Die ápa-√yaj-Konstruktion

Untersuchungen zum exozentrischen Resultativum im Indoiranischen, Griechischen und Lateinischen

Modern German allows expressions such as Geld versaufen or Fett wegtrainieren, which feature an object that could not be selected by the verb alone in the absence of the verb particle. Compounds of this sort are resultative insofar as they …

Kalkriese - Ort der Varusschlacht?

Eine quellenkritische Analyse anhand der Kleinfunde der Kalkriese-Niewedder Senke

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The early Roman battlefield of Kalkriese is often equated with the famous defeat of the Roman commander Varus by the Germanic leader Arminius in AD 9. But do the archaeological sources actually allow such a conclusion?
The site of Kalkriese now …

Die Sprachform der homerischen Epen

Faktoren morphologischer Variabilität in literarischen Frühformen: Traditionen, Sprachwandel, sprachliche Anachronismen

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One of the most salient characteristics of the Homeric language is its morphological variability. Ever since Witte and Parry, the meter and the formulaic diction have been believed to be the major factors conditioning the linguistic diversity of Homer’s epics. …

From Germania Inferior to Arabia Petraea

New Perspectives on Roman Legionary Camps

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The volume brings together contributions on legionary camps from various regions of the Roman Empire and illustrates how the Roman military organised the protection of its troops, both temporarily during wartime activities and permanently at key locations within the empire …

Gnomologium Byzantinum

Studien zur Überlieferung und den Quellen, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar

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The critical edition (sub-volume II.1) together with several apparatuses (critical apparatus, descendants, parallels, similes, source), faithfully reproduces two redactions of the early Byzantine corpus of sayings named Gnomologium Byzantinum, replacing the older partial and ‚fictional‘ editions by Wachsmuth and Schenkl. …

Konkurrenz und Charisma. Porträts in der politischen Kultur des antiken Griechenland

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The political context for the creation of portraits and the way they were handled affected their appearance in different ways. The book deals with varying facets of this topic for ancient Greece from the Archaic to the end of the …

Living in a World of Change: New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange and Transfer in the Hellenistic Mediterranean

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In the period from about 200 B.C. to the early Roman imperial period, all regions of the Mediterranean underwent a profound process of political, economic, and cultural transformation. This book seeks to provide a balanced and multi-faceted account of this …

Coining Values

Bronze between Money and Scrap in late Roman an early medieval Europe

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The collected volume deals with the devaluation of bronze coins and the revaluation of cut bronze fragments in late antiquity. Issues such as coin circulation, coin substitution, the supply of coins, the recycling of coins, and non-ferrous metals were addressed. …

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 …

›Naturheiligtümer‹ im westlichen Kleinasien.

Natur in sakralen Kontexten von der Archaik bis zum Ausgang des Hellenismus

Caves, rocks, springs and trees shaped ancient cult practice to a great extent and were important, sometimes legitimising components of Greek sanctuaries. They could even constitute the actual sanctuary itself. Since such natural sanctuaries were not per se precursors of …

Das severische Vexillationskastell Myd(---) und die spätantiken castra Madensia / Gheriat el-Garbia am limes Tripolitanus (Libyen)

II Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen im Kastell, im Steinbruch, in den Heiligtümern und am Beobachtungsturm 2009-2010

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The Roman fort of Gheriat el-Garbia is located 280 km south of Tripoli in the pre-desert, above an oasis, on the central route into the Fezzan. Along with Bu Ngem and Ghadames, it is the largest of the new vexillation …

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 …

Verehrt – verdammt – vergessen

Die Mütter der römischen Kaiser

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Of the mothers of the more than 60 emperors who ruled the Imperium Romanum from Augustus until the final division of the empire in 395, often little more is known than their name; sometimes even this has not survived. The …

Die Wahl des koptisch-orthodoxen Patriarchen Ägyptens vom 8. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert durch das Los und andere Methoden

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The election of a suitable successor to a deceased patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt always marks an important turning point in the everyday life of this oriental church. Since 1957, its head has been chosen by lot …

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, …

Lauchheim IV

Die Gräber aus der Siedlung Lauchheim ‚Mittelhofen‘

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In direkter Nachbarschaft des Reihengräberfeldes Lauchheim ‚Wasserfurche‘ wurde in den 1990er Jahren das früh- und hochmittelalterliche Siedlungsareal von Mittelhofen großflächig ausgegraben. Um 700 n. Chr. hatte man dort innerhalb der Gehöfte kleine Separatfriedhöfe mit insgesamt 86 Gräbern angelegt. Zu den …

The Significance of Archaeological Textiles

Papers of the International Online Conference 24th–25th february 2021. THEFBO Volume II

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Many of the common utensils used in prehistoric agricultural settlements were textile products. They were indispensable to carry out everyday tasks in the context of a sedentary lifestyle. Textiles matter – the Neolithic revolution would not have taken place without …

Commodus: The Public Image of a Roman Emperor

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The richly illustrated book presents a fresh argument and new evidence about the workings of the imperial image in the Antonine period, through the changing portraits of the emperor Commodus (180–192) — more than ninety survive. The study also publishes …

Iambos

Philologische Untersuchungen zur Geschichte einer Gattung in der Antike

Here, Klaus Lennartz presents for the first time his overall view of the antique genre of the Iambos: examining the “Truth effect” of the Solonic Iambic tradition and the integration of the Iambic “Classics” into the forms of discourse of …

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, …