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Roman Frontier Archaeology - In Britain And Beyond - Papers In Honour Of Paul Bidwell Presented On The Occasion Of The 30th Annual Conference Of The Arbeia Society

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 Roman Frontier Archaeology - in Britain and beyond gathers contributions by some 30 leading archaeologists and historians in honour of Paul Bidwell. In a wide-ranging career Paul has been one of the leading excavators and pottery specialists of his generation, admired for his ground-breaking work both in the south-west and the military north of Roman Britain. Contributions reflect the wide range of Paul Bidwell’s interests. Studies of samian pottery use, coins, carved stone pinecones, multi-piece bone dice and agricultural strategies shed light on the economy and everyday life of a Roman frontier province. For the civil southern part of the province there are studies of place-names and various aspects of the public baths of the Roman cities, as well as the impact of changing sea-levels on coastal topography. A number of contributions focus on the problems of the military north and Hadrian’s Wall, including studies of the nineteenth century antiquarian pioneers and assessments of the purpose of the Wall, the possibility of destructive attacks by an enemy, the way in which Roman forts were designed, and the use of Iron Age tradition military gear by the Roman army. The papers also take us beyond Britannia to consider developments on and beyond Rome’s Eastern, Danube and North African frontiers. The collection will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in either the civil or military aspects of Roman Britain, or the frontiers of the Roman empire. Paul Bidwell (1949-2022) Tragically Paul Bidwell died after a short illness in November 2022 soon after being presented with this book by his friends and colleagues. What was conceived as a gesture to honour Paul has become, in effect, a monument to one of the most respected Roman archaeologists of his generation, and a testament to the wide range of his archaeological interests and achievements.
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Excavations At Chester. Roman Land Fivision And A Probable Villa In The Hinterland Of Deva - Excavation At Saighton Army Camp, Huntington, Chester

by David G. Griffiths e Philip N. Wood

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 Excavations at Chester. Roman land division and a probable villa in the hinterland of Deva reports on excavations carried out by Northern Archaeological Associates (NAA) at Saighton Camp - a former British Army training camp - located to the south of the Roman legionary fortress of Chester (Deva Victrix) which revealed important and extensive Roman period remains. Part of a high-status settlement of second- to fourth-century date, together with a regular field system laid out over more than 20 hectares, were encountered. The excavated settlement appears to be an ancillary area to a much larger site, the centre of which lies to the south and is believed to be a villa. This is the closest such site to Chester, and villas are notably rare in the region. The field system was probably laid out by the legion at Deva as part of the prata legionis, agricultural lands they controlled around the fortress.
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Mosaics In Britannia

by Stephen R. Cosh

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 This book surveys Romano-British mosaicsâ€"their craft, design, themes, and role within buildings. It highlights their literary sophistication and social significance, traces their late Roman decline, and follows their rediscovery, challenging assumptions that Britain was a cultural backwater.
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Ritual In The Roman World - Approaches To Theory And Practices

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 This volume examines ritual in the Roman world through small finds, depositional practices and temple sites, showing how diverse, evolving ritual behaviours emerged within a globalised empire. It highlights continuity across pre-Roman to post-Roman phases and even modern reuses of ritual spaces.
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Hadrian'S Wall: Milecastles, Turrets And The Curtain

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 Four detailed studies reassess the design and form of Hadrianâ€™s Wall, its milecastles and turrets. Drawing on the archaeological record, the contributors explore how the Wallâ€™s structure and superstructures shaped its purpose and meaning within the Roman frontier system.
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Ancient Water Supply And Management Systems In The Western Mediterranean - Construction And Operation

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 This volume examines water management in Western Mediterranean settlements from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. It explores infrastructures like aqueducts, wells, cisterns, and drainage systems, highlighting their role in survival, crafts, religion, and landscape transformation.
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Myths On The Edge Of Empire: How Classical Mythology Spread Throughout Roman Britain

by Steven Paul Turner

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 This study traces the spread of classical mythology in Roman Britain through detailed case studies of gods and heroes, thematic analyses, and material culture. It reveals how myths were adapted at the empireâ€™s edge, illuminating processes of cultural transmission, identity, and religious practice.
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The Domesticity Of Their Darkness - Snapshots Of The Enslaved In Roman Art

by Dr Iain Ferris

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 This book explores how Roman art depicted enslaved individuals, emphasizing fragmented, non-linear "snapshots" rather than a full narrative. It highlights the unsettling presence of the enslaved in domestic scenes, revealing tensions between visibility and erasure, and aims to bring the overlooked background into focus.
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Salt In Roman Dacia - Production, Use, And Strategic Value

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 This volume examines salt exploitation in Roman Dacia, a topic often overlooked compared to other resources. It analyses archaeological and epigraphic evidence to understand production, administration, and military links, offering a broader view of saltâ€™s role in the province and the Roman world.
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Cultural Transformations In Germania Secunda - A Holistic Approach To 'Barbarian' Migrations

by Berber S. Van Der Meulen-Van Der Veen

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 This book uses a multi-variate approach to study the Late Roman Lower German frontier, challenging the role of migration in settlement changes. It highlights long-term interactive processes and continuity in material culture styles, supported by metallurgical analysis of copper-alloy dress ornaments.
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Les Représentations De Mars Ultor Sur Les Pierres Gravées

by Thibault (Universite Lumiere Lyon 2) Girard

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 Les représentations de Mars Ultor sur les pierres gravées is principally devoted to engraved stones representing the Mars Ultor type and aims to restore them to their rightful place. When Adolf Furtwängler, in his study of the Somzée collection, determined the Mars Ultor type from a statuette in the same collection, he chose to use only two artefacts for comparison: the engraved gem from the Marlborough collection and a sesterce of Antoninus Pius. Monumental sculpture and reliefs did not provide reliable anchors for the type. Even the famous statue from the Capitoline Museum did not find favour with him. Paradoxically, the studies that followed Furtwängler''s focused on the ‘high arts’, intentionally leaving aside the intaglios and the glass pastes, which are the only contemporary examples of the original statue, now lost. Gems representing the Mars Ultor type were produced between the 1st and 4th centuries. They attest to the longevity and impact of the Augustan image in Roman iconography and allow us to follow the variations in meaning of the motif. Scattered around the world and without documented contexts, the 240-odd engraved stones gathered here prove - if it were still necessary to do so - that the great masterpieces of art history have had a much more important survival on these small objects than on the great monuments traditionally at the centre of iconographic studies. Comparison with statuettes and coins representing the Mars Ultor type also offers a historical and religious view of the cult of the god, promoted by Octavian after the Battle of Philippi.
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Ex Asia Et Syria: Oriental Religions In The Roman Central Balkans

by Nadezda Gavrilovic Vitas

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 This book examines the cults of Asia Minor and Syrian origin in the Roman provinces of the Central Balkans. The author analyzes all hitherto known epigraphical and archaeological material attesting to the presence of the cults in that region, a subject yet to be the object of serious scholarly study.
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Excavations In The Roman Legionary Fortress At Caerleon - The Priory Field Store Building, 2007-2010

by Peter (Archaeologist And Numismatist, Vianova Archaeology & Heritage Services) Guest e Prof. Andrew (Professor Of The Archaeology Of The Roman Empire, Ucl) Gardner

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 Excavation at Caerleon (South Wales) revealed the first legionary store in the Roman Empire excavated to modern standards. Built c. AD 90â€"110, it served until the late 3rd century. Finds include coins, pottery, and rare military gear, offering insight into Roman military logistics and life in Isca before its post-Roman transformation.
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From The Adriatic To The Alps: Transport And Trade Networks In Roman And Late Antique Northern Italy

by James (Maria Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Centro Nacional De Supercomputacion, Barcelona) Page

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 Examines inland trade in Roman Northern Italy, revealing complex dynamics beyond the proximity of coastlines. Using datasets of amphorae, finewares, and marble, it highlights the importance of transport costs, river networks, and trans-mountain trade, showing diverse consumption patterns and the interplay between cost and consumer choice.
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A Dramatic Event In Late Roman Florence - The Anomalous Burial Site Discovered Beneath The Uffizi Gallery

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 A multi-disciplinary investigation beneath the Uffizi Gallery in Florence uncovered an emergency burial site from the late 4th to early 5th century AD. Likely due to an epidemic, this discovery sheds new light on a dramatic, undocumented event in the city's history, revealing its historical and socioeconomic context.
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Visualising Glocalization - Villas, Architectural Spaces And Pavements In Hispania Baetica (2nd Century Ad Â€“ 4th Century Ad)

by Ruben Montoya Gonzalez

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 Glocalization can be defined as globalization refracted through the local. This book applies the glocalization framework to an archaeological dataset composed of a selection of partially and fully excavated villas, their associated architectural spaces, and pavements from Hispania Baetica between the 2nd and the 4th centuries AD.
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Life And Death In Roman Carlisle - Excavations At 107-117 Botchergate, 2015

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 Finds from a Roman cremation cemetery in Carlisle offer an important study of burials and identityÂ in the region. Excavated graves, including rare richly furnished burials, reveal cultural ties to the Nervii of Gallia Belgica and suggest a Nervian presence in early Roman Carlisle linked to military recruitment and local pottery production.
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The Theater At Stobi - Results Of The Joint Us-Yugoslav Archaeological Investigations, 1970-1981

by Elizabeth R. (Professor Emerita, University Of Chicago) Gebhard

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 This volume explores Stobi's marble theater, uncovered in 1924, revealing its construction in the late 1st or early 2nd century AD. Excavations uncovered an earlier, lower structure, later integrated. Post c. 300 AD, apparent earthquake damage led the cavea and scene-building to be repaired and the orchestra to be enclosed as a permanent arena.
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Roman Military Tribunes (First Century Bc To Third Century Ad): A Historical And Prosopographical Study. Volume I - Prosopographical Catalogue, Part 1: Roman Military Tribunes (Tribuni Militum In Exercitu) And In The Garrison Of The Roman Capital (Tribuni Militum In

by Ireneusz (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University) Luc

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 A historical and prosopographical study of the Romans who held the military rank of tribune and served between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD, presented across three volumes. This volume (I) presents a catalogue of 285 Romans, divided into Tribuni militum in exercitu and Tribuni militum in praetorio.
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Hadrian'S Wall: Exploring Its Past To Protect Its Future

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 Through the voices of over 20 Hadrian''s Wall enthusiasts - chosen amongst prominent frontier scholars and archaeologists, re-enactors, curators, walkers and site managers - this volume celebrates the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian’s visit to Britain and the building of the Wall. Together, the authors explore issues such as the impact of environmental changes on archaeology and the innovative technologies used in monitoring and managing the Wall and its collections. The book highlights not only the ways in which Hadrian’s Wall can be protected for future generations, but also the ways in which it affects the identities of those who work and travel along it. Rather than a retrospective of work undertaken so far, or an attempt to impose theoretical frameworks onto a living landscape, it offers a realistic discussion of current issues and solutions in the exploration, management and protection of Hadrian’s Wall, from the point of view of those living, visiting, researching and working along it.
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Changing Landscapes Of Rome'S Northern Hinterland - The British School At Rome'S Tiber Valley Project

by Helen Patterson, Helga Di Giuseppe e Robert Witcher

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 The Changing Landscapes of Rome's Northern Hinterland presents a new regional history of the middle Tiber valley as a lens through which to view the emergence and transformation of the city of Rome from 1000 BC to AD 1000. Setting the ancient city within the context of its immediate territory, the authors reveal the diverse and enduring links between the metropolis and its hinterland. At the heart of the volume is a detailed consideration of the results of a complete restudy of the pioneering South Etruria Survey (c. 1955-1970), one of the earliest and most influential Mediterranean landscape projects. Between 1998 and 2002, an international team based at the British School at Rome conducted a comprehensive restudy of the material and documentary archive generated by the South Etruria Survey. The results were supplemented with a number of other published and unpublished sources of archaeological evidence to create a database of around 5000 sites across southern Etruria and the Sabina Tiberina, extending in date from the Bronze Age, through the Etruscan/Sabine, Republican and imperial periods, to the middle ages. Analysis and discussion of these data have appeared in a series of interim articles published over the past two decades; the present volume offers a final synthesis of the project results. The chapters include the first detailed assessment of the field methods of the South Etruria Survey, an extended discussion of the use of archaeological legacy data, and new insights into the social and economic connectivities between Rome and the communities of its northern hinterland across two millennia. The volume as a whole demonstrates how the archaeological evidence generated by landscape surveys can be used to rewrite narrative histories, even those based on cities as familiar as ancient Rome. Includes contributions by Martin Millett, Simon Keay and Christopher Smith, and a preface by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.
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Roman Pottery Manufacturing Site In Highgate Wood: Excavations 1966-78

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Roman Pottery Manufacturing Site In Highgate Wood: Excavations 1966-78

by A. E. Brown e H. L. Sheldon

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 Excavations over a period of eight years uncovered at least ten pottery kilns, waster heaps, ditches and pits, but only a few definite structures. The pottery from the site indicates a period of operation extending from the first half of the 1st century AD to the later 2nd century. The pottery made at the site included initially a vegetable tempered handmade ware, but subsequently the bulk of it consisted of a grog tempered ware and then pottery in a sandy fabric which is well known from assemblages in London. The type of kiln varied with the pottery fabric; there was possible evidence for a pre-Roman pit firing, and later kilns set in ditches were of the twin flued type, eventually replaced by the more familiar above ground kilns with raised floors. Changes in pottery fabric were reflected in different methods of clay preparation, which led to changes in the function of the various ditches, the stratigraphy of which, along with the variation in the fabrics, was significant in enabling the four broad phases into which the site has been divided, to be proposed. The report includes a very detailed analysis of the forms and fabrics of the pottery made at Highgate. Finds of prehistoric flintwork and pottery during the excavation, and of material of later date, together with the observation of earthworks and historical research, have been used to show the place of the pottery kilns as an element in the exploitation of the woodland of northern London over the last eight thousand years.
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Les Pratiques Funeraires En Gaule Lyonnaise De L'Epoque Augusteenne A La Fin Du 3e Siecle

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Les Pratiques Funeraires En Gaule Lyonnaise De L'Epoque Augusteenne A La Fin Du 3e Siecle

by Andras Marton

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 Les pratiques funeraires en Gaule lyonnaise de l'epoque augusteenne a la fin du 3e siecle aims to provide an overview of Roman burial practices in the Gallia Lugdunensis province during the Early Roman Empire. Among the different approaches proposed by R. Reece for the study of Roman cemeteries, this work focuses on grave treatment and grave furnishing. The funerary practices are thus apprehended through the study of the structure of the tombs and the selection and treatment of the grave goods and human remains. The main objective was to propose a synthesis of the published finds which could serve as a basis for future research. The analysis consists of a documentary review of the published data (presented in the catalogue and numerous tables) as complete as possible, accompanied by a detailed analysis of the latest information available to highlight trends regarding the entire province, and the peculiarities seen at a regional level. Many graphics and maps support this analysis. Many general trends, common to the western provinces of the Roman Empire, were detected, but also many particularities linked to the regional nature of the funerary practices and the economic and social situation of the communities. Some of these particularities reflect more profound cultural differences due to the unequal penetration of Mediterranean funerary practices into the territory of the province. They reflect the somewhat 'artificial' formation of the Gallia Lugdunensis, which incorporated tribes belonging to different cultural spheres (sharing particularities with Aquitania and the Belgic Gaul or more exposed to the Mediterranean influences).
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Corpus Des Amphores Romaines Produites Dans Les Centres De Mer Noire

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Corpus Des Amphores Romaines Produites Dans Les Centres De Mer Noire - Collections Des Musees De La Cote Turque De La Mer Noire (Eregli, Amasra, Sinop, Samsun, Giresun, Ordu, Trabzon Et Amasya)

by Dominique Kassab Tezgor

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 The Black Sea cities of Turkey's northern coast - Eregli , Amasra, Sinop, Samsun, Giresun, Ordu, Trabzon, and inland Amasya - are endowed with museums whose holdings include important collections of amphorae. Their state of preservation is also exceptional since the majority were recovered intact from the sea. Most were produced in the big manufacturing centres around the Black Sea during the Roman period, between the 2nd/3rd centuries BCE and the 7th century CE. This Corpus brings them together and analyses them in the light of recent investigations. The production lines of Sinop and Colchis are especially well represented and can be followed without interruption over several centuries. The size of the assemblage - ca. 450 vessels - provides an overview of manufacturing trends for Black Sea amphorae, and brings out the similarities and differences in technique and morphology that distinguished one workshop from another. Research on this corpus has also offered an opportunity to consider questions inherent to amphora studies, such as what commercial goods they contained; how vessel shapes related to the regional resources for which they were designed; standardized volumes; and the use of amphoras in paying the annona.
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