The Hippodrome is one of the largest garden facilities in the Imperial Palace on the Palatine Hill in Rome. This monograph provides the first comprehensive analysis of its architectural ornamentation. On this foundation, the structure’s decorative systems are reconstructed. By analyzing the Hippodrome’s architectural decoration and assessing its place within the palace facility itself – as well as within the broader context of garden and villa architecture of the imperial period – we reach a new understanding of the structure, and how it was integrated into Rome’s Imperial Palace. This work contributes to the study of the architectural decoration of the city of Rome while simultaneously closing a gap in the study of the Imperial Palace as a whole.

The department of ancient art in the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg houses a most remarkable collection of twelve mummy masks that was donated by the private collector Friedrich Gütte. The major part of these masks comes from the Fayum area in Egypt and dates to the late Ptolemaic and early Roman epochs. This volume presents the masks which are kept in Würzburg for the first time in photographs alongside chapters explaining the cultural context: the religious significance of this object type for the ancient Egyptians, the dating and provenance through comparison with masks in other collections, and finally the mask’s iconographic programme.

Aus langjähriger Beratungs- und Lehrtätigkeit heraus führt der Autor anhand konkreter Fallbeispiele gut verständlich in die Rechtsgrundlagen musiktherapeutischen Handelns ein und zeigt gleichzeitig Vernetzungen und Konsequenzen der eigenen Verortung. Die Themen reichen von Approbation und Berufsgesetz, über Eingliederungshilfe, Heilkunde, Krankenkasse, Rechtsmittel bis zu Tarifrecht und Umsatzsteuer. Anhänge zu den Kapiteln zeigen systematisch Struktur und Vorgehensweise, beinhalten alle zitierten Rechtsnormen und helfen so zur Transferierung in den je eigenen Arbeitsalltag. Ein Lesebuch für das Studium und ein Lehrbuch in angestellter oder freiberuflicher Tätigkeit.

This reader compiles press releases and articles from the mass media mostly from Tanzania where Swahili is official language. Short units communicate the actual use of the language and provide an insight into political, economical and cultural everyday life.

This study investigates Russia’s 100 year expansion into her southern periphery, and the gradual integration of this new territory through infrastructure. These measures culminated in the construction of roads through difficult mountainous territory in a region with diverse ethnicities and confessions. The author holds that Russia was only gradually able to solve this multitude of challenges with the ideological self-assertion of being a civilizing mission. Eventually, the Caucasus was integrated into the Tsarist Empire without the russification of indigenous ethnicities, while still offering them a share in the modernizing process Russia was undergoing. However, some of the “unruly” mountainous tribes were resettled or even exiled to the Ottoman Empire.