Athenische Mitteilungen 138, 2023

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Volume 138 (2023) of the Athenische Mitteilungen provides an overview of archaeological research spanning from prehistory to the Roman Imperial period. The articles examine the urban development of Makyneia, fixed hearths in Cretan houses, and Wilhelm Dörpfeld’s pottery finds from …

Heuneburg III

Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung und Struktur der Heuneburg an der Oberen Donau. Die Funde und Befunde der Außensiedlung (Grabungen 1995–2006)

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Today, the image of the Hallstatt-period Heuneburg is shaped above all by its extensive outer settlement, which has been the subject of numerous excavations since the 1990s. In this volume, the key features of the structure and development of the …

Heuneburg I

A Landscape of Ancestors: Investigations in Two Iron Age Burial Mounds in the Speckhau-Hohmichele Group. Untersuchungen an zwei eisenzeitlichen Grabhügeln in der Speckhau-Hohmichele-Gruppe

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Between 1999 and 2002, the first systematic investigations in two tumuli under 50 meters in diameter near the Heuneburg hillfort were carried out. They provided the first evidence for Early Iron Age mortuary activity predating the founding of the Heuneburg …

ENTANGLED AFRICA

Intra-African Relations Between Rain Forest and Mediterranean from Around 4,000 BCE to 1,500 CE

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This volume presents the results of Entangled Africa (SPP 2143), a Priority Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) coordinated by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). Between 2018 and 2024, 13 interdisciplinary projects
investigated intra-African interactions north of the equator between …

Hymnus und Verehrung im Wort.

Dichter und Dichtung in der Byzantinischen Kunst

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Dr. Anastasia Limberger (*1990 in München) studierte Klassische Archäologie, Orthodoxe Theologie und Philosophie an der LMU München. 2024 wurde sie im Fach Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte mit der Arbeit „‚Hymnus und Verehrung im Wort‘. Dichter und Dichtung in der Byzantinischen Kunst“ promoviert, …

Kalkriese - Ort der Varusschlacht?

Eine quellenkritische Analyse anhand der Kleinfunde der Kalkriese-Niewedder Senke

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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 sources actually allow such a conclusion?
The site of Kalkriese now …

The Theatre at Messene

An architectural study

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Ziel der Studie ist die Dokumentation und detaillierte Beschreibung des neu ausgegrabenen Theaters, inklusive steingenauer Zeichnungen und Fotografien der erhaltenen Architekturteile. Eine Rekonstruktion des Theaters wird vorgeschlagen, basierend auf den vorhandenen Überresten und Vergleichen mit zeitgenössischen Bauten. Architektonische Verzierungen der …

From Germania Inferior to Arabia Petraea

New Perspectives on Roman Legionary Camps

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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, both temporarily during wartime activities and permanently at key locations within the empire …

ResourceCultures

How Resources Affect Societies

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The final publication of the CRC 1070 ResourceCultures offers interdisciplinary insights into the questions of how resources are created, how resources are utilised, how resources are influenced by social processes and how resources in turn affect societies. Using concrete case …

Coining Values

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

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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, the supply of coins, the recycling of coins, and non-ferrous metals were addressed. …

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 …

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

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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 design of major monuments of the first millennium: 1) The frieze of the Spoils …

ANCIENT PHOKIS

New approaches to its history, archaeology and topography. International conference, DAI Athens, 30 March–1 April 2017

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This volume offers a comprehensive insight into ancient Phokis, a region in the heart of Greece. Its history was always shaped by the political and cultural influences of neighbouring powers. The diverse landscape provided space for the existence of numerous …

From Sedentarisation to the Complex Society

Settlement, Economy, Environment, Cult. Proceedings of the workshops in Lisbon, Tehran and Lima (2016 − 2019)

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Three cities, three continents. The volume comprises the discussions held at various locations between 2016 and 2019 in Research Cluster 1 ‘From Sedentarisation to Complex Society: Settlement, Economy, Environment, Cult’. With a total of 25 contributions, the comparative discussion from …

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 …

The Significance of Archaeological Textiles

Papers of the International Online Conference 24th–25th february 2021. THEFBO Volume II

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Many of the common utensils used in prehistoric agricultural settlements were textile products. They were indispensable to carry out everyday tasks in the context of a sedentary lifestyle. Textiles matter – the Neolithic revolution would not have taken place without …

Lauchheim IV

Die Gräber aus der Siedlung Lauchheim ‚Mittelhofen‘

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In direkter Nachbarschaft des Reihengräberfeldes Lauchheim ‚Wasserfurche‘ wurde in den 1990er Jahren das früh- und hochmittelalterliche Siedlungsareal von Mittelhofen großflächig ausgegraben. Um 700 n. Chr. hatte man dort innerhalb der Gehöfte kleine Separatfriedhöfe mit insgesamt 86 Gräbern angelegt. Zu den …

Commodus: The Public Image of a Roman Emperor

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The richly illustrated book presents a fresh argument and new evidence about the workings of the imperial image in the Antonine period, through the changing portraits of the emperor Commodus (180–192) — more than ninety survive. The study also publishes …

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 …

Leben in der mittelalterlichen Stadt. Neue archäobiologische Forschungen

Workshop 29. November 2019, Berlin

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This volume contains papers from a workshop on “Life in the medieval town – new archaeobiological research” held in November 2019. Results of zoological, botanical and anthropological investigations on find materials from medieval cities are presented. The contributions deal with …