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Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace
by Nora M. Dimitrova
As one of the most famous religious centres in the Aegean, the island of Samothrace was visited by thousands of worshippers between the seventh century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. All known inscriptions listing or mentioning Samothracian initiates and theoroi (a total of 169 texts) are presented. Texts that have been published before have been re-studied where the original stones are still preserved, and many corrections have been ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00
The Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Burdur Archaeological Museum
by G.R.H. Horsley, with contributions by R.A. Kearsley and Turkish translations by N. Alp
The Burdur Archaeological Museum holds material from a mountainous area of southwest Turkey where Pisidians in antiquity mingled with Phrygians, Lycians and other ancient peoples, coming to terms first with Greek and then with Roman culture. This volume presents its rich holdings of ancient inscriptions, ranging from Hellenistic royal letters and Roman imperial regulations to the votive offerings and gravestones of rural people. Larger cities ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Archaic Greek Epigram and Dedication
by Joseph W. Day
By the end of the Archaic period, Greek sanctuaries were bursting with dedications, including many that bore epigrams. This study views dedications comprehensively as sites of ritual efficacy, and in particular it recovers epigrams' reflections of and contributions to that efficacy and restores them to an important place in the panorama of Greek religious practice. It argues that reading epigrams while viewing dedications generated effects of ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Metics and the Athenian Phialai Inscriptions
by Elizabeth A. Meyer
Beneath the shining world of the citizen of Classical Athens was the perilous shadow-realm of the resident foreigner, the metic. Emblematic of the status of metic was the requirement to pay a special metic tax, the metoikion. And if a metic failed to pay this tax, he or she would be sold into slavery, a fate that threatened no citizen of the classical Athenian polis. In the late fourth century BC the Athenians, in the face of widespread departure ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00
Qasr Ibrim: The Greek and Coptic Inscriptions Published on Behalf of the Egypt Exploration Society
by Adam Lajtar and Jacques van der Vliet
This book contains the publication of the Greek and Coptic inscriptions that were brought to light during archaeological work on the site of Qasr Ibrim (Egyptian Nubia) carried out by the Egypt Exploration Society from 1963 onwards. 330p, c.90 figs (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2010)
Hardback. Price GB £75.00
A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at St. John's College, Oxford
by Mark L. Sosower, with descriptions of bindings by Jane Eagan
This catalogue publishes a revision to modern standards of the entries for the Greek manuscripts catalogued by Henry Coxe in 1852 as part of his catalogue of the St. John's manuscript collection, providing detailed codicological descriptions with photographs of the handwriting of the scribes and specimens of the watermarks in the paper. A scholarly introduction provides new information on the provenance of the manuscripts, identifying the scribes ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00
Adolf Wilhelm : Kleine Schriften. Abteilung III
edited by Gerhard Dobesch and Hans Taeuber
Paperback. Price GB £85.00
Antike Skulpturen und Inschriften im Institutum Archaeologicum Germanicum
edited by Richard Neudecker and Maria Grazia Granino Cecere
The second Palilia volume presents almost all antiquities donated to the Institute by members and patrons from 1829 onwards, and now kept in the Institute in Rome. It will be of interest for both archaeological research, offering Greco-Roman marbles, Etruscan sculptures, inscriptions and Egyptian material, as well as historico-cultural observations of the early years of the archaeological discipline and collecting activity. 196p, 206 b/w pls ...
Paperback. Price GB £32.00
Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Brooklyn Museum
by Kevin Herbert
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £32.00, Our Price GB £7.95
Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Halmyris: Inscriptions on Stone, Signa and Instrumenta found between 1981 and 2010
edited by Mihail Zahariade and Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu
This volume is a comprehensive publication of Greek and Latin epigraphy from the 30 years of excavations at the site of the ancient city of Halmyris, located on the Black Sea at the mouth of the Danube, an important military centre and naval base during ...
Paperback. Price GB £43.00
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