{"title":"Τὰ Ὅπλα Τῶν Γεφυρέων Of The Persian War: Herodotus On The Banishment Of The Barbarians Out Of Europe And The Issue Of The Completeness Of The First „The Histories”","authors":"A. Sinitsyn","doi":"10.26485/aal/2019/65/6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26485/aal/2019/65/6","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the principal “Herodotean question” of the completeness of the work done by the historian. How well did Herodotus manage to accomplish his design? Should we regard his work in the form it has reached us as complete and integral? Or does it end abruptly at the events of 479/8 BC, despite “the Father of History” having planned to continue his account of the Greek-Persian wars? Over the last century and a half, pluralism in the views the researchers on the issue of the completeness of Herodotus’ work has emerged. The author ventures some observations on the finale of the The Histories and draws our attention to the passage Hdt. 9.121 in which Herodotus emphasizes the fact that the barbarians transgressing the geographical boundaries of Europe had been punished: the cables of the bridges which the Persians had used to tie Asia and Europe were taken to Hellas by the victors. According to the author, the historian’s testimony τὰ ὅπλα τῶν γeφυρέων ὡς ἀναθήσοντeς ἐς τὰ ἱρά symbolizes the end of the war against the Barbarian, hence, the accomplishment of Herodotus’ design – the completion of the account of “great and marvellous deeds done by Greeks and foreigners and especially the reason why they warred against each other”.","PeriodicalId":37616,"journal":{"name":"Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42041068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Let’s Pile Up Some Corpses And Pour Out A Libation – A Reconstruction Of IIIrd Millennium BC Battlefield Burial Tumulus In Ancient Mesopotamia","authors":"Marcin Z. Paszke","doi":"10.26485/aal/2019/65/3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26485/aal/2019/65/3","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the battlefield burial tumuli which are to be encountered in cuneiform texts under Sumerian SAḪAR.DU6.TAG4, DU6.SAR ĜAR, KI.GAL. It is believed that their Akkadian equivalents are bērūtum, damtum and gurunnu respectively, however it needs to be stressed, that this not certain. Since those peculiar structures have been an object of ongoing debate, the present study tries to change the trajectory of recent research and focus primarily on their physical features which have never been studied in detail before. The proposed reconstruction is based on scarce cuneiform documents and iconography known from the famous Stele of the Vultures as well as the so called ‘Standard’ of Ur. The present study deals with a battlefield barrows heaped up with the corpses of own fallen warriors in opposition to a similar structures composed of the corpses of defeated enemies, intentionally unprotected, in order to expose their bodies to outrage. The author gives an overview of the bērūtum architecture, pointing out that the structures mentioned might have been provided with a special drainage system, one comparable to the libation pipes (a-pap/a-pa4), which played an important role in the cult of the deceased in Sumerian culture.","PeriodicalId":37616,"journal":{"name":"Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44558613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trade in the Mediterranean Basin between the 8th and 6th century BCE, with Emphasis on the Dodecanese","authors":"A. Jankowska","doi":"10.26485/aal/2019/65/8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26485/aal/2019/65/8","url":null,"abstract":"Assyria’s growing power in the 1st millennium BCE led to an increase in its tribute demands addressed at Levantine cities; as a result, a need arose to intensify and expand further west the search for precious metals. Assyrian military and economic pressure mobilized the Phoenicians to expand their trade zone beyond the regional scale and to become the suppliers of basic resources to a vast empire. This can be seen in the Dodecanese. Rhodes but also Cos played an important part in that network of contacts and connections between the Aegean and the Near East, as is emphatically indicated by the artefacts found, especially those dating to late 8th and 7th centuries BCE. Due to its special geographic location, the island became a go-between and stopping point for the trade travelling from the eastern Mediterranean to Cyprus and mainland Greece. Objects dedicated in the sanctuaries at Ialysos, Kameiros, and Lindos attest to far-away Near-Eastern contacts. In this context, a large number of silver hoards have been attested in the southern Levant between the 10th-6th centuries BCE. The hoards contained, in varying proportions, silver ingots, nuggets, scrap metal, and small jewellery items, however, the silver itself originated from the territories of Greece (mostly Laurion), southern Anatolia and from Iberian sources.","PeriodicalId":37616,"journal":{"name":"Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69337915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hoard Of Olbian Coins Of ‘Borysthenes’ Type Found At Spring 2018 In The Region Of Gorodishche Town, Oblast Cherkassy, Ukraine","authors":"Василий Орлик, Виктор Коцур, Лилия Цыганенко","doi":"10.26485/aal/2019/65/4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26485/aal/2019/65/4","url":null,"abstract":"ORIGINAL TITLE: Клад ольвийских монет «борисфенов», найденный в Городищенском районе Черкасской области весной 2018 года \u0000In April 2018 an assemblage of Olbian bronze coins of Borysthenes type was found not far from the town Gorodishche, region Cherkassy, Ukraine. 52 coins were described. In opinion of authors the assemblage should be treated as the hoard.","PeriodicalId":37616,"journal":{"name":"Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46696249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religious life surrounding three thermal springs in ancient Dacia","authors":"Adam Jakub Jarych","doi":"10.26485/aal/2019/65/2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26485/aal/2019/65/2","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the three most important thermal springs in ancient Dacia, on which part of the religious life of the province centred. The available source material makes it possible to determine which deities received the most worship among the visitors enjoying the pleasures of Ad Mediam, Ad Aquas, and Germisara. The collected sources also let us find out what groups of the province’s inhabitants were treated in those extremely popular centres, referred to by many researchers as ancient spa resorts.","PeriodicalId":37616,"journal":{"name":"Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69337908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weight Structure Of Roman Denarii, 138-161","authors":"","doi":"10.26485/aal/2019/65/11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26485/aal/2019/65/11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37616,"journal":{"name":"Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69337901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}