https://hcommons.org/groups/roman-archaeology/ Activity feed for the group, Roman archaeology. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3b1f6d30aa3745b8802751266bc38394 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877898/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:01:07 -0500 References in ancient literary texts refer to the use of pierced teeth as amulets used for the prevention and reduction of teething pains in infants. In this paper, I explore some of the sensory aspects of this phenomenon by centralising pain as a sensory experience. I draw on a dataset of these objects from Roman Britain in order to contextualise…[Read more]

]]> 0 176ff996d9def9c209bdf983b31f4310 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837869/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 02:24:16 -0400 This course provides a detailed examination of the life and administration of the Roman emperor Augustus (reigned 31 B.C. to A.D. 14), a time of pivotal social and economic change that forever altered the trajectory of Roman history. Augustus and his administration will be examined from a variety of viewpoints, drawing on a rich dataset that…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0868496c693d89944aa78b7d0c3a646 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829224/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:24:26 -0500 This course provides an introduction to the visual culture and art forms of the Italo-Roman world from the
Early Iron Age to the beginning of Late Antiquity. The course examines the developmental arcs of art
forms in various spheres (public, private, sacred, funereal) and considers key media (sculpture, painting,
mosaic, decorative arts).…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f4ac5514a3fc69846c2cc9a08c095f1 https://hcommons.org/groups/roman-archaeology/forum/topic/free-virtual-conference-opening-the-ancient-world-who-has-the-power-4/ Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:23:14 -0400 Hi Everyone – Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) is hosting a free virtual conference: Opening the Ancient World: “Who Has the Power? Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World” from August 14 – August 15, 2022. In addition to presentations, there will be several sessions / workshops focused on independent scholars. Learn more here: <…[Read more]

]]> 61ec742a0faa591457138f39b4610501 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777789/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 02:25:29 -0400 This graduate seminar approaches the urban and rural landscapes of peninsular Italy from the Early Iron Age until the Gothic Wars, with the goal being to examine key points of intersection (and departure) between the spheres of ‘town’ and ‘country’. In adopting an holistic approach to these categories that are often juxtaposed, the seminar…[Read more]

]]> 0 155a976e7890d7941c6be9ab3e9c5a5a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759199/ Sun, 21 Nov 2021 02:24:11 -0500 This course provides a detailed examination of the life and administration of the Roman
emperor Augustus (reigned 31 B.C. to A.D.
14), a time of pivotal social and economic
change that forever altered the trajectory of
Roman history. Augustus and his
administration will be examined from a variety
of viewpoints, drawing on a rich dataset…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5060fd416f8bbc555d23e1b98a2b437 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755026/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:23:38 -0400 A brief discussion of where the Late Archaic architectural terracottas (published by D. Di Giuliomaria in the same volume) were found within the archaeological area at Sant'Omobono.

]]> 0 defe8513af2c554f17cd066aefb56fbd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754503/ Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:25:35 -0400 This paper publishes a ceramic bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a Parthian shot. Although it lacks archaeological provenance, the bowl can be dated to the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, and probably comes from northwestern Iran. It is, therefore, one of the few possible instances of a Parthian shot from the Arsacid Empire.

]]> 0 8f5eafb986d10533df66de9c1b82ff6f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716292/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 02:25:31 -0500 Evidence for some ephemeral, Roman, ritual practices, particularly using organic materials, is lost to us. This paper will introduce a case study which has not been previously considered as a platform to explore the material relationships between invertebrates and their use in magical or medicinal practices. Through a combination of discussing the…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbffffe588cdc47a47c1a5e394e77c95 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1704177/ Tue, 04 Aug 2020 02:26:42 -0400 Dieser Text soll auf drei Ebenen Fragen an die Quellen tragen. Erstens will ich versuchen, exemplarisch
Entwicklungslinien zwischen der antiken Provinzstruktur und dem bairischen Dukat
– einer militärisch-politischen Organisation nach spätantikem Muster – bis in karolingische Zeit
herauszuarbeiten. Zweitens soll die Frage gestellt werden, wie u…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9eb046918e99cc21a618ce19b32a80c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1704171/ Tue, 04 Aug 2020 02:25:48 -0400 Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass Ethnonyme
über einen sehr langen Zeitraum in Gebrauch
sein konnten. Im Falle der Veneder verschob sich
die Bedeutung. Sie galt nicht mehr nur für eine bestimmte
Gruppe, sondern bezog sich auf die Gesamtheit
der Fremden, die im Wahrnehmungsbereich der
eigenen Sprachgemeinschaft lagen. So wie man de…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef47ec62e9ebf90e34d6e01269b63854 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683384/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:29:41 -0400 The analysis of the epigraphic documents from various sites in the Cabrera de Mar valley reveals a clear predominance of Iberian script over Latin, not only in the Iberian oppidum of Burriac, but also in the late-Republican settlement located in the modern centre of the village of Cabrera de Mar; both probably to be identified in ancient times as…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f44deb73a9616003a76984b94c31c7a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683381/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:29:08 -0400 The aim of this chapter is to present the most recent state of the arts on these epigraphies and on the languages that they transmit. The study of these languages is essential to our understanding of colonial Phoenician and Greek literacy, which lies at the root of their growth, as well as of the diffusion of Roman literacy, which played an…[Read more]

]]> 0 487444a4170ee144ddfa6228c3d47e76 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683378/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:28:35 -0400 Three “Dionysus / panther” coins are known from Catalonia, one from excavations at Cabrera de Mar. This is a key component of the Central Italian Assemblage of the Italo-Baetican series, and dates to the late 90s/early 80s BC. The excavation coin probably arrived during the Sertorian Wars (80–72 BC), certainly before 50 BC. We therefore revie…[Read more]

]]> 0 245a2fc5474c1d9d7cb2dd2b7b96d5f4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683375/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:28:03 -0400 Two large complexes of struck lead pieces, from the Roman colony of Minturnae nd from Baetica (southern Spain) in the late Republic, have been documented in recent years. There are close and unique iconographic parallels between them. We accordingly undertook an analysis of the isotopic signatures of the leads used in the two areas, to see if this…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fd6a285259874c016729370e58273d8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683365/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:26:15 -0400 Ancient demography is a recurrent topic in archaeology, thanks to new methods and evidence from different surveys and excavations. However, different cultures or periods are studied on their own, without any comparison being made between them and of their population dynamics. The present paper seeks to advance the situation by defining…[Read more]

]]> 0 04dcb76f94e38949590994e50003142d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683362/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:25:43 -0400 The lead stock in the Guerra collection is the first of its category found with an Iberian inscription: baitolo. The most feasible interpretation is to consider it as a place name, either as the name of the city of baitolo/Baetulo, the modern Badalona, which issued coins with the legend baitolo in the 2nd quarter of the 1st c. BC, or as the name…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3375826d973be59117a60fae32a47a3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673834/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:25:55 -0500 This chapter argues that the textual and archaeological evidence for imperial involvement in the Corinthia provides faint traces of what Jas Elsner has called “internal friction” in the manifestation of imperial and Corinthian authority in the region.

]]> 0 518a6ee03ea804a0797ecbac82481c1d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673776/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:26:00 -0500 A short paper on legacy data, flow, and time in archaeology based on my experiences at Polis on Cyprus.

]]> 0 618658e054df9c48cd465327bb6de74c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659993/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:39:15 -0400 For more than four hundred years, up to the accession of the present king Carl XVI Gustaf in 1973, did the Swedish monarchs hold the title “King of the Wends“. The first evidence of this claim dates from the reign of Gustav I Vasa (1523-1560), who adopted the title Sveriges, Göthes och Wendes Konung in official sources around the year 1540. In L…[Read more]

]]> 0 56f4309d62d831e45da8b89fb1da4a39 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642341/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:29:54 -0400 Der Artikel behandelt das Dissertationsprojekt des Autors, welches die archäologischen Besiedlungsaktivitäten in einem genau definierten Untersuchungsgebiet im nördlichen (heute niederösterreichischen) Hinterland der ehemaligen römischen Provinz Noricum behandelt.

]]> 0 ba9cb0c249c36142e35b0f33e5fe9fb6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636512/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:32:15 -0400 This is the complete second, fully revised edition of the book with links to inscriptions on the AGRW website. (First edition was published by Fortress in 2003).

]]> 0 ecb708521c3f796c73bc2fe0ba3a647f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636507/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:31:11 -0400 Article surveying economic conditions within associations in Asia Minor and on Greek islands.

]]> 0 b0a917dd3d08e46d7f764717f217e186 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636495/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:28:41 -0400 PDF of Bosporan section of work only in keeping with the publisher's policy.

]]> 0 4a1b48df2cd2161815f63bcba0f03ed2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635658/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:27:27 -0400 Studies of Egyptian Late Period statuary often assume that the extant corpus is a representative sample of the artistic output of the Twenty-Sixth to Thirty-First Dynasties (c. 664–332 BCE). This assumption ignores the various human processes that affect the survival of statues after their initial dedication. In particular, the Roman practice of c…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7618d8d7b35bc4f3fb42cbfd72be910 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634424/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:26:35 -0500 “Curial Communiqué: Memory, Propaganda, and the Roman Senate House,” in Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography: Studies in Honor of Richard J.A. Talbert, Impact of Empire Series, edited by Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 84-102.

]]> 0 e54c162f735ac922fd5651b71e0a50b8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623747/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:27:00 -0500 A short paper describing recent research in the area of EF1 at Polis Chrysochous on Cyprus.

]]> 0 c9dfb48de9d40185ad9ef980eeef5492 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617067/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:29:18 -0400 Hand-drawn illustration of a 'Iudaea Capta' coin, after LIMC 'IUDAEA' 14 (and BMCRE 117)

]]> 0 8f935e6a72ad583103221bbce175c06f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611276/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:18:56 -0400 This paper assesses the evidence for the collapse or otherwise of the northern frontier of Britannia, including Hadrian's Wall, relative to received paradigms of 'the end' of Roman Britain.

]]> 0 c28fffe7984f3f5db1fcd9a174be600f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608154/ Thu, 10 May 2018 04:13:47 -0400 Based on a case study, the paper analyses the possibilities of social media as a tool for science communication in the context of information and communication technology (ICT) usage in archaeology. Aside from discussing the characteristics of digital archaeology, the social networking sites (SNS) Twitter, Sketchfab, and ResearchGate are…[Read more]

]]> 0 eed5be2d02987f241697c0d8f1c0862b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602479/ Sun, 04 Mar 2018 04:13:36 -0500 Um den verschiedenen Prinzipien offener Wissenschaftskommunikation – wie auch dem ganzen Konzept »open science« als solchem – gerecht zu werden, ist eine nachhaltige Disseminations- und Archivierungsstrategie für digitale Forschungsdaten zwingend nötig. Maßnahmen zur langanhaltenden Gewährleistung der freien Verfügbarkeit in Form von Parametern…[Read more]

]]> 0 86d9d513319c568c0d3426d61854211a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601778/ Sun, 25 Feb 2018 04:13:35 -0500 A short paper about some preliminary results of the excavation seasons 2014 and 2015 at the roman rural site of Molino San Vincenzo in Tuscany.

]]> 0 fa46ac2e4df4b540c64afde01143535b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596945/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:23:40 -0500 Book review of The Republican Aventine and Rome's Social Order, by Lisa Marie Mignone , 2016. Ann Arbor (MI): University of Michigan Press; ISBN 978-0-472-11988-2 hardback $70.00; 264pp., 12 figures, 2 tables

]]> 0 157169986c29300d6750c2422d66caef https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596942/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:22:16 -0500 The scholarly approach to the Roman villa finds itself at something of a crossroads, particularly with respect to the villas of the Republican period in Italy. This chapter explains the archaeology of villas in Republican Italy, highlighting debates that center on questions related to the origins of villa architecture, the morphology of villas,…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a3c9fed145b58c3d39cabfb33d9fad6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596939/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:21:14 -0500 This chapter examines the underpinnings of Roman architecture by exploring some critical issues related to the architecture of central Italy primarily during the first half of the first millennium BCE. Four categories of buildings are considered, namely domestic architecture, civic architecture, defensive architecture, and sacred architecture. It…[Read more]

]]> 0 cea6fc95661f0f5df6870a4d6644d887 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596936/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:19:53 -0500 Since the summer of 2009, the ancient site of Gabii has been the focus of excavations conducted by the University of Michigan. Stratigraphic investigations near the urban core are revealing the complex sequence of occupation in this Latin city, which emerged in the Early Iron Age. The spatial distribution of intramural burials of the Orientalizing…[Read more]

]]> 0 bffc1cf5c0cb110c6948a538dbb0dfd0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596932/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:18:31 -0500 The city of Gabii was one of the main centers of ancient Latium, yet very little of the settlement is known through archaeology. The site has been the focus of only sporadic exploration, and the available evidence for the urban history and development of the city is extremely fragmentary. New fieldwork has investigated the urban area with…[Read more]

]]> 0 18532c29c3b970e38a93b02d244cf992 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594820/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:40:10 -0500 This monograph is the first in-depth examination of articulated Roman plate armour since H. Russell Robinson published his ground-breaking reconstructions of lorica segmentata in The Armour of Imperial Rome. With detailed discussion of all the significant evidence (including previously unpublished material), the book looks at each of the principal…[Read more]

]]> 0 9be85ddf471c80644dd1fdde0d4f241a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593423/ Sun, 24 Dec 2017 05:39:51 -0500 An article concerning the strategy, methods, and preliminary results of intensive archaeological surveys in Northern Etruria.

]]> 0 246c45ce34531c5096626022ca24ed63 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593297/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:42:05 -0500 Paper on archaeological field research in Tuscany, where various invasive and non-invasive investigations have been carried out since 2010 at the roman rural site of Molino San Vincenzo.

]]> 0 56730e71e6cacbcbab4f667a16b10db1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592524/ Fri, 15 Dec 2017 05:39:01 -0500 Studies by the author in experimental archaeology have been dealing with the (re-)production of the ancient Roman meal “puls” since 2012. This porridge puls was mainly prepared with wheat and other grains and it can be considered as the ancient Roman “national dish” par excellence, according to literary evidence. Concerning the recipes, puls is…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a40bb522ac60971381ba57de94f8865 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570230/ Fri, 12 May 2017 01:01:43 -0400 A Ph.D. dissertation considering nearly 200 sarcophagi from the late ancient necropoleis of Jewish communities at Beth She'arim and Rome. This corpus captures a wide range of the possibilities open to Jewish patrons as they went about acquiring or commissioning a sarcophagus and sculptural program. The variety reflects not only the different…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8f5ed0b5d1863c4d07ceb84d5076525 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570115/ Thu, 11 May 2017 01:07:41 -0400 A paper delivered at in the 2017 Colloquia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Considers how a group of sarcophagi from the Jewish catacombs of Rome reflect on the subject of Jewish art and Jewish patrons in Late Antiquity.

]]> 0 212fd36167a8a0e9364ce72eb0f6ec62 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570110/ Thu, 11 May 2017 01:07:01 -0400 What did it mean to 'be Jewish' in the Greco-Roman world? Jews, Greeks and Romans will explore the myriad ways that Jewish communities across the Mediterranean engaged with Greco-Roman culture and constructed their own ways of being Jewish. Using texts, artifacts and images--from rabbinic commentaries to Roman catacombs--we will investigate…[Read more]

]]> 0 60ee4a07c7e9929306397a758ea4bd37 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570105/ Thu, 11 May 2017 01:06:21 -0400 Front-matter and conclusions to my Ph.D. Dissertation (2017). The project considers nearly 200 sarcophagi from the late ancient necropoleis of Jewish communities at Beth She'arim and Rome. This corpus captures a wide range of the possibilities open to Jewish patrons as they went about acquiring or commissioning a sarcophagus and sculptural…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8e676113d088c85af8584420a09e7dd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559838/ Sat, 28 Jan 2017 01:00:11 -0500 Article exploring the status of mint workers from the Republic to the period of Late Antiquity.

]]> 0 587f270dee9752cc9bfaaac1277151f1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559455/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 01:01:29 -0500 The use of digital photogrammetric techniques to document archaeological layers and features has become increasingly common. Software such as PhotoScan uses multiple photographs of an object to model its geometry. In addition to providing more detailed topographical data than those acquired using a total station alone, such photomodeling offers…[Read more]

]]> 0 44f72be3cc2e7c2819c78b47c93edbc4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559442/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 01:00:59 -0500 It has recently been argued that a group of five monuments at S. Omobono were part of a single building program, attributed to the Roman consul M. Fulvius Flaccus in 264 BCE, a program that also included a monument at Orvieto, loc. Campo della Fiera. The monuments in question include two altars, a circular ‘donarium’ and fragments of two bases car…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ca6298a6a54e6d188e2b6d4081ad6d6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1556899/ Mon, 09 Jan 2017 01:05:05 -0500 Jeffrey A. Becker. "The Villa delle Grotte at Grottarossa and the prehistory of Roman villas" Journal of Roman Archaeology Volume 19 2006, pp. 213-220

]]> 0 a3bbfc0ce397d78e50c73303d8601c03 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1556898/ Mon, 09 Jan 2017 01:05:04 -0500 Book Review of Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation, edited by Michael L. Thomas and Gretchen E. Meyers
Reviewed by Jeffrey A. Becker
American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 120, No. 1 (January 2016)
Published online at http://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/2565

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