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  • af Catherine Morgan
    1.053,95 kr.

    Final report on the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age evidence (pottery, metalwork, terracottas, architecture and other constructions) from excavations conducted by the University of Chicago at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia between 1952 and 1989.

  • - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece
    af Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
    178,95 kr.

    In 1947, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a color movie entitled Triumph over Time to accompany its fundraising campaign.

  • - Masterpiece of Classical Greek Metalwork
    af Beryl Barr-Sharrar
    1.083,95 kr.

    This beautifully illustrated book represents the first full publication of the most elaborate metal vessel from the ancient world yet discovered. Found in an undisturbed Macedonian tomb of the late 4th century B.C., the volute krater is a tour de force of highly sophisticated methods of bronze working.

  • af James C. Wright
    293,95 kr.

    The large-scale, formal consumption of huge quantities of food and drink is a feature of many societies, but extracting evidence for feasting from the archaeological record has, until recently, been problematic. This collection of essays investigates the rich evidence for the character of the Mycenaean feast.

  • af Brian C. Madigan
    1.068,95 kr.

    The definitive publication of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai, in the NW Peloponnese, this is one of four volumes representing the culmination of years of study by Professor Fred Cooper of the University of Minnesota and other scholars throughout the world.

  • - The Classical Building
    af William B. Dinsmoor
    1.148,95 kr.

    William Dinsmoor began his study of the Propylaia in 1908, and his son took up the study in 1962. Part 2 combines their work and is the first complete and exhaustive documentation of the innovative and unique structure which served as a monumental entrance to the Athenian Acropolis.

  • af Isabelle K. Raubitschek
    1.053,95 kr.

    A study of the objects in bronze, iron, copper, gold, silver and lead from the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia, mainly belonging to the 7th and 6th centuries BC.

  • - Marble Sculpture, 1967-1980
    af Steven Lattimore
    1.033,95 kr.

    A catalogue of sculpture discovered during excavations by the University of California in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia, ranging in date from c. 100 BC to C. AD 400, but mainly belonging to the mid-2nd century.

  • - A Pictorial History
    af Craig A. Mauzy
    268,95 kr.

    In 2006, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens celebrates seventy five years of archaeological work in the Athenian Agora, the civic center of classical Athens. Since the first trench was dug on May 25th 1931, excavations have continued in a series of yearly campaigns, only briefly interrupted by the Second World War.

  • af Christopher A. Pfaff
    1.083,95 kr.

    This volume inaugurates a new series providing detailed and up-to-date analyses of excavations and fieldwork conducted over more than a century at the Argive Heraion, a Classical Temple in the Peloponnese. The book opens with an overview of the site's excavation history, including photographs from the investigations of the 1890s.

  • - A Late Neolithic Settlement and Cemetery
    af John E. Coleman
    633,95 kr.

    This is the first volume in the final publication of the University of Cincinnati's investigations on the island of Keos. It describes the excavation of a small site on the headland of Kephala, about one kilometer north of the Bronze Age site of Ayia Irini.

  • af John L. Caskey & E. T. Blackburn
    73,95 kr.

    Situated on the shores of the Argolic Gulf, only a few miles away from the much later prehistoric sites of Mycenae, Tiryns, and Midea, Lerna is one of the key building blocks in our understanding of Greek archaeology.

  • af Nancy Bookidis
    73,95 kr.

    The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls.

  • af Carol L. Lawton
    103,95 kr.

    The fifth-century B.C. poet Pindar remarked on the rich sculptural decoration of the Athenian Agora, and, indeed, over 3,500 pieces of various types of sculpture have been uncovered during its excavation.

  • - Democracy in the Athenian Agora
    af Mabel Lang
    103,95 kr.

    The artefacts and monuments of the Athenian Agora provide our best evidence for the workings of ancient democracy. As a concise introduction to these physical traces, this book has been a bestseller since it was first published almost 20 years ago.

  • af Carl W. Blegen
    103,95 kr.

    The classic guide to the Palace of Nestor, now illustrated in full colour, including Piet de Jong's watercolours. Expanded to include descriptions of nearby sites and those discovered as a result of recent investigations by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Survey. An appendix serves as a guide to the Chora Museum.

  • af John McK Camp
    103,95 kr.

    Full-colour booklet illustrating the many role played by the horse in Greek life, from myth and early history to its significance as a mark of status and its use in war, transport, games and festivals.

  • af Fred S. Kleiner
    73,95 kr.

    From the thousands of pieces of Late Roman small change discovered trodden into beaten earth floors and dropped into wells to the hoards of 19th-century A.D. silver French francs discovered beneath modern houses, many post-classical coins have been discovered during excavations at the Agora.

  • af Sara A. Immerwahr
    73,95 kr.

    Before the creation of the Agora as a civic center in the 7th century B.C., the region northwest of the Acropolis was a vast cemetery. Over 150 ancient burial places have been found by excavators, and a few of the more remarkable are described here.

  • af Michael B. Walbank
    578,95 kr.

    This volume publishes the editiones principes of fragments of inscriptions found during excavations in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1967.

  • - The Site and the Finds
    af Gloria S. Merker
    578,95 kr.

    A series of kilns at ancient Corinth known as the Tile Works are given final publication in this long-awaited book, based on excavations conducted in 1939 and 1940 (as war was closing in) by Carl Roebuck and Arthur Parsons, and renewed briefly in 1950 by Gladys Weinberg.

  • af Fariba Zarinebaf
    858,95 kr.

    This book offers an innovative collaborative approach to the study of a particular region of the Ottoman empire, the southwestern Peloponnese (or Morea), Greece.

  • - The Early Iron Age Potters' Field in the Area of the Classical Athenian Agora
    af John K. Papadopoulos
    858,95 kr.

    This volume publishes selected material associated with potters' workshops and pottery production from some fourteen Early Iron Age contexts northwest of the Athenian Akropolis that range in date from the Protogeometric through Archaic periods.

  • - Function and Pottery Production
    af Joseph W. Shaw
    858,95 kr.

    An in-depth study of the Late Minoan IA cross-draft kiln found during excavations at Kommos on Crete. The kiln is of a type that was popular during the Neopalatial period, and its good state of preservation has allowed the authors to speculate about its original internal layout and use, as well as the roof that covered it.

  • - Architectural Stages and Chronology
    af Ira S. Mark
    578,95 kr.

    Based on records from Nikolaos Balanos' dismantling and reerection of the temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis (between 1935 and 1939), this volume presents a detailed architectural study of the building's chronology and history.

  • af Elizabeth J. Walters
    578,95 kr.

    The author investigates the appearance of a fashion in clothing, involving a knotted mantle worn across the chest, on many Attic stelae of the Roman period. She suggests that this style can be traced to Egyptian roots, and might have particularly been associated with a cult of Isis, popular among wealthy Athenians.

  • af John E. Coleman
    578,95 kr.

    When the site of Elean Pylos was threatened by the construction of a dam in 1968, a team from the University of Colorado moved in to salvage as much information as possible about the ancient town before it was submerged. This report is divided chronologically: Middle Helladic, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Roman, Byzantine and Frankish.

  • af C.W.J. Eliot
    398,95 kr.

    This book presents the diary of Captain Thomas Douglas Whitcombe, a young English gunnery officer who in 1827 participated as a volunteer in an expedition to relieve the Turkish siege of the Acropolis of Athens.

  • af K. K. Vitelli
    1.598,95 kr.

    Beneath the famous remains of the House of the Tiles and the other Bronze Age remains found at Lerna, a large amount of Neolithic pottery was found during 1950s excavations by the American School of Classical Studies.

  • af Jeremy B. Rutter
    1.098,95 kr.

    The author presents the Early Helladic III pottery from Lerna in all its aspects, cataloguing, describing, and classifying over 1,400 vessels.