OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Cover	17
:Ancient Methone, 2003–2013	13
:Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine	10
:Minoische Bild-Räume: Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos	6
:Imperial Colors: The Roman Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna	5
:Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese: Cults and Sacred Places	5
Back Matter	3
Martha Sharp Joukowsky, 1936–2022	3
List of Books Received	3
:The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete. Vol. 1, The Egyptian-Type Artifacts	3
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.	3
Colossus at the Crossroads: Reexamining a Hellenistic Cult Statue of Herakles from Kleonai	3
Front Matter	2
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief	2
Against Method	2
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).	2
:Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S.	2
:Ritratti privati greci nell’Egitto tolemaico	2
:The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC	2
:Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27–31 May 2015	2
:The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo: The Epigraphic Evidence	2
Tracking Color Through Time: Polychromy on Etruscan Urns from Ancient Creation to Modern Intervention	2
The Canaanite and Judean Cities of Lachish, Israel: Preliminary Report of the Fourth Expedition, 2013–2017	1
:The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital	1
Kızıldağ, Karadağ, and Sacred Peak Sites in Central Anatolia During the Late Bronze and Iron Ages	1

Forging the Roman Rural Economy: A Blacksmithing Workshop and Its Tool Set at Marzuolo (Tuscany)	1
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 97	1
Classical to Late Roman Sites at Diros Bay in the Mani Peninsula, Greece	1
:Greek and Roman Small Size Sculpture	1
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:Il Foro di Traiano nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento	1
“The Peculiar Hellenic Alloy”: Carl Blegen’s Narrative of Greek Racial Development in Context	1
A Curious Artifact: The Changing Meaning of the Roman Oil Lamp from 17th-Century Jamestown, Virginia	1
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 Press	1
Beyceğiz Tumulus: A Middle Phrygian Cenotaph near Gordion	1
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. xv	1
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. I	1
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:Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity	1
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:Relitti dall’Italia tirrenica nel Mediterraneo occidentale (fine IV secolo a.C.–I d.C.): Archeologia e archeometria delle anfore	0
:Narrating Heritage: Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance	0
:Thronos: Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond	0
Kitchenwares and Kitchen Work: A New Approach to the Bronze Food Preparation Implements of Pompeii and Their Uses	0
:Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches	0
:Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy: Archaeology, History, and the Use of the Past, 900–300 BCE	0
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:Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete	0
Books Available for Review	0
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: Accor	0
Sacrificial Ritual and the Palace of Nestor: A Reanalysis of the Ta Tablets	0
:Obsidian Across the Americas: Compositional Studies Conducted in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History	0
Nomads Trading with Empires: Intercultural Trade in Ancient Somaliland in the First to Seventh Centuries CE	0
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Heterogeneous Production and Enchained Consumption: Minoan Gold in a Changing World (ca. 2000 BCE)	0
Revisiting the Archaeobotany of Prehistoric Crete	0
Front Cover	0
:The 3 Dimensions of Digitalised Archaeology: State-of-the-Art, Data Management and Current Challenges in Archaeological 3D-Documentation	0
:Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine	0
: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 2018	0
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The Granite Quarry at Xobourgo, Tenos: Patterns of Extraction and Exploitation Through Time	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 insc	0
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 vol	0
Online-Only Content	0
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 2020	0
List of Books Received	0
Hermes Psychopompos in an Anatolian Grave: The White-Ground Cup from Daskyleion	0
Bone Objects as Offerings of Animal Bodies in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries	0
The Citadel of Gordion and the Dating of the Midas Monument at Midas City	0
List of Books Received	0
Becoming Human: The Archaeology of John C. Barrett	0
:A Social Archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Egypt: Artefacts of Everyday Life	0
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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:The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra	0
Enheduanna and Her World: Individual Women in Ancient Western Asia	0
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 Histoi	0
Depicting Amazons as Local Heroes in Hellenized Anatolia	0
The Empire’s Physician: Galen and Medicine in the Roman World and Reflections on Digital Exhibitions	0
The Reopening of the Museo Nazionale Jatta di Ruvo di Puglia	0
:The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy	0
Books Available for Review	0
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
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:Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe	0
:Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age: Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies	0
Telling a Story of Two Lands: Perspectives on Ancient Kush, Egypt, and Africa	0
The Gladiatorial Spectacles in Cyprus and the Enigma of the Amphitheater at Salamis	0
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
The Boxing Writer Paul Gallico on the Terme Boxer	0
:Perspectives on Byzantine Archaeology: From Justinian to the Abbasid Age (6th–9th Centuries AD)	0
An Interdisciplinary Exhibition on Ancient Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass	0
:Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty: Geography and Chronology of Production	0
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:Illyrian World: Architecture, Rituals, Gods and Religion	0
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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
A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief	0
Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals for the 21st Century: The Reinstallation of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection of Ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art	0
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Books Available for Review	0
Ecocriticism on the Wall: Roman Landscapes at the San Antonio Museum of Art	0
The Archaeology of Wine Production in Roman and Pre-Roman Italy	0
The Suburbs of the Early Mesopotamian City of Ur (Tell al-Muqayyar, Iraq)	0
Cultural History and Memory in the Stadium-Gymnasium Complex at Messene	0
:Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder: Griffin Cauldrons in the Preclassical Mediterranean	0
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. Ca	0
Representations of Gender: Recognizing the Role of Feminine Sacrificial Attendants in the Column of Trajan Sacrifice Scenes	0
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
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 978-2-503-58504	0
:Trench Warfare at Enkomi: Personalities, Politics and Science in Cypriot Archaeology	0
:The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World: Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Evidence	0
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
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. 12	0
A Letter from the Book Reviews Editor	0
:Ancient Naples: A Documentary History Origins to c. 350 CE	0
:Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered	0
Hellenistic Landscapes and Seleucid Control in Mesopotamia: The View from the Erbil Plain in Northern Iraq	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 978	0
A Letter from the Museum Reviews Editor	0
Theater and Dionysiac Cult on Samothrace and Its Peraia	0
Figural Imagery and Society in the Postpalatial Aegean: Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery from Perati in Its Chronological and Regional Context	0
:Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding	0
:De tornos y tornillos: Tecnologías de prensado de la uva y la aceituna en el mundo romano y tardoantiguo	0
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:The Ingholt Archive: The Palmyrene Material, Transcribed with Commentary and Bibliography	0
:The Chora of Metaponto 8: The Factory and Kiln Deposit at Pantanello	0
The Collecting History of an Early Christian Lead Vessel: From Carthage to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition	0
:Il Mediterraneo occidentale dalla fase fenicia all’egemonia cartaginese: Dinamiche insediative, forme rituali e cultura materiale nel V secolo a.C.	0
Lingering Tropes and Noteworthy Narratives in Recent Archaeology Exhibitions	0
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
Byzantium in “Africa”	0
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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Shipwreck Assemblages and Network Analysis: Reconstructing the Furniture Trade in the Mediterranean Using First-Century BCE Shipwrecks	0
Notes on Phrygian Architecture: A Sixth-Century BCE Date for the Midas Monument at Midas City	0
:The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome—and Back	0
Fieldwork at Phrygian Gordion, 2016–2023	0
Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age	0
Online-Only Content	0
:Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare	0
Volume 126 (2022) Index	0
:The Roman Peasant Project 2009–2014: Excavating the Roman Rural Poor	0
Heroics of Dress: Exekias and Ornament in Greek Vase Painting	0
List of Books Received	0
Books Available for Review	0
:Etruscan Literacy in Its Social Context	0
:Musarna 4: La céramique à paroi fine	0
:From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: Studies in Religion and Archaeology	0
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
:Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World	0

:Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens	0
:The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and Rural Environments	0
Opening Horizons Between Antiquity and Today at Melbourne Museum	0
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The First Koinon Temple of Roman Sardis: A Sanctuary from the First Century Through Late Antiquity	0
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:Fanum Iunonis Melitense: L’area centrale del santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta in età tardo-repubblicana	0
:Manufacturers and Markets: The Contribution of Hellenistic Pottery to Economies Large and Small: Proceedings of the 4th Conference of IARPotHP, Athens, November 2019, 11th–14th	0
Ephemeral Heritage: Boats, Migration, and the Central Mediterranean Passage	0
:The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate: Archaeology in the Vicus at Vagnari, Puglia	0
:Architecture as Sacred Space: Shaping the Holy in Late Antiquity and Byzantium	0
From the Editor-in-Chief: New Statement of Purpose for the AJA	0
:The Saqqara Necropolis Through the New Kingdom: Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape	0
:Ayia Irini: Area B	0
:Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos	0
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
:Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery	0
The Early Iron Age Cemetery of Ḥorvat Tevet: Life and Death in a Rural Community in the Jezreel Valley	0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief	0
:Legion: Life in the Roman Army	0
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:Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria: Research and Field Papers	0
The Colossal Archaic Naxian Statues in the Sanctuary of Apollo on Delos	0
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Books Available for Review	0
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:The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey: From Prehistory to the Present	0
Domitian: An Innovative Emperor?	0
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 a	0
Foodways in Roman Republican Italy By Laura M. Banducci. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2021. Pp. 366. $85. ISBN 9780472132300 (cloth).	0
:Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Presentation, Teaching, and Engagement	0
:The Hittites: Lost Civilizations	0
Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece By Tyler Jo Smith. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2021. Pp. 476. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-5281-1 (cloth).	0
Books Available for Review	0
:Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building	0
Villa Estates and Malaria Risk in Roman Central Italy	0
:Age, Gender and Status in Macedonian Society, 550–300 BCE: Intersectional Approaches to Mortuary Archaeology	0
Books Available for Review	0
Negotiating Infant Personhood in Death: Interpreting Atypical Burials in the Late Roman Infant and Child Cemetery at Poggio Gramignano (Italy)	0
Volume 128 (2024) Index	0
:Numidia Romana? Die Auswirkungen der römischen Präsenz in Numidien (2. Jh. v. Chr.–1. Jh. n. Chr.)	0
:Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean	0
:Shifting Horizons: Observations from a Ride Through the Syrian Desert and Asia Minor. A Translation of Johannes Elith Østrup’s “Skiftende horizonter”	0
Delos and the Late Hellenistic Art Trade: Archaeological Directions	0
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Hellenistic Sealings and Archives: Proceedings of The Edfu Connection, an International Conference Edited by Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter and Ronald Wallenfels. (Studies in Classical Archaeolo	0
Refuse and the Roman City: Determining the Formation Processes of Refuse Assemblages Using Statistical Measures of Heterogeneity	0
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: Text, Context, Material Properties, and Socialization	0
:Honors to Eileithyia at Ancient Inatos: The Sacred Cave of Eileithyia at Tsoutsouros, Crete: Highlights of the Collection	0
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
George Fletcher Bass (1932–2021)	0
The Design and Reception of the Roman Arch at Orange	0
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 978-2-7283-1	0
:Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes	0
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. Toumazo	0
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Volume 127 (2023) Index	0
Burying the Alabaster Goddess in Hellenistic Babylonia: Religious Power, Sexual Agency, and Accessing the Afterlife Through Ishtar-Aphrodite Figurines from Seleucid-Parthian Iraq	0
:Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic	0
Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art By Kristen Seaman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. Pp. 206. $99.99. ISBN 9781108490917 (cloth).	0
:Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture: Aesthetics, Semantics and Function	0
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 History	0
:Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome	0
Coming to Light: Illuminating the House of the Greek Epigrams in Pompeii	0
:Isis in a Global Empire: Greek Identity Through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece	0
:Archeonumismatica: Analisi e studio dei reperti monetali da contesti pluristratificati	0
Centurion: On a Bust in the Knole Collection Sculpted in Rome in the Third Century CE	0
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Two Roman Glass Furnaces Discovered at Reşca-Romula (Romania)	0
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 Michae	0
The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco	0
Nancy C. Wilkie, 1942–2021	0
:Marginalised Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other	0
:Hunde in der römischen Antike: Rassen/Typen - Zucht - Haltung und Verwendung	0
:Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens	0
Roman Clavus Decoration on Gallic Dress: A Reevaluation Based on New Discoveries	0
:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Vol. 3, Metal Objects from Gournia	0
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
Sortition in Hellenistic Sicily: New Archaeological Evidence from Morgantina	0
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:Palmyrene Sarcophagi	0
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Toward a More Dynamic Modeling of Ancient Domestic Space: An Example from First-Millennium BCE Greece	0
:Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World	0
:Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos	0
The Project ArAGATS Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia: Report of the 2014–2017 Seasons	0
Fragments of Roman Sculptures from Hadrian's Villa	0
:The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe	0
:Old Age in Greek and Roman Art	0
The Presentation Scene on the Ivory Pyxis Lid from Mochlos: A Reconstruction and Reinterpretation	0