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Turković, Tin, and Nikolina Maraković. "Balnea metallicorum of ancient Domavia." Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti, no. 45 (December 31, 2021): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31664/ripu.2021.45.01.

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The bathing complex in Domavia (near modern Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina), drew our attention as one of the most interesting and yet still unexplored bathing complexes at the territory of the ancient Roman province of Dalmatia. It was discovered more than a hundred years ago by Ljudevit Pogatschnig during the excavation of the site called Gradina, unearthed to a significant extent, and rather well documented by Vaclav Radimský in his reports from 1892 and 1894. Unfortunately, although this monumental and lavishly decorated bathing complex differs in many respects from the majority of anc

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Martin, Dale B. "The Construction of the Ancient Family: Methodological Considerations." Journal of Roman Studies 86 (November 1996): 40–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/300422.

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A remarkable new consensus, recognized even by its critics, has emerged among classical historians that ‘the normal Roman family seems to have been a “nuclear family” like our own’. The consensus is remarkable because practically all historians who support it admit that the portrait of the Roman family that emerges from many literary accounts and is enshrined in Roman law and language is nothing like the modern nuclear family. Saller demonstrates that the Romans had no term equivalent to ‘family’ in the modern sense, that is, the father-mother-children triad of the ‘nuclear family’. The Englis

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Eshel, Ruth. "Concert Dance in Israel." Dance Research Journal 35, no. 1 (2003): 61–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767700008779.

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Israel is a society of Jewish immigrants who have returned to their ancient biblical homeland. It is also a complex society made up of people of varied cultures and ideologies, enduring changing economic and political situations. For the past eighty years, Israeli dancers have reflected and helped to shape the internal dialogues of Israeli life and contributed to a global exchange of dance ideas, especially with modern dancers from Europe and America.The independence of ancient Israel came to an end in C.E. 73, when Romans destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem after fierce battles with the Jews. T

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Breeze, Andrew. "Manchester's Ancient Name." Antiquaries Journal 84 (September 2004): 353–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500045893.

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Mamucium, the Roman name of Manchester, is often explained as ‘place on the breast-shaped hill’ from the hypothetical British mamma ’breast; breast-shaped hill’. But the name of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, suggests this is baseless. A likelier etymology is ‘place on the river called Mamma, “mother”’, apparently the old name of the River Medlock, perhaps revered as a Celtic goddess.

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Grigoropoulos, Dimitris. "THE PIRAEUS FROM 86 BC TO LATE ANTIQUITY: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE LANDSCAPE, FUNCTION AND ECONOMY OF THE PORT OF ROMAN ATHENS." Annual of the British School at Athens 111 (January 7, 2016): 239–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245415000106.

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Modern perceptions of the ancient Piraeus have been monopolised by the urban image and function of the port as the naval stronghold of Classical Athens. Existing scholarship so far has tended to consider the post-Classical centuries, especially the era following the sack of the port in 86bcby the Romans, as a period of decline. Such preconceptions, based on largely superficial readings of a few ancient literary texts and a near-total disregard of the material evidence, have created a distorted image of the Piraeus and its significance in the Roman period. Drawing upon textual sources as well a

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Panteleev, Aleksey D. "Crucifixion in the Ancient Art of the Roman Period." Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art 11 (2021): 124–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2111-01-11.

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Hemingway, Seán. "Posthumous Copies of Ancient Greek Sculpture: Roman Taste and Techniques." Sculpture Review 51, no. 2 (2002): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2632-3494.2002.tb00189.x.

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Jones, W. LaBier. "GEMME NUMMARIE." Sculpture Review 49, no. 2 (2000): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2632-3494.2000.tb00132.x.

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The use of coins as personal adornments began at the end of the first century in ancient Rome when the imperial coinage was mounted as jewels. These were worn in rings, pendants, and brooches, conveying class and cultural distinction. In modern times Bulgari, one of the world's most highly regarded jewelry firms, continues this tradition of using ancient Greek and Roman coins in its designs. Bulgari refers to these as gemme nummarie, or coin gems.

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Brännstedt, Lovisa, and Lewis Webb. "Review artice. Gender in ancient Rome: New directions and voices." Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 16 (November 15, 2023): 249–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-16-11.

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Books reviewed R. Ancona & G. Tsouvala, eds., New directions in the study of women in Greco-Roman antiquity, New York: Oxford University Press 2021. xvi + 278 pp., 11 figs, 8 colour pls. ISBN 9780190937638 https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190937638.001.0001 B. Longfellow & M. Swetnam-Burland, eds., Women’s lives, women’s voices. Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples, Austin: University of Texas Press 2021. 408 pp., 76 figs, 16 colour pls. ISBN 9781477323588 https://doi.org/10.7560/323588 F. Rohr Vio, Powerful matrons. New political actors in the Late Roman Republ

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Bergmann, Bettina. "Review: Ancient Roman Villa Gardens by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 48, no. 4 (1989): 387–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/990456.

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Cuomo, Serafina. "A Roman Engineer's Tales." Journal of Roman Studies 101 (June 30, 2011): 143–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0075435811000098.

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AbstractThis article is an exercise in the historiography of ancient technical artefacts, beginning from the examination of a second-centurya.d.cippus inscribed with the story of a Roman engineer, Nonius Datus, who designed and supervised the construction of an aqueduct in Algeria. The first section looks at the aqueduct from the point of view of the history of engineering. The second traces the history of the inscription as a document in the debate about imperialism and technology. In the third section, the focus is on what Datus himself was trying to communicate. The conclusion makes a case

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Savická, Pavla. "Apuleiův Zlatý osel a antická literární tradice v umění rudolfínské doby." AUC PHILOSOPHICA ET HISTORICA 2020, no. 2 (2021): 13–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24647055.2021.2.

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The study follows fortunes of the famous Ancient Roman novel and its impact on the visual arts in the early modern period. Special attention is paid to the Rudolphine art and to the distinctive transformation of the theme of Cupid and Psyche at the court of the emperor. It deals with various changes in meaning of the iconography as it traveled through time, space, and different media and suggests diverse possible readings of works inspired by Apuleius's Golden Ass.

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LaFarge, Antoinette, and Robert Allen. "Media Commedia: The Roman Forum Project." Leonardo 38, no. 3 (2005): 213–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/0024094054028949.

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The authors discuss what they term “media commedia”: performance works melding comedic performance traditions with new media technologies. They focus on The Roman Forum Project, a series of mixed-reality performance projects they produced whose subject is contemporary American politics and media as seen through the eyes of ancient Romans. They discuss the developing relationship between the Internet and public discourse; their use of avatars to explore the boundaries between performance and identity; their use of the Internet as an improvisational space; and the mise en abyme effects of workin

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Fadda, Salvatore. "The dismembered collection of antiquities of Lowther Castle." Journal of the History of Collections 31, no. 2 (2018): 319–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhy050.

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Abstract From 1842 until his death in 1872, Sir William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, gathered a remarkable collection of ancient works of art. The collection was displayed in two galleries added to his manor for this purpose in 1866. Of the great assemblage, acquired through the dismemberment of previous British collections, little information has come down to our day. It was composed of more than 100 pieces of Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and mostly Roman sculpture, whose selection reflected the spirit of the collections of the ‘Golden Age of Dilettantism’ during the Victorian era. The collec

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Hörnqvist, Mikael. "Perché non si usa allegare i Romani: Machiavelli and the Florentine Militia of 1506." Renaissance Quarterly 55, no. 1 (2002): 148–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1512534.

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This article explores the motivations behind the Florentine militia ordinance of 1506 and Niccolò Machiavelli's involvement. A major problem with regard to contemporary discourse on the militia is its complete, or almost complete, absence of references to the military system of the ancient Roman republic. It is here argued that this silence was a conscious strategy on the part of Machiavelli and his collaborators who, in a cultural climate extremely hostile to the ancient Roman model, chose to adopt a pragmatic step-by-step approach to the militia, downplaying its true inspiration.

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Majid Mansour, Mayada, and Nawras Adnan Shehab. "Representations of the event in the drawings of the civilizations of the ancient world (selected models)." Al-Academy, no. 108 (June 14, 2023): 283–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35560/jcofarts108/283-298.

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This research is concerned with studying the representations of the event in the drawings of the ancient civilizations of the world, and the research consists of two axes, the axis of the theoretical framework, which included (the research problem, its aim, its limits, and the definition of its terminology). The research aims to reveal how the event pattern was formulated by the artist on the surface of his visual achievement, and the limits of the search were spatial in the ancient civilizations of Iraq, Egypt, Greece and Rome, but the limits of the temporal research could not be determined b

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Lennon, Jack J. "VICTIMARIIIN ROMAN RELIGION AND SOCIETY." Papers of the British School at Rome 83 (September 16, 2015): 65–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246215000045.

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This paper brings together literary, epigraphic and iconographic evidence for thevictimarii— the attendants responsible for slaughtering sacrificial animals in ancient Rome. It aims to explore the problematic status ofvictimariiin Roman society, and argues that the often hostile views of the aristocracy have led to the continued marginalisation of this prominent group within scholarly discussions of religion and society. It argues that when the various strands are considered together a far more positive view ofvictimariiwithin Roman society emerges, suggesting that this was in some respects on

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Confalone, Nicoletta, and Grégory Leclair. "Giuliani’s Naples: A Walking Tour." Soundboard Scholar 2, no. 1 (2016): 30–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.56902/sbs.2016.2.7.

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With 430,000 inhabitants in 1800, Naples had become the third most populous European city after London and Paris. The excavation of the site of Pompeii in the eighteenth century gave a special prestige to the city. Its newly unearthed antiquities and frescoes led to a vogue of neoclassicism across the arts. Images of ancient Greek and Roman lyres inspired the creation of the lyre-guitar, an instrument on which Mauro Giuliani performed on various occasions in Naples--probably more for its visual effect than for audibility's sake.

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Benelli, Francesco. "Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's Reactions to the Pantheon:." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 78, no. 3 (2019): 276–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2019.78.3.276.

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In Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's Reactions to the Pantheon: An Early Modern Case of Operative Criticism, Francesco Benelli looks at three annotated drawings by Antonio in which he analyzed features of the Roman Pantheon. The architect's analysis of this ancient monument drew on both his close, methodical, and pragmatic investigations of the building and his deep knowledge of Vitruvian theory. Together, the drawings and text represent an unprecedented critique of a building then almost universally admired. Yet Antonio's dependence on Vitruvius, who belonged to a different period of Roman hi

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Parzysz, Bernard. "Geometry of Ancient Mazes: A Synthesis Part II: ‘Roman’ Mazes." Nexus Network Journal 23, no. 2 (2021): 267–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-021-00549-w.

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Fülle, Gunnar. "The Internal Organization of the ArretineTerra SigillataIndustry: Problems of Evidence and Interpretation." Journal of Roman Studies 87 (November 1997): 111–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/301372.

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If the field of ancient economy is a battlefield, arguments based on pottery research certainly belong with the best of the weapons. Among the various kinds of pottery serving ancient historians as sources, red-gloss pottery (terra sigillata) manufactured in several parts of the Roman Empire plays an outstanding role. This special kind of pottery bears inscriptions in the form of stamps referring to persons involved in its production. In combination with the archaeological contexts of stamp finds, such as excavated sites of production, transportation, storage, and consumption, these inscriptio

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Howley, Joseph A. "Book-Burning and the Uses of Writing in Ancient Rome: Destructive Practice between Literature and Document." Journal of Roman Studies 107 (July 10, 2017): 213–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0075435817000764.

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ABSTRACTThis article examines the burning of written material at Rome from the Republican period until the rise of Christianity, using the lens of book history. It considers why and how Romans burned written material, gathering for the first time all testimony of burning any kind of writing, and examines responses to these burnings in ancient discourse. A capacious, book-historical approach to Roman book-burning shows that differences in practice and uses — of books as opposed to documents, for example — account for the different consequences Romans saw for burning different written media.

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Tanner, Jeremy. "Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic." Journal of Roman Studies 90 (November 2000): 18–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/300199.

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Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context. In the study of late Republican portraiture, traditional explanations of the origins of verism in terms of antecedent influences — Hellenistic realism, Egyptian realism, ancestral imagines — have been replaced by a concern to interpret portraits as signs functioning in a determinate historical and political context which serves to explain their particular visual patterning. In this pap

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Holleran, Claire. "FINDING COMMERCE: THETABERNAAND THE IDENTIFICATION OF ROMAN COMMERCIAL SPACE." Papers of the British School at Rome 85 (May 15, 2017): 143–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246217000010.

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Although commercial activity was one of the central features of Roman urban centres, the identification of commercial space in the archaeological record is not always straightforward. Identifications are routinely made through the application of Latin nomenclature to particular architectural typologies, almost inevitably leading to interpretations of space influenced by both textual and modern analogies, a practice which can be most clearly demonstrated by the so-calledtaberna. Using thetabernaas a case-study, this paper explores the issues of Latin nomenclature and textual analogy; architectu

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Bradley, Mark. "OBESITY, CORPULENCE AND EMACIATION IN ROMAN ART." Papers of the British School at Rome 79 (October 31, 2011): 1–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246211000018.

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This article explores the significance of sculptural and painted representations of ‘overweight’ and ‘underweight’ body types in the visual culture of Roman Italy from the fourth centurybcthrough to the late Empire, and considers the relationship of this imagery to Greek and Hellenistic precedents. In spite of the topical character of fat in 21st-century sociology, anthropology and medical science, obesity and emaciation in the ancient world remain almost completely unexplored. This article sets out to examine the relationship of fat and thin bodies to power, wealth, character and behaviour, a

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Pianca, Marina. "The Latin American Theatre of Exile." Theatre Research International 14, no. 2 (1989): 174–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300006143.

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It is not surprising that the ancient republics allowed the condemned to escape death through flight. Exile did not seem to them a softer sentence than death. Roman jurisprudence also called it capital punishment.

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Pchelov, Evgeny. "The Horseman of the Seal of Ivan III: Sources of Visual Image." ISTORIYA 14, no. 6 (128) (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840027125-6.

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The article analyzes the image of a rider defeating a dragon on the front side of the seal of Ivan III of the 1490s. This image has a number of characteristic features, including a special method of sitting on a horse and holding a spear. These features are not characteristic of the old Russian art of the XV century, however, they find analogues in the works of art of the Italian Quattrocento. They go back to the ancient tradition of depicting a horseman armed with a spear, which Renaissance masters could get acquainted with by the example of the monumental monuments of Rome. Thus, the master

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Grotowski, Piotr. "Classicisation or representation? Mimesis in Byzantine pictorial arts as a derivative of style." Zograf, no. 37 (2013): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/zog1337023g.

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The idea of mimesis in art theory has been neglected by Byzantine scholars. Reasons for this may lie in the fact that the understanding of the term in Byzantium was very complex and that it changed over time. In the Early Byzantine period and the so-called Macedonian Renaissance, a tendency to use tonal modelling, which was inherited from ancient Greco-Roman art, can still be observed. Starting in the late tenth century they give way to a more linear style. Simultaneously, a change in the understanding of mimesis in theological writings can also be observed. The aim of this paper is to introdu

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Fine, Steven. "Menorahs in Color: Polychromy in Jewish Visual Culture of Roman Antiquity." Images 6, no. 1 (2012): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18718000-12340001.

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Abstract In recent years, polychromy has developed as a significant area of research in the study of classical art. This essay explores the significance of this work for interpreting Jewish visual culture during Roman antiquity, through the focal lens of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project. In July 2012, this project discovered that the Arch of Titus menorah was originally colored with yellow ochre paint. The article begins by presenting the general field of polychromy research, which has developed in recent years and resulted in significant museum exhibitions in Europe and the US. I

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Pellecchia, Linda. "Architects Read Vitruvius: Renaissance Interpretations of the Atrium of the Ancient House." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 51, no. 4 (1992): 377–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/990736.

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From Alberti to Palladio, Renaissance architects and architectural theorists struggled to interpret the description of the ancient Roman house set forth by Vitruvius in De architectura. The debate concerning the form and function of the atrium-the most essential room of the ancient domus-provides the basis for a case study of the process by which Renaissance readers transformed words into images to visualize the parts of the ancient house. Lacking archaeological remains of the Roman domus, architects were forced to rely on written sources. Their zeal to understand led them to appropriate the p

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Abrahamse, Jaap Evert. "A Roman Road in the Dutch Republic." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70, no. 4 (2011): 442–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.4.442.

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Jacob van Campen, the most distinguished architect of the Dutch Republic during its seventeenth-century Golden Age, is identified as the designer of Amersfoortweg (the Amersfoort Road) in A Roman Road in the Dutch Republic. This large-scale landscape architecture project was conceived to improve transportation in the province of Utrecht and also to catalyze the transformation of a large wasteland into a landscape of prosperous agricultural estates. The grandiose roadway, over sixty meters wide and lined with trees, ran perfectly straight for most of the route between Utrecht and Amersfoort. Ja

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Mitchell, Stephen. "The mansio in Pisidia‘s Döşeme Boğazı: a unique building in Roman Asia Minor." Journal of Roman Archaeology 33 (2020): 231–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1047759420000999.

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The Döşeme Boğazı (‘Pass with the Pavement’) is one of the ancient routes through the Taurus Mountains that connected the Anatolian interior with the southern coastal regions (fig. 1). From an early date it was an important component of the Roman road-system in Asia Minor (fig. 2). The pass lay near the S end of the Republican route from the Dardanelles to Side which was created by Manius Aquillius, first proconsul of Asia between 129 and 126 B.C. The S part of this road was incorporated into the via Sebaste, built in 6/5 B.C., which linked several of the Roman colonies founded by Augustus in

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Liuzzo, Mariangela, Giuseppe Margani, and R. J. A. Wilson. "The Indirizzo Roman baths at Catania." Journal of Roman Archaeology 31 (2018): 193–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1047759418001289.

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The Terme dell’Indirizzo (to give them their Italian name) stand near the centre of modern Catania (access today is from Piazza Currò) on Sicily's E coast (fig. 1). They are not a new discovery: the ancient structure remains as a standing building. It is not just the best-preserved Roman bath-building in Sicily; it is among the best-preserved examples of its type anywhere in the empire, the original roofs of nearly every surviving room being, remarkably, intact. Despite this, the structure is little known, mainly because it has been publicly accessible only on sporadic occasions. Our purpose i

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Benedetti, Ginevra. "Quando gli attributi travalicano il signum. Riflessioni sull’identità visuale degli dèi a Roma = When attributes go beyond the signum. Remarks on the visual identity of the gods in Rome." ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, no. 17 (November 20, 2019): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/arys.2019.4601.

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Riassunto: In questo lavoro ci si propone di analizzare, attraverso le pagine degli autori latini, la costruzione semiotica sottostante la rappresentazione visuale degli dèi nella cultura romana; ognuno di loro possedeva infatti qualche attributo o combinazione di attributi in grado di identificarli con maggiore o minore certezza, ciò che gli autori antichi definivano insignia, dei “segni speciali” che guidavano l’interpretazione / identificazione di un signum. In particolare, saranno presi in esame alcuni oggetti concreti impiegati dalla cultura romana per costruire immagini divine nella loro

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Lefteratou, Anna. "THE BED CANOPY IN XENOPHON OF EPHESUS AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MARS AND VENUS UNDER THE EMPIRE." Ramus 47, no. 1 (2018): 78–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2018.6.

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This paper discusses how Roman visual culture might be useful for deciphering the ecphrastic passages of the ancient Greek novel. Whereasecphrasishas been one of the blossoming topics in the field, the examination of novelisticecphrasisalongside particular works of art is still a desideratum. As a test case I will use Xenophon of Ephesus’ecphrasisof the bed canopy depicting Ares’ and Aphrodite's embrace, in theEphesiaca,a novel that might have been written as early as AD 65. In what follows I will argue that the scene described on the canopy would have stimulated a variety of intertexts, both

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Wightman, Greg. "The Imperial Fora of Rome: Some Design Considerations." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 56, no. 1 (1997): 64–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/991216.

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Research in ancient Roman architectural design has come increasingly to the view that geometry was often as important as metrication and proportion. The present paper examines the contribution of both geometry and arithmetic to the design of the four imperial fora in Rome, as well as the closely related Temple of Peace. An analysis of the Forum of Augustus-the best-known of the imperial fora-shows that it was designed according to a geometric model with a particular size utilizing a "base dimension" of 146 Roman feet. Analyses of the other fora show that the same geometric model-but with a bas

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Petrova, Maya. "History through Personality: the Romans on Imitation, Borrowing and Interpreting of Predecessor’s Texts." ISTORIYA 13, no. 5 (115) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840021336-8.

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The paper raises and discusses the problem of the attitude of Roman authors to the practice of imitating the texts of their Latin and Greek predecessors; as well as to their interpreting of the plots of early works and borrowing from them. Based on ancient sources (including the texts of Suetonius, Cicero, Macrobius and others), an attempt is made to answer the questions whether it is possible to speak of plagiarism in relation to Antiquity and how the Romans themselves treated this phenomenon. Through the analysis of Macrobius’ The Saturnalia, it is demonstrated how the controversy around the

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Gvozdeva, Inna. "Are Roman Land Surveying Methods Possible in the Heracles Peninsula in Ancient Crimea?" ISTORIYA 12, no. 12-1 (110) (2021): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840018425-6.

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The topic of this paper is an organisation of land space in the Heracles peninsula. There’s a preserved unique monument of the ancient agrarian structure there: the land surveying of chora of Tauric Chersonesos in the Heracles peninsula. Within Soviet/Russian historiography there is tradition of study of the local land surveying of the hellenistic period. There is much less monuments from the Roman time on the chora of Chersonesos. The author of this article was an participant of MSU archaeological expeditions in Heraklea in the 1970s and 1980s. The purpose of this paper is an analysis of rese

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Megaw, A. H. S., and J. W. Hayes. "Hellenistic and Roman pottery deposits from the ‘Saranda Kolones’ castle site at Paphos." Annual of the British School at Athens 98 (November 2003): 447–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400016956.

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The Crusader castle (now called ‘Saranda Kolones’) on the ancient site of Paphos was built and occupied c. AD 1192–1222. It overlies and partly truncates a series of ancient features (tombs, cisterns, wells, church remains, etc.). The layers associated with these, excavated at various times between 1957 and 1985, contain rich deposits spanning a period from the 4th century BC to the 8th/9th centuries AD.Some 410 pottery items from the pre-Castle phases are presented here, mostly in a series of 16 selected deposits arranged in chronological order. These range from early tomb-groups to stratifie

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Baryshnikov, Anton. "In Search of Durovernum: New Studies of Roman Canterbury." ISTORIYA 14, no. 2 (124) (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840024621-2.

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The paper deals with the current state of research of Durovernum cantiacorum (Roman Canterbury). History of ancient Canterbury in many aspects remains unknown and unclear despite the decades of fruitful fieldwork. One of the reasons for this is an obscuring image of Durovernum that presents it as a typical Romano-British town, almost identical to other centers of provincial urbanism. The author suggests that a number of key points in history of Roman Canterbury needs to become objects for the critical re-thinking. In particular it is needed to investigate a context of the foundation of Iron Ag

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Kotsonas, Antonis. "GREEK AND ROMAN KNOSSOS: THE PIONEERING INVESTIGATIONS OF MINOS KALOKAIRINOS." Annual of the British School at Athens 111 (June 15, 2016): 299–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245416000058.

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Minos Kalokairinos is renowned for his discovery of the Minoan palace of Knossos. However, his pioneering investigations of the topography and monuments of Greek and Roman Knossos, as laid out especially in hisCretan Archaeological Journal, have largely been overlooked. In theJournal, Kalokairinos offers invaluable information on the changing archaeological landscape of Knossos in the second half of the nineteenth century. This enables the identification of several unknown or lost monuments, including major structures, inscriptions and sculptures, and allows the location of the context of disc

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Popkin, Maggie L. "Roman Gladiator Knives: Objectification, Mascotting, and the Material Culture of Sport in Ancient Rome." Art Bulletin 105, no. 2 (2023): 36–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2023.2142891.

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Gordon, Richard, Mary Beard, Joyce Reynolds, and Charlotte Roueché. "Roman Inscriptions 1986–90." Journal of Roman Studies 83 (November 1993): 131–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/300983.

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This survey does not aim at completeness. It is a personal selection, on the one hand, of recent epigraphic work which is of significance and interest to an ancient historian, and, on the other hand, of those epigraphic ‘tools of the trade’ which are important for anyone trying to interpret an inscription. But we start with some more narrowly epigraphic topics.If the death of Louis Robert and concern for the future of the Bulletin épigraphique overshadowed the last review, it is fitting that this should begin with the good news of the rebirth of the Bulletin, produced since 1987 by an internat

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Apakidze, A., and V. Nikolaishvili. "An Aristocratic Tomb of the Roman Period from Mtskheta, Georgia." Antiquaries Journal 74 (March 1994): 16–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500024392.

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In 1985, a stone-built tomb of the second or third centuries AD was found in the Samtavro cemetery on the outskirts of Mtskheta, the ancient capital of the Caucasian kingdom of Iberia. Its rich contents included a Mesopotamian cylinder- and an Achaemenid pyramidal stamp-seal, three sardonyx vessels, several pieces of silver plate bearing Greek and Parthian inscriptions, Roman coins and bronze vessels, and distinctive jewellery inlaid with carnelian and turquoise. The Society of Antiquaries is pleased to offer the hospitality of its pages to its Georgian colleagues

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Sandon, Tatjana, and Luca Scalco. "MORE THAN MISTRESSES, LESS THAN WIVES: THE ROLE OF ROMAN CONCUBINAE IN LIGHT OF THEIR FUNERARY MONUMENTS." Papers of the British School at Rome 88 (May 19, 2020): 151–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246220000057.

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This article focuses on the role of concubinae in the Roman world, through analysis of inscriptions and reliefs on funerary monuments involving these women and their relatives. It investigates why concubinatus was chosen in preference to legal marriage, and how the concubina was perceived as a member of her partner's family. The results bring to light how this type of quasi-marital union was an appealing option for men of social standing, and that the role of concubinae accepted by their partners was not so dissimilar to that of legal wives. The article considers funerary monuments from Roman

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Rajala, Ulla. "PRE-COLONIAL LATIN COLONIES AND THE TRANSITION TO THE MID-REPUBLICAN PERIOD IN THE FALISCAN AREA AND SOUTH ETRURIA: ORIENTALIZING, ARCHAIC AND LATE ARCHAIC SETTLEMENT AND FUNERARY EVIDENCE FROM THE NEPI SURVEY." Papers of the British School at Rome 84 (September 20, 2016): 1–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246216000015.

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This paper discusses the survey evidence from the Orientalizing and Archaic settlement and funerary sites at Nepi (ancient Nepet), one of the first Latin colonies outside Latium adiectum. The comparison of its pre-Roman, pre-colonial developments to the Roman patterns from the Nepi Survey Project and the trends from other Latin colonies in southern Etruria allows the examination of the local effects of Roman colonialism. The evidence shows that Nepi seemed to develop as an independent city state in the Orientalizing period, peaked in the Archaic period and weakened before the capture of Veii i

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Teigen, Håkon Fiane. "Traders on the Margins: The Resilience of a Fourth-Century Trading Community in Roman Egypt." Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 34, no. 20 N.S. (2024): 91–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/acta.11150.

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The contribution aims to shed light on economic relations between cities and hinterland in the antique world by examining papyrological material from Ismant el-Kharab (ancient Kellis) in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis. This material provides evidence for a village community in the Oasis and its trade relations with distant urban areas in the Nile Valley. The study draws on recent research into the ancient textile trade to situate the community’s economic strategies. In turn, it examines how these strategies facilitated trade with cities in Upper Egypt, employing the notion of capabilities drawn from co

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Larson, Katherine A. "Cheap, fast, good: the Roman glassblowing revolution reconsidered." Journal of Roman Archaeology 32 (2019): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1047759419000035.

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Among the most dramatic changes in ancient material culture was the widespread adoption of glass vessels for tableware and storage during the 1st c. B.C. and 1st c. A.D. As shown by the quantity of glass finds from occupation sites of the Imperial era, glassware was much more prominent in daily life than it had been previously. This shift occurred concurrently with the widespread adoption of glassblowing. This change in consumer behavior points to a complex process of experimentation, development, and gradual adaptation on the part of both producers and consumers. The transition from centuries

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Blennow, Anna, and Frederick Whitling. "Italian dreams, Roman longings. Vilhelm Lundström and the first Swedish philological-archaeological course in Rome, 1909." Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 4 (November 2011): 143–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-04-07.

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In Sweden, the future of Classical Philology and the study of the ancient past remain uncertain a century after the first Swedish university course in Rome, led by Vilhelm Lundström, Professor of Latin at Gothenburg, and the simultaneous establishment of the study of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History in Swedish academia in 1909. The institutionalisation of the Swedish scholarly presence in Rome materialised with the establishment of the Swedish Institute in Rome (SIR) in 1925, and its inauguration the following year—partly as a result of Lundström’s pioneering initiative. The present a

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Hodges, Richard, Erika Carr, Alessandro Sebastiani, and Emanuele Vaccaro. "BEYOND BUTRINT: THE ‘MURSI SURVEY’, 2008." Annual of the British School at Athens 111 (June 14, 2016): 269–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245415000118.

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This article provides a short report on a survey of the region to the east of the ancient city of Butrint, in south-west Albania. Centred on the modern villages of Mursi and Xarra, the field survey provides information on over 80 sites (including standing monuments). Previous surveys close to Butrint have brought to light the impact of Roman Imperial colonisation on its hinterland. This new survey confirms that the density of Imperial Roman sites extends well to the east of Butrint. As in the previous surveys, pre-Roman and post-Roman sites are remarkably scarce. As a result, taking the result

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