Ancient History

Villa und christlicher Kult auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in Spätantike und Westgotenzeit

This volume examines important complexes of late antique and Visigothic villas in rural areas throughout the Iberian peninsula with regard to the process of Christianization,...

Krise und Wandel

Süditalien im 4. und 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Internationaler Kongress anlässlich des 65. Geburtstages von Dieter Mertens

During the fourth and third centuries BC, Sicily and South Italy were the site of almost incessant conflicts between their indigenous peoples, Greek settlers, Punic colonists, and...

Die Basilica Aemilia am Forum Romanum

Der kaiserzeitliche Bau und seine Ornamentik

The Basilica Aemilia in the Forum Romanum is one of the most important buildings of ancient Rome due to its location, size and architecture. It is also especially well preserved...

Christliche Archäologie compact

Ein topographischer Überblick. Europa – Asien – Afrika

“Christian archaeology compact” is the first overview of the whole of the archaeological places and certifications of this discipline. The framework extends geographically from...

Die Ehrenbögen in Pompeji

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Fünf Bogenbauten zieren als Ehrenmonumente zentral gelegene Plätze Pompejis. Seit langem sind sie bekannt und...

Frühbyzantinische textile Kopfbedeckungen

Typologie, Verbreitung, Chronologie und soziologischer Kontext nach Originalfunden

The analysis of archaeological textiles in order to write their ancient cultural history is still in its infancy. This study contributes to this process by cataloging more than...

Etruskisch-italische und römisch-republikanische Häuser

In contrast to the tombs and shrines, the pre-Roman houses of Italy have been poorly studied. Although Etruscan studies have for some time been concerned with living quarters of...

Die Waffen aus dem Oppidum von Manching

The approximately 800 weapons fragments from the oppidum of Manching, which covers over 300 years of settlement history, found their way into the ground for many different...

Die »ägyptische Grotte« von Vulci

Zum Beginn der Archäologie als wissenschaftliche Disziplin

The Egyptian grotto, as the Isis-Tomb of Vulci was called when it was discovered in the nineteenth century, is one of the most prominent tombs of the orientalising period in...

Arms and Armour as Indicators of Cultural Transfer

The Steppes and the Ancient World from Hellenistic Times to the Early Middle Ages

The contributions in this volume give an impression of contemporary archaeological, art historical, and historical research in military equipment of and under the influence of...

Die Tetrarchie

Ein neues Regierungssystem und seine mediale Präsentation

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Die Regierungszeit Diocletians (284 bis 305 n. Chr.) und das von ihm entwickelte Regierungssystem der Tetrarchie...

Klassizistische Weihreliefs

Zur römischen Rezeption griechischer Votivbilder

Joining Greek tradition was seeked by the sculptors who produced the marble reliefs dealt with in this study: reliefs which are held in the manner of Greek classical votive...

Musker und Phryger

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Anatoliens vom 12. bis zum 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

This book, a commentary to the TAVO-map B IV 8 „Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia around 700 B. C.“, deals with the solution of the question of the identity and identification...

Ägyptische Mumienmasken in Würzburg

The department of ancient art in the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg houses a most remarkable collection of twelve mummy masks that was donated by the private collector...

Studien zur Christianisierung Nubiens

In this study, the author has assembled the literary and archeological sources that illuminate the Christianization of Nubia in the sixth century. At their center stands a report...

Monumenta Linguae Messapicae

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Die Messapier lebten im südlichen Teil des heutigen Apulien und vereinten Einflüsse aus den Kulturen der...

Ptolemy, Geography Book 6 Part 2

Middle East, Central and North Asia, China. Part 2: Maps in Simplified Reconstruction, Notes and Indexes with a Supplement: NW and W India

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...

Das Bild der Perser in der griechischen Dichtung des 5. vorchristlichen Jahrhunderts

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Faszination und Abscheu, Bewunderung und Hochmut – das uns begegnende Fremde ist seit jeher imstande, die...

Beiträge zu altpersischen Inschriften

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Der Band vereinigt in loser Form fünf zwischen 1995 und Frühjahr 1999 entstandene „Beiträge zu altpersischen...