Oceans & seas

Micro-regions as spaces of socio-ecological Interaction

1st Milestone Workshop of the Project »The Transformation of the Pergamon Micro-region between the Hellenistic and the roman Imperial Period«, Istanbul 11–12 March 2022

The growing awareness of the current climate crisis has led to an increased interest in the investigation of historical human-environment interactions. In this context, the...

Neue Ansätze zur Erforschung spätantiker Ideal- und Portraitplastik: Stilkritik, Kontexte, naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen

Beiträge eines Workshops an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 13.–16. Juni 2018

The contributions to a workshop on late antique sculpture, held at Halle University in 2018, discuss new findings and research projects as well as archaeometric analyses of...

Kulte - Orte - Körperteile

Eine Neubewertung der Weihung anatomischer Votive in Latiums Heiligtümer

The study focuses on the phenomenon of anatomical votives dedicated into the sanctuaries of ancient Latium (Italy) in the 4th to 1st cent. BC. These anatomical votives have...

Die römische Kaiservilla Pausilypon

Gesamtanlage und Bauten des oberen Plateaus

The villa Pausilypon is situated on the Bay of Naples and represents one of the few examples of its kind, that can clearly be assigned to the Roman emperors for a period of at...

Von Blüten und Krisen

Eine wirtschaftsarchäologische Studie zum kaiserzeitlichen Südetrurien

The book is focused, on the one hand, on a historiographical analysis of the theoretical and methodological modelling of the structure and performance of the Roman economy. On the...

Praktiken der Aneignung

Kulturelle Kontakte im nordöstlichen Azovraum vom späten 7.–3. Jh. v. Chr.

Once a Greek settlement was founded near the delta of the Don (Russian Federation) in the last quarter of the 7th century B.C., long-term contacts were established with poleis on...

Morgantina Studies VII. The City Plan and Political Agora

Results of the excavations conducted by Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Virginia

The orthogonal city plan was adopted in the mid-fifth century BCE and implies a democratic constitution. Almost entirely excavated, Morgantina’s large agora offers a detailed...

Studies on the Urban History of Meninx (Djerba)

The Meninx Archaeological Project 2015–2019

This volume offers a synthesis of the multifaceted results of a Tunisian-German research project carried out at the ancient seaport of Meninx on Djerba. Geophysical prospection...

Privatporträts mit Repliken

Zur Sozialgeschichte römischer Bildnisse der mittleren Kaiserzeit

The main intention of this book is to show, that during the Roman Empire the portraits of non-imperial citizens were dublicated in the same way as the portraits of the Emperors....

Hellenistische Wanddekorationen

Syntax, Semantik und Chronologie des Ersten Stils im westlichen Mittelmeerraum

The study analyses decorations of the First Style in terms of their appearance, diffusion, application, and importance in the Western Mediterranean. Based on fragments from more...

Ansichten des Krieges

Kampfreliefs klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit im Kulturvergleich

The study is dedicated to the visual language and the messages of reliefs showing images of battle and fight, which provided the contemporary viewers with models of explanation...

Herodotus’s Scythians and Ptolemy’s Central Asia

Semasiological and Onomasiological Studies

The present book deals with semasiological and onomasiological questions in Herodotus's (5th century B.C.) famous portrayal of the Scythians and in Ptolemy's description of the...

Die antiken Architekturformen im nördlichen Schwarzmeergebiet

Herkunft und Entwicklung

The study investigates the appearance and further development of architectural orders in the major Greek colonies in the North Pontus, especially in the main cities Tyras, Olbia,...

Sokotra

Mensch und Natur

Sokotra in the Indian Ocean is one of the best preserved tropical islands. This copiously illustrated volume presents the unique and evolutionarily interesting flora and fauna of...

Asia Minor and Black Sea Area. The Epoch of Mithradates the Great (121-63 B.C.)