Late Antique
‘Late antique field archaeology’ : a legitimate aim?
... investigate late antique sites but that, given the complexity that they often embody, it is imperative to approach them in a systematic and consistent ...
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Confined exiles: an aspect of the late antique prison system
... Late antique banished clerics frequently instrumentalised episodes of confine- ment in their writings. It is important to note, in this respect, that very few of them were detained in actual prisons. As we ...
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Streams of living water : the strigil motif on late antique sarcophagi reused in medieval southern France
... many late antique sarcophagi itself, it is likely that the association of strigilated sarcophagi with saints came from continental sources, probably as a result of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and ...
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Continuity and Change in Late Antique Irān: An Economic View of the Sasanians
... In answering our original enquiry into the nature of Sasanian economy, particularly the extent to which political boundaries corresponded to the economic ones, we can conclude that the economic boundaries need to be ...
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Dedicated to eternity? The reuse of statue bases in late antique Italy
... Although the poor state of the evidence makes any attempt at quantification problematic (see above), the sheer numerical relevance of this practice is very clear. Of the 710 late antique statue bases known ...
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A woman’s place: imperial women in late antique Rome
... in late antique Rome is in fact high enough to suggest a trend for female residence in Rome that does not seem to be accidental and into which the uncertain cases may it as ...
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The aristocratic domus of late antique Rome : public and private
... of late antique texts, but I would like to re-consider it for a moment, in light of what we have discussed so ...the late antique period, aristocratic houses were not seen or used in ...
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Food for thought : the potential and problems of faunal evidence for interpreting late antique society
... This article considers the use of animal bones as an aid to understanding social dynamics in Late Antiquity. Faunal evidence has been deployed to great effect in many aspects of archaeology but, I argue, remains ...
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Representations Of Samaritans In Late Antique Jewish And Christian Texts
... I articulate how representations of Samaritans work in Jewish and Christian texts, providing a series of studies of how and in which ways ancient Samaritan others mattered in the late an[r] ...
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Pagan Statuettes in Late Antique Corinth: Sculpture from the Panayia Domus
... Thus, the Panayia Roma, Artemis, and Dionysos share facial fea tures, proportions, aspects of drapery, and the striking use of color with the Varvakeion Athena, [r] ...
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Taxation in the later Roman Empire
... the late antique economy, but it is of course possible - and tempting - to challenge the paradigm Gibbon has ...the late antique economy in general: the ‘decline and fall’-debate will ...
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The tale of the Theban Scholastikos, or journeys in a disconnected sea
... the Late Antique global hierarchy of value - a process of equalisa- tion which is visible around the shores of the western Indian Ocean ...the late fifth to early sixth ...
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Shaving Hair and Beards in Early Islamic Egypt: An Arab Innovation?
... its Late Antique Context [New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 2014]; Lucian Rein- fandt, “ Bewaffneter Raub und Kreuzigung im frühen Islam ” , in ...
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The Potential of Speleothems from Western Europe as Recorders of Regional Climate: a Critical Assessment of the SISAL Database
... Warm Period (RWP; [165]), the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA; [165]), or the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA; [164]), periods of significant temperature change in Europe. This failure[r] ...
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Deconstructing 'The Sense of Place'? Settlement systems, field survey, and the historic record: A case-study from Central Greece.
... In earlier publications I have discussed specific examples of apparent or inferred continuity between late antique and early modern times on focal larger nucleated sites which have been [r] ...
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The Religious world of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
... the Late Republic and that of the late fourth century, excluding Christianity, was remarkably similar and in its preservation of pagan cults showed a great continuity with the Roman religious ...tradition ...
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese
... of change brought by Christianization, it is necessary briefly to outline what is known of the Peloponnese in the fourth century. The emphasis is based mainly on evidence pertaining to sanctuaries, while discussions of ...
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Introduction: Defining the field : The epigraphic cultures of Late Antiquity
... deniable change, which altered the outward appearance of epigraphic monuments to a considerable degree, by referring to models of economic, moral or technical decline. If there was a demand for it, late ...
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Water After Antiquity: The Afterlives of Roman Water Infrastructure in the Eastern Mediterranean (300-800 Ce)
... of Late Antique water channels, settling basins, dividicula fed open air reservoirs, and cisterns were installed during Late Antiquity; these benefited a fountain and cistern in the church atria, as ...
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The Truth about Sale of Antique Items in Sri Lanka: An Inquisitor Study of the Antiques Market in the Galle Fort
... Archaeology ordinance number 09 of 1940 has been amended several times and new regulations introduced. Among these introductions which have been designed to prevent the flaw of antiques in to the antique market. ...
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