{"title":"Smellscape of a Pompeian neighborhood","authors":"Laura Nissin","doi":"10.1017/S1047759421000830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759421000830","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Smelling and other sensations that are often considered solely physiological phenomena are in fact deeply influenced by culture and history, and without understanding the ancient sensory landscape, our knowledge of the past inevitably remains limited. This paper explores the olfactory nuisances in one Pompeian city block (IX,3) and its immediate neighbors. I examine the area's stenches by tracing and mapping the sources of smells, focusing on those that in previous scholarship have been considered to render ancient towns foul smelling. The analysis contests the views of malodorous Roman urban space presented in previous studies and suggests that the smellscape of urban Pompeii was not a constant reek but milder and manageable. However, the analysis also reveals that social hierarchies and power relations played a part in Pompeian odor control, and the olfactory landscape was not the same for all inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57345746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corinna Rossi, Nicoletta De Troia, Andrea Pasqui, A. Migliozzi
{"title":"Living in a fringe environment: three Late Roman settlements in the Kharga Oasis (Egypt's Western Desert)","authors":"Corinna Rossi, Nicoletta De Troia, Andrea Pasqui, A. Migliozzi","doi":"10.1017/S1047759421000829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759421000829","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents a comparative analysis of three Late Roman sites located at the northern outskirts of the Kharga Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert: Umm al-Dabadib, Ayn al-Labakha, and the Gib/Sumayra Complex. These were part of the district of the Oasis Magna, which included the oases of Dakhla and Kharga. An analysis of their layout, including both shape and extent, is followed by an evaluation of their absolute and relative positions. These data are then compared to the administrative and historical contexts within which the three sites flourished. Both administrative and economic aspects are considered, as well as the presence of the army. The complex picture that emerges suggests that these three sites played several roles at the same time and were part of a large-scale strategic design that encompassed not only the Kharga Oasis but the entire Western Desert.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44962254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New perspectives on the Sertorian War in northeastern Hispania: archaeological surveys of the Roman camps of the lower River Ebro","authors":"Jaume Noguera, P. Valdés, E. Ble","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In recent decades, conflict archaeology has renewed study of the Roman Republican military, with Hispania as one of the most prolific areas of research. Following this trend, since 2006 the University of Barcelona has conducted archaeological investigations at several sites in the lower Ebro basin. When no structures or archaeological layers remained in situ, surface survey became a key methodology. Based on the artifacts retrieved during surface survey, this article identifies four new military establishments dated to the first half of the 1st c. BCE and reinterprets the campaigns of the Sertorian War in northeastern Spain.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46106050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JRO volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Front matter","authors":"A. Oyen, B. Bruschi","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43296968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do you solve a problem like the city?","authors":"J. Dufton","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000228","url":null,"abstract":"The ebbs and flows of archaeological scholarship often see trends come and go, with big questions giving way to more fine-grained analysis only to, in turn, feed back into new, sweeping narratives. Thinking about the ancient city is no exception. Recent works from across the spectrum of archaeology and ancient history show a desire to draw new connections amongst urban sites in the same region, to explore similarities between regions, and even to interrogate the extent of similarity between settlements of drastically different periods and places.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45402877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Made to impress: power, persuasion, identity, and the Roman seal","authors":"Ann L. Kuttner","doi":"10.1017/S104775942200023X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S104775942200023X","url":null,"abstract":"F. Vittinghoff, 25–160. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. Purcell, N. 2013. “Tide, beach, and backwash: The place of maritime histories.” In The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography, ed. P. N. Miller, 84–108. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Scheidel, W. 2001. “Roman age structure: Evidence and models.” JRS 91: 1–26. Scheidel, W. 2007. “Roman funerary commemoration and the age at first marriage.” CP 102: 389–402. Scheidel, W., and S. Friesen. 2009. “The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman empire.” JRS 99: 61–91. Scheidel, W., and S. von Reden, eds. 2002. The Ancient Economy. New York: Routledge. Scheidel, W., I. Morris, and R. Saller, eds. 2007. The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Shaw, B. 1982. “Social science and ancient history: Keith Hopkins in partibus infidelium.” Helios 9: 17–57. Shaw, B. 1987. “The age of Roman girls at marriage: Some reconsiderations.” JRS 77: 30–46. Sperduti, A., L. Bondioli, O. E. Craig, T. Prowse, and P. Garnsey. 2018 “Bones, teeth, and history.” In The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past, ed. W. Scheidel, 123–73. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Syme, R. 1979–91. Roman Papers. 7 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Tuross, N., and M. Campana. 2018. “Ancient DNA.” In The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past, ed. W. Scheidel, 205–23. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. von Freyburg, H.-U. 1988. Kapitalverkehr und Handel im römischen Kaiserreich (27 v. Chr.–235 n. Chr.). Freiburg im Breisgau: Rudolf Haufe. von Reden, S. 2015. Antike Wirtschaft (Enzyklopädie der griechisch-romischen Antike). Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Wilson, A. 2006. “Fishy business: Roman exploitation of marine resources.” JRA 19: 525–37.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42404313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New light on the Rhodian lamp market","authors":"J. Rossiter","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000198","url":null,"abstract":"between wax slabs may be seen on the interior of a bronze, as well as the marks of blades, gouges made by fingernails, and drips and puddled wax. Tools such as DSC and 3D scans can help, not only in the case of Rosso but also in the study of ancient bronzes. The market demand in antiquity for both public and private statuary confirms without a doubt the status of bronze statuary as a major industry, surpassing the thriving 19th-c. markets described here (Chapters 2–8) for bronzes and for plaster copies of ancient bronzes.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42776538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JRO volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000277","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44676740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thirsty cities? The supply, management, and perception of water in Byzantine North Africa","authors":"Nicolas Lamare","doi":"10.1017/S1047759421000714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759421000714","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cities of North Africa experienced a long occupation up to the late 7th c. CE. Despite numerous studies on Late Antique urbanism, no systematic investigation of urban hydraulics has been carried out so far. This paper examines the hydraulic topography of three cities in the Byzantine period (ca. 6th c. CE): Leptis Magna (Tripolitania), Sbeitla (Byzacena), and Timgad (Numidia). This analysis assesses to what extent Late Antique societies managed the cities’ water supply by maintaining or transforming preexisting hydraulic networks. It considers the continuity of aqueducts and the reorganization of water networks, the state of hydraulic management and technology, and the perception of water resources. The hydraulic networks inherited from the Early Roman period were to some extent preserved, although greatly adapted to new concerns for security and new technical and environmental constraints, illustrating the resilience of Late Antique societies.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42051953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Werner A2 ewer from Byzantine Cartagena and the distribution of bronze cast vessels in the western Mediterranean around 600 CE – ERRATUM","authors":"Joan Pinar Gil, Jaime Vizcaíno Sánchez","doi":"10.1017/S1047759421000787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759421000787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44408828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}