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{"title":"The role of drought during the Hunnic incursions into central-east Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE","authors":"Susanne E. Hakenbeck, U. Büntgen","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000332","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Hunnic incursions into eastern and central Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE have historically been considered one of the key factors in bringing the Roman Empire to an end. However, both the origins of the Huns and their impact on the late Roman provinces remain poorly understood. Here we provide a new, combined assessment of the archaeological, historical, and environmental evidence. Hunnic raids and warfare within the Roman provinces are most intensely attested for the first half of the 5th c. We propose that severe drought spells in the 430s to 450s CE disrupted the economic organization of the incomers and local provincial populations, requiring both to adopt strategies to buffer against economic challenges. We argue that the Huns’ apparently inexplicable violence may have been one strategy for coping with climatic extremes within a wider context of the social and economic changes that occurred at the time.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45826164","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 new kind of segmented mill from Africa Proconsularis","authors":"Skander Souissi","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000460","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper attempts an overview of new kind of segmented mill, examples of which have been found at Thysdrus (El Jem) and Zama in Africa Proconsularis. These grain mills are quite different morphologically and technically from other mills in the ancient Mediterranean world. These rare archaeological finds are not discussed in the ancient literature or in modern scholarship, leaving them difficult to understand. This article explores the history of segmented mills and the operation and dating of this African mill type.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41573231","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":"(Aristocratic) domestic cults in Etruria, Lazio, Magna Graecia, and southern Italy","authors":"Valeria Riedemann Lorca","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000514","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been an interest in the study of cults in the ancient Mediterranean, with an emphasis on individual experiences rather that collective ones, including aspects of family religion and domestic ritual practices. This study of domestic cults in southern Italy and Etruria is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation at Universität Regensburg. Her main objective was to gather a solid base of archaeological evidence of domestic cults in Italy during the 6th and 5th c. BCE, selected according to the criteria of the so-called functional indicators of domestic cult activity. The different types of evidence examined in the book suggest that domestic cult practices were performed not only inside houses, but also in their proximities. Domestic rites vary in form and function, they are often connected with the cult of the ancestors and with the mundus muliebris.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41747279","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":"Bir Messaouda at Carthage: a 6th-c. basilica tells a story of urban renewal and sectarian reconciliation","authors":"S. Stevens","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000502","url":null,"abstract":"tive center of the mines in the surrounding area, the connection of this area to the palace, settlement patterns, and landscape use in Roman times in the province, and the relation to the fortified border are all stimulating opportunities for future research. This book edited by Gerda von Bülow and Sofija Petković offers significant and stimulating new data and perspectives that we hope will set the tone for further research projects in the Balkan region.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46159807","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":"The meanings and value of Late Antiquity","authors":"Kilian Mallon","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000538","url":null,"abstract":"Rome: École franc̦aise de Rome. Rathje, A. 2019. Excavations at Ficana V. Casa sul pianoro: Zona 5A. Rome: Quasar. Riva, C. 2016. “Urbanization and foundation rites. The material culture of rituals at the heart and the margins of Etruscan early cities.” In A Companion to the Etruscans, ed. S. Bell and A. Carpino, 87–104. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. Sekita, K. 2020. “Śuri et al.: A ‘chthonic’ Etruscan face of Apollon?” In Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy, ed. E. Bispham and D. Miano, 101–19. Abingdon: Routledge. Sekita, K., and K. Southwood. Forthcoming. Death Imagined. Funerary Imaginarium of the Mediterranean. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Simonetti, M. 2001. “Le arulae di Caulonia: una presentazione preliminare.” In Kaulonia, Caulonia, Stilida (e oltre): contributi storici, archeologici e topografici, ed. M. C. Parra, 337–415. Pisa: Scuola normale superiore. Stopponi, S. 1985. Case e palazzi d’Etruria. Milan: Electa. Strandberg Olofsson, M. 2006. “Herakles revisited. On the interpretation of the mould-made architectural terracottas from Acquarossa.” In Deliciae Fictiles III, Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy: New Developments and Interpretations. Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the American Academy in Rome, November 7–8, 2002, ed. I. Edlund-Berry, G. Greco, and J. Kenfield, 122–29. Oxford: Oxbow Books. Torelli, M. 1983. “Polis e ‘Palazzo’. Architettura, ideologia, e artigianato greco in Etruria tra VII e VI secolo a.C.” In Architecture et société. De l’archaïsme grec à la fin de la République. Actes du Colloque international de Rome (2–4 décembre 1980), 471–92. Rome: École française de Rome. Torelli, M. 2000. “Le regiae etrusche e laziali tra Orientalizzante e arcaismo.” In Gli Etruschi, Catalogo della mostra di Palazzo Grassi a Venezia, ed. M. Torelli, 67–78. Milano: Bompiani. Torelli, M. 2011. Dei e artigiani. Archeologie delle colonie greche d’Occidente. Bari: Laterza. Tuck, A. 2016. “Poggio Civitate. Community form in inland Etruria.” In A Companion to the Etruscans, ed. S. Bell and A. Carpino, 105–16. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. Whitley, J. 1994. “The monuments that stood before Marathon: Tomb cult and hero cult in Archaic Attica.” AJA 98: 213–30. Winter, N. 2009. Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640—510 B.C. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46861792","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":"Between the living and the dead: use, reuse, and imitation of painted portraits in Late Antiquity","authors":"Grace Stafford","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000319","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Painted portraits on wood and cloth were common in the ancient world and prized as authentic and lifelike images. Affordable, portable, and desirable, they were an important form of representation, but rarely survive in the archaeological record outside Egypt. This article approaches the study of painted portraiture in a way that does not necessitate the survival of the images themselves. It analyzes evidence for the use, reuse, and imitation of painted portraits in the catacombs of 4th-c. Rome by examining the remains of settings and attachments for portraits, the shadows left by them on walls, and portraits in other media which imitate panel paintings. The article considers why painted portraits were so effective in funerary contexts and what connection they may have had to domestic portraiture. It also explores the development of panel portrait imitation through the phenomenon of the “square nimbus.”","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47601290","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":"Signed by Valerius: an Early Imperial wall painting from the fort of Deir el-Atrash in the Egyptian Eastern Desert","authors":"J. Marchand, Joachim Le Bomin, A. Bülow-Jacobsen","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000307","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the 2020 excavation campaign of the French Archaeological Mission to the Egyptian Eastern Desert (MAFDO), the team in charge of the excavation of the Roman fort of Deir el-Atrash uncovered a polychrome painting on one of the original entrance tower gates from the late 1st–early 2nd c. CE. The iconographic program includes, in the top register, a horseman genius and a caravan of dromedaries with its driver. In the lower register, a pattern of vine stalks and leaves occupies the space. This discovery is exceptional, as very few Roman paintings have been preserved in a military context. In addition to depicting a scene of everyday desert life, the supply of the fort, the scene also illustrates the power of the Empire and its presence at its borders.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42388675","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":"The best of all possible brothels","authors":"T. Mcginn","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000320","url":null,"abstract":"Despite its importance, this edifice, with its Pompeian address of 7.12.18–20, has received intense scrutiny only in recent decades. This trend began just over a quarter century ago with a pathbreaking contribution by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, who called attention to its usefulness for the identification of brothels in general. The monograph under review, with its wealth of both information and speculation about this building, marks a significant development and will no doubt encourage further scholarly attention.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44186563","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":"Smallpox's antiquity in doubt","authors":"T. Newfield, Ana T. Duggan, H. Poinar","doi":"10.1017/S1047759422000290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000290","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Smallpox, caused by the variola virus (VARV), is prominent in modern histories of the ancient Mediterranean world. The disease, or the diagnosis of it, has shaped estimations of the scale and significance of epidemics and pandemics, notably the 2nd-c. Antonine plague, and the burden of disease in large cities and regions densely populated in antiquity. Here we synthesize recent paleogenetic and evolutionary biological literature that casts significant doubt on the existence of a VARV that caused a disease we would recognize – clinically, ecologically, or epidemiologically – as smallpox in antiquity. On the basis of current data, it is time archaeologists and historians began to eradicate smallpox from their histories of the ancient world.","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43480392","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":"Prelims and table of contents","authors":"","doi":"10.15405/ejsbs.319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15405/ejsbs.319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45533,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Roman Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45091628","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}