Gabriel Mircea Talmațchi,Greeks, Romans and local population in the territory between Danube and the Black Sea (2nd century BC-1st century AD). An economic history from monetary perspective Iaşi 2024ISBN 978-606-714-878-7468 S./pp., Farb- und S/W-Abb./colour and b/w-figs., 21 x 15 cm; broschiert/softcover
Jana Horvat – Benjamin Štular – Anton Velušček,Trnovo near Ilirska Bistrica in the Early Iron Age / Trnovo pri Ilirski Bistrici v starejši železni dobi(Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 49)Ljubljana 2025ISBN 978-961-05-0952-3
288 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb. / num. colour and b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
Marina Ugarković – Ana Konestra – Martina Čelhar – Martina Korić (eds.), Between Global and Local. Adriatic Connectivity from Protohistory to the Roman PeriodProceedings of the Conference Stari Grad, 28th-29th October 2022(Zbornik Instituta za Arheologiju / Serta Instituti Archaeologici 21)Zagreb 2024ISBN 978-953-6064-73-1
244 S./pp., zahlr. S/W-Abb., 29 x 21 cm; broschiert/softcover
Yelyzaveta I. Akhypova, Icons from the 10th–13th centuries in Stone, Bone, and Ceramics from Ukraine.A catalogueCluj – Napoca 2025ISBN 978-606-020-907-2256 S./pp., Farb- und S/W-Abb./colour and b/w-figs., 28 x 22 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
This book is devoted to a very special circle of works that have
reached us from the art of Kyiv Rus of the late 10th-11th centuries,
and from the artistic heritage of those principalities, which after
the collapse of the vast Kyiv state were formed in the southern and
south-western parts of its territory. These principalities continued
to exist in the 12th-13th centuries, until the invasion of the
Tatar-Mongol hordes in 1230-40s, i.e. in the pre-Mongol period, and
partly survived in the following decades. When it comes to the
artistic culture of that vast world, we usually remember, first of
all, the ecclesiastical architecture, the mosaics and the frescoes of
the churches of Kyiv and Chernihiv, the enormous 11th-century icons
of Novgorod, made, apparently, by artisans then visiting Kyiv, the
miniatures of the 1056-57 Ostromir Lectionary, the decorations of
other outstanding illustrated manuscripts, as well as the precious
gold and silver jewelry, decorated with cloisonné enamel and other
exquisite methods of jewelry art. The monumental sculpture also
existed in that world: carvings in white stone (limestone) on the
facades of some churches, narrative and ornamental plastic of certain
interior elements such as remarkable reliefs(both patterned and
narrative) on the slate slabs that decorated Kyiv’s churches.
However, monumental
sculpture and relief played relatively a modest role in that artistic
world. This assessment of the role of sculpture will not change much
even if we recall the existence of wooden sculpture, the art
inherited from pagan times and known to us from the few surviving
relatively late works of the north-east and north-west of Rus, which
being largely primitive in nature have reached us only in small
numbers due to the poor preservation of the material employed.
(Foreword by Engelina Smirnova).
Bianca Preda-Bălănică, Bronze Age Kurgans in Southern Romania(The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe 6)Budapest 2025ISBN 978-615-5766-72-5302 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb. / num. colour and b/w-figs., 28 x 20 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
Utilising a systematic methodology, this volume offers an in-depth
analysis of various aspects of mortuary practices, including kurgan
stratigraphy, the orientation of the deceased, bioanthropological and
genetic evidence, grave goods, and chronological assessments. The
research identifies distinct phases of burial rituals, categorising them
into pre-Yamnaya, Early and Late Yamnaya, Katakombnaya, Middle Bronze
Age/Mnogovalikovaya, and Late Bronze Age/Sabatinovka-Noua-Coslogeni,
spanning the time from the 4th to the 2nd millennia BC.
The insights gleaned from this research reveal the intricate
relationships between local customs and the influences of steppe
populations over time. The study sheds light on the complexities of
mobility, interaction, and cultural admixture, as well as the evolution
of burial practices and material culture during the Bronze Age.
Bronze Age Kurgans in Southern Romania is poised to become a
vital resource for scholars interested in the dynamics of prehistoric
societies, offering perspectives on how cultural identities were shaped
and transformed across centuries.
Stefan Alexandrov – Piotr Włodarczak (eds.),From the Steppes to the Balkans. Yamna Culture in Upper Thrace.(The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe 5)Budapest 2024ISBN 978-615-5766-71-8332 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 28 x 20 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
Five burial mounds were investigated near the Tundzha River, on the
outskirts of Tundzha and Elhovo, in 2018 and 2019. The detailed
assessing and chronological evaluation of the recovered finds and
observed phenomena improves greatly the existing knowledge of the life
and burial customs of the earliest Yamna communities inhabiting this
land.
Dorotty Nyulas, Ironwork Hoards in Roman DaciaCluj – Napoca 2024ISBN 978-606-020-841-9336 S./pp., Farb- und S/W-Abb./colour and b/w-figs., 28 x 22 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
The present volume is an improved and slightly rearranged version of
the author’s doctoral thesis, which was publicly defended at the
Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, in September 2023. The
objective of the thesis was the in-depth analysis of hoarding and
depositing ironwork in Roman Dacia through a detailed re-examination
and comparative study of the known assemblages. While the terminology
regarding hoards is far from settled, in this work, ‘hoard’ and
‘deposition’ were used as general terms denoting collections of
objects found as a group, associated with a single context. The word
‘hoard’ was mainly used to refer to assemblages that were rather
clearly concealed, whereas I preferred ‘deposition’ as a more
neutral term in the case of collections where a ritual background
might be supposed. However, every time I wished to indicate an
interpretation, this was emphasised through adjectives, such as
safety hoards, votive depositions etc. Occasionally, to further
stress the inclusion of all assemblage types, both terms were listed
(‘hoards and depositions’), but mainly they are used as synonyms.
‘Ironwork’ is more easily defined; it stands for any type of
object or fragment made of iron, ranging from tools and household
items to scrap. Consequently, ironwork hoards are collections
discovered as closed assemblages consisting of (almost exclusively)
iron objects and fragments.
Cristian Găzdac – Radu Zăgreanu,Minted by Romans, Hoarded by Non-Romans. The Arcalia Hoard(Coins from Roman Sites and Collections of Roman Coins from Romania, vol. XX)Cluj-Napoca 2025ISBN 978-606-020-909-6120 S./pp., zahlr. S/W-Abb./num. b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; broschiert/softcover
Andrei Opaiț, The Sacred Area Sector Roman Coarseware (1st - 7th centuries) (Histria XVI)Cluj – Napoca 2024ISBN 978-606-020-839-6184 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
The history and evolution of the old Milesian colony Histria is quite
well known from numerous articles and an impressive series of
monographs that have discussed many archaeological discoveries from
the Archaic to the Roman era. There is no need, therefore, to
summarize their contents here.
This study of the
coarseware ceramics from the Sacred Area sector called also “sector
T”, at Histria seeks to bring to light an archaeological material
generally neglected by the publications of this sector. Because Roman
ceramics were not usually retained in the course of excavations in
the Sacred Area sector, the number of pieces in this study is smaller
than the number analyzed in a relatively recent monograph focusing on
more thoroughly-collected Roman ceramics from other sectors. We can
add numerous other ceramic publications that have appeared since this
monograph especially in recent years.
In turn, the “Sacred
Area sector “ sector has been discussed in numerous publications,
and summarized in two recent articles published by A. Avram and his
collaborators, and one published by F. Munteanu. Although the focus
of the former article is on the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
periods, when the temples in this area were in use, several pages are
also dedicated to the Roman period when this sector changed its
sacred character and became, for a short period, an artisanal area
and then until the 7th century AD a residential district. The second
article pays more attention to the Roman quarter, which featured a
large “Constantinian house” covering 380 m², with four rooms and
an internal court with peristyle, built perhaps during the second
half of the 4th century. During the 6th century this edifice was
repurposed and subdivided into many rooms with storage functions.
Perhaps also in the 6th century, a series of other buildings-perhaps
simple houses-were constructed to the south of this edifice,
containing dolia, mortaria, and many vasa potatoria, coquinatoria and
amphorae.
Lawrence McCrank, The Tarragona Vortex Volume 2. Tarraco. The Ancient Heritage: Roman Hispania in Cultural Memory. 2nd c. BC - 3rd c. ADBudapest 2024ISBN 978-615-6405-48-7 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-615-6405-31-9 (softcover)632 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 24 x 17 cm;
Şerban George Paul Drugaş, Mapping Ptolemaic DaciaBudapest 2020ISBN 978-615-6405-17-3
(hardcover)
ISBN 978-615-81353-6-8 (softcover)242 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 21 x 15 cm;Inhalt/contents:
CHAPTER 1. General Ptolemaic Principles
CHAPTER 2. Ptolemaic
and Modern Earth Models. Initial Methodological Framework
CHAPTER 3. Ptolemaic
Poleis and Places in Dacia and in Adjacent areas. What We Know
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CHAPTER 4.
Establishing Local Working Algorithms
CHAPTER 5.
Calculating the Coordinates of Some Dacian Poleis from the
Established Grid
CHAPTER 6. A
Synthesis on the Local Ptolemaic Patterns in Dacia
CHAPTER 7. SWOT
Analysis
CHAPTER 8. Limits,
Rivers, Tribes and Neighbours of Ptolemaic Dacia
Conclusive remarks
Bibliography
List of Figures
List of Tables
Index
Elizabeth Ann Pollard – Fabrizio Conti (eds.), Nemo non metuit. Magic in the Roman WorldBudapest 2022ISBN 978-615-6405-43-2 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-615-6405-44-9 (softcover)554 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 21 x 15 cm;
CHAPTER 1
Magical Gems. A
Roman development of Etruscan, Greek and Phoenician scarab amulets
(8th – 5th c. BCE)
Ronaldo G. Gurgel
Pereira
CHAPTER 2
Change and
Continuity in Curse Tablets from the Roman World
Charlotte Spence
CHAPTER 3
Pursuing Health by
Pursuing Disease. The Use of Spells and Amulets to Address Malaria in
Roman Antiquity
Yvette Hunt
CHAPTER 4
“Erotic” Spells,
Stalking, and the Exclusus Amator in Ancient Rome
Elizabeth Ann
Pollard
CHAPTER 5
Magic to steal,
magic to love, magic to heal: veneficia, defixiones, devotiones in
the Naturalis historia by Plinius the Elder
Alfredo Viscomi
CHAPTER 6
Cursing Patterns and
Religious Belief. Studying the Prevalence of “Judicial Prayers”
in Roman Britain
Madeline Line
CHAPTER 7
How Lucan Kills
Magic. Magic and the vates in Book Six of Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Caolán Mac An
Aircinn
CHAPTER 8
Abjection and
Anxiety: The Metamorphosis of the Roman Literary Witch
Nicole Kimball
CHAPTER 9
Foreseeing the
Future: The Role of Women between Magic and Divination
Angelica Flandoli
CHAPTER 10
Orpheus and the
Evolution of the Roman Witch
Britta Ager
CHAPTER 11
Memories of
Apollonius of Tyana: Sorcerer, Holy Man and Rival of Jesus Christ
Semíramis Corsi
Silva
CHAPTER 12
Si Crimina Demas:
Necromancy in Roman Literature and Statius’ Transgressive Manto
Anna Everett Beek
CHAPTER 13
The Magic of
Isis-Fortuna in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Ashli Baker
CHAPTER 14
Pagan and Christian
Identities in the Later Roman Empire: Maximus of Turin and His
Sermons on Magic and Superstition
Fabrizio Conti
CHAPTER 15
A World Imbued with
Sorcery? The Fight between Christian and non-Christian Powers in
Fourth- and Fifth-Century Christendom
Andrea Maraschi
Nikola Teodosiev, The Tholos Tombs in Ancient Thrace / Куполните гробници в Древна Тракия Sofia 2024ISBN 978-954-07-5990-6
182 S./pp., 7 Farbtaf. und zahlr. S/W-Abb./ 7 colour pls. and num. b/w-figs., 28 x 20 cm; kartoniert/hardcoverin bulgarischer Sprache
mit einer englischen Zusammenfassungin Bulgarian with summary in English
The monograph examines the tholos tombs in Ancient Thrace. Their
complex origins are examined in detail. Their typology and chronology
are clarified. The political, social and religious context of the
tombs is presented. So far, 40 tholos tombs are known in Ancient
Thrace. The catalogue analyses 15 of them in detail, and the
remaining 25 are included in a separate list.
Zoltán Niederreiter (ed.), Mesopotamia. Kingdom of Gods and DemonsBudapest 2024ISBN
978-615-6595-33-1496 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 30 x 23,5 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
The comprehensive and representative catalogue accompanies the
exhibition „Mesopotamia. Kingdom of Gods and Demons“ at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (4 October 2024 – 2 February 2025)
and includes contributions from some of the most eminent Hungarian
and international experts on the subject.
The
large-scale exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts takes visitors to
Mesopotamia in the first half of the first millennium BCE, where they
can see magnificent reliefs from Assyrian palaces, such as the
shining blue snake-dragon from the Ishtar Gate in Babylon and the
glazed brick lions that adorned the
procession route. The Mesopotamian world of gods and demons is
brought to life through cylinder seals, statues and amulets made of
minerals and rocks, but we also evoke the story of the flood from
Mesopotamian mythology, the legendary figures of Nimrod and Ninus,
and the Tower of Babel.The artefacts from
Aššur, Babylon, Dūr-Šarrukīn and Kalḫu excavated in
Mesopotamia come from major European collections, including the
Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, the Musée du Louvre and the
Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Kunsthistoriches
Museum in Vienna and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen (in
addition to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts).
Benjamine Štular – Manfred Lehner – Mateja Belak, Settlement of the Eastern Alps in the Early Middle Ages(Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 48)Ljubljana 2024ISBN 978-961-05-0877-9
248 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb. / num. colour and b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
Sorin Nemeti, Le syncrétisme religieux en Dacie romaineCluj – Napoca 2019ISBN 978-606-020-112-0374 S./pp., Farb- und S/W-Abb./colour and b/w-figs., 23 x 16 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
Coriolan Horaţiu Opreanu – Vlad-Andrei Lăzărescu, Landscape Archaeology on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire at Porolissum(Corpus Limitis Imperii Romani, Dacia Porolissensis (I); Porolissum)(Porolissum monographs 2)Cluj – Napoca 2016ISBN 978-606-543-787-6354 S./pp., Farb- und S/W-Abb./colour and b/w-figs., 26 x 18 cm; kartoniert/hardcover
The frontiers of the Roman Empire, over 5000 km long, stretch from
the Atlantic coast of Scotland, along the Rhine and the Danube, also
enclose the Banat region and Transylvania, then going down along the
Oriental Carpathians to the Black Sea; from the southern coast of the
Black Sea they continue towards the Near East until the Red Sea;
then, in North Africa, they line the edge of the Sahara desert until
the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Over this entire area, visible traces
of fortifications, roads and settlements are still preserved, but
numerous monuments still lay hidden underneath the earth. Despite the
fact that the Roman frontiers crossed regions with different relief
and climate, they constitute a whole in that they were designed to
protect Roman territories. The research of these monuments and the
preservation policy regarding them was and is unequal in the various
presentday states on whose territory traces of the Roman frontier are
to be found. Consequently, in the ‘80s of the 20th century, the
idea of globally protecting the Roman frontiers, viewed as a unitary
monument, was met. In 1987, Hadrian’s Wall in United Kingdom was
declared a UNESCO monument. It was followed in 2005 by the
German-Raetian sector, on which occasion the UNESCO committee decided
to set up the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ site.
This project through
its complexity generated an interdisciplinary approach of the
proposed subject stimulating such future attempts in the
archaeological research field. By using the latest technical methods
of non-destructive investigation the project did not damage the
stratigraphy of the archaeological site obtaining instead a high
amount of data otherwise time consuming judging from the
archaeological excavations perspective contributing also to the
preservation of the cultural heritage.
Lyubava Konova, Red-figure pottery from the necropolis of Apollonia Pontica (Sozopol) from the collection of the National Museum of History / Червенофигурна керамика от некропола на Аполония Понтика (Созопол) от фонда на Националния исторически музейVeliko Tarnovo 2024ISBN 978-619-00-1808-7472 S./pp., zahlr. Farb-Abb. / num. colour figs., 30 x 22 cm; kartoniert/hardcoverbulgarisch mit englischer Zusammenfassungbulgarian with a summary in english
The monograph examines 103 painted vessels discovered during the
excavations of the necropolis of ancient Apollonia Pontica in the
1990s. The ceramic forms and images are examined in their
archaeological and cultural-historical context. Created in classical
Athens in the 5th-4th centuries BC, pictorial narratives on vessels
played the role of one of the most influential media in the
dissemination of the values of Athenian society. At the same time,
they clearly capture the identity of the multicultural community that
was formed on the territory of the Pontic city as a result of
contacts with various centres in the Mediterranean world, with the
inhabitants of Inner Thrace and with the powerful Thracian kingdoms
in the area. The edition contains 233 illustrations and 10 tables
with data on the context of the objects, the composition of the clay
and statistical information.
Kay Boers – Becca Grose – Rebecca Usherwood – Guy Walker (eds.), Erasure in Late AntiquityBudapest 2024ISBN 978-615-6696-25-0 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-615-6696-26-7 (softcover)
293 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 21 x 15 cm; broschiert/softcover
Anna Aklan, Land of Buddhas – Gandhāra. Catalogue of the Gandhāran Sculptures of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic ArtsBudapest 2024ISBN
978-615-81396-7-0
248 S./pp., zahlr. Farb-Abb./num. colour figs., 32 x 23 cm; kartoniert/hardcoverThe Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, Budapest, holds eighty-one
Gandhāran statues. Exquisite Buddha and bodhisattva statues are
included in this collection, which comprise a representative group of
this unique Hellenistic style Buddhist school of sculpture. Almost
the entire collection was gifted to the institution by Imre
Schwaiger, a Hungarian-born, internationally acclaimed art dealer and
connoisseur in the first half of the twentieth century. Although the
most outstanding statues have been exhibited at the museum since they
arrived, the first occasion when the entire collection was put on
display took place only this year, in 2024, when the temporary
exhibition Land of Buddhas – Gandhāra opened its doors to the
visitors. Accompanying the exhibition, for the very first time, a
comprehensive catalogue of all the artworks of the Gandhāran
collection, illustrated with fresh and artistic photographs, is
published.The catalogue includes the description of each Gandhāran sculpture
in the collection, which is complemented by a study on conservation
of the statues written by Zoltán Hering, stone conservator at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, who handled the statues and conducted
material analyses. A detailed study on the life of Imre Schwaiger is
also placed in the present volume to give an account of this generous
art expert and his interesting life, starting out from Hungary and
building a successful art dealership in India and in London.
Emilio Marin, Mursa. Hadrijanova kolonija uz limes Rimskog carstva = Colonia Aelia at the limes of the Roman Empire(Mursa Aeterna IV)Zagreb - Osijek 2018ISBN 978-953-347-224-9302 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 30 x 24 cm; kartoniert mit Schutzumschlag/hardcover with dust jacketzweisprachig kroatisch – englisch / bilingual croatian – english
Nenad Cambi,Starokršćanska grupa sarkofaga = Early Christian Group of SarcophagiSplit 2023ISBN 978-953-163-544-8228 S./pp., 147 Farb- und S/W-Abb./ 147 colour and b/w-figs., 23,5 x 16,5 cm; broschiert/softcoverzweisprachig kroatisch – englisch
Péter Forisek – Péter Kovács – Ádám Szabó (Hrsg./eds.),The Danubian Region and the Balkans during the Roman Empire in Military Inscriptions
(Studia Epigraphica Pannonica, Supplementum 2)Wien 2024ISBN 978-3-85161-314-8220 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 23,5 x 16,5 cm; broschiert/softcover
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