Attisch rotfigurige und schwarzgefirnißte Lekanides

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Subject of the book is the cultural-historical significance of the lekanis produced in Athens in the 5th and 4th century BC, reaching its zenith in the first half of the 4th century BC. Investigated are function, shape development, workshops, iconography, …

Central Periphery? Art, Culture and History of the Medieval Jazira (Northern Mesopotamia, 8th-15th centuries)

Papers on the Conference held at the University of Bamberg, 31 October–2 November, 2012

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The medieval Jazira has still to offer a multitude of topics for research. As a crossroads in which artistic currents from different regions met, it is unique in the history of the Near East, and at the same time, as …

Thronanspruch und Thronbehauptung

Studien zur Regierungszeit Ptolemaios’ VIII.

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The long reign of Ptolemy VIII, who ruled over fifty years from 170 to 116 BC is an era of irreversible decline for the Egyptian kingdom. This sovereign was confronted with serious economic, social and political problems and had from …

Geschichte des Archäologischen Museums der Universität Jena 1846-1962

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Das 1846 auf Initiative des Jenaer Professors Carl Wilhelm Goettling gegründete Archäologische Museum der Universität verdankt die meisten seiner griechischen Originale (besonders Vasen) der im selben Jahr erfolgten Schenkung des altenburgischen Herzogs Joseph, welcher Objekte aus dem Besitz des Antikensammlers …

Zwei kirchliche Palastanlagen in Hulwan aus umayyadischer Zeit

Grabungen der Egyptian Antiquities Organization in den Jahren 1948 bis 1949

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The book deals with two ecclesiastical palaces. They were excavated by the Egyptian antiquities service in the years 1948/49 and they are dated according to the sources to the end of the late antiquity (ca. A.D. 700). They belong thus …

Das Wort im Bild

Untersuchung zu den Ikonographien von Mönchen und Märtyrern in Ägypten und zu ihren Grundlagen in der koptischen Hagiographie

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In the Coptic Church, numerous pictorial representations with Christian content attest their deep significance for the Coptic faith. In order to give expression to individual motifs, individual passages from various texts were transformed into works of representational art, and thus …

Wohnkultur im spätantiken Ostia

Between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, the Roman Empire changed in many respects, but the core of the social order remained the same. The residential culture of the elites of the time provides insights into the relationship between continuity …

Figur und Raum in der frühgriechischen Flächenkunst

Archäologisches Symposion für Hanna Koenigs-Philipp Liebieghaus Frankfurt am Main im Juni 2008

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This volume collects eight contributions of specialists in the field of early Greek art history on the topic of one of the core themes of Western visual culture. It deals with the emergence and development of ways to seeing and …

Der umayyadische Palast des 8. Jahrhunderts in Hirbat al-Minya am See von Tiberias

Bau und Baudekor

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The book provides an art historical and archaeological study of the architecture and the architectural decoration of the remarkable early Islamic palatial residence in Khirbat al-Minya at Lake Tiberias in northern Palestine, modern Israel. It constitutes the first monograph publication …

Lauchheim I.

Beitrage zur Computertomographie als Dokumentationsmethode, zur Textilarchaologie und zur Bestattungspraxis in der fruhen Merowingerzeit

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In Lauchheim (Ostalbkreis) wurde zwischen 1986 und 1996 der mit rund 1300 Gräbern des späten 5. bis späten 7. Jahrhundert bislang größte bekannte merowingerzeitliche Bestattungsplatz Südwestdeutschlands vollständig ausgegraben. Die Grabbeigaben zeichnen das lebendige Bild einer komplexen und einem vielfältigen Wandel …