Historical states, empires & regions

Vatikanische Museen. Museo Gregoriano Profano ex Lateranense

Bauornamentik und Architekturglieder

With the participation of numerous experts, this volume explores the holdings of the Museo Gregoriano Profano, one of the largest collections of Roman architectural elements in...

Hymnus und Verehrung im Wort.

Dichter und Dichtung in der Byzantinischen Kunst

Dr. Anastasia Limberger (*1990 in München) studierte Klassische Archäologie, Orthodoxe Theologie und Philosophie an der LMU München. 2024 wurde sie im Fach Byzantinische...

Kalkriese - Ort der Varusschlacht?

Eine quellenkritische Analyse anhand der Kleinfunde der Kalkriese-Niewedder Senke

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...

Die Architektur der Schatzhäuser von Olympia

Spuren des griechischen Westens im Mutterland

The treasure houses of the Archaic and Early Classical periods in Olympia have been the subject of research since June 2018. The new study is based on the estate of the building...

From Germania Inferior to Arabia Petraea

New Perspectives on Roman Legionary Camps

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,...

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

The Spoliated Past: Heritage, Antiquarianism, and Byzantine Material Culture Across Time and Space

The articles in this volume seek to shed new light on frequently overlooked archaisms and acts of spoliation. This book is about ideas, style, and material objects, their reuse...

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

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...

Colour Schemes in Roman Architecture

Aesthetics, Semantics, and Regional Appropriation

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...

Coining Values

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

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,...

›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...

Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Age demonstrates how the writings of the first-century Judaean historian influenced the genesis, nature and...

Verehrt – verdammt – vergessen

Die Mütter der römischen Kaiser

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;...

Die Mainzer Salus

Gesellschaft und Stadtkultur im Norden der Germania Superior

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...

A Layered History of Karakorum

Stratigraphy and Periodization in the City Center

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The up to 5 m thick stratigraphy in the center of Karakorum, the most important city of the Mongol Empire north...

Craft Production in the Mongol Empire

Karakorum and its Artisans

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The book offers for the first time an in-depth study of craft production in the capital of the Mongol Empire,...

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...

Die altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden

Editio minor mit deutscher Übersetzung

In this book may be found a complete edition and German translation of the Old Persian texts of the mostly trilingual cuneiform inscriptions of the Persian kings from the...

The Mosaics of Roger II in Sicily

Visualizing Sacred Authority

The ideas for this book emerged in direct eye contact with the mosaics on the scaffolds of the Cappella Palatina and the Martorana in Palermo and the Cathedral of Cefalù. With...

Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity

A Journey on the Trail of Apostles, Martyrs and Local Saints

Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity is a journey of discovery of the rich religious landscape of Cilicia in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity, with its contrasting and...

Octavians unentbehrliche Helfer

Die Männer hinter seinem Aufstieg zum Augustus

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Das an ein breites Publikum gerichtete Buch führt durch einen der wichtigsten Abschnitte der römischen...