Spolia in fortifications and the common builder in late antiquity /
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Through intensive surveys of three fortifications in late Roman Greece, Frey reveals the untapped potential of spolia in demonstrating the critical role played by non-elites in bringing about the architectural and social changes that mark the end of classical antiquity. As his analysis demonstrates, when studied less as displaced objects to be classified by type and more as evidence for the construction process itself, spolia offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which common builders met the challenge of using pre-existing building materials to meet their contemporary architectural needs. This "bottom-up" approach offers an alternative to the traditional view that attributes change and innovation only to the genius of prominent individuals known to us in historical sources.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004289673 :
2352-8656 ; :
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The Jews in late ancient Rome : evidence of cultural interaction in the Roman diaspora /
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The Jews in Late Ancient Rome focusses on the Jewish community in third and fourth century Rome, and in particular on how this community related to the larger non-Jewish world that surrounded it. The book's point of departure is a refutation of the disputable thesis that Roman Jews lived in complete isolation. The book examines Jewish archaeological remains and Jewish funerary inscriptions from Rome from various angles, and compares them with Pagan and early Christian material and epigraphical remains. In the last part the author concentrates on an enigmatic legal treatise entitled the Collatio , identifying its author and exploring the implications of this identification. This study proposes a new way in which the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in late antiquity can be studied.
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1 online resource (xx, 283 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-280) and index. :
9789004283473 :
0927-7633 ; :
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Les cultes orientaux sur le territoire de la Mésie supérieure.
: Part of the author's thesis--Belgrad, 1964, presented under title: Les représentations figurées des divinités orientales sur le territoire de la Yougoslavie. : 1 online resource (105 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789004296145 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Northern Pontic Antiquities in the State Hermitage Museum /
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This volume, written by staff of the State Hermitage, one of the world's finest museums, publishes Graeco-Roman antiquities kept there. Much of the material has been unearthed during the museum's field projects in Berezan, Myrmekion and Nymphaeum. Many items are published here for the first time. In addition, there are new studies and reinterpretations of well-known material. The book also contains reviews and notes on new publications on the Black Sea from Eastern and Western Europe and North America. The volume provides a good account of the manifold activities in which the staff of the Department of the History and Culture of the Ancient World, and of the Hermitage in general, are engaged. The book is very richly illustrated, with nearly 150 photographs, line drawings, maps etc.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004494572
9789004121461
Ramesses loved by Ptah : the history of a colossal royal statue /
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""King Ramesses II ruled Egypt for an extraordinary sixty-six years (1279-1213 BC) during the Nineteenth Dynasty. A great warrior and lavish builder, he fathered dozens of children and is widely regarded as the most celebrated and powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom. This wonderfully clear, engaging book recounts the dramatic history of the famed red granite colossal statue of Ramesses II now residing in Egypt's Grand Egyptian Museum. One of the biggest statues ever made and part of the urban landscape of modern Cairo, the statue lent its name to Ramses Square and the city's mainline train station, and was so much a symbol of Cairo that it featured in countless Egyptian films. Susanna Thomas recounts the full history of the statue's creation and installation in the Great Temple of Ptah at Memphis during the reign of Ramesses II, its reuse by Ramesses IV, and the later history of the statue during the Greco-Roman and Islamic Periods. The book also provides an overview of how statues were made in ancient Egypt and includes a brief discussion of the statue cults of Ramesses II, kingship, temples, and the expansion of the New Kingdom capital city of Memphis and its temples. The final section covers the history of the statue since its rediscovery and subsequent rescue in the mid-nineteenth century until its installation in the entrance hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza. Written by a New Kingdom specialist and curatorial expert and illustrated with over 150 images, Ramesses, Beloved by Ptah tells the fascinating story of this magnificent statue within the wider context of statue cults and the reign of Ramesses II, and its subsequent rescue and restoration in modern times.""--
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xi, 127 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781649031853
Australasian Egyptology Conference 4 : papers from the fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference, Monsh University, Melbourne, 16-18 September 2016 : dedicated to Gillian E. Bowen...
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This text presents papers from the fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference held at Monash University in 2016 and dedicated to Gillian E. Bowen, who retired from Monash that year. The contributions include several on Egypt's Western Desert where Monash has been engaged in fieldwork for many years in the the Dakhleh Oasis.
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Also issued in print: 2023.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (xiv, 122 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274324 (PDF ebook) :
Il sito della Rocca di Oratino : dieci anni di ricerche : un'area funzionale all'aperto nell'età del Bronzo /
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This volume presents excavation results pertaining to the final stages of occupation (late Subappennine period) of the Bronze Age site of Orantino-La Rocca (Campobasso), located in the upper Biferno river valley. These layers are marked by the presence of a series of cooking slabs and hearths, dedicated to food preparation and consumption.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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9781803272962 (PDF ebook) :
Lo scavo a Parma sotto palazzo sanvitale /
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Palazzo Sanvitale is located in Parma on the left bank of a stream, on the edge of the northeastern quadrant of the urban layout. The palace and garden fill two blocks, separated almost entirely by a minor decumanus. Ceramic and clay scraps from an underlying pit date the laying out of the decumanus towards the end of the 3rd century BC. In the south block, residential buildings recall the housing scenarios of the eastern Cispadana. To the east, a mixtilinear building dates to the 4th century AD. In the other block, superimposed on a primitive housing phase, the remains of a bathhouse dating to the second half of the 2nd century AD are outlined. During the Theoderican age, residential buildings, one of which seals the remains of a mill, filled both blocks. This title is accompanied by essays on the materials from the excavations.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274089 (PDF ebook) :
Études Mésopotamiennes = Mésopotamian studies.
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This volume is in two parts. The first part corresponds to the proceedings of a colloquium organised by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault. It explores the crisis of the State and the Monarchy between the 13th and 10th centuries in Northern Mesopotamia and Syria from archaeological, textual and iconographic sources. The second part is dedicated to archaeological and textual studies from three archaeological sites that are currently being excavated in Iraqi Kurdistan - Qasr Shemamoq, Kilik Mishik and Kunara.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (iv, 547 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273730 (PDF ebook) :
Persistent pastoralism : monuments and settlements in the archaeology of Dhofar /
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A summary of archaeological work along the Dhofar plateau and its backslope into the Nejd of Southern Oman, this book documents survey and excavation of small-scale stone monuments and pastoral settlements.
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Also issued in print: 2023.
Published in association with the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, Sultanate of Oman. :
1 online resource (xvii, 145 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803274546 (PDF ebook) :
Pottery of Manqabad.
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This volume presents, documents and analyses a new selection of ceramics from the Egyptian site of Manqabad (Asyut). It aims to present the most significant ceramic typologies from Manqabad, while collecting as many references and parallels as possible deriving from several different monastic sites in Egypt.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274683 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
La cerámica Ibérica gris : ensayo de tipología /
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This study exposes the typological and the technological characteristics of Iberian grey ware, its functionality and even its origin and symbolism for the people who made it.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (v, 204 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274409 (PDF ebook) :
Le peuplement paléolithique de Côte d'Or (Bourgogne, France) dans son contexte regional = The paleolithic settlement in Côte d'Or (Burgundy, France) in its regional context /
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The Côte d'Or in Upper Burgundy is a zone of passage between basins more than an area of permanent settlement, except in the most temperate periods of early prehistory. The Boccard cave, which has the most complete stratigraphic sequence in the region, is here the subject of a previously unpublished detailed monograph.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (vii, 83 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781803274119 (PDF ebook) :
Votives, places and rituals in Etruscan religion : studies in honor of Jean MacIntosh Turfa /
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Etruscans were deemed "the most religious of men" by their Roman successors and it is hardly surprising that the topic of Etruscan religion has been explored for some time now. This volume offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan religion and daily life, by focusing on the less explored issue of ritual. Ritual is approached through fourteen case studies, considering mortuary customs, votive rituals and other religious and daily life practices. The book gathers new material, interpretations and approaches to the less emphasized areas of Etruscan religion, especially its votive aspects, based on archaeological and epigraphic sources.
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1 online resource (xliii, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047442622 :
0927-7633 ; :
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Corinth, the first city of Greece : an urban history of late antique cult and religion /
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This book addresses cult and religion in the city of Corinth from the 4th to 7th centuries of our era. The work incorporates and synthesizes all available evidence, literary, archaeological and other. The interaction and conflict between Christian and non-Christian activity is placed into its urban context and seen as simultaneously existing and overlapping cultural activity. Late antique religion is defined as cult-based rather than doctrinally-based, and thus this volume focuses not on what people believed, but rather what they did. An emphasis on cult activity reveals a variety of types of interaction between groups, ranging from confrontational events at dilapidated polytheist cult sites, to full polysemous and shared cult activity at the so-called \'Fountain of the Lamps\'. Non-Christian traditions are shown to have been recognized and viable through the sixth century. The tentative conclusion is drawn that a clear definition of \'pagan\' and \'Christian\' begins at an urban level with the Christian re-monumentalization of Corinth with basilicas. The disappearance of \'pagan\' cult is best attributed to the development of a new city socially and physically based in Christianity, rather than any purely \'religious\' development.
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1 online resource (x, 173 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-170) and index. :
9789004301498 :
0927-7633 ; :
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Egyptian-type documents. from the Mediterranean littoral of the Iberian peninsula before the Roman conquest /
: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 74 pages, xxviii pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789004295360 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The early black-figured pottery of Attika in context (c. 630-570 BCE) /
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Setting as a starting point the introduction of the black-figure technique in Attic workshops at around 630 BCE, this book attempts a contextual analysis of Attic pottery until late in the first quarter of the sixth century BCE. The shapes and their functions, as well as the iconographic themes are explored through this perspective. This offers an interesting insight into funerary, cultic and profane activities in Athens and the Attic countryside, which is completed by an extensive study of the trade and distribution of Attic vases during this period. The result is a complete overview of early black-figure Attic production, enabling an afresh archaeological approach to late seventh-and early sixth-century Attic society.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xii]-xxxix) and indexes. :
9789004192317 :
0169-8850 ; :
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