Zoitopoulou, E.P. & Fossey, J.M. Les lampes greco-romaines. 1992 This catalogue raisonne presents the 84 Greek and Roman lamps of the McGill collection. Much of the collection derives from North Africa and the Levant and thus is particularly representative of Palestinian, Egyptian, Roman and Byzantine types, but various examples from parts of Europe provide examples of earlier Greek and Italian types. The lamps are presented in chronological and geographic groups. MUMCAH 4 (1992), 294 p. 21x29 cm. - 70.00 EURO, ISBN: 9070265966

Fossey, J.M. (Ed.) Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Hellenic Diaspora from Antiquity to Modern Times. Montreal & Athens, 1988. 1991 The Hellenic Diaspora represents one of the oldest recorded and most continuous examples of a people who migrated from their country. The origins of this phenomenon date back to the fifth millenium B.C. By the Classical Period there were Hellenic communities established from the North coast of the Black Sea to North Africa, as far East as the Hindu Kush and as far West as the Iberian Peninsula. Today Hellenic communities are found over most...

The Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity. History, Religion, and Archaeology / Le Levant: Carrefour de l'Antiquite tardive explores the monumental, religious, and social developments that took place in the Roman province of Syria during the 3rd through 6th centuries CE. Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and John M. Fossey bring together the work of twenty scholars of archaeology, art history, religious studies, and ancient history to examine this dynamic period of change in social, cultural, and religious life. Close attention to texts and material culture, including palaeo-Christian mosaics and...

In Epigraphica Boeotica II John Fossey continues to treat results of his nearly 50 years of research into the archaeology and inscriptions of Ancient Boiotia (Epigraphica Boeotica I, Amsterdam, 1991). The first part of the volume discusses the relations between Boiotia and other parts of the Greek world as seen in acts of proxenia and agonistic victor lists. After a section on dedications both religious and civic, there follows a series of studies of ancient tombstones, many of them spolia used in more recent buildings, with prosopographic and onomastic commentary...