Word becomes image : openwork vessels as a reflection of late antique transformation /
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This study presents a diachronic investigation providing a rich case study as well as an approach tracing the contours of a category of Roman material culture defined by the Roman period technique of openwork carving. As the first comprehensive assemblage of openwork vessels from Classical to late Antiquity, this work offers primary evidence documenting a key example of the fundamental shift from naturalism to abstraction in which inscriptions are transformed and word becomes image. A glass blower herself, Hallie Meredith poses questions about process, tactility and reception providing a clear picture of the original contexts of production and reception demonstrated by the Roman technique of openwork carving.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784911300 (PDF ebook) :
Statio amoena : sostare e vivere lungo le strade Romane /
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New archaeological research and new studies on a rich and diverse body of extra-archaeological sources have recently reported the attention of the international scientific community on the subject of parking places, within the more general theme of the smaller settlements in the Roman world and their evolution in late antiquity and early medieval times. This volume brings together contributions from scholars from three different generations, starting from different sources and methodological approaches, converging towards the construction of an area of common reflection on a theme still relatively underdeveloped. The goal is to lay the foundation for a deepening of the interdisciplinary debate and to develop new research projects.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784914998 (ebook) :
Water in the Roman world : engineering, trade, religion and daily life /
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Offering a wide and expansive new treatment of the role water played in the lives of people across the Roman world, papers consider ports and their lighthouses; water engineering, whether for canals in the north-west provinces, or for the digging of wells for drinking water; baths for swimming; and spas.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781803273013 (PDF ebook) :
An urban geography of the Roman world, 100 BC to AD 300 /
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This work provides a new account of the urbanism of the Roman world between 100 BC and AD 300. To do so, it draws on a combination of textual sources and archaeological material to provide a new catalogue of cities, calculates new estimates of their areas and uses a range of population densities to estimate their populations.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784914738 (ebook) :
Ex Asia et Syria : Oriental religions in the Roman Central Balkans /
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This title examines the cults of Asia Minor and Syrian origin in the Roman provinces of the Central Balkans. The author analyses all hitherto known epigraphical and archaeological material attesting to the presence of the cults in that region, a subject yet to be the object of serious scholarly study.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789699142 (PDF ebook) :
The Iron Age and Romano-British settlement at Crick Covert Farm, Northamptonshire : excavations 1997-1998 /
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This volume is the first of two reports on archaeological excavations undertaken ahead of the eastern expansion of Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) which lies in the northern watershed region of Northamptonshire at its border with Warwickshire.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784912093 (PDF ebook) :
Inter Moesos et Thraces : the rural hinterland of Novae in Lower Moesia (1st-6th centuries AD) /
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Excavations at the Roman legionary base at Novae in Lower Moesia reveal 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.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource. :
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9781784913700 (ebook) :
Roman frontier studies 2009 : proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Limes Congress) held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in August 2009 /
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The XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums between Sunday 16 August and Wednesday 26 August 2009 in Newcastle upon Tyne (Great Britain), 60 years after the first Limeskongress organised in that city by Eric Birley in 1949. 60 years on, delegates could reflect on how the Congress has grown and changed over six decades and could be heartened at the presence of so many young scholars and a variety of topics and avenues of research into the army and frontiers of the Roman empire that would not have been considered in 1949.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915919 (ebook) :
Hunde in der römischen Antike : Rassen/Typen - Zucht - Haltung und Verwendung /
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This title 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 which have gone unchecked for more than a hundred years, are examined and - where necessary - corrected. For the first time, a catalogue of the more than 80 dog breeds/types documented from antiquity is presented with their names, origins, appearance and the special characteristics of these animals. The ancient theories of dog breeding are compared with modern practices.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (x, 467 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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9781789698374 (PDF ebook) :
Worlds apart trading together : the organisation of long-distance trade between Rome and India in antiquity /
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This text sets out to replace the outdated notion of 'Indo-Roman trade', integrating new findings from the last 30 years. Analysis conducted demonstrates that highly substantial levels of trade took place between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the 1st-6th c. altering consumption and production in India, South Arabia, and the Roman Empire.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784917432 (ebook) :
Domi militiaeque : Militär- und andere Altertümer : Festschrift für Hannsjörg Ubl zum 85, Geburtstag /
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This volume, in honour of the Austrian scholar Professor Dr Hannsjörg Ubl, contains 24 contributions covering a wide range of topics. The focus is on Ancient Greece and Rome, but the volume also includes papers about the Langobards, renaissance replicas of classical sculpture, and the archaeology of World War I.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789695335 (ebook) :
The changing landscapes of Rome's northern hinterland : the British School at Rome's Tiber Valley Project /
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This study presents a new regional history of the middle Tiber valley as a lens through which to view the emergence and transformation of the city of Rome from 1000 BC to AD 1000. Setting the ancient city within the context of its immediate territory, the authors reveal the diverse and enduring links between the metropolis and its hinterland.
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"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (xiv, 370 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789696165 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Experiencing the frontier and the frontier of experience : barbarian perspectives and Roman strategies to deal with new threats /
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This volume considers 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 auxiliaries - became a veritable menace for the Empire.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789696820 (PDF ebook) :
Les représentations de Mars Ultor sur les pierres gravées /
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Gems representing the Mars Ultor type were produced between the 1st and 4th centuries. Scattered around the world, the 240-odd engraved stones gathered here attest to the longevity and impact of the Augustan image in Roman iconography and allow us to follow the variations in meaning of the motif.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781803275109 (PDF ebook) :
Romano-Celtic mask puzzle padlocks : a study in their design, technology and security /
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This book presents a little-known and ingenious artefact of the Roman world: a small puzzle padlock whose font plate bears a face or 'mask' of 'Celtic' style.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour) :
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9781784915650 (ebook) :
Slovensko /
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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.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (110 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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9781803271453 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Liburnians and Illyrian lembs : Iron Age ships of the Eastern Adriatic /
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This title explores the origins of two types of ancient ship connected with the protohistoric eastern Adriatic area: the 'Liburnian' and the Southern Adriatic 'lemb'. An extensive overview of written, iconographic and archaeological evidence questions the existing scholarly assumption that the liburna and lemb were closely related.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) :
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9781789699166 (PDF ebook) :
A quaint & curious volume : essays in honor of John J. Dobbins /
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Contributions in honour of John J. Dobbins, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia, offers new readings of archaeological data and art, illustrating the impact that one professor can have on the wider field of Roman art and archaeology through the continuing work of his students.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (iii, 196 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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9781789692198 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Eastern Roman mounted archers and extraordinary medico-surgical interventions at Paliokastro in Thasos Island during the Protobyzantine period : the historical and medical history...
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A recent archaeological discovery at Paliokastro (Thasos, Greece), and the subsequent study of the human skeletal remains interred in four monumental funerary contexts, provide for the first time through the archaeological record of the region a unique insight of the mounted archers and their female kin during the turbulent ProtoByzantine period.
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"Available both in print and Open Access"--Home page. :
1 online resource (iv, 50 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781789696028 (ebook) : :
Open access.