Archaeology
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Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple [Hardback]
Michael Jones (Editor); Susanna McFadden (Editor)
Regular Price: £55.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780300169126
Published by : Yale University Press
The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site's earlier significance, conve... .... Learn More -
From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity [Paperback]
Johannes Hahn (Editor); Ulrich Gotter (Editor); Stephen Emmel (Editor)
£53.00ISBN: 9789004283220
Published by : BRILL
Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were aware of these events’ far-reaching symbolic sign... .... Learn More -
Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology [Hardback]
Luke Lavan (Editor); Michael Mulryan (Editor)
£81.00ISBN: 9789004277021
Published by : Brill
Archaeologists working on late antique sites have not spent enough time thinking about methodology. Their focus has often been on recovering and cataloguing evidence, or on the study of specific historical problems. Digging has often been more imp... .... Learn More -
Spolia Churches of Rome: Recycling Antiquity in the Middle Ages [Paperback]
Maria Fabricius Hansen (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9788771242102
Published by : Aarhus University Press
The church-builders of the Middle Ages treated the architecture of ancient Rome like a quarry full of prefabricated building materials. This resulted in some very eclectically and ingeniously constructed churches. In The Spolia Churches of Rome we... .... Learn More -
Reading Sin in the World: The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the Vocation of the Responsible Reader [Paperback]
Anthony Dykes (Author)
£23.99ISBN: 9781107519091
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of Latin poetry. The Hamartigenia is a didactic poe... .... Learn More -
Cage Cups: Late Roman Luxury Glasses [Hardback]
David Whitehouse (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780872902008
Published by : Corning Museum of Glass
Cage cups, vessels with three-dimensional openwork decoration, are considered to be one of the most beautiful forms of Roman luxury glass. Made from about A.D. 250 to the mid-fourth century, they were often owned by the most privileged members of ... .... Learn More -
The Afterlife of the Roman City [Hardback]
Hendrik W. Dey (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9781107069183
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across mos... .... Learn More -
Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion [Hardback]
Charles Anthony Stewart (Editor); Thomas W. Davis (Editor); AnneMarie Weyl Carr (Editor)
£48.00ISBN: 9780897570732
Published by : American Schools of Oriental Research
Between 491 and 1191 AD, Cyprus was influenced by various political and cultural centres that vied for dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean. This collection of essays primarily focuses on the island's archaeology when it was governed by the Byza... .... Learn More -
Egypt in the First Millennium AD: Perspectives from New Fieldwork [Hardback]
E.R. O'Connell (Editor)
£96.00ISBN: 9789042930711
Published by : Peeters Publishers
This volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-first annual British Museum Egyptology Colloquium, which was the first in the series dedicated to post-pharaonic Egypt. The volume investigates continuity and change in the archaeological record i... .... Learn More -
Azdud (Ashdod-Yam): An Early Islamic Fortress on the Mediterranean Coast [Paperback]
Kate Raphael (Author)
£24.00ISBN: 9781407313153
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2673
Few sources mention the fortress located on the coast of the modern city of Ashdod, Israel. The reasons for its construction can best be understood by examining the political and military changes in the Eastern Mediterranean in the seventh and ear... .... Learn More
