Classical Archaeology

Leben in der Stadt. Oberitalien zwischen römischer Kaiserzeit und Mittelalter

Abitare in città. La Cisalpina tra impero e medioevo. Kolloquium am 4. und 5. November 1999 in Rom

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In der Spätantike erlebten die Städte im Kernland des Römerreiches einen tiefgreifenden Wandel: Mit der...

Römische Spuren in Burgund

Ein archäologischer Reiseführer

Celtic traditions and Roman-mediterranean influences on art, crafts, religion, and forms of settlement have been in competition from the annexation of Gallia by the Roman empire...

Rabe und Krähe in der Antike

Studien zur archäologischen und literarischen Überlieferung

This study aims to establish the significance of ravens and crows during the Antiquity. Different sources from art and literature (beginning with Archaic Greece through the height...

Steine und Pfeiler für die Götter

Weihgeschenkgattungen in westgriechischen Stadtheiligtümern

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...

Antike Graffitizeichnungen

Motive, Gestaltung und Bedeutung

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...

Ubi diutius nobis habitandum est

Die Innendekoration der kaiserzeitlichen Gräber Roms

„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...

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

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...

Römische Gläser des Landesmuseums Mainz

The significance of the Roman glass collection of the Landesmuseum Mainz lies in the great diversity of the material and in the fact that the objects, dated to the period between...

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...

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

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...

Die Skulpturen von Fianello Sabino

Zum Beginn der Skulpturenausstattung in römischen Villen

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...

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

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...

Menschenopfer und Mord am Altar

Griechische Mythen in etruskischen Gräbern

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...

Antike Skulpturen und Inschriften im Institutum Archaeologicum Germanicum

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,...

Marmor in Rom

Anlieferung, Lager- und Werkplätze in der Kaiserzeit

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...

Der Jenaer Maler

Eine Töpferwerkstatt im klassischen Athen