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contents of the 1 seth g. bernard, Continuing the debate on Rome’s earliest circuit walls Papers 45 jane draycott, Dynastic politics, defeat, decadence and dining: Cleopatra Selene on the so-called ‘Africa’ dish from the Villa della Pisanella at 2012 British School Boscoreale 65 donato attanasio, matthias bruno, walter prochaska and Rome alì bahadir yavuz, Aphrodisian marble from the Göktepe quarries: the at Little Barbarians, Roman copies from the Attalid Dedication in Athens 89 caillan davenport, Soldiers and equestrian rank in the third century ad

125 lucy grig, Deconstructing the symbolic city: Jerome as guide to late papers of the british school AT rome antique Rome 145 richard hodges, sarah leppard and john mitchell, Reconstructing the later eighth-century claustrum at San Vincenzo al Volturno 157 tommaso casini, Thirteenth-century seigniorial institutions and officials of the Guidi counts 189 joan barclay lloyd, Paintings for Dominican nuns: a new look at the images of saints, scenes from the New Testament and Apocrypha, and episodes from the life of Saint Catherine of Siena in the medieval apse of San Sisto Vecchio in Rome 233 william stenhouse, Panvinio and descriptio: renditions of history and antiquity in the late Renaissance 257 simon stoddart, pier matteo barone, jeremy bennett, letizia ceccarelli, gabriele cifani, james clackson, irma della giovampaola, carlotta ferrara, francesca fulminante, tom licence, caroline malone, laura matacchioni, alex mullen, federico nomi, elena pettinelli, david redhouse and nicholas whitehead, Opening the frontier: the Gubbio–Perugia frontier in the course of history 295 christopher j. smith, A hundred years of Roman history: historiography and intellectual culture 325 robert coates-stephens, Notes from Rome 2011–12 335 research reports vol. lxxx 2012

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SETH G. BERNARD, Continuing the debate on Rome’s earliest circuit walls 1

JANE DRAYCOTT, Dynastic politics, defeat, decadence and dining: Cleopatra Selene on the so-called ‘Africa’ dish from the Villa della Pisanella at Boscoreale 45

DONATO ATTANASIO,MATTHIAS BRUNO,WALTER PROCHASKA AND ALÌ BAHADIR YAVUZ, Aphrodisian marble from the Göktepe quarries: the Little Barbarians, Roman copies from the Attalid Dedication in Athens 65

CAILLAN DAVENPORT, Soldiers and equestrian rank in the third century AD 89

LUCY GRIG, Deconstructing the symbolic city: Jerome as guide to late antique Rome 125

RICHARD HODGES,SARAH LEPPARD AND JOHN MITCHELL, Reconstructing the later eighth-century claustrum at San Vincenzo al Volturno 145

TOMMASO CASINI, Thirteenth-century seigniorial institutions and officials of the Guidi counts 157

JOAN BARCLAY LLOYD, Paintings for Dominican nuns: a new look at the images of saints, scenes from the New Testament and Apocrypha, and episodes from the life of Saint Catherine of Siena in the medieval apse of San Sisto Vecchio in Rome 189

WILLIAM STENHOUSE, Panvinio and descriptio: renditions of history and antiquity in the late Renaissance 233

SIMON STODDART,PIER MATTEO BARONE,JEREMY BENNETT,LETIZIA CECCARELLI,GABRIELE CIFANI,JAMES CLACKSON,IRMA DELLA GIOVAMPAOLA,CARLOTTA FERRARA,FRANCESCA FULMINANTE, TOM LICENCE,CAROLINE MALONE,LAURA MATACCHIONI,ALEX MULLEN,FEDERICO NOMI,ELENA PETTINELLI,DAVID REDHOUSE AND NICHOLAS WHITEHEAD, Opening the frontier: the Gubbio–Perugia frontier in the course of history 257

CHRISTOPHER J. SMITH, A hundred years of Roman history: historiography and intellectual culture 295

ROBERT COATES-STEPHENS, Notes from Rome 2011–12 325

Research Reports BALSDON FELLOWSHIPS (Costas Panayotakis, Cordelia Warr); HUGH LAST FELLOWSHIP (L.B.T. Houghton); ROME FELLOWSHIPS (Jane Draycott, Peter Fane-Saunders); RALEGH RADFORD ROME FELLOWSHIPS (Rafael Scopacasa, Robyn Veal); ROME SCHOLARSHIPS (Laura Banducci, Victoria Leitch, Simon Macdonald, Anita Viola Sganzerla); MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY GALE SCHOLARSHIP (Ellen Westcott); BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME/SOCIETY FOR LIBYAN STUDIES POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (Barbara Spadaro); ROME AWARDS (Joanne Allen, Alec Corio, Dom Holdaway, Duncan Keenan-Jones, Rebecca Usherwood, Simon Williams); GILES WORSLEY TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP (Léa-Catherine Szacka); ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK REPORTS (Giovanna R. Bellini, Sophie Hay, Alessandro Launaro, Ninetta Leone and Martin Millett; Domenico Camardo, Sarah Court and Jane Thompson; Filippo Coarelli, Stephen Kay, Helen Patterson, Luca Tripaldi and Vincenzo Scalfari; Sophie Hay and Stephen Kay; Ian Haynes, Paolo Liverani, Giandomenico Spinola and Salvatore Piro; Susan Kane, Alexis Christensen, Hilary Conley, James Countryman, Beatrice Fidelibus, Christopher Motz and Rafael Scopacasa; Simon Keay; Myles McCallum and Hans vanderLeest; Tracy Prowse) 335