Colour Schemes in Roman Architecture

Aesthetics, Semantics, and Regional Appropriation

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Roman architecture was characterised by a rich palette of colours, achieved through the use of natural coloured stones and painting. This conference volume is the first book entirely dedicated to the polychromy of architectural orders in the Roman provinces. Its …

The ‘Place of Palms’: An Urban Park at Aphrodisias

Results of The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project

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Excavations at Aphrodisias in the 1980s revealed an extraordinary monumental water-basin (170 x 30m) in the centre of a colonnaded square, formerly called the ‘South Agora’. A hypothesis that the complex was not an agora at all but ‘the place …

Die Mainzer Salus

Gesellschaft und Stadtkultur im Norden der Germania Superior

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The volume at hand introduces a slightly less than life-size female figure with naked torso and hip cloak made of sandstone that was found in the “Zollhafen” of Mainz in October 2020. Her left foot rests on a bovine head, …

Amiternum 1

Untersuchungen zur Siedlungs- und Wirtschaftsstruktur im zentralen Abruzzenraum in römischer Zeit

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Amiternum, wichtiger Zentralort der Sabiner im oberen Aterno-Tal und Geburtsstätte Sallusts, entwickelte sich seit der römischen Eroberung zu einem der bedeutendsten Zentren im mittleren Abruzzenraum. Hierbei führten spezifische naturräumliche, gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Faktoren, darunter die intensive Beteiligung an der Transhumanz, …

Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias

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Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices was inscribed on the façade of the city’s Civil Basilica in AD 301. The volume presents the history and background of the Edict, the detailed archaeology of its context on the Basilica, a new consolidated …

Thisoa am Lykaion

Ergebnisse der Forschungen

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In Arcadia, on the slope of the Lykaion Mountains and high above the Alpheios Valley, lies the ancient city of Theisoa. The fortified town was laid out after the Synoikismos of Megalopolis and was again used as a Frankish fortress. …

Morgantina Studies VII. The City Plan and Political Agora

Results of the excavations conducted by Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Virginia

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The orthogonal city plan was adopted in the mid-fifth century BCE and implies a democratic constitution. Almost entirely excavated, Morgantina’s large agora offers a detailed picture of the civic architecture of an early Hellenistic western Greek city. Ten major civic …

Etruskische Heiligtümer des 8.–5. Jhs. v. Chr. als Wirtschaftsräume und Konsumptionsorte von Keramik

While many aspects of Etruscan religion are intensively discussed and studied through current conferences, publications and fieldwork, general research and an overview of the socio-political and economic significance of the religious sphere in Etruscan society is still lacking. This volume …

Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias: The Episcopal Village, AD 700–1250

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This study addresses the settlement at Aphrodisias, known to its medieval inhabitants as Karia, from the eighth through thirteenth centuries. Important bodies of archaeological data, including numismatics, funerary archaeology and liturgical sculpture are presented for the first time. The volume …

Bauern und Banausen

Darstellungen des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft in der griechischen Vasenmalerei

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Vase painting is one of the most important sources of information regarding labour in the ancient world. This comprehensive iconographic study focuses on the depiction of physically active persons. It deals not only with representations of skilled crafts but also …

Der Innenraum hellenistischer Tempel

Ein Ort rituellen und sozialen Handelns

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The erection of Greek temples was one of the most important building tasks in antiquity. Yet despite over 150 years of academic research on these buildings, their use for cultic and social purposes is almost unknown. This monograph is the …

Les sculptures antiques du Musée d’art et d’archéologie du Pays de Laon - Die antiken Skulpturen des Musée d’art et d’archeologie du Pays de Laon

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In the latest volume of the MAR catalogue series the ancient sculptures of the Museum of Laon (France) are presented for the first time in their entirety. The catalogue consists largely of the collection assembled by Paul Marguerite de la …

Macchiabate I. Ausgrabungen in der Nekropole von Francavilla Marittima, Kalabrien, 2009-2016

Die Areale Strada und De Leo

Since its discovery in the 1960s, the Macchiabate necropolis of Francavilla Marittima in northern Calabria has been a key archaeological site when it comes to the encounter between the Greeks and the indigenous Iron Age cultures in southern Italy in …

Das severische Vexillationskastell Myd(---) / Gheriat el-Garbia am limes Tripolitanus (Libyen)

I Forschungsgeschichte, Vermessung, Prospektionen und Funde 2009-2010

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In 2009/10, four seasons were conducted in the Roman fort located 280 km south of Tripoli. The focus of the interdisciplinary project, funded by LMUexcellent, was the fort, built above an oasis for a legionary vexillation around AD 200. The …

Appropriation Processes of Statue Schemata in the Roman Provinces | Aneignungsprozesse antiker Statuenschemata in den römischen Provinzen

The majority of ancient statues can be typologised on the basis of formal overlaps, i.e. arranged in 'schemes'. Individual statue schemes were handed down over centuries in ever new versions and integrated into different material, spatial and functional contexts. These …

Darstellungen von Wagenlenkern in der römischen Kaiserzeit und frühen Spätantike

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Epigrams, passing remarks, and treatises dealing with the chariot races in the Roman circus and their participants have been handed down by numerous ancient authors. Whether described by Pliny, Martial, Juvenal, Ammianus Marcellinus, or Tertullian, charioteers are frequently viewed in …

Das Herakles-Heiligtum von Kleonai

Architektur und Kult im Kontext

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Kleonai’s sanctuary of Herakles is located approximately 500 metres southwest of the ancient city. It consists of a tetrastyle and prostyle doric temple and an opposing peribolos. Both date back to the 2nd century BC. The reconstruction of the temple, …

Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft im archaischen Süditalien

Ein Modell zu Identität und Hexis, ausgehend von Ripacandida und weiteren binnenländischen Gemeinschaften

The necropolis of Ripacandida in southern Italy (Apulia/prov. Foggia) is situated on a hill mediating between the uplands of the southern Apennines to the west and the Adriatic shore to the east. The local Archaic-Classical community (6th/5th century BCE) witnessed …

Die römischen Terrakottamasken in den Nordwestprovinzen

Herkunft – Herstellung – Verbreitung – Funktion

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This book deals with ca 500 Roman terracotta masks from the North-West provinces of the Roman empire. They date back to the first to third centuries and are here examined concerning their origin, production, places of production, circulation and function.

Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Thugga

Die Ausgrabungen südlich der Maison du Trifolium 2001 bis 2003

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This volume contains the results of the excavations that have been conducted by the Archaeological Institute at Freiburg University in cooperation with the Tunisian Institut du Patrimoine at the site of ancient Thugga between 2001 and 2003. The exemplary excavation …