Gallo-Belgic wares. Objects in motion in the early Roman northwest

Britannia, 2004

A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World, 2005

I present the following essay in this volume celebrating Professor William V. Harris partly in gratitude for the insightful training he provided me during my time as his student, partly to engage with the world of the Roman Republic presented so skillfully in his War and Imperialism, and partly (if I can so hope it) as a small complement to the Roman perspective of that work. War and Imperialism has grounded my understanding of the means by which Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean basin. Harris' analysis of the motives and practices of the Roman aristocracy, citizens and soldiers, strongly influences my reading of ancient texts and images, prompting me to ask how non-Romans reacted to Rome's growing power and of the role of visual culture in Romanization. 1 In this essay I examine three architectural ensembles from pre-Roman Gaul, all of them located in territory dominated by the Salluvian Celts and all of them, in one way or another, involving the display of human heads. These monuments, left in fragments by Roman armies, were, I believe, local reactions to the increasing Roman presence in their world. As such, they provide a fascinating glimpse into the effects of Roman power on a people not necessarily interested in the unfiltered adoption of an alien culture. 2 The three complexes span just over a century (c. 250-c. 100 B.C.E.). At the rural sanctuary of Roquepertuse, a gallery of stone piers brought a series of honored individuals and ornamented decapitations into a proud display. A more modest wooden gallery at Entremont accommodated a defiant and militarized community within the defensive confines of large city walls.

Table of contents of fascicule 2 Review articles and long reviews N. Rafel Fontanals The elusive state of the 'Tartessos question' in the Iberian peninsula P. van Dommelen Il sacro e il profano: cultural entanglements and ritual practices in the classical world I. E. M. Edlund-Berry Etruria, Rome and Latium: influences on early podium temples M. Gualtieri Landscape changes and the rural economy of the Metaponto region F. Colivicchi The Italic settlement of Civita di Tricarico in Lucania S. Angiolillo La cultura della Sardegna repubblicana S. Bernard A conference on fortification walls in Italy and elsewhere E. L. Wheeler Aelianus Tacticus: a phalanx of problems A. Thein The urban image of the Campus Martius J. A. Latham Movement, experience, and urbanism in ancient Rome P. Gros Le mausolée du "grand bâtisseur" M. Squire Ignotum per ignotius? Pompeii, Vergil and the "Museum of Augustus" L. A. Mazurek Writing a postmodern art history of classical Italy P. Herz Vergöttlichte Kaiser und Kultstatuen R. Ling Recent workshops on ancient surface decoration C. Lightfoot A splendid and well-merited Festschrift on glass M. Vickers True luxury in antiquity E. Bartman Musei Capitolini and Dresden: two state-of-the-art portrait catalogues, including portraits of children S. Treggiari Training for marriage E. Jewell Another social history of Roman "youth", with questions about its restlessness M. George Putting slaves back into the picture E. E. Mayer Was there a culture of the Roman plebs? L. M. Stirling Textiles and children in ancient cemeteries K. M. Coleman A mixed border au naturel E. Cova To each his own? Intimacy in the Roman house A. Russell From public to private, and back again D. S. Potter The organization of the Roman games N. Morley A Festschrift honouring Jean Andreau M. S. Hobson Needs, wants, and unwelcome disciples: neoclassical economics and the ancient Mediterranean R. Laurence Connectivity, roads and transport: essays on Roman roads to speak to other disciplines? P. Faure Histoire et archéologie d'un lieu de pouvoir J. C. Fant A milestone in the history of the Roman trade in stones A. Marzano A workshop on fish-salting V. H. Pennanen New perspectives on Roman funerary art and culture R. Gordon On the problems of initiation A. Gavini Il potere e i culti isiaci o il potere dei culti isiaci? F. S. Kleiner Architectura numismatica in context A. Alexandridis A close study of the emissions of an imperial spouse Table of contents of fascicule 2 (continued) W. E. Metcalf Analyzing the silver coinage from Nero to Trajan E. Marlowe Back to the Age of Anxiety / Età dell'Angoscia M. Junkelmann The army of the Caesars: a compendium on the relationship between archaeology and history J. P. Bodel The diaspora of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions M. Beckmann New old photographs of the Column of Trajan J. A. Pinto A long-awaited collection on the Pantheon D. C. Keenan-Jones Fountains, lead pipes and water systems in Pompeii, Rome and the Roman West in their cultural and architectural contexts A. Emmerson A synthesis in English on the tombs of Pompeii I. Miliaresis The final report on the structure of the Terme del Nuotatore at Ostia C. Bruun Religion and Christianization at Ostia, c.250-c.800: a complicated story D. Gorostidi Pi A propósito de un estado de la cuestión de la epigrafía de Benevento romana J. V. S. Megaw A conquest-period ritual site at Hallaton (Leics.) J. Lundock Small finds and urbanism in Roman Britain G. Sauron L'art à la péripherie de l'empire: romanisation ou identité? K. Cassibry Enameled "souvenirs" from Roman Britain F. Baratte Le trésor de Berthouville Ph. Leveau & R. Royet Archéologie des campagnes lyonnaises en Val de Saône le long de la voie de l'Océan J. Ruiz de Arbulo Leyendo estatuas, interpretando epígrafes, definiendo espacios de representación en la Galia meridional B. Díaz Ariño Nuevas perspectivas en el estudio de la actividad militar romana en Hispania durante época republicana A. Roth Congès Le temple de la Grange-des-Dîmes à Avenches J. Lund A meticulous study of N African pottery from Augsburg (Raetia) D. R. Hernandez The decorative architecture of Hellenistic and Roman Epirus J. L. Rife Surveying Sikyon from the State to the Land K. W. Slane Pottery from an intensive survey at Sikyon M. Bonifay Afrique(s) romaine(s): une économie socialement imbriquée W. E. Metcalf North Africa's largest known gold hoard J. Freed A Dutch take on Carthage G. Mazzilli La decorazione architettonica di Lepcis Magna in pietra locale G. Claytor Roman taxation in the Hermopolite nome of Egypt M. Parca Petitions written on papyrus: glimpses of non-élite Egyptians in the Roman imperial enterprise J. Elsner The Tetrarchic cult room in the temple at Luxor S. E. Sidebotham A conference on Indo-Mediterranean commerce S. T. Parker The material culture and mission of the Late Roman army on the southeastern imperial frontier T. Kaizer The future of Palmyrene studies C. P. Jones The records of delegations to the oracle at Claros W. Slater The "explosion" and "implosion" of agones G. Kron Palladius and the achievements of Roman agronomy in late antiquity R. Van Dam Rome and imperial barbarism in A.D. 410 A. H. Merrills Yves Modéran's posthumous book on the Vandals A. H. Merrills Confiscation, appropriation and barbarian settlement 30+ years after Goffart

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2010

The finer points of Mycenaean administration attract as much attention as ever, with papers on feasting provisions (Bendall,, ration distribution (Negri, 563−67), fiscal documents (Perna,, landholding terms (de Fidio,, furniture and vessels (Varias García,, weapons (Bernabé,, copper/bronze (Michailidou,, oil transactions (Rougemont, 669−89) and the term o-pa (Sacconi, 691−705); there is even a discussion of the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean 'musical koine' (Franceschetti,. Religious matters are treated by Duev (223−30), Gulizio (351−58) and Weilhartner (807−24). A recent trend towards prosopographical study results in informative articles on the roles and movements of individuals in administration by Deger-Jalkotzy (179−97), Kyriakidis (449−59), Nakassis (549−61) and Nightingale (569−86). Also worthy of note are the approaches taken by Lupack (467−84), who focuses on the range of economic activities within one building at Pylos where religious and economic functions seem to be closely associated, and by Nosch (595−604), who uses the order of information given in bureaucratic records to analyse administrative organization.

Oxbow Books: https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/materialising-roman-histories.html. Google books: http://tinyurl.com/yam4hcjr --- Standard time is a recent invention. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the valid standard of time was the local time of each city or town. Back then clocks reflected solar time, which varies depending on the position of a given point on the globe. Communication among communities was su􏰀ciently restricted and the time required to travel between locations with different times long enough for the need for calibration of local times not to arise. Railway transportation created a new scenario, in which a difference of four minutes between local times could mean missing a train passing through only once a day. Increased interdependence among communities made the synchronisation of clocks to a single standard necessary for the first time (Zerubavel 1982, 6–7). In this chapter I propose to use the metaphor of the creation of a shared, standard time around the globe as a consequence of an unprecedented increase in connectivity and integration in the nineteenth century to investigate the apparent ‘synchronisation’ after the Roman conquest of certain types of objects produced en masse and architectural styles from the eastern to the western ends of the Mediterranean. Why and how did the appearance of certain kinds of things become so similar in different provinces of the Roman empire? 􏰁 I will make a few comments on how the concepts of style and type can illuminate processes of standardisation. Then 􏰁 I will briefly compare different examples of mass produced objects (such as coins, statues, and pottery) and ask some questions about our interpretation of practices attached to standard objects and the creation of categories through repeated imitation.

Journal of Roman Pottery Studies. , 2012

Material Approaches to Roman Magic, 2017

Maarav, 2019