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Worlds Apart Trading Together: The organisation of long-distance trade between Rome and India in Antiquity
Kasper Grønlund Evers
This book sets out to replace the outdated notion of ‘Indo-Roman trade’, integrating new findings from the last 30 years. Analysis conducted demonstrates that highly substantial levels of trade took place between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the 1st–6th c. altering consumption and production in India, South Arabia and the Roman Empire. READ MORE
Paperback: £30.00 | eBook: £16.00
Immagini del tempo degli dei, immagini del tempo degli uomini
Ciro Parodo
Iconography found in Roman and Byzantine illustrated calendars can be divided into three themes: astrological-astronomical, festive-ritual and rural-seasonal. This volume presents an in-depth study of the connections between the meaning of the iconography of the illustrated calendars and their historical and cultural context. READ MORE
Paperback: £42.00 | eBook: £16.00
Elements of Continuity
George Azzopardi
The stones dealt with in this study are non-figural (or aniconic) or, sometimes, semi-figural. They come from ritual contexts and, as such, act as a material representation of divine presence in their role as betyls. The Maltese islands are presented as a case study to demonstrate the phenomenon of continuity through a study of these stones. READ MORE
Paperback: £18.00 | eBook: £16.00
Die Ausrüstung der römischen Armee auf der Siegessäule des Marcus Aurelius in Rom
Boris Alexander Nikolaus Burandt
The reliefs of the column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome are used extensively for the illustration of Roman soldiers. However, there is no direct comparison between this work of official Roman art and the archaeological finds. This book aims to address this lacuna. READ MORE
Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00
Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki
Anastassios Ch. Antonaras
A detailed examination of the production of glass and glass vessels in the eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic Age to the Early Christian period, analysing production techniques and decoration. READ MORE
Paperback: £50.00 | eBook: £16.00
L’artisanat dans les cites antiques de l’Algérie
Touatia Amraoui
This book is the first to examine the artisans of ancient North Africa as its core subject. Focusing on urban production in Algeria during Antiquity, this critical study brings together new documentation drawn up on the basis of field data and the consultation of archives from a long history of survey in Algeria and France. READ MORE
Paperback: £50.00 | eBook: £16.00
Ras il-Wardija Sanctuary Revisited
George Azzopardi
This book reassesses the evidence of a secluded Punic-Roman sanctuary on the coastal promontory of Ras il-Wardija on the central Mediterranean island of Gozo (near Malta). READ MORE
Paperback: £19.00 | eBook: £16.00
Bronze Age Monuments and Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Landscapes at Cambridge Road, Bedford
Andy Chapman et al.
Presents the results of open area excavations on 14.45ha of land at Cambridge Road, Bedford, carried out in 2004-5 in advance of development. READ MORE
Paperback: £30.00 | eBook: £16.00
Roman Frontier Studies 2009
ed. Nick Hodgson et al.
Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (LIMES XXI), hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in August 2009. READ MORE
Paperback: £90.00 | eBook: £16.00
Romano-Celtic Mask Puzzle Padlocks
Jerry Slocum et al.
This book presents a little-known and ingenious artefact of the Roman world: a small puzzle padlock whose font plate bears a face or ‘mask’ of ‘Celtic’ style. READ MORE
Hardback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00
‘Poedicvlorvm oppida’
Custode Silvio Fioriello
This volume reconstructs – for the first time, in an organic manner and in a global framework – the profile of the urban space of central Apulia, Italy in Roman times. READ MORE
Paperback: £38.00 | eBook: £16.00
Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta in the British Museum
Josef Mario Briffa SJ et al.
Ancient finds from the Maltese islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods. READ MORE
Paperback: £60.00 | eBook: £16.00
Saxa loquuntur: Roman Epitaphs from North-Western Croatia
Branka Migotti
This book examines Roman funerary material from three Roman cities of the south-western regions of the Roman province of Pannonia (modern-day north-western Croatia) READ MORE
Paperback: £28.00 | eBook: £16.00
Large Scale Rhodian Sculpture of Hellenistic and Roman Times
Kalliope Bairami
This volume presents the large-scale Rhodian sculpture of the Hellenistic and Roman period through the publication of sixty unpublished sculptures of life size or larger than life size, together with forty-five sculptures already published. READ MORE
Paperback: £90.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £10.00
Birds, Beasts and Burials: A study of the human-animal relationship in Romano-British St. Albans
Brittany Elayne Hill
Birds, Beasts and Burials examines human-animal relationships as found in the mortuary record within the area of Verulamium that is now situated in the modern town of St. Albans. READ MORE
Paperback: £30.00 | eBook: £16.00
Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land
Varda Sussman
This volume illustrates lamps from the Byzantine period excavated in the Holy Land and demonstrates the extent of their development since the first enclosing/capturing of light (fire) within a portable man-made vessel. READ MORE
Paperback: £70.00 | eBook: £16.00
Ländliche Siedlungsstrukturen im römischen Spanien
Jan Schneider
The present study deals with the comparison of rural settlements, aiming to compare developments in various settlements of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman era. READ MORE
Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00
La Cerámica Común romana en la Bahía Gaditana en Época romana
ed. Lourdes Girón Anguiozar
This volumes examines Roman pottery and production centers in the bay of Gaditana, modern-day Cádiz. READ MORE
Paperback: £80.00 | eBook: £16.00
Amphorae from the Kops Plateau (Nijmegen): trade and supply to the Lower-Rhineland from the Augustan period to AD 69/70
ed. Cèsar Carreras et al.
The amphorae from Kops Plateau represent a singular example of Roman military supply in northern Europe at a very early date. Their analysis sheds light on trading routes in the Atlantic regions, and from Gaul to Germany. READ MORE
Paperback: £65.00 | eBook: £16.00
Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Settlement along the Empingham to Hannington Pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland
Simon Carlyle et al.
Reports on excavations by Northamtonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) in the south-east Midlands region; Nineteen sites were investigated, dating primarily to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods READ MORE
Paperback: £26.00 | eBook: £16.00
The Nature and Origin of the Cult of Silvanus in the Roman Provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia
Ljubica Perinić
The Nature and Origin of the Cult of Silvanus in the Roman Provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia deals with the cult of Silvanus and presents the evidence and current state of research of the cult in Dalmatia and Pannonia to the wider scholarly community. READ MORE
Paperback: £32.00 | eBook: £16.00
Brochs and the Empire
Euan W. MacKie
Excavations of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, reflect the expansion of the Roman Empire into southern Scotland in the late first century AD READ MORE
Paperback: £36.00 | eBook: £16.00
Croatia at the Crossroads: A consideration of archaeological and historical connectivity
ed. David Davison et al.
Papers focus on Croatia’s particular interconnectedness in terms of social and cultural relationships with the wider region as the starting point for exploring issues across a broad chronological range, from human origins to modernity. READ MORE
Paperback: £40.00 | eBook: £16.00
The Black Sea in the Light of New Archaeological Data and Theoretical Approaches
ed. Manolis Manoledakis
The Black Sea in the Light of New Archaeological Data and Theoretical Approaches contains 19 papers on the archaeology and ancient history of the Black Sea region, covering a vast period of time, from the Early Iron Age until the Late Roman – Early Byzantine Periods. READ MORE
Paperback: £50.00 | eBook: £16.00
Bearsden: The Story of a Roman Fort
David J. Breeze
This accessible account of the discoveries at the Roman fort at Bearsden examines the process of archaeological excavation, the life of the soldiers at the fort based on the results of the excavation as well as material from elsewhere in the Roman Empire. READ MORE
Paperback: £20.00 | eBook: £16.00
Statio amoena
ed. Patrizia Basso et al.
This volume examines resting places more or less directly linked with vehiculatio / cursus publicus, or with a system run or controlled by the state to ensure essential services for those traveling on behalf of the public administration READ MORE
Paperback: £40.00 | Open Access
Ceramiche vicinorientali della Collezione Popolani
Stefano Anastasio et al.
This volume illustrates the Popolani Collection at the Archaeological Museum of Florence, consisting of ancient pottery vessels, terracotta oil-lamps, glazed Islamic tiles, Romano-Byzantine glassware, as well as various objects from the Damascene antique market. READ MORE
Paperback: £34.00 | eBook: £16.00
An Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100 BC to AD 300
J. W. Hanson
This book provides a new account of the urbanism of the Roman world between 100 BC and AD 300. To do so, it draws on a combination of textual sources and archaeological material to provide a new catalogue of cities, calculates new estimates of their areas and uses a range of population densities to estimate their populations. READ MORE
Paperback: £65.00 | eBook: £16.00
The Small Finds and Vessel Glass from Insula VI.1 Pompeii: Excavations 1995-2006
H.E.M. Cool
This report presents the vessel glass and small finds found during the excavations between 1995 and 2006 that took place in Insula VI.1, Pompeii (henceforth VI.1). More than 5,000 items are discussed, and the size of the assemblage has meant that the publication is in two parts. READ MORE
Paperback: £50.00 | eBook: £16.00
Archeologia dell’acqua a Gortina di Creta in età protobizantina
Elisabetta Giorgi
A study of the early Byzantine aqueduct of Gortyn (Crete). READ MORE
Paperback: £40.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £10.00
Lusitanian Amphorae: Production and Distribution
ed. Inês Vaz Pinto et al.
More than a century of archaeological investigation in Portugal has helped to discover, excavate and study many Lusitanian amphorae kiln sites, with their amphorae being widely distributed in Lusitania. READ MORE
Paperback: £65.00 | eBook: £16.00
Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed
This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rural housing and evidence from literature or papyrological references to both urban and rural housing. READ MORE
Paperback: £25.00 | eBook: £16.00
Die antike Münze als Fundgegenstand
Günther E. Thüry
This volume offers a detailed overview of ancient coin finds and their interpretation before offering a proposal for the categorisation of future numismatic finds. READ MORE
Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00
L’artisanat de l’os À l’époque Gallo-Romaine
Marc Barbier
Analysis of 22 Gallo-Roman bone combs. Experimental archaeology replicates a bone-worker production line. READ MORE
Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00
Moneda Antigua y Vías Romanas en el Noroeste de Hispania
M. Isabel Vila Franco
The main objective of this work was to obtain an overview of the Roman monetary circulation in Gallaecia following the road network that crossed this territory in Roman times. READ MORE
Paperback: £75.00 | eBook: £16.00
Inter Moesos et Thraces
Agnieszka Tomas
Excavations at the Roman legionary base at Novae in Lower Moesia reveal one of the most important sites in the Lower Danubian provinces. Towards late Antiquity, the military camp was transformed into a civil town with Episcopal residence and survived until the beginning of the 7th century. READ MORE
Paperback: £40.00 | eBook: £16.00
Drawings in Greek and Roman Architecture
Antonio Corso
This book is an essay on architectural drawings of the Greek and Roman world. READ MORE
Paperback: £25.00 | eBook: £16.00
Anthropomorphic Representations in the Cucuteni-Tripolye Culture
Dan Monah
This book applies the view of Dan Monah (1943-2013) to the analysis of the Cucuteni-Tripolye anthropomorphic representations. READ MORE
Paperback: £55.00 | eBook: £16.00
Diseños geométricos en los mosaicos del Conventus Astigitanus
Sebastián Vargas Vázquez
This volume focuses on the study of the geometric designs documented in the mosaics of the Conventus Astigitanus, one of the four conventi iuridici of Roman Baetica. READ MORE
Paperback: £60.00 | eBook: £16.00
‘A Mersshy Contree Called Holdernesse’: Excavations on the Route of a National Grid Pipeline in Holderness, East Yorkshire
ed. Gavin Glover et al.
Presents the results of excavations along the route of a national grid pipeline in Holderness, East Yorkshire shedding light on rural life in the claylands to the east of the Yorkshire Wolds, from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age and Roman periods, and beyond. READ MORE
Paperback: £40.00 | Open Access
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The African Frontiers
David J. Breeze et al.
The Roman military remains in North Africa are remarkable in their variety and preservation. They include towers and forts, stretches of defensive lines of stone and earth with ditches broken by gates, and roads, sitting amidst amazing scenery. Readers of this book will enjoy learning more about North Africa’s remarkable Roman inheritance. READ MORE
Paperback: £19.99 | Open Access
J. Collingwood Bruce's Handbook to the Roman Wall
David J. Breeze
In 1851, John Collingwood Bruce published 'The Roman Wall', followed by an abridged edition in 1863. Subsequently revised on several occasions, the fourteenth edition has been completely re-written by David Breeze, though acknowledging the style of earlier editions. This authoritative account will be of value to all interested in Hadrian's Wall. READ MORE
Hardback: £19.99
The Barracks of the Roman Army from the 1st to 3rd Centuries A.D.
David Davison
This study offers a comparative study of the barracks from Roman fortresses, forts and fortlets with an analysis of building types and construction, stabling, and garrisons, seeking to address many direct questions where there is lack of useful written evidence. READ MORE
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