‎Archeologie‎

‎Paul, George MacKay & Michael Ierardi (eds.)‎

‎ROMAN COINS AND PUBLIC LIFE UNDER THE EMPIRE E. Togo Salmon Papers II‎

‎0.72 x 9.48 x 6.2 Inches; 216 pages; Roman coins often shed light on Roman public life and society through the legends, portraits, and images they bear. The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at the Second E. Togo Salmon Conference on Roman Studies. The eight contributors are specialists in Roman coins or Roman history and in the relations between them. Coins are a unique source of information about the Roman world. In the case of the Roman Empire they were issued by or with the approval of the ruling power. The representations and legends they show therefore present an official view of contemporary affairs. The coins themselves, minted for official purposes such as paying the army, when studied carefully can help reconstruct official policies. They can also occasionally reveal what monuments now lost may have looked like. It is not infrequent to come across pleas that the ancient historian should make more frequent use of numismatic evidence. These essays make clear that efforts are being made both by numismatists and by historians to bring the two disciplines together. At the same time the papers reveal that the task is by no means a straightforward one. The survival of Roman coins is variable, and so attempts to reconstruct the size and distribution of issues calls for skilled and experienced analysis. This collection of papers provides evidence for the kind of deductions that the historian may make from Roman coins as well as the illustrations of the pitfalls that await the unwary. Those interested in Roman history, amateur coin collectors, and professional numismatists will all find much here to widen their knowledge of the public context of Roman coins. Contributors: William E. Metcalf, P. Bruun, Barbara Levick, R. P. Duncan-Jones, Anthony Barrett, Duncan Fishwick, C. E. King, Andrew Burnett.‎

‎Sandalo, Paolo (A Cura Di)‎

‎PALAZZOLO ACREIDE Città Patrimonio Dell'umanità‎

‎Text is in Italian, English and German; 96 pages‎

‎Lang, Mabel‎

‎THE ATHENIAN CITIZEN‎

‎Sticker damage to front wrap. Minor pen notes and underlining to about 3 pages. Former owner's name on ffep. Else VG. ; Looks at the life of the Athenian citizen from archaeological records. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 4; 30 pages‎

‎Heintze, Helga Von‎

‎ROMAN ART‎

‎Tiny chip to base of spine. ; 200 pages; Roman art emerged from an intermingling of Italo-Etruscan and Greek-Hellenistic forms. It was the conservative art of warriors, in which the subject was far more important than the form. It is not surprising therefore that the different phases of Roman art are named after political epochs, individual rulers and dynasties. The buildings themselves were not based on the Greek laws of proportion; they no longer respected the landscape but dominated it, and Roman architecture would be the source for much that was done in later centuries. In this comprehensive survey, covering the period 5000 BC-AD 305, the author examines the influences, innovations, aims and achievements of Roman artists in all media, and draws on a wide range of examples, from Rome itself as well as the empire - Pompeii, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the aqueduct in Tarragona, Hadrian's villa at Tivoli and Trajan's column.‎

‎Lang, Mabel‎

‎THE ATHENIAN CITIZEN‎

‎Sticker damage to front wrap. Minor pen marginalia to a few pages. Else VG. ; Looks at the life of the Athenian citizen from archaeological records. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 4; 30 pages‎

‎Etienne, Robert‎

‎POMPEII The Day a City Died‎

‎Discoveries; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 215 pages‎

‎Bittlestone, Robert & (James Diggle and John Underhill)‎

‎ODYSSEUS UNBOUND The Search for Homer's Ithaca‎

‎10.1 X 7.9 X 1.8 inches; 618 pages‎

‎Biers, William R.‎

‎THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREECE An Introduction - Revised Edition‎

‎Minor shelfwear. ; 346 pages; Comprehensive introduction to Greek archaeology‎

‎Rose, Charles Brian‎

‎DYNASTIC COMMEMORATION AND IMPERIAL PORTRAITURE IN THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN PERIOD‎

‎Very faint dampstaining to lower edges of pages. DJ flap creased. Lower edge of rear panel of DJ dampstained. ; Cambridge Studies in Classical Art and Iconography; 336 pages‎

‎Maiuri, Amedeo‎

‎I CAMPI FLEGRÈI Dal Sepolcro Di Virgilio All'antro Di Cuma‎

‎Spine browned. Light foxing. ; 178pp, illustrated. ; Itinéraire Des Musées Et Monuments D'Italie 32; 154 pages‎

‎Northcote, J. Spencer & W. -R. Brownlow; (Paul Allard, Trad. ) & M. De Rossi (Préf. )‎

‎ROME SOUTERRAINE Résumé Des Découvertes De M. De Rossi Dans Les Catacombes Romaines Et En Particulier Dans Le Cimétière De Calliste.‎

‎Former owner's name in pencil to half-title. Foxing passim. Book has been rebound in 1/2 green leather boards with marbled boards. Marbling to endpapers and pastedowns. 5 raised bands to spine. Intricate tooling to spine with gilt spine. Rubbing and edgewear to spine ends and corners (Some leather has flecked off). Review pasted down to front inner cover. Very attractive book. ; Traduit de L'Anglais, Avec des Additions et des Notes par Paul Allard. 517 pages + 20 plates and folding atlas; 517 pages‎

‎Gordon, Arthur E.‎

‎ILLUSTRATED INTRODUCTION TO LATIN EPIGRAPHY‎

‎Foxing to textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ has 2 tears (1 repaired with tape). ; Xxvi, 264pp, 64pls. ; 264 pages‎

‎Cunliffe, Barry‎

‎GUIDE TO THE ROMAN REMAINS OF BATH‎

‎Crease to middle of book. Else VG. ; 40 pages‎

‎PAPERS OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME Volume XVI (New Series, Volume III) : 1948‎

‎Small dent to upper edge of front board. 2 corners lightly bumped. Corrections done in black ink to 2 pages (likely by T. J. Dunbabin as this book comes from his collection). ; 24 pl at end. Contents: T. J. Dunbabin, Minos and Daidalos in Sicily; T. J. Dunbabin, Two Tomb-groups from Selinus; J. M. C. Toynbee, Beasts and their Names in the Roman Empire; Nicolette Gray, The Paleography of Latin Inscriptions in Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Centuries in Italy; Chart of the Letter Forms used in ‘ Popular ’ Inscriptions ; Papers of the British School At Rome Vol. XVI; Vol. 16; 171 pages‎

‎Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo‎

‎ANCIENT ROME In the Light of Recent Discoveries‎

‎Gift inscription in ink to ffep. Ffep is creased. Boards are water-stained. Gilt lettering to front board faded. Endpapers browned and foxed. Top edges gilt. Front hinge starting to crack. ; 329 pages‎

‎Meritt, Benjamin D.‎

‎INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE ATHENIAN AGORA‎

‎Minor creasing through lower corner of pages. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 10; 32 pages‎

‎MacKendrick, Paul‎

‎THE MUTE STONES SPEAK The Story of Archaeology in Italy‎

‎Scholar's bookplate to ffep (G. P. Goold). 1 Corner light bumped. Light shelfwear to DJ. DJ spine sunned. ; 491 pages; MacKendrick writes so enthusiastically that all laymen who have a serious interest in scholarship and antiquity will delight in following his story.‎

‎MacKendrick, Paul‎

‎THE GREEK STONES SPEAK The Story of Archaeology in Greek Lands‎

‎Foxing to top of DJ. Lower corners bumped. Some browning to DJ. Laminate lifting. Edgewear to DJ. ; 470 pages‎

‎Drews, Robert‎

‎BASILEUS The Evidence for Kingship in Geometric Greece‎

‎Scattered foxing on endpapers. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Spine a bit sunned. ; Contents: The Kings Reported in Greek Tradition; Meaning of Basileus in Geometric and Archaic Greece; Hereditary Basileis of the archaic and Classical Periods. ; Yale Classical Monographs 4; 141 pages‎

‎Graham, James Walter‎

‎THE PALACES OF CRETE‎

‎Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Obituary of Ronald Willetts tipped in. DJ has chipping and small tears. Tape applied to rear foreedge of DJ. DJ is price-clipped. ; 388 pages; When it first appeared in 1962, The Palaces of Crete radically modified the conception of the palace of King Minos and of other Minoan palaces, villas, and houses of the late Bronze age. A standard text since its publication.‎

‎Palmer, Leonard Robert‎

‎A NEW GUIDE TO THE PALACE OF KNOSSOS‎

‎1 corner bumped. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is price-clipped. Minor edgewear to DJ. Bookseller stamp to ffep. ; 144 pages‎

‎Kleiner, Diana E. E.‎

‎ROMAN SCULPTURE‎

‎Foxing to textblock. Minor edgewear to DJ with some light creasing. ; Roman sculpture was an integral part of Roman life, and the Romans placed statues and reliefs in their flora, basilicas, temples and public baths as well as in their houses, villas, gardens and tombs. In this illustrated book, Diana Kleiner discuses all the major public and private monuments in Rome, as well as many less well-known monuments in the capital and elsewhere in the empire. She examines art commissioned by the imperial elite as well as by private patrons, including freedmen and slaves and also highlights monuments honouring women and children. Kleiner demonstrates that the sociala, ethnic and geographical diversity of Roman patronage led to an art that was eclectic and characterised by varying styles, often tied to the social status of the patron, but she also examines the interrelations between works produced for different kinds of patrons. Kleiner begins with a long thematic introduction that describes Rome and its empire, characterises patrons from the capital and the provinces, discusses the position of the artist in Roman society and the materials he used, and presents a history of the study of Roman art. The remaining chapters constitute a chronological examination of Roman sculpture from the foundation of Rome in 753 BC to the transfer of the capital to Constantinople in AD 330. In each period the monuments are divided by type, for example portraiture, state relief sculpture, the art of freedmen and provincial art. Throughout, Kleiner treats Roman Sculpture in its cultural, political and social contexts and, wherever possible, as an element of the architectural commplex in which it was set. ; Yale Publications in the History of Art; 490 pages‎

‎Lorimer, H. L.‎

‎HOMER AND THE MONUMENTS‎

‎Spine slant to book. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Clipped review of book from TLS tipped in. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. DJ spine sunned and browned. ; Reviews the archaeological record of the late bronze and early iron ages in the Aegaean area, and gives a full account of the elements which relate to it in the Homeric poems...; 552 pages‎

‎Aldred, Cyril‎

‎SCENES FROM ANCIENT EGYPT IN THE ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM, EDINBURGH‎

‎Creasing along spine. Else minor shelfwear. ; Oblong 8vo. 24pp, illustrated. ; 24 pages‎

‎Avigad, N.‎

‎ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN THE JEWISH QUARTER OF JERUSALEM Second Temple Period‎

‎Small tear in backstrip (3 cm) , else VG; 26pp English text + plates + 23pp Hebrew text. Exhibition catalog.‎