{"title":"Metal Finds and Coins: Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project II, and Glass, Lamps, and Jerash Bowls: Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project II, both edited by Achim Lichtenberger and Rubina Raja","authors":"T. Penn","doi":"10.1086/723193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48690462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labouring with Large Stones: A Study into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece, by Yannick Boswinkel","authors":"M. Devolder","doi":"10.1086/723194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46637031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital, by Tuna S. Ağtürk","authors":"M. Beckmann","doi":"10.1086/723197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49432813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Social Archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Egypt: Artefacts of Everyday Life, by Ellen Swift, Jo Stoner, and April Pudsey","authors":"A. Boozer","doi":"10.1086/723196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42067558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"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, edited by Sabine Deschler-Erb, Umberto Albarella, Silvia Valenzuela Lamas, and Gabriele Rasbach","authors":"Cătălin Pavel","doi":"10.1086/722738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49667395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture: Aesthetics, Semantics and Function, edited by Annette Haug, Adrian Hielscher, and M. Taylor Lauritsen","authors":"S. Perna","doi":"10.1086/722737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41451422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numidia Romana? Die Auswirkungen der römischen Präsenz in Numidien (2. Jh. v. Chr.–1. Jh. n. Chr.), by Stefan Ardeleanu","authors":"Matthew McCarty","doi":"10.1086/722736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722736","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43665679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In an attempt to read the fortunes of kings and the powerful in the Ptolemaic sky, Hellenistic astrologers have often used the image of a throne and a stool, as a metaphor for elevation, exaltation, upward ascent, and success. These λαμπήναι or θρόνοι were the basis of interpretive techniques still in use in the Middle Ages and early modern period, to predict the success of an undertaking or the victory and prosperity of a ruler.
{"title":"Thronos: Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond, edited by Rachele Pierini, Alberto Bernabé, and Marco Ercoles","authors":"Dimitra Andrianou","doi":"10.1086/722735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722735","url":null,"abstract":"In an attempt to read the fortunes of kings and the powerful in the Ptolemaic sky, Hellenistic astrologers have often used the image of a throne and a stool, as a metaphor for elevation, exaltation, upward ascent, and success. These λαμπήναι or θρόνοι were the basis of interpretive techniques still in use in the Middle Ages and early modern period, to predict the success of an undertaking or the victory and prosperity of a ruler.","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48186867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards A Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period: A Biocultural Analysis of Human Remains from the Voudeni Cemetery, Achaea, Greece, by Ioanna Moutafi","authors":"Joanne M. A. Murphy","doi":"10.1086/722734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46245555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome—and Back, edited by Steven Fine","authors":"Haggai Olshanetsky","doi":"10.1086/722739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722739","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7745,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49012972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}