This masterly study presents the first comprehensive
overview of olive oil production in Cyrenaica, North-East Libya, during
the mid to late Roman period. The evidence collected by the author
overturns previous assumptions about the small-scale of this industry
and convincingly demonstrates its economic importance in both urban and
rural settings. The typology and characteristics of Cyrenaican pressing
elements and gazetteer of sites confirm this work as an essential
reference volume for studies of ancient production and open up questions
about the Cyrenaica’s role in producing olive oil for local, regional
and Mediterranean markets.
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This volume brings together data collected from both previously
published surveys and new data collected using satellite imagery on the
architecture and construction of over 2,400 rural structures in nine
different regions of Tripolitania, dating between the 1st century BC and
the 7th century AD. The synthesis and standardisation of these diverse
data using new typologies applicable to structures in all parts of the
region have, for the first time, facilitated meaningful comparisons
between buildings and settlements across Tripolitania. The analysis
looks at the varying histories and patterns of land-use in different
parts of the region and even the status, wealth, and socio-cultural
structures of the people who constructed and lived in them.
Appendix A: Military Buildings
Appendix B: Unfortified Buildings
Appendix C: Fortified Buildings
Appendix D: Inscriptions from Fortified Buildings
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Roman-period Tripolitania conjures up
images of the monumental architecture of Lepcis Magna and Sabratha, but
it was much more than this. This new volume provides up-to-date research
by an international team of scholars who tackle important topics such
as the urban development, artistic works, rural settlement, culture,
religion, and the role of the military on the frontiers of this North
African region. Spanning the Roman and later phases through to the early
Islamic era, the chapters offer an accessible account of key aspects of
Tripolitania’s archaeology for students, researchers, as well as
general readers.
Egypt, Carthage and other African civilisations are well documented
but the land and people between them are less well known yet also worthy
of consideration. This collection of extracts from classical authors on
subjects relating to ancient Libya presents more than fifty writers
from Homer to the end of the Roman Empire and provides an eclectic
mixture of descriptions of Libya, its people, flora, fauna, climate,
geography and episodes in its history as presented by politicians,
poets, philosophers, priests, historians and soldiers, both native and
foreign.
Newly translated and illustrated with a variety of photographs, maps,
line drawings and specially commissioned illustrations, with a
comprehensive glossary and suggestions for further reading and research,
the book is suitable for both the general reader and the specialist.
Philip Kenrick, with a contribution by Ahmed Buzaian
This is the second volume in this series, which was launched to great
acclaim in 2009. Cyrenaica (known to the Arabs as the Jabal Akhdar, the
Green Mountain) has a terrain which resembles that of Greece or western
Turkey. It was settled at an early date by Greeks and subsequently was
part of the Roman and Byzantine empires before the advent of the Arabs.
Each of these civilisations has left its mark on the landscape, not only
at the locations of the major cities on the coast, but also at a host
of lesser towns and villages whose ruins still dot the countryside. All
are described and explained in a comprehensive gazetteer.
ISBN-13 978-1-900971-14-0
(Silphium Books/Society for Libyan Studies 2013)
David Mattingly, Alan Rushworth, Victoria Leitch, Martin Sterry
The frontiers of the Roman empire together form the largest surviving
monument of one of the world’s greatest stages. The Roman military
remains in North Africa are remarkable in their variety and their state
of preservation: they deserve to be better know. They include towers and
forts, stretches of defensive lines of stone and earth with ditches
broken by gates, and roads, sitting in the most remarkable scenery. This
book, in English, German and French, with a separate version in Arabic,
tells the illustrated story of this part of the empire.
96 pages
136 illustrations
English, French, German (for the Arabic version, see Arabic Publications)
This
is a new series of guides to the archaeology of Libya, from prehistoric
times until the invasion of the Bani Hilal in AD 1051, written by
acknowledged experts for the non-specialist traveller. The first volume,
TRIPOLITANIA, by Philip Kenrick, deals with a region which offers the
visitor not only the classical splendours of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
such as Sabratha and Lepcis Magna, but also a hinterland which is rich
in standing monuments of the Punic, Roman and early Islamic periods. All
are described and explained in a comprehensive gazetteer.
by J. B. Ward-Perkins. Edited by P. M. Kenrick with drawings by R. Kronenburg
The building programme begun in the A.D. 190s by the Roman emperor
Septimius Severus at his home city of Lepcis Magna is widely recognised
as the grandest project of its kind in the ancient world. This
architectural study by the late J. B. Ward-Perkins provides a full
description and analysis of the principal monuments of the Severan
programme, namely the Forum, Basilica, Colonnaded Street and Nymphaeum.
Copiously and handsomely illustrated, the corpus is accompanied by
extended discussion which includes consideration of the remarkable
evidence presented by these monuments for the organisation of the
construction of major Roman public buildings. This book is based on
several seasons of research at Lepcis by a team led by Ward-Perkins,
whose substantial draft text and drawings have been prepared for
publication by Philp Kenrick and Robert Kronenburg, with support from
the Society for Libyan Studies.
This publication will be of interest to all students of classical antiquity and to architectural historians.
Productive and Social Practices in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Earthen Building presents
new perspectives on one of the most widespread yet historically
undervalued forms of construction. Bringing together contributions from
leading researchers, the volume explores the production, use and social
significance of earthen architecture across a wide range of prehistoric
and protohistoric contexts.
Drawing on evidence from the Mediterranean, Europe, the Near East and
South America, the chapters examine construction techniques,
architectural traditions, domestic and monumental structures, and adopt
approaches including experimental reconstruction and the application of
advanced archaeometric and micromorphological techniques. Together, they
reveal how earthen buildings provide unique insights into technological
innovation, cultural interaction, collective labour and the
organisation of past communities.
The volume also considers the continuing relevance of earthen
building traditions within contemporary debates on heritage management
and sustainable construction, demonstrating the enduring value of these
ancient practices in addressing modern challenges.
The Social and Gender Fabric of Mud: Reviewing Earthen Architecture
in Archaeology. Introduction to “Productive and Social Practices in
Prehistoric and Protohistoric Earthen Building” – María Pastor Quiles, Lucía Ruano Posada, Alejandra Sánchez-Polo and Marta Mateu
Macroscopic Evidence for the Use of Adobes at Minoan Malia (Bronze Age Crete) – Maud Devolder
Production, Storage and Sustainability: The Use of Earthen and Sunken Architecture at Late Bronze Age Erimi-Pitharka, Cyprus – Lærke Recht and Katarzyna Zeman-Wiśniewska
Interactions and Continuity: Characterising Earthen Building
Techniques of the Iberian Northern Plateau in a Transitional Period
(Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age) – Alejandra Sánchez-Polo and Lucía Ruano Posada
‘Tell Me How You Build and I Will Tell You Who You Are’: Earthen
Construction Techniques at Sant Jaume d’Alcanar (Catalonia, NE Iberian
Peninsula) and Their Cultural Attribution – Marta Mateu, David Garcia i Rubert and Sonia Carbonell Pastor
Early Neolithic Earth Mortar in the Iberian Peninsula: Chaff Tempering, Manufacture and Functionality in Domestic Structures – Magdalena Gómez-Puche and Ana Polo-Díaz
Constructions in Raw Earth in the Bronze Age Navetiforms in Mallorca
(Spain): A Microstratigraphic View of Naveta I at Closos de Can Gaià – M. Mercè Bergadà, Joan Carbonell-Roca, Marta Mateu, David Javaloyas-Molina, Bartomeu Salvà-Simonet and Gabriel Servera-Vives
Rare Earth Elements Marking Anthropic Soil Development at the Geoglyphs of Acre (Brazil) – Gianni
Gallello, Mirco Ramacciotti, Ivandra Rampanelli, Sonia López-Melón,
Fernando Ferreira, Jacó César Piccoli, Ángel Morales-Rubio, Laura
Bartual Moreno, Adriana Serra-Meléndez, Carlos Arnau-Félix and Agustín Diez-Castillo
A Geometric and Constructive Approach to Self-Supporting Domes and Vaults in the Architecture of the Ancient Near East – Luis Miguel Carranza Peco, Manuel Fortea Luna, Esther Rodríguez González and Sebastián Celestino Pérez
Building a Mesolithic Hut. A Social Interaction Analysis of Coordinated Engagement with the Material Environment – Antje Wilton and Kenan Hochuli
The EARTHERITAGE Project. Earthen Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean between Archaeology and Sustainability – Marialucia Amadio, Luca Bombardieri, Ivano Rellini, Sabina Ghislandi and Maria Luisa Germanà
This title is a key new addition to literature on the rural economy
of Tripolitania during Antiquity. The chapters explore the geography and
climate of the area and present the results of the author’s
archaeological survey.
Settlement types and their constructions are examined, followed by a
detailed analysis of olive oil presses and their production capacity.
Finally, amphora production sites are discussed, with examples of the
types of amphora and their capacities.
The conclusions give an overview of the rural economy of Tarhuna
during the Roman period, focusing on economic aspects and offering an
astonishing new picture of this highly productive landscape.
This is the first report on the finds from K. Kenyon’s and J. B.
Ward-Perkins’s excavations at Sabratha from 1948-1951, and contains full
discussion and catalogues. This volume constitutes a landmark in the
study of Punic and Roman pottery from Sabratha and Tripolitania, not
only covering new dated types but also quantified studies and analysis.
It will be a lasting reference to the pottery from this area, and
invaluable for what it brings to the historical picture of this city.
Publisher: Society for Libyan Studies; Bilingual edition (1989)
Language: English, Arabic
298 pages
This report on the British excavations at Sabratha, directed by
Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins, uses the original records of the
excavations. The work includes chapters on the Forum, East Forum Temple,
Capitolium, Basilica/Church and Temple of Sarapis, insulae, the Severan
Monument, the Theatre, the Byzantine Defences and the Harbour, and on
the pottery. Dr Philip Kenrick has revised the structural history of
Roman Sabratha, adding much to the understanding of its origins.
This is the second part of the second volume of the first report on
the finds from K. Kenyon’s and J. B. Ward-Perkins’s excavations at
Sabratha from 1948-1951. It contains full discussion and
catalogues. Part 2 of this volume constitutes a landmark in the study of
Punic and Roman finewares from Sabratha and Tripolitania, not only
covering new dated types but also quantified studies and analyses. An
indispensable aid to all archaeologists working on classical
Mediterranean sites.
Publisher: Society for Libyan Studies; Bilingual edition (1994)
Language: English, Arabic
Edited by M. G. Fulford and R. Tomber.
With contributions by N. Keay, J.R. Timby, J.W. Hayes and D.M. Bailey.
Published by the Society for Libyan Studies and the Department of
Antiquities, Tripoli, with financial assistance from BP Exploration
Limited
The final volume of the Archaeology of Fazzan contains reports and
analysis on a series of excavations carried out between 1997–2001 by an
Anglo-Libyan team led by Professor David Mattingly at the oasis town of
Old Jarma. The work also incorporates unpublished data from earlier
investigations at the site, notably by Charles Daniels (1965, 1969) and
Mohammed Ayoub (1962–1967). The publication is lavishly illustrated by
site plans and numerous colour photographs, many of which were taken by a
professional photographer, Toby Savage – particularly of the rich
artefact assemblages recovered.
640 pages plus 258 pages of appendices
Over 400 full-colour photographs, illustrations and plans
JANES, the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, was founded in
1968 at Columbia University, and has been housed at the Jewish
Theological Seminary since 1982. Over these approximately forty years 30
volumes have been published under the editorship of former JTS
professor Ed Greenstein and JTS professor David Marcus. The volumes
include approximately three hundred and fifty articles written by over
two hundred scholars and students from all over the world. The
impressive array of scholars that have contributed articles to these
volumes includes well-known names such as G. R. Driver, H. L. Ginsberg,
Jonas Greenfield, William Hallo, Thorkild Jacobsen, Jacob Milgrom, A. L.
Oppenheim, to mention but a few. Over the years there have been five
special issues celebrating JTS and Columbia scholars Elias Bickerman,
Meir Bravmann, Theodor Gaster, Moshe Held, and Yochanan Muffs. Articles
have been written on all aspects of the Bible and Ancient Near East
covering areas such as art history, archaeology, anthropology, language,
linguistics, philology, and religion. There are articles on
Assyriology, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hittite, and all areas of Hebrew and
Aramaic and on almost every book of the Bible. Manuscripts should be
composed according to the SBL style sheet and sent to the Editors, c/o
Ed Greenstein (greenstein.ed@gmail.com)
‘An extraordinary civilisation emerged on the very margins of the
Classical world in the remote Libyan desert. This is a vital study of a
society at the crossroads between the Mediterranean and continental
Africa.’ (Professor Michael Fulford, University of Reading)
‘The Garamantes have emerged from the shadows. This study of the
Fazzan from remotest antiquity to the present day is striking for the
extent and range of the enquiry, the meticulousness of its
documentation, and the clarity of its exposition. The completed volumes
will immediately become the standard work on the region, and seem
unlikely ever to be superseded.’ (Professor Roger Wilson, University of
Nottingham)
This volume contains an important report on the environmental
evidence from Berenice, discussed in the wider context of Hellenistic
and Roman agriculture in Cyrenaica. Catalogues and discussions of 40
sculptural and 159 terracotta fragments from the site are then followed
by a major report on the amphorae, both local and imported and all the
other coarse pottery with quantified tabulation. The pottery typology
has great significance for the whole Mediterranean region, reflected in
an important series of distribution maps.
Edited by Niccolò Mugnai, Julia Nikolaus, Nick Ray
When the Roman Empire progressively expanded its influence over the
North African continent, it encountered a very heterogeneous mix of
peoples with a long and diverse history. This collection of papers from
the conference De Africa Romaque: Merging Cultures Across North Africa
(Leicester, 2013), explores the mutual relationships between North
African societies and Rome, within this context. Moving away from
traditional narratives of dominance and resistance, the discussions
focus on bringing the local peoples of North Africa and their varied
cultural features back into the fore.
Curating our own history, we focus on the
events and people that created the Institute and developed it over the
past half a century. As the Institute is dedicated to publishing,
readers are able to explore Institute facilities and the journey through
the process of publication. We present the opportunity to meet the
faces and characters behind the research.
SAEG Papers è una
collana online, pubblicata da Edizioni Quasar di Roma, dotata di ISSN e
ISBN, con rapidi tempi di pubblicazione e una cura editoriale adeguata
alle esigenze degli studi di Epigrafia Greca.
In SAEG Papers gli articoli, sottoposti a doppia peer review,
vengono messi subito in lavorazione non appena giungono in redazione e,
ultimato il processo editoriale, sono pubblicati senza dover attendere
il completamento del volume.
Ogni saggio pubblicato in SAEG Papers ha valenza di “contributo in volume”, secondo la classificazione ANVUR.
Per le citazioni bibliografiche si suggerisce l’abbreviazione SAEGPapers, seguita dal numero del fascicolo.
Patristics, or the focused study of the Fathers and Mothers of the
ancient Christian churches, is a well-established discipline within the
wider fields of Historical Theology, the History of Religion, the
History of Late Antiquity, and Studies in Religion. It has garnered
remarkable international engagement, and over the last fifty years,
scholars from Australia have played an increasingly important role in
its expanding development. This Special Issue of Religions
serves to exemplify the current involvement and future potential of
Australian researchers in this knowledge domain, displaying the fresh
insights they bring from their diverse ethnic backgrounds and language
skills, as well as additional expertise across various fields of study.
Proper recognition of the Australian contribution is long overdue, and
at this particular point in time, the array of scholars collaborating in
the highly multicultural State of New South Wales deserves the
attention that the following collection offers. This Special Issue
covers all the major aspects of Patristic Study, highlighting the
diversity of specialist interests and gender perspectives involved in
shaping its Australian landscape. The topics span key ideas and
doctrines, archaeology, expositions, translations, apologists, and
missionaries. They also include subjects ranging from orthodoxy to
heresy and Gnosticism, socio-religious theory to imperial rulership, and
ancient monastic or ascetic institutions to modern instruments of
pedagogy and dialogue.
Sacrifice
has long been a central topic in scholarly debate. Since the
publication of Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert's groundbreaking work in
1898-99, the concept has gained prominence as a distinct theme in
comparative religion, anthropology, and the history of religions.
Throughout the twentieth century, many distinguished scholars and
intellectuals examined the meaning and function of sacrifice to better
understand various aspects of human cognition and social interactions.
While some explored its connections to violence—particularly forms of
self-inflicted violence, such as martyrdom—others sought to disentangle
the concept from violent practices altogether. Building on this rich
tradition, this collection of articles gathers contributions from
leading scholars who explore the theme of sacrifice, examining its
diverse meanings and roles across various religious traditions. While
the book places particular emphasis on the history of Christianity and
the early modern period, it also provides valuable insights into a broad
spectrum of religious traditions, including Judaism, Islam, Greek and
ancient religions, as well as Japanese religions. Its geographical scope
spans regions such as India, China, Africa, and Brazil, offering a
truly global perspective.By mapping the varied interpretations and
transformations of sacrifice in the early modern period, this book seeks
to illuminate its evolving significance. It also strives to offer a
comparative framework that highlights the concept's complexity and
adaptability across cultural and historical contexts.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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