Αγροτικές εγκαταστάσεις των ύστερων κλασικών χρόνων

Αγροτικές εγκαταστάσεις των ύστερων κλασικών χρόνων

Evi Margaritis, Athanasia Mourati, Eleni Klinaki 

The subject of this publication is a large-scale rural installation found at the sites of Komboloi and Douvári I and II, northeast of the community of Skotina in the regional unit of Pieria in Northern Greece, as part of public road works. This extensive rural site was established after the mid-4th century BCE, likely during the reign of Philip II, and expanded during the early post-Alexandrian period. The destruction of the central complex of the rural estate coincides with the general destruction observed in the surrounding area, which is dated to the first quarter of the 3rd century BCE, possibly during the Galatian invasion of Macedonia. The rural estate at Komboloi did not recover, unlike other nearby settlements and farmsteads, except for the auxiliary facilities at the farmsteads at Douvári, which show an additional residential phase until the 2nd century BCE.

The core of the site of Komboloi consists of a complex of two buildings, a residence, and a specially arranged storage area for pithoi, covering a space of approximately 1,368 square meters. Numerous outdoor and semi-outdoor structures were identified in the surrounding area, with the active space of the rural estate extending to 5.5 stremmas (0.55ha). Its activities were exclusively focused on vine cultivation and wine production, as initially indicated by archaeobotanical research and later confirmed by the study of the material culture.

The storage area, organized around a wooden colonnaded, stone-paved courtyard, with pithoi serving as storage vessels and wine making installations (vessels receiving the produced must), remains unique in terms of design and function. The residence likely belongs to the known type of double house with colonnaded courtyards and a central basement that included a tower.

The establishment of rural sites involved in extensive production of agricultural goods during the 4th century BCE in the Macedonian countryside has been documented by the identification of several sites over the past decades and seems to be related to the political stability and economic growth of the kingdom from the reign of Philip II onward.

The exclusive focus on viticulture and wine production, with surplus production, makes this particular rural installation notable, with its location and role in the distribution of branded wines of Macedonian land still under investigation.

 

Nemeonikai I: A Catalogue of Nemeonikai: ca. 573 – ca. 300 BC

Nemeonikai I: A Catalogue of Nemeonikai: ca. 573 – ca. 300 BC

Andrew Farrington 

Το παρόν έργο αποτελεί σχολιασμένο κατάλογο (‘catalogue raisonné’) όσων Νεμεονικῶν πιθανώς χρονολογούνται από περίπου το 573 π.Χ. μέχρι περίπου το 300 π.Χ., του οποίου προτάσσεται μια εισαγωγή που εστιάζει στενά στη φύση των τεκμηρίων τόσο φιλολογικών όσο και επιγραφικών και αρχαιολογικών που αφορούν τους Νεμεονίκες και στα προβλήματα που ανακύπτουν από τέτοιες πληροφορίες όταν προσπαθεί κανείς να χρονολογήσει τους Νεμεονίκες και τις νίκες τους.

Ο κατάλογος, του οποίου το πρώτο μέρος ερευνά άτομα που ήταν αναμφίβολα Νεμεονίκες, και το δεύτερο παρουσιάζει αθλητές για τους οποίους δεν είναι βέβαιο πως υπήρξαν νικητές στη Νεμέα, αποτελείται από λήμματα με επτά πεδία (1. Όνομα και πατρώνυμο του αθλητή, 2. Χρονολογία νικής / νικών στα Νέμεα, 3. Τόπος εύρεσης σχετικής/-ών επιγραφής/-ών, 4. Πόλις/-εις του αθλητή, 5. Άθλημα, 6. Αρχαίες πηγές, 7. Αναφορά σε εμφάνιση του σχετικού αθλητή σε συγχρόνους καταλόγους αρχαίων αθλητών.). Η παρουσίαση που ακολουθεί αυτά τα πεδία πρώτα συνήθως εξετάζει και αποσαφηνίζει τις τυχόν νίκες του αθλητή και στη συνέχεια προσπαθεί με έλεγχο των τεκμηρίων να προσφέρει μια χρονολογία της νίκης / των νικών στα Νέμεα.  Στο δεύτερο μέρος του καταλόγου εξετάζεται η ταυτότητα δήθεν Νεμεονικών και παρουσιάζονται οι λόγοι για τους οποίους αυτοί δεν θεωρούνται γνήσιοι Νεμεονίκες. 

Στο παράρτημα, γίνεται προσπάθεια να υπολογισθεί ποιο ποσοστό του συνόλου αποτελεί ο αριθμός γνωστών σε μας νικών (μάλλον από 7.5% έως και 10%). 

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The work is a catalogue raisonné of victors in the Nemean games, from ca. 573 to ca. 300 BC, prefaced by an introduction that focusses upon the nature of the evidence and the problems that arise in efforts to date Nemean victors and their victories.

The catalogue, whose first part deals with definite Nemeonikai and whose second part with doubtful Nemeonikai, consists of lemmata of seven fields (1. Competitor name, patronymic; 2. Date of victory/victories at Nemea; ca. 575 – ca. 551 BC 3. Inscription find spot; 4. Citizenship(s); 5. Discipline(s); 6. Ancient sources; 7. Catalogue entries), followed by a discussion.  In the first part, the discussion usually clarifies the athletic record of the individual and in the second discusses the evidence with a view to arriving at a date for the Nemean victory or victories in question.  In the second part of the catalogue, the discussion usually examines the identity of the supposed Nemeonikes and the reasons why he is unlikely to have been such.

An appendix attempts to calculate what percentage of the possible total number of victories is represented by the probable number of known victories (between ca. 7.5 % and 10%). 

 

“In Second Use”. An archaeological and anthropological survey of recycling and reuse in the Greek world

“In Second Use”. An archaeological and anthropological survey of recycling and reuse in the Greek world

Nikolas Dimakis, Paraskevi Motsiou, Eurydice Kefalidou 

Int e r n a t i o n a l  m e e t i n g  f o r  E a r l y  C a r e e r  S c h o l a r s
2 5 – 2 6  S e p temb e r  2 0 2 1

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

 

Digital South Caucasus Collection

Digital South Caucasus Collection

Welcome to the Digital South Caucasus Collection, a collaboration between the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World library and institutions in the South Caucasus. The DSCC is a collection in the Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL), a project of the ISAW Library. AWDL’s mission is to identify, collect, curate, and provide access to a broad range of scholarly materials relevant to the study of the ancient world.

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Livy Study Maps: Book 22

Livy Study Maps: Book 22  

March 20, 2025

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AWMC is pleased to announce the release of Livy Study Maps: Book 22, the latest addition to the Maps for Texts series. Building upon the work of Livy Study Maps: Book 21, this set of twenty-three maps is designed for students and teachers working with Livy’s text, and offers detailed coverage of famous episodes such as the Battles of Lake Trasimene and Cannae, as well as of lesser-known campaigns from Book 22 of the History of Rome.  The maps are available as free digital downloads under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license.

Click this link for an introduction and table of contents, or access the full collection of maps on Dropbox.

AWMC eagerly invites feedback on the Livy Study Maps from academics, educators, students, and enthusiasts alike.  Please email comments to awmc@unc.edu.  The Center hopes to incorporate community feedback in future revisions to these maps, as well as using it to guide the creation of maps for subsequent books of Livy.  Maps for Book 23 are currently in production, with an anticipated publication date in Fall 2025.

 

Antiquités de la région nord de la mer Noire, du Caucase et de l’Asie centrale : d’après les découvertes de N.I. Veselovsky à la science moderne.

Publié le 19 mars 2025 par Th. Castelli

Kashuba, M. T., M. V. Medvedeva, E. O. Stoyanov, éd. (2024) : Древности Северного Причерноморья, Кавказа и Средней Азии: от открытий Н.И. Веселовского к современной науке. / Материалы международной научной конференции, посвященной 175-летию Николая Ивановича Веселовского (1848–1918) / Drevnosti Severnogo Prichernomor’ja, Kavkaza i Srednej Azii: ot otkrytij N.I. Veselovskogo k sovremennoj nauke. Materialy mezhdunarodnoj nauchnoj konferencii, posvjashhennoj 175-letiju Nikolaja Ivanovicha Veselovskogo (1848–1918), Saint-Pétersbourg [Antiquités de la région nord de la mer Noire, du Caucase et de l’Asie centrale : d’après les découvertes de N.I. Veselovsky à la science moderne. Actes de la conférence scientifique internationale consacrée au 175e anniversaire de Nikolai Ivanovich Veselovsky (1848-1918)]

Cet ouvrage rassemble de courts articles sur les différentes étapes de la vie de cet archéologue russe : le nord de la mer Noire antique et médiévale, l’Asie centrale, le monde des collectionneurs et des musées. Un tiers des articles concerne le nord de la mer Noire antique.

L’ouvrage en ligne : https://www.old.archeo.ru/izdaniya-1/vagnejshije-izdanija/pdf/2024Veselovskij.pdf

 

Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 2. Sessions 3, 7 and 8 from the Conference Broadening Horizons 6 Held at the Freie Universität Berlin, 24–28 June 2019

Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 2. Sessions 3, 7 and 8 from the Conference Broadening Horizons 6 Held at the Freie Universität Berlin, 24–28 June 2019

Edited by Nathalie Kallas 

Since 2007, the conferences organized under the title ‘Broadening Horizons’ have provided a regular venue for postgraduates and early career scholars in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Three volumes present the proceedings of the 6th Broadening Horizons Conference, which took place at the Freie Universität Berlin from 24–28 June, 2019. The general theme, ‘Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue’, is aimed at encouraging communication and the development of multidisciplinary approaches to the study of material cultures and textual sources.

The second volume compiles papers presented in three enlightening sessions: Session 3 – Visual and Textual Forms of Communication; Session 7 – The Future of the Past. Archaeologists and Historians in Cultural Heritage Studies; and Session 8 – Produce, Consume, Repeat. History and Archaeology of Ancient Near Eastern Economies. Within this volume, the 20 papers traverse diverse topics spanning multiple periods, from the 5th millennium BCE to the Roman Empire, and encompass a wide array of geographical regions within the Near East.

H 276 x W 203 mm

292 pages

71 figures, 11 tables, 2 plates (colour throughout)

Published Mar 2025

Archaeopress Access Archaeology

ISBN

Paperback: 9781803277288

Digital: 9781803277295

DOI 10.32028/9781803277288

 

Contents

Foreword

Introduction – Nathalie Kallas

 

Session 3 — Visual and Textual Forms of Communication

Meaning and Meaningfulness in the Visual Arts: The Akkadian Legacy in the Ur III Period – Marian H. Feldman

Sexuation of animals’ bodies in the bullae from Qasr-I Abu Nasr – Delphine Poinsot

Generations of Writing: The Secondary Inscriptions of Darius’ tacara at Persepolis – Olivia Ramble

A few insights into the variety of interactions between texts and diagrams in Old Babylonian mathematics – Adeline Reynaud

Chariots, Thrones, and Emblems. Visual/Material Bonds in Old Babylonian Legal Practice – Elisa Roßberger

When Horses and Onagers Collide: The Use of Constraining Force in the Neo-Assyrian Reliefs – Margaux Spruyt

Up/down, close/far, front/back: the conceptualization of the dynamics of power in Hittite texts – Marta Pallavidini

Apotropaic representations on Late Bronze Age ring seals – Benedetta Bellucci

Seal-Impressed Vessels at Hama, Syria (c. 2500-2000 BC) – Agnese Vacca, Valentina Tumolo, Georges Mouamar and Stephen Lumsden

Potmarks on the Lebanese coast: A medium of communication in the Early Bronze Age – Metoda Peršin

Personal Religion in the Ramesside Period from the Deir el-Medina Votive Stelae: A Case for the Study of Iconography – Iria Souto Castro

Texts, scenes and rituals to preserve the memory of the deceased in private tombs at the end of the 18th Dynasty in Thebes – María Silvana Catania

The transmission of priestly science in ancient Egyptian temples of the Graeco-Roman period: The case study of the sacred trees* – Federica Pancin

 

Session 7 –The Future of the Past. Archaeologists and Historians in Cultural Heritage Studies

Codifying culture: The making of Phoenician style – Lamia Sassine

Come, Tell Me Where You Live! Perceptions of Local Antiquity and Cultural Awareness in the Region of Koya – Cinzia Pappi

 

Session 8 – Produce, Consume, Repeat. History and Archaeology of Ancient Near Eastern Economies

Making new sense of ancient economies. Markets, networks, and social orders in the pre-Islamic Near East – Eivind Heldaas Seland

Deciphering the Skills of the Prehistoric Painting Technique: Case Study of the Painted Pottery of the 5th Millennium BCE from Tall-e Bakun A (Fars province, Iran) – Takehiro Miki

Persian Female Weavers in the Persepolis Economy – Yazdan Safaee

Shops in Ancient Berytus: New Data from Old Excavations – Hassan El-Hajj

Viticulture in the Roman Colony of Berytus: Economic Considerations – Naseem Raad