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Water in the Roman World: Engineering, Trade, Religion and Daily
Life offers a wide and expansive new treatment of the role water
played in the lives of people across the Roman world. Individual
papers deal with ports and their lighthouses; with water
engineering, whether for canals in the north-west provinces, or for
the digging of wells for drinking water, and for multiple other
purposes; with baths for swimming; and with spas. Further papers
explore religion in water-sanctuaries and the deposition of objects
in rivers as well as deities connected with water, including river
gods and nymphs. A final chapter provides an overview of subjects
not fully covered elsewhere, including warships and naval battles,
trade and navigation, aqueducts, fishing and fish-farming, and
literary response to watery landscapes, rivers and lakes. The
latter include works by great landowners such as the younger Pliny
with his Laurentine villa beside the sea west of Rome or by poets,
among them Catullus enjoying Lake Garda and Ausonius with his
loving description of the River Moselle. The contributors address
the subject in a variety of different ways, as Classicists drawing
largely on literature, archaeologists with experience of excavating
the watery environment, and art-historians. The papers range from
the theoretical, with particular interest in materiality, to more
lyrical approaches which address the Romans with their problems as
well as their pleasures.
This book collects together data concerning copper alloy vessels
from Roman Britain and relates this evidence to prevailing theories
of consumption, identity and culture change in Britain during this
time. The aims of this study are to collect a catalogue of copper
alloy vessels from England and Wales, categorise them by form,
typology, context, chronology and geographic distribution, offer
interpretations concerning their cultural associations, manners of
consumption, functionality and development over time before
commenting upon their value as small finds material reflective of
culture change more broadly within Britain during the Roman period.
Copper alloy vessels from the Roman period in Britain have not been
the subject of focused scholarly study for over 50 years and have
never had a focused examination in English. This report not only
rectifies this gap in the literature, but proceeds to directly
apply this data analysis to the greater theoretical discourse of
the development of material culture in Britain during the Roman
period, thereby demonstrating the validity and importance of small
finds studies to the larger historiographic and theoretical
discourse.
This selection of 23 papers from the 15th annual Current Research
in Egyptology symposium addreses the interregional and
interdisciplinary theme of'Ancient Egypt in a Global World'. This
theme works on a number of levels highlighting the current global
nature of Egyptological research and it places ancient Egypt in the
wider ancient world. The first section presents the results of
recent excavations, including in the western Valley of the Kings
and analysis of the structures, construction techniques, food
production and consumption remains at Tell Timai (Thmuis) in the
Delta. Part II focuses on the cross-cultural theme with papers
including discussions on the presence in India of terracotta
figurines from Roman Egypt; the ancient Egyptian influence of
Aegean lion-headed divinities; Libyan influence in New Kingdom and
Third Intermediate Period Egyptian administration and the
identifcation of ancient Egyptian finds from the British
countryside reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme. The third
part of the book includes current research undertaken across the
world of Egyptology, including analysis of late Roman crocodile
mummies though non-invasive radiographic imaging techniques and the
study of infant jar-burials in ancient Egypt and Sudan to identify
differences in regional socio-economic contexts and the interaction
between people and local resources.
The twenty-third Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC)
was held at King s College, London in Spring 2013. During the
three-day conference nearly 50 papers were delivered, discussing
issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman
Empire, and applying various theoretical and methodological
approaches. Sessions included those looking at Roman Barbarian
interactions; identity and funerary monuments in ancient Italy;
migration and social identity in the Roman Near East; theoretical
approaches to Roman small finds; formation processes of in-fills in
urban sites; and new reflections on Roman glass. This volume
contains a selection of papers from the conference sessions."
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