The innumerable architectural members, once strewn about the Athenian Acropolis, are an important source for the reconstruction of the buildings on the Acropolis. Only the difficult sorting, registering, measuring and drawing, and the assignment of the fragments to their former context make this material truly valuable for scientific research. This work was done by Konstantinos Kissas, former member of the team working on the Acropolis and today Ephor of Antiquities in Corinth. His study presented here inlcudes more than 120 fragments documented in drawings, photographs and reconstructions (and more material is available on a CD that accompanies the volume). He offers important detailed observations that lead to new proposals for the reconstruction of the buildings of the Athenian Acropolis in the Archaic period, i. e. the century before the destruction of Athens by the Persians in 480 B.C. The material consists largely of unpublished architectural members, such as roof tiles of Naxian marble and sima- and metope-fragments from the so-called H-Building, which are studied in connection with architectural members of the ›Old Athena Temple‹.

После основания греческого поселения в Таганроге, недалеко от дельты Дона, в последней четверти VII века до н.э. были установлены долгосрочные контакты с полисами на Черном и Эгейском морях. На основе анализа могильника и поселения, раскопанных в рамках российских и германо-российских проектов, в этом томе рассматривается характер этих контактов. Применение теорий потребления и модели культурного присвоения позволяет описать культурное преобразование не как автоматическое следствие, а как процесс, инициируемый в обществе.

The subject of this survey is the local red glaze ware of Aizanoi found in several architectural complexes during excavations in the years 1980 to 2001. Beside the red glaze ware, also small amounts of Sigillata were examined. The aim of this study is to establish a typology and chronology of this locally important pottery and through comparison with the imported ware to determine the influence of the great pottery productions on the local ware in Aizanoi.

The study investigates the appearance and further development of architectural orders in the major Greek colonies in the North Pontus, especially in the main cities Tyras, Olbia, Chersonesos and Pantikapaion. Special attention is paid to the question of the local architectural schools and the stylistic influences first from southern Ionia, primarily Miletus, later on from Attica as well as Asia Minor and finally from Italian workshops. It is proved that in the first centuries A.D. the North Pontic littoral became closely connected with the imperial marble trade from Prokonnesos Island via the Black Sea, bringing to an end the local architectural tradition.

This volume presents for the first time a systematic study of the urban developments of pre-and early Roman Numidia. The author discusses both recent and older data from surveys and excavations. By means of autopsy, own fieldwork and the presentation of new diachronic city plans, the astonishingly early complexity of Numidia’s cityscapes is visualized. Houses, workshops, sanctuaries, funerary habits and economic developments are analyzed according to their continuities, ruptures and innovations. Through the focus on microregional/local evidence and by breaking with the accepted bipolar acculturation models, a fundamental reevaluation of North Africa’s so-called dark age and the identity discourses of that period is called for.

The study analyses decorations of the First Style in terms of their appearance, diffusion, application, and importance in the Western Mediterranean. Based on fragments from more than a hundred sites, local and regional differences in the application and development of this decorative system are described for the first time. At the same time, it is able to highlight the significance of the First Style for the social élites, who consciously employed it in their homes as a display of status.

Über 400 hellenistische Tonfiguren aus Priene werden hier erstmals vollständig und mit zahlreichen Abbildungen dokumentiert sowie ikonographisch analysiert. Im Gegensatz zu anderen antiken Terrakotten ist ihre Herkunft bekannt, sie sind häufig hervorragend gearbeitet und können in vielen Fällen genau datiert werden. Anhand der Funde beantwortet diese Arbeit die Frage, ob figürliche Terrakotten von ihren Käufern gezielt nach thematischen Gesichtspunkten ausgesucht wurden.

The column bases of about 460 Greek monuments from (proto)geometric to late Hellenistic times in the Greek home territory and on the Peloponnese, the Greek islands and in Asia minor, as well as examples from Greek colonies of the Magna Graecia and others, are covered. Twelve different types of Greek column, some variants and modifications and a few special forms can be distinguished. The different types were studied for their distribution, choice of materials, combination with forms of columns and building styles, form, fluting or decoration, proprotions, dating, origin, derivation, stone carving and technique; the results are summarised in a synopsis spanning all the different forms. The “foot” of the Ionian or Corinthian column, in contrast to the shaft and the capital, provided room for creative design; the individually formed types of column bases with a particular area of distribution were used as a characteristic form of expression for local architectural traditions.