Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - Rome

‘The primary purpose of an engraved gem or ring-bezel, cut in intaglio, was to make an impression upon some fictile material…, which would be understood by the owner of the device, and by his associates, as a personal signature.’ So began Martin Henig’s original BAR Number 8 from 1978, in the British Series of British Archaeological Reports, a catalogue and study of over 1000 Roman engraved gemstones from the British Isles. Nearly 30 years later comes the third edition of this study, the new Preface to which concludes: ‘Over the years I have thought more...

Philippus Arabs war Kaiser des Romischen Reiches von 244 bis 249 n.Chr. Nun liegt, auf der Grundlage der erhaltenen Quellen, zum ersten Mal eine Darstellung dieses aus der Provinz Arabia stammenden Herrschers vor.

Der Autor widmet sich insbesondere der unruhigen innen- und auenpolitischen Situation, der Herkunft und Familie des Kaisers, seiner Haltung zur Religion, vor allem zum Christentum. Schlielich wird die Position des Kaisers in den Veranderungen und Reformen des 3. Jh. herausgearbeitet und aufgezeigt, wie sehr er sich in seinem Herrschaftsverstandnis an der Severischen...

The Vindolanda Tablets are rightly famous for the insights they provide into the life of Roman auxiliaries on the province of Britain's northern frontier around the turn of the first century AD. This study focuses on the various kinds of evidence provided for economic activity in the early Roman Empire, the aim is to investigate how best to comprehend the economic system attested at Vindolanda and to consider the wider implications for studies of the ancient economy in general. This is accomplished by a three-step approach: first, the nature of the Vindolandan evidence is assessed, and the...

A study of Late Roman iron artefacts from the north east of the Iberian Peninsula.

The description for this book, Hadrian and the City of Rome, will be forthcoming.

In this extensive study, the author aims at a comprehensive analysis of funerary archaeological evidence in Early Iron Age Capua, the ancient city in the modern province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy, situated some 25 km north of Naples. The main difficulty results from the entity of the burials, which includes different burial grounds belonging to three different cemeteries, in turn investigated by different methods and times; the information about them is often incomplete and that conditions the critical interpretation. Another problem is that the sample is composed of a majority...