Mythologie

Die Messingstadt

Eine Erzählung aus „Tausendundeiner Nacht“. Architektur einer Heiligwerdung

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Anyone associating The Arabian Nights with erotic stories will doubtlessly be disappointed when reading “City of Brass” (Nights 566−578). This tale deals not with the lust for life but, on the contrary, with the vanity of existence: Each individual who …

Relief- und stempelverzierte nordafrikanische Sigillata des späten 2. bis 6. Jahrhunderts

Römisches Tafelgeschirr der Sammlung K. Wilhelm

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This study focuses on the wide range of vessel forms and decoration of the rare appliqué-decorated red slip ware from northern Tunisia, and especially the appliqué-, relief- and stamp-decorated sigillata made in the most imprtant mid and late Roman potteries …

Italische und nordafrikanische Lampen des 1. bis 5. Jahrhunderts

Römische Lampen der Sammlung K. Wilhelm

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In addition to some Italian picture lamps of the 1st century A.D., the main focus of K. Wilhelm's lamp collection is on 41 lamps of the middle and late imperial period produced in North Africa, as well as three singular …

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, …