American Journal of Archaeology

Papers
(The median citation count 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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:Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine20
:Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese: Cults and Sacred Places16
:Ancient Methone, 2003–201311
:The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete. Vol. 1, The Egyptian-Type Artifacts10
Colossus at the Crossroads: Reexamining a Hellenistic Cult Statue of Herakles from Kleonai8
:Imperial Colors: The Roman Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna7
:Minoische Bild-Räume: Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos7
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, 1936–20225
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. 314.4
:Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27–31 May 20153
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).3
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:The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC3
List of Books Received3
:Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S.3
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief3
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Tracking Color Through Time: Polychromy on Etruscan Urns from Ancient Creation to Modern Intervention2
Against Method2
:The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo: The Epigraphic Evidence2
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Russell T. Scott, 1938–20242
:Ritratti privati greci nell’Egitto tolemaico2
Kızıldağ, Karadağ, and Sacred Peak Sites in Central Anatolia During the Late Bronze and Iron Ages1
:Il Foro di Traiano nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento1
:Greek and Roman Small Size Sculpture1
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. xv1
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. Ca1
Hellenistic Landscapes and Seleucid Control in Mesopotamia: The View from the Erbil Plain in Northern Iraq1
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Beyceğiz Tumulus: A Middle Phrygian Cenotaph near Gordion1
The Busy Periphery: Urban Systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd–3rd c. AD) By Damjan Donev (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 61). Oxford: Archaeopress 2019. Pp. viii + 379. $54. ISBN 971
A Curious Artifact: The Changing Meaning of the Roman Oil Lamp from 17th-Century Jamestown, Virginia1
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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)1
:Legion: Life in the Roman Army1
:The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World: Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Evidence1
:Age, Gender and Status in Macedonian Society, 550–300 BCE: Intersectional Approaches to Mortuary Archaeology1
Books Available for Review1
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Classical to Late Roman Sites at Diros Bay in the Mani Peninsula, Greece1
Forging the Roman Rural Economy: A Blacksmithing Workshop and Its Tool Set at Marzuolo (Tuscany)1
“The Peculiar Hellenic Alloy”: Carl Blegen’s Narrative of Greek Racial Development in Context1
The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture: Technology and Society in Republican Italy. By Marcello Mogetta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. xiv + 311. $99.99. I1
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 Press1
:Mouldmade Bowls of the Black Sea Region and Beyond: From Prestige Object to an Article of Mass Consumption1
:Thronos: Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond1
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:The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital1
:Exploring the Antonine Wall with Terrestrial Remote Sensing1
:Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity1
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Theater and Dionysiac Cult on Samothrace and Its Peraia0
:Hunde in der römischen Antike: Rassen/Typen - Zucht - Haltung und Verwendung0
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: Accor0
Enheduanna and Her World: Individual Women in Ancient Western Asia0
:Honors to Eileithyia at Ancient Inatos: The Sacred Cave of Eileithyia at Tsoutsouros, Crete: Highlights of the Collection0
Toward a More Dynamic Modeling of Ancient Domestic Space: An Example from First-Millennium BCE Greece0
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:Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ceramics0
:Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age: Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies0
:Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic0
Opening Horizons Between Antiquity and Today at Melbourne Museum0
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The Design and Reception of the Roman Arch at Orange0
The Suburbs of the Early Mesopotamian City of Ur (Tell al-Muqayyar, Iraq)0
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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
:Picture Worlds: Storytelling on Greek, Moche, and Maya Pottery0
:Manufacturers and Markets: The Contribution of Hellenistic Pottery to Economies Large and Small: Proceedings of the 4th Conference of IARPotHP, Athens, November 2019, 11th–14th0
Olympia: A Cultural History By Judith M. Barringer. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2021. Pp. 335. $35. ISBN 9780691210476 (cloth).0
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For Men, About Men: A Review of Legion: Life in the Roman Army0
:Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches0
AlUla: Wonder of Arabia at the Palace Museum, Beijing: Bridging Global Cultural and Archaeological Engagement Between China and the Arab World0
Depicting Amazons as Local Heroes in Hellenized Anatolia0
A Falcon Shrine at the Port of Berenike (Red Sea Coast, Egypt)0
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Visualizing Votive Practice: Exploring Limestone and Terracotta Sculpture from Athienou-Malloura Through 3D Models By Derek B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, Kevin Garstki, and Michael K. Toumazo0
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:Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos0
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:Metal Finds and Coins: Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project II0
Aššur’s Newcomers: Evidence for the Maintenance of Population in Imperial Assyrian Capitals Through Resettlement Events0
Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art By Kristen Seaman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. Pp. 206. $99.99. ISBN 9781108490917 (cloth).0
:Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500–19000
Dying in the Mines: Necropoleis and Funerary Practices During the Late Antique Period in the Smaragdos (Egyptian Eastern Desert)0
:Markers of Military Mobility: Toward an Archaeology of the Sling in Ancient Thrace (5th C. BC–4th C. AD), with a Corpus of the Inscribed Lead Sling Projectiles from Bulgaria: Glandes plumbeae insc0
:Trench Warfare at Enkomi: Personalities, Politics and Science in Cypriot Archaeology0
:Isis in a Global Empire: Greek Identity Through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece0
Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic0
:Ancient Naples: A Documentary History Origins to c. 350 CE0
: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 20180
:Architecture as Sacred Space: Shaping the Holy in Late Antiquity and Byzantium0
Negotiating Infant Personhood in Death: Interpreting Atypical Burials in the Late Roman Infant and Child Cemetery at Poggio Gramignano (Italy)0
Ancient Diet and Agricultural Economy in the Levant: An Archaeobotanical Study0
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Plaster Casts of the Portico from Aphrodisias: Archaeology, Politics, Museology0
:Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding0
:Villae maritimae del Mediterraneo occidentale: Nascita, diffusione e trasformazione di un modello architettonico0
:Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World0
The Citadel of Gordion and the Dating of the Midas Monument at Midas City0
:Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens0
The Myth of Hellenization: The Early to Middle Hellenistic Period (ca. 300–150 BCE) in Sagalassos and Pisidia (Southwest Anatolia)0
:Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria: Research and Field Papers0
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Nomads Trading with Empires: Intercultural Trade in Ancient Somaliland in the First to Seventh Centuries CE0
The Presentation Scene on the Ivory Pyxis Lid from Mochlos: A Reconstruction and Reinterpretation0
Burying the Alabaster Goddess in Hellenistic Babylonia: Religious Power, Sexual Agency, and Accessing the Afterlife Through Ishtar-Aphrodite Figurines from Seleucid-Parthian Iraq0
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
:Musarna 4: La céramique à paroi fine0
Figural Imagery and Society in the Postpalatial Aegean: Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery from Perati in Its Chronological and Regional Context0
: From the Palatine to Pirro Ligorio: Architectural, Sculptural and Antiquarian Studies in Memory of Amanda Claridge (1949–2022)0
A Letter from the Editors0
Becoming Human: The Archaeology of John C. Barrett0
:Ayia Irini: Area B0
An Approach to Quantifying Ceramic Vessels among Diverse Datasets0
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:The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and Rural Environments0
:Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture: Aesthetics, Semantics and Function0
Ecocriticism on the Wall: Roman Landscapes at the San Antonio Museum of Art0
Shipwreck Assemblages and Network Analysis: Reconstructing the Furniture Trade in the Mediterranean Using First-Century BCE Shipwrecks0
Refuse and the Roman City: Determining the Formation Processes of Refuse Assemblages Using Statistical Measures of Heterogeneity0
:The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate: Archaeology in the Vicus at Vagnari, Puglia0
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:Archeonumismatica: Analisi e studio dei reperti monetali da contesti pluristratificati0
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The Granite Quarry at Xobourgo, Tenos: Patterns of Extraction and Exploitation Through Time0
Heroics of Dress: Exekias and Ornament in Greek Vase Painting0
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
:Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare0
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:Eastern Mediterranean Economic Networks in the Age of the Crusades: The Case of the Peloponnese0
Bone Objects as Offerings of Animal Bodies in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries0
:Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy: Archaeology, History, and the Use of the Past, 900–300 BCE0
:The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History0
Domitian: An Innovative Emperor?0
Coming to Light: Illuminating the House of the Greek Epigrams in Pompeii0
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
A Mason’s Mark from the Stelida Peak Sanctuary, Naxos0
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:Etruscan Literacy in Its Social Context0
:Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery0
:The Saqqara Necropolis Through the New Kingdom: Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape0
:The Chora of Metaponto 8: The Factory and Kiln Deposit at Pantanello0
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A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief0
The Canadian Excavations at Anemurium in Cilicia. By James Russell, with contributions from C.W.J. Eliot, Hector Williams, Sheila Campbell, Nigel Kennell, and Thomas Boyd (Archéologie et Histoi0
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:Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine0
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).0
The Extramural Settlement at Vindolanda in the Early Second Century CE: Defining a Glocalized Environment on the Romano-British Frontier0
:Narrating Heritage: Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance0
Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia By Gloria London. Nicosia: Astrom Editions 2020. Pp. 240. €25.44. ISBN 9789925745555 (cloth).0
Andrew Colin Renfrew (1937–2024)0
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:The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe0
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:Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty: Geography and Chronology of Production0
The Gladiatorial Spectacles in Cyprus and the Enigma of the Amphitheater at Salamis0
:Obsidian Across the Americas: Compositional Studies Conducted in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History0
:Shifting Horizons: Observations from a Ride Through the Syrian Desert and Asia Minor. A Translation of Johannes Elith Østrup’s “Skiftende horizonter”0
Telling a Story of Two Lands: Perspectives on Ancient Kush, Egypt, and Africa0
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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The Reopening of the Museo Nazionale Jatta di Ruvo di Puglia0
The Archaeology of Wine Production in Roman and Pre-Roman Italy0
:Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean0
Villa Estates and Malaria Risk in Roman Central Italy0
Klazomenian Sarcophagi in the Borderlands: An Ionian (Re)Vision0
:The Ingholt Archive: The Palmyrene Material, Transcribed with Commentary and Bibliography0
:Old Age in Greek and Roman Art0
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
:Numidia Romana? Die Auswirkungen der römischen Präsenz in Numidien (2. Jh. v. Chr.–1. Jh. n. Chr.)0
:Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World0
: Lycian Families in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: A Regional Study of Inscriptions, Towards a Social and Legal Framework0
:Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens0
:Il Mediterraneo occidentale dalla fase fenicia all’egemonia cartaginese: Dinamiche insediative, forme rituali e cultura materiale nel V secolo a.C.0
:The 3 Dimensions of Digitalised Archaeology: State-of-the-Art, Data Management and Current Challenges in Archaeological 3D-Documentation0
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
:A Social Archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Egypt: Artefacts of Everyday Life0
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Volume 128 (2024) Index0
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
Roman Clavus Decoration on Gallic Dress: A Reevaluation Based on New Discoveries0
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:The Roman Peasant Project 2009–2014: Excavating the Roman Rural Poor0
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).0
The Project ArAGATS Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia: Report of the 2014–2017 Seasons0
The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco0
The First Koinon Temple of Roman Sardis: A Sanctuary from the First Century Through Late Antiquity0
:Palmyrene Sarcophagi0
The Boxing Writer Paul Gallico on the Terme Boxer0
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Byzantium in “Africa”0
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
An Interdisciplinary Exhibition on Ancient Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass0
Gloria Ferrari Pinney (1941–2023)0
Communities on the Move in Coastal Apulia (Southern Italy), 10th Century BCE to 17th Century CE: 2,600 Years of Human-Environment Coevolution at Salapia0
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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).0
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Two Roman Glass Furnaces Discovered at Reşca-Romula (Romania)0
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
:Illyrian World: Architecture, Rituals, Gods and Religion0
An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology: Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence By Shawn Graham (Digital Archaeology 1). New York: Berghahn Books 20200
Multifunctionality and Roman Oven-to-Table Wares: Internal Red-Slip Vessels0
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (1929–2024)0
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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
:Plunder? How Museums Got Their Treasures0
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:Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder: Griffin Cauldrons in the Preclassical Mediterranean0
Volume 126 (2022) Index0
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:Relitti dall’Italia tirrenica nel Mediterraneo occidentale (fine IV secolo a.C.–I d.C.): Archeologia e archeometria delle anfore0
The Torlonia Marbles: Rescue, Restoration, Rehabilitation0
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Sacrificial Ritual and the Palace of Nestor: A Reanalysis of the Ta Tablets0
:Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes0
The Early Iron Age Cemetery of Ḥorvat Tevet: Life and Death in a Rural Community in the Jezreel Valley0
:Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered0
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Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States Edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy. London: Routledge 2021. Pp. 242. $160. ISBN 9780367230265 (cloth).0
:Becoming Neolithic: The Pivot of Human History0
: The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII: The Greek and Roman Pottery, Volume 10
:Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building0
:De tornos y tornillos: Tecnologías de prensado de la uva y la aceituna en el mundo romano y tardoantiguo0
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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
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: Text, Context, Material Properties, and Socialization0
A Letter from the Book Reviews Editor0
:Fanum Iunonis Melitense: L’area centrale del santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta in età tardo-repubblicana0
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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).0
The Colossal Archaic Naxian Statues in the Sanctuary of Apollo on Delos0
:The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey: From Prehistory to the Present0
Horns, Crenellations, and Snakes: The Significance of Egyptian Censers in the Houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum0
:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Vol. 3, Metal Objects from Gournia0
Societies in Transition in Early Greece: An Archaeological History By Alex R. Knodell. Berkeley: University of California Press 2021. Pp. 382. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-520-38053-0 (paper), and open a0
Kitchenwares and Kitchen Work: A New Approach to the Bronze Food Preparation Implements of Pompeii and Their Uses0
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 Michae0
Notes on Phrygian Architecture: A Sixth-Century BCE Date for the Midas Monument at Midas City0
The Collecting History of an Early Christian Lead Vessel: From Carthage to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition0
:The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome—and Back0
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