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.

Emel Dereboylu Poulain,Aigai Figürinleri(Aigai III)Istanbul 2024ISBN 978-625-6212-01-5361 S./pp., zahlr. S/W-Abb. / num. b/w-figs., 27,5 x 19,5 cm; broschiert/softcover At the end of the 19th century the eyes are turned towards Myrina in the area of Aeolis, because of thousands of terra cotta figurines laid out in tombs of its necropolis. The necropolis of Myrina thus became the antique site most important, whereas research on the close sites, were somewhat forgotten. Today, of new excavations in the area of Aeolis help us has to understand the art of the coroplaste, which until was now limited only has Myrina. The ville of Aegae, located in this area, or of the French archaeologists had discovered a small number of figurines in 1882, was the object during many years of plunderings of figurines, in particular in years 1950-1960. Certain villagers tell that their fathers and grandfathers had put at the day during this same time, of the painted figurines of big size, then sold to the American soldiers. To date, one still does not know what became the catch figurines. The excavations and the research currently undertaken in the town of Aegae put at the day of many figurines of great quality representing various subjects. These many discoveries, seem to confirm the importance of the art of the coroplastie of Aegae. We have a larger pallet of examples which show than the production of terra cotta was very developed and very active in Aegae. It does not remain about it less than it is necessary for us to find the workshops in order to be able to prove that in due form. The majority of works are dated from the hellenistic period. Especially with 2nd century before J-C, the production out of the city would have increased. It is not only the case for Aegae but also for the other cities of Anatolia Western. Works of Aegae are witnesses of enrichissement of art coroplaste in Anatolia Western during these centuries. We suppose that these terracotta figurines were produced in the city. Indeed, works discovered reflect the marked taste of the coroplastie, the concern nuns of the inhabitants to create figurines and plates representing the Gods and the Goddesses. The figurines with the religious motif discovered in votive pits of the building of Bouleuterion, reflect ritual inhabitants.

Alexandra Alexandridou – Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian, The Academy before Plato. A Contribution to the Study of Early Athens (Πραγματείαι της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών, Τόμος 80)Athen 2024ISBN 978-960-404-416-0 (Set) ISBN 978-960-404-417-7 (Band/vol. 1) ISBN 978-960-404-418-4 (Band/vol. 2) 2 Bände / volumes: Band/vol. 1: 630 S./pp., zahlr. S/W-Abb. / num. b/w-figs., 28 x 21,5 cm; broschiert/paperback Band/vol. 2: 110 S./pp. + 192 Farb- und S/W-Taf. / 192 colour- and b/w-pls., 28 x 21,5 cm; broschiert/paperback

Colloquium Anatolicum 23Istanbul 2024ISSN 1303-8486VI + 243 S./pp., zahlr. S/W-Abb./num. b/w-figs., 27 x 19 cm; broschiert/softcover

Ümit Aydınoğlu (ed.), Diocaesarea Kule. Mimari ve Buluntular(Diocaesarea Araştırmaları II)Ankara 2024 ISBN 978-625-6925-68-7340 S./pp., zahlr. S/W-Abb./num. b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; kartoniert/hardcover Die antike Stadt Diocaesarea (Uzuncaburç) liegt in der Bergregion Kilikien, etwa 25 km vom Bezirk Silifke in der Provinz Mersin entfernt, an der heutigen Südküste der Türkei. Zwei wichtige Bauwerke der antiken Stadt Diocaesarea (Uzuncaburç), die Zeuge der hellenistischen Zeit waren, stechen hervor. Eines davon ist das Heiligtum des Zeus Olbios und der darin befindliche Tempel, der die antike Stadt zu einem religiösen Zentrum machte. Der andere ist der Turm, der mindestens genauso prächtig ist und dazu beitrug, die antike Stadt als Verwaltungszentrum in der hellenistischen Zeit zu definieren. Dieser fünfstöckige Wohn- und Verteidigungsturm mit einer erhaltenen Höhe von 23 Metern in der Siedlung, die in der hellenistischen Zeit von einer Priesterkönigsdynastie regiert wurde und die Rolle des Verwaltungs- und Religionszentrums der Region Olba spielte, unterstreicht die Bedeutung und Monumentalität dieses Gebietes in der hellenistischen Zeit. Der Turm blieb von seiner Aufgabe in der Spätantike bis heute unberührt erhalten. Die erhaltene Architektur des Gebäudes liefert sehr wichtige Daten über die Architektur der Antike. Darüber hinaus liefert die sehr reiche Sammlung von Ausgrabungsfunden sehr anschauliche Informationen über die Stadt und das Leben in der Antike. Aus diesem Grund werden in diesem Buch sowohl die architektonischen Besonderheiten des Gebäudes als auch die reichhaltigen Funde gemeinsam besprochen und der wissenschaftlichen Welt präsentiert.

Ersin Çelikbaş – Ercan Verim, Hadrianopolis Kuzeybati Nekropol Kilisesi(Hadrianopolis Serisi II)Ankara 2024ISBN 978-625-6925-65-6 VIII + 209 S., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; kartoniert/hardcover

Ümit Aydınoğlu – A. Kaan Şenol, Olive Oil and Wine Production in Aegean and Mediterranean in AntiquityInternational Symposium ProceedingsAnkara 2024ISBN 978-625-6925-67-0 VIII + 415 S., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; broschiert/softcover The symposium titled Olive Oil and Wine Production in the Aegean and Mediterranean in Antiquity, held in Bodrum in 2022, is the third of the meetings previously held in Mersin and Urla in Turkey. The symposium in Bodrum has the subtitle of olive oil, wine production, rural settlements, urban centers and trade in the Aegean and Mediterranean in Antiquity, and has a content covering every area of ​​production. In the international symposium held in Bodrum, issues that need to be addressed, new findings and discussions have emerged thanks to the papers presented by competent scientists in their fields. The symposium aims to evaluate these, examine the dimensions of the evolution of olive oil and wine production in settlements in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean during Antiquity and its impact on trade, and address newly obtained archaeological data. Some of the topics addressed in the symposium are as follows: Packaging, transportation and routes in ancient olive oil and wine production; production capacity, producer-consumer relations, land uses and lease agreements, ancient landscape and land use in olive and vineyard agriculture, rural and urban relations in ancient olive oil and wine production; archaeometric studies in ancient olive oil and wine production; paleo-ethnobotanical ethnoarchaeological studies in olive and vine production; olive oil and wine in the light of epigraphic historical documents.

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., 29,7 x 21 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., 29,7 x 21 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 Download PDF 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., 29,7 x 21 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

TÜBA - AR 35Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Arkeoloji Dergisi 35, 2024Ankara 2024ISSN 1301-8566228 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm, broschiert/softcoverArtikel in Türkisch und Englisch

Adalya 27 / 2024Antalya/Istanbul 2024ISSN 1301-2746IV + 458 S./pp., zahlr. S/W-Abb. / num. b/w-figs., 26,5 x 19,5 cm; broschiert / softcover

Vasiliki Phlorou / Βασιλική Φλώρου,Okyalos / Ὠκύαλος. Tόμος αρχαιολογικών σπουδών για τον Γιάννη Σ. ΚωστόπουλοAthen 2024ISBN 978-618-87068-0-4 254 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 28 x 22 cm; kartoniert/hardcover

Andreas Gkoutzioukostas – Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt – Dimitrios P. Drakoulis (eds.), Lead Seals in Byzantine Thrace (6th-12th c.) Proceedings of the International Conference Sigillography Meets Historical Geography. Vienna, 19 April 2023Thessaloniki 2023ISBN 978-960-656-186-3 502 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 29 x 21 cm; broschiert/softcover

Constantinos M. Constantopoulos, Byzantine Lead Seals – The Stamoules’ Collection(Siatras Numismatic Studies, 10)Athens 2023ISBN 978-628-5818-00-5 108 S./pp., zahlr. S/W-Abb./num. b/w-figs., 23,5 x 16 cm; broschiert/softcoverAnastasios Stamoules was a Greek born in 1843 at the small town of Selymbria, Eastern Thrace, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. He studied in the Orthodox College of the Oecumenical Patriarchate at Constantinople. From very young age, he had started collecting objects relating to the history of Thrace. As a result a huge collection of Greek, Roman and Byzantine objects was formed. Unfortunately the biggest part of this collection was stolen by the troops of the Allies during WW I. The forced population displacement of the 1920's lead the whole family in Athens. In 1924 Stamoules donated the coins and the lead seals that managed to bring with him to the Numismatic Museum. This book presents in detail the Byzantine lead seals of Stamoules' Collection. What is important is that all seals were locally collected, at the small area around Selymbria, one could justifiably call it "the Selymbria Collection". The Byzantine city was an important strategic settlement located in the interior of the Long Walls of Thrace, at the end of Via Egnatia, it also was a religious centre, as is still obvious from the remains of many churches that survive. It is mentioned in the sources as an archdiocese and later as a metropolis. Therefore the seals of the Collection can also be used as a primary material for historical studies.

Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, Ὁ Χριστὸς αὐτὸς σφραγὶς ἀσφαλεστάτη. Byzantinische Bleisiegel der Sammlung Gert BoersemaThessaloniki 2022ISBN 978-960-656-125-2ISBN 978-960-7856-64-7192 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 23,5 x 16 cm; broschiert/softcover This volume contains the edition - along with comments and interpretations - of selected Byzantine lead seals in the collection of Gert Boersema (the Netherlands), which are nearly exclusively unique specimens, dating from the 6th to the 14th century. The inscriptions offer new results and aspects for the Byzantine administrative history, prosopography, historical geography, and economic history, but furthermore concern the Byzantine church, monasteries, domains, and especially the Byzantine aristocracy. Short English abstracts contribute a kind of regestes, representing the value of the contents. The book is an attribution to basic research of Byzantine history. Systematische Edition, Kommentierung und Interpretation erlesener byzantinischer Bleisiegel der Sammlung Gert Boersema (Niederlande) - fast ausschließlich Unikate, die chronologisch vom 6. bis ins 14. Jahrhundert reichen. Aus den Siegelinschriften resultieren neue Ergebnisse und Aspekte zu Verwaltungsgeschichte, Prosopographie, historischen Geographic, Wirtschaftsgeschichte, sowie zu den thematischen Bereichen: Kirche, Klosterwesen, Domänen, Aristokratie. Kurzresümees in englischer Sprache bieten eine Art Regest zum inhaltlichen Wert des jeweiligen Lemmas. Das Buch ist ein weiterer Beitrag zur Grundlagenforschung der byzantinischen Geschichte.

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.

Vlastimil Vrtal,Wad Ben Naga Report V. The Palace of AmanishakhetePrague 2024ISBN 978-80-7036-839-8520 S./pp., zahlr. Farbabb./num. colour figs., 28 x 21 cm; kartoniert/hardcoverWad Ben Naga Report V: The Palace of Amanishakhete deals with an analysis and interpretation of multiple aspects of this archaeological structure. The volume represents the first comprehensive account on the best-preserved royal palace of the Meroitic period, thus potentially contributing to discussions on Meroitic prestigious architecture, administration, material culture, royal ideology, etc.In the first part, various sources of information on the Palace of Amanishakhete are presented and analysed. Chapter 2 deals with the evaluation of collected parts of field records from largely unpublished 1958–1960 excavations in the palace, as well as evaluation of some contemporary accounts. Chapter 3 represents an archaeological report on a recent survey, excavations, and re­excavations in the palace by the Archaeological Expedition to Wad Ben Naga. Chapters 4 and 5 comprise the analysis of all non-ceramic and ceramic finds, respectively, from both the previous and recent excavations. A catalogue of all recorded finds from the 1958–1960 excavations in the palace forms an appendix to the volume.The second part focuses on four research problems addressing different aspects of the structure. Chapter 6 concerns the architectural form of the palace. In chapter 7, chronological setting of various events and activities recorded in the spatial context of the palace is discussed. Chapter 8 is dedicated to various functions of the spatial context of the palace, both during the primary and secondary occupations. In chapter 9, positions of the palace at the site and in the socio-economic, political, and ideological landscape of the Meroitic kingdom are assessed.

Éva Garam, Das awarenzeitliche Gräberfeld in Zamárdi-Rétiföldek, Teil III(Monumenta Avarorum Archaeologica 12)Budapest 2018ISBN 978-963-508-884-3 416 S./pp., 19 Farbtafeln und 200 S/W-Abb. / 19 colour plates and 200 b/w-figs., Faltpläne / folding maps, CD-ROM, 28 x 20,5 cm; kartoniert/hardcover