Capua – Grab und Gemeinschaft

Eine kontextuelle Analyse der Nekropole Fornaci (570 bis 400 v. Chr.)

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The tombs of pre-Roman Capua are known for their extraordinary finds, yet the excavations in the necropoleis of this most important Campanian centre have left a problematic heritage. In this book are published hitherto unknown data and finds from the …

Nordafrikanische Sigillata, Küchenkeramik und Lampen aus Augusta Vindelicum/Augsburg

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This study investigates African Red Slip Ware (ARS), kitchen ware and lamps from Augusta Vindelicum (Augsburg in Bavaria). Products from North and Central Tunisian pottery workshops are dateable from the late 1st to the first half of the 5th century …

Der mittelalterliche Burgstall Turenberc/Druisheim

Archäologische Untersuchungen 2001 bis 2007 am römischen Militärplatz Submuntorium/Burghöfe an der oberen Donau

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The archaeological site of Burghöfe is known mainly for the Roman fort and not for its medieval castle. Excavations from 2001 to 2007 established a first picture of the medieval history of the site. By the 9th or 10th century …

The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia

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This book represents the first detailed study of Byzantine churches on the island of Sardinia. The buildings are described and analyzed in detail both individually and as a group. Many of these churches are cruciform in plan and possess a …

Visionserwartung

Visualisierung und Präsenzerfahrung des Göttlichen in der Spätantike

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The book identifies the central role of the visions of God in late antique society, arguing that expectation of visions (“Visionserwartung”) structured much of late antique life. The author demonstrates that through images and spaces, late antique people created encounters …

monumenta sanctorum

Rom und Mailand als Zentren des frühen Christentums: Märtyrerkult und Kirchenbau unter den Bischöfen Damasus und Ambrosius

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This study compares the building projects, written and epigraphical testimonies, and performative actions of two outstanding figures among fourth century bishops, Damasus and Ambrosius. These monumenta sanctorum worked as catalysts of the emerging cult of the martyrs. Moreover, the different …

San Vitale in Ravenna and Octogonal Churches in Late Antiquity

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This book examines the octagonal churches of Late Antiquity from the origins of the type in the fourth century to its sixth-century culmination in its most famous example, the church of San Vitale in Ravenna. The buildings, limited in number …

Death and Burial in the Near East from Roman to Islamic Times

Research in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt

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This book is based on a German-Arab colloquium held in Amman in September 2013, where current excavation and research results on death and burial from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt were presented. For the first time, Arab and Near Eastern …

La necropoli di Vetulonia nel periodo orientalizzante

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Excavations in the late 19th and early 20th century in the cemetery of the Etruscan city of Vetulonia unearthed many opulent ‘princely graves’ dating to the Orientalizing period (end of the 8th – beginning of the 6th century BC). However, …

Sakrale Zonen im frühen Kirchenbau des Nahen Ostens

Zum Kommunikationspotenzial von Bodenmosaiken für die Schaffung heiliger Räume

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Angesichts des neutestamentlichen Standpunkts, wonach Gott nicht in Tempeln wohne, die von Menschenhand geschaffen wurden, ist es keineswegs selbstverständlich, dass Kirchen als Sakralbauten zu werten sind. Dennoch hat sich diese Vorstellung bereits früh etabliert. Davon zeugen Schriftquellen, aber auch Bodenmosaiken, …

Amphoren aus Cambodunum / Kempten

Ein Beitrag zur Handelsgeschichte der römischen Provinz Raetia

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Amphorae played a central role in the long distance transport and trade of (mediterranean) food and other goods during the Roman period. Today they represent an excellent archaeological source for ancient economic history and nutrition habits.
This volume comprises an analysis …

Columnar Sarcophagi from Aphrodisias

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Aphrodisias in Caria (modern Turkey) has a remarkable body of relief-decorated marble sarcophagi of the Roman Imperial period. This monograph presents the sarcophagi decorated with columnar arcades in which a variety of human, divine, and mythological figures are presented. It …

Die byzantinische Sakralarchitektur der Dunklen Jahrhunderte

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Die Dunklen Jahrhunderte, die Zeit zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter, gelten als dorniges Terrain der byzantinischen Architekturgeschichte. So überrascht es nicht, dass diese Epoche meist als bloße Vorstufe mittel- und spätbyzantinischer Entwicklungen abgetan wird. Eine neue Perspektive, die nicht nur Nachfolgendes, …

Atene e il sacco di Silla

Evidenze archeologiche e topografiche fra l’86 e il 27 a.C.

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The work investigates the building history of Athens between the siege and ransacking by Sulla in 86 BC and the establishment of the province of Archaia in AD 27.
After an introductory chapter about the historical background of the event, each …

Die Kammergräber von Tarent

Untersuchungen zur Grabarchitektur und Ausstattung vom 4. bis zum 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

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The Hellenistic chamber tombs of Taranto represent by far the largest group of known Hellenistic burial chambers in the ancient Mediterranean. In the sixth volume of the Italiká series, the chamber tombs constructed between the 4th and 1st century BC …

Urbaner Ballungsraum im römischen Nordafrika

Zum Einfluss von mikroregionalen Wirtschafts- und Sozialstrukturen auf den Städtebau in der Africa Proconsularis

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North Africa is one of the most populated Regions in the Roman Empire. At the beginning of the 3. Cent. A.D. a tremendous agglomeration of cities was located in Africa proconsularis which had a very individual urban culture. This book …

The Triconch House

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The Triconch House is a large, late antique peristyle house in Aphrodisias in southwestern Asia Minor. Previously known as the Bishop’s Palace, it is one of the best preserved late antique houses in the Greek East and one of several …

Antoninus Pius

Der vergessene Kaiser

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Kein anderer Kaiser herrschte in den drei Jahrhunderten zwischen Augustus und Konstantin dem Großen so lange wie Antoninus Pius. Trotzdem gehört dieser Kaiser zu den am wenigsten bekannten – schließlich kann seine Regentschaft weder Intrigen am Kaiserhof noch Verschwörungen im …

Löwenmensch und mehr

Die Ausgrabungen 2008–2013 in den altsteinzeitlichen Schichten der Stadel-Höhle im Hohlenstein (Lonetal), Gemeinde Asselfingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis

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The Hohlenstein in the Lonetal (Lone valley) is part of a group of caves in the Swabian Alb, in which the oldest known evidence of figurative art in the history of man have been found and which have been UNESCO …

Von Stadtmauern und Salbtöpfen

Archäologie zur Siedlungs- und Apothekengeschichte in Biberach

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The results of two excavations at very different locations in the medieval townscape of Biberach are being published in the volume at hand. Fresh insights into the beginning of the settlement, the development in the outskirts as well as into …