The ‘Place of Palms’: An Urban Park at Aphrodisias

Results of The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project

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Excavations at Aphrodisias in the 1980s revealed an extraordinary monumental water-basin (170 x 30m) in the centre of a colonnaded square, formerly called the ‘South Agora’. A hypothesis that the complex was not an agora at all but ‘the place …

Der archaische Heiligtumsbefund vom Taxiarchis-Hügel in Didyma

Teilband 2: Das Fundmaterial aus den archaischen Kontexten des Taxiarchis-Hügels, Teil 1

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The ›Taxiarchis Hill‹ in Didyma is the site of largely undisturbed features of votive offerings and other finds from an Archaic sanctuary. They were deposited on the hill in different phases of the Archaic period. Since it is the first …

Inschriften von Didyma

Supplement unter Mitwirkung von Rudolf Haensch

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The volume presents some 300 inscriptions from a period of one millennium, from the 6th century BC to the 6th century AD which provide manifold insights into the history of the Oracle in Didyma, which was transformed into a Christian …

Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias

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Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices was inscribed on the façade of the city’s Civil Basilica in AD 301. The volume presents the history and background of the Edict, the detailed archaeology of its context on the Basilica, a new consolidated …

Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias: The Episcopal Village, AD 700–1250

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This study addresses the settlement at Aphrodisias, known to its medieval inhabitants as Karia, from the eighth through thirteenth centuries. Important bodies of archaeological data, including numismatics, funerary archaeology and liturgical sculpture are presented for the first time. The volume …

The Triconch House

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The Triconch House is a large, late antique peristyle house in Aphrodisias in southwestern Asia Minor. Previously known as the Bishop’s Palace, it is one of the best preserved late antique houses in the Greek East and one of several …

Ostias vergessene Spätantike

Eine urbanistische Deutung zur Bewältigung von Zerfall

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Spätantike ist immer noch eine große Unbekannte – insbesondere auf Ebene der archäologischen Hinterlassenschaft einzelner Stadtkulturen. Hier wird aus der Erfahrung von 25 Jahren eigener Bauforschung vor Ort versucht, eine spätantike Stadtbiographie zu schreiben. Im Zentrum steht Ostia, heute weltgrößte …

The Sculptor’s Workshop

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Carved marble was a major part of the economy of Roman cities. The material was supplied by local and regional quarries but little is known of the workshops in which the carving was carried out. The Sculptor’s Workshop at Aphrodisias …

Columnar Sarcophagi from Aphrodisias

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Aphrodisias in Caria (modern Turkey) has a remarkable body of relief-decorated marble sarcophagi of the Roman Imperial period. This monograph presents the sarcophagi decorated with columnar arcades in which a variety of human, divine, and mythological figures are presented. It …

In kaiserlichem Auftrag – Die Deutsche Aksum-Expedition 1906 unter Enno Littmann

Band 3: Ethnographische, kirchenhistorische und archäologisch-historischeUntersuchungen

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Die Deutsche Aksum-Expedition von 1906 und deren umfangreiche mehrbändige Publikation von 1913 zählen unverändert zu den wichtigsten archäologischen Unternehmungen am Horn von Afrika. Die Reihe Forschungen zur Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts hat jüngst in bislang zwei Bänden …

Karabalgasun – Stadt der Nomaden

Die archäologischen Ausgrabungen in der frühuigurischen Hauptstadt 2009–2011

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Archaeological research on settlemets of late nomadic tribes in eastern Central Asia is just at the beginning. Scientific research carried out in the Uygur capital Karabalgasun by the Mongolian-German-Orkhon-Expedition 2009-2011 has offered an excellent contribution to further understanding the process …

Le théâtre d’Aphrodisias: Les structures scéniques

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The book is dedicated to the Theatre building at Aphrodisias and in particular its stage building. Dated by its two inscriptions between 30 and 27 BC, the theatre’s original stage building stood until its collapse in the seventh century and …

Zwei kirchliche Palastanlagen in Hulwan aus umayyadischer Zeit

Grabungen der Egyptian Antiquities Organization in den Jahren 1948 bis 1949

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The book deals with two ecclesiastical palaces. They were excavated by the Egyptian antiquities service in the years 1948/49 and they are dated according to the sources to the end of the late antiquity (ca. A.D. 700). They belong thus …

Climate and Settlement in Southern Peru

The Northern Río Grande de Nasca Drainage between 1500 BCE and 1532 CE

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The cultures thriving during the course of the millennia on the arid Peruvian South Coast between the valleys of Chincha and Yauca had a crucial impact on the history of the Central Andes in general. Important local cultures such as …

The Civil Basilica

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The volume is about the architecture and archaeology of the Civil Basilica of Aphrodisias, a huge public building built in the late first century AD. The book presents a detailed account of the Basilica's well-preserved remains and over hundred drawings …

Der „Korinthische Tempel“ von Knidos

Ein repräsentativer Grabbau der römischen Kaiserzeit

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Der Band stellt einen wichtigen Bau der bekannten, aber noch immer unzureichend untersuchten und dokumentierten antiken Stadt Knidos vor. Das bisher als Tempel bekannte Monument erweist sich als aufwendiger Grabbau und damit als aussagekräftiges Dokument für die Selbstdarstellung eines Angehörigen …

Die „Große Halle“ von Karakorum

Zur archäologischen Untersuchung des ersten buddhistischen Tempels der alten mongolischen Hauptstadt

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Die seit dem Jahr 2000 in der altmongolischen Hauptstadt Karakotum laufenden Ausgrabungen haben das althergebrachte Bild der Stadt und seiner Geschichte grundlegend revidiert. Dabei konzentrierte sich eines der zentralen Forschungsprojekte der Kommission für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen des Deutschen Archäologischen Institutes …

Hippodromus Palatii

Die Bauornamentik des Gartenhippodroms im Kaiserpalast auf dem Palatin in Rom

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The Hippodrome is one of the largest garden facilities in the Imperial Palace on the Palatine Hill in Rome. This monograph provides the first comprehensive analysis of its architectural ornamentation. On this foundation, the structure’s decorative systems are reconstructed. By …

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 4

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In 2011, the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin celebrated the 100th anniversary of the German excavations of the Islamic-medieval site Samarra. The former Abbasid capital (836-892 A.D.) around 125 km north of Bagdad is one of the largest archaeological …

Ciudades Mayas del Noreste del Petén, Guatemala

Análisis urbanístico y conservación

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The book consists of three sections of contributions representing novel ideas focusing on the quantity, quality, and actual condition of the monumental built environment of the ancient Maya in the northeast of the department of Petén, Guatemala.
A special catalogue …