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To Download Books Reviewed BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ISSUE S. Agusta-Boularot, S. Huber & W. Van epoca romana. I dati delle anfore (839). Andringa (edd.), Quand naissent les D. Dursi, Res communes omnium. Dalle necessità dieux. Fondation des sanctuaires antiques: economiche alla disciplina giuridica (641). motivations, agents, lieux (556). H. Eckardt, Writing and power in the Roman M. Allen, L. Lodwick, T. Brindle, M. Fulford world: literacies and material culture (704). & A. Smith, New visions of the countryside C. Eger & M. Mackensen (edd.), Death and of Roman Britain, vol. 2: the rural economy of burial in the Near East from Roman to Islamic Roman Britain (742). times (935). T. Amraoui, L’artisanat dans les cités antiques de J. Elsner, The art of the Roman Empire AD 100- l’Algérie (826). 450, second edition (670). C. Arnold-Biucchi & M. Beckmann (edd.), Y. Er Scarborough, The funerary monuments of Sculpture and coins: Margarete Bieber as Rough Cilicia and Isauria (900). scholar and collector (991). M. J. Estarán Tolosa, Epigrafía bilingüe del Occi- M. Asal, Basilia — Das spätantike Basel. Unter- dente romano. El latín y las lenguas locales en suchungen zur spätrömischen und frühmittel- las inscripciones bilingües y mixtas (736). alterlichen Siedlungsgeschichte (812). C. A. Faraone, The transformation of Greek amu- J. A. Baird, Dura-Europos (917). lets in Roman Imperial times (698). R. J. Barrow, Gender, identity and the body in M. Flohr and A. Wilson (edd.), The economy of Greek and Roman sculpture (605). Pompeii (718). E. Betts (ed.), Senses of the empire, multisensory A. Freccero, Wall painting in Pompeii: plaster, approaches to Roman culture (690). stucco, paint (733). E. Blake, Social networks and regional identity in K. S. Freyberger und C. Ertel(†), Die Basilica Bronze Age Italy (539). Aemilia auf dem Forum Romanum in Rom L. J. Bliquez, The tools of Asclepius: surgical (615). instruments in Greek and Roman times (624). M. Gawlikowski, Le sanctuaire d’Allat à Palmyre F. Bonzano, Fanum Iunonis melitense. L’area (922). centrale del santuario di Tas-Sil Silġ a Malta E. R. Gebhard & T. E. Gregory (edd.), Bridge of in età tardo-repubblicana (832). the untiring sea. The Corinthian isthmus from P. Brocato e N. Terrenato (a cura di), Nuovi prehistory to late antiquity (848). studi sulla Regia di Roma (two reviews, 545 E. Giorgi, Archeologia dell’acqua a Gortina di and 546). Creta in età protobizantina (859). B. A. N. Burandt, Die Ausrüstung der römischen R. Golosetti, Archéologie d’un paysage religieux. Armee auf der Siegessäule des Marcus Aurelius Sanctuaires et cultes du sud-est de la Gaule in Rom (619). (779). I. Campbell (a cura di), Pirro Ligorio, Libri di H. J. M. Green, ed. T. Malim, Durovigutum: diverse antichità di Roma. Libri vi, x, xi, xii, Roman Godmanchester (757). xiv, xvi, xxxiv, xxxvi. Oxford, Bodleian library R. Hachlili, The menorah: evolving into the most (988). important Jewish symbol (943). M. Carrive (ed.), Remployer, recycler, restaurer: C. Hamdoune, Ad fines Africae romanae. Les les autres vies des enduits peints (672). mondes tribaux dans les provinces mauré- J. C. Carter and K. Swift, The Chora of Metaponto taniennes (819). 7. The Greek sanctuary at Pantanello, vols. R. Hingley, Londinium: a biography. Roman Lon- 1-3 (574). don from its origins to the fifth century (753). M. Castro, The function of the Roman army in N. Holbrook, J. Wright, E. R. McSloy & J. Geber, southern Arabia Petraea (956). The western cemetery of Roman Cirencester P. J. Crabtree, Early medieval Britain. The rebirth (761). of towns in the post-Roman West (980). S. Hoss (ed.), Latrinae. Roman toilets in the north- G. Davies, Gender and body language in Roman western provinces of the Roman empire (798). art (605). A. Hostein, J. Mairat, Roman provincial coinage J. DeRose Evans, Coins from the excavations at vol. 9. From Trajan Decius to Uranius Anto- Sardis. Their archaeological and economic con- ninus (AD 249-254) (867). texts. Coins from the 1973 to 2013 excavations D. T. Howells, A catalogue of the late antique (875). gold glass in the British Museum (970). D. Dobreva, Tra Oriente e Occidente. Dinamiche P. P. Iossif, Fr. de Callataÿ, R. Veymiers (edd.), commerciali in Moesia Inferior e Thracia in Typoi. Greek and Roman coins seen through 1008 Books reviewed in this issue their images. Noble issues, humble users? an der Kuretenstrasse (871). (603). J. C. Quinn, In search of the Phoenicians (584). E. Isayev, Migration, mobility and place in K. Radner (ed.), State correspondence in the ancient Italy (679). ancient world, from New Kingdom Egypt to T. Ismaelli, Hierapolis di Frigia X. Il Tempio A nel the Roman Empire (534). santuario di Apollo. Architettura, decorazione M. Reddé (ed.), Gallia rustica 1. Les campagnes e contesto (891). du nord-est de la Gaule, de la fin de l’Âge du fer M. Johnson, San Vitale in Ravenna and octagonal à l’Antiquité tardive (765). churches in late antiquity (965). M. Riera Rullan, El monacat insular de la Medi- A. C. Johnston, The sons of Remus. Identity in terrània occidental. El monestir de Cabrera Roman Gaul and Spain (785). (Balears, segles V-VIII) (973). D. Johnston (ed.), The Cambridge companion to D. K. Rogers, Water culture in Roman society Roman law (628). (656). M. Kasprzyk et M. Monteil (edd.), Aggloméra- A. Sartre-Fauriat & M. Sartre, Inscriptions tions, vici et castra du Nord de la Gaule entre grecques et latines de la Syrie t. XIV. La Antiquité tardive et début du haut Moyen Âge Batanée et le Jawlan oriental, vols. 1-2 (927). (772). J. Schoevaert, Les boutiques d’Ostie. L’économie D. P. Kehoe & T. A. J. McGinn (edd.), Ancient urbaine au quotidien (707). law, ancient society (648). K. Warner Slane, Corinth XXI. Tombs, burials, P. Kobusch, Die Grabbauten im römischen Hispa- and commemoration in Corinth’s northern nien. Zur kulturellen Prägung der Sepulkral- cemetery (854). architektur (787). J. Slocum & D. Sonneveld, Romano-Celtic mask H.-P. Kuhnen (ed.), Amphitheater Trier I. Aus- puzzle padlocks. A study of their origin, design, grabungen und Forschungen 1816-1996 (804). technology and security (801). U. Leibner, Khirbet Wadi Ḥamam. A Roman- A. Smith, M. Allen, T. Brindle & M. Fulford, period village and synagogue in the Lower Gali- New visions of the countryside of Roman lee (946). Britain, vol. 1: the rural settlement of Roman S. Madeleine & Ph. Fleury (edd.), Autour des Britain (742). machines de Vitruve. L’ingénierie romaine: K. B. Stern, Writing on the wall. Graffiti and the textes, archéologie et restitution (661). forgotten Jews of antiquity (939). J. Martínez Jiménez, I. Sastre de Diego & W. Trillmich, Augustus und seine Gründung C. Tejerizo García, The Iberian peninsula Emerita in Hispanien (793). between 300 and 850. An archaeological per- L. E. Tacoma, Moving Romans: migration to spective (976). Rome in the Principate (683). W. E. Metcalf, The later Republican cistophori A. Tchernia, The Romans and trade (675). (864). M. Torelli and E. Marroni (edd.), Castrum T. B. Mitford, East of Asia Minor: Rome’s hidden Inui. Il santuario di Inuus alla foce del Fosso frontier, vols. 1-2 (904). dell’Incastro (561). N. Mugnai, Architectural decoration and urban I. van der Graaff, The fortifications of Pompeii history in Mauretania Tingitana (824). and ancient Italy (714). M. Mulliez, Le luxe de l’imitation: les trompe- C. Vout, Classical art. A life history from antiquity l’oeil de la fin de la République romaine, to the present (592). mémoire des artisans de la couleur (729). S. Walker (ed.), Saints and salvation. The Wil- D. Y. Ng & M. Swetnam-Burland (edd.), Reuse shere Collection of gold-glass, sarcophagi and and renovation in Roman material culture. inscriptions from Rome and southern Italy Functions, aesthetics, interpretations (666). (970). E. Öğüş, Aphrodisias IX. Columnar sarcophagi W. D. Ward (ed.), The socio-economic history and from Aphrodisias (883). material culture of the Roman and Byzantine Y. Perrin, Itinéraires romains. Documents de topo- Near East. Essays in honor of S. Thomas Par- graphie et d’archéologie historiques pour l’his- ker (960). toire de Rome (de Scipion à Constantin) (612). K. Wellbrock (ed.), Cura aquarum in Greece: E. E. Poehler, The traffic systems of Pompeii Proc. 16th int. conference (843). (724). C. Wolff et P. Faure (edd.), Les auxiliaires de U. Quatember, Der sogenannte Hadrianstempel l’armée romaine. Des alliés aux fédérés (621)..
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