‎Archaeology‎

‎Rubina Raja (ed)‎

‎Palmyra in Perspective‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, xvi + 270 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:118 b/w, 95 col., 3 tables b/w., 1 maps color, Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503610320.‎

‎Summary The famous oasis city of Palmyra, located in the Syrian Desert, has long been the subject of scholarly research; and over the last decade, it has been the focus of three key projects based at Aarhus University in Denmark. Together, these projects have yielded results that have shed new light on Palmyra and have profoundly changed what we know about both the city itself, and its place in the wider Roman Empire, through a focus on sculptural production and the sustainability and economy that underpinned this, urban development, excavation history, and legacy data. This volume, based on a conference organized under the auspices of the Palmyra research projects in Aarhus, draws together papers that reflect on our understanding of Palmyra up to now, and pave the way for new lines of enquiry. Experts in the field engage with discussions of best practice, offer new perspectives on the city, its society, and its environs, and outline approaches that will allow research to continue to break new ground in our understanding of Palmyra. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1. Palmyra in Perspective: A Decade of Research in Retrospective Rubina Raja 2. Harald Ingholt on Palmyra in his Own Words: Audience, Language and Contexts in Ingholt's Archaeological Reports, Newspaper Articles, and Field Diaries Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja, and Julia Steding 3. Shifting our Perspective on the Female Portraits Maura K. Heyn 4. Perspectives on the Palmyrene Religious Epigraphy: Cultural Context and Organization of Religious Life Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider 5. Revisiting the Palmyrene Pantheon: Methodological Considerations on the Many and the Few - The Nature of the Evidence Rubina Raja 6. The Contribution of the Palmyra Portrait Project to Research on the Epigraphy of Palmyra Jean-Baptiste Yon 7. Perspectives on Palmyrene Long-Distance Trade Eivind Heldaas Seland 8. Small Coins, Big Implications? Kevin Butcher 9. Palmyra and the Problem of Parthian Art Henry P. Colburn 10. Late Antique and Early Islamic Palmyra in Perspective: The Potential and Limits of Incomplete Datasets Emanuele E. Intagliata and Alberto Bacchetta 11. Documents pour l'histoire de l'arch ologie au temps du mandat fran ais en Syrie : IV. Le Service des Antiquit s de la R publique Fran aise au Levant durant ses premi res phases : Histoire d'une r ussite arch ologique Michel Al-Maqdissi 12. The Sanctuary of Bel in Perspective: Selective Destructions, Selective Memories, Selective Realities Jen A. Baird, Zena Kamash, and Rubina Raja 13. The Hauran Needs Palmyra Maurice Sartre 14. Does Palmyra Still Have a Future? Annie Sartre-Fauriat Index‎

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‎Andrea Polcaro, Juan Ramon Mu iz, Alessandra Caselli (eds)‎

‎Jebel al-Mutawwaq. A Fourth Millennium BCE Village and Dolmen Field. Six Years of Spanish -Italian Excavations (2012?2018)‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, xiv + 270 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:161 b/w, 6 col., 43 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, Language: English. *NEW ISBN 9782503609393.‎

‎Summary The Early Bronze Age site of Jebel al-Mutawwaq, located on a hill overlooking the Zarqa River in Jordan, was a thriving centre of population from the second half of the fourth millennium into the third millennium BCE. During this time, the settlement developed both in population and social complexity, undergoing the beginnings of an urbanization process that fundamentally changed the relationship between this community of the Transjordanian Highlands with the surrounding landscape, until it was completely abandoned around 2900 BCE. This volume offers a new assessment of the site by combining data from the first surveys of the site, under a Spanish team led by J. A. Fernandez-Tresguerres, with the new results from six seasons of excavations led by teams from Perugia in Italy, and San Esteban in Spain. In doing so, this work sheds new light on this walled settlement and its huge megalithic necropolises, and offers a fresh understanding of the site. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations An Introduction to the Volume ANDREA POLCARO & JUAN RAMON MU IZ 1. Jebel al-Mutawwaq: History of Investigations JUAN RAMON MU IZ 2. The Historical Framework: EB I in Jordan ANDREA POLCARO 3. The Site of Jebel al-Mutawwaq: Architecture, Settlement Planning, and Space Organization ANDREA POLCARO & JUAN RAMON MU IZ 4. The Pottery: Function and Typologies ELOISA CASADEI & JOAQUIM DEL RIO 5. The Lithics: Function and Typologies ALESSANDRA CASELLI 6. Biomolecular Archaeology: Preliminary DNA Analysis of Skeletal Remains from Jebel al-Mutawwaq CHIARA PANICUCCI, SARA SILVESTRINI, GIORGIO GRUPPIONI, DONATA LUISELLI, ELISABETTA CILLI & PATRIZIA SERVENTI 7. The Development of Olive Growing at the Jebel al-Mutawwaq Site: Preliminary Data ALESSIA D'AURIA & GAETANO DI PASQUALE 8. Conclusions: The Importance of the Jebel al-Mutawwaq Settlement at the Beginning of the First Urbanization in the Southern Levant ANDREA POLCARO Works Cited‎

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‎Hariclia Brecoulaki (ed)‎

‎Archaeology of Colour. Technical Art History Studies in Greek and Roman Painting and Polychromy‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 450 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9789603710899.‎

‎Summary Ancient polychromy speaks a language of ?the visible? and ?the invisible?, through signs of pigments, brushstrokes and forms. Another reminder of our classical past, colour is an inherent component of artistic creation, inspiration and imagination. New sophisticated technologies, as well as the development of interdisciplinary studies over these past decades, have stimulated the collection and evaluation of numerous scientific data from in-situ investigation of polychrome and painted documents, and have challenged our understanding of the complexity and function of ancient painting materials and techniques. The present volume is another contribution to the ongoing exploration of the rich history of colour in the classical world; an exploration which builds on previous knowledge and opens up new horizons for a more extended understanding of the aesthetics and meaning of Greek and Roman art. It includes fifteen papers that move from Archaic and Classical Greece to the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and deal with colour on monumental architecture, marble statues and reliefs, wooden and terracotta statuettes, stone sarcophagi, paintings on stone and plaster, and pigments as raw materials. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Hariclia Brecoulaki ARCHAIC / CLASSICAL PERIOD 1. Physicochemical Characterization of Colours and Plasters of an Archaic Sarcophagus from Chiliomodi, Corinth Yannis Maniatis, Eleni Korka, Melina Fotopoulou, Chara Sakellari, Nikos Minos, Safaa Abd El Salam, Alessia Andreotti, Maria Perla Colombini, Stefano Legnaioli and Hariclia Brecoulaki 2. The Revelation of the Decorative Pattern on the Coffered Ceiling of the Porch of the Karyatids in the Erechtheion Giasemi Frantzi, Anastasia Maridaki, Eleni Papakonstantinou, Giovanni Verri, Sophia Sotiropoulou and Hariclia Brecoulaki 3. Technical Investigation of the Polychromy of the Northwest Raking Sima of the Parthenon Eleni Aggelakopoulou, Anastasia Panou, Ioannis Kotsifakos, ?nastasia P. Moutsatsou, Asterios Bakolas, Maria Karoglou and Elisavet P. Sioumpara 4. Two Polychrome Ionic Capitals from the Athenian Agora: Documentation and Experimental Reconstruction Vinzenz Brinkmann, Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann and Heinrich Piening LATE CLASSICAL / HELLENISTIC PERIOD 5. A Pilot Technological Investigation of the Aigai (Vergina) Hunt Frieze: Retrieving Ancient Colours, Rethinking Modern Reconstructions Hariclia Brecoulaki, Andreas G. Karydas, Giovanni Verri and Kalliopi Tsampa 6. The Figured Stelai from the ?Great Tumulus? of Aigai Revisited: New Findings on the Distribution of Pigments and Aspects of their Iconography Myrina Kalaitzi and Giovanni Verri 7. Organic Binders and Painting Techniques of Funerary Wall-paintings from Ancient Macedonia Lydia Avlonitou, Maria Perla Colombini and Anna Lluveras-Tenorio 8. Greek Gilded Wood: an Exceptional Polychrome Peplophoros from Kerch (Mus e du Louvre) Brigitte Bourgeois, Violaine Jeammet and Sandrine Pag s-Camagna 9. The Spectrum of Skin Colours in Hellenistic Sculptures and Other Media. A wide range with different meanings Clarissa Blume-Jung ROMAN PERIOD 10. New Research on the ?Monochromes on Marble? from Herculaneum and Pompeii Susanna Bracci, Roberta Iannaccone, Sara Lenzi and Paolo Liverani 11. Identification of Pigments on Ancient Sculptures from the Collections of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Katerina Tzanavari, Christos S. Katsifas, Dimitris Karolidis and Orestis Kourakis 12. Roman Sarcophagi Use and Reuse: Colour Application Techniques and Ancient Repainting Eliana Siotto ON COLOURS 13. Eclectic Uses of Egyptian Blue in Greek Painting: a Versatile Painting Material Hariclia Brecoulaki, Giovanni Verri, Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets and Lydia Avlonitou 14. In Search of Mineral Pigments Described by Theophrastus of Eressos: Cyanus from Scythia, Miltos from Sinope and Ochre from Cyprus Thomas Katsaros 15. Did Colour and Colouring in Greek Art Confer Prestige? Elena Walter-Karydi INDEX‎

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‎Sandra Jaeggi-Richoz‎

‎fabrique des b b s dans l'Antiquit . Enqu te sur les biberons gallo-romains‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 745 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:210 b/w, 42 tables b/w., 14 maps b/w, Language: French. ISBN 9782503599144.‎

‎Summary Cet ouvrage s'int resse de curieux petits vases qui ont la particularit de pr senter un bec sur leur panse et de se trouver principalement dans des tombes d'enfants. Les arch ologues les ont baptis s ?biberons? ou, parfois, ?tire-laits?. Se concentrant sur la Gaule romaine, cet ouvrage fait le point sur la fonction encore d battue de ces vases, en s'appuyant sur des analyses biochimiques r v latrices de leur contenu. Montrent-elles que les vases ont contenu du lait comme leur nom le sugg re ? Pas toujours, et pas seulement. L' tude approfondie des sources crites anciennes (d'Hippocrate et Aristote Pline, Soranos et C lius Aur lien), ainsi que de l'iconographie permet de mieux approcher le contexte d'emploi et la fonction de ces vases, en les inscrivant dans le cadre global de l'alimentation et des pratiques de soin. La physiologie de l'enfant, sujet des besoins et des maladies particuli res qui le distingue de l'homme et de la femme adultes, le rapproche, au contraire, de certaines cat gories sociales, comme l'atteste l'usage de ces vases. Ainsi, en combinant t moins arch ologiques, archives iconographiques et textuelles et analyses biochimiques cet ouvrage claire certaines repr sentations du corps et certaines strat gies alimentaires et sociales. A la crois e de l'histoire mat rielle, de l'histoire culturelle et de l'histoire du corps, il propose, partir de l' tude des rapports entre lait et enfant et l'usage des ?vases-biberons? en Gaule, une r flexion plus large sur la physiologie et la sant . TABLE OF CONTENTS PREMIERE PARTIE Du lait a? l'enfant Soigner par le lait... Soigner le lait L'enfant : complexion, maladies, nourriture et soins DEUXIEME PARTIE Le biberon et l'enfant : A? la vie a? la mort La production gallo-romaine Biberons et de?funts - des biberons pour qui ? Biberons et contenu : ce que re?ve?lent les analyses biochimiques TROISIEME PARTIE Repre?senter l'allaitement au sein Repre?senter l'allaitement artificiel Principaux me?decins et philosophes ayant traite? de la formation du lait et des reme?des Bibliographie Abre?viations Sources anciennes Liste des Illustrations‎

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‎Erica Angliker, Ilaria Bultrighini (eds)‎

‎New Approaches to the Materiality of Text in the Ancient Mediterranean. From Monuments and Buildings to Small Portable Objects‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 262 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:119 b/w, 18 col., 1 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503601564.‎

‎Summary In recent years, the study of epigraphy and ancient writings has undergone a 'material turn', as scholars have increasingly looked beyond just the contents of written sources to also focus on their broader material and visual contexts as a way of exploring the layers of different meanings that can attach to written evidence. Taking this interdisciplinary approach as its starting point, this volume draws together contributions from specialists in different fields in order to analyze text-bearing objects and monuments from across the ancient Mediterranean world. From texts inscribed on large stone monuments and buildings, clay, or metal tablets, to writings on papyrus and parchment rolls, jewellery, vases, coins, and textiles, writing on different materials had manifold possibilities. The case studies gathered here examine novel approaches to the creation and display of inscribed objects, as well as to the ways in which such items were approached and perceived by people during a chronological period ranging from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. In doing so, the volume sheds new light not only on the interplay between ancient texts, text-bearers, and viewers within their wider spatial and physical contexts, but also on the possibilities opened by exploring the material aspects of writing through interdisciplinary approaches. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction. The Material Turn in the Study of Ancient Texts Erica Angliker and Ilaria Bultrighini I. Texts on Portable Objects - Tablets, Vases, Ostraca, and the Inscribing Hand 2. A Comparative Approach to Methods of Inscribing Clay Tablets. Interaction and Innovation in Cyprus and Ugarit Philippa M. Steele and Philip J. Boyes 3. The Brygos Painter's Miswritten Signature on the Lancastre pelike Gilberto Da Silva Francisco 4. A Lesson in a Desert Quarry. A Material Approach to a School Ostracon Julia Lougovaya II. Texts on Portable Objects - Coins, Rolls, Codices, and the Authoritativeness of Texts 5. Inspecto nummo?The Materiality of Coin Imagery and Inscriptions in the Roman World Dario Calomino 6. What is a Book? The Ideology of Materiality in Ancient Greek and Roman Writing Technology Nicola Reggiani III. Texts on Monuments and Buildings - Spaces and Contexts of Ancient Inscriptions 7. Women in Trouble, and the Habit of Objectifying a Text in the So-Called Confession Inscriptions Irene Salvo 8. Epigraphy and the Power of Precedence in Asia Minor Naomi Carless Unwin IV. Texts that Move Through Media - Body and Text 9. Inscribed Materialities. Greek Curse Tablets Jessica Lamont 10. Formulating Faith on Objects and Buildings. The 'Light, Life' Formula in Late Antiquity Sean V. Leatherbury 11. 'And the Word Was Made flesh'. Greek and Aramaic Inscriptions as Substitutes for the Physical Presence of Benefactors in Eastern Christian Sanctuaries Pawe? Nowakowski V. Texts that Move through Media - Greek Literary and Inscriptional Epigram 12. Elegy, Epigram, and the Complementarity of Text and Monument Joseph W. Day 13. From Courtesans, to Goddesses. The Materialization of Ritual Practice in Nossis's Votive Epigrams Sherry (Chiayi) Lee 14. Strategies of Ocular and Imaginary Deixis in Greek Epigrams Federica Scicolone 15. Afterword Michael Squire Index‎

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‎Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Rubina Raja, Sine Grove Saxkj r (eds)‎

‎Caesar, Rome and Beyond. New Research and Recent Discoveries‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, xvi + 234 p, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:85 b/w, 43 col., 2 tables b/w., 12 maps b/w, 12 maps color, Language(s):English, Italian. ISBN 9782503603445.‎

‎Summary In the Late Republican period, Rome underwent monumental changes. Within the city, numerous building projects were undertaken by the wealthy and politically powerful as they jostled for power, while further afield, wars were fought and Rome's authority gradually expanded into new territories. One of the key players in this field was Julius Caesar, who took advantage of the fluid and fast-changing political and military alliances to position himself in the centre of power. During this time, he became the first to design a forum ? the Forum Iulium, now known as Caesar's Forum ? in his family's name. Today, this site, in the very heart of Rome, is home to The Caesar's Forum Project, where excavations have yielded new knowledge about both the long history of Rome, and the broader context of its global history and cultural heritage. Taking this project as its starting point, this volume draws together scholars working both on the excavations, and on Caesar more generally, to shed new light on the often enigmatic figure of Julius Caesar. The chapters gathered here offer insights into remains and sources from both the time of Caesar and from later periods, giving new perspectives not only on his life and death, but also on the central role that he has ever since continued to play in historiography since. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Caesar, Rome and Beyond: New and Old Sources Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Rubina Raja, and Sine Grove Saxkj r Caesar and Rome 2. Sensing Change: Late Republican Architecture in Rome Penelope J. E. Davies 3. Find a Lover in Augustan Rome: How Ovid's Ars amatoria Became a Criticism of Augustus's Moral Politics Eric M. Moormann The Archaeology of Caesar's Military Ventures 4. The Archaeology of Julius Caesar: New Research on the Gallic Wars Nico Roymans and Manuel Fern ndez-G tz 5. Across the Rubicon to Rome: New Elements for the Identification of Caesar's Military Camp Annalisa Pozzi and Christian Tassinari 6. Caesar in Britain: Britain in Rome A. P. Fitzpatrick and Colin Haselgrove New Discoveries 7. Excavating the Forum Iulium: The Danish-Italian Excavations between Longue Dur e Perspectives and High-Definition Narratives Laura di Siena, Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Gloria Mittica, Giovanni Murro, Claudio Parisi Presicce, Rubina Raja, Sine Grove Saxkj r, and Massimo Vitti 8. The So-Called Aquinum Portrait of Julius Caesar: From its Discovery to Research Development Giuseppe Ceraudo 9. The So-Called 'Caesar' of Aquinum: A Preliminary Analysis Giovanni Murro 10. L'immaginario cesariano tra visioni classicistiche e ideologie nazionalistiche: il caso di un ritratto emerso dalle acque del Rodano Mario Denti New Contributions on Caesar and Historiography 11. Julius Caesar and the Forum Caesaris: World History, Historiography, and Reception Investigated through Danish Biographies of Caesar from the Early Twentieth Century Trine Arlund Hass and Rubina Raja 12. Past Research Perspectives and Narrated Space: The Incident When Caesar Did Not Rise for the Senate, according to Georg Brandes (1918) and Hartvig Frisch (1942) Trine Arlund Hass Index‎

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‎Agnieszka Tomas‎

‎Living with the Army II. The Results of Remote Sensing and Fieldwalking Surveys in Novae (Lower Moesia)‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 261 pages, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:133 b/w, 37 col., 11 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503603995.‎

‎Summary This book presents the results of a research project realised in 2012-14 in the surroundings of the Roman legionary base at Novae (Moesia inferior), transformed in late Antiquity into a civilian town. The publication also contains material from surveys conducted in 1977 and in 2000, which have so far only been partly published. Various research methods were implemented jointly to enable at least a partial reconstruction of the settlement's character. These included geophysical prospection, field walking, and the mapping of metal finds, supplemented by a series of analyses, such as the testing of plant pollen and macroremains, with the aim of providing as complete a reconstruction as possible of the past environment in the fortress' surroundings. We attempted to record both the finds originating from earlier epochs and those from later ones, in order to provide a more complete reconstruction of the settlement landscape and the character of the site. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction and acknowledgments I The site and its surroundings (Agnieszka Tomas) II Introductory remarks on civil settlement near Roman legionary bases and the case of Novae III The present and the past environment (Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Renata Stachowicz-Rybka, Agnieszka Tomas and Hanna Winter) 1. The environment at present (A. Tomas) 2. Palynological study of the samples from the archaeological site at Novae (Hanna Winter) 3. Plant macro-remains from Novae (Renata Stachowicz-Rybka, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo) IV Research programme (Piotr Jaworski, Marcin Jaworski, Wies?aw Ma?kowski, Krzysztof Misiewicz, Micha? Pisz, Agnieszka Tomas, and Piotr Wroniecki) 1. The landscape and research limitations (A. Tomas, P. Wroniecki, M. Jaworski) 2. Organization of work and general settings (A. Tomas) 3. Previous non-intrusive investigations at Novae (A. Tomas, M. Pisz) 4. Field walking surveys and documentation of structural remains (A. Tomas) 5. Geophysical prospection methods (P. Wroniecki, M. Jaworski, M. Pisz, K. Misiewicz, W. Ma?kowski) 6. Satellite imagery and aerial photography (M. Pisz) 7. Mapping of metal finds (P. Jaworski) 8. GIS database and spatial analyses (P. Wroniecki) V The results of the prospection (Marcin Jaworski, Wies?aw Ma?kowski, Krzysztof Misiewicz, Micha? Pisz, Agnieszka Tomas, and Piotr Wroniecki) 1. Satellite imagery and aerial photography 2011-14 (Micha? Pisz) 2. Fortifications' measurements, field walking, mapping finds and documentation of structural remains (Agnieszka Tomas) 3. Geophysical measurements (P. Wroniecki, M. Jaworski, M. Pisz, K. Misiewicz, W. Ma?kowski) VI The finds (Piotr Dyczek, Evgenia Gencheva, Pawe? Janik, Bartosz Kontny, Ma?gorzata Kot, Szymon Modzelewski, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Tadeusz Sarnowski (?), Renata Stachowicz--Rybka, Agnieszka Tomas and Hanna Winter) 1. Stone Age artefacts (Ma?gorzata Kot) 2. Pottery (Agnieszka Tomas) 3. Amphorae (Agnieszka Tomas, Piotr Dyczek) 4. Glass finds and evidence of glass manufacturing (Agnieszka Tomas) 5. Weapons, armour and other equipment (Bartosz Kontny) 6. Jewellery and cosmetic items (Evgenia Gencheva, Agnieszka Tomas) 7. Other metal finds (Szymon Modzelewski) 8. Evidence of local metal processing (Szymon Modzelewski) 9. Roman and Early Byzantine coin finds (Piotr Jaworski) 10. Lead seals (Piotr Jaworski) 11. Epigraphic finds (Agnieszka Tomas) 12. Brick and tile-stamps (Tadeusz Sarnowski (?)) 13. Terracotta and ceramic items (Agnieszka Tomas) 14. Stone finds (Agnieszka Tomas) 15. Medieval and post-Medieval pottery (Pawe? Janik) 16. Medieval coins found at Ostrite Mogili (Piotr Jaworski) 17. Medieval heart-shaped copper alloy find from Ostrite Mogili (Pawe? Janik) VII Summary and conclusions (Agnieszka Tomas) Literature List of figures and tables in the text‎

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‎Fran ois de Callata (ed)‎

‎Numismatic Antiquarianism through Correspondence (16th-18th c.). In the Margin of the Project Fontes Inediti Numismaticae Antiquae (FINA)‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, x + 270 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:108 b/w, 12 tables b/w., Language: English. * NEW. ISBN 9780897223911.‎

‎Summary This book brings together 14 articles into a volume of conference proceedings from the 2017 meeting on numismatic antiquarianism held in Rome. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Fran ois de Callata About the Authors 1. Fool Me Once, Don't Fool Me Twice: Collecting Forgeries to Train the Eye (17th-early 19th Centuries) Daniela Williams. 2. Moulages de monnaies antiques ou comment produire des copies (XVIe-XVIIIe si cles) Guy Meyer 3. The Missing Caesar: Inventing Bronze Coins for Otho Johan van Heesch 4. Speaking about Manuscripts: Unpublished Works in Correspondence Michiel Verweij 5. Recording Coin Finds and Hoards in Early Modern England Ute Wartenberg and Jonathan H. Kagan 6. Two Centuries of Collecting, Describing, and Explaining Contorniates John Cunnally 7. Di vizi e di virt . Di Pertinaci e di Didii, di Pescenniie di Gordiani Federica Missere Fontana 8. Numismatic Antiquarianism: Coins from the Ancient East in Early Modern Europe Martin Mulsow 9. Queen Elizabeth and the Twelve Caesars Andrew M. Burnett 10. Peiresc and the Coins through his Correspondence Elena Vaiani 11. About Books and Coins: The Letters of Charles Patin to Giulio Antonio Arevoldi between 1679 and 1693 Marco Callegari 12. The Story of Francesco Gottifredi's Unpublished Book through the Analysis of the Letters of his Contemporaries Maria Cristina Molinari 13. Monastic Antiquarianism in Austria and the R publique de M dailles: The Numismatic Collection of G ttweig Abbey Manuela Mayer 14. Publishing the Doctrina Numorum Veterum: New Evidence on the Three Editions of Joseph Eckhel's Masterwork Bernhard E. Woytek‎

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‎Akiva Sanders‎

‎Violence & Imagination after the Collapse. Encounters, Identity & Daily Life in the Upper Euphrates Region, 3200-2500 BCE‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, xviii + 306 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:210 b/w, 8 col., 12 tables b/w., 5 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503609454.‎

‎Summary In the late fourth millennium BCE, the villages, temples, and palace of the Upper Euphrates region stood between two social worlds: the comparatively hierarchical, centrally organized Mesopotamian social tradition to the south and the comparatively egalitarian, decentralized Kura-Araxes social tradition to the north. Over the next seven centuries, this positioning and the interactions it sparked fed into reactions among the region's inhabitants that ranged from cataclysmic violence to a flowering of innovation in visual culture and social arrangements. These events had a wide array of short-term and long-term impacts, some limited to a single house or settlement, and some, like the innovation of the Warrior Tomb template, that transformed societies across West Asia. With an eye towards detail, a theoretical approach emphasizing personal motivation, and multiple scales of analysis, this book organizes previously unpublished data from six sites in the region, Arslantepe, Ta kun Mevkii, Pulur, Nor untepe, Tepecik, and Korucutepe, dating to this dramatic and transformative period. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Identities under Construction at the Margins The Problem: Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia and the Kura-Araxes Cultural Tradition at the End of the Fourth Millennium An Approach to Culture Contact Methodologies for New Research Chapter 2. Setting the Stage: The Late Chalcolithic Background The Local Late Chalcolithic of the Upper Euphrates in Regional Context The Kura-Araxes Cultural Tradition A Comparison of Upper Euphrates LC and Kura-Araxes Visual Culture Signatures Conclusion Chapter 3. The First Moments of Visible Contact: The EB Ia Period Arslantepe Tepecik Conclusions: The Formation of a New Kura-Araxes(-Inspired) Visual Orthodoxy Chapter 4. Isolated Citadels: The EB Ib Period Nor?untepe Tepecik Arslantepe Ta?kun Mevkii Conclusions: The Creation of an Indigenous Visual Counter-Orthodoxy Chapter 5. Accommodation, Innovation, and Diversity: The EB II Period Nor?untepe Tepecik Korucutepe Pulur Arslantepe Conclusions: Innovation and Blending of Visual Templates in a Borderland Region Chapter 6. Legacies of Interactions and Innovations on the Upper Euphrates Legacies of EB I Occupations Legacies of EB II Occupations Conclusions. Evidence, Theory, and Narrative The Nature of Kura-Araxes Identity in the Upper Euphrates Region Violence, Power, and Symbolic Systems Works Cited Appendix 1. Plan Key Detailed Descriptions of Object Types Appendix 2. Object Registers Nor?untepe Tepecik Korucutepe Arslantepe Ta?kun Mevkii Objects‎

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‎Leszek Gardeta, Kamil Kajkowski (eds)‎

‎Animals and Animated Objects in the Early Middle Ages‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 206 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:30 b/w, 37 col., 8 tables b/w., 6 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503600901.‎

‎Summary Since time immemorial, animals have played crucial roles in people's lives. In Continental and Northern Europe, especially in the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, animals were both feared and revered. Varying and often ambivalent perceptions of fauna were expressed through everyday practices, religious beliefs, and the zoomorphic ornamentation of a wide plethora of objects that ranged from jewellery, weapons, and equestrian equipment to wagons and ships. This timely volume critically investigates the multivalence of animals in medieval archaeology, literature, and art in order to present human attitudes to creatures such as bears, horses, dogs, and birds in a novel and interdisciplinary way. The chapters gathered together here explore the prominence of animals, animal parts, and their various visual representations in domestic spaces and the wider public arena, on the battlefield, and in an array of ritual practices, but also examine the importance of zoomorphic art for emerging elites at a time of social and political tensions across Scandinavia and the oft-overlooked Western Slavic and Baltic societies. This innovative book draws together scholars from across Europe in order to pave the way for a nuanced international and interdisciplinary dialogue that has the capacity to substantially increase our perception of human and animal worlds of the Early Middle Ages. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1. Animals and Animated Objects in Early Medieval Worlds: An Introduction Leszek Garde?a and Kamil Kajkowski 2. Bear Phalanges and Bearskins in Graves of the First Millennnium AD: Cultural Developments and Characteristics of a Unique Burial Custom in Central and Northern Europe Sebastian Beermann 3. What Could Birds do for the Dead? Animals and Humans in the Mortuary Practices of Viking Age Ribe Sarah Croix 4. Between Life and Death: Waterfowl in Viking Age Funerary Practices Klaudia Karpi?ska 5. Exploring Animals as Agents and Objects in Early Medieval Iceland and Scandinavia Harriet J. Evans Tang and Keith Ruiter 6. Horse Burials on Viking Age Gotland: Between Mounted Warriors and Totemic Animals Matthias S. Toplak 7. Horses and Burial Rites in the Early Piast State and Pomerania Jerzy Sikora 8. Riders on the Storm: Decorative Horse Bridles in the Early Piast State and Pomerania Leszek Garde?a and Kamil Kajkowski 9. Between the Beasts: On the Meaning and Function of Small Quadruped Figurines from Estonia T nno Jonuks and Tuuli Kurisoo‎

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‎Francesca Bologna‎

‎Painting Pompeii. Painters, Practices, and Organization‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, xvi + 120 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:20 b/w, 66 col., 8 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503611198.‎

‎Summary In the Roman world, wall paintings were one of the most pervasive art forms, adorning buildings of all levels, from public spaces and elite houses to far more modest dwellings. Yet despite the very visual nature of their work, Roman painters have remained largely invisible to history. This book attempts to rectify this situation, by shifting the focus from the paintings themselves to the people who realized them, looking beyond the bright colours and imaginative forms to investigate the materials, production practices, and choices underpinning artistic decisions. Taking Pompeii as its starting point, this volume reconstructs what it meant to paint for a living, and asks if it was actually possible to make a living as a painter in the Roman world. Wall paintings are investigated stylistically but also from an ethnological and economic point of view. Broader comparisons across time and space, combined with a quantitative analysis of the labour involved in making wall paintings, allow the author to assess this art form as an economically-embedded practice. Through this unique approach, the volume exposes the social and economic forces underlying craft production, and offers new insights into the lived experience of Roman artisans. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction and Book Structure Chapter 1. Painters and Workshops: An Ongoing Debate The Morellian Method Individual Style and Attribution in Archaeology Identifying Roman Wall Painters' Hands 'Workshop': A Terminological Issue Workforce Organization, Division of Labour, and Specialization Identifying Specific Teams of Painters: Previous Approaches and Their Limits Art and Its Makers in the Ancient World Chapter 2. Pompeian Painters Third Style Painters Further Possible Attributions Observations on Distribution and Dating: Workshops or Teams of Painters? Fourth Style Painters The 'Vettii Workshop' Patronage and Commissioning Chapter 3. Making in Figures: The Energetics of Wall Painting Wall Painting Technique Labour Figures The Casa dei Pittori al Lavoro (IX, 12, 9) Materials: Plaster and Colours Production Times: Plastering and Painting Costs Living Standards Local Demand and Professional Choices Free Labour or Slaves? Chapter 4. Being a maker in the Classical World and Beyond Quattrocento Florence and Other Comparative Models Instability of Employment Mobility Versatility and Specialisation Apprenticeship Sketch-books and the Creation of Art Chapter 5. Conclusions Works Cited‎

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‎Jenny P. Albani, Ioanna Christoforaki (eds)‎

‎Panta Pei Change in Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Architecture, Art, and Material Culture‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 449 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:24 b/w, 149 col., 3 maps b/w, 2 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503602684.‎

‎Summary The year 1204, when Byzantium was conquered by the participants of the Fourth Crusade, marks a major and violent change on several levels, including politics and the economy, society and religion, as well as art and culture. The once powerful empire experienced both the humiliation of foreign occupation and its political subjugation. After its re-establishment in 1261, Byzantium had become a shrunken state, surrounded by aggressive enemies, while a number of its vital areas, such as Crete and Cyprus, together with the Aegean and Ionian islands, remained under foreign rule. These changes influenced not only the artistic output but the everyday life of the Byzantines as well. New ideas, new preferences, and new techniques are attested in architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts, all of which developed a new dynamic. According to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesos (c. 535 - c. 475 B.C.), whose aphorism ????? ???, i.e. everything flows, is highlighted in the title of this collective volume, change is the fundamental essence of the universe. The book aims to provide an up-to-date, well-rounded, and balanced overview of the long thirteenth century, by examining aspects of the artistic and cultural transformations created and developed within the new framework of co-existence among Byzantines, Latins, Slavs, and Ottomans. TABLE OF CONTENTS Notes on Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Jenny P. Albani and Ioanna Christoforaki PART I. A Capital Exiled, A Capital Regained Chapter 1 Loss, Memory, and Exile: Innovation and Simulation in Laskarid Art and Architecture Naomi Ruth Pitamber Chapter 2 Brickwork and Fa ade: Envisioning the Apse of the Church of Saint John the Baptist at the Lips Monastery Jasmina S. ?iri? PART II Artistic Developments and Interactions in the Christian East Chapter 3 Tradition and Transition on the Slopes of the Pentadaktylos Mountain in Thirteenth-Century Cyprus Nikolas Bakirtzis Chapter 4 Icons of the Virgin Nursing at Sinai and the Question of the Origins of the Madonna dell'Umilt Irene Leontakianakou Chapter 5 An Unknown Frankish Icon of the Mother of God Michele Bacci Chapter 6 Changes and Innovation: Reassessing Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Manuscript Illumination Marina Toumpouri PART III Regional Styles and New Cultural Identities Chapter 7 Architectural Sculpture during the Thirteenth Century: Cultural Interactions Shaping New Regional Identities Catherine Vanderheyde Chapter 8 Artistic Links between Epiros, Prilep, and Berroia in the Late Thirteenth Century: Continuity and Change in Monumental Painting Leonela Fundi? Chapter 9 A Missing Link in the Development of Relief Haloes: The Evidence from Macedonia Nikolaos Siomkos PART IV New Data on Everyday and Luxury Objects Chapter 10 Changing Byzantium: The Thirteenth Century Viewed through Its Pottery: Summary of the Evidence, Main Trends, Thoughts for Future Directions Anastasia G. Yangaki Chapter 11 Slow Paces of Change in Byzantine Material Culture: Dress in the Thirteenth Century Pari Kalamara Chapter 12 New Light on Byzantine Enamels of the Thirteenth Century Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie PART V Envisaging and Visualizing Death Chapter 13 Eloquent Texts, Colourful Images: Visionary Scenes at the Refectory of the Patmos Monastery Konstantia Kefala Chapter 14 Is Everything Dead after Death? Mural Paintings of the Last Judgment and the Eschatological Preoccupations of the Thirteenth Century. Dimitra Kotoula In Conclusion Jenny P. Albani and Ioanna Christoforaki Index of Persons Topographical Index‎

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‎Zbigniew Polak, Michal Starski‎

‎Archaeological Finds from the Main Town in Gdansk. A Catalogue from Excavations at Dlugi Targ and Powroznicza Street‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 198 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, 699 col., 5 maps color, Language(s):English, Polish. ISBN 9782503599304.‎

‎Summary Between 2002 and 2004, archaeological excavations took place on Powro?nicza Street, in the city of Gda?sk, Poland. Twelve burghers' plots, located in the centre of this former medieval metropolis, were investigated, and yielded a rich collection of archaeological finds, among them ceramics, and items of wood, metal, and glass, from a period stretching from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. These finds are presented here for this first time in this richly illustrated bilingual volume, published in both English and Polish, which lays out a detailed catalogue of all the items, together with a discussion of the site, its settlement phases, and its most significant discoveries. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Wst?p I. Historical Context Rys historyczny II. Characteristics of the Results of Archaeological Research Charakterystyka wynik w bada? archeologicznych III. Catalogue structure Struktura katalogu IV . Catalogue Katalog Phase I (second quarter 14th c. - mid-15th c.) Faza I (druga ?wier? XIV w. - po?owa XV w.) Phase II (second half 15th c. - first half 16th c.) Faza II (druga po?owa XV w. - pierwsza po?owa XVI w.) Phase III (second half 16th c. - first half 17th c.) Faza III (druga po?owa XVI w. - pierwsza po?owa XVII w.) Phase IV (second half 17th c. - first half 19th c.) Faza IV (druga po?owa XVII w. - pierwsza po?owa XIX w.) Phase V (mid-19th c. - mid-20th c.) Faza V (po?owa XIX w. - po?owa XX w.) V . References Bibliografia‎

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‎Joanita Vroom (ed)‎

‎Feeding the Byzantine City. The Archaeology of Consumption in the Eastern Mediterranean (ca. 500-1500)‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 350 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:37 b/w, 107 col., 14 tables b/w., 4 maps b/w, 35 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503605661.‎

‎Summary This book offers new and innovative perspectives on the archaeology of consumption in Byzantine cities and their hinterlands in the eastern Mediterranean . Case-studies range from towns in eastern Macedonia, north-western and central Greece, and Crete to urban centres in Serbia, Bulgaria and western Turkey. The archaeological data and historical insights presented in this volume are always of great interest, often exciting, and more than once outright astonishing. The commodities discussed in the volume are dated between ca. 500 and 1500 CE, and include pottery (e.g., glazed table wares, amphorae, cooking pots, storage jars), textile fragments, metal objects, bronze and golden jewellery, marble carved slabs and columns. TABLE OF CONTENTS Joanita Vroom (series editor) - Preface PRODUCTION & CONSUMPTION IN BYZANTIUM: A GENERAL INTRODUCTION Archibald W. Dunn - The Medieval Byzantine town: Producers, suppliers, and consumers EARLY & MIDDLE BYZANTINE PERIODS Vesna Biki? - Cari?in Grad (Justiniana Prima) as a market: Searching for an Early Byzantine model of pottery production and consumption Myrto Veikou - Geographies of consumption in Byzantine Epirus: Urban space, commodification, and consumption practices from the 7th to the 12th century Natalia Poulou - Production and consumption in Crete from the mid-7th to the 10th century AD: The archaeological evidence Evelina Todorova - Mapping Byzantine amphorae: Outlining the patterns of consumption in present-day Bulgaria and in the Black Sea Region (ca. 7th-14th centuries) MIDDLE & LATE BYZANTINE PERIODS Philipp Niew hner - Not a consumption crisis: Diversity in marble carving, ruralisation, and the collapse of urban demand in Middle Byzantine Asia Minor Stefania S. Skartsis & Nikos D. Kontogiannis - Central Greece in the Middle and the Late Byzantine periods: Changing patterns of consumption in Thebes and Chalcis Joanita Vroom, Elli Tzavella & Giannis Vaxevanis - Life, work and consumption in Byzantine Chalcis: Ceramic finds from an industrial hub in central Greece, ca. 10th-13th centuries Elli Tzavella - Consumption patterns of ceramics in town and countryside: Case-studies from Corinth and Athens in central Greece EARLY TO LATE BYZANTINE PERIODS: AN OVERVIEW Joanita Vroom - Production, Exchange and consumption of ceramics in the Byzantine Mediterranean (ca. 7th-15th centuries)‎

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‎Frank Braemer, Pascal Darcque‎

‎Bassit 2 (Syrie) - Fouilles Paul Courbin (1971-1984). Le tell du XVIe si cle av. J.- C. au VIe si cle ap. J.- C.‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, xii + 394 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:1809 b/w, 59 col., 126 tables b/w., 3 maps b/w, Language: French. ISBN 9782503593227.‎

‎Summary 50 km au Nord de Lattaqui , le site c tier de Bassit a t tudi sous la direction de Paul Courbin : apr s l'acropole (1971-1972) (p riodes hell nistique et romaine), et la n cropole du Fer (1973-1974), le tell a t fouill de 1972 1984. Sont pr sent s ici une description d taill e de la stratigraphie et de l'architecture du tell , des ensembles c ramiques associ s, ainsi que le corpus du mobilier datant du Bronze R cent I et II. Bassit est install aux marges Nord du royaume d'Ougarit partir du milieu du XVIe s. av. J.-C.. Les importations chypriotes sont nombreuses durant tout le Bronze R cent, mais la c ramique g enne appara t tr s rare. Le site est d truit bien avant le passage des peuples de la mer (vers 1200). A l' ge du Fer, la fonction constante de Bassit est de contr ler l'acc s maritime depuis Chypre et le cabotage littoral. Le commerce de la c ramique chypriote domine le Fer I et II, celui des c ramiques g ennes et trusques, puis attiques, le Fer III. l' poque hell nistique, la production d'amphores et de monnaies confirme l'identification de Posideion avec Bassit. L' poque romaine est galement marqu e par une importante production de c ramique. TABLE OF CONTENTS Avant-propos Introduction FRANK BRAEMER, PASCAL DARQUE & JACQUES Y. PERREAULT 1. Le paysage et la morphologie du site; l'exploration arch ologique du tell FRANK BRAEMER, PASCAL DARQUE 2. Stratigraphie, architecture et groupes de mobilier du Bronze R cent I et II PASCAL DARQUE 3. Le mobilier du Bronze R cent I et II PASCAL DARQUE 4. La r occupation du site apr s la destruction des difices du Bronze R cent FRANK BRAEMER 5. Stratigraphie, architecture et groupes de mobilier du Fer IIA r cent et du Fer IIB FRANK BRAEMER 6. Stratigraphie, architecture et groupes de mobilier du Fer IIIA FRANK BRAEMER 7. Stratigraphie, architecture et groupes de mobilier du Fer IIIB FRANK BRAEMER 8. Stratigraphie, architecture et mobilier de l' poque hell nistique FRANK BRAEMER 9. Stratigraphie, architecture et groupes de mobilier des poques romaine tardive et byzantine FRANK BRAEMER 10. L'occupation du tell dans l'histoire de Bassit FRANK BRAEMER ET PASCAL DARQUE Bibliographie‎

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‎Hans Kienhorst, Ad Poirters‎

‎Book Collections as Archaeological Sites. A Study of Interconnectedness and Meaning in the Historical Library of the Canonesses Regular of Soeterbeeck‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 716 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:15 b/w, 267 col., 3 tables b/w., Language: English. FINE ISBN 9782503604589.‎

‎Summary In 1997 the canonesses regular of Soeterbeeck moved from their convent in Deursen (the Netherlands) to a nursing home in Nuland. They left behind an old library of considerable size and historical significance that is now the core of the Soeterbeeck Collection at Nijmegen University Library. It is a suitable starting point for telling the story of the historical library of a women's convent with roots in the Modern Devotion, from the community's humble beginnings in 1448 to the present day. This study describes the collective history of all manuscripts and early printed books that are known to have been in communal or personal ownership at Soeterbeeck. It investigates the books' production and delves into their traces of use. Many of these are connected to each other, usually because they were left by the same person or had the same purpose. Such units transcend the level of individual volumes and reveal what might be called the stratification of the historical library as a whole. They can be interpreted in the context of the sisters' personal lives and the convent's communal history. This approach provides insight in the multiplicity of meanings that the books had for their users. For the first time, theoretical principles of modern archaeology are used to map a historical library as an archaeological site. A scholarly catalogue of the Soeterbeeck Collection that documents its traces of use is also included. Stunning illustrations visually lay bare the books' eventful lives. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I Study Chapter 1 An Archaeological Approach 1.1 The Madonna of Soeterbeeck 1.2 The Historical Library 1.3 A Book Collection as an Archaeological Site 1.4 Plan of the Following Chapters Chapter 2 Faithful to the Divine Office 2.1 The First Phase 2.2 Choir Books Attributed to Mari nhage 2.3 Two Stratigraphic Units in Choir Books Chapter 3 In Times of Trouble 3.1 The Fire of 1539 3.2 Book Production at Soeterbeeck 3.3 Ownership Notes from the Years 1606-1608 3.4 Books that Came in 1613 3.5 Aftermath Chapter 4 Personal Ownership of Books in a Monastic Environment 4.1 Two Circuits 4.2 The Sisters of 1632 and Their Books 4.3 Not to Forget 4.4 After the Relocation 4.5 Sister Lips's Booklets 4.6 Books in the Choir Stalls Chapter 5 Changing Attitudes towards Old Books 5.1 Cut to Pieces or Sold 5.2 First Signs of a Library 5.3 Revaluation Chapter 6 On the Edge of Beyond 6.1 Special Attention for the Manuscripts 6.2 Witnessing to a Tradition 6.3 The Soeterbeeck Collection 6.4 Towards an Archaeology Chapter 7 Back to Hodder Appendices A Books with Ownership Notes of the Convents of Soeterbeeck and Nazareth B Alienated Books C Books in the Archives of Soeterbeeck D Shelf-Marks on Labels of Woody Paper (ca 1952) E Fragments from the Winter Part of an Antiphonary Excursuses 1 The Term Stratigraphic Unit 2 A Bindery at Mari nhage 3 Incongruities in the Additional Office for Anthony Abbot in IV 4 and IV 22 4 Mysteries surrounding Psalter IV 75 5 Antonius van Hemert 6 Catharina Dekens 7 A Spiritual Exercise at Mass 8 A View on the Seventeenth-Century Convent 9 A Nuns' Gallery at Soeterbeeck 10 The Uncertain Origin of Mater 2 11 The Contents of IV 12 The Choir Stalls of Soeterbeeck 13 The Duration of Petronella van Berckel's Priorate 14 Issues about Wouter Willems's Rectorate 15 Rumbling in the Convent 16 From Sister Verhoeven with Compliments 17 The Bishop's Rule 18 A Sister's Hand on Loose Leaves in IV 15 19 Against the Plague 20 Names of Loved Ones in Two Printed Books 21 Copies of the Windesheim Officia propria from St Joseph-Nazareth in Antwerp 22 A Bookcase in the Choir 23 Two Books near the Prioress 24 Books of Lay Boarders 25 Soeterbeeck's Antiphonaries 26 The Feast of Vincent of Saragossa in Soeterbeeck's Graduals 27 The Patched-Up State of IV 78 28 The Present State of IV 24 29 Lots 64-66 and 70-72 in the Auction Catalogue of the Estate of Theresia Smits 30 'Made by' Antoon Hermans 31 More Roads to Haaren 32 Exceptionally Black 33 The Notebooks of ENK AR-Z104/545 34 Tight Links between the Text Block and Endpapers of The Hague, 130 G 18 35 The Sections of the Library of 1958 36 Soeterbeeck's Books on Display 37 From Another Past 38 Books in the Care of Van Dijk Part II: Catalogue of the Soeterbeeck Collection Introduction In General Titles Annotations Traces of Use The Sisters' Old Library Case III Case IV Case V Indices Previous Book-Owners Notes Bibliography Pictures from the Archives Statues, Portraits and Other Objects‎

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‎Angelo Castrorao Barba, Gabriele Castiglia (eds)‎

‎Perspectives on Byzantine Archaeology. From Justinian to the Abbasid Age (6th?9th Centuries AD)‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 251 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:100 b/w, 5 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503596846.‎

‎Summary From the rule of Justinian (AD 527-AD 565) up to the Islamic conquests in the Byzantine Empire, the lands of the Mediterranean basin underwent significant change from the sixth to the ninth centuries AD. Urban and rural areas were transformed, landscapes altered, and material cultures saw a fundamental shift. But such changes were by no means uniform across the region. From Jordan, Greece, and the Danube, to the Italian peninsula, Sicily, Spain, and the Horn of Africa, the contributions gathered together in this volume explore new advances and perspectives from the field of 'Byzantine' archaeology over the longue dur e in order to shed new light on this period. What was the impact of the reconquest of Justinian? What was the impact of Byzantium in archaeological record? What are the archaeological indicators of urban and rural transformations from the sixth to the ninth centuries? Did architecture represent a marker of socio-economic and cultural change within the Byzantine world? By engaging with such key questions, and by drawing on new data from surveys, excavations, material culture, and historical sources, this volume offers new insights into archaeological perspectives on the broader Byzantine world. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of illustrations 1. Shifting Paradigms in a Shifting Background: An Introduction Angelo Castrorao Barba and Gabriele Castiglia Cities 2. Thessaloniki in Transition (Sixth to Ninth Centuries): The transformation of a Late Antique Imperial Metropolis into a Medieval Urban Center Konstantinos T. Raptis 3. Rome ?The Legacy of the Gothic War in the Urban Defensive Systems Lucrezia Spera 4. Ravenna, the Last Capital of the Western Roman Empire Enrico Cirelli Landscapes 5. The Justinian Renaissance in the East: Reality or Illusion? Basema Hamarneh 6. Umm al-Rasas / Kastron Mefa'a (Jordan) along the Limes Arabicus. Transformation and Resilience of a Cultural Landscape between Byzantine and Early Islamic Period Carmelo Pappalardo 7. Settled Lansdscapes in the Late Antique Peloponnese: A Review for a Topographical Reassessment Priscilla Ralli 8. Aquae in the De Aedificiis. Territorial and Administrative Issues in Dacia Ripensis during the Sixth Century Ivan Gargano 9. From Twilight to a New Dawn: Byzantine Southern Italy Paul Arthur 10. The Sicilian countryside during the Byzantine period: Archaeological Perspectives on Settlement Patterns Giuseppe Cacciaguerra and Angelo Castrorao Barba 11. Shaping a Christian Empire: Early Christianity in the Horn of Africa from Alexandria to Byzantium Gabriele Castiglia and Philippe Pergola Material culture 12. The Circulation of Coinage in Two Byzantine Cities: Rome and Naples in Comparison Flavia Marani 13. Movable Churches, or How Byzantium Influenced Hispania: An Archaeological Reflection on a Current Debate Mar a de los ngeles Utrero Agudo 14. Material Encounters in a Byzantine Setting (Sixth/Seventh to Tenth Centuries AD) Joanita Vroom‎

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‎Anna Marie Roos, Vera Keller (eds)‎

‎Collective Wisdom. Collecting in the Early Modern Academy‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 325 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:51 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588063.‎

‎Summary This volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Leopoldina collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These scholarly societies, founded before knowledge became subspecialised, had many common members. We focus upon how their exploration of natural philosophy, antiquarianism, and medicine were reflected in collecting practice, the organisation of specimens and how knowledge was classified and disseminated. The overall shift from curiosity cabinets with objects playfully crossing the domains of art and nature, to their well-ordered Enlightenment museums is well known. Collective Wisdom analyses the process through which this transformation occurred, and the role of members of these academies in developing new techniques of classifying and organising objects and new uses of these objects for experimental and pedagogical purposes. TABLE OF CONTENTS Vera Keller and Anna Marie Roos, Introduction Kelly J. Whitmer, Putting Play to Work: Collections of Realia and Useful Play in Early Modern Educational Reform Efforts Chantal Grell, Tito Livio Burattini, a Seventeenth-Century Engineer and Egyptologist Georgiana Hedesan, University Reform and Medical Alchemy in Ole Worm's Museum Wormianum (1655) Fabien Kr mer, The Curiosi as Collectores: The Publications of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, c. 1652-1706 Vera Keller, Vernacular Knowledge, Learned Medicine, and Social Technologies in the Leopoldina, 1670-1700, or, How to Publish on Sirens, Dragons, and Basilisks Philip Beeley, 'The Antiquity, Excellence, and use of Musick': Wallis, Wanley, and the Reception of Ancient Greek Music in Late Seventeenth-Century Oxford Julia A. Schmidt-Funke, Urban Fabric and Knowledge of Nature: Physicians as Naturalists in Early Modern Commercial Towns Kim Sloan, Sloane's Antiquities: Providing a 'Body of History' through Beads, Bottles, Brasses and Busts Dustin Frazier Wood, Antiquarian Science and Scientific Antiquarianism at the Spalding Gentlemen's Society Anna Marie Roos, The First Egyptian Society Louisiane Ferlier, Collective Wisdom in the Digital Age: Digitizing Early Modern Collections at the Royal Society‎

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‎Ivana Capeta Rakic, Giuseppe Capriotti (eds)‎

‎Images in the Borderlands. The Mediterranean between Christian and Muslim Worlds in the Early Modern Period‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 310 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:21 b/w, 58 col., 1 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503595085.‎

‎Summary This volume offers a unique exploration into the cultural history of the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period by examining the region through the prism of Christian-Muslim encounters and conflicts and the way in which such relationships were represented in art works from the time. Taking images from the period as its starting point, this interdisciplinary work draws together contributors from fields as varied as cultural history, art history, archaeology, and the political sciences in order to reconstruct the history of a region that was often construed in the Early Modern period as a 'borderland' between religions. From discussions of borders as both physical construction and mental construct in the Mediterranean to case studies exploring the Battle of Lepanto, and from analyses of art work produced from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries to a consideration of the influence of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin, the chapters gathered together in this insightful volume provide a new approach to our understanding of Early Modern Mediterranean history. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction. Images in the Borderlands: The Mediterranean between Christian and Muslim Worlds in the Early Modern Period Ivana ?apeta Raki? and Giuseppe Capriotti Part 1: Borderland. The Mediterranean Basin between the Two Worlds Rival Legacies: Islamic Art in Early Modern Europe Peter Burke Zadvarje (Duare): The Fate of a Fortress at the Border of Two Worlds Ivan Alduk The Bastions of the Ottoman Capital: The Fortresses of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus Seen by French Military Engineers, Diplomats, and Travellers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Ferenc T th The Image of Elite Corps, from Al-Andalus to Lepanto Ana Echevarria Part 2: Lepanto. The Image and the Reflection of the Battle in the Mediterranean Basin and Beyond Between Liguria and Southern Piedmont: Images of Lepanto in Religious Contexts Laura Stagno Heroic Comparisons in Images of Christian Political and Military Leaders Engaged in the Wars against the Turks: Some Observations Starting from the Battle of Lepanto (1571) Chiara Giulia Morandi Johannes Sambucus's Arcvs aliqvot trivmphal (Antwerp, 1572): Visual and Written Propaganda for the Victor at Lepanto Juan Chiva and V ctor M nguez On the Other Hand: The Battle of Lepanto in Ottoman Sources Naz Defne Kut Part 3: Circulation. From Ancient to Modern, across Imagined and Secret Battles Reflected in Images The Rhetorical Index in the Portraits of Mehmed II: Some Episodes between Words and Images, from the West Shore of the Mediterranean Angelo Maria Monaco Representing Africa in the Exequies for King Philip II Cristelle Baskins and Borja Franco Llopis Old and New Enemies in Ancient and Modern Battles: Anachronisms in Three Works by Mattia Preti in Malta Maria Luisa Ricci 'Macometto in Una Nugola Nera' (Muhammad in a Black Cloud): The Imaginary War of Giovanni da San Giovanni (and Ferdinando II de' Medici) at Palazzo Pitti Francesco Sorce 'At his Feet': The Image of the Eastern Prisoner in Late Baroque Iberian Public Sculptures Iv n Rega Castro Index‎

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‎Ivana Popovi?, Miloje Vasi?, Jean Guyon, Dominic Moreau (eds)‎

‎basilique Saint-Ir n e de Sirmium et sa n cropole‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 239 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:91 b/w, 101 col., 58 tables b/w., 1 maps color, Language: French. ISBN 9782503595504.‎

‎Summary Les fouilles franco-yougoslaves dirig es conjointement par No l Duval (1929-2018) et Vladislav Popovic (1930-1999), d'abord Sirmium de 1973 1978, puis Cari?in Grad de 1978 1991, demeurent encore aujourd'hui un mod le de collaboration arch ologique internationale. Du fait de leur impressionnant bilan, les deux missions particip rent pleinement la mise en valeur du patrimoine romain sur le territoire de l'actuelle Serbie, de m me qu' la d monstration de l'int r t de la p riode que l'on qualifie aujourd'hui d'Antiquit tardive. D di la m moire des deux grandes figures susmentionn es, le pr sent ouvrage unit les d couvertes rest es in dites de l'exploration franco-yougoslave de la basilique Saint-Ir n e de Sirmium, men e entre 1976 et 1977, avec celles faites plus r cemment, soit en 2002 et en 2016, l'occasion des travaux conduits sur le site de la n cropole environnante de cette glise pal ochr tienne, par l' quipe de l'Institut arch ologique de Belgrade. Les r sultats obtenus par de v ritables p res fondateurs se retrouvent donc ici associ s ceux de g n rations qui ont t form es dans la suite directe des importantes avanc es scientiques, non seulement en termes de donn es, mais aussi de m thodologie, dont ils furent l'origine. TABLE OF CONTENTS Liste des illustrations Foreword Avant-propos Dominic Moreau Pr face Ivana Popovi? et Miloje Vasi? Sirmium chr tienne Ivana Popovi? et Dominic Moreau La n cropole orientale de Sirmium Petar Milo?evi?, Jean Guyon et Miloje Vasi? A. Les fouilles franco-yougoslaves de 1976-1977 I - Les fouilles Miloje Vasi? II - Les tombes de la basilique Saint-Ir n e et de sa n cropole Jean Guyon et Miroslav Jeremi? III - L'architecture de la basilique - aper u des vestiges Bojan Popovi? IV - Les briques Radomir Prica et Jean Guyon V - La plastique d corative architectonique Bojan Popovi? VI - Les inscriptions - Catalogue Jean Guyon et Sne?ana Ferjan?i? VII - Les mensae fun raire Ivana Popovi? VIII - Les monnaies Miloje Vasi? IX - Les fresques et les mosaiques Ivana Popovi? X - La c ramique Jasmina Davidovi? XI - Le mat riel ost ologique humain Nata?a Miladinovi?-Radmilovi? B. Les fouilles de sauvetage de 2002 et de 2016 XII - La tombe de la rue Mike Anti?a Ivana Popovi? XIII - Les r sultats de l'analyse anthropologique, rue Mike Anti?a Nata?a Miladinovi?-Radmilovi? XIV - Les tombes de la rue Palanka Miroslav B. Vujovi? et Biljana Lu?i? XV - Les r sultats de l'analyse anthropologique, rue Palanka Nata?a Miladinovi?-Radmilovi? Conclusion Ivana Popovi? et Miloje Vasi? English Abstract Dominic Moreau Bibliographie Errata (https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ROMA-EB.5.136320)‎

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‎Brenders, Francis [edit.] Cuyt, Guido [edit.] De Boe, Guy‎

‎Van beschaving tot opgraving : 25 jaar archeologisch onderzoek rond Antwerpen‎

‎Antwerpen , A.V.R.A., 1988 Softcover, 102 pagina's, 29.5 x 21 cm, illustraties in kleur en zwart/wit.‎

‎Van beschaving tot opgraving : 25 jaar archeologisch onderzoek rond Antwerpen‎

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‎Sheila Bonde, Clark Maines (eds)‎

‎Other Monasticisms. Studies in the History and Architecture of Religious Communities Outside the Canon, 11th - 15th Centuries‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, iv + 370 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:20 b/w, 76 col., 8 tables b/w., 10 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503587844.‎

‎Summary Monasteries contributed to every aspect of life during the middle ages, from the structures monks built, to land management, craft production to the intellectual and spiritual life of the medieval world. There were more than 300 orders or congregations in existence during the middle ages, yet scholarship considers only a small number of them (notably Cistercians and Cluniacs), and privileges selected sites, such as Mont Saint-Michel, San Francesco in Assisi or Christ Church in Canterbury. This volume considers the history and architecture of other congregations that are essential to a more complete understanding of monasticism in the European middle ages: Augustinians, lesser known Benedictines, Carthusians, Celestines, Clarissans, and Tironensians in France, as well as the Camaldolese and Vallombrosans in Italy. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction: Other Monasticisms and the Question of Representivity Sheila Bonde (Brown University) and Clark Maines (Wesleyan University) 2. The French Celestine "network" (ca. 1350-1450): cross-order and lay collaboration in late medieval monastic reform. Robert Shaw (Independent Scholar) 3. Sainte-Croix-sous-Off mont:?An archaeological and architectural perspective on the Celestine order. Arthur Panier (University of Paris I and Free University of Brussels) 4. The abbey of Tiron in the later middle ages: some observations Kathleen Thompson (University of Sheffield) 5. La Sainte-Trinit de Tiron in the Context of Eremitism in Western France Sheila Bonde (Brown University) and Clark Maines (Wesleyan University) 6. The Illumination of the Eye, and the Rhetoric of Sanctity and Contemplative Prayer in the Early to Central Middle Ages. Susan Wade (Keene State University) 7. The Archdiocese of Reims: Tradition, and Benedictine Reform in the Twelfth Century. Kyle Killian (Florida State University) 8. Overlapping Space and Temporal Access in the Chartreuse de Champmol. Laura Chilson-Parks (Brown University) 9. Reconstructing an Order: The Architecture of Isabelle of France's Abbey at Longchamp. Erica Kinias (Brown University) 10. Vallombrosan and Camaldolese: Architecture and Identity in Two Italian Reform Orders. Erik Gustafson, (Washington and Lee University) 11. Augustinian Architecture in France: Aesthetic Restraint within a Regional Frame. Sheila Bonde (Brown University) and Clark Maines (Wesleyan University)‎

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‎Daniel S vborg (ed)‎

‎Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Studies of the Viking Age‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 365 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 10 col., 1 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, 1 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503592961.‎

‎Summary What happens when scholars cross outside the perceived 'boundaries' of their discipline? What problems arise when a scholar trained in one field employs materials or methodologies from an adjacent subject area, engaging with new sources, research methodologies, and traditions, and how can such issues be resolved? Taking as its starting point the increasing shift towards interdisciplinarity seen within Viking-age studies, this collection of essays aims to explore the benefits and pitfalls that can arise from crossing disciplinary borders in this area, and to gain new knowledge about how to address issues that have occurred in previous examples of interdisciplinary combinations. The volume draws together contributions from authors in different disciplines, among them philology, history, archaeology, literary studies, folklore studies and history of religion, in order to hold a constructive and multi-perspective discussion on the benefits and issues arising from interdisciplinary research in studies of the Viking Age. Together, these chapters aim to bridge the gap that often exists between scholars from adjacent fields of research, and in doing so, to stimulate the trend in interdisciplinary approaches to research that can improve our understanding of the past. TABLE OF CONTENTS Interdisciplinarity in Viking Age Studies. An Introduction Daniel S vborg Interdisciplinary ? Multidisciplinary ? Transdisciplinary. Navigating the Wandering Rocks of Trending Terminology on Changeable Tides of Discipline Ideology Frog The Legend of the Invitation of Varangian Princes in the Light of Interdisciplinarity Elena Melnikova Saga Studies and Slavic-Finnish Archaeology: 'Bilateral Cooperation' Tatjana N. Jackson Crossing Borders between Literature and Toponymy. The Narrative Landscape of Hvolsv llur and its Implications Matthias Egeler Women and Swords in the Viking Age. An Interdisciplinary Study of an Archaeological and Textual Motif Leszek Gardela 'Many big ships and excellently well fitted?'. A Case Study of Norse Vessels in H konar saga H konarsonar c. 1204-1263 William Pidzamecky Interdisciplinary Research in the Study of Human Sacrifices in Late Iron Age Scandinavia Klas Wikstr m af Edholm The Royal Erfi-Feast, Inauguration at the High-Seat, and Genealogical Knowledge in Viking Age Scandinavia. An Interdisciplinary Approach Olof Sundqvist Some Thoughts on the Category of Religion in Research of Viking Age Scandinavia Andreas Nordberg Molding Myth and Memory. The Plasticity of Old Norse/Icelandic Traditional Tales Annette Lassen Old Norse Religion and the Troublesome Quest for an Interdisciplinary Approach Henrik Janson‎

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‎David A. Jenkins, Simon Timberlake, Andrew Davidson, Kalla Mal, Peter Marshall, Tim Mighall, Charlotte O?Brien, David N. Smith, Helen Chittock, Robert Masefield, Enid Allison, Anne Crone, Derek Hamilton, Suzi Richer, Jackaline Robertson, Alex Wood, Stephen Davis, Knut Rassmann, Aaron Watson, Richard Bradley, Guillaume Robin,Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Mark Haughton, Marie Louise Stig S rensen, Lise Bender J rgensen, Florian Soula, Pascal Tramoni, Laura Manca, Kirsty Lilley, Danny Rosenberg,Bob Davis, Phil Harding, Matt Leivers, Rivka Chasa, Alejandro Garc a-Moreno, Miriam Cubas, Iain Davidson, Diego Garate, In s L pez-D riga, Ana B. Mar n-Arroyo, Miguel ngel Mateo Saura, Jos E. Ortiz, Ana Polo-D az, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Aixa San Emeterio, Trinidad de Torres, Rachel Wood, Chris Fowler, Rachel J. Crellin, Michelle Gamble, n, Sergio Ripoll, Vicente Bayarri, Francisco J. Mu oz, Ricardo Ortega, Elena Castillo, Jos Latova, Jes s Herrera, David Moreno-Salinas, Ignacio Mart n, Lionel Sims,‎

‎Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Volume 87‎

‎Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021 Softcover, 291 pages, 26 x 20.5 cm. ISBN 0079497x.‎

‎?The Dead are Watching Us?: A Landscape Study of Prehistoric Rock-cut Tomb Cemeteries in Ossi, Sardinia, Italy Guillaume Robin, Florian Soula, Pascal Tramoni, Laura Manca, Kirsty Lilley Article Select Between Novelty and Variability: Natufian Hunter-Gatherers (c. 15?11.7 kyr) Proto-Agrotechnology and the Question of Morphometric Variations of the Earliest Sickles Between Novelty and Variability: Natufian Hunter-Gatherers (c. 15?11.7 kyr) Proto-Agrotechnology and the Question of Morphometric Variations of the Earliest Sickles Article Select Hands Stencils in El Castillo Cave (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain). An Interdisciplinary Study Hands Stencils in El Castillo Cave (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain). An Interdisciplinary Study Article Select El Ni o Cave (A na, Albacete, Spain): Late Middle Palaeolithic, Rock Art, and Neolithic Occupations from Inland Iberia El Ni o Cave (A na, Albacete, Spain): Late Middle Palaeolithic, Rock Art, and Neolithic Occupations from Inland Iberia Article Select Change and Diversity in Neolithic Mortuary Practices on the Isle of Man Change and Diversity in Neolithic Mortuary Practices on the Isle of Man Select Returning from the Underworld: The West Kennet Palisades in the Avebury Monument Complex Returning from the Underworld: The West Kennet Palisades in the Avebury Monument Complex Article Select Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Investigation of Engraved Chalk Plaques from the Stonehenge Region Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Investigation of Engraved Chalk Plaques from the Stonehenge Region Article Select The Pre-Pottery Neolithic Water-well at Tell Seker al-Aheimar, Upper Mesopotamia: The Social Contexts of its Construction and Management The Pre-Pottery Neolithic Water-well at Tell Seker al-Aheimar, Upper Mesopotamia: The Social Contexts of its Construction and Management Article Select Bronze Age Woollen Textile Production in England: A Consideration of Evidence and Potentials Bronze Age Woollen Textile Production in England: A Consideration of Evidence and Potentials Article Select Beyond Newgrange: Br na B inne in the later Neolithic Beyond Newgrange: Br na B inne in the later Neolithic Article Select A New Study of the Decorated Cists in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland A New Study of the Decorated Cists in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland Article Select Hot Stone Technology at Bucklers Park, Crowthorne, Berkshire: The Use and Re-use of a Persistent Place During the Bronze and Iron Ages Hot Stone Technology at Bucklers Park, Crowthorne, Berkshire: The Use and Re-use of a Persistent Place During the Bronze and Iron Ages Article Select Copper Mining in the Bronze Age at Mynydd Parys, Anglesey, Wales Copper Mining in the Bronze Age at Mynydd Parys, Anglesey, Wales‎

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‎Bianchi Bandinelli, Ranuccio‎

‎Rome: La fin de l'art antique‎

‎Paris, Ed. Gallimard, 1970 Reliure sous jaquette de l' diteur, 462 pages, 28 x 22 cm.‎

‎Rome: La fin de l'art antique‎

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