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SOMA 2012, Volumes I and II: Identity and Connectivity: Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Florence, Italy 1–3 March 2012

Luca Bombardieri, Anacleto D’Agostino, Guido Guarducci, Valentina Orsi and Stefano Valentini
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This book presents the proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology that took place in Florence, Italy, 1–3 March 2012.
This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407312040 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407312057 (Volume II); 9781407312064 (Volume set).
  • VOLUME I
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  • Cover Page
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  • Copyright Page
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  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
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  • Foreword
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  • SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM SCHEDULE
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  • The Luristan-Hamrin Cultural Sphere (4th - 3rd Millennium BC). Pottery Identity as Intra-Societies Interactions
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  • The Archaeological Activities at the Site of Tell al- Mashhad, Jordan (1999-2011)
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  • Ceramic Technology at Tell Qarassa North (Southern Syria): from 'Cultures' to 'Ways of Doing'
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  • The Social Use of Metal at the Beginning of the Early Bronze Age in the Upper Euphrates Valley
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  • A Special Commodity in Mesopotamia and Syria during the 3rd Millenium BC. Economic Implications and the Display of Luxury*
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  • Walking on Slippery Ground: the Issue of Ethnicity in Early Dynastic Northern Babylonia
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  • Symbols as Expression of Cultural Identity and Connectivity. The Case of Mitannian, Cassite and Middle-Assyrian Symbolic Heritages in Late Bronze Mesopotamia
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  • Crematory Practices in Upper Mesopotamia in Iron Ages I and I: an Indication of Collective and Individual Identity. A Comparative Hypothesis between Bordering Regions and their Cultural Links
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  • A Functional and Morphological Analysis of the Iron Age Pottery Assemblage from Tash Geçit Höyük, Turkey
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  • Processes of Assyrianisation: Identity and Connectivity manifested in Neo-Assyrian Ceramics and the Tell Ahmar Area C Pottery
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  • The Philistines in Jerusalem? The Use of Archaeological Data as the Ethnic Marker: the Case of the Philistines, Other 'Sea Peoples', and Judah
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  • Childbirth Practices and Beliefs in Ancient Egyptian and in the Ancient Near Eastern Documents, in the Talmud and in the Bible: a Comparative Study Based on Written Sources and Material Artefacts
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  • Egyptian Stone Objects from Miqne-Ekron. Canaanite-Phoenician Trade in Egyptian Cult-Objects and their Mediterranean Distribution
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  • Inquiring into Diversity. The Persian Clay Figurines in Syria
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  • The Role of Birds in Tell Afis (Syria): Sacrifices and Rituals in a Temple Area during the Iron Age
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  • The Stone and the Landscape: the Phenomenon of Megalithic Constructions in Jordan in the Main Historical Context of Southern Levant at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium BC
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  • Of Pots and Weapons: Constructing the Identities during the Late 3rd Millennium BC in the Southern Levant
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  • Interconnections between Palestine and Egypt in the Early 2nd Millennium BC: a View from Jericho
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  • God Reshef in the Mediterranean
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  • Niqmaddu of Ugarit and his Consort. A Reassessment of the so-called Marriage Vase
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  • From the Sahara to the Mediterranean Coast: Stelae and Offering Tables as Examples of Connectivity between Different Identities in Funerary Practices
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  • Diets Reconstruction and Domestic Behavior at Arslantepe, Turkey, during the Early Bronze Age I (3000-2750 BC) as Inferred from Vessels Function
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  • The First Use of Wheel- Made Pottery and its Distribution in Western and Central Anatolia
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  • 'Swastika': a Symbol Known to be of Indo-European Origin in the Early Bronze Age Anatolia
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  • Connections between Syria and Anatolia in the Second Half of the 3rd Millennium BC: the Tarsus Sequence
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  • The Decline of Chipped Stone Industry during the Second Millennium BC: Evidence from Panaztepe
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  • Connectivity and Cultural Isolation at Kerkenes, an Iron Age Capital in Central Turkey
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  • A Phrygian Identity in Fortifications?
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  • A Lion-Headed Shield from Ayanis: An Identifier of the Urartian Culture?
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  • Thera Survey Project 2011
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  • Terracotta Finds of the Deli Halil Ancient Settlement: Architectural Tiles and Anthropomorphic Pieces
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  • Olba in Eastern Rough Cilicia: Processes of Hellenization and Romanization in an Eastern Mediterranean Town
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  • Local and Foreign Identities in Funerary Contexts: Self- and Social Representation of Indigenous Elites in Late Hellenistic and Roman Rough Cilicia. Rock-cut Tombs and Necropolis, a Preliminary Survey
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  • A Monumental Tomb in Side, Antalya, Turkey. Can a Monumental Tomb be an Example for the Social and Economic Transformation of the Roman Empire in a Local Scale?
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  • Epi ton teganon: Frying Pans from Garrison's Camp
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  • Water Cult and Spring Sanctuaries in the Hellenistic-Roman Period
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  • Identity Mapping in Prehistoric Cyprus: Cultural Divergence and Consolidation during the Neolithic Period
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  • From Quarrying to Dressing and Fixing. Stone Features of the ECIII-LCI Workshop Complex at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou (Cyprus)
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  • The Bronze Age Cemetery at Lofou-Koulauzou (Cyprus): towards a Cross-Analysis of Radiocarbon Data and Funerary Assemblages from Burial Contexts
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  • The Importance of Mouth Coverings in the Late Cypriot Burial Customs
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  • Insular yet Mobile. Preliminary Thoughts on the FN/EBA Chipped Stone Industries from the Island of Gavdos, Crete
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  • Connecting Crete with the Near East and Egypt in the Minoan Protopalatial Period: what News in the 21st Century?
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  • The Arrival of Egyptian Tawere and Bes[et] on Minoan Crete: Contact and Choice
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  • The Enigmatic Hunt Phiale from Eleutherna and the Imagery of Interaction: a Preliminary Look
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  • The Contribution of GIS Technology to Archaeological Research: the Case of the Protopalatial Site of Monastiraki (Crete).
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  • Ethnic Landscapes and Collective Identity on the Aegean Late Bronze Age Frescoes
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  • The Lapis Lazuli Road: a View from the Mycenean 'Periphery'
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  • Relations between Anatolia and Greece (in ist and 2nd Millennium BC)
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  • Corbelled Vaults in Hittite and Mycenaean Fortification Architecture
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  • Aegean Type Swords and Finds in Anatolia, Technology of Metals and Structures, Written Sources and the Dating of Trojan War
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  • Aspects of History, Organization, Religion and Trading Contacts of 'Second Generation' Greek Colonies of the Western Black Sea Littoral: the Case of Anchialos, Bizone, and Nikonion
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  • The Romanization of Athens: Greek Identity and Connectivity between Athens and Rome in the Ist Century BC
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  • Funerary Architecture at Hierapolis in Phrygia: the South-western Necropolis
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  • Athenian Identity in Late Antiquity: an Investigation of the Urban Elite and their Connection with the Monumental Aspect of the City
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  • A New Bronze Coin Type of Ariassos
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  • The Arcuated Lintel and the Serlian Motif'. Imperial Identity, Architectural and Symbolic Interactions in Ancient Rome
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  • The Unification of Ancient Egypt: Founding a State, Creating an Ideology, Establishing an Identity
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  • Identity of the Old Kingdom Egyptian Ruler. Image Based on Archaeological Sources
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  • Being a Foreigner in Egypt, between Maintenance and Loss of Cultural Identity: the Archaeological Data
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  • Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? And What on Earth does this have to do with identity and Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean?
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  • New Lights on the Lapis Lazuli of the Tôd Treasure Egypt
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  • 'Mingle with the Courtiers': The Concept of the 'Good' Foreigner in New Kingdom Egypt
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  • The Songstress Diesehebsed in the 'Chapel of Osiris-Onnophris in the Persea Tree' in Karnak
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  • Persian Kings and their Strategy towards the Egyptians. Interpretation of Recent Archaeological Finds from the Saite-Persian Cemetery at Abusir
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  • 'God loves the silent one': the Value of Silence in Ancient Egypt through Temple Interdicts and Autobiographical Inscriptions
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  • Ptolemaic Sculpture between Egypt and Rome: the Statue of Hor Son of Hor
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  • Tell Farama (Pelusium). The city on Sinai - where Egypt and Middle East meet
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  • Historical Water Constructions in the Mediterranean
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  • Tradition and Innovation. the Elements of the Herodian Building Program in Judaea and its Links with the New Architectural Models imported from Rome during the Augustan Age
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  • Originality and Identity of Architecture of the Early Imperial Era at Lepcis Magna: the Arch of Trajan
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  • Greek Tradition and Roman Invention. The Arcuated Lintel in the Domestic Architecture in Cyrenaica: a Case Study
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  • Urbanization in Africa Proconsularis in the Time of Emperor Claudius
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  • VOLUME II
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  • Cover Page
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  • Copyright Page
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  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
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  • Eastern Adriatic Seafarers and Trade Routes in the Reflection of Eastern Mediterranean Glass Vessels found in Ancient Liburnia
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  • Roman Baths in the Old Town of Rijeka (Croatia)
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  • A Rare Case of 'Technological Connectivity' across the Adriatic Sea during the Middle Palaeolithic; The Eleftherochori 7 Mousterian Lithic Assemblage in its Southeast European Context
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  • Computational Intelligence Applied to Enigmatic Tablets in Search of their Plausible Spread Path
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  • Toward a Systematic Approach to the Study of Phoenician Economic Activity in the Western Mediterranean
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  • Colonial Encounters between the Phoenicians and Indigenous Communities in North-western Iberia
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  • New Unknown Archaeological Data in Azores: The Hypogea of the Mount Brazil, in Terceira Island (Portugal) and its Parallels with the Cultures of the Mediterranean
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  • The Hellenisation of the Punic World: a View from the Tophet
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  • Production, Trading and Imitation of Pottery in the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea area in the 2nd Iron Age: Potential Evidence of Identity
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  • Distribution of Attic Figured Shapes in Sicily between 475 BC and the 4th century BC: the Reference - Frame
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  • Ancient Trade and Crafts in Sardinia: the Evidence from Sulcis
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  • Living in Nora (Province of Cagliari-South Sardinia): a Melting Pot of Cultures (3rd Century BC - 7th Century AD)
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  • Suction Vases with Tubular Rim in Eastern Mediterranean and Central Italy
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  • The Crossing. Identity and connectivity in The Upper Ofanto Valley
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  • The Lost Indigenous People: the Question of an Indigenous Ethnic Identity in a World of Greek Material at the Timpone della Motta
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  • Material Culture and Identity. Stylistic and Figurative Codes in the Coroplastic Production of Chalcidian Katane in the Archaic Period
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  • Greek's Food and Other's Food: the Role of Diet in the Construction of Social Identity. Archaeozoology of a Greek Colony and a Native Settlement within its Inland
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  • The 'Soma' of the God: Subtypes as Qualification of the Corporal Gestures of the Main Subject on the Kaulonia Coins.
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  • The Changeable and Analogous Soma of the River-Gods and Territorial Identity in Greek Coinages
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  • Cultural and Trade Networks in Western Mediterranean, during the Neolithic Period: a Testimony from Northern Sicily. The S. Martino—Spadafora (ME) Site
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  • Bronze Chalcophones in Southern Italy Iron Age: a Mark of Identity?
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  • The Funerary Ritual in the Bronze Age in South-Eastern Sicily
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  • Exchange and Contact Networks of Raw Materials during the Bronze Age in Central-Oriental Sicily
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  • Contacts, Innovation and Social Creativity: Interactions between the Aegean and North-eastern Italy
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  • The Etruscan Necropolis of Macchia della Riserva/Pian delle Rusciare at Tuscania: a Preliminary Report
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  • The Etruscan Settlement near the Accesa Lake - New Data from District E
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  • River Port Trade, Luxury Glass Working and Temple Dedications along the via Aurelia vetus: New Excavations in Roman Tuscany
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  • Local Power Networks at Larinum Before and After its Integration into the Roman State
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  • The Stone Material of Roman Architecture Proving the Link between the Lombardy and the Mediterranean Basin
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  • Economy and Production in the Late Republican Settlement of Poggio del Molino, Populonia
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  • Christian Sanctuaries in Rome (lst-5th centuries AD) and their Relationship with the Late Roman-imperial Funerary Structures
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  • The Vanishing Sicilian City: Identity, Connectivity, and Urban Abandonment in a Roman Province
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  • Second and Third Century Roman Coin Hoards in the 'P. Orsi' Museum in Syracuse
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  • Hadrianopolis (Sofratikë, Albania): Monumental and Economic Evolution
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  • On Oriental Persistence in the Hellenistic Town of Soluntum: a New Hypothesis about the Statue of an Enthroned Goddess
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  • The Archaeological 'Site' of Licosa on the Tyrrhenian Coast
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  • Ancient Akrai in the Light of New Research. Non—Invasive Investigations in Palazzolo Acreide, Southeastern Sicily
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  • Late Antique Connectivity: a Snapshot of Regional Trade in AD 472 Campania
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  • The Roman Republican Walls as a Way to Create the Hispano-Roman Identityin the Iberian Peninsula
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  • On the Routes of Iberian Lead. New Data and New Remarks on the Presence of Gentes from Campania in Hispania between the 2nd Century BC and the 1st Century AD on the Basis of Marked Lead Ingots
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  • Domestic Cult and Ethnicity. Surveying Local Identity and Cultural Interactions through Private Religion in the Provinces Baetica and Terraconensis
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  • Female Munificence in the Civic Life of Gallia Narbonensis through Epigraphic Evidence
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  • Images of the Imperial Power: the 'Jupiter-Kostüm H' and its Diffusion in the West Mediterranean
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  • Late Roman Amphorae from the Eastern Mediterranean in North-eastern Spain: Some Remarks on their Distribution and Provenance
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  • Mosaics as Display Objects: Hispanic Aristocracy and the Representation of its Identity during the 4th Century AD
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  • Changes Resulting from the Influence of the Mediterranean World on the Barbarians of the ist Century AD
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  • Project for the Verification of Burial Mounds in Ancient Thrace. Methods and Preliminary Results from the Regions of Stara Zagora, Yambol and Pazardzhik
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  • Amphorae Epigraphy of Raetia
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  • Cultural Interrelation: Constantinople, Greece, Adriatic Coast, Egypt and Sinai in light of the Church at Ostrakine in North Sinai
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  • Archaeological Survey in Fatsa Cingirt Kayasi: New Findings for the Archaeology of the Eastern Black Sea Region
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  • Gutter Examples of the Seljuk Period in Anatolia
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  • A Stop Over in Anatolia: Caravanserais 'Caravan Palaces' in Medieval Ages
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  • From Canterbury to Rome: plures de gente anglorum ad Petri limina. Pilgrimage as a Worldwide System of Connectivity during the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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  • A Classification of Clay Drums from al-Andalus (9th-14th Centuries AD)
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  • Ceramic Basins (`Bacini ceramici') from the Islamic World to Italy (10th — 13th century AD): Distribution and Chronology
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  • Artifacts of Byzantine Iconography: Conservation and Evaluation Proposals
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  • Trade Connections between East and West: the Hellenistic Relief Ware in Malta
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  • The Twin Temples in the Mediterranean Area. Preliminary studies of the Birth, Development and Spread of the Typology in Exam
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  • The Use of the Heart-Shaped Pillar in the Ancient Architecture: Examples and Circulation
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  • The Ancient City and the Mediterranean Identity
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  • Greek Fine Ware Pottery as Indicator of Shared New Practices and Habits in Scythian Steppe Zone Tribes
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  • Territorial Analysis: Data Acquisition Methodologies and Strategies for the Reconstruction of the Ancient Landscape in Protohistorical Contexts.
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  • Morphometric 3D Laser Scanner Survey of the Matilde di Canossa Castle and the Rotonda di San Lorenzo in Mantua
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  • Experiments on Aegean Virtual Museology
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  • Evaluation of the Pottery by Archaeometrical Methods
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  • Investigation on Medieval Glass from Poggio Diana Castle (Ribera, Agrigento, Sicily) by LA-ICP- MS and UV-VIS Reflectance Spectroscopy
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  • Physicochemical Analysis of Medieval Glass from 14th-16th Centuries AD Found in the Sciacca Castle Site (Sicily) by LA-ICP- MS and UV-VIS Reflectance Spectroscopy
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  • Connections between Eastern Adriatic Coast and African Provinces in the Period from 2nd — 5th Century AD Based on the Underwater Finds of Amphorae in Croatia
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  • Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Heritage in Sardinia: the Value of Outreach Activities within the Socio-Cultural and Economic Fabric
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  • Typology of Protective Shelters in Archeological Sites. Advantages and Disadvantages
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  • Knowledge and Preservation of Ancient Rhodes. From a Typological Analysis of Urban Fabric to a Practical Project for Urban Heritage
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  • Archaeological Excavations and Researches Launched in Anatolia in the Period of Atatürk: Political Circumstances and Universal Results
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  • Traveling through Time in Multicultural Thessaloniki: Museological Project
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  • Mycenaean imports to Crete and the Levant: Some thoughts interrelations
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  • Cypriote Sculpture. Theorizing Cultural Contacts Between Assyria and Cyprus: Some Preliminary Remarks
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  • Attic Imports to Aegina, Cyclades, Crete: the Construction of a Reference Framework
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Published: 2013
Publisher: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407312064 (paperback)
  • 9781407341774 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2581
Subject
  • Mediterranean
  • Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
  • Craft working (general titles, bone, glass, textiles, etc.)
  • Levant / Near East
  • Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
  • Multiperiod
  • Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
  • Ceramics and Pottery Studies
  • Epigraphy / Ancient and Medieval Texts / Papyri
  • Festschrifte / Presentation Volumes
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