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{"title":"The water cycle in Reccopolis","authors":"Javier Martínez Jiménez, Joaquín Checa Herráiz","doi":"10.1017/S104775942300020X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S104775942300020X","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Reccopolis was a new city built in Visigothic Spain in the late 6th c. CE. Even rarer than this example of an ex novo urban foundation in the post-Roman West is the fact that the city was equipped with a brand-new aqueduct. The aqueduct has, until now, only been partially studied, but in this paper we update and re-assess the original, preliminary results. We consider the city's whole water cycle, including usage and drainage, employing new engineering calculations and GIS analyses. The results show that the aqueduct was an integral part of the city. Finally, we set our conclusions within their wider context, looking not only at the roles of aqueducts in the ideal of a city at this time, but also at urban water culture in the Late Antique West.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44562134","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":"Tra aerofotointerpretazione e indagini sul campo: linee di ricerca per la ricostruzione dell'insediamento di Nuceriola (Benevento, Italia)","authors":"Cristiano Benedetto De Vita, Marco Limongiello, Daniela Musmeci, A. Santoriello","doi":"10.1017/S1047759423000168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759423000168","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract L'insediamento antico di Nuceriola lungo la via Appia (Benevento, Italia) rappresenta un interessante contesto per lo studio delle forme insediative nel territorio del Sannio. Con un arco di vita che va dal IV sec. a.C. al VI sec. d.C., privo di superfetazioni postantiche, esso è diventato un punto di osservazione privilegiato per il progetto Ancient Appia Landscapes (Università di Salerno), in particolare in rapporto ai temi dell'espansionismo romano di età mediorepubblicana, alle forme insediative del mondo rurale, alla viabilità antica. Nel presente contributo sono presentati i risultati dell'analisi fotointerpretativa effettuata su supporti aerofotografici disponibili o creati ex novo: tali dati, coadiuvati dalle informazioni delle attività di scavo, delle prospezioni geofisiche e delle ricognizioni di superficie, delineano un quadro organico della forma dell'insediamento e consentono di proporre un “disegno” suggestivo in grado di arricchire l'ancora poco ampio panorama di conoscenze riferibili allo studio degli abitati minori di questa parte del Sannio.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49058952","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":"Modular designs at the Early Byzantine pilgrimage site of Philoxenite, Egypt","authors":"M. Gwiazda","doi":"10.1017/S1047759423000120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759423000120","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract New research at the site of Philoxenite in northern Egypt has identified six large building complexes, each based on a modular design. Each building is composed of replicated segments and dates to the 6th c. CE. This approach to design, used at Philoxenite, is not seen elsewhere on such a scale at this date. Nevertheless, modular design was deeply rooted in the construction traditions of the Roman and Early Byzantine periods, when it was used primarily for shops, warehouses, and cisterns. In Philoxenite, it was used to erect a town district that catered to the needs of pilgrims heading from Alexandria to Abū Mīnā, the largest Christian sanctuary at the time.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42102819","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":"Sexual art on Roman lamps: analysis of provincial data","authors":"Sanja Vucetic","doi":"10.1017/S1047759423000193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759423000193","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the Roman world, lamps with replicated images of sex were in circulation from the late 1st c. BCE until the end of the 4th c. CE. This paper maps out key regional and chronological trends in the representation and consumption of these objects using data from 11 provincial sites. It demonstrates sustained sensitivity of replicated sexual disc-reliefs to distinctive regional styles of consumption and representation. It also shows that symplegmata disc-reliefs were interacting and changing over time, resulting in innovative imagery that produced new meanings in localized contexts. This is the first comparative systematic study of the styles of consumption and representation of replicated lamp iconography using statistical methods. As such, the paper contributes a novel methodological approach to Roman sexuality research and also advances our understanding of how Roman replicated sexual imagery came about, how it constructed meaning, and how it was consumed by different communities over time.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49221470","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 unique Silandos medallion of Faustina II from Blaundos in Lydia","authors":"Ö. Tatar","doi":"10.1017/S104775942300017X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S104775942300017X","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the 2019 archaeological excavation season in Blaundos, a Roman-period bronze medallion was found within a wall of a Byzantine-period structure on the main street. It is a medallion struck by the Lydian city of Silandos, bearing the bust of Faustina II on the obverse and Marcus Aurelius clasping hands with Lucius Verus on the reverse. A literature search revealed that it is a rare and unpublished specimen. Neither RPC, the largest database of Roman Provincial Coinage, nor auction databases record any example of it. The iconography, combining the portrait of the empress with a depiction of the co-emperors of the period, does not point to any specific event or incident. The reverse die was, however, used for another medallion struck later by Silandos. This paper aims to introduce, interpret, and discuss this unique Lydian medallion from the 2nd c. CE.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42107278","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":"Reconstructing the beginnings of Roman concrete","authors":"J. Oleson","doi":"10.1017/S1047759423000181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759423000181","url":null,"abstract":"The character of Roman concrete and its role in Roman construction technology have been topics of keen debate, speculation, and research since the time of Vitruvius, who, for practical or theoretical reasons, expressed some suspicions of concrete architecture (Vitr. De arch. 2.8.1, 2.8.8–9, 16–20). Physical examination only began to make a real contribution to the discussion in the last 60 years or so, but advanced analytical techniques have now described the components of both the mortar and the aggregate that make up ancient Roman concrete. Such analysis, however, does not in most cases by itself solve the questions of the chronology of the monuments from which samples have been taken, a particularly crucial problem for the earliest period of the technology in Republican Rome. Progress has been made in C analysis of Roman mortars with hydraulic lime binders, but the accuracy may never be sufficient for the fine chronological distinctions needed by architectural historians. This problem of chronology is the starting point of Mogetta’s (M.) analysis of the early history of Roman concrete construction on land. He earlier published two substantial articles that form the basis for several chapters. In this book, which originated as a University of Michigan dissertation (2013), he “aims to elucidate the pattern of implementation of that discovery across the constellation of higherorder settlements in the Italian peninsula” (3). This approach relies on careful analysis of the archaeological basis for dating early concrete structures in Rome and elsewhere on the Italian peninsula. M. concludes that concrete construction did not appear as the result of a centralized process in the city of Rome during the 3rd c. BCE, but rather it evolved at several centers in the Italian peninsula during the first half of the 2nd c. BCE. The topics are densely argued and deeply documented, both challenging and rewarding the careful","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42442189","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":"Connecting and contextualising copperware productions","authors":"G. Bison","doi":"10.1017/S1047759423000144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759423000144","url":null,"abstract":"Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Rizzone, V. G., and F. Sabatini, eds. 2008. Gli ipogei di Wignacourt a Rabat. KASA 9. Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali. Stoddart, S., A. Pace, N. Cutajar, N. C. Vella, R. McLaughlin, C. Malone, J. Meneely, and D. Trump. 2020. “Cultural landscapes from 2000 BC onwards.” In Temple Landscapes. Fragility, Change and Resilience of Holocene Environments in the Maltese Islands, ed. C. French, C. O. Hunt, R. Grima, R. McLaughlin, S. Stoddart, and C. Malone, 241–52. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Strong, D. E., and A. Claridge. 1976. “Marble sculpture.” In Roman Crafts, ed. D. Strong and D. Brown, 195–207. London: Duckworth. Tanasi, D., S. Hassam, K. Kingsland, P. Trapani, M. King, and D. Calì. 2021. “Melite Civitas Romana in 3D: Virtualization project of the Archaeological Park and Museum of the Domus Romana of Rabat, Malta.” Open Archaeology 7: 51–83. Tansey, P. 2008. “L. Sempronius Atratinus Aug. Imp.” ZPE 165: 304–6. Trump, D. 1972. Malta: An Archaeological Guide. London: Faber and Faber. Vella, N. C., A. J. Frendo, and H. C. R. Vella, ed. 2018. The Lure of the Antique. Essays on Malta and Mediterranean Archaeology in Honour of Anthony Bonanno. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement 54. Leuven: Peeters. Von Boeselager, D. 1983. Antike Mosaiken in Sizilien. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider. Wilson, R. J. A. 1990. “Roman architecture in a Greek world: The example of Sicily.” In Architecture and Architectural Sculpture in the Roman Empire, ed. M. Henig, 67–90. Oxford: Oxford Committee for Archaeology. Wilson, R. J. A. 2000. “Map 47 Sicilia.” In Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Map-by-Map Directory, Vol. 1, ed. R. J. A. Talbert, 709–35. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Wilson, R. J. A. 2001. “Aqueducts and water supply in Greek and Roman Sicily: The present status quaestionis.” In Cura Aquarum in Sicilia. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region, Syracuse, May 16–22, 1998, ed. G. C. M. Jansen, 5–36. BABESCH Supplement 5. Leiden: Stichting BABesch. Wilson, R. J. A. 2020. “Pantelleria revealed: The archaeology of Cossyra.” Mouseion 17: 515–45. Wootton, W. 2002. “Another Alexander mosaic: Reconstructing the Hunt mosaic from Palermo.” JRA 15: 265–74.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43670226","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 Malta: architecture and archaeology – CORRIGENDUM","authors":"R. J. A. Wilson","doi":"10.1017/s1047759423000235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759423000235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43522139","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":"Surveying Isurium Brigantum: a new picture of Roman Aldborough","authors":"W. Bowden","doi":"10.1017/S1047759423000090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759423000090","url":null,"abstract":"Roman towns present enticing targets for geophysical survey. Their gridded streets and masonry buildings respond to a range of survey techniques, and the results are highly visual. Improved rapid survey techniques involving multi-sensor arrays mean that large areas can be covered rapidly. It is also cheap, relative to other forms of archaeological investigation, making it attractive to those working at universities, where research budgets grow ever tighter. Little wonder then that the last two decades have seen an ever-increasing number of surveys on those town sites unencumbered by modern development. In the UK, Wroxeter, Silchester, Caistor-by-Norwich, and Verulamium have all seen large-scale geophysical investigation, while elsewhere in the Roman Empire major surveys have been carried out at Carnuntum (Austria), Ammaia (Portugal), Falerii Novii (Italy), and many other sites.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43808886","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":"Books Received","authors":"M. West","doi":"10.1017/s1047759400023072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1047759400023072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s1047759400023072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48197537","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}