{"title":"Do shape and size matter? The distribution of <i>Amphore Crétoise</i> 4 containers, 1st–3rd c. CE","authors":"Scott Gallimore","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000351","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the distinctive distribution patterns of Amphore Crétoise (AC) 4 amphoras within Roman trade networks through critical assessment of the morphological attributes of this amphora type compared to AC1–3 jars and through consideration of the mechanisms that underlie these patterns. This builds on a growing number of studies that have focused on the design attributes of amphoras as important factors tied to their economic role. It also demonstrates the importance of engaging in more nuanced and detailed investigations that question assumptions about amphora distribution within the Roman world. The AC4 is the primary, and often only, Cretan type found at sites in Rome's northwestern provinces and along the Danube frontier. A narrower profile and smaller capacity appear to have made this amphora type more attractive than other Cretan forms for transport along river and overland routes.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135199555","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":"Romanization: between dead ends and future directions? - O. Belvedere, and J. Bergemann. 2021. Imperium Romanum: Romanization between Colonization and Globalization. Palermo: Palermo University Press. Pp. 345, figs. 100. ISBN 978-88-5509-275-3.","authors":"Martin Pitts","doi":"10.1017/s104775942300034x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s104775942300034x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45135103","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":"Museum archaeology and reconstructing daily life in Late Roman Egypt - E. Swift, J. Stoner, and A. Pudsey. 2022. A Social Archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Egypt: Artefacts of Everyday Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 480. ISBN: 978-0-1988-6734-0","authors":"Irene Soto Marín","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49547554","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":"Roman Justice - O Hekster. and K. Verboven, eds. 2019. The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Gent, June 21–24, 2017). Impact of Empire 34. Leiden: Brill. Pp. viii + 237. ISBN 978-90-04-40045-0.","authors":"Thomas A. J. McGinn","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000302","url":null,"abstract":"Roman Justice - O Hekster. and K. Verboven, eds. 2019. The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Gent, June 21–24, 2017). Impact of Empire 34. Leiden: Brill. Pp. viii + 237. ISBN 978-90-04-40045-0.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135831532","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 and multidisciplinary methods investigating Roman water management: aqueducts and castella in Rome and Pompeii - G. Wiplinger, ed. 2020. De aquaeductu urbis Romae. Sextus Iulius Frontinus and the Water of Rome: Proceedings of the International Frontinus Congress Rome, November 10–18, 2018. Babesch Supplementa 40. Leuven: Peeters. Pp. xxxiii, 403. ISBN 978-90-429-4311-7.","authors":"Duncan Keenan-Jones","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000326","url":null,"abstract":"New and multidisciplinary methods investigating Roman water management: aqueducts and castella in Rome and Pompeii - G. Wiplinger, ed. 2020. De aquaeductu urbis Romae. Sextus Iulius Frontinus and the Water of Rome: Proceedings of the International Frontinus Congress Rome, November 10–18, 2018. Babesch Supplementa 40. Leuven: Peeters. Pp. xxxiii, 403. ISBN 978-90-429-4311-7.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136248671","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":"Living with the gods in the Roman Empire: “Everything, everywhere, all at once” - J. Rüpke, and G. Woolf, eds. 2021. Religion in the Roman Empire. Die Religionen der Menschheit 16. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. Pp. 323. ISBN: 978-3-170-29224-6.","authors":"Molly Swetnam-Burland","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46633842","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 very small, short-lived hippodrome (“hippo-stadium”) and its re-use: a conjugal labour of love - A. A. Ostrasz 2020, with contributions by I. Kehrberg-Ostrasz. The Hippodrome of Gerasa. A Provincial Roman Circu<i>s</i>. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology. Pp. xviii + 480, 261 color and black-and-white figs. ISBN 978-1-78491-813-2.","authors":"J. H. Humphrey","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000284","url":null,"abstract":"A very small, short-lived hippodrome (“hippo-stadium”) and its re-use: a conjugal labour of love - A. A. Ostrasz 2020, with contributions by I. Kehrberg-Ostrasz. The Hippodrome of Gerasa. A Provincial Roman Circus. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology. Pp. xviii + 480, 261 color and black-and-white figs. ISBN 978-1-78491-813-2.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135442214","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":"Urban daily life in Late Antiquity - L. Lavan 2020. Public Space in the Late Antique City <i>(2 vols). Part 1:</i> Streets, Processions, Fora, Agorai, Macella, Shops. <i>Part 2:</i> Sites, Buildings, Dates. Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) 5. Leiden: Brill. Part 1: Pp. xxiv + 624, figs. 130; Part 2: Pp. 1,072. ISBN 978-90-04-41372-6.","authors":"Gregor Kalas","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000272","url":null,"abstract":"Urban daily life in Late Antiquity - L. Lavan 2020. Public Space in the Late Antique City (2 vols). Part 1: Streets, Processions, Fora, Agorai, Macella, Shops. Part 2: Sites, Buildings, Dates. Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) 5. Leiden: Brill. Part 1: Pp. xxiv + 624, figs. 130; Part 2: Pp. 1,072. ISBN 978-90-04-41372-6.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135442213","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}
C. Flaux, Sabrina Save, M. Scrinzi, Nicolas Minvielle Larousse, Christophe Vaschalde, Audrey Renaud, Margaux Tillier, A. Guihou, P. Deschamps, A. Véron
{"title":"Roman-era alluvial waste in the Vistre de la Fontaine (Nîmes, southeast France): from a sacred spring to a contaminated river","authors":"C. Flaux, Sabrina Save, M. Scrinzi, Nicolas Minvielle Larousse, Christophe Vaschalde, Audrey Renaud, Margaux Tillier, A. Guihou, P. Deschamps, A. Véron","doi":"10.1017/S1047759423000132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759423000132","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The excavation of a palaeochannel at the Vistre de la Fontaine 2-2 archaeological site, 3 km downstream from the ancient city of Nîmes (southeastern France), provided an accumulation sequence covering the last 2,500 years. Trace metal analyses of these alluvial sediments disclosed lead (Pb) contamination during the Early Roman Empire, with concentrations close to 1,000 ppm, a factor of 100 above the local geochemical background. This excess of Pb shows a uniform isotopic signature that may reflect unchanged ore sources, perhaps from the Massif Central or from Great Britain. The Pb peak accompanied visible waste that was transported in the sediments of the Vistre de la Fontaine at the time of the development of the Nîmes urban water supply and drainage network during the Early Roman Empire. This research shows the bimillennial persistence of palaeo-contamination in a peri-urban alluvial plain and the relevance of fluvial sedimentary archives in documenting ancient waste.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":"36 1","pages":"50 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48762075","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":"Headquarters, office space, and desks in ancient Rome","authors":"Christer Bruun","doi":"10.1017/S1047759423000247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759423000247","url":null,"abstract":"ed. A. Giumlia-Mair, 385–92. Montagnac: M. Mergoil. Pearce, M. 2018. “The curse of the pXRF: The negative consequences of the popularity of handheld XRF analysis of copper-based metal artefacts.” Metalla 24: 81–85. Pernicka, E. 2014. “Provenance determination of archaeological metal objects.” In Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective: Methods and Syntheses, ed. B. W. Roberts and C. P. Thornton, 239–68. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9017-3_11. Pitarakis, B. 2005. Une production caractéristique de cruches en alliage cuivreux (VIe-VIIIe siècles): typologie, techniques et diffusion. Turnhout: Brepols. Pollard, A. M., and P. Bray. 2014. “Chemical and isotopic studies of ancient metals.” In Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective: Methods and Syntheses, ed. B. W. Roberts and C. P. Thornton, 217–38. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9017-3_10. Roberts, B. W., and C. P. Thornton. 2014. Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective: Methods and Syntheses. New York: Springer. Xanthopoulou, M. 2010. Les lampes en bronze à l’époque paléochrétienne. Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité Tardive 16. Turnhout: Brepols.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":"36 1","pages":"232 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44007248","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}