{"title":"The reuse of ancient tuff blocks in early medieval construction in Rome","authors":"Margaret M. Andrews","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000375","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper analyzes the reuse of ancient tuff blocks in early medieval architecture in Rome, in both papal and private structures. The blocks are a well-known phenomenon, but they have not yet received any focused study. Short discussions in earlier scholarship have typically described them in utilitarian terms. I first identify a pattern of targeted reuse in papal building projects. I then argue that they would also have had symbolic value for an independent papacy wanting to display power. For later private builders, I propose that the blocks became prestige materials displayed on the houses of an ever-tightening aristocracy eager to be seen within some of the city's most important monumental spaces. I consider how the city's ancient monuments and their pieces were viewed in the early medieval period and how the blocks’ ancient contexts contributed to the symbolic value that I identify in them.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135819770","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":"Burying Greeks in Dalmatia - M. UGARKOVIĆ 2019. Geometrija smrti: isejski pogrebni obredi, identiteti i kulturna interakcija: antička nekropola na Vlaškoj njivi, na otoku Visu dio I/1; dio I/2. The Geometry of Death: Issa's Burial rites, Identities and Cultural Interaction: The Ancient Necropolis at Vlaška njiva on the Island of Vis, Vol. 1, part 1; Vol. 1, part 2. Split/Zagreb: Arheološki Muzej u Splitu; Institut za arheologiju. (Croatian with abstract in English in Vol. I, part 1: 209–13.)","authors":"Paolo Visonà","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000405","url":null,"abstract":"Burying Greeks in Dalmatia - M. UGARKOVIĆ 2019. Geometrija smrti: isejski pogrebni obredi, identiteti i kulturna interakcija: antička nekropola na Vlaškoj njivi, na otoku Visu dio I/1; dio I/2. The Geometry of Death: Issa's Burial rites, Identities and Cultural Interaction: The Ancient Necropolis at Vlaška njiva on the Island of Vis, Vol. 1, part 1; Vol. 1, part 2. Split/Zagreb: Arheološki Muzej u Splitu; Institut za arheologiju. (Croatian with abstract in English in Vol. I, part 1: 209–13.)","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135820397","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":"Nuovi dati sulle produzioni vitree romane di età medio-imperiale: l'area romano-ostiense - B LEPRI. 2021. Il vetro tra II e III secolo d.C. Produzione e distribuzione in area romano-ostiense. Fecit te 15. Roma: Scienze e Lettere, 285 pp., ISBN 978-88-6687-205-4.","authors":"Maria Grazia Diani","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000387","url":null,"abstract":"Nuovi dati sulle produzioni vitree romane di età medio-imperiale: l'area romano-ostiense - B LEPRI. 2021. Il vetro tra II e III secolo d.C. Produzione e distribuzione in area romano-ostiense. Fecit te 15. Roma: Scienze e Lettere, 285 pp., ISBN 978-88-6687-205-4.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884870","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":"<i>Maiores</i> di pietra. L'immagine della famiglia nei monumenti sepolcrali della Regio X","authors":"Luca Scalco","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000363","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article investigates the images of families on the funerary monuments of Venetia , mostly dating to the Julian-Claudian period, cross-referencing epigraphic data and integrating quantitative analysis. On these monuments, a certain codification of the significance of parentage can be identified, which emerges from the iconographic scheme and is reaffirmed by the gestures of the figures depicted, while clothes and objects help to characterize individual portraits. It is not possible to recognize consistent alterations to the meaning of the images depending on social context or the fact that some of the family members had already died at the point the monument was erected. This analysis allows us to understand the widespread trends that determined how clients portrayed their own domestic nuclei, in dialogue with the geographic and cultural contexts that they belonged to and synthesizing the family reality of the world of the living, to create an iconic model for the community of the dead.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884584","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":"Caesarea Maritima. The port, the city, and a long narrative of settlement - K. G. Holum, ed. 2020. Caesarea Maritima: Excavations in the Old City 1989–2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa: Final Reports, Volume 1. ASOR Archaeological Reports 27. Alexandria, VA: American Schools of Oriental Research. Pp. xviii, 454. ISBN 978-0-89757-115-9","authors":"Andrea U. De Giorgi","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000338","url":null,"abstract":"Caesarea Maritima. The port, the city, and a long narrative of settlement - K. G. Holum, ed. 2020. Caesarea Maritima: Excavations in the Old City 1989–2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa: Final Reports, Volume 1. ASOR Archaeological Reports 27. Alexandria, VA: American Schools of Oriental Research. Pp. xviii, 454. ISBN 978-0-89757-115-9","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135199553","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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}