American Journal of Archaeology

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of Archaeology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Lingering Tropes and Noteworthy Narratives in Recent Archaeology Exhibitions12
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, 1936–20225
Coupoles, voûtes et plafonds peints d’époque romaine: Ier–IVe siècle apr. J.-C. By Alix Barbet. Paris: Éditions Hermann 2021. Pp. 350. €64. ISBN 9791037006806 (cloth).5
:Minoische Bild-Räume: Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos4
R. Ross Holloway, 1934–20223
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Foodways in Roman Republican Italy By Laura M. Banducci. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2021. Pp. 366. $85. ISBN 9780472132300 (cloth).3
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Demographic Dynamics of Publishing in the American Journal of Archaeology3
A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief2
From the Editor-in-Chief: New Statement of Purpose for the AJA2
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Delos and the Late Hellenistic Art Trade: Archaeological Directions2
Roman Clavus Decoration on Gallic Dress: A Reevaluation Based on New Discoveries2
:Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine2
:Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery2
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Finding Fairness: From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists By Justin Jennings. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 2021. Pp. 332. $90. ISBN 9780813066745 (cloth).2
:The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete. Vol. 1, The Egyptian-Type Artifacts2
The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower Danube: Excavations and Survey at Dichin, a Late Roman to Early Byzantine Fort and a Roman Aqueduct By Andrew Poulter, with contributions by Michae1
Neolithic Spaces: Social and Sensory Landscapes of the First Farmers of Italy. By Sue Hamilton and Ruth Whitehouse (Neolithic Spaces 1, Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy 19.1). London: Accor1
:Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches1
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Libertas and Freedom from Financial Burdens in the Reigns of Trajan and Hadrian1
:Palmyrene Sarcophagi1
List of Books Received1
Toward a More Dynamic Modeling of Ancient Domestic Space: An Example from First-Millennium BCE Greece1
Colossus at the Crossroads: Reexamining a Hellenistic Cult Statue of Herakles from Kleonai1
Poteri e strategie familiari di Volterra: Il caso di una comunità etrusca nel mondo romano By Valentina Limina (BAR-IS 3041). Oxford: BAR 2021. Pp. 194. £48. ISBN 9781407357881 (paper).1
The Archaeology of Wine Production in Roman and Pre-Roman Italy1
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:Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens1
:Roman Animals in Ritual and Funerary Contexts: Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel 1st–4th February 20181
Ecocriticism on the Wall: Roman Landscapes at the San Antonio Museum of Art1
:Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Presentation, Teaching, and Engagement1
A Ptolemaic Hoard from Patara1
:De tornos y tornillos: Tecnologías de prensado de la uva y la aceituna en el mundo romano y tardoantiguo1
Books Available for Review1
Byzantium in “Africa”0
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:Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes0
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Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: Text, Context, Material Properties, and Socialization0
Urban Transformation in Ancient Molise: The Integration of Larinum into the Roman State By Elizabeth C. Robinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021. Pp. 368. $99. ISBN 9780190641436 (0
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:Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity0
:The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe0
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The Cult of Castor and Pollux in Ancient Rome: Myth, Ritual, and Society. By Amber Gartrell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. 268. $99. ISBN 9781108477550 (cloth).0
:Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27–31 May 20150
:The Saqqara Necropolis Through the New Kingdom: Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape0
A Community Empowerment Approach to Heritage Management: From Values Assessment to Local Engagement. By Evangelos Kyriakidis. London: Routledge 2021. Pp. 144. $128. ISBN 9781032083124 (cloth).0
:Narrating Heritage: Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance0
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:Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding0
Cursing Theophrastos in Paros0
:Imperial Colors: The Roman Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna0
Kitchenwares and Kitchen Work: A New Approach to the Bronze Food Preparation Implements of Pompeii and Their Uses0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief0
:Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder: Griffin Cauldrons in the Preclassical Mediterranean0
Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals for the 21st Century: The Reinstallation of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection of Ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art0
Visual Experience in a Pompeian Domestic Space: Analysis Using Virtual Reality-Based Eye Tracking and GIS0
Entella: A Resilient Ancient Sicilian Community0
Domitian: An Innovative Emperor?0
A Letter from the Museum Reviews Editor0
Books Available for Review0
:The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo: The Epigraphic Evidence0
:Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank0
Samothrace: Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Vol. 9, The Monuments of the Eastern Hill By Bonna D. Wescoat, with contributions by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi,0
:Thronos: Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond0
Hellenistic Landscapes and Seleucid Control in Mesopotamia: The View from the Erbil Plain in Northern Iraq0
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The Canaanite and Judean Cities of Lachish, Israel: Preliminary Report of the Fourth Expedition, 2013–20170
A Possible Amphora Second at Sikyon, Greece0
Shedding Light on the Kothon: Vases with Inward Downturned Rims Revisited0
The Question of Wine Consumption in Early Bronze Age Troy: Organic Residue Analysis and the Depas amphikypellon0
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:Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome0
Reading Visual Cues on the So-called Archive Wall at Aphrodisias: A Cognitive Approach to Monumental Documents0
The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco0
Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis. By Andrew Ramage, Nancy H. Ramage, and R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir (SardisRep 8). 2 vols. Ca0
Culti domestici in Italia meridionale ed Etruria By Aura Piccioni. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2020. Pp. 276. €45. ISBN 978-3-7954-3552-3 (cloth).0
:Old Age in Greek and Roman Art0
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:Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic0
:The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey: From Prehistory to the Present0
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“Probably Alexandria”: Gold-Glass Portraiture and the Allure of Egypt0
Beyceğiz Tumulus: A Middle Phrygian Cenotaph near Gordion0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief0
An Interdisciplinary Exhibition on Ancient Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass0
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Heroics of Dress: Exekias and Ornament in Greek Vase Painting0
:Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare0
The Granite Quarry at Xobourgo, Tenos: Patterns of Extraction and Exploitation Through Time0
:Fanum Iunonis Melitense: L’area centrale del santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta in età tardo-repubblicana0
Mikon’s Hekatompedon: An Architectural Graffito from Attica0
The Materiality of Hellenistic Ruler Cults Edited by Stefano G. Caneva (Kernos Supplement 36). Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège 2020. Pp. 299. €30. ISBN 978-2-87562-242-6 (paper).0
:The Ingholt Archive: The Palmyrene Material, Transcribed with Commentary and Bibliography0
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Central Places and Un-Central Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée. Edited by Giorgos Papantoniou and Athanasios Vionis. Land special issue. Pp. 314.0
:Roman Funerary Rituals in Mutina (Modena, Italy): A Multidisciplinary Approach0
Les arrière-pays des cités phéniciennes à l’époque hellénistique (IVe–Ier s. av. N.È.): Approches historique et spatiale d’une aire géoculturelle By Élodie Guillon (Collezione di Studi Fenici 50
A Mason’s Mark from the Stelida Peak Sanctuary, Naxos0
:Musarna 4: La céramique à paroi fine0
Volume 128 (2024) Index0
Defying Death: A New Interpretation of the Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia0
:Shifting Horizons: Observations from a Ride Through the Syrian Desert and Asia Minor. A Translation of Johannes Elith Østrup’s “Skiftende horizonter”0
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Hellenistic and Roman Gerasa: The Archaeology and History of a Decapolis City. Edited by Achim Lichtenberger and Rubina Raja. Turnhout: Brepols 2020. Pp. xviii + 390. €110. ISBN 978-2-503-585040
:The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History0
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The Temple of Artemis at Sardis By Fikret K. Yegül. (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports 7). 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2020. Pp. 336. $150. ISBN 9780674248564 (cloth)0
:The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World: Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Evidence0
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:Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered0
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The Early Iron Age Cemetery of Ḥorvat Tevet: Life and Death in a Rural Community in the Jezreel Valley0
:Eastern Mediterranean Economic Networks in the Age of the Crusades: The Case of the Peloponnese0
Burying the Alabaster Goddess in Hellenistic Babylonia: Religious Power, Sexual Agency, and Accessing the Afterlife Through Ishtar-Aphrodite Figurines from Seleucid-Parthian Iraq0
Asserting Control Through Water in the Roman Period: The Evidence from Southern Jordan and the Case of Khirbet al-Khalde0
:Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos0
Ptolemaic Berenike: Resources, Logistics, and Daily Life in a Hellenistic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt0
Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States Edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy. London: Routledge 2021. Pp. 242. $160. ISBN 9780367230265 (cloth).0
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:Variability in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts0
Cultural History and Memory in the Stadium-Gymnasium Complex at Messene0
:Labouring with Large Stones: A Study into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece0
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Il diritto alla sepoltura nel Mediterraneo antico Edited by Reine-Marie Bérard (Collection de l’École française de Rome 582). Rome: École française de Rome 2021. Pp. 366. €37. ISBN 978-2-7283-10
Nomads Trading with Empires: Intercultural Trade in Ancient Somaliland in the First to Seventh Centuries CE0
Revisiting the Archaeobotany of Prehistoric Crete0
Volume 127 (2023) Index0
:Ancient Naples: A Documentary History Origins to c. 350 CE0
:Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean0
:Dying Young: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Child Health in Roman Britain0
Classical to Late Roman Sites at Diros Bay in the Mani Peninsula, Greece0
Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture By Anthony J. Barbieri-Low. Seattle: University of Washington Press 2021. Pp. xiv + 316. $50. ISBN 9780295748900 (e-book).0
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Syrian Fashion, Assyrian Style: Clothing Syro-Anatolia in Ninth-Century BCE Assyrian Art0
:The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome—and Back0
The Colossal Archaic Naxian Statues in the Sanctuary of Apollo on Delos0
:Towards A Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period: A Biocultural Analysis of Human Remains from the Voudeni Cemetery, Achaea, Greece0
:Relitti dall’Italia tirrenica nel Mediterraneo occidentale (fine IV secolo a.C.–I d.C.): Archeologia e archeometria delle anfore0
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The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe: People, Things, and Networks Around the Southern Adriatic Sea By Francesco Iacono. Pp. xvi + 286. London: Blo0
:La villa dopo la villa 2: Trasformazione di un sistema insediativo ed economico nell’Italia centrale tra tarda Antichità e Medioevo0
:From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: Studies in Religion and Archaeology0
The Design and Reception of the Roman Arch at Orange0
:Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age: Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies0
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:The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC0
:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Vol. 3, Metal Objects from Gournia0
Fragments of Roman Sculptures from Hadrian's Villa0
The Citadel of Gordion and the Dating of the Midas Monument at Midas City0
A Letter from the Museum Reviews Editor0
Tracking Color Through Time: Polychromy on Etruscan Urns from Ancient Creation to Modern Intervention0
A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House. By Peter Stewart, with new photography by Guido Petruccioli. Oxford: Archaeopress 2020. Pp. ix + 421. $160. ISBN 9781789696554 (cloth).0
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:Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S.0
Merchants and Mercantile Society on Late Bronze Age Cyprus0
:The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and Rural Environments0
Refuse and the Roman City: Determining the Formation Processes of Refuse Assemblages Using Statistical Measures of Heterogeneity0
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Becoming Human: The Archaeology of John C. Barrett0
:Obsidian Across the Americas: Compositional Studies Conducted in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History0
The Presentation Scene on the Ivory Pyxis Lid from Mochlos: A Reconstruction and Reinterpretation0
Austerity, Communal Feasts, and the Emergence of the Cretan Polis0
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The Sanctuary of Apollo Hyperteleatas in Laconia: A Central Perioikic Cult in the Malea Peninsula0
Telling a Story of Two Lands: Perspectives on Ancient Kush, Egypt, and Africa0
The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill. By James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project 3). Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2020. Pp. 120
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief0
Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire By Hérica Valladares. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. 266. $99.99. ISBN 9781108835411 (cloth).0
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Aedicula Tombs and Statues in Rome: Reconsidering the Monument of Eurysaces0
:Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building0
Theater and Dionysiac Cult on Samothrace and Its Peraia0
:Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe0
:Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese: Cults and Sacred Places0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief0
Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context. Edited by Erin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 125). Leiden: Brill 2021. Pp. xv0
Repositioning the Sea on the Great Altar of Pergamon: A Demonstration of Hellenistic Boat Construction on the Telephos Frieze0
The Empire’s Physician: Galen and Medicine in the Roman World and Reflections on Digital Exhibitions0
Life Histories of Theban Tombs: Transdisciplinary Investigations of a Cluster of Rock-Cut Tombs at Sheikh ‘Abd al-Qurna Edited by Andrea Loprieno-Gnirs (AUC Press Archaeological Reports). Cairo0
:The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia: Money, Culture, and State Power0
The Christian Building at Dura-Europos: Rethinking the Archaeology of the World’s Oldest House Church0
The Gladiatorial Spectacles in Cyprus and the Enigma of the Amphitheater at Salamis0
Coming to Light: Illuminating the House of the Greek Epigrams in Pompeii0
Crossing the Alps: Early Urbanism Between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900–400 BC). Edited by Lorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernández-Götz, and Carola Metzner-Nebelsick. Leiden: Sidestone Press0
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Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age0
Malcolm Bell III (1941–2024)0
The Late Roman UnfinishedChaîne opératoire: A New Approach to Inscribed Glass Openwork0
:Numidia Romana? Die Auswirkungen der römischen Präsenz in Numidien (2. Jh. v. Chr.–1. Jh. n. Chr.)0
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:The Connected Iron Age: Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900–600 BCE0
Villa Estates and Malaria Risk in Roman Central Italy0
Late Fifth-Century CE Wall Mosaics from the Tetrapylon Street in Aphrodisias: Evidence for a Wall Mosaic Habit in Late Antiquity0
:Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria: Research and Field Papers0
Das Heiligtum des Jupiter Optimus Maximus auf dem Pfaffenberg/Carnuntum 3: Ausgrabungen und Funde im Spannungsfeld der Interessen. By Werner Jobst (Der römische Limes in Österreich 41.3). 3 vol0
Bringing Roman Light to Life0
:The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital0
:Ancient Methone, 2003–20130
:Honors to Eileithyia at Ancient Inatos: The Sacred Cave of Eileithyia at Tsoutsouros, Crete: Highlights of the Collection0
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:Hunde in der römischen Antike: Rassen/Typen - Zucht - Haltung und Verwendung0
The First Koinon Temple of Roman Sardis: A Sanctuary from the First Century Through Late Antiquity0
Pottery from Tell Khaiber: A Craft Tradition of the First Sealand Dynasty By Daniel Calderbank (Archaeology of Ancient Iraq 1). Ludlow: Moonrise Press 2021. Pp. xii + 282. £ 35. ISBN 978-1-91010
:Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens0
:Il Mediterraneo occidentale dalla fase fenicia all’egemonia cartaginese: Dinamiche insediative, forme rituali e cultura materiale nel V secolo a.C.0
:Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine0
The Project ArAGATS Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia: Report of the 2014–2017 Seasons0
:Ayia Irini: Area B0
Oplontis: Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Torre Annunziata, Italy. Volume 2, The Decorations: Painting, Stucco, Pavements, Sculptures Edited by John R. Clarke and Nayla K. Muntasser (ACLS Humanities 0
:Legion: Life in the Roman Army0
:Trench Warfare at Enkomi: Personalities, Politics and Science in Cypriot Archaeology0
List of Books Received0
George Fletcher Bass (1932–2021)0
:Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete0
Qui carbone rudi putrique creta scribit: The Charcoal Graffiti of Herculaneum0
:Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World0
Enheduanna and Her World: Individual Women in Ancient Western Asia0
Heterogeneous Production and Enchained Consumption: Minoan Gold in a Changing World (ca. 2000 BCE)0
Daya Cave: A Place of Worship of Mesopotamian and Persian Gods in the West Central Zagros Mountains, Iran0
:The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra0
Elizabeth B. French, 1931–20210
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Negotiating Infant Personhood in Death: Interpreting Atypical Burials in the Late Roman Infant and Child Cemetery at Poggio Gramignano (Italy)0
Figural Imagery and Society in the Postpalatial Aegean: Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery from Perati in Its Chronological and Regional Context0
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Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery By Sheramy D. Bundrick (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2019. Pp. xv + 330. $119.95. ISBN 9780
Multifunctionality and Roman Oven-to-Table Wares: Internal Red-Slip Vessels0
:Architecture as Sacred Space: Shaping the Holy in Late Antiquity and Byzantium0
:The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate: Archaeology in the Vicus at Vagnari, Puglia0
Bone Objects as Offerings of Animal Bodies in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries0
:The Hittites: Lost Civilizations0
:Women in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy0
Sir John Boardman, 1927–20240
Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire’s Souvenirs By Kimberly Cassibry. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021. Pp. xvii + 278. $99. ISBN 9780190921897 (cloth).0
Making The Met, 1870–2020: A Universal Museum for the 21st Century0
:The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy0
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