Friday, November 6, 2026

Open Access Journal: Istanbuler Mitteilungen

 [First posted in AWOL 12 August 2023, updated 6 November 2026]
 
ISSN: 0341-9142  

Die „Istanbuler Mitteilungen“ verstehen sich als Plattform archäologischer und kulturhistorischer Forschung zu Anatolien und seinen Nachbarregionen. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit sachlichen Zeugnissen der Vergangenheit von der Urgeschichte bis in die osmanische Zeit. Gemäß dem fachlichen Spektrum an der Abteilung Istanbul des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts bilden die Prähistorische Archäologie, die Vorderasiatische Archäologie, die Klassische Archäologie, die Byzantinische Archäologie und die Bauforschung thematische Schwerpunkte der Zeitschrift. Interdisziplinäre Aufsätze unter Einbeziehung weiterer Geistes-, Natur- oder Geowissenschaften sind ausdrücklich erwünscht. Die Aufsätze sind überwiegend in deutscher und englischer Sprache verfasst.
Die Istanbuler Mitteilungen sind eine jährlich erscheinende Zeitschrift mit anonymem Begutachtungsverfahren (Peer-Review). Die IstMitt werden bei den Indices ERIH Plus und Scopus geführt.

Aktuelle Ausgabe

Bd. 75 (2025): Istanbuler Mitteilungen
 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/ggz6mp77
Veröffentlicht: 2026-11-03

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New Open Access Journal: The Chronicles of Haemus (CoH)

CoH 

Launched in 2025 under the aegis of the HAEMUS International Research Network (HAEMUS IRN) and published by the French School at Athens (École française d’Athènes), The Chronicles of Haemus (CoH) provide an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective on the political, economic, and cultural transformations that shaped the Balkans during the transition from the Roman to the Byzantine era.

The journal welcomes innovative contributions in multiple languages and aims to foster scholarly exchange to enhance understanding of this pivotal region in European history.

The CoH is a fully digital, multilingual, continuously published journal that highlights the latest archaeological and historical research on the Late Antique Balkans 

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Les nécropoles hellénistiques de Tomis

Publié le 6 novembre 2026 par Th. Castelli

Bucovală, M. (1967) : Necropole elenistice la Tomis, Constanta [Les nécropoles hellénistiques de Tomis].

Ce petit ouvrage, après une brève introduction sur les rites identifiés dans la nécropole de Tomis, présente le mobilier funéraire de 75 tombes. Chaque tombe est datées et illustrée par une photographie rassemblant les artefacts, qui sont brièvement décrit. À la fin une dernière partie présente une synthèse par catégorie d’artefact sur le matériel découvert.

Ce livre est utile en l’absence d’autres ouvrages, mais est clairement insuffisant comparativement à la richesse du matériel et aux données limitées disponibles sur la Tomis hellénistique.

Le lien vers le livre : https://biblioteca-digitala.ro/?pub=10123-necropole-elenistice-la-tomis ou

https://ziuaimages.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/images/stories/2019/12/ZIUA/carti-online/docs/necropole-elenistice-la-tomis-wm-ocr.pdf


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Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents (CCED)

 [First posted in AWOL 28 August 2014, updated 6 November 2026]

Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents (CCED)

The Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents was founded to archive, catalogue, and digitize epigraphic materials — placing them online so that scholars everywhere have direct access to these primary documents.

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Thursday, November 5, 2026

Roman Identity: Between Ideal and Performance

Roman Identity: Between Ideal and Performance
Editors: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, José Luís Brandão, Cláudia Teixeira and Ália Rodrigues 
 
Antiquité et sciences humaines 

Recent years have seen a significant increase in migration and displacement. Due to economic, political, and climatic pressures, large numbers of individuals are leaving their countries of origin and settling in new environments and societies. As a result, national identity has increasingly come to the fore in public discourse. Shaping and reshaping national agendas, debates surrounding national identity are affecting policies and influencing voting behaviours. Discourse on this issue is often centred on the idea of autochthony and nativism. Yet we do not encounter such anxieties in ancient Rome, one of the longest-lasting political orders in history. Unlike among the Greeks, the idea of autochthony did not take root among the Romans. Instead, Rome’s identity tended to be fluid, accommodating the development of highly variegated and multi-ethnic groups and societies.

The purpose of this volume is to understand how the Romans represented themselves and how others defined and regarded them. It aims to identify the various narratives that contributed to the construction of Roman self-representation by raising the following questions: What stories did Romans tell about themselves? How did they enact and perform their selfhood in biographic and autobiographical sources? How did Greek and Judean sources understand and define Roman identity? And, taken together, how did these narratives influence Roman self-perception?

Rather than arguing for a monolithic or coherent understanding of , this volume explores a variety of performances and manifestations of Roman identity. It focuses both on sources where the self or individual is the primary focus, alongside more general texts dealing with specific elements of Roman identity.

© 2022 Brepols Publishers n.v.
 
  • Format: PDF
  • Publication Date: January 2022
  • Publisher: Brepols Publishers
  • Number of Pages: 402
  • Language: English
  • Hardbound ISBN: 978-2-503-59922-9
  • E-book ISBN: 978-2-503-59923-6
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ASH-EB.5.128199

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    Archaeology of War: Studies on Weapons of Barbarian Europe in the Roman and Migration Period

    Archaeology of War: Studies on Weapons of Barbarian Europe in the Roman and Migration Period 
    By: Bartosz Kontny 
     

     Warsaw Studies in Archaeology

    From graves to settlements, and from the battlefield to underwater sacrificial sites, weapons dating to the Roman and Migration Period have long been found in an array of contexts throughout the region that forms modern-day Poland. This volume for the first time aims to draw together research into these finds, gathered throughout the author’s career, in a synthetic approach that sees discoveries of swords and other armaments analysed against a broad, comparative background. The work begins with a focus on votive deposits from lakes, here used as a lens for addressing questions about military strategy and war ritual more generally, before moving on to explore the weapons and warriors of the Przeworsk and Wielbark Cultures, as well as shedding light on the lives of the Balts. Finally, an in-depth analysis is made of shields from the protohistoric period, exploring the genesis and variability of the forms taken by this protective weapon. Through this approach, this richly illustrated volume sheds new light not only on the typology and chronology of weaponry from the Roman and Migration Periods, but also on the symbolism and functionality that these arms held.

  • Format: PDF
  • Publication Date: January 2023
  • Publisher: Brepols Publishers
  • Number of Pages: 264
  • Language: English
  • Hardbound ISBN: 978-2-503-60737-5
  • E-book ISBN: 978-2-503-60738-2
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.WSA-EB.5.134697
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    Incubation in Early Byzantium: The Formation of Christian Incubation Cults and Miracle Collections

     

    Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    Incubation (temple sleep) was a well-known ritual in the Near East and became increasingly popular in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, becoming attached to Asclepius and other divinities. It flourished in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was encountered by the emergent Christianity. Temple sleep was so widespread that it was impossible to ban. The Christianization of the incubation ritual was thus a detailed and lengthy (but successful) process that encompassed several aspects of the Church’s self-definition, including important social and theological issues of the era. The list of relevant issues is extensive: the fate of Greek temples and the reinterpretation of sacred space, confronting Hippocratic medicine, and the learned Greek intelligentsia. Since disease and a search for cure is a ubiquitous human need, the early Church embraced a healing ministry, in secular terms as well as in ritual healing. Incubation records show how the Church viewed dreams, conversion, or the notions of magic and divination. All these come within the framework of writing miracles: the transformation of the cult was thus incorporated into standard Church discourse, from ritual practice to proper literary genres.

    This first comprehensive monograph on Christian incubation examines the rich material of all the relevant Greek miracle collections: those of Saint Thecla, Cyrus and John, the different versions of Saint Cosmas and Damian and saint Artemios, as well as the minor incubation saints, As a result, it unfolds the transformation of healing sites and practices related to dreams as they spread across Byzantium, from rural Asia Minor to Constantinople and Alexandria.

    © 2024 Brepols Publishers n.v.

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  • Publication Date: January 2024
  • Publisher: Brepols Publishers
  • Number of Pages: 328
  • Language: English
  • Hardbound ISBN: 978-2-503-60660-6
  • E-book ISBN: 978-2-503-60661-3
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.5.134035
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