the organisation of settlement space and house building, drawing on fieldwork from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. Thanks to...
Department of Antiquities, 1984. — 503 p. — (Libyan antiquities series 1). This volume reports one of the most important sites in the Tripolitanian hinterland. It contains detailed studies of the many buildings of the settlement (including a pagan temple) and its cemeteries. Particular attention is devoted to the monumental tombs for which the site is justly famous....
De Gruyter, 2015. — 440 p. This book compiles a series of case studies derived from archaeological excavation in Greek cultural contexts in the Mediterranean (ca. 800-100 B.C), addressing the current state of the field, the goals and direction of Greek archaeology, and its place in archaeological thought and practice. Overviews of archaeological sites and analyses of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 440 p. This book compiles a series of case studies derived from archaeological excavation in Greek cultural contexts in the Mediterranean (ca. 800-100 B.C), addressing the current state of the field, the goals and direction of Greek archaeology, and its place in archaeological thought and practice. Overviews of archaeological sites and analyses of...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 402 p. The site of medieval Euchaïta, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro ('the Recruit'). Unlike most excavated or surveyed urban centres of the Byzantine period, Euchaïta was never a major metropolis, cultural centre or extensive urban site, although it had a military...
Harvard University Press, 1983. — 512 p. A great metropolis of the ancient world, “golden” Sardis was the place where legendary Croesus ruled, where coinage was invented. Since 1958 an archaeological team has been working at the site to retrieve evidence of the rich Lydian culture as well as of the prehistoric Anatolian settlement and the Hellenistic and Roman civilizations...
Harvard University Press , 1976. — 394 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports. Book 1). The great metropolis of Asia Minor, Sardis was the place where legendary Croesus ruled, where coinage was invented. Since 1958 a Harvard–Cornell archaeological team has worked at the site to retrieve evidence of the greatness of Lydian culture as well as of the prehistoric,...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 168 p. — (Roman Frontier Studies). Over the past few decades, there has been a significant amount of research on the Roman Lower Danube frontier by international teams focusing on individual forts or broader landscape survey work; collectively, this volume represents the best of this collaboration with the aim of elevating the Lower Danube within broader...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 224 p. Butrint, ancient Buthrotum , has taken many forms in different ages, shaped by the near-constant interaction between the place, its lagoonal landscape and the Mediterranean. Though Butrint does not appear on any of the records of early Greek colonisation to identify it as a Corcyrean settlement, strong links must have existed between it and the...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2007. — 292 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 23). Elginhaugh is the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire. This report provides an assessment of all the structures, with particular emphasis on the identification of stable-barracks and the implications for the identification of garrisons based on...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2007. — 448 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 23). Elginhaugh is the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire. This report provides an assessment of all the structures, with particular emphasis on the identification of stable-barracks and the implications for the identification of garrisons based on...
The History Press, 2007. — 176 p. Elginhaugh is the only completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman empire. The excavator Professor Bill Hanson tells two interrelated stories: the processes involved in the discovery, excavation and interpretation of the evidence, and the nature of military life on the furthest northern frontier of the empire in the first...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 271 p. — (BAR British Series 664/Archaeology of Roman Britain 4). The Late Iron Age in northern East Anglia ended with the Boudican rebellion in 60/61 CE, after which the people known to classical writers as the Iceni were subsumed into the Roman empire. This volume presents new research which tests the archaeological evidence for the Iceni as a defined...
American School of Classical Studies, 1960. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 5) Although the famous bronze statues seen by the Roman tourist Pausanias have been melted down, the Agora preserves a number of fine portraits in stone. While a few of these are named, most of the portraits in this booklet represent ordinary men and women; priests, athletes, and officials. Referring to over...
American School of Classical Studies, 1965. — 211 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XI) Over 170 catalogued pieces of sculpture from the Athenian Agora are divided into four sections: the genuinely Archaic in date and form, the archaistic imitating Archaic originals (late 5th century to early 4th century B.C.), and two restricted groups of sculpture common in Athens. The latter are the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1953. — 128 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. I) Presented in catalogue form are 64 portrait heads, headless torsos, and fragments (of both categories) ranging in date from the first half of the 1st century B. C. to the 5th century A. D. The catalogue is preceded by an introduction dealing with finding-places, material, forms of portraits, and...
Amt für Archäologie des Kantons Thurgau, 2008. — 108 S. Der Katalog befasst sich nach einem historischen Überblick mit den Themen ländliche und städtische Besiedlung, Wirtschaft, Religion, Bestattungssitten und abschliessend mit dem Ende der keltischen Eigenständigkeit. Hier sind vor allem die interessanten Militärfunde aus dem Bündnerland hervorzuheben, die neue Erkenntnisse...
American School of Classical Studies, 2008. — 386 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXXII) Examples of Roman period red-gloss and red-slip pottery (terra sigillata) found during excavations in the Athenian Agora form the focus of this volume. These fine wares, like the other table wares of the first seven centuries A.D. discussed here, were all imported--a very different situation to...
Ceramica fine Romana nel Bacino Mediterraneo (tardo ellenismo e primo imperio), Atlante delle forme ceramiche. Enciclopedia dell'arte antica classica e orientale II. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. – 1985. — 136 s. Eastem Sigillata A (Sigillata Orientale A) è il nome, proposto da K. M. Kcnyon (Samaria-Sebaste III, p. 282) per la più diffusa tra le terre sigillate...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2022. — 441 p. This volume presents the Late Classical through Roman pottery from the University of Chicago excavations at Isthmia (1952-1989). In a series of three chapters—on the Late Classical and Hellenistic pottery, the Roman pottery, and the pottery from the Palaimonion—a general discussion is followed by a catalogue...
Verlag Huber, 2002. — 140 S. Mit Beiträgen von Hansjörg Brem, Christoph Lanthemann, Inka Potthast, Antoinette Rast-Eicher, Ralf Riens, Markus Roth und Werner H. Schoch. Holzfunde aus römischer Zeit sind europaweit selten. Aufsehen erregend sind darum die Alltagsgegenstände aus Eschenz ('Tasgetium') und Oberwinterthur ('Vitudurum'), die in den letzten Jahren während Ausgrabungen...
Philipp von Zabern, 2005. — 158 S. — (Sonderdruck aus Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission 86). Von germanischen Fundplätzen der Kaiserzeit mit typischer Keramik, der mit Bezeichnungen wie 'elbgermanischer' oder 'Rhein-Weser-germanischer' Formenkreis eine hohe Einheitlichkeit zugesprochen wird, sind immer wieder Gefäße bekannt geworden, die aus dieser vermeintlichen...
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2021. — 305 S. — (Italiká 7). Ausgehend von der Analyse der indigenen Nekropole von Ripacandida in der Nordbasilikata und dem Vergleich mit weiteren Befunden im süditalischen Binnenland entwirft die Arbeit ein Modell indigener Gemeinschaften des Gebiets im 7. – 5. Jh. v. Chr.: ihrer Identitätskategorien, gesellschaftlichen Struktur und...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 385 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 95). Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside had its genesis in a conference held at the British Museum in 2009 and brings together a range of papers on buildings that have been categorised as ‘villas’, mainly in Roman Britain, from the Isle of Wight to Shropshire. It comprises the first...
Brill, 2022. — 756 S. — (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean 6). Honores inauditi bietet erstmals eine systematische Untersuchung der Ehrenstatuen Siziliens. Vor dem Hintergrund der wechselvollen Geschichte der Insel werden die Ehrenstatuen von den ersten archäologischen Zeugnissen für Könige in der Mitte des 3. Jhs. v. Chr. über die Kaiserzeit bis zum Ende der Praxis in...
American School of Classical Studies, 1977. — 98 p. — (Corinth, vol. VII,4) Inferior clays and glazes, unsuited to the red-figure style, means that the indigenous production of red-figure vases in Corinth was very limited. However for about 75 years, in the middle of the 5th century B.C., Corinthian potters tried to imitate the Athenian fashion and this book catalogues 186 pieces...
École française d'Athènes, 2019. — 321 p. — (Exploration archéologique de Délos XLV). Le présent volume de l’Exploration Archéologique de Délos complète le précédent, déjà dédié au Sanctuaire d’Apollon de Délos. Sa matière, directement tirée de la thèse de doctorat de l’auteur, est plus spécialement consacrée à l’étude des « petits » monuments votifs et honorifiques que sont...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2012. — 464 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 12). Actes de la table ronde internationale organisée à la Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH) d’Aix-en-Provence, 20-22 janvier 2011 Ce volume rassemble les communications presentées à la troisième et dernière réunion scientifique organisée dans le...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2010. — 433 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 5). Entre 2002 et 2007, une mission conjointe du Centre Camille Jullian à Aix-en-Provence et de l'Institut archéologique de Sofia, dirigée par Antoine Hermany et Krastina Panayotova, a effectué sur le site de l'ancienne colonie grecque d'Apollonia du Pont (à...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 297 p. The centaur, a hybrid being with the body of horse and a human head and torso, first appeared in the mountains of Thessaly. This was the Greek horse-breeding region and it seemed natural for the centaur to have originated there, in the heart of this exclusive heritage of the landed gentry. Centaurs belonged to the spheres of heroic mythology, with...
American School of Classical Studies, 1964. — 235 p. — (Corinth, vol. I,6) The two springs in the Corinthian Agora, Peirene and the Sacred Spring, which were dug early in the excavation of Corinth, were studied in exhaustive detail for more than 40 years by Bert Hodge Hill as he developed those methods of observation, recording, and interpretation which he taught so inspiringly to...
Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 1999. — 148 S. Vorwort Attische Grabreliefs Anhänge: 1. Attische Personennamen mit demos; 2. Bemerkungen zu: J. Bergemann, Demos und Thanatos 3. Die Stele von Hieran und Lysippe aus Rhamnus CAT 2.480 4. Marmorlekythos im Nationalmuseum Athen
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 99 p. — (BAR British Series 620). Work on the vicus of the Roman fort at Slack, Huddersfield, by the Huddersfield and District Archaeological Society during three seasons of excavation in 2007, 2008 and 2010, covered in this volume, has led to a reconsideration of the dates of Roman occupation, taking it well into the 3rd and possibly 4th centuries AD....
Archaeopress, 2024. — 194 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 122). Life and Death in Roman Carlisle makes an important contribution to the study of burials and identity in the region of Hadrian’s Wall. The book presents the results of excavations beneath Cumbria House, a new municipal building on Botchergate in the city centre. In Roman times this was the location of part of...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 218 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 85). Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire was excavated between mid-2012 and mid-2013 along with its surroundings and antecedent settlement. The excavations took place as part of the Emersons Green East Development Area, funded through the mechanism of commercial archaeology by Gardiner &...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 360 p. This volume brings together unpublished Italian and Albanian archaeological reports and new archaeological studies from recent fieldwork that throw new light on the archaeology and history of the Pavllas River Valley, the Mediterranean alluvial plain in the territory of Butrint, ancient Buthrotum, in southwestern Albania. It gives prominence for the...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 753 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 25). Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Limes Congress) held at Newcastle upon Tyne in August 2009 The XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in Newcastle upon Tyne (Great Britain) in 2009, 60 years after the first...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 384 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 92). Contributions by leading archaeologists and historians pay tribute to Paul Bidwell, admired for his ground-breaking work both in the south-west and the military north of Roman Britain. This collection will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in either the civil or military aspects of Roman Britain,...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 336 p. The Mediterranean's Iron Age period was one of its most dynamic eras. Stimulated by the movement of individuals and groups on an unprecedented scale, the first half of the first millennium BCE witnesses the development of Mediterranean-wide practices, including related writing systems, common features of urbanism, and shared artistic...
Thorbecke, 2003. — 268 s. In den jungst untersuchten Hohenstationen gegenuber dem spatantiken Legionslager von Strassburg wurde eine grosse Anzahl von Waffen und Werkzeugen gefunden. Das weist darauf hin, dass sich hier vor allem Krieger und Handwerker aufhielten. Im vorliegenden Werk wird das umfangreiche Fundmaterial aus der alamannischen Fruhzeit vorgestellt und analysiert...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 400 p. Kellis was a village in the Dakhleh Oasis in the Egyptian Western Desert inhabited continuously from the first to the late fourth century AD. Previously unexcavated, it has in recent decades yielded a wealth of data unsurpassed by most sites of the period due to the excellent state of preservation. We know the layout of the village...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018. — 154 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 31). This volume presents a selection of papers and case studies first presented at a conference designed to focus on the toilets of the Northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire, taking place at Radboud University on the 1st and 2nd of May 2009. Papers demonstrate the value of scientific analysis of...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 200 p. Small finds – the stuff of everyday life – offer archaeologists a fascinating glimpse into the material lives of the ancient Romans. These objects hold great promise for unravelling the ins and outs of daily life, especially for the social groups, activities, and regions for which few written sources exist. Focusing on amulets, brooches, socks,...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 200 p. Small finds – the stuff of everyday life – offer archaeologists a fascinating glimpse into the material lives of the ancient Romans. These objects hold great promise for unravelling the ins and outs of daily life, especially for the social groups, activities, and regions for which few written sources exist. Focusing on amulets, brooches, socks,...
American School of Classical Studies, 1958. — 261 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. IV) The author has used the trustworthy chronological data supplied by the scientific excavation of closed deposits at the Athenian Agora to build a continuous series of lamp types from the 7th century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. Many photographs and profiles of sections permit ready identification, and...
Augusta Raurica, 1996. — 256 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 23). Die Ausgrabungen von 1991 bis 1993 auf Kastelen gehören - hinsichtlich Umfang, Befundreichtum, Dokumentationsdichte, Fundanfall und Kosten - zum grössten archäologischen Unternehmen in der RÖMERSTADT AUGUSTA RAURICA seit dem Autobahnbau in den 1960er und dem Bauboom in den 1970er Jahren. Die vorgefundenen...
Ann Arbor, 1995. — 346 p. — (Journal of Roman archaeology; Supplementary series 14). This volume brings together nineteen papers which reflect some of the most important new archaeological work on the Roman and Byzantine Near East. Contributors include: Preface and aknowledgements - J.J. Humphrey The predecessor of Caesarea - A. Kushnir-Stein Herod's "amphitheatre at Caesarea -...
Portsmouth, R.I., 1999. — 225 p. — (Journal of Roman archaeology; Supplementary series 31). Graeco-Roman sclupture in the Levant: the marbles from the Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi (Banias) - E. Friedland Adopting a novelty: the Jews and the Roman gamesin Palestine - Z. Weiss The dedicatory inscription to Trajan at the "metropolis" of Petra - S. Tracy The basilica and...
Portsmouth, R.I., 2002. — 265 p. — (Journal of Roman archaeology; Supplementary series 49). Tsafrir Y. & Zissu B. - A hiding complex of the second temple period and the time of the Barkohkba revolt at Ain-Arrub in the Hebron hills Kushnir-Stein A. - New inscribed lead weights from Gaza Bar D. - Was there a 3rd-c economic crisis in Palestine? Weiss Z. & Talgam R. - The Nile...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 506 p. — (BAR British Series 663/Archaeology of Roman Britain 3). London was the administrative centre of Roman Britain, and its largest city. After centuries of excavation, Londinium is one of the best understood cities in the Empire. London is also home to one of the most exceptional collections of craft and agricultural tools in the Roman world....
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2011. — 463 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 88). Auf dem Katzenberg bei Mayen bestand von etwa 300 n. Chr. bis in die Mitte des 5. Jahrhunderts zum Schutz des Wirtschaftszentrums Mayen eine militärische Befestigung, die zu den größten ihrer Art gehört. Ausgehend von den dort gewonnenen Ergebnissen werden 143 weitere Höhenbefestigungen...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 103 p. — (BAR International Series 2849). The studies in this book investigate various elements relating to the Roman rural economy and its development, as well as changes in its structure arising from the establishment of Roman rule in the territory of modern Serbia. Of particular importance is the complexity of economic relations, as well as...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 210 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 5). The Roman Cemetery at Nemesbőd belonged to a settlement or a villa which was located on the territory of the Roman colony of Savaria (present day Szombathey, Hungary) in Pannonia. The book deals with thirty-seven graves, which consisted of mainly cremation but also of some inhumation burials. Detailed analysis...
American School of Classical Studies, 1973. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 13) Before the creation of the Agora as a civic center in the 7th century B.C., the region northwest of the Acropolis was a vast cemetery. Over 150 ancient burial places have been found by excavators, and a few of the more remarkable are described here. These range from a wealthy Mycenaean chamber tomb,...
American School of Classical Studies, 1975. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 15) Over 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens’s far-flung commercial contacts. In addition to the mostly bronze and copper coins themselves, a building that may have served as the Athenian mint is described in this booklet. After...
American School of Classical Studies, 1971. — 306 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XIII) The finds in the Athenian Agora from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages have added important chronological context to the earliest eras of Athenian history. The bulk of the items are pottery, but stone, bone, and metal objects also occur. Selected material from the Neolithic and from the Early and Middle...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 148 p. Pottery from Manqabad 2 presents, documents and analyses a new selection of ceramics from the Egyptian site of Manqabad (Asyut). The Italian Egyptian project at this monastic complex started in 2011, sponsored by the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (UNIOR) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation (MAECI). One of the...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 128 p. Pottery of Manqabad presents a catalogue of selected pottery from the monastic site of Manqabad (Asyut, Egypt), which has, since 2011, been the object of an ongoing study and conservation project at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ (UNIOR). The ceramic material, dated to the Late Antique Period, derives mostly from the SCA warehouse of...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 168 p. This book casts light on a much neglected phase of the UNESCO world heritage site of Palmyra, namely the period between the fall of the Palmyrene "Empire" (AD 272) and the end of the Umayyad dominion (AD 750). The goal of the book is to fill a substantial hole in modern scholarship - the late antique and early Islamic history of the city still has to...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 200 p. The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefined the urban landscape. Their appearance and monumental scale, as well as the cost of labour and...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 200 p. The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefined the urban landscape. Their appearance and monumental scale, as well as the cost of labour and...
NOUS Publishers LTD, 2022. — 224 p. — (Archaeologia Bulgarica Supplement 3). Red slip ware was the most widespread category of luxury ceramics within the Roman Empire during the period of the Principate). It first appeared in the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor in the Late Hellenistic era. In the second half of the 1st century BC, red slip technology was adopted by the...
National Archaeological Institute with Museum – BAS, 2019. — 198 p. — (Дисертации 13). This study explores the operation sequences of the production, processing, and storage of cereal crops in inland Thrace during the second half of the first millennium BC. This period saw the rise of tribal states and the appearance of urban centres in the Thracian hinterland with important...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 226 p. Embracing the Provinces is a collection of essays focused on people and their daily lives living in the Roman provinces, c. 27 BC-AD 476. The main aim is to showcase the vibrancy of Roman provincial studies and suggest new directions, or new emphasis, for future investigation of Roman provincial world. It capitalizes on a wealth of data made...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 226 p. Embracing the Provinces is a collection of essays focused on people and their daily lives living in the Roman provinces, c. 27 BC-AD 476. The main aim is to showcase the vibrancy of Roman provincial studies and suggest new directions, or new emphasis, for future investigation of Roman provincial world. It capitalizes on a wealth of data made...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 256 p. Asia Minor is considered to have been a fairly prosperous region in Late Antiquity. It was rarely disturbed by external invasions and remained largely untouched by the continuous Roman-Persian conflict until very late in the period, was apparently well connected to the flourishing Mediterranean economy and, as the region closest to Constantinople, is...
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2019. — 582 S. — (Forschungen und Berichte zur Archäologie in Baden-Württemberg 14). Die Zeit des 3. bis 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. brachte für das Gebiet des heutigen Baden-Württemberg einen großen Umbruch: Der Limes der römischen Provinz Germania Superior wurde in der Folge politischer Wirren und kriegerischer Konflikte aufgegeben, viele Einwohner...
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2019. — 356 S. — (Forschungen und Berichte zur Archäologie in Baden-Württemberg 14). Die Zeit des 3. bis 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. brachte für das Gebiet des heutigen Baden-Württemberg einen großen Umbruch: Der Limes der römischen Provinz Germania Superior wurde in der Folge politischer Wirren und kriegerischer Konflikte aufgegeben, viele Einwohner...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2003. — 420 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 20). This is the first detailed publication on Roman Carmarthen, Moridunum, tribal capital of the Demetae of West Wales. It covers seven excavations carried out by the Dyfed Archaeological Trust between 1978 and 1993. Small rescue excavations located the Roman auxiliary fort west of the...
Final Report VII. The Arms and Armour and other Military Equipment. — London: The British Museum Press, 2004. Among the remarkable finds of Hellenistic. Parthian and Roman date revealed by the Yale/French Academy excavations a: Dura-Europos, Syria (1928-37), were extensive military remains. These included large quantities of arms, armour and other martial equipment, mostly...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 400 p. Dura-Europos, a Parthian-ruled Greco-Syrian city, was captured by Rome c.AD165. It then accommodated a Roman garrison until its destruction by Sasanian siege c.AD256. Excavations of the site between the World Wars made sensational discoveries, and with renewed exploration from 1986 to 2011, Dura remains the best-explored city of the Roman...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 656 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–966573–0. Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanised provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental 'Barbaricum'. Recent decades have seen a...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 656 p. Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanised provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental "Barbaricum" . Recent decades have seen a major effort by German...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 656 p. Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanised provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental "Barbaricum" . Recent decades have seen a major effort by German...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 656 p. Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanised provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental "Barbaricum" . Recent decades have seen a major effort by German...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 656 p. Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanised provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental "Barbaricum" . Recent decades have seen a major effort by German...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 337 p. This is a paperback reprint of the first edition, which appeared in 2004, published by British Museum Press. The ancient city of Dura-Europos, destroyed by a Sasanian Persian siege in the AD 250s, was an important regional center of commerce, government and military control under the Seleucid, Parthian and Roman empires. During excavations in the...
Augusta Raurica, 1996. — 288 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 20). Bekanntlich können archäologische Funde sekundär in Museumsdepots «einsedimentiert» werden und lange Zeit ihrer zweiten Entdeckung harren. Dass dies auch mit unserem Augster «Schrottfund» geschehen ist, mag im Rückblick um so mehr erstaunen, als bereits 1962, ein Jahr nach der Entdeckung und Bergung, Alfred Mutz die...
Augusta Raurica, 2000. — 216 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 30). Vor gut vier Jahren - 25 Jahre nach der Entdeckung -konnten wir endlich das erste Faszikel über das Depot zerschlagener Grossbronzen aus der Insula 28 in Augusta Raurica - nämlich über die überaus zahlreichen Reste zweier grosser Pferde von Reiterstatuen - herausgeben. Was wir in den ersten neun Jahren des...
Departement für Erziehung und Kultur des Kantons Thurgau, 1997. — 258 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 5). Eschenz befindet sich am Ausfluss des Untersees, südlich des Rheins (Abb. 2). Der griechische Geograph Ptolemaios schrieb im 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. von einer Ortschaft namens Taxgaition. Zwei im letzten Jahrhundert in Untereschenz entdeckte Inschriften, die beide von den...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1977. — 235 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos VIII/2). Die Direktion des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes freut sich, so rasch nach dem Erscheinen von Faszikel 1 des Bandes VIII der „Forschungen in Ephesos“ nun Faszikel 2 vorlegen zu können. Für diesen Teil gilt bezüglich des Baubefundes im großen und ganzen das...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2003. — 396 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 31). This volume publishes selected material associated with potters' workshops and pottery production from some fourteen Early Iron Age contexts northwest of the Athenian Akropolis that range in date from the Protogeometric through Archaic periods. Located in the area that was to become...
American School of Classical Studies, 1931. — 185 p. — (Corinth, vol. IX,1) The catalogue of 332 pieces of sculpture reflects the discoveries made in Corinth between 1896 and 1923. Two of the pieces found are Mycenaean but most belong to the Roman period, reflecting the extent of the devastation of the Greek city wrought by the Roman general Mummius. Although few of the pieces in...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 400 p. The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the first millennium BCE: the Phoenicians and the Greeks. While trade and cultural exchange preceded...
BAR Publishing, 2011. — 124 p. — (BAR British Series 534/Birmingham Archaeology Monograph Series 9). Archaeological excavation, salvage recording and watching briefs were undertaken at Metchley Roman fort, Birmingham in 1999–2001 and 2004–2005. The areas investigated were located mainly to the west of the Roman military complex. The earliest features may have belonged to a...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 127 p. — (BAR British Series 552/Birmingham Archaeology Monograph Series 12). An area excavation was undertaken in December 2004–May 2005 within the western part of the interior and defences of Metchley Roman fort, Birmingham (central England) in advance of proposals for a new hospital development. This was the largest single excavation of the fort...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2012. — 610 p. — (Tarchna IV). Un'importante scoperta per la storia dell'architettura etrusca e mediterranea avvenne durante gli scavi all'interno del perimetro dell'edificio dei "Cavalli Alati", che risale agli inizi del IV secolo aC. Scansioni mirate e condotte con le tecniche più aggiornate hanno rivelato che, all'interno delle fondamenta del Tempio...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 246 p. In The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity , Gregor Kalas examines architectural conservation during late antiquity period at Rome's most important civic center: the Roman Forum. During the fourth and fifth centuries CE - when emperors shifted their residences to alternate capitals and Christian practices overtook...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 590 p. Nineteen contributions by eminent scholars cover topics in Greek Epigraphy, Ancient History, Archaeology, and the Historiography of Archaeology. The section on Epigraphy and Ancient History has a particular focus on Attica, whereas material from Eretria, Delphi, the Argolid, Aetolia, Macedonia, Samothrace, and Aphrodisias widens the picture. The...
Brill, 2023. — 282 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) 7). This book examines neglected architectural decoration from the late antique city of the East Mediterranean. It addresses the omission in scholarship of discussion about the embellishment of non-monumental secular buildings (public porticoes, small public baths, shops/workshops, and non-elite houses)....
BAR Publishing, 2005. — 260 p. — (BAR International Series 1412). This book attempts to bring an anthropological perspective to the historical archaeology of a complex period in the Greek past. Traditionally, discussion of the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Byzantine period in the Aegean region has focused on the fate of Classical urban culture. Scholarly opinion...
Augusta Raurica, 1998. — 358 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 26). Die vorliegende Monographie ergänzt die beiden Katalogbände «Die Römischen Bronzen der Schweiz» von 1977 und 1994 (Kaufmann-Heinimann 1977 und 1994) in idealer Weise um die so lohnende Auswertung und Synthese des umfangreichen Materials. Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann hatte ihre Absicht bereits in ihrem Vorwort zum Band...
Brill, 2024. — 357 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology: Supplementary Series 8). The church annexes of late antique Cyprus were bustling places of industry, producing olive oil, flour, bread, ceramics, and metal products. From its earliest centuries, the church was an economic player, participating in agricultural and artisanal production. More than a Church brings together...
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2020. — 226 p. — (McDonald Institute Monographs). The Isola Sacra occupies the land between Ostia and Portus at the mouth of the Tiber, and thus lies at the centre of the massive port complex that served Imperial Rome. This volume focuses on the results of a survey of the island completed as part of the Portus Project,...
BAR Publishing, 2002. — 146 p. — (BAR British Series 333). Keegan's analysis, a dissertation, of the ways in which the Roman emphasis on gender roles affected the burial of both sexes is based on data from four cemeteries which were all in use during the late 3rd and 4th centuries AD: Lankhills cemetery in Winchester, Butt Road cemetery in Colchester, Poundbury cemetery in...
BAR Publishing, 1982. — 392 p. — (BAR International Series 134). One of the primary objectives of this book has been to bring together the various pieces of evidence which have accumulated over the years. The chance remarks of travellers have been added to the fuller accounts of talented amateurs such as Rees, and all used to amplify and clarify the important field-work of the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. — 216 p. During the Long Classical Millennium (fourth century BC to eighth century AD), Northwest Jordan was part of two worlds, looking west to the Mediterranean as well as east towards the Arabian desert. It was not only a collection of distinctive micro-regions but a 'virtual island', isolated by geography on all sides. Here one finds historical...
Society for Libyan Studies, 1985. — 587 p. — (Supplements to Libya antiqua V). Volume III: Part 1: The Fine Pottery (P. M. Kenrick) includes a detailed type series of the forms recorded in some 38 major categories of fine ware, spanning a period from the third century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. (more than 800 catalogued forms). Black-glazed wares, terra sigillata and...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1986. — 466 p. — (Journal of Roman Studies Monographs 2). This report on the British excavations at Sabratha, directed by Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins, uses the original records of the excavations. The work includes chapters on the Forum, East Forum Temple, Capitolium, Basilica/Church and Temple of Sarapis, insulae, the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1931. — 185 p. — (Corinth, vol. VIII,3) The inscriptions found in the excavations at Corinth between 1926 and 1950 are published here which, although fragmentary, provide significant new evidence for the history of Greece in the Roman period. Here the Greek texts before 44 B.C. number only 49; the bulk of the volume deals with 451 texts, both...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1998. — 200 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 13). The Hunterian Museum's collection includes almost all the distance slabs which commemorated the construction of the Antonine Wall between Forth and Clyde in AD 142, together with building-records from forts, altars, gravestones, sculptures and architectural pieces. The use of...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 129 p. — (BAR International Series 2788). A new chapter on the material heritage of the Nabataean culture is opened in this book. The clay lamps, and the artificial lighting they provided, prove that daily activities in this prominent proto-Arabic kingdom did not cease after sunset or in dark environments. The studied items shed light on the different...
Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen, 2009. — 300 p. Miniature votive offerings are small non-functional representations of day to day objects that are commonly found on sanctuary sites in the north-west provinces of the Roman Empire. They are frequently seen as evidence for a universal Romano-Celtic rite of miniaturisation, which enabled individual worshippers to dedicate models in the...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2002. — 508 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 48). Steinstelen mit Inschriften des thessalischen Koinon sichern die Lokalisierung des Itonia-Heilgtums, des Stammenheiligtums der Thessaler, beim Dorf Philia, Nomos Karditsa (Thessalien). Ab 1960 wurde das Areal des Heiligtums durch Tiefpflügen bis zum gewachsenen Boden aufgerissen und von...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. — 824 p. — (University Museum Monograph 154). This book presents the results of the first systematic archaeological study of Roman peasants. It examines the spaces, architecture, diet, agriculture, market interactions, and movement habitus of non-elite rural dwellers in a region of southern Tuscany, Italy, during the Roman period. Volume...
BAR, 1981. — 558 p. The Roman West in the Third Century - Contributions from Archaeology and History is a most valuable collection of papers based on a conference held in Oxford. The editors point out that if 3rd century was a time of crisis, it was not without its achievements. H Chadwick (5-13) discusses the attitude to society of the church in the West at this time; R F J...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2007. — 136 p. — (American Research Center in Egypt Conservation Series 3). This fascinating book describes the excavation and preservation of three early Roman villas in Egypt’s ancient port city of Alexandria. Chronicling the work of the Polish Archaeological Mission in Alexandria, Villa of the Birds is an engaging and informative...
The University of Chicago Press, 1962. — 392 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 90). Ptolemais of the Libyan Pentapolis was founded in the second half of the third century B.C., probably early in the reign of Ptolemy III, on a site that had already been occupied for almost three centuries by the anonymous “harbor at Barca.” Extensive remains of Ptolemais have always been...
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2022. — 377 S. — (Italiká 8). Während zahlreiche Aspekte der etruskischen Religion durch Tagungen, Publikationen und aktuelle Ausgrabungen intensiv erforscht und diskutiert werden, fehlen noch Überblickswerke zur sozio-politischen und ökonomischen Bedeutung der religiösen Sphäre in der etruskischen Gesellschaft. Im vorliegenden Band werden...
Augusta Raurica, 2020. — 390 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 53). Die Bearbeitung der menschlichen Überreste aus dem Stadtgebiet der römischen Koloniestadt Augusta Raurica ist ein langjähriges Desiderat der Forschung in und über Augusta Raurica, sind doch zahlreiche Befunde mit menschlichen Skelettresten bekannt, die ausserhalb der Friedhöfe der Stadt zutage getreten sind. In...
Philipp von Zabern, 2006. — 438 S. — (Römisch-Germanische Forschungen 63). Die Habilitationsschrift von Dirk Krausse basiert auf den Ergebnissen der Einzelprojekte „Wallendorf“ und „Koordinierung/Synthese“. Es werden die theoretischen Grundlagen allgemein zu Fragen des Kulturwandels und speziell zur Romanisierung formuliert und diskutiert und anschließend im Rahmen einer auf...
Routledge, 2017. — 306 p. This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world, focusing in particular on Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. It thus discusses how archaeological evidence can be used to advance our understanding of ancient pilgrimage and ritual...
American School of Classical Studies, 1993. — 402 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXVI) This volume catalogues over 16,577 identifiable Greek coins produced by the excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens between 1931 and 1990. The majority of the coins found and catalogued are Athenian bronze, from the 4th century B.C. through the 3rd century A.D. Included as...
Phoibos Verlag, 2005. — 346 S. — (Monografien der Stadtarchäologie Wien 1). Die über 300-jährige römische Geschichte von Wien hinterließ nur wenige im heutigen Stadtbild sichtbare Spuren. 150 Jahre Archäologie und Altertumsforschung bewirkten zwar eine klare Vorstellung über Größe und Aussehen des Legionslagers Vindobona, über die angrenzende, in der Antike dicht besiedelte...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 490 p. — (BAR British Series 676/Archaeology of Roman Britain 8). Results from the excavation of this high-status Roman villa confirm its occupation throughout the Roman period and beyond, illuminating lifestyle and landscape through detailed analysis of its architecture, finds and environmental remains. This site includes rectilinear enclosures and...
Université Paris sciences et lettres; Università degli studi (Salerne, Italie), 2019. — 389 p., 45 Tav. L’objectif du travail de thèse est une analyse de l’évolution des dispositifs rituels et cognitifs concernant les rêves et visions ‘divines’ dans des contextes cultuels diverses – du culte des héros en Grèce ancienne, à ceux des divinités épiphaniques et thaumaturgiques au...
BAR Publishing, 2024. — 337 p. — (BAR International Series 3165). This book provides comprehensive analyses of the clay and glass unguentaria and related vessels (such as pelikai and alabastra) from the Late Classical to the Early Byzantine periods that have been found across the Mediterranean. It defines these vessels, classifies them by type, dates them, and examines their...
American School of Classical Studies, 1991 — 262 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XIX) The three types of inscription from the Athenian Agora presented in this volume are all concerned with important civic matters. Part I, by Gerald V. Lalonde, includes all the horoi found in the excavations; most of them had been brought into the area for reuse at a later period. An introductory essay...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. — 190 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 11). In five chapters this volume 1) offers new evidence for the form, date, and meaning of an Archaic rupestral horos of Zeus on the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens, 2) reports and interprets for the first time many rock cuttings as remnants of the shrine of Zeus implied by the horos inscription, 3) argues...
American School of Classical Studies, 1985. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 22). — ISBN13: 978-0876616277. As well as the Little Owl or glaux, so often seen accompanying the goddess Athena, many other birds played an important role in Greek art and symbolism. This booklet describes the ways in which the Greeks viewed birds, from useful hawks and fowl to exotic parakeets and...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 296 p. Examining the methods and techniques that enabled builders to construct some of the most imposing monuments of ancient Rome, Lynne Lancaster focuses on structurally innovative vaulting and the factors that influenced its advancement, as well as a range of related practices and various techniques of buttressing. Providing the geological...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 2456 p. This book studies six vaulting techniques employed in architecture outside of Rome and asks why they were invented where they were and how they were disseminated. Most of the techniques involve terracotta elements in various forms, such as regular flat bricks, hollow voussoirs, vaulting tubes, and armchair voussoirs. Each one is...
American School of Classical Studies, 1977. — 32 p. — (Corinth Notes 1) Hundreds of life-size human limbs made from terracotta, including the remains of at least 125 human hands, testify to the efficacy of the medicine practiced at the Aklepieion, on the hillside north of ancient Corinth. Made as votive gifts to thank the god for a cure, these were among many extraordinary finds...
American School of Classical Studies, 1976. — 121 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXI) Over 3,000 informal inscriptions scratched or painted on pottery, lamps, or other clay fragments have been found in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In this volume, 859 of these graffiti and dipinti (representing those with sufficient content to be meaningful) are presented in catalogue and...
American School of Classical Studies, 1988. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 14) Like fragments of overheard conversations, the thousands of informal inscriptions scratched and painted on potsherds, tiles, and other objects give us a unique insight into the everyday life of the Athenian Agora. Some are marks of ownership, or the notes of merchants, but many are sexual innuendos,...
American School of Classical Studies, 1994. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 23) Athens was a famously litigious city in antiquity, as the sheer quantity of evidence for legal activity found in the Agora makes clear. Every kind of case, from assault and battery to murder, and from small debts to contested fortunes, were heard in various buildings and spaces around the civic center,...
American School of Classical Studies, 1990. — 206 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXV) The scraps of pottery on which were written the names of candidates for ostracism are one of the most intriguing pieces of evidence for ancient democracy found in the Athenian Agora. This book is a complete catalogue and discussion of these sherds. Chapter One discusses the history of ostracism in...
American School of Classical Studies, 1978. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 17) As far as we know, the 5th-century B.C. Greek philosopher Socrates himself wrote nothing. We discover his thoughts and deeds entirely through the writings of his followers, disciples who accompanied him on his walks through the Athenian Agora and engaged in dialogue with him in the Stoa Basileios. Rather...
American School of Classical Studies, 2009. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 4) The artifacts and monuments of the Athenian Agora provide our best evidence for the workings of ancient democracy. As a concise introduction to these physical traces, this book has been a bestseller since it was first published almost 20 years ago. Now illustrated entirely in color, with updates and...
American School of Classical Studies, 1966. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 11) Preserved beneath the surface of the Agora are thousands of terracotta pipes, stone drainage channels, and lead pressure lines. These form a complex chain of waterworks, constructed and repaired over many different periods. This book discusses the complex engineering that channeled fresh water into the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1964. — 158 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. X) The first part of this book deals with weights (14 bronze, 109-111 lead, 28 stone) and measures (75 dry, 28-31 liquid). Although humble objects, the detailed study of these everyday items provides archaeological evidence for substantial changes in weight standards at different times in Athenian...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2003. — 565 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos VIII/4). Der vorliegende Band schließt an den FiE-Band VIII/3 „Das Hanghaus 1 in Ephesos. Der Baubefund“ an; er enthält die Vorlage und Interpretation der Funde aus dem Hanghaus 1 in Ephesos. Die Untersuchung des Fundmaterials im Kontext der Baugeschichte führte zu wichtigen...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1996. — 305 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos VIII/3). Das Hanghaus 1 fällt aus dem rechtwinkeligen Rastersystem der lysimachischen Stadtgründung heraus. Das ansonsten übliche Verbauungssystem wurde durch die schräg verlaufende, die Grundfläche stark verkürzende Kuretenstraße gestört. Diese Vorgabe und die topographische Lage...
American School of Classical Studies, 1976. — 129 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 16) This is the final publication of a small open-air sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Hymettos above Athens, excavated between the World Wars by Carl Blegen and Rodney Young. The finds reflect two periods of activity: from 950 to 575 B.C. (many domestic cups and jugs, burnt animal bones), and the decades on...
Routledge, 2012. — 208 p. Roman Archaeology for Historians provides students of Roman history with a guide to the contribution of archaeology to the study of their subject. It discusses the issues with the use of material and textual evidence to explain the Roman past, and the importance of viewing this evidence in context. It also surveys the different approaches to the...
Brill, 2024. — 452 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology 13/1). Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology, A.D. 284-650, across the late antique world. This first volume includes an overview of research, and papers exploring bioarchaeology, mortuary rituals, mausolea, and funerary landscapes. It considers the sacralisation of tombs, the movements of relics,...
Brill, 2020. — 1706 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology, Supplementary Series, v. 5). — ISBN-13 978-9004413726. This book investigates the nature of 'public space' in Mediterranean cities, A.D. 284-650, meaning places where it was impossible to avoid meeting people from all parts of society, whether different religious confessions or social groups. The first volume considers the...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2001. — 374 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 18). A detailed excavation report on the Shipton Mallet site excavated on the edge of the Mendip Hills in 1990. This presentation and interpretation of the information recorded by the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit reveals an important Romano-British roadside settlement that...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 336 p. That seafaring was fundamental to Roman prosperity in the eastern Mediterranean is beyond doubt, but a tendency by scholars to focus on the grandest long-distance movements between major cities has obscured the finer and varied contours of maritime interaction. This book offers a nuanced archaeological analysis of maritime economy and...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 336 p. That seafaring was fundamental to Roman prosperity in the eastern Mediterranean is beyond doubt, but a tendency by scholars to focus on the grandest long-distance movements between major cities has obscured the finer and varied contours of maritime interaction. This book offers a nuanced archaeological analysis of maritime economy and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 1464 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean offers an original and inclusive review of two key periods of Greek archaeology, which are typically treated separately - the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. It presents an in-depth exploration of the society and material...
Archäologische Gesellschaft zu Athen, 2009. — 448 S. — (Bibliothek der Archäologischen Gesellschaft zu Athen 263). Aufgabe dieser Arbeit ist die Vorlage und Besprechung der frühen Tonstatuetten. Die jüngeren Statuetten aus dem Heiligtum werden im Band "Die jüngere Phase" behandelt, welcher sich in Vorbereitung befindet. Als erster Schritt wurde versucht eine Typologie zu...
Amt für Archäologie des Kantons Thurgau, 2017. — 172 S. Der Bodenseeraum war während der römischen Kaiserzeit relativ dicht besiedelt. Grossflächig und kürzlich ausgegrabene Fundplätze mit aussagekräftigen Funden und Befunden in Bregenz, Eschenz sowie in vielen Gutshöfen rund um den Bodensee liefern detaillierte Informationen aus dieser Epoche. Um 15 v. Chr. eroberten römische...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 266 p. — (BAR International Series 3075). Este volumen aborda los cambios de las comunidades de la Edad del Hierro en el Alto Duero (Soria, España), en términos de poder e identidades. Los principales temas abordados son el establecimiento del asentamiento estable en la región, el surgimiento de centros urbanos, la construcción de autoridad y...
Brepols, 2020. — 408 p. — (Jerash Papers 5). The Graeco-Roman Decapolis city of Gerasa was a flourishing centre of population from the Late Hellenistic up to the Early Islamic period. It was also home to a vibrant ceramics industry. Kilns found throughout the city, with a concentration in the Hippodrome, suggest that Gerasa was in fact a mass-production centre in the Decapolis...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2018. — 200 p. Even though Dorothy Thompson excavated the Agora Bone Well in 1938, the well and its remarkable finds have never been fully studied until now. Located outside the northwest corner of the Athenian Agora and dating to the second quarter of the 2nd century B.C., the well contained the remains of roughly 460 newborn...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2009. — 671 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 39). Ancient Sikyon, in the northeastern Peloponnese, was a major player on the Mediterranean stage, especially in the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. This important topographical study combines substantial background information with original research from many years of archaeological...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 303 p. — (BAR International Series 2930). El presente trabajo aborda el amplio periodo que abarca desde finales de la Edad del Hierro hasta los primeros siglos del Imperio romano en el Sureste de la Península Ibérica (IV a.C.-III d.C.) En él se analizan, desde una perspectiva global e integradora, las dinámicas y transformaciones que experimenta el...
Archaeopress, 2014. — 641 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 2). Large numbers of Greco-Italic and Dressel 1 amphorae were exported to many parts of Gaul during the late Iron Age and they provide a major source of information on the development and growth of the Roman economy during the late Republican period. This volume examines in detail this trade to the Auvergne region...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 256 p. With the decline in popularity of the term “Romanization” as a way of analyzing the changes in the archaeological record visible throughout the conquered provinces of the Roman Empire, scholars have increasingly turned to the important concept of “identity” to understand the experiences of local peoples living under Roman rule. Studies of identity in...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 256 p. With the decline in popularity of the term “Romanization” as a way of analyzing the changes in the archaeological record visible throughout the conquered provinces of the Roman Empire, scholars have increasingly turned to the important concept of “identity” to understand the experiences of local peoples living under Roman rule. Studies of identity in...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 268 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 9). This book collects together data concerning copper alloy vessels from Roman Britain and relates this evidence to prevailing theories of consumption, identity and culture change in Britain during this time. The aims of this study are to collect a catalogue of copper alloy vessels from England and Wales,...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2010. — 254 p. — (Monografie di Archeologia Libica 30/Cirene: Atene d'Africa III). Emanuela Fabbricotti - Recenti ricognizioni nel territorio di Cirene Oliva Menozzi - Tracce di suddivisioni agrarie nella Chora Cirenea e ipotesi di sfruttamento economico del territorio: i dati del Gis e del Remote Sensing Enzo Catani - Ricerche e ricognizioni...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. — 400 p. This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains household and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking. Since it comes from a single house, the pottery also...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 200 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 87). Much has been written about Roman Dorset Black-Burnished Ware (BB1) and its Late Iron Age Durotrigian origins since the industry was first recognised by Farrar, Gillam and Peacock at the end of the 1960s. However, most of this study has focused on the forms produced and distributed during the 1st to 3rd...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 188 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 12). The appearance and revival of handmade grog-tempered ware producing pottery industries during the late 3rd and 4th centuries using technology more appropriate to the Late Iron Age in the south and south-east of Britain is something of an enigma. This revival in the popularity of such primitive pottery took...
Council for British Archaeology, 1976. — 34 p. — (The Archaeology of York; The Small Finds 17.1). Finds from the sewer system (which probably served a bath building) included gaming pieces, intaglios, fine gold ornaments, bone pins, fragments of glass unguent bottles and a rare piece of silk woven in the West from Chinese raw silk: Trajanic times to late 4th early 5th centuries.
W. W. Norton & Company, 1983. — 554 p. — ISBN-13 978-0393301113. "A brilliant picture of the activity of the renowned centres of the Hellenic world, period by period, together with striking views of the workings of modern excavations... an excellent story of Greek achievement. Paul MacKendrick has a thrilling tale to tell... His book is for those who want an authoritative...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 70 p. Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa paints a picture of what life might have been like for the inhabitants of the villa in the late third and fourth centuries AD. The villa today, in the Darent Valley, Kent, has an unusual amount of well-preserved evidence for its interior decoration and architecture. Seventy years on from the...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 294 p. — (Queen's University Belfast Irish Archaeological Monograph 2). Irish Late Iron Age Equestrian Equipment in its Insular and Continental Context is the first practical archaeological study of Irish Iron Age lorinery. The volume examines the bits and bosals (Y-pieces) holistically, using practical stable-yard knowledge merged with archaeological...
Council for British Archaeology, 1994. — 512 p. — (CBA Research Reports 96/Roman Alcester Series 1.1). The 1964-6 excavations at the Roman small town of Alcester, Warwickshire, were directed by Christine Mahany for the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works. The work was concentrated on the southern extramural area at Birch Abbey, where a housing estate was due to be...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2008. — 396 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 75). Zwischen den Städten Andernach am Rhein und Mayen in der Eifel bestand bereits in der Antike eines der großen Abbaureviere für mineralische Rohstoffe. Produkte aus Basaltlava – allen voran qualitätvolle Mühlsteine – entwickelten sich in römischer Zeit zu regelrechten Exportschlagern....
Archaeopress, 2024. — 306 p. Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese traces the origins of the religious system of the Peloponnese to identify the factors behind its subsequent development from the Geometric to the Classical period. Which deities found favour in the Peloponnese? What factors lay behind local religious manifestations? What were their special...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2017. — 304 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 22). L’oppidum des Caisses de Jean-Jean (Mouriès, Bouches-du- Rhône) et son faubourg des Petites Caisses constituent un des sites archéologiques majeurs de la région du Bas-Rhône et d’une façon plus générale de la Provence. Le site se caractérise par son étendue, la...
Brill, 2022. — 528 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) 6). In this book Sadi Maréchal examines the survival, transformation and eventual decline of Roman public baths and bathing habits in Italy, North Africa and Palestine during Late Antiquity. Through the analysis of archaeological remains, ancient literature, inscriptions and papyri, the continued...
Brill, 2022. — 528 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) 6). In this book Sadi Maréchal examines the survival, transformation and eventual decline of Roman public baths and bathing habits in Italy, North Africa and Palestine during Late Antiquity. Through the analysis of archaeological remains, ancient literature, inscriptions and papyri, the continued...
Brill, 2020. — 528 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) 6). In this book Sadi Maréchal examines the survival, transformation and eventual decline of Roman public baths and bathing habits in Italy, North Africa and Palestine during Late Antiquity. Through the analysis of archaeological remains, ancient literature, inscriptions and papyri, the continued...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1993. — 199 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 26). Based on records from Nikolaos Balanos' dismantling and reerection of the temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis (between 1935 and 1939), this volume presents a detailed architectural study of the building's chronology and history.
Augusta Raurica, 1987. — 426 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 7.1). Die Bearbeitung und Edition der Amphoren aus Augst und Kaiseraugst erscheint in drei Faszikeln. Die Aufarbeitung begann 1980 und umfasst alle bis und mit 1978 gefundenen Amphoren sowie einen kleinen Komplex aus dem Jahre 1979. Der vorliegende erste Teil enthält nebst zwei allgemeinen Einleitungskapiteln zur...
Augusta Raurica, 1994. — 318 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 7.2). Das vielzitierte «Fass» des Diogenes war bekanntlich ein Do-lium, das grösste tönerne Vorratsgefäss der Antike, und zudem, wie wir von bildlichen Darstellungen wissen, ein geflicktes, wie es sich für diesen anspruchslos lebenden Philosophen gehörte. Nebst diesen bis zu 3000 Liter fassenden, ihrer schwierigen...
Augusta Raurica, 1994. — 364 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 7.3). Bei den Amphoren bedeutet das Lokalisieren der Tonart die Lokalisierung der Amphorenproduktion und damit in den meisten Fällen der Herkunft der transportierten Ware. Für die italischen Tongruppen (TG) 12-14 stehen ausführliche mineralogische und petrographische sowie chemische Untersuchungen zur Verfügung, die...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2017. — 304 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 23). En 2011, une fouille archéologique préventive réalisée à Istres, au pied de la colline du Castellan n, a mis au jour les vestiges d’une agglomération rurale gallo-romaine, qui prend la suite d’une agglomération de hauteur des premier et second âges du fer,...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1997. — 476 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 12). The Roman fort at Loughor was founded in c. AD 75 and occupied continuously until the early 120s. The fort was then reduced and was reoccupied from c. 270 until the early fourth century. Excavation was concentrated on the defences and part of the interior. Detailed examination of the...
Wessex Archaeology, 2018. — 120 p. Archaeological excavation during the construction of a new supply line for the electrification of the Great Western Railway Main Line uncovered part of a large, previously unknown Romano-British settlement along the main road between the Roman towns of Aquae Sulis and Cunetio. The full extent of the settlement is unknown but evidence from...
Phoibos Verlag, 2014. — 153 S. — (Monografien der Stadtarchäologie Wien 8). Die 400 Jahre währende Präsenz römischen Militärs in Vindobona hat nicht nur Spuren von Bauten – wie die Überreste des Legionslagers im 1. Wiener Gemeindebezirk –, sondern auch Ausrüstungsgegenstände der stationierten Soldaten hinterlassen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden alle bisher auf Wiener...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023. — 606 S. — (Der römische Limes in Österreich 50). Unter den Kastellstandorten am österreichischen Abschnitt des Donaulimes war Schwechat, das antike Ala Nova, bisher einer der Plätze, von dem wenige archäologische Informationen zur Verfügung standen. Mit Vorlage dieses Bandes, der fundierte For-schungsergebnisse...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 380 p. — (BAR International Series 2830). Grumentum, in the inland of Basilicata, was a Lucanian city and then a Roman colony. This volume publishes the papers presented at two conferences, held in 2012 and 2015. Their aim was to discuss the results of the recent archaeological research in Grumentum and other sites in Lucania. The results are many, and...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 262 p. — (BAR International Series 2986). La domus del Mitreo a Tarquinia presenta i risultati della ricerca archeologica a Tarquinia dal 2016 al 2018. Lo scavo di un grande complesso ha fornito documentazione della Tarquinia romana tra il III secolo a.C. e la tarda antichità. Chiodi votivi inscritti in latino e una fontana con un serbatoio d'acqua...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 374 p. — (BAR International Series 3103). Nell'entroterra di Otranto, a partire dal 1991, un importante complesso paleocristiano e bizantino è stato portato alla luce durante gli scavi dell'Università del Salento, guidati da Francesco D'Andria e successivamente da Giovanni Mastronuzzi e Valeria Melissano. Questo libro è incentrato sullo studio del...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 224 p. Over its venerable history, Hadrian's Wall has had an undeniable influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and figuratively. Once thought to be a soft border, recent research has implicated it in the collapse of a farming civilisation centuries in the making, and in fuelling an insurgency characterised by violent upheaval....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 224 p. Over its venerable history, Hadrian's Wall has had an undeniable influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and figuratively. Once thought to be a soft border, recent research has implicated it in the collapse of a farming civilisation centuries in the making, and in fuelling an insurgency characterised by violent upheaval....
American School of Classical Studies, 1982. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 20) The prominence of the Temple of Hephaistos, Greek god of metalworkers, situated on a hill to the west of the Agora, reflects the esteem in which bronzeworkers were held by the Athenians. Although many of the objects these craftsmen produced have now been melted down, the statues, lamps, and vessels that...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 128 p. Archaic and Classical Harbours of the Greek World explores the archaeology and history of ancient harbours and focuses on the Greek world during the Archaic and Classical eras. Its objective is to establish a consensus on three fundamental questions: What locations were the most propitious for the installation of harbours? What kinds of...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 212 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 51). Rural Cult Centres in the Hauran: Part of the broader network of the Near East (100 BC–AD 300) challenges earlier scholars’ emphasis on the role played by local identities and Romanisation in religion and religious architecture in the Roman Empire through the first comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 615 p. The excavation of the earliest Roman port and fishery known establishes Cosa as the center for the flourishing commercial activities of the powerful Sestius family and extends the international trading picture of the Romans back to at least the early second century B.C.
Windgather Press, 2013. — 160 p. This important and significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain. This overlooked group – the farmers, shopkeepers, laborers and others – fed the country, made the clothes, mined the ores, built the villas and towns and got their hands dirty in the fields and at the potter’s wheel. The book aims to...
American School of Classical Studies, 1966. — 125 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 11) This is an examination of the information available about a number of fortified sites in Attica with a focus on 1960 excavations at the site of Koroni on the east coast of the Attic peninsula near Porto Raphti. The corpus of all known sites includes original site maps and plans, as well as much...
National Geographic Society, 2007. — 64 p. — (National Geographic Investigates). — ISBN: 978-0-7922-7826-9. From Troy to the waters of the Turkish Aegean, archaeologists have searched for years, looking for clues to the history of the Greek people. Learn what we know about Helen of Troy. Look at marvelous wall paintings, statues, and vases created by Greek artisans. See how...
BAR Publishing, 2010. — 172 p. — (BAR International Series 2109). This study examines Roman sculpture across the provinces extending from the Rhine to the Pyrenees and Britain to understand better both regional similarities and local peculiarities, to contextualize them historically, culturally, and geographically, and to set them within wider patterns across the Empire.
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 208 p. The interpretation of archaeological remains as farmsteads has met with much debate in scholarship regarding their role, identification, and even their existence. Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type is repeatedly used to describe small sites in the countryside which have varying evidence of domestic,...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 208 p. The interpretation of archaeological remains as farmsteads has met with much debate in scholarship regarding their role, identification, and even their existence. Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type is repeatedly used to describe small sites in the countryside which have varying evidence of domestic,...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 207 p. — (BAR British Series 646/Archaeology of Roman Britain 1). This book examines the archaeological material from Hadrian's Wall within the significant Clayton Collection. The Collection was formed through the work of John Clayton, antiquarian and landowner, in the 19th century. His work took place at a pivotal time in the study of Hadrian's Wall, as...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2008. — 522 p. — (Studia Archaeologica 163). STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA G. BRIZZI - La battaglia di Sentino: prolegomeni minimi ad un inquadramento strategico Y. LE BOHEC - Remarques historiques sur des inscriptions militaires d'Ombrie S. LANCIOTTI - La vicenda di Sentinum nella narrazione di liviana F. CENERINI - Le donne di Sentinuin al tempo dei romani...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2002. — 488 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 52). Die römische Terra Sigillata wurde mit anspruchsvoller Technologie in großen Manufakturen hergestellt. Die rot engobierte Feinkeramik wurde über das gesamte römische Imperium vermarktet. Die komplexen Organisationsformen in den Produktionszentren und das Verbreitungsnetzwerk waren...
Brepols, 2021. — 296 p. This volume, the first in a new series dedicated to the archaeological and historical landscapes of central Mediterranean Italy, aims to offer a fresh and dynamic new approach to our understanding of central-southern maritime Tuscany during the Roman period. Drawing on research that was initially presented at the first International Mediterranean Tuscan...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007. — 599 p. — (Dumbarton Oaks Studies 38). More than fifty years after the earthquake of 365 destroyed Kourion, the seat of the Roman administration of Cyprus, a Christian basilica was built upon the remains of its pagan predecessor. This basilica became the center of a large complex that included a baptistery, atrium, and...
Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2021. — 405 p. — (Documents d’archéologie française 112). Avant 1988 et les travaux routiers qui ont provoqué l’intervention archéologique exposée dans le présent ouvrage, le site de Paule n’était qu’une enceinte en terre parmi d’autres en Bretagne. Dès les premières fouilles, il a cependant montré sa singularité : sculptures,...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 606 p. — (Reports, Excavations and Studies of the Archaeological Unit of the University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara 3). From Safin to Roman investigates the Central Adriatic Apennines (roughly the modern region of Abruzzo), occupied in antiquity by Italic populations variously termed ‘Sabelli’, ‘Sabellics’ or ‘Sabellians’. For too long the region has...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002. — 287 S. — (Forschungen in Ephesos IX/3). Mit der Publikation des Fundmaterials aus dem Schachtbrunnen des Planquadrates R6 auf dem Staatsmarkt in Ephesos wird ein Vorhaben umgesetzt, welches Hermann Vetters im Jahr 1982 initiiert hatte. Damals führte die Absicht des Efes Müzesi Selguk, den schon in den sechziger...
American School of Classical Studies, 1931. — 180 p. — (Corinth, vol. VIII,1) The text of all 331 Greek inscriptions found during the course of excavations at Corinth from 1896 to 1927 is presented in this volume, including some pieces found in fields around the city. The book is divided into sections of Laws and Decrees, Catalogues and Boundary Stones, Public Monuments and...
American School of Classical Studies, 1966. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 10) Many types of written records are found in the Agora, and this booklet presents a sample of the more than 10,000 inventoried inscriptions written on stone. The texts illustrated include diplomatic agreements, commemorative plaques for athletic victories, records of court judgements, boundary stones...
American School of Classical Studies, 1974. — 498 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XV) This book presents 494 dedications either made by or honoring members of the Athenian administrative assembly (prytaneis) between 408/7 B.C. and A.D. 231/2. The inscriptions are important because they enable scholars to reconstruct a more precise chronological framework for Hellenistic and later...
American School of Classical Studies, 2000. — 421 p. — (Corinth, vol. XVIII,4) About 24,000 figurines and fragments were found during excavations at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, greatly enriching the known body of Corinthian figurines not only in number but also in the addition of many entirely new types and styles. Working far beyond the output of the Potters’ Quarter...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2005. — 202 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 35). A series of kilns at ancient Corinth known as the Tile Works are given final publication in this long-awaited book, based on excavations conducted in 1939 and 1940 (as war was closing in) by Carl Roebuck and Arthur Parsons, and renewed briefly in 1950 by Gladys Weinberg. The artisans...
Hirmer Verlag, 2006. — 464 s. Der Band begibt sich auf Spurensuche der Griechen im Süden Italiens. Der Autor stellt als Ergebnis einer immensen Forschungsleistung und mit z. T. eigens angefertigen Aufnahmen so herausragende Städte wie Paestum und Agrigent in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung und baulichen Gestalt vor. Reisende der um die Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts immer...
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2014. — 242 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 141). Bir Umm Fawakhir 3 is the last of the final reports on the archaeological surveys and excavations at the Byzantine site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt; it remains the only intensively studied ancient Egyptian gold-mining operation, and one of...
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2011. — 356 p. — (Oriental Institute Communications 30). Bir Umm Fawakhir is a fifth–sixth century A.D. Coptic/Byzantine gold-mining town located in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The Bir Umm Fawakhir Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago carried out four seasons of archaeological survey at the...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 396 p. Drawing on the most recent, groundbreaking archaeological research, Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey re-narrate the history of ancient Palestine in this richly illustrated and expertly integrated book. Spanning from the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 293 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 45). This book has come about as a result of the project 'Roman Funerary Monuments of South-Western Pannonia in their Material, Social, and Religious Context', unfolding between 2015 and 2018 in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the auspices of the Croatian Science Foundation, with B. Migotti as the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1962. — 70 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. IX). — ISBN: 978-0-87661-209-5 All but 9 of the 6,449 Islamic coins found at Athenian Agora up to the date when this book was written belong to the Ottoman period. The earliest datable Ottoman coin is from the reign of Mehmed I (1413-21). Most of the coins come from overseas mints such as those of...
American School of Classical Studies, 1998. — 264 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXXI) An archaeological study of the City Eleusinion in Athens, the sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter and the city terminus for the annual Eleusinian Mysteries. The book presents the stratigraphical evidence from excavations of a part of the sanctuary (conducted in the 1930s and 1959-1960), the remains of...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 368 p. This volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighborhood in late antique Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period by a team from the University of Cambridge. Bordering the main thoroughfare leading from the Brysa Hill to the ports, the neighborhood remained primarily a residential one from the second century until 530s...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 368 p. This volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighborhood in late antique Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period by a team from the University of Cambridge. Bordering the main thoroughfare leading from the Brysa Hill to the ports, the neighborhood remained primarily a residential one from the second century until 530s...
Archaeopress, 2013. — 145 p. — (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 2). This study (the second volume in the Archaeopress series devoted to the publication of ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean and outlying territories from the late Republic to late Antiquity) addresses the level of interregional trade of ceramic building material (CBM), traditionally seen as a high...
Koç University Press, 2021. — 216 p. — (Akmed Series in Mediterranean Studies 4). With a Catalogue of Late Roman and Ottoman Cisterns An investigation of a Roman road-station in its archaeological and geographical context that provides a new perspective on the historical landscape of southern Anatolia. This study is based on fieldwork carried out during the 1990s in southwest...
Classical Press of Wales, 1995. — 244 p. Cremna, a ruined city of southern Turkey, has one of the most spectacular sites in Asia Minor, high in the Taurus mountains. For long a stronghold of hellenised Pisidians, Cremna was re-founded as a veteran colony by the emperor Augustus. From the age of Hadrian until the early third century ad the colony enjoyed a boom in public...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 350 p. In this study, Marcello Mogetta examines the origins and early dissemination of concrete technology in Roman Republican architecture. Framing the genesis of innovative building processes and techniques within the context of Rome's early expansion, he traces technological change in monumental construction in long-established urban...
American School of Classical Studies, 1997. — 438 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXX) This volume presents the inventoried red-figure and white-ground pottery found in the Agora Excavations between 1931 and 1967. Although many of these vases have already been published in various reports and special studies, this is the first time that all have appeared together, and this study gives...
American School of Classical Studies, 1986. — 398 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXIII) This volume is the first of the Athenian Agora reports to deal specifically with figured wares; it is concerned with the black-figured pottery found in the excavations in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1967, most of it in dumped fill especially in wells and cisterns. These deposits have been...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2023. — 1518 p. Ancient Methone is situated in the northern Aegean in Greece, in the historical province of Macedonia; from the late eighth century B.C. it was a colony of the ancient Greek polis of Eretria (on the island of Euboia). Excavations carried out at the site since 2003 by the Greek Ministry of Culture have uncovered remains from the...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2023. — 1518 p. Ancient Methone is situated in the northern Aegean in Greece, in the historical province of Macedonia; from the late eighth century B.C. it was a colony of the ancient Greek polis of Eretria (on the island of Euboia). Excavations carried out at the site since 2003 by the Greek Ministry of Culture have uncovered remains from the...
The University of Melbourne, 2018. — 366 p. This thesis questions the current scholarly consensus that East Greek mercenaries were responsible for the late seventh-century BCE East Greek pottery found in the Southern Levant. It is argued that it is possible that the pottery could also have been associated with Carian or Lydian mercenaries serving in the region at the time. This...
Ecole Francaise d'Athenes, 2019. — 545 p. — (Recherches Archeologiques Franco-albanaises 3). Nous présentons ici le volume initial de la publication franco-albanaise des fouilles de Byllis. Il constitue le premier élément d’une série portant sur les structures de l’Antiquité tardive, qui étudiera tour à tour la cathédrale, le quartier épiscopal, puis les monuments...
Phoibos Verlag, 2018. — 442 S. — (Monografien der Stadtarchäologie Wien 11). Mit Beiträgen von Rita Chinelli, Günther Dembski, Robert Linke, Constance Litschauer, Ana Zora Maspoli, Sylvia Sakl-Oberthaler, Sebastian Schmid und Helga Sedlmayer. Die römische Zivilsiedlung von Vindobona – im heutigen 3. Wiener Gemeindebezirk gelegen – ist seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert einer...
Phoibos Verlag, 2021. — 450 S. — (Monografien der Stadtarchäologie Wien 12). Authors: Michaela Müller, Dénes Gabler, Izida Berger-Pavić, Eleni Eleftheriadou, Ursula Eisenmenger, Sylvia Sakl-Oberthaler, Reinhold Wedenig, Roman Sauer Bereits 2018 wurden die Befunde der archäologischen Untersuchung in Wien 3, Rennweg 44 im Zentrum der römischen Zivilsiedlung von Vindobona...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 266 S. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 46). Die vorliegende Arbeit umfasst die archäologische und archäometrische Analyse der Bleifunde der römisch-republikanischen Militäranlage von Sanisera im Norden Menorcas. Die Anlage entstand nach 123 v. Chr. in Folge der Eroberungen der Baleareninseln und wurde spätestens im letzten Drittel des 1. Jh. v. Chr....
Archaeopress, 2015. — 157 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 8). Although world-renowned, Pompeii, the first Roman site to be excavated and one of the most visited and best-studied archaeological sites in the world, still has unanswered questions to yield, especially in terms of its long-term development from pre-Roman times. The extensive excavations (1995–2006) by the...
Open Book Publishers, 2020. — 156 p. What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry cargo or to navigate certain trade routes? How do such insights inform our knowledge of the ancient economies that depended on maritime trade across the Mediterranean? These and similar questions lie behind Sailing from Polis to Empire , a fascinating insight...
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2024. — 365 p. — (Forschungen in Ephesos XII/7). Nearly 700 individual amber objects were unearthed during the British and Austrian excavations in the Artemision of Ephesos, the majority of which were found in the centre of the sanctuary. During the reconstruction of the first temple for Artemis (Naos 1), a hoard consecrated around 650 to 640...
American School of Classical Studies, 2003. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 25) This attractive book presents a general introduction to the Greater Panathenaia, the week-long religious and civic festival held at Athens every four years in honor of the city’s patron goddess, Athena. The highlight of the city’s festival calendar, with its musical, athletic, and equestrian contests,...
Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2008. — 584 p. Archéologues, historiens, philologues et architectes originaires de 10 pays se sont réunis pour présenter le dernier état de la recherche sur le cirque romain. Au travers de plus de vingt communications qui privilégient l’approche interdisciplinaire et prennent appui sur les ressources des technologies modernes, c’est l’un des plus...
Brill, 2015. — 416 p. — (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 45). Volume One of The Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit presents a detailed examination of the surviving architecture of the three Roman period temple phases at the newly excavated sanctuary at the archaeological site of Omrit in northern Israel. All three temples were built according to the Corinthian order and the...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 469 p. — (BAR International Series 2833). Il volume si occupa di un contesto che parte dal 238 a.C. e giunge al 700 d.C, affrontando lo studio - diacronico e sincronico - della ceramica rinvenuta nel corso del survey del territorio di Nora (Cagliari - Sardegna Meridionale). La ceramica fornisce l'impulso alla ricostruzione dello sviluppo del paesaggio di...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 370 p. The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an accessible introduction to the varied forms of housing found across the Greek world between c. 1000 and 200 BCE. Many houses adopted a courtyard structure which...
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 239 p. The traditional picture of the Phoenicians in Iberia is that of wily traders drawn there by the irresistible lure of the fabulous mineral wealth of the El Dorado of the ancient world. However, a remarkable series of archaeological discoveries, starting in the 1960s, have transformed our understanding of the Phoenicians and allow us to glimpse a...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1999. — 493 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 14). The discovery of a rich aristocratic burial at Folly Lane, St Albans, has thrown new light on the early history of the Roman town. The evidence recovered for the elaborate rituals surrounding the burial, and the sacred area in which it was located, has also given an insight into...
Augusta Raurica, 2012. — 336 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 45.1). Die 2003 erarbeitete Forschungsstrategie zur Stadtgeschichte von Augusta Raurica führte in den letzten Jahren zu einer Verlagerung des Fokus im Bereich der archäologischen Auswertung: Das Schwergewicht wird heute vermehrt auf Grabungsauswertungen und Befundvorlagen gelegt, da diese die Grundlagen für neue...
Augusta Raurica, 2012. — 500 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 45.2). Die 2003 erarbeitete Forschungsstrategie zur Stadtgeschichte von Augusta Raurica führte in den letzten Jahren zu einer Verlagerung des Fokus im Bereich der archäologischen Auswertung: Das Schwergewicht wird heute vermehrt auf Grabungsauswertungen und Befundvorlagen gelegt, da diese die Grundlagen für neue...
Paris: J. Rotschild, 1896. — 111 p. Том 2 посвящен ювелирным изделиям и парадной металлической посуде античных мастеров, найденным на поселении Петросса в Трансильвании.
BAR Publishing, 2003. — 198 p. — (BAR International Series 1173). This volume represents a detailed study of the important town of Argos in the Peloponnese during Byzantine phases (4th-7th centuries AD). An introduction covers landscape and contextual history. Chapter one explores the major sites of the town (Agora, monuments, fortifications, aqueducts). Chapter two deals with...
BAR Publishing, 2003. — 198 p. — (BAR International Series 1173). This volume represents a detailed study of the important town of Argos in the Peloponnese during Byzantine phases (4th-7th centuries AD). An introduction covers landscape and contextual history. Chapter one explores the major sites of the town (Agora, monuments, fortifications, aqueducts). Chapter two deals with...
BAR Publishing, 2003. — 198 p. — (BAR International Series 1173). This volume represents a detailed study of the important town of Argos in the Peloponnese during Byzantine phases (4th-7th centuries AD). An introduction covers landscape and contextual history. Chapter one explores the major sites of the town (Agora, monuments, fortifications, aqueducts). Chapter two deals with...
American School of Classical Studies, 1970. — 175 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 13) This book aims to examine the text of every known Athenian inscription datable to the period after the new constitution of Sulla (ca. 68 B.C.) and to reconstruct information about the civic offices and institutions established in this period. The author therefore presents all the evidence he has found...
American School of Classical Studies, 1941. — 204 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 6) The Gerusia was an association of Athenian citizens founded in the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus and concerned with the conduct of religious festivals, the management of certain estates, and other financial interests. It was modeled on similar associations attested around the...
University of Michigan Press, 2018. — 275 p. Since 2009 the Gabii Project, an international archaeological initiative led by Nicola Terrenato and the University of Michigan, has been investigating the ancient Latin town of Gabii, which was both a neighbor of, and a rival to, Rome in the first millennium BCE. The trajectory of Gabii, from an Iron Age settlement to a flourishing...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 505 p. The Hippodrome of Gerasa: A Provincial Roman Circus publishes the unique draft manuscript by the late architect and restorer Antoni Ostrasz, the study of Roman circuses and the complex fieldwork for the restoration of the Jarash Hippodrome, a work in progress abruptly ended both in writing and in the field by his untimely death in October 1996. The...
Brill, 2021. — 428 p. — (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 67). Horvat Omrit is a Roman period sanctuary complex in northern Israel with well-preserved temple architecture. This report presents artifacts recovered in the temenos excavations from 1999 to 2011. The volume begins with a discussion of the excavated stratigraphy, the major building phases, and the dates...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 360 p. In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in what has come to be known as the world's first democracy. Exactly how the Athenians did this is still a fundamental question 2,500 years later. The results of the reforms...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 360 p. In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in what has come to be known as the world's first democracy. Exactly how the Athenians did this is still a fundamental question 2,500 years later. The results of the reforms...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 117 p. This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of scholars has contributed essays on a wide range of subjects (Greek sculpture, epigraphy and architecture),...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 117 p. This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of scholars has contributed essays on a wide range of subjects (Greek sculpture, epigraphy and architecture),...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2009. — 451 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 76.1). Dem »Katalog der Punzenmotive in der arretinischen Reliefkeramik« (RGZM Kataloge Vor- und Früh geschichtlicher Altertümer 38, 1-2 [2004]) folgen nun diese beiden Bände über die Werkstätten, die von ca. 30 v.Chr. an in Arezzo und Umgebung Reliefkeramik produziert haben. Im ersten Band...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2009. — 190 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 76.2). Dem »Katalog der Punzenmotive in der arretinischen Reliefkeramik« (RGZM Kataloge Vor- und Früh geschichtlicher Altertümer 38, 1-2 [2004]) folgen nun diese beiden Bände über die Werkstätten, die von ca. 30 v.Chr. an in Arezzo und Umgebung Reliefkeramik produziert haben. Im ersten Band...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 221 p. This volume examines materials produced with the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics) The technologies based on fire have been considered high-tech technologies and they have contributed to the evolution of man throughout history Papers highlight technical innovations of the...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017. — 1120 p. — (Athenian Agora, Book 36). This volume, the first of two dealing with the Early Iron Age deposits from the Athenian Agora, publishes the tombs from the end of the Bronze Age through the transition from the Middle Geometric to Late Geometric period. An introduction deals with the layout of the four cemeteries of the...
Mainz am Rhein: Phillip von Zabern Verlag, 2010. — 168 S. mit 115 Farbabbildungen. — (Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Sonderbände der Antiken Welt). — ISBN 978-3-8053-4240-7. Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte der Stadt von ihren Ursprüngen bis zu ihren letzten tragischen Momenten. Es bietet eine außergewöhnliche Reise durch Pompeji entlang seiner Kunst, seiner Bauten und...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 145 p. — (TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology 2). This secondvolume in the new TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology series seeks to push the research agendas of materiality and lived experience further into the study of Roman magic, a field that has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. Building on the pioneering studies in Boschung and Bremmer's (2015)...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 416 p. — ISBN-13 978-0521471503. This 1995 book examines the early history of the excavations at three important sites of classical antiquity, which came to light in 1738 through the life and work of Karl Jakob Weber, who supervised these investigations from 1750 to 1765. While many of his contemporaries sought only the recovery of precious...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 219 p. — (BAR International Series 3029). Nell’inverno del 2012, nel corso delle consuete attività di controllo archeologico, emergevano presso Calenzano (Firenze) le prime tracce di quella che si rivelerà essere una complessa struttura di età romana, oggetto di un’intensa campagna di indagine. Attraverso la ricostruzione del tracciato della via Cassia...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 493 p. — (Mediterranean Art Histories 1). Using the Braudelian concept of the Mediterranean this volume focuses on the condition of “coastal exchanges” involving the Dalmatian littoral and its Adriatic and more distant maritime network. Spalato and Ragusa intersect with Constantinople, Cairo and Spanish Naples just as Sinan, Palladio and...
Longman, 1991. — 239 p. The remains of amphorae furnish a unique record of economic activity in the classical world, providing direct evidence of the movement of valued commodities which they were used to transport. Amphora studies have developed rapidly in recent years, and there has been an urgent need for an up-to-date synthesis of our present knowledge - which the present...
Longman, 1982. — 192 p. Introduction; Towards a model for Roman pottery studies; Ethnography of pottery production in Europe and Mediterranean area; Ceramic technology in Roman world; Role of the household in Roman pottery production; Workshop industries in Roman world; Giant fine-ware producers; Role of estate in Roman brick and pottery production; Ceramic production by...
Oxbow Books, 2000. — 256 p. Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province. This collection of twenty-eight papers, from a symposium held at the University of Durham in 1997, explores different approaches to examine the contribution that cemeteries can make to our wider understanding of...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 314 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 72). The Urbanisation of the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire investigates the development of urbanism in the north-western provinces of the Roman empire. Key themes include the continuities and discontinuities between pre-Roman and Roman ‘urban’ systems, the relationships between cities’ juridical...
American School of Classical Studies, 1989. — 255 p. — (Corinth, vol. XVIII,1) Situated on the slopes of Acrocorinth, which rises to the south of the main part of the ancient city, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore was the focus of excavations from 1961 through 1973. This is the first volume of final publication and presents pottery used in the sanctuary from the Protocorinthian...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 449 p.
This book examines how Romans used their pottery and the implications of these practices for the archaeological record. It is organized around a flow model for the life cycle of Roman pottery that includes a set of eight distinct practices: manufacture, distribution, prime use, reuse, maintenance, recycling, discard, and reclamation....
Archaeopress, 2016. — 139 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 19). The Nature and Origin of the Cult of Silvanus in the Roman Provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia deals with the cult of Silvanus and presents the evidence and current state of research of the cult in Dalmatia and Pannonia to the wider scholarly community. New perceptions on the subject are proposed and a fresh...
American School of Classical Studies, 1964. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 9) At night, the darkness of the ancient Agora would have been pierced by the lights of oil lamps, and thousands of fragments of these distinctive objects have been found. This booklet presents the development of different styles of lamps and includes a very useful identification guide. The author discusses...
American School of Classical Studies, 1961. — 255 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. VII) Nearly 3,000 specimens of lamps of Roman character are catalogued in this volume that covers the period from the 1st century B. C. to the 8th century A. D. The lamps are not easy to classify because the appearance of the clay used is not an infallible guide to the place of manufacture and the molds...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 592 p. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from one of the world's richest and most intensively studied archaeological sites, and a host of original ideas concerning its economic and political history. This original study...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 592 p. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from one of the world's richest and most intensively studied archaeological sites, and a host of original ideas concerning its economic and political history. This original study...
Laterza, 2018. — 553 p. — (Guide archeologiche Laterza 14) Il panorama completo e aggiornato dei siti archeologici e delle raccolte museali d’Italia, in una trattazione organica e sistematica. Sulla base di fonti storiche autorevoli e degli esiti più aggiornati della ricerca, queste guide, articolate per aree geografiche e itinerari, raccontano le antiche civiltà che hanno...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021. — 296 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 77). Life, Death and Rubbish Disposal in Roman Norton, North Yorkshire: Excavations at Brooklyn House 2015-16 reports on excavations in advance of the development of a site in Norton-on-Derwent, North Yorkshire close to the line of the main Roman road running from the crossing point of the River Derwent...
BAR Publishing, 1991. — 481 p. — (BAR British Series 219). Subtitled a survey of grave treatment and furnishing, AD 43-410' this 1990 Birmingham thesis is a study of the layout and the contents of all cremation and inhumation graves. This means that it is firstly an enormous compilation of data, which is presented in catalogue form and in numerous distribution maps. There is...
Carocci, 2002. — 435 p. Eraclea di Lucania fu capitale, col nome di Herakleia, della lega delle colonie greche contro l'avanzata delle popolazioni italiche (Lega italiota) in Magna Grecia. Fondata da tarantini e thurini nel 433/32 a.C., ebbe come porto il vicino sito di Siris. La ricerca archeologica svolta sul campo dall'autore e dalla sua equipe ha portato, a dispetto...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 475 p. — (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 10). More than a century of archaeological investigation in Portugal has helped to discover, excavate and study many Lusitanian amphorae kiln sites, with their amphorae being widely distributed in Lusitania. These containers were identified in Ostia and Rome from the 1970s and thereafter in many sites...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1985. — 364 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 6). The legionary fortress at Inchtuthil in Scotland, the most northerly in the Roman Empire, had a very short occupation which probably lasted only from A.D. 83 to 86. Construction is thought to have started under the governor Julius Agricola and evacuation to have been ordered by his...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 160 p. The twenty-third Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at King’s College, London in spring 2013. During the three-day conference nearly papers were delivered, discussing issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire, and applying various theoretical and methodological approaches. Sessions included those...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023. — 899 S. — (Der römische Limes in Österreich 51). Ein Beitrag zum Bestattungswesen und zur Demografie der Bevölkerung im Hinterland von Carnuntum während der römischen Kaiserzeit. Mit Beiträgen von Gerhard Forstenpointner, Gerald Giester, Karina Grömer, Robert Krickl und Silvia Renhart Nur wenige Kilometer südlich...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 296 p. The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the development of road infrastructure in Pompeii - from the archaic age to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE - and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire. Eric E. Poehler, an authority on Pompeii's uniquely preserved urban structure, distills over five...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 296 p. The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the development of road infrastructure in Pompeii - from the archaic age to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE - and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire. Eric E. Poehler, an authority on Pompeii's uniquely preserved urban structure, distills over five...
BAR Publishing, 2006. — 269 p. — (BAR British Series 426). The established view of burials in Wales during the Roman period has been that, with a few exceptions, they would conform to Roman types. Dr. Pollock's detailed examination of the available evidence shows that on the contrary native burial types and influences can be found during the Roman period, even in heavily...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2015. — 250 p. The honorand of this volume, Matti Egon, has been a great benefactor to museums, schools, universities and hospitals in the UK and also in Greece: all areas that her background and life’s interests have made dear to her. One of these is the Greek Archaeological Committee UK, that she helped found in 1992: an organization dedicated to...
The Museum of Oltenia. — Craiova, 2012. — 370 с.
The study of graves and cemeteries has brought and still brings great benefits to
archaeological research. Funeral rites and rituals, data on ethnic origin, customs, lifestyle,
lifespan and other information about the material and spiritual culture of the dead in the other
world are just a few aspects that take shape through...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022. — 239 p. — (Rome and After in Central and Eastern Europe 1). Les fouilles franco-yougoslaves dirigées conjointement par Noël Duval (1929-2018) et Vladislav Popovic (1930-1999), d’abord à Sirmium de 1973 à 1978, puis à Caricin Grad de 1978 à 1991, demeurent encore aujourd’hui un modèle de collaboration archéologique internationale. Du...
Ed. by Joseph Coleman Carter. — University of Texas Press: Austin, Texas, 2011. — 489 p. — ISBN: 978-0-292-72312-2. This book is a first in several important ways. It is the first volume in a new series of publications, Chersonesan Studies, undertaken by the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas, with support from the Packard Humanities Institute. It is...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 224 p. Architecture in Ancient Central Italy takes studies of individual elements and sites as a starting point to reconstruct a much larger picture of architecture in western central Italy as an industry, and to position the result in space (in the Mediterranean world and beyond) and time (from the second millennium BC to Late Antiquity)....
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 224 p. Architecture in Ancient Central Italy takes studies of individual elements and sites as a starting point to reconstruct a much larger picture of architecture in western central Italy as an industry, and to position the result in space (in the Mediterranean world and beyond) and time (from the second millennium BC to Late Antiquity)....
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 264 p. The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese Vol. I focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilizations. Cultural achievements of exceptional and...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 264 p. The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese Vol. I focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilizations. Cultural achievements of exceptional and...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 336 p. Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II , presents new research that highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the Southeast Aegean and western Asia Minor over a period of more than 700 years. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilizations. Modern geographical limitations have been...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 336 p. Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II , presents new research that highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the Southeast Aegean and western Asia Minor over a period of more than 700 years. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilizations. Modern geographical limitations have been...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 906 p. Excavations on the site of this remarkable fort in northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) formed part of a long-term programme of excavation and intensive field survey, aimed at tracing the economic as well as physical changes which mark the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages, a programme which commenced with the excavation and full...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 896 p. Excavations on the site of this remarkable fort in northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) formed part of a long-term programme of excavation and intensive field survey, aimed at tracing the economic as well as physical changes which mark the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages, a programme which commenced with the excavation and full...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 240 p. — ISBN-13 978-1789255911. Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognizing Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa - professor, head of heritage agencies and councilor for Cultural Heritage...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 240 p. — ISBN-13 978-1789255911. Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognizing Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa - professor, head of heritage agencies and councilor for Cultural Heritage...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 207 p. — (BAR International Series 3087). Cet ouvrage rassemble les actes de deux journées d'études organisées à l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour en 2019 et 2020. 18 contributions, regroupées en cinq thèmes, proposent des méthodologies innovantes pour mieux appréhender la période complexe de l'Antiquité tardive. L'objectif est de présenter des...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 417 p. — (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 7). The transition process of the Roman city between the Early Roman period and Late Antiquity is difficult to understand due to the absence of urban models and the decline in epigraphy. The transformations that accompany this period are detectable in the western provinces of the Empire from a very...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2004. — 549 p. — (Atlante Tematico di Topografia Antica 13). I ponti romani di Pont-Saint-Martin, Bard, Saint-Vincent, Châtillon, Aosta e Lévérogne. Appunti sulla tecnica stradale protostorica nel Veneto antico. Item ab Aquileia Bononiam : un itinerario di età romana tra La via Emilia ed il Po. La via del confine. L'irraggiamento viario da Forum Livi...
Brill, 1996. — 758 p. — (Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21). This volume contains 40 papers from an international symposium - held on January 3-11, 1995 - on Caesarea Maritima, a celebrated Jewish, Roman, and Early Christian city. Climaxing a major excavation campaign in 1992-95, the book treats the city's archaeology, history, and culture comprehensively, from urban...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 502 pp. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world. • Features readings that focus on religious experience...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 502 pp. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4443-5000-5. A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world. • Features readings that focus...
BAR Publishing, 2010. — 171 p. — (BAR International Series 2126). This research seeks to understand the process of transformation of the city of Cordoba (Andalusia, southern Spain) during Late Antiquity, with a special focus on the material evidence indicative of the Christianization of funeral and urban topography of this city belonging to the ancient Roman province of...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 205 p. — (BAR International Series 2606). This volume presents the current state of archaeological knowledge of the urban world in Hispania in the historical period between the 4th and 7th centuries. It also addresses the open debate around scholars' perception of the status of the population centres that persisted until the Early Middle Ages – in...
University of Umeå/University of Kiel, 1992. — 396 p. — (Archaeology and Environment 13; Högom Part I). This volume includes the study and analysis of the many important finds recovered in the course of the total of five excavation periods at the Högom grave-field in the parish of Selånger in the county of Medelpad, North Sweden. In all, three large mounds, two small mounds,...
Blackwell Munksgaard, 2002. — 316 p. — (Acta archaeologica 73.1; Acta archaeologica supplementa 4.1). Part 1: Catalogues Catalogue Group I: Kephallénia . The Archaeological Surveys, Sites and Small Finds Catalogue Group II: Kephallénia : The Lithics Catalogue Group III: Kephallénia & Ithaka: The Surveyed and Mapped Ancient Greek Stone Walls and Other Architecture Part 2: Plates
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1978. — 339 c. Рапп-мл. Д. и Ашенбреннер К.Е.( ред.) Раскопки в Никосии в Юго-Западной Греции. Том I: Находки, окрестности и методы. В сборнике опубликованы данные археологических исследований на территории области Никосии применением естественно-научных методов, относящиеся к периодам от Темных веков до эллинизма. Экологическая история...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 200 p. — (BAR British Series 670/Archaeology of Roman Britain 6). While the rural settlements of Wales and the Marches have often been used as a backdrop to the study of the military, this book seeks to move beyond a simplistic Roman/native dichotomy to present a more nuanced understanding of the nature and development of rural settlement during the...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 352 p. Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 2002–2007. Lying just to the south of the ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300 year long story of a changing community that began in the 1st century AD, one which not only played its part in shaping the city of Butrint...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 352 p. Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 2002–2007. Lying just to the south of the ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300 year long story of a changing community that began in the 1st century AD, one which not only played its part in shaping the city of Butrint...
Bloomsbury, 2021. — 352 p. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, an ordinary working-class boy from London turned deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar. On the way into one of...
Bloomsbury, 2021. — 352 p. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, an ordinary working-class boy from London turned deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar. On the way into one of...
Ouvrage publié par la Bibliothèque Nationale avec le concours du Ministere de L’instruction publique et des Beaux-Arts et de l’Academie des Inscriptions et belles - lettres (fondation piot). Accompagné de 34 planches en simili et de 150 fugures dans le texte. Paris: Ernest Leroux, Editeur, 1902 – 711 p. + 34 pl. Il ne semble jjas (ju exception laite tlu legs Gajlus, le Cabinet...
Tome Premier: Les figurines. Ouvrage accompagné de 64 planches en photogravure par G. Berthaud. — Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1913. — 134 p.; Tome Second: Les Instruments. Illustré de 6o planches en phototypie par Catala Frères. — Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1915. — 269 p. Иллюстрированный каталог античных изделий из бронзы, Хранящихся в Лувре. Первый том посвящен фигурам, от...
Augusta Raurica, 1982. — 120 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 5). Um Aufwand und Ertrag einer geplanten Bearbeitung und Veröffentlichung aller aus Bein gefertigten Fundstücke des Römermuseums Augst abschätzen zu können, wählte Frau Dr. E. Riha, wissenschaftliche Assistentin des Museums, im Jahre 1979 als Versuchsserie die Beinlöffel aus. Sehr bald zeigte es sich, dass diese wie auch...
Augusta Raurica, 1990. — 344 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 10). Mit bereits an Selbstverständlichkeit grenzender Regelmässigkeit und mit dem ihr eigenen Fleiss hat Emilie Riha eine weitere umfangreiche Materialvorlage aus den Beständen des Römermuseums Augst fertiggestellt. Nach den monographischen Publikationen der Fibeln (1979), der Löffel (1982) und des Toilettgeräts (1986)...
Augusta Raurica, 1994. — 266 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 18). Zuerst möchte ich eine Bemerkung zur Flexibilität dieses Systems anbringen, die sich bei der Verarbeitung des vorliegenden Bandes als positiv erwies. Das in diesem Band verarbeitete Material hat zur Bildung einiger weniger neuer Unterteilungen geführt. Die Vorteile der benutzten dezimalen Gruppierung im Gegensatz zu...
Augusta Raurica, 1979. — 314 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 3). Das vorliegende Buch über die Fibeln von Augst und Kaiseraugst wurde von Frau Dr. E. Riha, wissenschaftliche Assistentin des Römermuseums, verfasst. Es bildet nach dem 1977 erschienenen Werk von Frau A. Kaufmann-Heinimann über die figürlichen Bronzen aus Augst die zweite vollständige Bearbeitung und Publikation einer...
Augusta Raurica, 2001. — 200 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 31). Mit diesem Werk legt Emilie Riha - fast 20 Jahre nach ihrer Pensionierung als akademische Mitarbeiterin am Römermuseum Augst - ihre siebte Monographie vor. Während ihrer langjährigen Anstellung in der RÖMERSTADT AUGUSTA RAURICA publizierte sie die Fibeln (1979), den kleinen Tempel auf der Flühweghalde (1980) und die...
Augusta Raurica, 1986. — 198 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 6). Nach einem vierjährigen Unterbruch kann die Reihe «Forschungen in Augst» mit dem vorliegenden Band 6 fortgeführt werden. Dass die seither verstrichene Zeit nicht ungenutzt blieb, zeigen nicht nur die Reichhaltigkeit des hier vorgelegten Materials, sondern auch zwei weitere Bände, die bald folgen werden. Frau Emilie...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 112 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 98). Roman Funerary Rituals in Mutina (Modena, Italy) presents the results of a research project undertaken in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield. The project sought to identify and reconstruct the funerary space and rituals of the necropolis in Mutina (now Modena) in the period between the first...
American School of Classical Studies, 2001. — 208 p. — (Corinth, vol. VII,5) Corinthian Conventionalizing pottery is a fine ware produced during the 6th, 5th, and 4th centuries B.C. While Athenian workshops produced black- and red-figured vases, their Corinthian counterparts were decorating vases predominantly with black and red bands, patterns, and floral motifs. This book...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2010. — 420 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 6). Entre les années 1979 et 1989, plusieurs fouilles furent conduites au coeur du vieux Fréjus, aux abords immédiats de la cathédrale et même à l'intérieur de celle-ci. Sur des parcelles parfois difficiles d'accès, les résultats obtenus sont souvent complexes mais...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2016. — 307 p. — (Monografie di Archeologia Libica 40). Atti Convegno Università degli Studi di Macerata 2014 Il volume raccoglie gli Atti del Convegno tenutosi a Macerata nel 2014, nei quali vengono ripercorse le tappe della lunga e complessa ricerca avviata e portata avanti per un cinquantennio da Antonino Di Vita e dai suoi numerosi allievi in Libia,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 368 p. This book uses all the available evidence to create a site biography of Larinum from 400 BCE to 100 CE, with a focus on the urban transformation that occurs there during the Roman conquest. Larinum, a pre-Roman town in the modern region of Molise, undergoes a unique transition from independence to municipal status when it receives Roman...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 214 p. ‘Archaeology and Techne’ publishes papers resulting from the European project EPNet (Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics). Various interdisciplinary research techniques and results are presented. The main goal of the EPNET project was to use formal tools to investigate existing hypotheses...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 720 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 110). En este libro se aborda por primera vez el trabajo de la industria ósea en una provincia del Imperio romano. Hasta la fecha únicamente se había tratado de forma particular el material depositado en un museo, o bien de un yacimiento concreto. Por tanto, estamos ante una obra pionera en la que podemos obtener...
American School of Classical Studies, 1951. — 183 p. — (Corinth, vol. XIV) The sanctuary of the healing god, Asklepios, was connected to an adjacent fountain of Lerna in antiquity. This detailed study of the topography and architecture of these two monuments is complemented by a catalogue of the offerings and various associated objects. Most striking among these are the terracotta...
Routledge, 2014. — 244 p. Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives of people in Roman Britain needs to be developed, not only for the study of the local population but...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 204 p. John J. Dobbins, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology, taught at the University of Virginia in the Department of Art from 1978 until his retirement in 2019. His legacy of research and pedagogy is explored in A Quaint & Curious Volume: Essays in Honor of John J. Dobbins. Professor Dobbins’ research in the field of Roman art and archaeology spans...
University of California Press, 1999. — 380 p. — ISBN: 0-520-21024-7. This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread from there...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 196 p. This book explores urbanism in Antiquity from an archaeological perspective, focusing on the area of western Thessaly in central Greece. Presenting all the available evidence for ancient urban sites in the region, the study outlines and discusses the origins, development, and decline of urbanism in the area. The archaeological evidence shows that...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 314 p. In The Archaeology of Lydia: From Gyges to Alexander, Christopher Roosevelt provides the first overview of the regional archaeology of Lydia in western Turkey, including much previously unpublished evidence as well as a fresh synthesis of the archaeology of Sardis, the ancient capital of the region. Combining data from regional...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 442 p. The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy provides a synthetic overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the 19th century through the latest discoveries between 1988 and the present. C. Brian Rose traces the social and economic development of the city and related sites in the Troad, as well as the development of its...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 442 p. The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy provides a synthetic overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the 19th century through the latest discoveries between 1988 and the present. C. Brian Rose traces the social and economic development of the city and related sites in the Troad, as well as the development of...
Archaeopress Publishing, 2020. — 252 p. Human Transgression – Divine Retribution analyses pagan concepts of religious transgressions, how they should be regarded and punished, as expressed in Greek cultic regulations from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century AD. Also considered are the so-called propitiatory inscriptions (often referred to as ‘confession inscriptions’) from...
American School of Classical Studies, 1982. — 135 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXII) This volume is the first of two to present the Hellenistic fine ware from the excavations in the Athenian Agora. Its scope is restricted to the moldmade hemispherical bowls manufactured from the late 3rd century to the early 1st century B.C. in Athens. The material studied, consisting of some 1,400...
American School of Classical Studies, 1997. — 612 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 19) The second of two volumes on the Hellenistic fine ware unearthed in excavations in the Athenian Agora, this book presents the Hellenistic wheelmade table ware and votive vessels found between 1931 and 1982, some 1,500 Attic and 300 imported pieces. An introductory section includes chapters devoted to...
American School of Classical Studies, 2006. — 480 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXXIII) This manuscript represents the third and final volume in the publication of the Hellenistic pottery unearthed by the American excavations in the Athenian Agora. The first installment (Agora XXII) was devoted to the moldmade bowls and the second (Agora XXIX) to the remainder of the fine ware. The...
American School of Classical Studies, 2006. — 26 p. — (Agora Picture Book 26) Using evidence from the Athenian Agora, the authors show how objects discovered during excavations provide a vivid picture of women’s lives. The book is structured according to the social roles women played; as owners of property, companions (in and outside of marriage), participants in ritual,...
American School of Classical Studies, 2006. — 58 p. — (Agora Picture Book 26). Using evidence from the Athenian Agora, the authors show how objects discovered during excavations provide a vivid picture of women’s lives. The book is structured according to the social roles women played; as owners of property, companions (in and outside of marriage), participants in ritual,...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2013. — 248 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 47). This study focuses on the “saucer pyres,” a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone,...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992. — 256 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 25). In 1972 a large deposit of pottery and other finds from the mid-5th century B.C. were found in a pit just west of the Royal Stoa in the Athenian Agora. It contained many fragments of figured pottery, more than half of which were large drinking vessels. 21 fragments were inscribed with...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1946. — 115 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 2). Our researches during the last year or so have shown clearly for the firsl time that there were two Sacred Enclosures in the Serapeum, the one (rectangular) dating from the Ptolemaic era and the other dating from the Roman period , also the coin...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 164 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 67). — ISBN-13 9781789691030. — ISBN-10 1789691036. Rome and Barbaricum: Contributions to the archaeology and history of interaction in European protohistory asks the following questions: How did the 'Barbarians' influence Roman culture? What did 'Roman-ness' mean in the context of Empire? What did it mean to be...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 244 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 76). Experiencing the Frontier and the Frontier of Experience deals with the Roman Empire’s responses to the threats which were caused by the new geostrategic situation brought on by the crisis of the 3rd century AD, induced by the ‘barbarians’ who – often already part of Roman military structures as mercenaries and...
Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 2009. — 457 S. Während der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte ist das Bemühen in den Altertumswissenschaften verstärkt worden, die indigenen Völkerschaften des antiken Kleinasiens selbst und in ihrem Umfeld besser zu verstehen. 2005 hat sich mit Frank Rumscheid ein ausgewiesener Kenner der Region der Karer angenommen. Er initiierte in Berlin ein Kolloquium, das...
Augusta Raurica, 1991. — 388 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 13.1). Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand als Dissertation an der Universität Basel und wurde am 5. September 1990 auf Antrag der Professoren Ludwig Berger und Max Martin von der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät angenommen. Die Anregung, die Augster und Kaiseraugster Gläser zu bearbeiten, verdanke ich meinem Lehrer, Ludwig...
Augusta Raurica, 1991. — 442 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 13.2). Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand als Dissertation an der Universität Basel und wurde am 5. September 1990 auf Antrag der Professoren Ludwig Berger und Max Martin von der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät angenommen. Die Anregung, die Augster und Kaiseraugster Gläser zu bearbeiten, verdanke ich meinem Lehrer, Ludwig...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2012. — 291 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 10). Le développement du commerce dans la vallée du Pô et dans le reste de l’Italie du Nord entre le VIe et le Ve s. av. J.-c. est au centre du débat scientifique des dernières années sur le rôle des Étrusques dans le système des échanges dans cette aire...
Od epoki krolow do schylku republiki. — Warszawa: Panstwowe wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1975. — 303 s. Niniejsza praca jest pierwszym tomem podręcznika archeologii starożytnego Rzymu dla studentów archeologii śródziemnomorskiej. Ponieważ nazwa Rzym oraz utworzone od niej formy pochodne mają wiele znaczeń, przeto na samym wstępie pragnę wyjaśnić, w jakim znaczeniu będą w dalszym ciągu...
Od epoki krolow do schylku republiki. — Warszawa: Panstwowe wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1975. — 303 s. Niniejsza praca jest pierwszym tomem podręcznika archeologii starożytnego Rzymu dla studentów archeologii śródziemnomorskiej. Ponieważ nazwa Rzym oraz utworzone od niej formy pochodne mają wiele znaczeń, przeto na samym wstępie pragnę wyjaśnić, w jakim znaczeniu będą w dalszym ciągu...
Harvard University Press, 1980. — 186 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs. Book 6). Editors' Preface. Author's Preface. Technical Abbreviations. Sector Abbreviations. Bibliography and Abbreviations. Pre-Roman Glass. Roman Glass. Early Byzantine Glass. Middle Byzantine Glass. Ring Stones and Beads. Illustrations.
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 142 p. — (BAR International Series 2404). This study examines in depth the pugio (pl. pugiones), a short dagger-sword and one of the weapons of choice of the Roman army – it was the weapon that killed Julius Caesar. Its rich decoration and the use of precious metals have given it legendary status, which has been enhanced by a scarcity of literary sources...
Arbor Sapientiae, 2012. — 147 p. — (Militaria 1). Gli archeologi, durante le loro attività di scavo, ritrovano molti reperti, alle volte in buono stato ma spesso purtroppo solo frammenti. Da qui partono le difficoltà. Questi ritrovamenti devono essere comparati uno all’altro basandosi su informazioni da contesti già noti, cercando di identificare precisamente la loro funzione e...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 178 p. This accessible summary of the archaeological evidence from Roman Exeter reveals its origins as a legionary fortress garrisoned by the Second Augustan Legion. After the legion departed to Wales, Exeter became a Roman regional capital and continued to flourish on the very western edge of the Empire before its ultimate demise in the late 4th century....
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 277 p. — (BAR International Series 2818). El presente libro es la continuación de Estudios Arqueológicos del Área Vesubiana I. Ambos son recopilaciones de investigaciones - en su mayoría, españolas - sobre los yacimientos de Pompeya, Herculano, Estabia y Oplontis. Los estudios presentados abarcan temas de todos los estadios humanísticos e históricos...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 122 p. — (BAR International Series 3049/Young Lukanian Archaeologists (YLA) 3). La scoperta agli inizi del XX secolo di un deposito votivo nelle campagne di Monticchio resta a lungo dimenticata negli archivi e nei magazzini della Direzione Provinciale per le Antichità della Basilicata. La riscoperta avviene combinando la ricerca documentale e la...
Phoibos Verlag, 2018. — 170 S. — (Monografien der Stadtarchäologie Wien 10). Der vorliegende Band ist einem Grabbezirk im südöstlichen Randbereich der Zivilsiedlung von Vindobona gewidmet. Vier Brandgräber und zwei Körperbestattungen, die einem Neugeborenen und einer Frühgeburt zuzuweisen sind, wurden hier entdeckt. Vermutlich waren in dieser Begräbnisstätte mit einem zentralen...
Harvard University Press, 1997. — 248 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports. Book 10). Although the treasury of King Croesus held great quantities of gold and silver plate, the Lydians clearly loved fine ceramic wares imported from Greece. This preference was entirely appropriate for the capital of the expansive Lydian Kingdom, which occupied a pivotal position...
Augusta Raurica, 2003. — 342 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 33). Die Zahl der Ausgrabungen jüngeren Datums in Augusta Raurica, die sorgfältig durchgeführt, mit bewussten Fragestellungen angegangen wurden und optimal dokumentiert sind und von denen auch sämtliches Fundmaterial registriert und für eine Auswertung aufbewahrt wird, nimmt glücklicherweise kontinuierlich zu. Käme heute...
Augusta Raurica, 2013. — 436 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 48). Einen der inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte der letzten Jahre in der Forschung in und über Augusta Raurica bildet die Spätzeit der Koloniestadt. Neben den Auswertungen der Befestigung auf Kastelen und der Taberna in Insula 5/9 sind die Arbeiten über die Verfüllung des unterirdischen Brunnenhauses, die Gebäude in der...
University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 520 p. — (Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 54). The buildings and artefacts uncovered by Canadian excavations at Stymphalos (1994–2001) shed light on the history and cult of a small sanctuary on the acropolis of the ancient city. The thirteen detailed studies collected in Stymphalos: The Acropolis Sanctuary illuminate a variety of aspects of...
Reichert Verlag, 2024. — 197 S. Höhlen, Felsen, Quellen und Bäume prägten die antike Kultpraxis in hohem Maße und waren wichtige, bisweilen legitimierende Bestandteile von griechischen Heiligtümern. Sie konnten sogar selbst das eigentliche Heiligtum konstituieren. Da solche Naturheiligtümer nicht per se Vorstufen nachmals prächtiger Heiligtümer waren und eine intentionale...
Augst: Augusta Raurica, 2008. — 472 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 41). — ISBN: 978-3-7151-0041-8. Untersuchungen zur älteren Töpferei an der Venusstrasse-Ost von Augusta Raurica und der dort aufgefunden römischen Gebrauchskeramik sowie zur Ausdehnung des regionalen Handels damit. Zum ersten Mal erfolgt parallel zur archäologischen Auswertung einer ganzen Töpferei die...
Augusta Raurica, 1991. — 144 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 11). Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt die überarbeitete und durch Nachträge vervollständigte Fassung einer Lizentiatsarbeit dar, die 1988 bei Prof. L. Berger am Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität Basel entstanden ist. Wenn mit diesem elften Band der Reihe «Forschungen in Augst» eine weitere, bislang kaum...
Phoibos Verlag, 2010. — 180 S. — (Monografien der Stadtarchäologie Wien 6). Fibeln („metallene Gewandnadeln“) bildeten in der Antike einen unverzichtbaren Bestandteil der Tracht sowohl der Männer als auch der Frauen. Sie eignen sich aufgrund ihres häufigen Vorkommens und ihrer zahlreichen – zeitlich und / oder räumlich relevanten – unterschiedlichen Formen und Varianten gut als...
Böhlau, 1991. — 194 S. — (Arbeiten zur Archäologie 4). Eine Arbeit, die sich mit Aspekten der griechischen Grabreliefs aus hellenistischer Zeit beschattigt, kann sich auf eine Reihe von Materialsammlungen und Katalogwerken stutzen, in denen die ältere Literatur gesammelt ist und in vielen Fällen brauchbare Abbildungen vorhanden sind. Um die Mateήalbeschreibungen nicht zu...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 225 S. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 22). Die vorliegende Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit dem Vergleich ländlicher Siedlungsstrukturen. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die Entwicklungen in verschiedenen Siedlungskammern der Iberischen Halbinsel während der römischen Epoche einander gegenüberzustellen. Dies soll zeigen, inwieweit Strukturen im Hinterland...
WBG Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2012. — 144 S. — (Einführung Archäologie). Studierende der Archäologie müssen sich nicht nur mit Grabungstechniken, Chronologie und theoretischen Grundfragen ihres Faches vertraut machen. Sie lernen vielmehr eine Fülle von Kunstwerken kennen, die von Menschen einer vergangenen Epoche nach den künstlerischen Vorstellungen und Möglichkeiten...
WBG Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2012. — 144 S. — (Einführung Archäologie). Studierende der Archäologie müssen sich nicht nur mit Grabungstechniken, Chronologie und theoretischen Grundfragen ihres Faches vertraut machen. Sie lernen vielmehr eine Fülle von Kunstwerken kennen, die von Menschen einer vergangenen Epoche nach den künstlerischen Vorstellungen und Möglichkeiten...
Augusta Raurica, 2019. — 494 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 52). Auf archäologischen Ausgrabungen stellen Keramikscherben gewöhnlich die mit Abstand häufigste Fundgattung dar. Insgesamt können sehr grosse Mengen anfallen; Grossgrabungen liefern meistens mehrere zehntausend bis hunderttausend Fragmente! Eine kohärente Erfassung dieser Massen ist unerlässlich, denn für die Datierung...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 118 p. La necropoli romana di Melano (Canton Ticino – Svizzera), scavata nel 1957 e nel 1979, costituisce a tutt’oggi una delle poche di quest’epoca scoperte nel Sottoceneri dove i rinvenimenti sono invece perlopiù sepolture isolate o riunite in piccoli gruppi. È costituita da 26 tombe fra cremazioni e inumazioni e si distingue per la loro varietà a...
Augusta Raurica, 2000. — 188 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 29). Die Analyse des epigraphischen Materials gehörte schon immer zu den allerersten Disziplinen, wenn es um die Interpretation des Fundmaterials aus römerzeitlichen Stätten ging. Wir verdanken einen hohen historischen Kenntnisstand über viele Fundorte den zahlreichen Bau-, Ehren-, Weih- und Grabinschriften. Nicht so in...
Augusta Raurica, 2002. — 518 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 24). Fast zehn Jahre nach Abschluss der «Grossgrabung Kastelen » liegt mit diesem Band das dritte – und zweitletzte – Faszikel der Kastelen-Edition vor. Dieses Buch von Peter- A . Schwarz über die Nordmauer und Innenbebauung der spätrömischen Befestigung ist nicht nur bezüglich Umfang das Gewichtigste der vier Bände,...
BAR Publishing, 1980. — 248 p. — (BAR International Series 88). The limes poses some of the most complex and important problems in the Roman Empire's history in the Lower Danube region. Its study and the resulting knowledge are important for the understanding of the, entire political, administrative, social and economic development of the province of Scythia Minor. If, in the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1957. — 163 p. — (Corinth, vol. XVI) In the first part of this book, the author follows a chronological scheme, discussing consecutively Corinthian architecture Early Christian Period (395-610), the Age of Barbarism (610-802), the Byzantine Recovery (802-1057), the Full Byzantine (1059-1210), the Frankish (1210-1458), and the Turkish...
American School of Classical Studies, 1951. — 216 p. — (Corinth, vol. I,3) Part 3 of Corinth I continues the publication of the architectural remains in the general area of the Agora. The volume includes monuments which limit the Agora at the west, those which run through the center of the Agora separating the Lower from the Upper Agora, those immediately above Peirene facing onto...
Wien: Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, 2006. — 328 S. — (Sonderschriften; Band 41). — ISBN: 3-900305-47-1. Der römische Vicus am Saazkogel stellt mit einer Ausdehnung von knapp 9 ha eine der größten bislang bekannten kaiserzeitlichen Siedlungen in der Oststeiermark dar, mit Sicherheit kann er aber neben den Vici von Gleisdorf und Kalsdorf als einer der am besten...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 400 p. This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. Religious architecture gave faithful...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2009. — 288 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 1). Vues à travers le filtre des auteurs antiques, les Alpes ont une image associée au caractère hostile et répulsif de la montagne. Cette image qui tient du topos littéraire relève pourtant d’une réalité propre aux régions de montagne : la difficulté d’accès et de...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 176 p. — (TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology 3) This latest volume in the TRAC Themes in Theoretical Roman Archaeology series takes up posthuman theoretical perspectives to interpret Roman material culture. These perspectives provide novel and compelling ways of grappling with theoretical problems in Roman archaeology producing new knowledge and questions...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 176 p. — (TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology 3) This latest volume in the TRAC Themes in Theoretical Roman Archaeology series takes up posthuman theoretical perspectives to interpret Roman material culture. These perspectives provide novel and compelling ways of grappling with theoretical problems in Roman archaeology producing new knowledge and questions...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2023. — 254 p. The Rural Hinterland of Antipatris from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine Period s presents the results of extensive excavations conducted in the rural region south and east of the modern city of Rosh Ha’Ayin. The archaeological and historical data that are analysed span a period of over 1000 years. To examine the settlement pattern of...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 252 p. Widely known as an innovative figure in contemporary archaeology, Michael Shanks has written a challenging contribution to recent debates on the emergence of the Greek city states in the first millennium BC. He interprets the art and archaeological remains of Korinth to elicit connections between new urban environments, foreign...
London: Routledge, 1996. — 199 p. A Search for Sources . Cities and Sanctuaries, Art and Archaeology: Roots in the Past . A history of pottery studies. Typology and classification. Art and judgements of style. Pottery and the connoisseurs. Interlude: Sherlock Holmes, the doctor Watson and John Beazley. Iconographers and iconologists. Imperial collections and the big digs....
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 1180 p. Kommos, a coastal site in south central Crete, has a long history highlighted by a prosperous Minoan settlement and port and a post-Minoan Greek sanctuary. Volume IV of the series documents the excavation of Kommos, focusing on the sanctuary and covering the full spectrum of its use and development during its life span from c. 1020...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 1269 p. Kommos, an ancient site on the island of Crete, is known both for its important Greek sanctuary and for its earlier role as a major Minoan harbor town. This final book in the Princeton series focuses on the results of several decades of excavation at three of the site's monumental public buildings during the Minoan period. Of these,...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2001. — 187 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 30). An in-depth study of the Late Minoan IA cross-draft kiln found in excavation at Kommos, Crete. The kiln is of a type popular during the Neopalatial period and its good state of preservation has allowed the authors to speculate about its original internal layout and use as well as...
American School of Classical Studies, 1978. — 127 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 17) The long honorary decree for Kallias of Sphettos, found in the excavations of the Athenian Agora in 1971, is here published for the first time, illustrated with general and detailed photographs, with a translation and line-by-line commentary. The author has further explored the wealth of information to...
Die älteren nichtattischen Vasen. — München: Graphische Kunstanstalt J. B. Obernetter, 1912. — 156 S. Die Münchener Vasensammlung ist die ureigenste Schöpfung König Ludwigs I. Es war eine glänzende Spekulation dieses auch hier in der Wertschätzung von Kunstwerken früherer Zeiten seinen Zeitgenossen vorauseilenden genialen Monarchen, als er in der ersten Hälfte des vorigen...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 286 p. El libro que presentamos a continuación es el resultado de la adopción de nuevas herramientas empleadas en los estudios de Humanidades, en concreto, los de Arqueología, Epigrafía e Historia Antigua, sin por ello dejar de respetar los métodos científicos tradicionales. Para avanzar en este cruce de caminos nos acompañan once investigadores brasileños...
Archaeopress, 2014. — 252 S. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 1). Few regions possess so many and mainly complete Roman bridles as do the Vesuvian sites. Singular find conditions permit both comprehensive antiquarian-historian analyses of their production, functionality, and every-day use and new approaches to their typology and chronology. The 103 catalogued specimens belong...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 343 p. A Monumental Hellenistic Funerary Ensemble at Callatis on the Western Black Sea presents one of the most spectacular early Hellenistic funerary monuments, recently excavated on the western Black Sea coast by a Romanian-Bulgarian-Polish interdisciplinary research team. Documaci Tumulus, covering a painted tomb, and marked by a monumental statue, was...
American School of Classical Studies, 1990. — 186 p. — (Corinth, vol. XVIII,2) In the series of final publications for the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, this book presents ceramic material from the Roman period (primarily from the middle of the 1st century to the end of the 4th century A.D.) in which is included the relatively small number of Roman lamps. Since even small...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 906 p. The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary, the Basentello, separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in southeast Italy. This book aims to explain how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from the Neolithic to the late...
Roman Society Publications, 2017. — 484 p. It has often been stated that Roman Britain was quintessentially a rural society, with the vast majority of the population living and working in the countryside. Yet there was clearly a large degree of regional variation, and with the huge mass of new data produced since the onset of developer-funded archaeology in 1990, the incredible...
Roman Society Publications, 2018. — 448 p. — (New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain, Volume 3). This final volume of New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain focuses upon the people of rural Roman Britain – how they looked, lived, interacted with the material and spiritual worlds surrounding them, and also how they died and what their physical remains can tell...
British Archaeological Reports, 2010. — 140 p. — (BAR International Series 2173). Wadi Araba is a unique landform of great historical importance. As a part of the Great Rift Valley, Wadi Araba extends southward from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba and covers vast stretches of mostly arid land. Until recently our understanding of thehistory (and prehistory) of Wadi Araba has...
Edinburgh University Press, 1971. — 456 pp. — ISBN: 0-85224-089-9. Professor Snodgrass constructs a narrative of four centuries of Greek history from an exhaustive synthesis of literary and archaeological evidence - pottery, burial-practices, architecture and metalwork, and what can be discovered of religion, commerce, and language. He argues that this was in truth a dark age,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 516 p. To be the first full and convincing historian of obscure centuries and the interpreter of a difficult and unpromising material culture is more than falls to most scholars in the course of a lifetime." So wrote the anonymous TLS reviewer in 1972. The Dark Age of Greece is now reissued with an extensive foreword in which the author...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992. — 333 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 24). This book is a study of the house tombs of Crete based on a reexamination of the extant remains at the cemeteries of Gournia and Mochlos. Excavated in the beginning of the century by Harriet Boyd Hawes (Gournia) and Richard B. Seager (Mochlos), the cemeteries underwent cleaning...
Proceedings of the International Round-Table Conference June 2005, St-Petersburg, Russia. — British Archaeological Reports, 2010. — 163 p. — (BAR International Series, Book 2061). — ISBN: 978-1407305523. This volume presents papers from a round table conference held in St Petersburg in 2005. After an introductory survey of the key issues in contemporary studies of Archaic...
The Danish Institute at Athens, 2006. — 442 p. — (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 6.1). The last five years have seen a series of much called for publications on rural Cyprus, but most of the projects address the late Roman period. The excavations at Panayia Ematousa offer the first insight into a rural site of the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods. Volume one...
The Danish Institute at Athens, 2006. — 186 p. — (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 6.2). The last five years have seen a series of much called for publications on rural Cyprus, but most of the projects address the late Roman period. The excavations at Panayia Ematousa offer the first insight into a rural site of the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods. Volume one...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 288 p. — (Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean 10). A study of trade flows on the southern coast of Sardinia in Late Antiquity through underwater finds, amphorae analysis and hypothetical docking points. Recent underwater surveys have highlighted multiple examples of possible cargoes from...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 230 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 117). Thermal establishments with mineral-medicinal waters represent a special case among Roman bath buildings, not only because of the adaptation of the space to the use of these waters for health issues, but also because of the infrastructures and engineering they developed, as well as for their function in the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1959. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 1) By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how different vessel forms were used in classical Athens. By linking the shapes of pots with their social functions, this book gives meaning to the ancient names,...
Palermo, 2007. — 96 p. “Memorie dalla Terra” - un’iniziativa tesa a promuovere e a presentare il ricco patrimonio archeologico di una parte consistente della Sicilia centro-settentrionale - dimostra ancora una volta come, grazie allo sforzo congiunto tra Istituzioni Regionali ed Enti Locali, si possano conseguire risultati proficui per la conoscenza del patrimonio...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 280 p. Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece is the outcome of the conference held in Athens in June 2021 and hosted by the Swedish Institute at Athens. The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Fear of such malevolent powers...
Routledge, 2011. — 200 p. Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology is an innovative volume which examines the relevance of archaeological theory to classical archaeology. It offers a wideranging overview of classical archaeology, from the Bronze Age to the Classical period and from mainland Greece to Cyprus. Within this framework Spencer examines many of the issues...
Council for British Archaeology, 1993. — 200 p. The book firstly draws together the available knowledge on the prehistoric and Roman periods in North East Yorkshire and then constructs the most acceptable explanations for the human populations who adapted to and began to shape the landscape which we see today. The first two chapters present the geological and environmental...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 705 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 75). Deposit of Amphorae in the Quarter of St. Theodore, Pula examines a large group of amphorae which were placed in the quarter of St. Theodore in Pula during the construction of the terrace of the Roman temple complex and adjacent public thermae in the mid-1st century BC, in order to enable drainage and levelling...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 137 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 40). Hercules’ Sanctuary in the Quarter of St. Theodore in Pula' deals with many aspects of the Roman sanctuary erected at the spring in Pula as well as with objects of cult dated to the Hellenistic period. The site was in use from the late fourth century BC to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, a date that...
Augusta Raurica, 1994. — 84 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 19). Das Manuskript für eine geplante Monographie von Karl Stehlin (1859-1934) gelangte - kurz vor dem Tod Stehlins - vor 60 Jahren am 3. August 1934 an Rudolf Laur-Belart, der jedoch die ursprüngliche Publikationsabsicht nie realisierte. Aus dem Nachlass Laur-Belart gelangte das handschriftliche Manuskript schliesslich -...
Augusta Raurica, 1977. — 365 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 1). Zwischen 1949 und 1974 sind in der von der Stiftung Pro Augusta Raurica herausgegebenen Reihe der »Ausgrabungen in Augst« vier Hefte über Grabungen in Augst und Kaiseraugst erschienen. Der Titel dieser Reihe, deren Herausgabe seit 1976 vom Amt für Museen und Archäologie des Kantons Basel-Landschaft betreut wird, wurde...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 675 p. The Archaeology of Roman Portugal aims to contribute to the wider debate on Roman imperialism and expansionism, by bringing to the fore a much-underrepresented area of the Roman Empire, at least in English-language scholarship: its westernmost edge in modern day Portugal. Highlighting the perspective from Roman Portugal will contribute to our...
American School of Classical Studies, 1940. — 91 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 3) Famous classical buildings, such as the Parthenon, are preserved in such monumental isolation that it is hard to reconstruct the effect that they might have had on the ancient visitor. Their setting relative to other buildings, to statues, and surrounding vegetation is lost to us. This book presents a...
American School of Classical Studies, 1948. — 140 p. — (Corinth, vol. XV,1) Excavated between 1928 and 1931, the area of the “Potters’ Quarter” is marked by many finds of moulds and wasters. The site seems to have been occupied between the 8th and 4th centuries B.C. This volume, the first of three on the finds from this area, describes the graves and metal objects, the buildings,...
American School of Classical Studies, 1952. — 300 p. — (Corinth, vol. XV,2) Excavated between 1928 and 1931, the area of the “Potters’ Quarter” is marked by many finds of moulds and wasters. The site seems to have been occupied between the 8th and 4th centuries B.C. This particular volume contains all the objects made of clay except the pottery and plaques. Lamps, spindle whorls,...
American School of Classical Studies, 1952. — 142 p. — (Corinth, vol. II) The theater at Corinth was excavated by T. Leslie Shear from 1925 to 1929 and this book presents a study of the building based on this work. Robbed for stone in antiquity, the organization of the building is confusing and there are a number of questions about its layout and history that cannot be answered....
American School of Classical Studies, 1941. — 259 p. — (Corinth, vol. I,2) The interrelated buildings around the "Agora" of ancient Corinth are the focus of this study. The book contains studies of the Peribolos of Apollo (Richard Stillwell and H. Ess Askew), the Facade of the Colossal Figures (Richard Stillwell), the Northwest Stoa and Shops (Richard Stillwell), Temple C and the...
Augusta Raurica, 2011. — 261 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 47). Die Insula 50 von Augusta Raurica wurde erstmals 1969 im Rahmen einer Ausgrabung untersucht. Anlass war der Bau einer Verbindungsstrasse («Venusstrasse») zwischen Augst und der in den 1970er-Jahren gebauten Siedlung Liebrüti in Kaiseraugst. So musste ein rund 20 m breiter Streifen der römischen Venusstrasse mit den...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1998. — 148 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 29). The first publication of a complex and well-preserved Athenian law of great interest to historians. Discovered in the Agora Excavations in 1986, this hitherto unknown law rivals in importance that of the law on silver coinage of 375/4 B.C., which was published by the author some...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2015. — 403 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 121.1). Al Andarin, das antike Androna, überdeckt mit seinen zwei Umfassungsmauern, zehn Kirchen, einem öffentlichen Bad und einem großen Militärbau (Kastron) ein Areal von 155 ha und ist damit einer der größten Ruinenorte der wasserarmen Steppengebiete Zentralsyriens. Als erste von ca. 300...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2015. — 278 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 121.2). Al Andarin, das antike Androna, überdeckt mit seinen zwei Umfassungsmauern, zehn Kirchen, einem öffentlichen Bad und einem großen Militärbau (Kastron) ein Areal von 155 ha und ist damit einer der größten Ruinenorte der wasserarmen Steppengebiete Zentralsyriens. Als erste von ca. 300...
American School of Classical Studies, 1997. — 612 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 20). Greek Epigraphical Index. Bibliography of Eugene Vanderpool. Boegehold - A Lid of Dipinto. Borza - Athenians, Macedonians, and the Origins of the Macedonian Royal House. Caskey - Koroni and Keos. Clay - Epicurus in the Archives of Athens. Clinton - The Nature of the Late Fifth-Century Revision of...
American School of Classical Studies, 2004. — 270 p. — (Corinth, vol. IX,3) At the time of its creation in the Hadrianic period, the Corinth Theater presented the most elaborate form of Roman theater architecture to date; a three-storied columnar facade made of multicolored marble. The polychrome architecture did not stand alone, for the scaenae frons was also impressively...
American School of Classical Studies, 1977. — 166 p. — (Corinth, vol. IX,2) The remodeling of the theater at ancient Corinth in the 2nd century A.D. included lavish decorations, the chief of which were three dramatic friezes. In publishing them this book presents the most ambitious sculptural program known among theaters on the Greek mainland, and indeed one of the more elaborate...
University Press of Florida, 2015. — 364 p. Sicily was among one of the first areas settled during the Greek colonization movement, making its cemeteries a popular area of study for scholars of the classical world. Yet these studies have often considered human remains and burial customs separately. In this seminal work, Carrie Sulosky Weaver synthesizes skeletal, material, and...
Harvard University Press, 2003. — 400 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs. Book 12). Hellenistic art in Asia Minor is characterized by diverse cultural influences, both indigenous and Greek. This work presents a comprehensive catalogue of the Hellenistic pottery found at Sardis by two archaeological expeditions. The main catalogue includes over 750 items from...
Augusta Raurica, 1999. — 282 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 22). Bereits sind etwas über drei Jahre verstrichen, seit das erste Faszikel unserer vierteiligen Publikationsserie der Grabungen von 1991-1993 auf Kastelen erschienen ist. Es erscheint im Rückblick als grosser Glücksfall, dass der Autor von «Kastelen 3», Thomas Hufschmid, und die Redaktion unseres hauseigenen Verlages des...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 169 p. This book offers a new perspective on, and approach to the study of Roman colonial foundations. The collection of papers comes from the 2007 conference, 100 Years of Solitude, Colonies in the first century of their foundation held in St Andrews. This volume brings together studies on Roman colonies of the Eastern and the Western Empire across a...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 402 p. This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. It provides essential information on the style, iconography, and chronology of the material, as well as discussion of the craftspeople who created them and the technologies they used. The contextualized mosaic evidence also reveals a...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 266 p. The Roman army enjoys an enviable reputation as an instrument of waging war, but as the modern world reminds us, an enduring victory requires far more than simply winning battles. When it came to suppressing counterinsurgencies, or deterring the depredations of bandits, the army frequently deployed small groups of infantry and cavalry...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 410 p. Il carattere etrusco della città di Pisa è stato messo in discussione per molto tempo. Tuttavia, grazie a un periodo intenso di indagini archeologiche sistematiche intraprese a metà degli anni Ottanta del secolo scorso, è stato possibile confermare definitivamente l'antica origine etrusca dell'insediamento, come già riportato da numerose fonti...
American School of Classical Studies, 1956. — 189 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 10) This book continues the publication of small objects found in the region of the Pnyx hill, the great open-air assembly place of Athens, during excavations by Homer A. Thompson between 1931 and 1937. It contains essays on “Figured Pottery” (Talcott and “Philippaki), “Hellenistic Pottery” (Edwards), and...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2024. — 241 S. — (Arete: Publikationen des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Athen 2). Tempelähnliche Kleinbauten prägten durch ihr mehrfaches Vorkommen das in hellenistischer Zeit errichtete Gebäudeensemble im Theaterbereich von Aigeira. Die drei am besten erhaltenen – Naiskoi D, E und F – bilden den...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 341 p. In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. These long-distance relations have been celebrated and much studied; by...
Departement für Erziehung und Kultur des Kantons Thurgau, 2011. — 258 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 17). Eschenz liegt am Untersee und Rhein im Kanton Thurgau. Grabungen des Amts für Archäologie Thurgau haben in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten zahlreiche neue Funde und Befunde im hier ehemals bestehenden vicus Tasgetium zutage gefördert. Da Teile der römischen Siedlung auf feuchtem...
Departement für Erziehung und Kultur des Kantons Thurgau, 2012. — 302 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 18). Das Amt fur Archäologie Thurgau fuhrt seit mehr als 20 Jahren in der Gemeinde Eschenz Grabungen im vicus Tasgetium durch. In wassergesättigten Fundschichten haben sich zahlreiche Funde und Befunde aus organischemMaterial aus dem 1. bis 3. Jh. n.Chr. hervorragend erhalten. In...
Departement für Erziehung und Kultur des Kantons Thurgau, 2014. — 421 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 19). Tasgetium lag gemäss dem römischen Geografen Ptolemaios am westlichen Rand der Provinz Rätien. Der kaiserzeitliche vicus erstreckte sich entlang des Südufers des Rheins über 1 km auf dem Gemeindegebiet von Eschenz im Kanton Thurgau. In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat das Amt für...
Archäologisches Institut der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, 2007. — 367 S. — (Spisy archeologického ústavu AV ČR Brno 26). Die Publikation behandelt ausgewählte Aspekte der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung der ethnischen Identität der Bevölkerungen Kontinentaleuropas im 4.–6. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Einzelne Themenblöcke widmen sich den historischen...
Archäologisches Institut der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, 2011. — 472 S. — (Spisy archeologického ústavu AV ČR Brno 39). Die Monografie befasst sich mit zwei außergewöhnlichen Grabfunden aus der frühmerowingischen Zeit in Mähren. Obwohl das Grab auf dem Gräberfeld in Šakvice und der Grabhügel in Žurán bereits zuvor geplündert worden waren, belegen die...
Archäologisches Institut der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, 1997. — 404 S. — (Spisy archeologického ústavu AV ČR Brno 8). Die Sammlung von Beiträgen der gleichnamigen internationalen Tagung von 1995 präsentierte aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zur revolutionären Entwicklung des Mittleren Donauraums in der Spätantike und der frühen Phase der...
Institut d'Archéologie de la Academie des Sciences de la République Tchéque, Brno, 1999. — 368 p. — (Spisy archeologického ústavu AV ČR Brno 13). Recueil des communications d'un colloque international dont le but était de présenter l'état des recherches sur les contacts suprarégionaux en Europe au Ve siècle. Dans leurs contributions, les auteurs éclairent et soulignent...
Archäologisches Institut der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, 2011. — 476 S. — (Spisy archeologického ústavu AV ČR Brno 33). Die Arbeit analysiert und bewertet zahlreiche Funde aus Gräbern des ausgehenden 4. und der ersten Hälfte des 5. Jahrhunderts in einem breiteren mitteleuropäischen Rahmen. Die damals mehrphasige Entwicklung hatte offensichtliche...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 195 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 74). Les villes d'Ereğli, Amasra, Sinop, Samsun, Giresun, Ordu, et Trabzon qui sont implantées sur la côte nord de la Turquie, ainsi qu'Amasya à l'intérieur des terres, sont dotées d'un musée. Les amphores constituent une part importante de leur collection et sont dans un très bon état de conservation, car elles ont...
American School of Classical Studies, 1929. — 132 p. — (Corinth, vol. IV,1) A general discussion of architectural terracottas is followed by a catalogue of those found at Corinth. The objects are listed under Antefixes, Ridge Palmettes, Simas, Decorated Eaves-Tiles, and Miscellaneous. Each type of terracotta is carefully analyzed and discussed leading to a chronology roughly...
Council for British Archaeology, 1990-94. — 530 p. — (CBA Research Reports 69, 70, 88, 98). Volume 1: The Upper Walbrook valley in the Roman period - Catherine Maloney, Dominique De Moulins Volume 2: Early development of Roman London west of the Walbrook - Dominic Perring, Steve Roskams, Patrick Allen Volume 3: Public Buildings in the South-West Quarter of Roman London - Tim...
Revised edition. Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. — 1280 p. The Atlas of Ancient Rome is the result of about twenty years of research, conducted by a team of specialists dedicated to the reconstruction of Rome’s urban landscapes from halfway through the ninth century BC to the sixth century AD. This research was framed by the ongoing, large-scale scientific project...
Austin: Institute of Classical Archaeology, 2005. — 92 p. The Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) is an Organized Research Unit of The University of Texas at Austin. In order to study, document, and preserve sites, monuments, and artifacts of past life for present and future generations, we conduct archaeological fieldwork and training in ancient Greek rural territories on...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 400 p. In Athens, most remains of the ancient city-wall were revealed during rescue excavations; as a result, documentation is scattered and fragmented. This book systematically investigates all published data, revealing the history and the nature of the surviving remains of this significant monument. The book provides an analysis of the ancient literary...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 400 p. In Athens, most remains of the ancient city-wall were revealed during rescue excavations; as a result, documentation is scattered and fragmented. This book systematically investigates all published data, revealing the history and the nature of the surviving remains of this significant monument. The book provides an analysis of the ancient literary...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2009. — 268 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 2). Strabon (63 av. J.-C.- 24 apr. J.-C.) est un écrivain grec d’Asie Mineure du début de l’Empire (il est presque l’exact contemporain de l’empereur Auguste). Le seul ouvrage qui nous soit parvenu de lui est sa Géographie, en dix-sept livres, unique en son genre....
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 225 p. — (BAR British Series 667/Archaeology of Roman Britain 5). This volume explores the relationship between people and material culture in the south-west peninsula from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. This area has often been ignored in the narratives of Britannia and the application of traditional theoretical models to the archaeology...
American School of Classical Studies, 1993. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 12) As well as being a political center, the Agora was the focus of a noisy and varied commercial life. This booklet illustrates the archaeological, documentary, and pictorial evidence for such diverse trades as shoe-making, fishmongering, weaving, and the manufacture of luxury goods and perfumes. Shopping...
American School of Classical Studies, 1963. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 8) In the spring, the ground of the Agora archaeological park is covered in poppies and daisies while poplars and oaks shade many of the pathways. Some of these plants are wild and some were deliberately introduced to Athens in classical times. This booklet presents evidence for ancient horticulture in the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1959. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 3) Small sculptured figures of humans and animals have been found all over the Agora, ranging in date from the earliest occupation of Athens to the end of the Late Roman period. This booklet presents a representative sample of these carvings, ranging from elegant ivory figures of Apollo to small toy horses...
American School of Classical Studies, 1992. — 32 p. — (Agora Picture Book 2) Named after its donor, the King of Pergamon, the Stoa of Attalos was originally built around 150 B.C. Between 1953 and 1956 this long, columned, marble building was rebuilt by the American School of Classical Studies to store and display finds from the Agora excavations. Using original materials and...
American School of Classical Studies, 1940. — 160 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 4) This detailed account of excavations centered on the Tholos reveal this important building to have been the headquarters of the prytaneis, leading Athenian councillors. The book surveys the earlier buildings on the site, dating from the 6th century B.C., before focusing on the round building itself—a...
American School of Classical Studies, 1972. — 280 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XIV) The subtitle, The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center, suggests the general character of this volume, which provides an overview of the area that served as the civic center of Athens from about 600 B.C. to A.D. 267. After a general resumé of the historical development of the Agora, the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1982. — 236 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 20). Twenty-one papers on various aspects of Athenian art and society by the students and friends of Homer A. Thompson, a noted classical archaeologist and excavator of the Athenian Agora. The volume includes many papers on sculpture (including Nancy Bookidis on Attic terracotta sculpture and Brunilde...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 187 p. — (BAR British Series 677/Archaeology of Roman Britain 9). Facing the Enemy is a GIS-based examination of the relationship between Roman fortifications occupied during the Flavian period (AD 77-86/90), and their Scottish landscape setting. It undertakes spatial analysis of the positioning, orientation, intervisibility and interconnectivity of the...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 308 p. This volume aims to present an updated portrait of the Roman countryside in Roman Spain by the comparison of different theoretical orientations and methodological strategies including the discussion of textual and iconographic sources and the analysis of the faunal remains. The archaeology of rural areas of the Roman world has traditionally been...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 308 p. This volume aims to present an updated portrait of the Roman countryside in Roman Spain by the comparison of different theoretical orientations and methodological strategies including the discussion of textual and iconographic sources and the analysis of the faunal remains. The archaeology of rural areas of the Roman world has traditionally been...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 308 p. This volume aims to present an updated portrait of the Roman countryside in Roman Spain by the comparison of different theoretical orientations and methodological strategies including the discussion of textual and iconographic sources and the analysis of the faunal remains. The archaeology of rural areas of the Roman world has traditionally been...
BAR Publishing, 2004. — 129 p. — (BAR International Series 1275). First discovered in the 19th century, the remains of a Roman settlement at the site of Kueçuek Burnaz in the eastern area of ancient Cilicia, were investigated more fully in 1991 by the Özgen/Gates survey. This volume presents an overview of this region of ancient Cilicia from the 1st century BC to the 14th...
BAR Publishing, 1977. — 94 p. — (BAR British Series 38). The subject of Roman leaden coffins and leaden cinerary urns has never been treated comprehensively for the whole of the Roman Empire and it is regretted that spatial limitations prevent that being attempted here. It is hoped, however, that what follows comprises a complete survey of the evidence for those which are known...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 253 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 14). The Roman legionary base at Novae in Lower Moesia is one of the most important sites in the Lower Danubian provinces. Towards late Antiquity, the military camp was transformed into a civil town with Episcopal residence and survived until the beginning of the 7th century. The Polish-Bulgarian excavations carried...
Augusta Raurica, 1980. — 44 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 4). Zwischen dem Entdeckungstag des Depotfundes aus Insula 42 am 2. Mai 1972 und der Vollendung des vorliegenden Manuskriptes im Dezember 1979 ist eine lange, aber nicht still verstrichene Zeit vorübergegangen. Die Hauptetappen dieser Zeitspanne möchte ich, weil sie die Auswertung wesentlich beeinflußten, hier aufzeichnen.
American School of Classical Studies, 1995. — 269 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XXVII) The Stoa of Attalos now covers the remains several centuries of previous occupation. Mycenaean and Protogeometric burials represent the early use of the area. By the Late Geometric period, the presence of a few wells indicates a shift to domestic occupation; others containing 6th-century B.C....
American School of Classical Studies, 1975. — 152 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 15) This book combines two functions, as a technical handbook for training epigraphists to recognize an individual mason’s hands, and a social study of a skilled artisan in Hellenistic Athens (referred to as “B”), a native of Salamis who worked in Athens and at Delphi. The methodology developed by the...
BAR Publishing, 2003. — 313 p. — (BAR International Series 1177). Il volume contiene l'analisi, la documentazione e lo studio comparativo dei corredi funerari di 80 tombe di fine VII-VI secolo a.C. rinvenute nel corso degli scavi della necropoli teramana di Campovalano in Abruzzo. Il lavoro costituisce la prima parte del programma di sistematica edizione dei reperti della...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2010. — 1141 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 3). Le programme de travail qui aboutit à ce livre s’inscrit dans le cadre du réseau d’excellence européen Ramses2, initié par la Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme. Une demi-douzaine de tables rondes ont réuni entre 2006 et 2008, d’un bout à l’autre de...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — 241 p. Excavations carried out from 1984-1985 at Ditches in Gloucestershire identified a large, late Iron Age enclosure which contained a remarkably early Roman villa. This long awaited excavation report reinterprets this evidence in the light of more recent studies of the late Iron Age-Roman transition. It extends our understanding of the...
Oxbow Books, 2008. — 239 p. Excavations carried out from 1984-1985 at Ditches in Gloucestershire identified a large, late Iron Age enclosure which contained a remarkably early Roman villa. This long awaited excavation report reinterprets this evidence in the light of more recent studies of the late Iron Age-Roman transition. It extends our understanding of the...
Besançon: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 1999. — 232 p. — (Annales Littéraires de l'Université de Franche-Comté, 659). — ISBN 2-913322-42-5. Although Greeks had lived in Colchis and had founded their own cities and settlements there, it remained a legendary land for the Hellenes, the land of the Golden Fleece and the sorceress Medea. It was this mythical aura...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 316 p. — (Select Papers from the Third International Conference ‘The Black Sea in Antiquity and Tekkeköy: An Ancient Settlement on the Southern Black Sea Coast’, 27-29 October 2017, Tekkeköy, Samsun). Papers in this volume cover all shores of the Black Sea and address, alongside many other topics, the establishment dates of some Greek Colonies;...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 348 p. Tios/Tieion was intended to be a publication of the proceedings of a conference held at Filyos (ancient Tios/Tieion) in 2020. The conference had to be cancelled in common with other events due to Covid 19, though with the hope that it might take place eventually, a hope undermined by the sudden and premature death of Gocha Tsetskhladze, the...
Heritage Conservation, Essex County Council, 1999. — 299 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 88). The site at Ivy Chimneys, Witham, appears to have been occupied continuously throughout the Iron Age, and remained in use until the end of the Roman period. Most traces of domestic Iron Age structures were removed by ploughing, but the surviving ditches seem to indicate more than a...
American School of Classical Studies, 2016. — 267 p. — (Athenian Agora 37). Ancient Thasos was renowned for its wine, which was heavily exported in ceramic amphoras across the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Once a principal market in this trade, the Athenian Agora is now home to one of the largest collections of stamped amphora fragments from the island of Thasos,...
Brill, 2019. — 285 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) 3). In (Re)using Ruins , Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins...
Militärische Funde, Pferdegeschirr und Jochteile bis 1976. — Brugg: Schwabe & Co AG, Muttenz BL, 1997. — 96 S., 86 Tafeln. — (Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft pro Vindonissa, Band XIV). Beim Bau der Eisenbahnlinie Baden-Brugg wurde im Jahr 1855 eine mächtige römische Ablagerung am Fuss des Windischer Sporns angegraben. Diese Entdeckung bildete den Auftakt zur jetzt 140 Jahre...
National Archaeological Institute with Museum, 2024. — 220 p. — (Bulletin of the National archaeological institute 50/Известия на Националния археологически институт 50). Conflicts and Catastrophes in Roman and Late Antique Thrace (Burgas, 12th – 16th October 2020) The fourth edition of the International “Roman and Late Аntique Thrace” (RaLATh) Conference was carried out in a...
Routledge, 2020. — 314 p. The fortifications of Pompeii stand as the ancient city’s largest, oldest, and best preserved public monument. Over its 700-year history, Pompeii invested significant amounts of money, resources, and labor into (re)building, maintaining, and upgrading the walls. Each intervention on the fortifications marked a pivotal event of social and political...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 296 p. In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire? The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of farmer and state to trace the practical and moral reverberations of storage from villas in Italy to silos in Gaul, and from houses in Pompeii to warehouses...
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 388 p. The terracotta figurines from Akragas (Agrigento) with their chubby faces, splendid furniture, and rich adornments, depict a prosperous life in the late sixth and early fifth century BCE. The extensive jewelry on the figurines contains strikingly large fibulae appliqués fastening pectoral chains with several sorts of pendants. They are modeled...
Sidestone Press, 2023. — 604 p. — (Relicta Monografieën 19). In the later Roman period the North Sea and Channel region was the scene of seaborne attacks, political crises, army reforms, Germanic invasions and changing imperial defence strategies. Literary evidence for this era is poor. On the other hand the Shore forts can yield highly significant information, but have been...
Sidestone Press, 2023. — 324 p. — (Relicta Monografieën 19). In the later Roman period the North Sea and Channel region was the scene of seaborne attacks, political crises, army reforms, Germanic invasions and changing imperial defence strategies. Literary evidence for this era is poor. On the other hand the Shore forts can yield highly significant information, but have been...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 432 p. — (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 13). The production of amphorae and the export of commodities transported in them was a key activity for the Mediterranean world in Antiquity. Consequently, their study is of enormous value for analysing the agricultural and fishing economy, and also the commercial mechanism of that period. Through the...
Palermo: Regione siciliana, Assessorato dei beni culturali e ambientali e della pubblica istruzione. Dipartimento dei beni culturali e ambientali e dell’educazione permanente, 2005. — 160 p. — (Beni culturali Palermo : collana di studi e ricerche 8). — ISBN 88-88559-08-6. Tra le pubblicazioni dedicate negli ultimi anni alla divulgazione del patrimonio archeologico siciliano,...
Palermo: Regione siciliana, Assessorato regionale dei beni culturali ed ambientali e della pubblica istruzione. Dipartimento dei beni culturali ed ambientali e dell’educazione permanente, 2004. — 51 p. Nel quadro storico della Sicilia antica, Himera, con Selinunte, rappresenta l’estremo limite occidentale raggiunto dalla colonizzazione greca. L’una sulla costa tirrenica,...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 332 p. The subject of this study is a relatively rare category of artefacts, bronze and terracotta statuettes that represent deities, human figures and animals. They were introduced in the northwestern provinces by Roman troops from the end of the 1st century BCE onwards. The statuettes have been recovered from military and non-military...
E.J. Brill, 1965. — 679 p. The Mithraeum under and behind S. Prisca on the Aventine is without doubt the most important sanctuary of the Persian god in Rome. This shrine may be the most interesting Mithraeum in the world, for it displays various remarkable features that are not to be found in any other speleum. The peculiar cult-niche with its rich stucco decoration is unique,...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 332 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World). Located in the small kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Dağ (c.50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars. Qualified as a Greco-Persian hybrid instigated by a lunatic king, this fascinating project of bricolage has been written out of history....
L’École française de Rome, 1984. — 459 p. — (Ecole française de Rome 77). Dagron, Gilbert - Les villes dans l'Illyricum protobyzantin Pietri, Charles - La géographie de l'Illyricum ecclésiastique et ses relations avec l'Église de Rome (Ve-VIe siècles) Teodor, D. G. - Origines et voies de pénétration des Slaves au sud du Bas-Danube (VIe-VIIe siècles) Ferjancic, B. - Invasions et...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 258 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 109). La Valle dell’Agno-Guà a nord-ovest di Vicenza, una delle più importanti del Veneto sotto l’aspetto socio-economico, non è stata finora oggetto di indagini sistematiche sulle dinamiche del suo popolamento in età romana e altomedievale, benché le prime notizie di rinvenimenti di antichità in questo comparto...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021. — 226 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 78). Ex Asia Minor et Syria: Religions in the Roman Central Balkans investigates the cults of Asia Minor and Syrian origin in the Roman provinces of the Central Balkans. The author presents, analyzes and interprets all hitherto known epigraphical and archaeological material which attests to the presence...
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2014. — 239 p. — (Prehistory Monographs 48). This volume presents the first of several Late Hellenistic buildings that were uncovered on the island of Mochlos, located off the northeastern coast of Crete, during the Greek-American excavations of the last 25 years. It also provides an introduction to the Hellenistic...
Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2020. — 416 S. — (Römisch-Germanische Forschungen 75). Der Palast Felix Romuliana, den der römische Kaiser Galerius (293—311) in seiner Heimatregion errichten ließ, ist heute ein Archäologischer Park im Osten der Republik Serbien. Ein internationales Forscherteam hat im Palastgelände selbst und in seiner Umgebung geologische, geophysikalische und...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 212 p. — (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 46). In the Dutch archaeological community, the Roman Villa of Maasbracht has become famous for the beautiful remains of murals that have survived to this day. Almost all of this material was found in the infill of the stone cellar, a veritable time capsule that has been excavated with much patience and care....
Archaeopress, 2018. — 141 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 47). Pottery Production, Landscape and Economy of Roman Dalmatia: Interdisciplinary approaches' offers results of work undertaken as part of the RED project - Roman Economy in Dalmatia: production, distribution and demand in the light of pottery workshops (IP-11-2013-3973). It presents interdisciplinary research...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 382 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 94). Proceedings of the 4th International Archaeological Colloquium (Crikvenica, 8-9 November 2017) Roman Ceramic and Glass Manufactures: Production and trade in the Adriatic region and beyond presents thirty-one papers read at the 4th International Archaeological Colloquium held in Crikvenica, Croatia, 8–9 November...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008. — 117 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 38). This volume publishes the editiones principes of fragments of inscriptions found during excavations in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1967. These comprise parts of 100 decrees of the Athenian state and other political bodies and, while sometimes only a few words are preserved,...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1988. — 200 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 22). The author investigates the appearance of a fashion in clothing, involving a knotted mantle worn across the chest, on many Attic stelae of the Roman period. She suggests that this style can be traced to Egyptian roots, and might have been particularly associated with a cult of Isis,...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 464 p. — (BAR British Series 553). This is the first detailed, wide-ranging report to be published on excavations in the extramural settlement of the Roman legionary fortress at Chester (north-western England), specifically those around the western side of the fortress. This publication concentrates on ten interventions carried out over twenty-five years...
American School of Classical Studies, 1982. — 89 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 18) This publication is the outcome of a project begun in 1973 with an intensive survey of the Lasithi plain in Crete; it documents and discusses the history of ancient settlement in this rich valley high up in the Diktaian mountain range. The core of the book is a survey of archaeological evidence for...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2014. — 675 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 112.1). Bazzano bei L'Aquila gehört zu den größten vorrömischen Bestattungsplätzen im apenninischen Mittelitalien und übertrifft in der Zahl der Gräber sogar die Nekropolen von Fossa und Campovalano. Über 500 Bestattungen der orientalisierenden und archaischen Zeit (8.-5. Jahrhundert v....
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2014. — 649 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 112.2). Bazzano bei L'Aquila gehört zu den größten vorrömischen Bestattungsplätzen im apenninischen Mittelitalien und übertrifft in der Zahl der Gräber sogar die Nekropolen von Fossa und Campovalano. Über 500 Bestattungen der orientalisierenden und archaischen Zeit (8.-5. Jahrhundert v....
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2014. — 463 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 112.3). Bazzano bei L'Aquila gehört zu den größten vorrömischen Bestattungsplätzen im apenninischen Mittelitalien und übertrifft in der Zahl der Gräber sogar die Nekropolen von Fossa und Campovalano. Über 500 Bestattungen der orientalisierenden und archaischen Zeit (8.-5. Jahrhundert v....
American School of Classical Studies, 1960. — 146 p. — (Corinth, vol. I,5) This volume discusses the important, mainly Roman, buildings at the east end of the Corinthian Agora; the Julian Basilica and the Southeast Building, the South Basilica (immediately behind the South Stoa), and the Mosaic House adjoining it. The Southeast Building is described first in its present state, and...
Brill, 2019. — 246 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 432; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 432). The book discusses the history and the archaeology of Jerusalem in the Roman period (70-400 CE) following a chronological order, from the establishment of the Tenth Roman Legion’s camp on the ruins of Jerusalem in 70 CE, through the foundation of...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2021. — 469 S. — (Monographien des RGZM 155). Seit Beginn der Römischen Kaiserzeit erlebte die Gegend zwischen Mayen am Rande der Eifel und Andernach am Rhein eine enorme Steigerung ihrer wirtschaftlichen Aktivität. In kurzer Zeit entstand dort ein Industrierevier, von dem aus weite Gebiete in den römischen Nordwestprovinzen mit...
American School of Classical Studies, 1931. — 185 p. — (Corinth, vol. VIII,2) This presentation of 226 Latin inscriptions found during the early years of excavation at Corinth is divided into two main sections: Inscriptions of the Republican period and Inscriptions of the Imperial Period. Each inscribed piece of stone is described in detail and any readable texts are transcribed...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 512 p. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece provides a synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods (1000–300 BC). The rich and diverse material culture of ancient Greece has always provoked admiration and even wonder, but it is seldom analysed as a key to our understanding of Greek civilisation....
Peeters, 2021. — 489 p. — (Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology 4). The volume is the outcome of intermittent studies on the archaeological pottery assemblage excavated from Chhim, an ancient village site in the mountains of central Lebanon. It is the first such comprehensive presentation of common wares and amphorae from the rural hinterland of Phoenicia in...
Essex County Council, 1988. — 220 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 41). Great Dunmow was a Roman 'small town' which developed along Stane Street. Archaeological investiga tions within the town began in the late 18th Century. Excavations in 1970-1972 revealed multi-period occupa tion. A scatter of flint-gritted prehistoric pottery indicates some low-level activity on the site....
Council for British Archaeology, 1992. — 162 p. — (CBA Research Reports 75/Chelmsford Archaeological Trust Reports 9). This is the ninth in the series of Chelmsford Archaeological Trust Reports and the second volume which reports on sites within Caesaromagus - the Roman town of Chelmsford. The first was concerned with the mansio, town defences, and other sites in the...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 352 p. The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, miraculously preserved, from their layers of volcanic ash. Yet for all the fame and unique importance of the site, there is a surprising lack of a handy...
Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1986. — 495 p. This book is the first in a series of monographs dealing with the results of the ERA project of the ROB. ERA stands for Eastern River Area, the eastern part of the delta of Rhine and Meuse in the Netherlands. An introduction to the project is provided in chapter I. That the book does not bear a number is due to the fact that it was...
American School of Classical Studies, 2003. — 503 p. — (Corinth, vol. XX) Twenty-five papers presented at the December 1996 symposium held in Athens to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American School of Classical Studies excavations at ancient Corinth. The papers are intended to illustrate the range in subject matter of research currently being undertaken by scholars of...
BRILL, 2007. — 455 p. — (Kenchreai. Eastern Port of Corinth 6). Parts of crossed-leg chairs and richly decorated fragments of bone and ivory excavated at Kenchreai, the Eastern port of Corinth, include scenes of an emperor and a miniature ivory Corinthian arcade that decorated luxurious furniture produced in late Roman Egypt.
Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto press, cop. 1971. — XVIII, 370 p. — (Phoenix: journal of the Classical association of Canada; suppl. vol. 9); ISBN 0-8020-5225-8. Классическая работа по античной фортификации. Файл представляет собой скан старой (возможно, советской) ксерокопии. Две-три страницы отсутствуют, фотографии неразборчивы, но рисунки и текст читаются хорошо.
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1994. — 440 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 27). A presentation of the papers from the International Conference on Classical and Hellenistic Architectural Terracottas, held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, December, 1991. While the majority of the papers concentrate on architectural terracottas from the Greek...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2003. — 311 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 32). The first in a two-volume series, Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece presents the results of the Nikopolis Project (1991-1996), the first large-scale, systematic survey in this region of Greece. The project employed intensive archaeological survey and geological...
Edition Topoi, 2018. — 444 S. — (Topoi: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 54). Die römische Provinz Epirus stand bislang nicht im Zentrum des altertumswissenschaftlichen Interesses, obwohl in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu ihren archäologischen Stätten zahlreiche Forschungsprojekte durchgeführt wurden. Die vorliegende Arbeit bietet erstmals eine umfassende Zusammenstellung. Die...
Ancient Egypt Research Associates, 2010. — 350 p. This is the fourth volume in a four-book set covering all Egyptian pottery, ranging from the earliest (Fayum A) ceramics to pottery made in Egypt today, organized by historical periods. The manuals are quick identification guides as well as starting points for more extensive research. For each period, ceramic types are...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 114 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 93). Excavations at Chester. Roman land division and a probable villa in the hinterland of Deva reports on excavations carried out by Northern Archaeological Associates (NAA) at Saighton Camp – a former British Army training camp – located to the south of the Roman legionary fortress of Chester (Deva Victrix) which...
American School of Classical Studies, 1997. — 548 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. XVI). Edited texts, with extensive commentary, of some 344 fragments of Attic decrees dating from the mid-5th century B.C. to A.D. 203, found in excavations of the Athenian Agora before 1967, with brief notes on additional material found up to 1975. Well-documented discussions of individual archon years...
The University Museum Philadelphia, 1910. — 253 p. — (Eckley B. Coxe Junior expedition to Nubia 4). Volumes 3 and 4 of a series which recorded the results of explorations in Egypt planned and financed by Mr. Eckley B. Coxe, Junior, of Philadelphia. By an agreement made with the University of Pennsylvania in 1907, the expedition was to be conducted for five years on behalf of...
The University Museum Philadelphia, 1910. — 314 p. — (Eckley B. Coxe Junior expedition to Nubia 3). Volumes 3 and 4 of a series which recorded the results of explorations in Egypt planned and financed by Mr. Eckley B. Coxe, Junior, of Philadelphia. By an agreement made with the University of Pennsylvania in 1907, the expedition was to be conducted for five years on behalf of...
The University Museum Philadelphia, 1911. — 147 p. — (Eckley B. Coxe Junior expedition to Nubia 5). In volumes iii and iv of this series are described the results obtained from the excavation of a large cemetery lying a little north of the modern village of Anibeh in lower Nubia, and reasons are given for supposing this cemetery to have belonged to the little known Blemyan...
American School of Classical Studies, 1957. — 270 p. — (Athenian Agora, vol. III) Here are presented all the ancient written references, both literary and epigraphical, to the Agora (including its environs) and its monuments. The introduction summarizes chronologically the authors cited, evaluating the contributions of each. The texts are given in the original Greek or Latin,...
Harvard University Press , 1986. — 377 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports. Book 3). The Bath-Gymnasium at Sardis is the most important known example of a complex that combines the gymnasium, a Greek institution, with the Roman bath, a unique architectural and cultural embodiment comparable in size and organization to the great Imperial thermae of Rome. The...
2nd Edition. — Amsterdam University Press, 2013. — 312 p. Synthesizing some 30 years of archaeological research in south-east Italy, this book discusses a millennium that witnessed breathtaking changes: the first millennium BC. In nine to ten centuries the Mediterranean societies changed from a great variety of mostly small entities of predominantly tribal nature into the...
American School of Classical Studies, 1939. — 259 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 2) The entire contents of a small Geometric period (900-700 B.C.) cemetery of twenty graves, found just south of the Tholos in the Athenian Agora, are catalogued in this book. Three additional graves, a well, and selection of isolated finds provide the author with a mass of Geometric and proto-Attic...
De Gruyter, 2010. — 203 p. — (Sozomena 1). The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the field of classical studies. The papyri (the only intact library to survive from Graeco-Roman antiquity) and bronze sculptures found in the villa have contributed to our knowledge of the ancient world and the Villa has become for us the ""ideal...
Αθήνα, 1990. — σσ. 165. — (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις. Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας, αρ. 113). — ISBN: 9789607036018. Θέμα της εργασίας αυτής αποτελούν τα προβλήματα που συνδέονται με τα γνωστά, μέχρι στιγμής, ανάγλυφα όστρακα της Νάξου. Ξεκινώντας από το εξαιρετικά αποσπασματικό αυτό υλικό γίνεται προσπάθεια να δοθεί ενιαία και σαφής εικόνα της δραστηριότητας του ελλιπέστατα γνωστού...
Варна: Зограф, 2007. — 416 с. Въведение. Раннохристиянските мъченици от IV в. в Дуросторум. Раннохристиянски паметници от IV-V век, свързани с мъчениците от Дуросторум. Доростол и Доростолска епархия през ранновизантийската епоха (края на IV-VII в.). Раннохристиянски паметници от Доростол и Доростолска епархия (края на IV-VII в.). Дръстър и Доростолска епархия през епохата на...
София: ДИ Септември, 1985. — 159 с. В книгата се представят произведенията на изкуството от Античността съхранявани в музея във Видин, днешна Северозападна България.
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1951 — 291 с. — (Материалы и исследования по археологии СССР. Том 19). Выпуском данного сборника Материалов и исследований по археологии СССР, посвященного в основном истории н археологии Боспора, Институт истории материальной культуры отмечает 125-летие одного из старейших музеев нашей страны — Керченского историко-археологического музея...
М.: М. и С. Сабашниковы, 1915. — 350 с. Монография представляет собой историко-археологический очерк. Автор описывает главные архитектурные памятники древнего Рима — храмы богов и дворцы императоров. Особое внимание уделено важнейшим археологическим находкам, сделанным на Форуме и Палатинском холме. Отдельные главы посвящены христианским некрополям (в том числе катакомбным...
М.: М. и С. Сабашниковы, 1915. — 346 с.
Монография представляет собой историко-археологический очерк. Автор описывает главные архитектурные памятники древнего Рима — храмы богов и дворцы императоров. Особое внимание уделено важнейшим археологическим находкам, сделанным на Форуме и Палатинском холме. Отдельные главы посвящены христианским некрополям (в том числе катакомбным...
М.: Вече, 2023. — 336 с.: ил. — (Античный мир). — ISBN: 978-5-44-843998-8. Гастон Буасье (1823-1908), выдающийся французский историк, принадлежит к числу лучших исследователей римской культуры. Тщательный анализ источников, глубокое понимание крупных процессов, художественные портреты исторических деятелей Римского мира, широта исторического кругозора - таковы главные...
Москва: Вече, 2023. — 336 с. — (Античный мир). — ISBN 978-5-44-843998-8. Гастон Буасье (1823-1908), выдающийся французский историк, принадлежит к числу лучших исследователей римской культуры. Тщательный анализ источников, глубокое понимание крупных процессов, художественные портреты исторических деятелей Римского мира, широта исторического кругозора - таковы главные достоинства...
NOUS Publishers LTD, 2022. — 124 с. — (Archaeologia Bulgarica Supplement 4.1). Настоящото изследване е фокусирано върху резултати от археологическото проучване на Хераклея и нейната територия, проведено през 2007-2021 г. Акцент е разкритата архитектура и нейната хронология. Откритите при разкопките артефакти – керамика (битова и строителна), накити и други части на костюма,...
NOUS Publishers LTD, 2022. — 332 с. — (Archaeologia Bulgarica Supplement 4.2). Настоящото изследване е фокусирано върху резултати от археологическото проучване на Хераклея и нейната територия, проведено през 2007-2021 г. Акцент е разкритата архитектура и нейната хронология. Откритите при разкопките артефакти – керамика (битова и строителна), накити и други части на костюма,...
М.; Л.: Наука, 1964. — 385 с. Работы Ольвийской экспедиции Ленинградского отделения Института археологии АН СССР и Института Археологии АН УССР после Великой Отечественной войны дали ряд важных открытий. Вцервые в Ольвии была раскопана центральная площадь — агора и примыкающий к ней особо выделенный и огражденный участок — теменос с культовыми сооружениями. Комплекс...
М.; Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1958. — 502 с. — (Материалы и исследования по археологии СССР. Том 85). В 1946 г. Боспорская археологическая экспедиция ИИМК АН СССР возобновила прерванные Великой Отечественной войной планомерные исследования античных поселений на Керченском п-ове. Предисловие В. Ф. Гайдукевич. Илурат. Итоги археологических исследований 1948-1953 гг. В....
М.; Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1952. — 422 с. — (Материалы и исследования по археологии СССР №25). Боспорская археологическая экспедиция Института истории материальной культуры АН СССР, ведущая планомерные широкие исследования городов древнего Боспорского царства на Керченском полуострове, начала работать в 1932 г. и с тех пор ежегодно, до 1940 г. включительно,...
Международный сборник научных трудов / Под ред. Каца В.И. и Монахова С.Ю. — Саратов: Изд-во Сарат. ун-та, 1992. – 288 с. (16,74 п. л.).
Статьи тематического научного сборника посвящены актуальным проблемам изучения греческой керамической тары эпохи классики и эллинизма. Основное внимание уделяется вопросам локализации амфор и клейм, разработке их типологии и хронологии, анализу...
София: Септември, 1980. — 185 с. Увод. Глиптиката в Тракия и Мизия през Римската епоха. Бележки. Използвана литература. Каталог. Зевс. Хера. Марс. Виктория. Артемида. Аполон. Хелиос. Хермес. Деметра. Фортуна. Изида. Немезида. Юстиция. Харпократ. Асклепий. Дионис и неговата свита. Херакъл. Диоскури и конници. Ерос и гении. Леда с лебеда. Телеф. Европа. Медуза. Морски тиас....
Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2024. — 322 с. — (Разкопки и проучвания LI(1)). Част 1. Обектът в кв. Бенковски, София Част 2. Некрополът "Бенковски" и късноантичните некрополи в днешна България Част 3. Наземни гробни съоръжения Част 4. Гробни ями Част 5. Антропологична характеристика на некропола "Бенковски" Част 6. Погребален обред Част 7. Гробен инвентар Част 8....
Том I. Тексты; Том II. Иллюстрации. Составитель и ответственный редактор доктор исторических наук И.В. Тункина. — СПб.: Коло, 2010. — 728 с. — ISBN: 978-5-901841-73-0. В книге на языке оригинала и в русском переводе представлены труды и письма пионера археологии Боспорского царства Поля Дюбрюкса (1770-1835), хранящиеся в архивах России, Украины и Франции. Издание включает также...
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1957. — 254 с. — (Материалы и исследования по археологии СССР №56). В. Д. Блаватский. Строительное дело Пантикапея по данным раскопок 1945—1949 и 1952—1953 гг. И. Т. Кругликова. Ремесленное производство простой керамики в Пантикапее в VI—III вв. до н.э. И. Б. 3еест. Пантикапейская керамика сарматского времени. И. Д. Марченко. Материалы по...
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1962. — 258 с. — (Материалы и исследования по археологии СССР. Том 103). Раскопки Пантикапея производились с 1945 по 1958 г. под руководством В. Д. Блаватского. Материалы этих раскопок нашли отражение частично в сборниках «Материалы и исследования по археологии СССР» № 19 и 33, а наиболее полно в № 56. В настоящем сборнике помещен отчет В....
NOUS Publishers LTD, 2021. — 227 с. — (Archaeologia Bulgarica Supplement 1A). Червенолаковите изделия представляват най-широко разпространената категория луксозна керамика в границите на Римската империя през периода на Принципата. Появяват се първоначално в района на Източното Средиземноморие и Мала Азия в късноелинистическата епоха. През втората половина на I в. пр. Хр.,...
Известия Государственной академии истории материальной культуры. — М.; Л.: Государственное-социально-экономическое издательство, 1934. — 315 с. В сборнике статьи В.Ф. Гайдукевича, Ю.Ю. Марти, С.А. Жебелева, Т.Н. Книпович, Б.Н. Гракова об археологии и истории Боспора. Боспорские этюды. Новые эпиграфические памятники Боспора. К вопросу о торговых сношениях греков с областью р....
Пловдив, 2008. — 110 с. В брошурата са представени останките от античната епоха на древния Филипопол - дн. Пловдив, Южна България. Книгата притежава богат снимков материал.
Национален aрхеологически институт с музей – БАН, 2010. — 314 с. — (Дисертации 3). Медицината е една от най-благодатните теми в изследването на античното общество. Определянето на мястото ѝ в рамките на социалния живот е важно от гледна точка оценката на жизнения стандарт през античната епоха. Повечето трудове, които се отнасят до античната медицина, са посветени на...
СПб.: Bibliotheca сlassica Petropolitana, 2004. — XVI + ил. + геогр. карты (вкладыш): 847 с. Часть 1. После выхода IosPE II (1890) / IV (1901) акад. В. В. Латышев (1855–1921) начал собирать материалы для расширенного переиздания боспорских надписей, однако издать свой в основном законченный труд не сумел. Во второй половине 1940-х гг. эта работа была возобновлена Институтом...
СПб.: Bibliotheca сlassica Petropolitana, 2004. — XVI + ил. + геогр. карты (вкладыш): 466 с. Часть 2. Настоящее издание (КБН-альбом; CIRB-album) является своего рода приложением к Корпусу боспорских надписей (КБН), изданному в 1965 г. Таким образом, в КБН-альбом включены фотоматериалы только к надписям, изданным в КБН, и не публикуются фотографии тех боспорских надписей,...
М.: Высшая школа. 1984. - 216 с.
В книге обобщаются сведения о материальной культуре античного периода
Греции, Рима, об античных памятниках Северного и Восточного Причерноморья, Закавказья и Средней Азии. Прослеживается роль археологических источников в изучении сельского хозяйства, ремесла и торговли, градостроительства и архитектуры, быта рабовладельческих государств.
М.: Высшая школа, 1984. — 216 с. В книге обобщаются сведения о материальной культуре античного периода Греции, Рима, об античных памятниках Северного и Восточного Причерноморья, Закавказья и Средней Азии. Прослеживается роль археологических источников в изучении сельского хозяйства, ремесла и торговли, градостроительства и архитектуры, быта рабовладельческих государств.
М.: Восточная литература, 2001. — 528 с. В процессе 15-летних раскопок храма Окса на территории древней Бактрии (юго-восточная часть современной республики Таджикистан),, было обнаружено около четырех тысяч предметов вооружения, датируемых периодом VI-V вв. до н.э. — III-IV вв. н.э. Монография содержит полную публикацию этой коллекции и очерки истории.отдельных видов оружия и...
М.: Восточная литература, 2000. — 504 с. Монография содержит изложение и анализ результатов пятнадцатилетних раскопок эллинистического храма Окса в Бактрии, в юго-западной части современной Республики Таджикистан. Детально описаны процесс раскопок, стратиграфия, хронология. Храм был воздвигнут в конце IV — начале III в. до н.э. и был посвящен божеству реки Окс (современная...
Фабер, 2009. — 343 с. Книгата представлява обобщен анализ на проблемите, свързани с развитието на римското пътно строителство в днешните български граници, което е съществен момент от развитието на общобалканската римска пътна система. Изследователската работа на автора обхваща един продължителен период от време, през който той лично е осъществил проучвания на редица римски...
БОН, 2011. — 139 с. Антични култови паметници от Хераклея Синтика и околността Антични надгробни паметници от Петричкия район Монети на римските квестори Гай Публилий и Луций Фулциний Римски лампи от местността Кожух, Община Петрич Теренни археологически обхождания в землището на с. Коларово, Община Петрич през 2005 г. Сондажни археологически проучвания в м. Чуката при с....
Москва, Саратов: Киммерида, изд-во Сарат. ун-та, 2003. — 352 с. В книге предложены детальные типологические и хронологические классификации основных групп керамической тары Восточного Средиземноморья и Причерноморье, что позволяет датировать археологические комплексы и культурные отложения с высокой степенью точности. Для большинства серий прослежена динамика типо-стандартов.
Каталог. — Саратов: Амирит, 2019. — 352 с. В книге опубликована коллекция амфор различных производственных центров VI–II вв. до н.э. из собрания Государственного Эрмитажа. Настоящее издание состоит из введения, двух глав и каталога. В первой главе изложена подробная история формирования амфорной коллекции Эрмитажа. Во второй главе дана характеристика керамических комплексов с...
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М. : Наука, 1966. — 123 с. — (Археология СССР. Свод археологических источников. Выпуск Д 1-27). Настоящий выпуск свода археологических источников представляет собой попытку систематизировать и обобщить собранные автором греческие изделия, обнаруженные в одном из наиболее крупных и значительных в истории экономических взаимоотношений с античными городами районов Северного...
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М.: Наука, 1965. — 260 с. — (Материалы и исследования по археологии СССР. Том 127) Выпуск посвящен археологическим исследованиям Танаиса. СОДЕРЖАНИЕ Недвиговское городище. История и задачи исследования Т. М. Арсеньева, Д. Б. Шелов. Раскопки центральной части Танаиса (1955—1957 гг.) А. К. Коровина, Д. Б. Шелов. Раскопки юго-западного участка Танаиса (1956-1957 гг.) Д. В. Шелов....
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СПб.: Фарн, 1994. — 324 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-900461-029-5. Если события древней истории античного мира достаточно хорошо известны и даже вошли в школьные учебники, то о синхронных событиях в глубинах Барбарикума Центральной и Восточной Европы мы знаем очень мало. На основе изучения данных археологии, известий древних письменных источников и в сопоставлении с событиями античной...
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