Der Senat und seine Kaiser im spätantiken Rom

Eine kulturhistorische Annäherung

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This study focusses on the Roman Senate and its relation to the Emperors, taking a long-term perspective. The starting point is the observation, that the senators as a body held their sessions continuously from the 1st to the 6th century …

Reproduktion und Bild

Zur Wiederholung und Vervielfältigung von Reliefs in römischer Zeit

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The ancient (re-)production of images seen through a cultural-historical perspective is at the heart of this study, which, by the means of case studies, examines the specific situational conditions and various influences concerning the production of relief images in the …

Das Antlitz der Götter – O rosto das divindades

Götterbilder im Westen des Römischen Reiches – Imagens de divindades no Ocidente do Império romano

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Images of gods only appear in Hispaniae imagery during the Roman Empire, since statues and reliefs of the Roman gods dominate the provincial panorama. In addition to these representations, however, one can observe early formal artistic expressions in sculpture, some …

Shepheard’s of Cairo

The Birth of the Oriental Grand Hotel

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The book provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the art, architecture and design of the legendary Shepheard’s Hotel of Cairo. Until recently, there had been little scholarly work on the building due to the near total absence of visual …

Die Inschriften des Altkreises Osterode

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The volume contains 221 inscriptions of the Osterode area up to the year 1650. The precise edition of the inscriptions has been supplemented by commentaries and 10 indexes. Thus a vast stock of inscriptions on funeral monuments, on bells, buildings …

Die römischen Tempel im Heraion von Samos

II. Der Peripteros und der Naiskos

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This is second volume of the Roman Temples of Samos concerning the peripteros and naiskos which were erected in front of the big altar of Hera. These temples are part of an extensive reorganization of the sanctuary of Hera in …

Relief- und stempelverzierte nordafrikanische Sigillata des späten 2. bis 6. Jahrhunderts

Römisches Tafelgeschirr der Sammlung K. Wilhelm

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This study focuses on the wide range of vessel forms and decoration of the rare appliqué-decorated red slip ware from northern Tunisia, and especially the appliqué-, relief- and stamp-decorated sigillata made in the most imprtant mid and late Roman potteries …

Nordost-Tor und persische Belagerungsrampe in Alt-Paphos

IV. Skulpturen, Votivmonumente und Bauteile in der Belagerungsrampe

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For the history and archaeology of the city of Palaipaphos (Old Paphos) on Cyprus, the Persian siege ramp at the Northeast Gate on the Marcello plateau is of immense interest. Since the ramp was heaped up in the context of …

Flesheaters

An International Symposium on Roman Sarcophagi. University of California at Berkeley 18–19 September 2009

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Roman metropolitan sarcophagi are often adorned with reliefs representing the lives of the heroes and heroines of Greek myth. Why were particular Greek myths so popular? How easy – or difficult – was it to identify and interpret the mythical …

Fuente Álamo

Die Grabungen am Südhang der bronzezeitlichen Höhensiedlung. Die El Argar-Zeit

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Distinguished works on the excavation in Fuente Álamo (1977–1999) have been published as „Fuente Álamo Part 1 to 4“. These were concerned with the course of the excavation, the settlement and its stratigraphy, its graves as well as findings of …

Die Inschriften der Stadt Wittenberg

Teil 1: Einleitung, Register, Quellen und Literatur, Zeichnungen und Abbildungen. Teil 2: Die Inschriften

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The two-part volume contains 552 catalogue items of inscriptions that have survived for the old town and the historic cemeteries of Wittenberg. The collection begins with the oldest surviving inscriptions from the 13th century and ends in 1650. About two …

Die illuminierten Handschriften französischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Teil 1: Vom 10. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert, Anhang: Die illuminierten Handschriften englischer und spanischer Herkunft

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The volume of the scientific catalogues of the Bavarian State Library does not only include all the manuscripts from the 10th to the end of the 14th century with French illumination, but Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt also describes in it all the …

Die nicht-dramatischen Dichtungen des Hans Sachs

Grundlagen, Texttypen, Interpretationen

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Hans Sachs (1494–1576) is the most powerful German-language author of the 16th century with a body of work comprising more than 6200 songs. In recent decades, research on his rhyme and song poetry has been limited to individual studies and …

Munyat ar-Rummaniya

Die Gartenanlagen

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In the country estate of ar-Rummānīya near Córdoba (Spain) the remains of an Islamic garden of the 10th century are preserved on three terraces. This book presents the results of a comprehensive archaeological study of the garden, in particular the …

Urbaner Ballungsraum im römischen Nordafrika

Zum Einfluss von mikroregionalen Wirtschafts- und Sozialstrukturen auf den Städtebau in der Africa Proconsularis

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North Africa is one of the most populated Regions in the Roman Empire. At the beginning of the 3. Cent. A.D. a tremendous agglomeration of cities was located in Africa proconsularis which had a very individual urban culture. This book …

Ursprung und Frühzeit des Heraion von Samos

Teil 1: Topographie, Architektur und Geschichte

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This volume examines thoroughly the origin and early history of the Heraion on the island of Samos, one of the most important sanctuaries of the Greek world. Topography, architecture and history of the sanctuary are traced from the ›Minoan Thalassocracy‹ …

Aus den Tiefenschichten der Texte

Beiträge zur turko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung bis zur Gegenwart

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Being case studies, the contributions to this volume highlight various aspects of the Turco-Iranian world starting from the Islamization in the 7th century up to the present day. Covering the broad geographical spectrum spanning from the Bosporus via Upper Mesopotamia …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 22 (2018/2019): Romania und Germania. Kulturelle und literarische Austauschprozesse in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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Der Kultur- und Literaturtransfer zwischen dem romanischen Sprachraum und den deutschsprachigen Ländern gehört zu den Grundbedingungen der hochmittelalterlichen deutschen Literatur. Entsprechende Einflüsse sind ebenfalls im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit noch produktiv, wurden bislang aber noch nicht systematisch untersucht. …

Von Stadtmauern und Salbtöpfen

Archäologie zur Siedlungs- und Apothekengeschichte in Biberach

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The results of two excavations at very different locations in the medieval townscape of Biberach are being published in the volume at hand. Fresh insights into the beginning of the settlement, the development in the outskirts as well as into …

Die Kammergräber von Tarent

Untersuchungen zur Grabarchitektur und Ausstattung vom 4. bis zum 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

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The Hellenistic chamber tombs of Taranto represent by far the largest group of known Hellenistic burial chambers in the ancient Mediterranean. In the sixth volume of the Italiká series, the chamber tombs constructed between the 4th and 1st century BC …