Antike Graffitizeichnungen

Motive, Gestaltung und Bedeutung

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More than 2500 graffiti-drawings from the Classical Antiquity have survived the centuries and are known to us today, compiled and published together for the first time in this book. These ancient drawings (sketches of figures, heads and busts, gladiators, animals, …

Steine und Pfeiler für die Götter

Weihgeschenkgattungen in westgriechischen Stadtheiligtümern

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Due to extraordinarily good find conditions the Greek colony Metapont in Lower Italy gives very clear evidence of the following circumstance: In wide areas of the representative and sacral centre of the polis, in the “urban sanctuary”, i.e. at magnificent …

Ubi diutius nobis habitandum est

Die Innendekoration der kaiserzeitlichen Gräber Roms

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„Dwellings of the dead” is nearly a synonym for burial chambers of the imperial period that does not arise from poetical imagination alone, but seems to be corroborated by archeological findings. In the present study it is for the first …

Römischer Bestattungsbrauch und Beigabensitten

in Rom, Norditalien und den Nordwestprovinzen von der späten Republik bis in die Kaiserzeit.Internationales Kolloquium, Rom vom 1. bis 3. April 1998

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A society’s way of treating its dead, which can be observed archaeologically in burial usages and customs concerning grave goods, allows important conclusions to be drawn with regard to its social structure and values. A colloquium dedicated to this subject …

Chiragan, Aphrodisias, Konstantinopel

Zur mythologischen Skulptur der Spätantike

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Bis vor wenigen Jahren ging die archäologische Forschung davon aus, dass die Kunst des 4. nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts nicht mehr an mythologischen Darstellungen interessiert gewesen und außerdem die handwerklichen Voraussetzungen dafür abhanden gekommen seien. Mittlerweile sprechen immer mehr Funde und Beobachtungen …

Im Spiegel des Mythos. Bilderwelt und Lebenswelt

Lo specchio del mito. Immaginario e realtà. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums, Rom vom 19. bis 20. Februar 1998

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Representations of Greek myths are a fundamental constant in cultures of the classical ancient world. From the early period of the Greek polis up until the late Caesar period, in Greece, Etruria and Rome, everywhere we are confronted with a …

Die Skulpturen von Fianello Sabino

Zum Beginn der Skulpturenausstattung in römischen Villen

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Marble sculptures are an essential part of the furnishings of Roman villas and gardens. The complex of findings of sculptures from the villa of Fianello Sabino in the northern part of Latium in the form of new photographs represents the …

Der Kult von Demeter und Kore auf Sizilien und in der Magna Graecia

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Pictures of human sacrifices as well as all kinds of acts of violence at holy places can be seen on numerous Etruscan burial monuments from the 4th to the 1st century BC. Although the repertoire of the pictorial themes is …

Menschenopfer und Mord am Altar

Griechische Mythen in etruskischen Gräbern

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Numerous Etruscan monuments of the 4th to the 1st century BC contain depictions of human sacrifices and of various acts of violance committed in sacred places. There is a broad range of themes, taken mostly from Greek mythology. This volume …

Antike Skulpturen und Inschriften im Institutum Archaeologicum Germanicum

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The second volume of Palilia shows antiquities collected by members and patrons of the German Archaeological Institute, primarily in the early years after its foundation in 1829, and kept at the institute to this day. Greek-Roman marble works and Etruscan …

Marmor in Rom

Anlieferung, Lager- und Werkplätze in der Kaiserzeit

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Ancient Rome was like a huge construction site. This volume examines, among others, the technical, economic, and logistic aspects of the supply and the processing of marble. Some sources are published for the first time.