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Athenian Agora XXXII: Roman Pottery: Fine Ware Imports
by John W. Hayes
Examples of Roman period red-gloss and red-slip pottery generally termed terra sigillata found during excavations in the Athenian Agora form the focus of this volume. These finewares, like the other tablewares of the first seven centuries A.D. discussed here, were all imported - a very different situation to earlier periods where Athens was known as a great ceramic-making center, and perhaps the result of mass destruction of potters' ...
Hardback. Price GB £95.00
Athenian Agora XXXIV: Vessel Glass
by Gladys D. Weinberg and E. Marianne Stern
A landmark in the study of ancient glass from Greece, this volume presents 404 vessels, mostly fragmentary, excavated in the Athenian Agora. Fragments of almost every type of glass known from antiquity were found: 37 pieces date to the Classical and Hellenistic periods, when the Agora as civil center of the city was at its height, and 15 are assigned to the ninth to eighteenth centuries. The bulk of the material belongs to the Roman Empire and ...
Hardback. Price GB £100.00
The Neolithic Pottery from Lerna
by K. D. Vitelli
Beneath the famous remains of the House of the Tiles and the other Bronze Age remains found at Lerna, a large amount of Neolithic pottery was found during 1950s excavations by the American School of Classical Studies. Although the mixing of material makes it impossible to establish an independent ceramic sequence for the site, the author is able to differentiate Early and Middle Neolithic types using her knowledge of material from the well ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £95.00, Our Price GB £39.95
Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z
by Liza Cleland, Glenys Davies and Lloyd Llewellyn Jones
From abolla (a thick woollen cloak) to zostra (a type of decorated hairband) this encyclopedia contains a vast amount of information about dress in the classical world. As well as practical information about garments jewellery and so on, it also covers social attitudes towards clothing, with entries on social status and gender. Each entry contains full references to both primary and secondary sources. 225p b/w illus (Routledge 2007)
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £26.00
Hardback. Price GB £70.00
Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World
by Katherine Dunbabin
The study of ancient mosaics provides an important insight into pictorial style and art form, as well as the work of artisans, production techniques, patronage and commissioning, and social and architectural function. In this extremely well-illustrated study, Dunbabin traces the development of mosaics from those made from pebbles set in mortar or plaster in early Greece, through to those adorning the floors of Christian churches in the east. A ...
Paperback. Price GB £36.00
Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World
edited by John Peter Oleson
The technological accomplishments of the Greeks and Romans are legendary, and technological advances during the Classical period affected almost every area of human experience, from improved processes of extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, and ...
Paperback. Price GB £32.50
Hardback. Price GB £110.00
Gem Mounts and the Classical Tradition. Supplement to A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos (2003)
by Claudia Wagner and John Boardman
This volume is intended to supply some supplementary information about the gems and cameos published in A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos, published in 2003 as BAR 1136. In particular more information is presented on some ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00
Greek and Hellenistic Wheel and Mould Made Closed Oil Lamps in the Holy Land: Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority
by Varda Sussman
This catalogue publishes the closed pottery oil lamps in the collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and follows the previous volume of saucer lamps. It caintains mainly intact oil lamps discovered in exavations and listed with the Antiquities ...
Paperback. Price GB £40.00
Die Griechischen und Romischen Tonlampen (aus Heidelberg)
by Cornelia Thone
A substantial, illustrated catalogue of the lamps in the Archaeological Institute in Heidelberg. Review of typology, chronology, iconoraphy, and maker's marks. 180p, 38pls. (Zabern 2004)
Hardback. Price GB £54.00
The Mastery and Uses of Fire in Antiquity
by J E Rehder
This unusual study, written by an engineer with expertise in industrial research and pyrotechnology, combines archaeological investigation with technical instruction to examine the scientific and chemical processes which resulted in the ancient furnace. ...
Hardback. Price GB £64.00
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