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Opuscula 16
Contents |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition (The Söderberg Expedition): Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke autumn 2021 and spring 2022. Preliminary results |
The Palamas Archaeological Project. A preliminary report of the 2022 fieldwork conducted by the ongoing Greek–Swedish archaeological field programme in Palamas, region of Karditsa, Thessaly |
A preliminary report on sculptures and figurative terracottas found at the site of Vlochos, region of Karditsa, Thessaly |
An overlooked 2nd-century BC decree by the polis of the Orthieians, Thessaly |
The humans of ancient Hermione. The necropolis in the light of bioarchaeology |
Statuettes of pregnant sows from Knidos. New light on the cult of Demeter |
New Greek inscriptions from Akmoneia and its territory |
Hieronymus Odam, engraved gems and antiquarianism |
Johan Niklas Byström and the so-called Venus of Stockholm. New research on a presumably lost sculpture |
Review article. Gender in ancient Rome: New directions and voices |
Book reviews |
Dissertation abstracts 2022–2023 |
Opuscula 15
Contents |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition (The Söderberg Expedition): Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke 2020 and 2021 |
Roman and Early Byzantine evidence from the area of Palamas |
Late Etruscan tripod thymiateria |
The Basilica Sempronia and the Forum Romanum |
Memorial sculpture in the Protestant Cemetery at Rome |
Human-environment dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean |
Book reviews |
Dissertation abstracts 2020–2022 |
Opuscula 14
Gourimadi Archaeological Project – The results from the first excavation season (2018) of a prehistoric site in the Karystia, southern Euboea |
The Kalaureia Excavation Project – A preliminary report of the work carried out in Area L between 2015 and 2018 |
Some preliminary notes on the limited 2020 campaign of the Palamas Archaeological Project (PAP) |
An ancient cityscape and its people A study of ancient Hermione – Introductory remarks on historical sources and visible remains, archaeological research and prospects |
The topography of Hermione—A preliminary outline |
The Temple of Demeter Chthonia at Hermione |
The cisterns of the Bisti promontory at Hermione – With a preliminary description of the Roman aqueduct |
Life and death in ancient Hermione – Excavations in the necropolis |
The key to Hermione? – Notes on an inscribed monument |
From 2D and 3D documentation to 4D interpretation – Building archaeological conclusions and workflow strategies gained by remote study of Insula V 1, Pompeii |
Palaepaphos-Teratsoudhia Tomb 288 – (c. 1650 BC–c. 1200 BC) |
The death of infants in Early Iron Age Cyprus – A jar burial from Kition-Bamboula |
Ancestral and chthonic cults at Tenos |
Bulls and rams – The sacrifice to Erechtheus |
The Turkish harem in the Karyatid Temple – and antagonistic narratives on the Athenian Acropolis |
The Temple of Zeus at Lebadea – The architecture and the semantics of a colossus |
Commending a freedman – Virtues and masculinities in the recommendation letters of Cicero and Pliny the Younger |
The Invitation to the Dance – An intertextual reassessment |
Book reviews |
Opuscula 13
The 2016–2018 Greek-Swedish archaeological project at Thessalian Vlochos, Greece |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2019: Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke (The Söderberg Expedition) |
A Mycenaean pictorial vase from Midea |
A Protocorinthian aryballos with a myth scene from Tegea |
Religion and family politics in Hellenistic Kalaureia. Three new inscriptions from the sanctuary of Poseidon |
Vidracco, Braone, and San Lorenzo. Recruitment or dilectio? |
The Old Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome with a new Inventory of its burials |
Erik Wetter and the genesis of the San Giovenale excavations |
Book reviews |
Dissertation abstracts 2019–2020 |
Opuscula 12
Bioarchaeological field analysis of human remains from the mass graves at Phaleron, Greece |
Physical environment and daily life in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros |
Animals in the sanctuary – Mammal and fish bones from Areas D and C at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia |
Animals in the sanctuary – Bird bones and eggshell |
Snakes and other microfaunal remains from the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia |
Marine and terrestrial molluscs in the sanctuary |
Trees and shrubs in the sanctuary |
Plants in the sanctuary |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2018: Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke (The Söderberg Expedition) |
Palaepaphos-Skales Tomb 277. More prestigious burials |
Greece and the Levant in the 10th–9th centuries BC |
Book reviews |
Dissertation abstracts 2018–2019 |
Skrifter utgivna av de svenska instituten i Athen och Rom |
Opuscula 11
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Preliminary report of the Malthi Archaeological Project, 2015–2016 |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2017: Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke (The Söderberg Expedition) |
Two Early Helladic II terracotta rollers from Asine and their glyptic context |
Tokens of piety |
The use of miniature pottery in Archaic–Hellenistic Greek sanctuaries |
Painting early death |
The hand gesture and symbols of Sabazios |
Cella alignment and 4th century BC Doric peripteral temple architecture in Mainland Greece |
Review - Interpreting the seventh century BC |
Review - Termini. Cornerstone of modern Rome |
Review - Die innerstädtische Wasserbewirtschaftung im hellenistisch-römischen Pergamon |
Review - Die Felsgräber der Könige von Pontos in Amasya |
Review - Musicians in ancient coroplastic art. Iconography, ritual contexts, and functions |
Dissertation abstracts 2017–2018 |
Opuscula 10
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Clay paste characterization and provenance determination of Middle and Late Helladic vessels from Midea |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2016: Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke (The Söderberg Expedition). Preliminary results |
Power and coinage: The portrait tetradrachms of Eumenes II |
The stadion of Labraunda |
Symbolic connotations of animals at early Middle Helladic Asine. A comparative study of the animal bones from the settlement and its graves |
The lower city of Asea, Arcadia. Results from a geophysical project 2001-2012 |
The last occupation of Asine in Argolis |
Review-A companion to the Etruscans |
Review-Myth drama and style |
Review-Where dreams may come |
Dissertations 2016-2017 |
Opuscula 9
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Later, laterculus, and testa |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2015 Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke |
Divine commands, authority, and cult: Imperative dedications to the Egyptian gods |
Home, refuse, and reuse during the Early Helladic III to the Middle Helladic I transitional period |
People and plants |
Excavations at the Monastery of St Antony at the Red Sea |
Textile tools from the East Gate at Mycenaean Midea, Argolis, Greece |
Subsidies for the Roman West? |
The rock-cut chamber tombs of Labraunda |
Book reviews |
Dissertations 2015–2016 |
Opuscula 8
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The Charitonidis Class |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2014 Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke |
Two new Proto-White Painted ware vases of the pictorial style from Palaepaphos, Cyprus |
Cutting the Gordian knot |
Loom weights in Archaic South Italy and Sicily: Five case studies |
The Swedish Jordan Expedition 2014 at Tall Abu al-Kharaz |
Terenz’ Hecyra—Spiel der Voreiligkeiten |
Book reviews |
Mycenaeans up to date
Table of contents |
Opuscula 7
Contents |
Ancestors at the gate |
Labraunda 2012–2013 |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2013 Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke |
The solidus hoard of Casa delle Vestali in context |
The Swedish Jordan Expedition 2013 at Tall Abu al-Kharaz |
Berit Wells in memoriam |
Castration, cult and agriculture |
Cooking stands and braziers in Greek sanctuaries |
New inscriptions in the Bodrum Museum |
Karpophoroi deities and the Attic cult of Ge Notes on IG II2 4758 |
Dairy Queen |
A note on domestic vs communal grain storage in the Early Helladic period |
Book reviews |
San Giovenale
Contents |
Acknowledgements |
Ringraziamenti |
Preface |
List of illustrations |
Bibliography |
Personal prolegomena |
Introduction to the geography and geology of San Giovenale |
History of the Borgo excavations |
Excavation areas, periods and stratigraphy |
Pre-House Period I |
Pre-House Period II |
The Great Fill Project |
The northern Area A. Buildings and stratigraphy of periods 1 & 2 |
The central Area B/C/I/R |
Lane K |
The southern Area D/E/F/G/H |
An earthquake at San Giovenale in the 6th century BC (?) |
Period 3—after the earthquake |
Periods 4 & 5—later developments |
Summary |
Appendix: San Giovenale bibliography 1877–2011 |
Appendix2: Osservazioni sulle strutture murarie |
Appendix3: An investigation into ancient mortars |
Appendix4: The roof-tiles |
Appendix5: Documentation of architectural remains |
Plates |
The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterini Square Kastelli, Khania 1970-1987 and 2001
Contents |
Preface |
List of illustrations |
Introduction |
Abbreviations |
Bibliography |
Introduction to the LM IIIB:1 and LM IIIA:2 settlements |
LM IIIB:1. Building 1. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIB:1. Building 3. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIB:1. Street. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIB:1. Rubbish Area Southeast. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIB:1. Building 2. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIB:1. Courtyard. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIB:1. Between Buildings 1 and 2. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIB:1. North of Buildings 1 and 2. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIA:2. Building 1. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIA:2. South of Building 1. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIA:2. Rubbish Area Southeast. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIA:2. Building 2. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIA:2. Courtyard. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
LM IIIA:2. Rubbish Area North. Stratigraphy and catalogues |
Unstratified material |
The architecture |
The wall plaster in the LM IIIB:1 and LM IIIA:2 levels |
The pottery |
Industrial activities, personal adornments and belongings |
The terracotta figurines and the stone vases |
The obsidian |
The Linear B inscriptions and potter’s marks |
Index for Linear B |
General conclusions |
Appendix: pottery statistics |
Concordance list |
Index |
Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum et Latinarum Upsaliensis
Contents |
Preface |
Abbreviations |
Introduction |
Text, translation, and commentary |
Bibliography |
Indices |
Concordances |
Bones, behaviour and belief
Table of contents |
Preface |
Introduction: bones of contention? |
What we would like the bones to tell us: a sacrificial wish list |
L’assemblage osseux comme un dernier état de la présence animale en contexte archéologique |
Evidence of animal offerings in Iron Age Scandinavia |
Dans l’ombre du rite : vestiges d’animaux et pratiques sacrificielles en Grèce antique |
Bones and the body politic? |
Hittite animal sacrifice |
The taphonomy of ritual bone depositions |
“Side” matters: animal offerings at ancient Nemea |
Dealing with the unexpected |
Rituels sacrificiels et offrandes animales dans le Sarapieion C de Délos |
Thesmophoriazousai |
The sea in the temple? |
Sacrificed animals in Swedish Late Iron Age monumental mound burials |
The zooarchaeology of cult |
Bones in Greek sanctuaries: answers and questions |
Archéozoologie et pratiques rituelles |
Maps |
Index |
Opuscula 6 2013
The agency of Greek and Roman statues |
Fragments with horses and wolf’s teeth |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2012 Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke |
Archaic pottery and terracottas from the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia |
Textual evidence for Aegean Late Bronze Age ritual processions |
A moving story about exotica: objects’ long-distance production chains and associated identities at Tiryns, Greece |
The Makrakomi Archaeological Landscapes Project (MALP) |
On the dating of two early 2nd century coin issues from Kos and the IGCH 1320 hoard |
The Swedish Jordan Expedition 2011 and 2012 at Tall Abu al-Kharaz |
Book reviews |
Children Lost and Found
Children Lost and Found |
Mastos in the Berbati Valley
List of illustrations |
List of tables |
Preface |
Introduction |
The topographical survey and the Geographical Information System (GIS) |
The Neolithic period |
The Early Helladic period |
The Middle Helladic period |
The Late Helladic period |
The Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods |
The Late Antique and Medieval periods |
Petrographic analysis of ceramics from the Berbati Valley |
Conclusions |
Bibliography |
Foldout 1 |
Foldout 2 |
Opuscula 5 2012
Dancing with decorum |
Labraunda 2011 |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2011 Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke |
Euergetism and city-walls in the Italian city of Telesia |
The water-mills on the Lamas River in Cilicia |
The impact of restoration |
The Swedish Jordan Expedition 2009 and 2010 at Tall Abu al-Kharaz |
Book reviews |
Opuscula 4 2011
A courtyard gate at Thourioi |
Labraunda 2010 : A preliminary report on the Swedish excavations |
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2010 : Excavations at Dromolaxia Vizatzia/Hala Sultan Tekke |
Representing consulship |
Is it possible to believe in a syncretistic god? |
Italian dreams, Roman longings |
Book reviews |
Opuscula 3 2010
Excavations in Midea 2008–2009 |
The bronze headbands of Prehistoric Lofkënd and their Aegean and Balkan connections |
Un inedito lastrone a scala da Tarquinia presso l’Antiquarium di Monte Romano |
Labraunda 2009 - A preliminary report on the Swedish excavations with contributions by Jesper Blid and Olivier Henry |
Water, well-being and social complexity in insula V 1 |
Marsyas in the garden? |
Chiusi e il Clusium Group |
Book reviews |
Opuscula 2 2009
Excavations in Midea 2007 |
Labraunda 2008 : A preliminary report on the Swedish excavations with contributions by Jesper Blid and Olivier Henry |
Report on the excavations in the years 2007 and 2008 southeast of the Temple of Poseidon at Kalaureia |
A smiting-god-figurine found in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia |
A new inscribed statue base from the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia |
A tale of three drums: An unfinished Archaic votive column in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia |
The Brygos painter at San Giovenale |
Decorative effects and room functions. The evidence of thresholds studied in the residential quarters of Insula V 1, Pompeii |
Book Reviews |
Opuscula 1 2008
Excavations in Midea 2006 |
The Archaic wall of Athens : Reality or myth? |
Epineia kai limenes : The relationship between harbours and cities in ancient greek texts |
Una nuova acquisizione di ceramica «white-on-red» dall'ager veientanus |
Visualized rituals and dedicatory inscriptions on votive offerings to the nymphs |
Nuovi dati sul popolamento nella pianura di Tarquinia durante la Romanizzazione il caso della località «il giglio» |
A forgotten tomb at Hippokome and its neighbours |
Reconsidering the tomb of Aulus Hirtius |
I muri trasversali di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme e la sinagoga di Ostia |
Book reviews |