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Comparative advantage, specialized viticulture, and the economic development of Gallia Narbonensis Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Candace M. Rice
This paper explores the processes of specialized viticulture in the province of Gallia Narbonensis over the first three centuries CE and brings this evidence to bear on broader economic questions, particularly as they relate to the effects of connectivity and globalization on Roman economic development. Evidence from small farms to sprawling villas suggests that specialized production stretched across
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A monumental Archaic complex on the Sacra Via: a new interpretation of the domestic remains on the north Palatine slope Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Amelia W. Eichengreen
This article presents a new interpretation of the results of the 1980s excavations led by Andrea Carandini on the north Palatine slope. In contrast to Carandini's original reconstruction of the complex as four atrium houses, I propose one palatial complex on the Sacra Via that finds some parallels in recently excavated complexes elsewhere, like the Auditorium site in Rome and the Borgo at San Giovenale
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L'amphithéâtre de Lepti Minus: un acte de munificence locale Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Lotfi Naddari, Najib Ben Lazreg
RésuméUn texte récemment mis au jour dans les environs de Lepti Minus (Lamta, dans le Sahel tunisien), gravé sur sur la face principale d'une base de statue, apporte un éclairage substantiel concernant l’édification de l'amphithéâtre de la ville: le contexte d‘édification, la nature du financement et l'identité des évergètes qui l‘ont pris en charge. Il s'agit donc d'un hommage public que le populus
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The transformation of Mithraea in the Late Roman period Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-11-24 David Walsh
Discussions of mithraea tend to emphasize their uniformity. While it is true that many earlier mithraea do adhere to an established plan, there are a notable number of mithraea dating from the late 3rd c. onward that do not. This article discusses these various atypical mithraea, how such alterations to the standard mithraeum plan might have impacted on Mithraic rituals, and how this might have affected
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“Baked bread to the people”: bread distribution and social and political networks at Pompeii Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Steven L. Tuck
In 2017, archaeologists at Pompeii discovered by far the longest tomb inscription ever found at the city on a monumental tomb. This elogium provided insight into many aspects of the city's social, economic, and political world. One clause attests to the distribution of baked bread in the city. This note argues that the passage provides new evidence from Pompeii that answers two longstanding questions
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“Fine dining” in the Roman provinces: an interdisciplinary study of a peristyle house kitchen at the legionary camp of Vindonissa, Switzerland Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Simone Häberle, Sabine Deschler-Erb, Matthias Flück, Philippe Rentzel, Angela Schlumbaum, Patricia Vandorpe
The peristyle house kitchen in the legionary camp at Vindonissa is one of the few examples of a Mediterranean-style kitchen with a raised hearth in the northwestern provinces. The exceptional preservation of the kitchen made possible an interdisciplinary investigation combining archaeological, archaeobiological, and micromorphological analyses in order to reconstruct dietary and food-processing practices
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The reuse of ancient tuff blocks in early medieval construction in Rome Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Margaret M. Andrews
This paper analyzes the reuse of ancient tuff blocks in early medieval architecture in Rome, in both papal and private structures. The blocks are a well-known phenomenon, but they have not yet received any focused study. Short discussions in earlier scholarship have typically described them in utilitarian terms. I first identify a pattern of targeted reuse in papal building projects. I then argue that
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Maiores di pietra. L'immagine della famiglia nei monumenti sepolcrali della Regio X Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Luca Scalco
L'articolo indaga le immagini di famiglia sui monumenti funerari della Venetia, concentrate per lo più nel corso dell'età giulio-claudia, anche incrociando le informazioni epigrafiche e integrando l'analisi con elaborazioni quantitative. Si registra una certa codificazione del significato parentale, che emerge dallo schema iconografico e viene ribadito dai gesti, mentre abiti e oggetti aiutavano a
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Do shape and size matter? The distribution of Amphore Crétoise 4 containers, 1st–3rd c. CE Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Scott Gallimore
This paper examines the distinctive distribution patterns of Amphore Crétoise (AC) 4 amphoras within Roman trade networks through critical assessment of the morphological attributes of this amphora type compared to AC1–3 jars and through consideration of the mechanisms that underlie these patterns. This builds on a growing number of studies that have focused on the design attributes of amphoras as
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Rings from the Forbidden Forest: the function and meaning of Roman trinket rings Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Philip Kiernan, Klaus-Peter Henz
A group of 24 bronze finger-rings threaded onto a wire bracelet was unearthed in 2018 at the Roman vicus at Wareswald (the “Forbidden Forest”) in Gallia Belgica. The find is analyzed here alongside evidence for the use, sale, and production of Roman rings. The find represents the work of a local craftsman, active in the first quarter of the 4th c. CE. While the rings were made in a small rural town
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Of horses and men – Garrisoning the empire: stable-barracks on a grand scale in the auxiliary fort of the ala I Batavorum milliaria at Războieni-Cetate (Alba Iulia County, Romania) and the spatial planning of Roman forts Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Alexander Rubel, Carsten Mischka
This article explores ideas about stable-barracks, which have received much attention in recent provincial Roman archaeology. This renewed attention stems from new discoveries in Romania that prompt a re-evaluation of earlier conclusions. Geomagnetic investigations and subsequent excavations of the fort of the ala I Batavorum milliaria in Războieni-Cetate (Alba County) have shown that, contrary to
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Las Geórgicas de Virgilio in figlinis: a propósito de un grafito ante cocturam sobre un ánfora olearia bética Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Iván González Tobar, Antònia Soler i Nicolau, Piero Berni Millet
La riqueza epigráfica de las ánforas olearias de la provincia Bética es bien conocida gracias a los numerosos sellos de alfarero, rótulos pintados (tituli picti) y grafitos grabados en la arcilla fresca (ante cocturam). Éstos últimos suelen contener signos y simples letras, pero a veces, también nombres de personas y fechas calendariales y consulares. En este trabajo presentamos un grafito de carácter
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Roman-era alluvial waste in the Vistre de la Fontaine (Nîmes, southeast France): from a sacred spring to a contaminated river Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Clément Flaux, Sabrina Save, Maxime Scrinzi, Nicolas Minvielle Larousse, Christophe Vaschalde, Audrey Renaud, Margaux Tillier, Abel Guihou, Pierre Deschamps, Alain Véron
The excavation of a palaeochannel at the Vistre de la Fontaine 2-2 archaeological site, 3 km downstream from the ancient city of Nîmes (southeastern France), provided an accumulation sequence covering the last 2,500 years. Trace metal analyses of these alluvial sediments disclosed lead (Pb) contamination during the Early Roman Empire, with concentrations close to 1,000 ppm, a factor of 100 above the
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The water cycle in Reccopolis Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Javier Martínez Jiménez, Joaquín Checa Herráiz
Reccopolis was a new city built in Visigothic Spain in the late 6th c. CE. Even rarer than this example of an ex novo urban foundation in the post-Roman West is the fact that the city was equipped with a brand-new aqueduct. The aqueduct has, until now, only been partially studied, but in this paper we update and re-assess the original, preliminary results. We consider the city's whole water cycle,
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Modular designs at the Early Byzantine pilgrimage site of Philoxenite, Egypt Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Mariusz Gwiazda
New research at the site of Philoxenite in northern Egypt has identified six large building complexes, each based on a modular design. Each building is composed of replicated segments and dates to the 6th c. CE. This approach to design, used at Philoxenite, is not seen elsewhere on such a scale at this date. Nevertheless, modular design was deeply rooted in the construction traditions of the Roman
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Tra aerofotointerpretazione e indagini sul campo: linee di ricerca per la ricostruzione dell'insediamento di Nuceriola (Benevento, Italia) Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Cristiano Benedetto De Vita, Marco Limongiello, Daniela Musmeci, Alfonso Santoriello
L'insediamento antico di Nuceriola lungo la via Appia (Benevento, Italia) rappresenta un interessante contesto per lo studio delle forme insediative nel territorio del Sannio. Con un arco di vita che va dal IV sec. a.C. al VI sec. d.C., privo di superfetazioni postantiche, esso è diventato un punto di osservazione privilegiato per il progetto Ancient Appia Landscapes (Università di Salerno), in particolare
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Sexual art on Roman lamps: analysis of provincial data Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Sanja Vucetic
In the Roman world, lamps with replicated images of sex were in circulation from the late 1st c. BCE until the end of the 4th c. CE. This paper maps out key regional and chronological trends in the representation and consumption of these objects using data from 11 provincial sites. It demonstrates sustained sensitivity of replicated sexual disc-reliefs to distinctive regional styles of consumption
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A unique Silandos medallion of Faustina II from Blaundos in Lydia Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Ömer Tatar
During the 2019 archaeological excavation season in Blaundos, a Roman-period bronze medallion was found within a wall of a Byzantine-period structure on the main street. It is a medallion struck by the Lydian city of Silandos, bearing the bust of Faustina II on the obverse and Marcus Aurelius clasping hands with Lucius Verus on the reverse. A literature search revealed that it is a rare and unpublished
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Engagements in and beyond Rome in the 5th c. BCE: architectural remains as evidence for action across geo-temporal boundaries Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-27 John North Hopkins
In the 5th c. BCE, Rome is understood to have experienced a moment of transition. Scholars highlight evidence for warfare absent widespread triumph, social conflict within Rome, and regional disruption in established power dynamics, trade networks, and material cultures. Despite a revised understanding of the period, wherein narratives of decline were superseded by those of transformation, the long
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Marble trade in the Roman Mediterranean: a quantitative and diachronic study Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Devi Taelman
Marble provenance studies in archaeology have become increasingly popular in recent decades. This has resulted in a large quantity of analytical data becoming available for archaeological marbles. This article presents the results of a quantitative study of the distribution of white marble in the Mediterranean based on an analysis of the available provenance data for the Roman period. The study shows
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The newly discovered tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio at the Porta Sarno, Pompeii: Neronian zeitgeist and its local reflection Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Llorenç Alapont Martin, Gabriel Zuchtriegel
The tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio was discovered in July 2021 in the necropolis of Porta Sarno at Pompeii. This paper contextualizes it against the backdrop of 1st-c. CE burial customs and social history. The inscription on the pediment shows that the tomb owner was a former public slave who, after manumission, rose to the rank of the Augustales; he was a “custodian” of the temple of Venus, and
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Exploring Roman picture lamp breakage rituals in light of mechanical experimentation Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Eric C. Lapp
Intentionally broken “picture” lamps, or Bildlampen, are relatively common at archaeological sites throughout the Roman world. Such lamps typically exhibit a missing central discus. The discus itself – called a lamp “medallion” – often survives, too, and represents further evidence for deliberate lamp breakage. This article explores picture lamps with missing discuses and lamp medallions as a distinct
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A new kind of segmented mill from Africa Proconsularis Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Skander Souissi
This paper attempts an overview of new kind of segmented mill, examples of which have been found at Thysdrus (El Jem) and Zama in Africa Proconsularis. These grain mills are quite different morphologically and technically from other mills in the ancient Mediterranean world. These rare archaeological finds are not discussed in the ancient literature or in modern scholarship, leaving them difficult to
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The role of drought during the Hunnic incursions into central-east Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Susanne E. Hakenbeck, Ulf Büntgen
The Hunnic incursions into eastern and central Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE have historically been considered one of the key factors in bringing the Roman Empire to an end. However, both the origins of the Huns and their impact on the late Roman provinces remain poorly understood. Here we provide a new, combined assessment of the archaeological, historical, and environmental evidence. Hunnic raids
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The Roman Republican castellum of Puig Castellar (Biosca): the earliest evidence for military headquarters in Hispania Citerior (180–120 BCE) Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Esther Rodrigo, Núria Romaní, Cesar Carreras, Joaquim Pera, Laia Catarineu
This paper illustrates the results of research carried out at the archaeological site of Puig Castellar de Biosca (Catalonia, Spain), located in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. This Republican military fortress, a castellum, is exceptional due both to its early chronology, which ranges between 180 and 120 BCE, and to the fact that it acted as a long-lasting military installation situated in
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Between the living and the dead: use, reuse, and imitation of painted portraits in Late Antiquity Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Grace Stafford
Painted portraits on wood and cloth were common in the ancient world and prized as authentic and lifelike images. Affordable, portable, and desirable, they were an important form of representation, but rarely survive in the archaeological record outside Egypt. This article approaches the study of painted portraiture in a way that does not necessitate the survival of the images themselves. It analyzes
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Signed by Valerius: an Early Imperial wall painting from the fort of Deir el-Atrash in the Egyptian Eastern Desert Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Julie Marchand, Joachim Le Bomin, Adam Bülow-Jacobsen
During the 2020 excavation campaign of the French Archaeological Mission to the Egyptian Eastern Desert (MAFDO), the team in charge of the excavation of the Roman fort of Deir el-Atrash uncovered a polychrome painting on one of the original entrance tower gates from the late 1st–early 2nd c. CE. The iconographic program includes, in the top register, a horseman genius and a caravan of dromedaries with
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Smallpox's antiquity in doubt Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Timothy P. Newfield, Ana T. Duggan, Hendrik Poinar
Smallpox, caused by the variola virus (VARV), is prominent in modern histories of the ancient Mediterranean world. The disease, or the diagnosis of it, has shaped estimations of the scale and significance of epidemics and pandemics, notably the 2nd-c. Antonine plague, and the burden of disease in large cities and regions densely populated in antiquity. Here we synthesize recent paleogenetic and evolutionary
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Smellscape of a Pompeian neighborhood Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Laura Nissin
Smelling and other sensations that are often considered solely physiological phenomena are in fact deeply influenced by culture and history, and without understanding the ancient sensory landscape, our knowledge of the past inevitably remains limited. This paper explores the olfactory nuisances in one Pompeian city block (IX,3) and its immediate neighbors. I examine the area's stenches by tracing and
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New perspectives on the Sertorian War in northeastern Hispania: archaeological surveys of the Roman camps of the lower River Ebro Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Jaume Noguera, Pau Valdés, Eduard Ble
In recent decades, conflict archaeology has renewed study of the Roman Republican military, with Hispania as one of the most prolific areas of research. Following this trend, since 2006 the University of Barcelona has conducted archaeological investigations at several sites in the lower Ebro basin. When no structures or archaeological layers remained in situ, surface survey became a key methodology
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Down from the roof: reframing plants in Augustan art Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Sophie Crawford-Brown
The Augustan marble “revolution” marked more than the substitution of one building material for another. It changed Rome's color, texture, and light, and visually redefined its sacred architecture. For centuries, temples in and around Rome had been decorated with brightly painted architectural terracottas, which typically featured a swirling array of plants and flowers. Terracotta was the material
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Old and new evidence for glass in opera sectilia: visual dialogues between appearance and reality Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Eleonora Gasparini
This article analyses the phenomenon of glass in wall and floor opera sectilia from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. This type of decoration was developed in Alexandria – as testified by archaeological finds – and then spread across the Greco-Roman world. In Rome the art created a backdrop for a series of displays – especially in imperial palaces and elite housing – that spanned the Imperial
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Thirsty cities? The supply, management, and perception of water in Byzantine North Africa Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Nicolas Lamare
Cities of North Africa experienced a long occupation up to the late 7th c. CE. Despite numerous studies on Late Antique urbanism, no systematic investigation of urban hydraulics has been carried out so far. This paper examines the hydraulic topography of three cities in the Byzantine period (ca. 6th c. CE): Leptis Magna (Tripolitania), Sbeitla (Byzacena), and Timgad (Numidia). This analysis assesses
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How do you solve a problem like the city? Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-06 J. Andrew Dufton
The ebbs and flows of archaeological scholarship often see trends come and go, with big questions giving way to more fine-grained analysis only to, in turn, feed back into new, sweeping narratives. Thinking about the ancient city is no exception. Recent works from across the spectrum of archaeology and ancient history show a desire to draw new connections amongst urban sites in the same region, to
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Living in a fringe environment: three Late Roman settlements in the Kharga Oasis (Egypt's Western Desert) Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Corinna Rossi, Nicoletta De Troia, Andrea Pasqui, Antonello Migliozzi
This article presents a comparative analysis of three Late Roman sites located at the northern outskirts of the Kharga Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert: Umm al-Dabadib, Ayn al-Labakha, and the Gib/Sumayra Complex. These were part of the district of the Oasis Magna, which included the oases of Dakhla and Kharga. An analysis of their layout, including both shape and extent, is followed by an evaluation
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Tracking liquid savings at Pompeii: the coin hoard data Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Kim Bowes
This article examines the newly published data on coin hoards from Pompeii, focusing on coins and other objects found on victims, and hoards from so-called savings boxes. Most of the work on savings or capital in the Roman world has focused on the size and composition of elite fortunes and the nature and extent of credit and monetization writ large. The article uses the Pompeii coin data set to examine
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Genealogy and interpretive potential of an iconic regional survey project: The British School at Rome's Tiber Valley Project - H. Patterson, R. Witcher, and H. Di Giuseppe [contr. by M. Millett, S. Keay, and C. Smith; preface by A. Wallace-Hadrill]. 2020. The Changing Landscapes of Rome's Northern Hinterland. The British School at Rome's Tiber Valley Project, Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 70. Oxford: Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Peter Attema
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Becoming medieval: cities on the Iberian peninsula and in North Africa - S. Panzram, and L. Callegarin, eds. 2018. Entre civitas y madīna. El mundo de las ciudades en la Península Ibérica y en el norte de África (siglos IV-IX). Pp. XVI + 393. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez. ISBN 978-84-9096-216-9. Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Susan T. Stevens
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What lies beneath the Roman settlement network of the Balkan and Danube provinces: A quantitative approach - D. Donev 2019. The Busy Periphery: Urban Systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd – 3rd c. AD). Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 61. Oxford: Archaeopress. Pp. viii+380, 106 figs., 21 tables, 123 maps. ISBN 9781789693492 (print); ISBN 9781789693508 (e-book). Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Rada Varga
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Quid novum ad mensam hodie? The faunal remains from a Roman road station at Khirbet es-Samra, Jordan Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Hervé Monchot
This article describes the numerous bone remains discovered in a Roman road station, a mansio, on the Via Nova Traiana. The finds are exceptional and provide valuable insights into the daily life, environment, and economy of a road station. The assemblage is dominated by domestic species, mainly sheep/goat, followed, to a lesser extent, by chicken, cattle, and pigs. Beasts of burden (donkey, camel)
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Written in stone: Roman trade society viewed through the lens of epigraphy - P. Arnaud, and S. Keay, eds. 2020. Roman Port Societies: The Evidence of Inscriptions. British School at Rome studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 454. ISBN 978-1-108-48622-4. Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Nicholas K. Rauh
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Extra ordinem utilitatis causa constituti sunt: an update of the prosopography of Praefecti annonae - M. L. Caldelli 2020. I prefetti dell'annona d'augusto a Costantino. Collection de l’École française de Rome 577. Rome: École française de Rome. Pp. 154. ISBN: 978–2–7283–1458–4. DOI: 10.4000/books.efr.7922. Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Lluís Pons Pujol
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From the Nile to the Red Sea: On roads, quarries, and mines - S. E. Sidebotham, and J. E. Gates-Foster, eds., with J.-L. Rivard, figures ed. 2019. The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley: Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987–2015. American Schools of Oriental Research Archeological Reports Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Laure Pantalacci
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Tradition und Rezeption. Zur Entwicklung des ionischen Kapitells im kaiserzeitlichen Hierapolis (Phrygien) - S. Bozza 2020. Architettura ionica a Hierapolis di Frigia. Hierapolis di Frigia 14. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları. Pp. XXIII + 389, Illustrationen, Pläne. ISBN 978-605-7673-37-4 Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Natalia Toma
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Plaster, wax, and bronze: Medardo Rosso meets the ancient world - S. Hecker, ed. 2021. Finding Lost Wax: The Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient Casting Technique and the Experiments of Medardo Rosso. Studies in Art & Materiality 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Pp. xxviii + 350, 157 figs (128 color). ISBN 978-90-04-43421-9. Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Carol C. Mattusch
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Trade, institutions, and the ancient economy - T. T. Terpstra 2019. Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Pp. x + 274, 6 maps, 9 black-and-white figs. ISBN 978-0-691-17208-8. Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter Candy
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Crossing oceans: Interdisciplinary research and ancient trade routes - F. De Romanis 2020. The Indo-Roman Pepper Trade and the Muziris Papyrus. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 381, 49 black-and-white figs. ISBN 978-0-19-884234-7. Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Marike van Aerde
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Object lessons: studying Late Antique and Early Medieval things - D. Deliyannis, H. Dey, and P. Squatriti. 2019. Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. xv + 246. ISBN 978-1-501-72589-0 (cloth); 978-1-501-72590-6 (paper). Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Ann Marie Yasin
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Law and legal institutions in the Roman Empire - K. Czajkowski, and B. Eckhardt, eds., in collaboration with M. Strothmann. 2020. Law in the Roman Provinces. Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xii, 526. ISBN 9780198844082. Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Dennis Kehoe
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2nd c. CE defenses around small towns in Roman Britain structured by road network connectivity Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Joseph Lewis
The large-scale provision of defenses around small towns in Roman Britain during the 2nd c. CE is without parallel in the Roman Empire. Although the relationship between defended small towns and the Roman road network has been noted previously, provincial-level patterns remain to be explored. Using network analysis and spatial inference methods, this paper shows that defended small towns in the 2nd
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Beyond social and functional interpretations of wall paintings: mythological imagery in the tablinum at Pompeii and Herculaneum Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Ambra Spinelli
This paper investigates the mythological wall paintings decorating the room known as the tablinum in atrium houses at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Scholars have considered the tablinum part of the “public” section of the house and have linked this room to the formal morning greeting, or salutatio, despite the fact that no ancient literary source mentions the tablinum in connection with this daily ritual
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Viticulture, opus doliare, and the patrimonium Caesaris at the Roman imperial estate at Vagnari (Puglia) Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Maureen Carroll
This article focuses on the establishment of a winery on the Roman imperial estate at Vagnari in southeast Italy in the 2nd c. CE and the ceramic vats (dolia defossa) needed to mature and store the estate's vintages. A scientific analysis of the clay used to make the dolia has revealed their likely place of manufacture to have been in Latium or on the border between Latium and Campania on the Tyrrhenian
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Tracking consumption at Pompeii: the graffiti lists Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Kim Bowes
This paper examines five graffiti expense lists from Pompeii for information on the habits of consumption in the Vesuvian cities. It is intended as a contribution to the growing literature on economic well-being in Pompeii, focusing on the diet and consumption strategies of the nonelite Roman majority. These lists provide rare quantitative evidence for a portion of a whole diet, as well as nonfood
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The Novallas bronze tablet: An inscription in the Celtiberian language and the Latin alphabet from Spain Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Francisco Beltrán Lloris, Carlos Jordán Cólera, Borja Díaz Ariño, Ignacio Simón Cornago
The Novallas Bronze may be considered one of the most important epigraphic finds in recent years in Spain. It is a fragment of a public document datable to the last decades of the 1st c. BCE, composed in the Celtiberian language but written in the Latin alphabet. The Novallas Bronze is not only one of the latest inscriptions composed in this language – over half a century later than the famous inscriptions
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La Mater Deum in epoca romana: il suo culto e i suoi attori - L. Dubosson-Sbriglione 2018. Le culte de la Mère des dieux dans l'Empire romain. PAwB 62. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. Pp. 551, ISBN 978-3-515-11990-0 (Print); ISBN 978-3-515-12003-6 (E-Book). Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-12-27 Alberto Gavini
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A Werner A2 ewer from Byzantine Cartagena and the distribution of bronze cast vessels in the western Mediterranean around 600 CE – ERRATUM Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Joan Pinar Gil,Jaime Vizcaíno Sánchez
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Ad exitum Tiberis in mare fluentis: quelques réflexions à propos des territoires du delta du Tibre - M. † Cébeillac-Gervasoni, N. Laubry, et F. Zevi , eds. 2019. Ricerche su Ostia e il suo territorio. Atti del Terzo Seminario Ostiense (Roma, École française de Rome, 21–22 ottobre 2015). Collection de l’École française de Rome 553. Rome: École française de Rome. DOI : 10.4000/books.efr.3637. Pp. 412 Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Grégory Mainet
Depuis leur première édition, le 1 juin 2012, les Seminari Ostiensi sont devenus un rendez-vous majeur pour quiconque s’intéresse à l’histoire antique du delta du Tibre. Chacune de ces rencontres est l’occasion de présenter à la communauté archéologique les recherches en cours, mais aussi d’approfondir des problématiques plus spécifiques. Le Terzo Seminario Ostiense, organisé les 21 et 22 octobre 2015
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Le origini etrusche: labirinto senza uscita, ludus scientiae o sfida ancora aperta? - Dominique Briquel. 2019. Les origines des Étrusques. Un débat antique, 3 vols. École française de Rome – Classiques; École française de Rome. Vol. 1 [Les Pélasges en Italie. Recherches sur l'histoire de la légende]: Pp. LXXVII + 657, ISBN 978-2-7283-1399-0; vol. 2 [L'origine lydienne des Étrusques. Histoire de la Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Vincenzo Bellelli
BRIQUEL, DOMINIQUE. 2019. Les origines des Étrusques. Un débat antique, 3 vols. École française de Rome – Classiques; École française de Rome. Vol. 1 [Les Pélasges en Italie. Recherches sur l’histoire de la légende]: Pp. LXXVII + 657, ISBN 978-2-7283-1399-0; vol. 2 [L’origine lydienne des Étrusques. Histoire de la doctrine dans l’Antiquité]: Pp. X + 575, ISBN 978-2-7283-1400-3; vol. 3 [Les Tyrrhènes
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Medicine in Roman households during the Late Republic and Early Empire, and Cato's cabbage - J. Draycott 2019. Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy: From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire. Medicine and the Body in Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Pp. xiii + 185, 27 figs. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3396-1. Journal of Roman Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Ann Ellis Hanson
Jane Draycott (D.) embarks on an ambitious project: to describe and clarify the medical habits and practices that characterized households in Latium during the period in which Romans were transforming themselves from bellicose farmers and herdsmen into Mediterranean imperialists. The slim volume begins with a 21-page introduction, establishing as D.’s central concern the health and sense of well-being