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) :
Porti e approdi fluviali in Italia peninsulare : dall'età romana all'anno mille /
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Most Roman ports were located at river mouths and/or in lagoon areas and were connected with inland areas by rivers or artificial canals. For this reason, port structures (piers and warehouses) were set at some distance from the sea, as in Rome (Emporium of Testaccio along the Tiber), in Pisa-San Rossore and in the Po valley. According to historical sources, many river wharves were located along the Po while San Vincenzo abbey managed the Volturno river. The Carolingian river wharves of San Vincenzo were composed of timber, stone and, according to the Roman tradition, concrete structures. A slow recovery of maritime trades is already evident in the Carolingian Age. This book analyses the Roman and early medieval ports of Italy and the building techniques used in their structures; it displays the elements of continuity and discontinuity revealed during these centuries.
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1 online resource (x, 106 pages) : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781789692211 (ebook) :
Die Römische Villa als Indikator provinzialer Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsstrukturen /
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The investigation of the Roman villa and its economic structures in the western provinces of the Roman Empire has clearly shown that rural settlement developed at different paces and intensities that largely depended on the specific region in which a villa landscape was intended and created. The progress of Romanisation was strongly linked to the existence of pre- Roman infrastructure in a given region. This existing infrastructure was at first acquired and successively intensified by the Romans. In its sum, the Roman villa economy was a complex and dynamic system that in its configuration vastly differed, according to the specific province. Still, the system essentially served clear functional purposes such as self-subsistence and, ideally, surplus production for the supply of the Roman military in newly conquered provinces.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784911690 (PDF ebook) :
Spatial 'Christianisation' in context : strategic intramural building in Rome from the 4th-7th C. AD /
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This text closely examines the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contemporary context. It argues that some of these were deliberately sited by their builders so as to utilise prominent positions within the urban landscape or to pragmatically reuse pre-existing bath facilities for Christian liturgical practice.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784910211 (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) :
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.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915919 (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) :
The function of the Roman Army in Southern Arabia Petraea /
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This volume provides a fresh perspective on the evolving and diverse functions of the Roman army in Arabia from the creation of the province to the end of the Byzantine period.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (iv, 216 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781784919535 (ebook) :
Carving a professional identity : the occupational epigraphy of the Roman Latin West /
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This volume presents the results of long-term research into occupational epigraphy from the Latin-language provinces of the Roman Empire. It catalogues stone epigraphs of 690 independent professionals (excluding state workers, imperial slaves, freedmen and military personnel) providing quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of the raw data.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (126 pages). :
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9781789694659 (PDF ebook) :
L'egitto dei flavi : sintesi e prospettive d'indagine alla luce della documentazione papirologica ed epigrafica egiziana /
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Providing synthesis and new prospects of investigation, this text offers an overall review of the various information obtainable from papyrological and epigraphic sources from the Roman province of Egypt at the moment of transition from the Julio-Claudian dynasty to the new Flavian dynasty.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (184 pages). :
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9781789696745 (ebook) :
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) :
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) :
La implantación del culto imperial de la provincia en Hispania /
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This study shows how the Imperial Cult was introducted and organised in provincial Hispania. The book also examines the collaboration with the Romanised native elites who came from Lusitania, Baetica, and Hispania Citerior.
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Also issued in print: 2015. :
1 online resource (ix, 150 pages) : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784911775 (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) :
Social interactions and status markers in the Roman world /
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Proceedings from the 'People of the Ancient World' conference held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2016. 10 papers encompass diverse approaches to Roman provincial populations and the corresponding case-studies highlight the multi-faceted character of Roman society.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 168 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784917494 (ebook) :
Rethinking the concept of 'healing settlements' : water, cults, constructions and contexts in the ancient world : Roman Archareology Conference 2016 : proceedings of the Session of...
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This volume brings together papers dealing with therapeutic aspects connected to thermo-mineral sites both in Italy and in the Roman Provinces, as well as cultic issues surrounding health and healing.
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Previously issued in print: 2019.
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1 online resource (iv, 176 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690385 (ebook) :
Maritime-related cults in the coastal cities of Philistia during the Roman period : legacy and change /
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This title questions the origins and the traditions of the cultic rites practised during Roman times along the southern shores of the Land of Israel. This area was known since biblical times as 'Peleshet' (Philistia), after the name of one of the Sea Peoples that had settled there at the beginning of the Iron Age. Philistia's important cities Jaffa, Ashkelon, Gaza and Rafiah were culturally and religiously integrated into the Graeco-Roman world. At the same time, each city developed its own original and unique group of myths and cults that had their roots in earlier periods. Their emergence and formation were influenced by environmental conditions as well as by ethno-social structures and political circumstances. Philistia's port cities served as crossroads for the routes connecting the main centres of culture and commerce in ancient times.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (ii, 212 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789692570 (PDF ebook) :
The busy periphery : urban systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd-3rd c. AD) /
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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 settlements, their size, micro-location, and the size of their administrative territories. The principal goal was to map the variable developments of the urban network, both between and within the sub-regions that constituted this part of the Roman Empire.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 380 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789693508 (ebook) :
Engraved gems and propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus /
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This work studies small but highly captivating artworks from antiquity - engraved gemstones. These objects had multiple applications, and the images upon them captured snapshots of people's beliefs, ideologies, and everyday occupations. They provide a unique perspective on the propaganda of Roman political leaders, especially Octavian/Augustus.
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"Available both in print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (viii, 606 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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Open access.