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Dominik Hagmann deposited Die „puls“ – Experimentalarchäologische Untersuchungen zu einer antiken römischen Getreidebreizubereitung in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoStudies by the author in experimental archaeology have been dealing with the (re-)production of the ancient Roman meal “puls” since 2012. This porridge puls was mainly prepared with wheat and other grains and it can be considered as the ancient Roman “national dish” par excellence, according to literary evidence. Concerning the recipes, puls is…[Read more]
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Christer Petley deposited Nelson, the Caribbean, and Visions of the British Atlantic Empire in the group
University of Southampton Department of History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoA twenty minute paper presented to the conference ‘The Royal Navy and the Atlantic World Conference’ organised by the University of Southampton and the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, on 19 June 2014.
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Christer Petley deposited Slaveholders and revolution: the Jamaican planter class, British imperial politics, and the ending of the slave trade, 1775–1807 in the group
University of Southampton Department of History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article re-examines the declining influence of Jamaican sugar planters within the British Empire during the period between the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775 and Parliament’s decision to abolish the slave trade in 1807. Much of the existing scholarship emphasises the consequences of the American Revolutionary War and rise of a…[Read more]
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Christer Petley deposited Plantations and Homes: The Material Culture of the Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Elite in the group
University of Southampton Department of History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and to consume conspicuously. Those who did not migrate away from Jamaica were drawn towards colonial towns,…[Read more]
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Christer Petley deposited Plantations and Homes: The Material Culture of the Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Elite in the group
University of Southampton Department of History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and to consume conspicuously. Those who did not migrate away from Jamaica were drawn towards colonial towns,…[Read more]
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Christer Petley deposited Plantations and Homes: The Material Culture of the Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Elite in the group
University of Southampton Department of History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and to consume conspicuously. Those who did not migrate away from Jamaica were drawn towards colonial towns,…[Read more]
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Sean Burrus deposited Remembering the Righteous: Sarcophagus Sculpture and Jewish Patrons in the Roman World (Full Text) in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA Ph.D. dissertation considering nearly 200 sarcophagi from the late ancient necropoleis of Jewish communities at Beth She’arim and Rome. This corpus captures a wide range of the possibilities open to Jewish patrons as they went about acquiring or commissioning a sarcophagus and sculptural program. The variety reflects not only the different…[Read more]
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Sean Burrus deposited What is ‘Jewish’ about Jewish art? Art and identity on late ancient sarcophagi from Rome in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA paper delivered at in the 2017 Colloquia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Considers how a group of sarcophagi from the Jewish catacombs of Rome reflect on the subject of Jewish art and Jewish patrons in Late Antiquity.
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Sean Burrus deposited Jews, Greeks and Romans: Being Jewish in the Classical World in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoWhat did it mean to ‘be Jewish’ in the Greco-Roman world? Jews, Greeks and Romans will explore the myriad ways that Jewish communities across the Mediterranean engaged with Greco-Roman culture and constructed their own ways of being Jewish. Using texts, artifacts and images–from rabbinic commentaries to Roman catacombs–we will investigate…[Read more]
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Sean Burrus deposited Remembering the Righteous: Sarcophagus Sculpture and Jewish Patrons in the Roman World (Front-matter + Conclusions) in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoFront-matter and conclusions to my Ph.D. Dissertation (2017). The project considers nearly 200 sarcophagi from the late ancient necropoleis of Jewish communities at Beth She’arim and Rome. This corpus captures a wide range of the possibilities open to Jewish patrons as they went about acquiring or commissioning a sarcophagus and sculptural…[Read more]
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Sarah Bond deposited “Currency and Control: Mint Workers in the Later Roman Empire” in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoArticle exploring the status of mint workers from the Republic to the period of Late Antiquity.
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Daniel Diffendale deposited Photomodeling Sant’Omobono. Meeting the challenges of topographic documentation in a waterlogged urban environment [Poster] in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThe use of digital photogrammetric techniques to document archaeological layers and features has become increasingly common. Software such as PhotoScan uses multiple photographs of an object to model its geometry. In addition to providing more detailed topographical data than those acquired using a total station alone, such photomodeling offers…[Read more]
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Daniel Diffendale deposited Five Republican monuments. On the supposed building program of M. Fulvius Flaccus in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoIt has recently been argued that a group of five monuments at S. Omobono were part of a single building program, attributed to the Roman consul M. Fulvius Flaccus in 264 BCE, a program that also included a monument at Orvieto, loc. Campo della Fiera. The monuments in question include two altars, a circular ‘donarium’ and fragments of two bases car…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited The Villa delle Grotte at Grottarossa and the prehistory of Roman villas in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 years agoJeffrey A. Becker. “The Villa delle Grotte at Grottarossa and the prehistory of Roman villas” Journal of Roman Archaeology Volume 19 2006, pp. 213-220
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Book Review of Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation, edited by Michael L. Thomas and Gretchen E. Meyers in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 years agoBook Review of Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation, edited by Michael L. Thomas and Gretchen E. Meyers
Reviewed by Jeffrey A. Becker
American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 120, No. 1 (January 2016)
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Jeffrey A. Becker created the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
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