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The Theatre of Diokaisareia
The theatre of Diokaisareia (Cilicia, Asia Minor) has been partially excavated in 1993 by a team of Turkish archaeologists, when a large part of the cavea and part of the scaena have been brought to light. On this occasion many elements of the architectural decoration were uncovered and a significant fragment of the dedicatory inscription was rediscovered. This text allows to date the building during the principate of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, making this theatre the only dated monument so far in Roman Cilicia. Now the remains have been studied within the German research project directed by Detlev Wannagat. The purpose of the volume is to make a complete survey of the main architectu...
Rough Cilicia
The region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south-western coastal area of Turkey), known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger area of Cilicia. It is characterised by the ruggedness of its territory and the protection afforded by the high mountains combined with the rugged seacoast fostered the prolific piracy that developed in the late Hellenistic period, bringing much notoriety to the area. It was also known as a source of timber, primarily for shipbuilding. The twenty-two papers presented here give a useful overview on current research on Rough Cilicia, from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period, with a variety of methods, from surveys to excavatio...
The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City
The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not ‘urban’ in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental role than those of its European neighbors. This book, through a collection of twenty-four chapters, discusses aspects of, and different approaches to, Byzantine urbanism from the early to late Byzantine periods. It provides both a chronological and thematic perspective to the study of Byzantine cities, bringing together literary, documentary, and archival sources with archaeological results, material culture, art, and architecture, resulting in a rich synthesis of the variety of regional and sub-regional transforma...
Ancient Fortifications
Dedicated to the investigation of fortifications as important and integral elements of ancient built space, the present volume results from the activity of the German based international research network Fokus Fortifikation. Ancient Fortifications in the Eastern Mediterranean and is intended as a guide to research on ancient fortifications and a source of inspiration for new research. Ancient city walls and other fortification structures have long been underestimated. Since the early years of the 21st century, research on ancient fortifications has experienced an international boom, particularly amongst young researchers. They approached the study of fortifications with fresh ideas and new a...
The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy
An overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the nineteenth century through the latest discoveries between 1988 and the present.
Dolia
The story of the Roman Empire’s enormous wine industry told through the remarkable ceramic storage and shipping containers that made it possible The average resident of ancient Rome drank two-hundred-and-fifty liters of wine a year, almost a bottle a day, and the total annual volume of wine consumed in the imperial capital would have overflowed the Pantheon. But Rome was too densely developed and populated to produce its own food, let alone wine. How were the Romans able to get so much wine? The key was the dolium—the ancient world’s largest type of ceramic wine and food storage and shipping container, some of which could hold as much as two-thousand liters. In Dolia, classicist and ar...
Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage
In this book, Brenda Longfellow examines one of the features of Roman Imperial cities, the monumental civic fountain. Built in cities throughout the Roman Empire during the first through third centuries AD, these fountains were imposing in size, frequently adorned with grand sculptures, and often placed in highly trafficked areas. Over twenty-five of these urban complexes can be associated with emperors. Dr. Longfellow situates each of these examples within its urban environment and investigates the edifice as a product of an individual patron and a particular historical and geographical context. She also considers the role of civic patronage in fostering a dialogue between imperial and provincial elites with the local urban environment. Tracing the development of the genre across the empire, she illuminates the motives and ideologies of imperial and local benefactors in Rome and the provinces and explores the complex interplay of imperial power, patronage, and the local urban environment.
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Lucerne da Antinoupolis
Il volume verte sullo studio di 567 lucerne, provenienti dagli scavi della Necropoli Nord di Antinoupolis condotti negli anni 1965 e 1966 dall’Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli”, Firenze. Le lucerne esaminate (per lo più in ottimo stato di conservazione) costituiscono una delle più numerose collezioni di tale classe ceramica e si collocano tra il V ed il VII secolo d.C. Gli esemplari analizzati, per i quali si propone una diversificazione tipologica su base decorativa, sono per lo più prodotti localmente, mentre i restanti sono di importazione (in modo prevalente da altri centri dell’Egitto). Pur condizionato dalla scarsità di dati a disposizione, lo studio di questa collezione costituisce pertanto una base di rilievo per il riscontro dei commerci attivi ad Antinoupolis in epoca pre-islamica.
Keramos di Caria
English summary: This volume faces the study of an Asiatic city that has had the strange destiny to have been forgotten by scientific scholars, despite the presence of numerous and complex monumental remains. The author proposes the reconstruction of the historical developments and of the local pantheon based on the literary sources which are then integrated with an analysis of all the civic currency issued. The analysis of the monuments identifies a complex and articulated situation with architectural features that date from the Hellenistic period down to the Byzantine. For the most part, these are seen as part of the regular urban context. Italian description: Il volume affronta lo studio ...
