Late Roman African Urbanism: Continuity and Transformation in the City

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Sears
Keyword(s):  
The City ◽  
African Urbanism ◽  
Late Roman

Diocletian's Price-Edict at Ptolemais (Cyrenaica)

1955 ◽  
Vol 45 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 106-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Caputo ◽  
Richard Goodchild
Keyword(s):  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
The West ◽  
Italian Government ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
Roman Age ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In ◽  
Late Roman

Introduction.—The systematic exploration of Ptolemais (modern Tolmeita), in Cyrenaica, began in 1935 under the auspices of the Italian Government, and under the direction of the first-named writer. The general programme of excavation took into consideration not only the important Hellenistic period, which gave the city its name and saw its first development as an autonomous trading-centre, but also the late-Roman age when, upon Diocletian's reforms, Ptolemais became capital of the new province of Libya Pentapolis and a Metropolitan See, later occupied by Bishop Synesius.As one of several starting-points for the study of this later period, there was selected the area first noted by the Beecheys as containing ‘heaps of columns’, which later yielded the monumental inscriptions of Valentinian, Arcadius, and Honorius, published by Oliverio. Here excavation soon brought to light a decumanus, running from the major cardo on the west towards the great Byzantine fortress on the east. Architectural and other discoveries made in 1935–36 justified the provisional title ‘Monumental Street’ assigned to this ancient thoroughfare. In terms of the general town-plan, which is extremely regular, this street may be called ‘Decumanus II North’, since two rows of long rectangular insulae separate it from the Decumanus Maximus leading to the West Gate, still erect. The clearing of the Monumental Street and its frontages revealed the well-known Maenad reliefs, attributed to the sculptor Callimachus, a late-Roman triple Triumphal Arch, and fragments of monumental inscriptions similar in character to those previously published from the same area.

Catullus

Classics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Konstan ◽  
Marilyn B. Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Great Care ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
The City ◽  
Late Roman

Catullus, a master of lyric poetry, epigram, and other forms during the late Roman Republic, was born in Verona in 87 bce, according to Jerome’s Chronicle, which also reports that he died at the age of thirty. Since the latest datable references in his poems relate to 54 bce, most scholars assign Catullus’s birth to 84 (thus treating one of Jerome’s statements as true), but it is possible that he lived longer. At the time of Catullus’s birth, Verona had not yet been granted full Roman status; but Catullus’s family, which was prominent in the city, probably enjoyed Roman citizenship. Catullus moved to Rome as a young man (the precise year is unknown), and probably died there. From his poems, we know that he was very attached to an older brother who died in the Troad. His verses give evidence of a wide circle of friendships among the highest classes in Rome, but, of course, they must be used with great care in reconstructing anything like a narrative of his own life. His friends, as well as his amatory relationships, are discussed in this article.

Home from the hunt: the afterlife of a Late Roman copper-alloy vessel

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 483-495
Author(s):  
Marcus Rautman
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Copper Alloy ◽  
Structural Damage ◽  
The City ◽  
Late Roman

The Sardis excavation sector known as MMS was a center of habitation for over a millennium. Archaic houses built near the great mudbrick fortification were succeeded by scattered Hellenistic and Roman dwellings, to be followed in late antiquity by imposing residences of complex plan and ambitious decoration. Like other parts of the city, these houses saw extensive structural damage in the early A.D. 600s. Raised floors, flimsy partitions and makeshift hearths are among the few signs of lingering occupation.1

BUILDING THE PAST: MONUMENTS AND MEMORY IN THE FORUM ROMANUM

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way ◽  
Late Roman

Memory played a crucial role in the shaping of Late Roman political consciousness and identity. This is clear in the case of the city of Rome, where political, religious, and social transformations affected the way that the city’s inhabitants defined their relationship between themselves and with the imperial court. The area of the forum Romanum was intimately related to Rome’s history, and was therefore particularly appropriate for the construction of different ‘Roman memories’. The aim of this article is to discuss how the monuments built or restored in this area helped to define these memories and turn the past into a political argument.

Amorium Excavations 1989: the second preliminary report

1990 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 205-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Harrison et al
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Major Site ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Small Finds ◽  
The City ◽  
Rare Opportunity ◽  
Late Roman

This was the second season of excavation at Amorium in east Phrygia, and the team worked for five weeks, from 24 July 1989. Our main aim is to trace archaeological changes and developments within the city from Hellenistic times into the Selcuk period. We carried out a general survey of the Upper Town by a regular 25-metre grid, and we also excavated three trenches, one in the Upper Town and two (which we started last year) in the Lower (Fig. 1). A preliminary analysis is underway of the pottery and small finds, which in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods appear mostly of local manufacture. There are some relevant excavation-sites in Asia Minor for study of the Late Roman period, but there is very little research geared to the so-called Dark Ages, especially inland. Amorium is a major site, virtually untouched, and the city offers a rare opportunity to examine an early Byzantine urban landscape. The excavation so far has been very successful, and has highlighted the site's great potential. Next year, we shall try to clarify the chronology, by more intensive excavation of the existing trenches.

Urban (re-) organization in Late Roman Palestine and the early Rabbinic guild: The Tosefta on the city and classification of space

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 421-445
Author(s):  
Jack N. Lightstone
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
Urban Institutions ◽  
The City ◽  
Roman Palestine ◽  
Late Roman

Over the latter half of the 2nd century and into the 3rd century, urban institutions and administration figured ever more prominently in the organization and governance of Roman Palestine. In this context, the consolidation of the earliest guild of rabbinic masters took hold, and their Mishnah and its supplement, Tosefta, were composed. When compared with correlative passages in the more utopic Mishnah, traditions in Tosefta show decidedly greater interest in the urban setting and its constituent institutions as the territory for meaningful, ordered, human activity. Tosefta superimposes over Mishnah's utopic mapping of a world centred on one city, an "ideal" Jerusalem, a complementary mapping in which meaningful human action and interaction is centred upon one's "local city." In this respect, one might characterize Tosefta as "diasporizing" Mishnah's mapping of an ideal world centred upon a single Temple-city.

scholarly journals Cerâmicas e Vidros da Antiguidade Tardia do Edifício sob a Igreja do Bom Jesus (Vila Nova de Gaia)

2020 ◽  
pp. 1479-1491
Author(s):  
Joaquim Filipe Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
First Results ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Late Roman

At the end of the XX century, the archaeological survey carried out at the Bom Jesus de Gaia church, gave rise to another point of history in the city of Vila Nova de Gaia , with the survey of a wide archaeological collection dating back since the V/VI century, to the modern times. Until now, the collected materials were only superficially studied, just to provide the first results of the excavations. As such a study a little more in depth was needed. In that sense we present here a study on the late roman pottery, the late grey ceramics, that is, the manufactures of late utilitarian ceramics from the church of Bom Jesus de Gaia, also enclosing the study of late glass, an equally versatile material and still a lot less studied.

The Two Anglo-Bulgarian Research Programmes and the Results of the Bulgarian Excavations

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. SLOKOSKA
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Late Roman

In 1985, archaeologists from Bulgaria and Britain began a collaborative work with the initiation of two complementary projects. The first one was entitled ‘The Roman and late Roman city; Nicopolis ad Istrum’ (1985–1992) when the archaeological research of both teams was concentrated upon the Roman city and its late antique successor. The ‘City of Victory’ was founded by the emperor Trajan and is one of the largest archaelogical sites in the Balkans. The second programme represents a continuation and an expansion of the first and was entitled ‘The city and the village in the Roman and late Roman Empire: Nicopolis ad Istrum and nucleated settlement in its territory’ (1996–2002). It initiated work on the site of the late antique fortified settlement near the village of Dichin. Nicopolis, like the other cities in Thrace, was organized according to the Greek model, on similar lines to those found in the cities of Asia Minor. This influence is reflected in the character of the town, its plan, its agora and in its principal buildings.

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