Archaeology
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Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology [Hardback]
Luke Lavan (Editor); Michael Mulryan (Editor)
Regular Price: £81.00
Special Price: £35.00
ISBN: 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)
Regular Price: £23.99
Special Price: £12.00
ISBN: 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 -
A Cretan Landscape through Time [Paperback]
Barry Molloy (Editor); Chloë Duckworth (Editor)
Regular Price: £36.00
Special Price: £15.00
ISBN: 9781407312712
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2634
This book presents aspects of research on the archaeological investigations at the multi-period site of Priniatikos Pyrgos and surrounding area. Incorporating the Vrokastro Survey Project, the Istron Geoarchaeological Project, the Priniatikos Pyrg... .... Learn More -
Humayma Excavation Project, 2 [Hardback]
John P. Oleson (Author); Robert Schick (Author)
Regular Price: £65.00
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ISBN: 9780897570374
Published by : American Schools of Oriental Research
In 1986 and 1987 Oleson and a small team surveyed an area of 250 sq km around the site of al-Humayma (ancient Hawara) in Jordan's southern desert. Hawara was founded sometime in the first century BC by the Nabataean king Aretas. The flourishing se... .... Learn More -
JJP Supplement 18 (2013) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: A Rural Economy in Transition [Hardback]
Adam Izdebski (Author)
£64.00ISBN: 9788392591986
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 18
A Rural Economy in Transition deals with one of the most important periods in the history of Europe and the Middle East – the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. In his monograph, Adam Izdebski focuses on th... .... Learn More -
New Light on Old Glass [Paperback]
Liz James (Editor); Chris Entwistle (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9780861591794
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 179
This new publication brings together a range of leading scholars from Europe, America and the Middle East to discuss the most recent research in the field of Byzantine glass and mosaics in an interdisciplinary context. New Light on Old Glass explo... .... Learn More -
Fire and Sand [Hardback]
Anastassios Antonaras (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780300179811
Published by : Yale University Press
For the first time, this important volume features nearly all of the ancient glass objects in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. Collected over the course of more than a century, the objects originate from locations across the ... .... Learn More -
Patrons and Viewers in Late Antiquity [Hardback]
Stine Birk (Editor); Birte Poulsen (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9788779340114
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity [ASMA]: 10)
Antiquity was a multi-cultural and multi-religious world. Meetings and interactions between cultures in East and West, and the consequent widespread exchange of ideas had an enormous impact on cultural practices and the creation of identities. The... .... Learn More
