Ancient History

Villa und christlicher Kult auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in Spätantike und Westgotenzeit

This volume examines important complexes of late antique and Visigothic villas in rural areas throughout the Iberian peninsula with regard to the process of Christianization,...

The Joshua Roll

The “Joshua Roll” (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. gr. 431), a tenth-century illuminated scroll of the first half of the Old Testament book of Joshua, is among the...

Arbeitsbuch zur Lateinischen Historischen Phonologie

This book has been designed for students of Latin and Indo-European-Linguistics and can be used for university-courses or self-study in order to learn the complex issues of Latin...

Selinus II

Die punische Stadt auf der Akropolis

In 409 BC, the Greek colonial town Selinous in Sicily was conquered by the Carthaginians and fell under Punic governance. Having primarily functioned as a military base during the...

Krise und Wandel

Süditalien im 4. und 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Internationaler Kongress anlässlich des 65. Geburtstages von Dieter Mertens

During the fourth and third centuries BC, Sicily and South Italy were the site of almost incessant conflicts between their indigenous peoples, Greek settlers, Punic colonists, and...

Die Basilica Aemilia am Forum Romanum

Der kaiserzeitliche Bau und seine Ornamentik

The Basilica Aemilia in the Forum Romanum is one of the most important buildings of ancient Rome due to its location, size and architecture. It is also especially well preserved...

Fibeln und Gürtelzubehör der späten römischen Kaiserzeit aus Augusta Vindelicum/Augsburg

For the first time ever is the large, manifold collection of late Roman brooches and belt fittings from the late third until the first half of the fifth century AD from the...

Madrider Mitteilungen

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S. SANZ GONZÁLEZ DE LEMA
Clima y cambio cultural en el Valle del Ebro y Levante español. Paisajes de la...

Christliche Archäologie compact

Ein topographischer Überblick. Europa – Asien – Afrika

“Christian archaeology compact” is the first overview of the whole of the archaeological places and certifications of this discipline. The framework extends geographically from...

Die Baugeschichte der Sophienkirche in Sofia

The unique architecture of the Hagia Sophia Church in Sofia, Bulgaria, gives it a prominent role not only in the history of the city, which assumed the name of the church, but...

Egypt 1350 BC to AD 1800

Art Historical and Archeological Studies for Gawdat Gabra

This tribute by a baker’s dozen of women to the esteemed Coptologist Gawdat Gabra comprises articles dealing with subjects reflecting his scholarly interests in the art and...

Die Ehrenbögen in Pompeji

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Fünf Bogenbauten zieren als Ehrenmonumente zentral gelegene Plätze Pompejis. Seit langem sind sie bekannt und...

Seals, Sealings and Tokens from Gandhara

Ancient seals say much about people, their names, preferred styles and self-esteem. Over many decades Aman ur Rahman has built a large collection of seals from North-Western...

Frühbyzantinische textile Kopfbedeckungen

Typologie, Verbreitung, Chronologie und soziologischer Kontext nach Originalfunden

The analysis of archaeological textiles in order to write their ancient cultural history is still in its infancy. This study contributes to this process by cataloging more than...

Funktion und Nutzung der Krypta im Mittelalter

Heiligsprechung und Heiligenverehrung am Beispiel Italien

Under the lasting influence of romantic-mystic views of the 19th and 20th century the function of a crypt within the structure of a church is still a matter of false...

Äsop – Der frühneugriechische Roman

Einführung, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Kritische Ausgabe

The “Vita Aesopi,” known today as “Aesop's Fables,” characterizes the life of the legendary fabulist Aesop up through his death in Delphi with a variety of funny individual...

Das Buch und die vier Ecken der Welt

Von der Hülle der Thorarolle zum Deckel des Evangeliencodex

Starting with a detailed iconographic analysis of the four angles (gammadia) placed in the four corners of the book covers gifted by the Lombard queen Theodelinda to the basilica...

Feinkeramik aus Knidos vom mittleren Hellenismus bis in die mittlere Kaiserzeit (ca. 200 v.Chr. bis 150 n.Chr.)

During the time of Hellenism and of the Empire, the ancient city of Knidos was one of the most important manufacturing centers of fine tableware in the eastern Mediterranean. To...

Die Akropolis von Athen im Hellenismus und in der römischen Kaiserzeit

Internationales Kolloquium vom 16. bis 17. Juni 2006 in Bonn

In the Hellenistic and particularly the Roman Imperial period the Acropolis of Athens embodied the greatness of the “polis” in Classical times and must to an extent have attained...

Das Poseidonheiligtum bei Akovitika in Messenien

Struktur und Entwicklungszusammenhang eines regionalen Zentrums. Ergebnisse einer Notgrabung 1969 und einer Nachuntersuchung mit Prospektion 2005

Named after a suburb of the present city of Kalamata, the Poseidon sanctuary of Akovitika achieved considerable importance in the early Iron Age, even though it was surrounded by...