Open Access Monograph Series: Dickinson College Commentaries

 [First posted in AWOL 18 May 2012, updated 12 November 2026]

Dickinson College Commentaries

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Charles Masson: Collections from Begram and Kabul Bazaar, Afghanistan, 1833–1838

Charles Masson: Collections from Begram and Kabul Bazaar, Afghanistan, 1833–1838

Errington, Elizabeth

 

From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore the ancient sites in south-east Afghanistan. In return for funding his exploration of the ancient sites of Afghanistan, the British East India Company received all of Masson’s finds. These were sent to the India Museum in London, and when it closed in 1878 the British Museum was the principal recipient of all the ‘archaeological’ artefacts and a proportion of the coins. This volume discusses and catalogues Charles Masson’s 1833–8 collections of coins and other objects from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in other sources but no longer in the British Museum’s collection. This volume therefore studies the British Museum’s collection of these fascinating objects, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context.

The book accompanies the previous two publications on Charles Masson’s collections by Elizabeth Errington: Charles Masson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan: Explorations, Excavations, Collections 1832−1835 (British Museum Research Publication no. 215) and The Charles Masson Archive: British Library, British Museum and Other Documents Relating to the 1832–1838 Masson Collection from Afghanistan (British Museum Research Publication no. 216).

Project(s)

Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State

Funder

Funder name	ISNI	Awards
European Research Council		609823
Neil Kreitman Foundation

Volume

219

Pagination

376

Publisher

British Museum

Place of publication

London

ISSN

1747 3640

Official URL

https://doi.org/10.48582/charlesmasson_vol3

Rights statement

In Copyright

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

DOI

10.48582/charlesmasson_vol3

 

 

 

The Portable Antiquities Scheme and Roman Britain

The Portable Antiquities Scheme and Roman Britain

Brindle, Tom

 

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a project run by the British Museum which encourages the voluntary reporting of archaeological artefacts discovered by members of the public in England and Wales, particularly metal detector users. Finds are recorded onto a database (available at www.finds.org.uk), and this resource now holds records for over 800,000 archaeological objects, a figure which increases on a daily basis. Since its establishment in 1997, it has become a key resource for archaeological researchers. Around 40 per cent of the artefacts recorded on the database are of Roman date, and the principal aim of this book is to assess the contribution that this resource can make to our understanding of Roman Britain. Bringing together vast quantities of seemingly random finds scattered across the English and Welsh countryside, Tom Brindle brings order to this data by showing how it can be used to indicate the presence of 240 previously unknown Roman sites. These sites are presented within a series of regional case studies which discuss important new sites as well as statistics that contribute significantly to the understanding of the density of settlement in rural Roman Britain. 

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a project run by the British Museum which encourages the voluntary reporting of archaeological artefacts discovered by members of the public in England and Wales, particularly metal detector users. Finds are recorded onto a database (available at www.finds.org.uk), and this resource now holds records for over 800,000 archaeological objects, a figure which increases on a daily basis. Since its establishment in 1997, it has become a key resource for archaeological researchers. Around 40 per cent of the artefacts recorded on the database are of Roman date, and the principal aim of this book is to assess the contribution that this resource can make to our understanding of Roman Britain. Bringing together vast quantities of seemingly random finds scattered across the English and Welsh countryside, Tom Brindle brings order to this data by showing how it can be used to indicate the presence of 240 previously unknown Roman sites. These sites are presented within a series of regional case studies which discuss important new sites as well as statistics that contribute significantly to the understanding of the density of settlement in rural Roman Britain. 

Publisher

British Museum

Place of publication

London

Official URL

https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/catalog/product/view/id/7055/s/the-portable-antiquities-scheme-and-roman-britain/

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

 

Seals and Status: Power of Objects

Seals and Status: Power of Objects

Cherry, John

Berenbeim, Jessica

de Beer, Lloyd

 

For 7,000 years, seals have functioned as signs of authority. This publication deals specifically with aspects of status in the history of seals, exploring this theme across a diverse range of cultural contexts – from the 9th century through the Early Modern period and across the world, looking at Byzantine, European, Islamic and Chinese examples. These objects are united by the significant roles they played in social status hierarchies, in the status of institutions, as indications of power and finally in notions of relative status among objects themselves. In addition to their chronological and geographical diversity, these studies concentrate on many different phases of seal use. Therefore, together they highlight the importance of studying the full life cycle of seals, from the ways in which they were made and used through to their afterlives and sometimes destruction.

Funder

Funder name	ISNI	Awards
Dr John Rassweiler

Pagination

154

Publisher

The British Museum

Place of publication

London

Official URL

https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/seals-and-status-power-of-objects.html

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

 

 

Open Access Journal: Les Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Antiquité (MEFRA)

[First listed in AWOL 19 December 2012. Updated 11 November 2026]

Les Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Antiquité (MEFRA)
ISSN électronique: 1724-2134 

Les Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Antiquité (MEFRA) publient des articles portant sur l’histoire, la culture et l’archéologie des mondes anciens en Méditerranée, en particulier en Italie, en Afrique du Nord et dans les Balkans, mais portant également sur les interactions entre cet espace et le reste du monde antique. Ils publient aussi des dossiers thématiques en lien avec les fouilles et les programmes scientifiques de l’EFR, et plus généralement des études relevant de diverses disciplines (histoire, archéologie, archéométrie, épigraphie, philologie, droit etc.), de la Préhistoire à la fin de l’Antiquité.

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Faire la lumière dans l’antre souterrain. Nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur l’hypogée de la Porte Majeure à Rome – Varia

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ISBN 978-2-7283-1867-4

• Faire la lumière dans l’antre souterrain

  Nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur l’hypogée de la Porte Majeure à Rome
  • Michel Humm et Corentin Voisin
    Faire la lumière dans l’antre souterrain [Texte intégral]
    Nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur l’hypogée de la Porte Majeure à Rome
  • Corinne Bonnet
    « Chacune parlait à l’imagination et éveillait des sentiments mystiques » [Texte intégral]
    Franz Cumont et la basilique de la Porte Majeure
  • Constantinos Macris
    Le pythagorisme comme clé de lecture de l’hypogée de la Porta Maggiore [Texte intégral]
    Essai de bilan critique
  • Simona Morretta, Chiara Scioscia Santoro, Donato Colli et Anna De Santis
    Basilica sotterranea di Porta Maggiore [Texte intégral]
    Interventi e ricerche della Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma 2016-2024: primi risultati
  • Gilles Sauron
    L’architecture de la « basilique pythagoricienne » [Texte intégral]
    Essai d’explication
  • Valérie Huet et Stéphanie Wyler
    Personnages mineurs à la Porte Majeure [Texte intégral]
    Approche des scènes secondaires du décor en stuc de l’hypogée
  • Corentin Voisin
    La précipitation de Sappho sur l’abside de l’hypogée de la Porte Majeure [Texte intégral]
    À l’épreuve de la comparaison avec la littérature contemporaine du monument
  • Silvia Romani
    Luci accese sulla lira [Texte intégral]
    Per una lettura a dittico di Properzio Elegia IV, 6 e Ovidio Eroide XV, con Virgilio, sullo sfondo
  • Michel Humm
    Au jardin des Hespérides [Texte intégral]
    Un Hercule pythagoricien dans l’hypogée près de la Porte Majeure ?
  • Constantinos Macris et Corentin Voisin
    Annexe [Texte intégral]
    Bibliographie thématique sur l’hypogée de la Porta Maggiore (1917-2026)

• Varia

  • Kewin Peche-Quilichini
    « Tutti ribeddi o tutti frateddi ? » [Texte intégral]
    Éléments de réflexion sur les processus de balkanisation culturelle de la Corse protohistorique (2000-500 av. J.-C.)
  • Pierre Péfau et Frédéric Épaud
    Les gravures rupestres du Valcamonica [Texte intégral]
    Approche structurelle des représentations de constructions en bois de l’âge du Fer
  • Gianmarco Grantaliano
    Note storico-religiose sui Paganalia e sulle Paganicae [Texte intégral]
  • Pauline Ducret
    Les trois vies de la loi de Pouzzoles (CIL X, 1781) [Texte intégral]
    Conditions d’élaboration et d’enregistrement d’un contrat de construction romain
  • Elio Dovere
    Opzioni del tardo lessico normativo [Texte intégral]
    L’affaire cartaginese del 411

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  137-1 | 137-2
• 2024
  136-1 | 136-2
• 2023
  135-1 | 135-2
• 2022
  134-1 | 134-2
• 2021
  133-2 | 133-1
• 2020
  132-1 | 132-2
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  131-1 | 131-2
• 2018
  130-1 | 130-2
• 2017
  129-2 | 129-1
• 2016
  128-1 | 128-2
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  127-1 | 127-2
• 2014
  126-1 | 126–2
• 2013
  125-1 | 125-2
• 2012
  124-2 | 124-1
• 2011
  123-1 | 123-2
• 2010
  122-1 | 122-2

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The Mildenhall Treasure: Late Roman Silver Plate from East Anglia

The Mildenhall Treasure: Late Roman Silver Plate from East Anglia

Hobbs, Richard

Discovered in Suffolk in 1942, the Mildenhall Treasure is one of the most important collections of Late Roman silver tableware from the Roman Empire and one of the most iconic sets of objects in the British Museum. This generously illustrated book offers a comprehensive study of the 28 pieces of the Mildenhall Treasure, the majority of which was crafted in the fourth century AD. The catalogue section provides an in- depth study of the form, decoration and mythological themes of the individual pieces, as well as discussing parallels with other items of silver plate known from this period. This publication will be of international appeal to archaeologists, historians and art historians due to the empire-wide importance of the material, and will be of particular interest to those studying the material culture of the Late Roman empire, especially Roman Britain.

Contributor (person)

Lang, Janet

Contributor

Hughes, Michael J.

Contributor

Tomlin, Roger

Contributor

Plouviez, Jude

Contributor

Funder

Funder name	ISNI	Awards
British Academy
The Eyre Family Foundation
Robert Kiln Charitable Trust

Pagination

324

Publisher

The British Museum

Place of publication

London

Official URL

https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/the-mildenhall-treasure.html

Rights statement

In Copyright

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

 

 

 

 

 

Etruscan by Definition: Papers in Honour of Sybille Haynes, MBE

Etruscan by Definition: Papers in Honour of Sybille Haynes, MBE

Haynes, Sybille

Swaddling, Judith

These papers were originally presented at a conference in 2006, celebrating the work of the renowned Etruscologist, Sybille Haynes, in the year of her 80th birthday. Dr Haynes’ work has done much to elucidate and de-mystify the Etruscans, and this volume seeks to further define the Etruscan character manifest in its richly varied and original workshop production. It examines the light that some unusual Etruscan objects and buildings throw on their lives, beliefs, and influences. Importantly, it considers how the Etruscans themselves wished to be personally identified and remembered. From opposite ends of the spectrum, two papers contrast early concepts of the Etruscans in the 18th century and the latest evidence for their origins using DNA studies.

Contributor (person)

Ridgway, David

Contributor

Williams, Dyfri

Contributor

Ambrosini, Laura

Contributor

Ambers, Janet

Contributor

Cartwright, Caroline

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Editor

Swaddling, Judith

Perkins, Philip

Pagination

120

Publisher

British Museum

Place of publication

London

Official URL

https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/etruscan-by-definition.html

Rights statement

In Copyright

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0