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A boom-bust cycle in Ottoman Greece and the ceramic legacy of two Boeotian villages
Authors: Vionis Athanasios K.
Published: November 2022

Asserting that scholarly obscurantism has hindered the evolution of Ottoman Archaeology during the new millennium in different parts of the Eastern Mediterranean would be a hyperbole. It is accurate to acknowledge though that research into the Ottoman past sprang out of Historical Archaeology through untangling its archaeological marginality only as late as the 1980s, when archaeologists and anthropologists started to appreciate the rich textual and material legacy of the Ottoman era in the framework of regional survey projects. Up until that time, the negative perception and unpopular legacy of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the creation of national identities in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the focus on the Biblical past, Iron Age kingdoms and Hellenic culture in present-day nation-states of the Eastern Mediterranean, such as Greece, Cyprus, Israel or even Turkey itself, did not encourage the growth and huge potential of Ottoman Archaeology as a discipline.
Pablo Aparicio Resco. Entre Aidós Y Peitho. La iconografía del gesto del velo en la Antigua Grecia
Authors: Llewellyn-Jones Lloyd
Published: November 2022

The subject of Pablo Resco’s neat and useful study is the artistic development and cultural meaning of the ‘veil-gesture’ in Greek art. The ‘veil-gesture’, as I named it back in 2003 in my monograph Aphrodite’s Tortoise: the veiled woman of ancient Greece (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales), is one of the most frequently encountered motifs in Greek art. In fact, there are so many examples that a close study of the motif was well beyond the limits of my work at that time. Resco, drawing closely on Aphrodite’s Tortoise, has taken the opportunity to expand the investigation of the repertoire of the motif.
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe (ed.). Textile trade and distribution in antiquity/Textilhandel und -distribution in der Antike
Authors: Russell Ben
Published: November 2022

New scientific techniques, increasingly precise excavation strategies, and an upsurge in interest in the ancient economy—and in particular in identifying new datasets that might contribute to our understanding of it—mean that ancient textiles are finally receiving the attention they deserve. While research on ancient dress and textile production has a long history, it has tended to be something of a lonely one. Only in the past ten years have economic historians begun to appreciate the potential of this area, and only over the same period have textile specialists begun to explore how their work can inform debates in economic history.
Zetta Theodoropoulou Polychroniadis and Doniert Evely (eds). AEGIS. Essays in Mediterranean archaeology presented to Matti Egon by the scholars of The Greek Archaeological Committee
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

As its title makes clear, this is a collection of 23 papers presented as a festschrift to Matti Egon, the founder of The Greek Archaeological Committee UK, by a selection of past holders of scholarships granted by the Committee (some were unable to contribute for lack of time available). As such, it offers a good idea of the laudably wide range of topics that the Committee has been willing to support but, inevitably, it has no common theme. Although the majority of papers are concerned in some way with the Greek world, five lack any substantial ‘Hellenic’ link, two relating to Cyprus, one to Troy, one to the Phoenicians of southern Spain, and one to Mount Sinai.
Jana Mynářová, Pavel Onderka and Peter Pavúk (eds). There and Back Again – The Crossroads II. Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Prague, September 15-18, 2014.
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This publication in a handsome-looking hardback volume of the papers given at a recent conference in Prague is large (24 papers) and diffuse, but has Egypt and its ‘rich and complex relations with the Levant, the Aegean and the Sudan’ in the 2nd and 1st millennia, particularly the later Bronze Age, as its central theme. The majority of the papers concentrate on texts, which can provide valuable evidence even when material objects or artistic representations are the subject of the paper. They offer a salutary reminder of the sheer range and quality of documentation available from fully literate civilisations like those of Egypt and the wider Near East, and make a striking contrast with Aegean prehistory, which depends, for lack of written sources, on hypotheses that are always liable to change as a result of new archaeological discoveries and/or to be reinterpreted in the light of new theories and approaches.
John H. Oakley (ed.). Athenian Potters and Painters
Authors: Osborne Robin
Published: November 2022

This volume, dedicated to Alan Shapiro, follows the format of the two previous volumes of Athenian Potters and Painters (and, as in volume 2, with 32 splendid pages of colour plates). This is unfortunate. The papers appear in alphabetical order of their author, regardless of chronology or subject-matter, with no attempt to shape the book to make papers that talk to each other appear next to each other. Bibliographical references are buried in the notes at the end of each chapter, with no consolidated bibliography. Most extraordinary of all, there is no index. For those professionally interested in Greek painted pottery (the volume does not in fact limit itself to Athenian potters and painters and shows rather minimal interest in potters), it is no doubt convenient to have these papers between a single set of hard covers, but for any Greek archaeologist or historian who wants to know whether there is anything here for her, there is no way of telling. They would have a better chance of finding what is interesting here if these papers had been in a journal whose text could be searched online.
Rune Frederiksen, Silke Müth, Peter I. Schneider and Mike Schnelle (eds) Focus on Fortifications. New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Authors: Lohmann Hans
Published: November 2022

The present volume – the 2nd of the series ‘Focus on Fortifications’ –, comprises the papers given at an international conference organised by the Danish Institute and the German Archaeological Institute at Athens in the new Acropolis-Museum in December 2012. The total of 57 papers in German, English and French delivered by 73 authors, some of which participated in more than one contribution, spans a wide arc, reaching from the ancient civilizations of the Near and Middle East to the Early Byzantine era and geographically from Syria in the East to Spain in the West and from Gallia in the North to Yemen in the South.
Pietro Maria Militello and Hakan Öniz (eds) SOMA 2011. Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, held at the University of Catania 3-5 March 2011
Authors: Gallou Chrysanthi
Published: November 2022

This 2-volume publication presents the proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA), held at the University of Catania on 3–5 March 2011, and publishes 134 contributions, mainly from PhD students and early career researchers.

The papers are primarily sub-divided into thematic groups and a broad geographical subdivision has been adopted throughout to accommodate, according to the editors, the variety of material and approaches presented.
Revisiting Bronze and Early Iron Age Central Epirus (Prefecture of Ioannina, Greece)
Authors: Vasileiou Eleni
Published: November 2022

The area of central Epirus (prefecture of Ioannina) occupies the northwestern part of the Greek peninsula. It has been continuously settled for a quarter of a million years during which it witnessed lots of changes of physical landscape owing mainly to the intense tectonic activity. Central Epirus is dominated by two different geographical units, the Ioannina basin and the mountains surrounding it (Figure 1).
The City Walls of Athens (5th c. BC – 18th c. AD): a Contemporary Approach
Authors: Vizyinou Ourania
Published: November 2022

In modern-day Athens the fortification walls, built both in ancient times and subsequent periods, are not currently noticeable to the casual observer, despite having defined for long periods the city’s life. In fact, the majority of modern Athenians and visitors do not know of their existence since their remains are inconspicuous as a result of aggressive modern building schemes. While these remains are not materially magnificent, they are so historically as a mirror of the city’s fate.
Philippa M. Steele (ed.). Understanding Relations Between Scripts. The Aegean Writing Systems.
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This book is based on the papers given at a conference in Cambridge, March 20-21, 2015, held in memory of Anna Morpurgo Davies, on various aspects of the prehistoric Aegean writing systems (Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B) and their Cypriot relatives, including not only the material classified as Cypro-Minoan, but the Cypriot syllabary that developed from this in the early Iron Age and went on in use well into historical times, used to write both Greek and at least one non-Greek language of the island.
Raffaele D’Amato and Andrea Salimbeti. Early Iron Age Greek Warrior 1100–700 BC.
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This is the third booklet in this format concerned with ‘warriors’ of Greece by the same authors, the others being Early Aegean Warrior 5000–1450 BC (2013) and Bronze Age Greek Warrior 1600–1100 BC (2011). All include among their illustrations many colourful reconstructions by Giuseppe Rava, which considerably enhance the quality of these booklets by their imaginative if often over-enthusiastic liveliness.
Maeve McHugh. The Ancient Greek Farmstead.
Authors: Meens Anna
Published: November 2022

While Greek farming has received plenty of scholarly attention, this is the first book-length study devoted to ancient Greek farmsteads. Given the amount of discussion about farmsteads – ranging from debating their archaeological signature to even questioning their very existence in the Greek world – it is remarkable that such a book was not written sooner. The contribution by Maeve McHugh, therefore, is very welcome because it is the first time that the ancient Greek farmstead is treated integrally, thereby tying together a very fragmented scholarly discourse.
Jasna Jeličić Radonić and Miroslav Katić. Faros – osnivanje grčkog grada – I, (Pharos - the foundation of the ancient city – I).
Authors: Kirigin Branko
Published: November 2022

This review would not have been necessary if this book did not have an extensive English summary, almost as long as the entire text in Croatian (the book’s cover lacks the English title). The aim of Jeličić-Radonić and Katić’s book is to introduce us to ten years (1994-2004) of archaeological excavations conducted at Stari Grad on the Adriatic island of Hvar in Croatia, where the remains of Pharos (a Greek polis founded in the early 4th century BC) are located. Their book has fourteen unnumbered chapters as well as an Introduction, Conclusions, a Bibliography and an Index. I will only mention here some of the problems found in this book, whose publication has long been announced and awaited.
Diana Rodríguez Pérez (ed.). Greek Art in Context: Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives.
Authors: Osborne Robin
Published: November 2022

As the editor observes, ‘context’ has become a buzzword. Why? The editor has concluded, following the 2014 Edinburgh conference designed ‘to discuss the issue [of context] and clarify its terms’, from which this book derives, that ‘How each of us understands the term depends on one’s field of specialization and on the nature of the material under study’. That seems to me nonsense. What context is relevant depends on the question being answered. It is not whether something is a pot or a statue, or whether I am an historian or an archaeologist or an art historian that matters, it is what I want to know.
Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 4: Editorial
Authors: Bintliff John
Published: November 2022

This our fourth volume is unusually rich and varied in content. Geographically the articles range from Sicily via Greece to Anatolia and the Near East, while chronologically they extend from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman era. Thematically we have a set of papers in landscape studies which include agricultural history, settlement geography, regional comparisons; articles on material culture which encompass metallurgy, ceramics, the links between language and artefacts, and production and trade; papers on aspects of human social science such as palaeopathology and deformity, gender studies and the representation of the supernatural; historical perspectives are finally represented by articles on fortifications and Islamisation. A special treat is a lengthy presentation of the survey and excavation at the recently-discovered Mycenaean palace in the Sparta Valley. Our review section is even broader, running from the Palaeolithic through to aspects of presentday heritage studies, and covering an equally wide field of topics.
Catherine Perlès. Ornaments and other ambiguous artifacts from Franchthi, Volume I, the Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic, excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece
Authors: Galanidou Nena
Published: November 2022

Under the modest heading of a fascicle, the 15th volume of the Excavations at Franchthi Cave publication series is entitled Ornaments and Other Ambiguous Artifacts from Franchthi and is authored by Catherine Perlès. Unlike her previous studies of the knapped stone artifacts that were delivered in French, this work is written in English and will be valuable to a wide audience of specialists and students. The work at hand is one more welcome addition to the impressive series published by Indiana University Press, which is unparalleled in the archaeological literature of Stone Age Greece and southeast Europe in terms of quantity, quality and detail of publication. Thanks are due to the wise ‘Franchthi board’ who carry on the legacy of the site and its excavation in the 21st century (and perhaps to the excavator Tom Jacobsen who sends his jazzy blessings from the sky).
R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou and James C. Wright. Ayia Sotira. A Mycenaean chamber tomb cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This volume publishes a group of 6 chamber tombs excavated at the south end of the Nemea valley, not much more than a kilometre to the north-west of the settlement of Tsoungiza, which itself lies a similar distance slightly to the north-west of the historical Sanctuary of Zeus, site of one of the four regular festivals of Panhellenic athletic contests. Tsoungiza was a long-lived settlement, originally founded in the Early Bronze Age but abandoned for much of the Middle Bronze Age and only resettled in the phase in which the foundations of Mycenaean civilisation were being laid.
Susan Sherratt and John Bennet (eds). Archaeology and the Homeric Epics.
Authors: Lemos Irene S.
Published: November 2022

The title, Archaeology and the Homeric Epics, does not do justice to the variety of papers published in this edited volume, that cover much more than the relation between the Homeric epics and archaeology. In the introduction, the editors (Susan Sherratt and John Bennett) highlight the need to move ‘beyond the old dichotomies between historicity and irrelevance and to bring a multi-disciplinary approach’ to the study of the epics (introduction, p. viii). Indeed, the introductory chapter summarises the diversity of such approaches and argues that the relationship of the epics and archaeology is intermingled without any of them having ‘the monopoly of power to shed light on the other’ (introduction, p. xv). The introductory chapter offers a valuable review of current debates and approaches to the study of epic poetry, as well as a summary of the contributions in the volume.
Myrina Kalaitzi. Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth–First Century BC.
Authors: Estrin Seth
Published: November 2022

Myrina Kalaitzi dedicates this important new study of ancient Macedonian tombstones of the fifth through first centuries BC not to any named individual but to ‘the courageous reader.’ Most readers will not need courage to understand its familiar structure: a catalogue of surviving tombstones preceded by a chronological survey discussing major trends in the corpus. As Kalaitzi outlines in her Introduction, it is a structure determined less by a conceptual or theoretical model than by scholarly precedent – a structure that has been developed and deployed by scholars of ancient material culture on numerous occasions in order, ostensibly, to describe rather than interpret. The framework presumes that, when the corpus is addressed in comparative terms, visual patterns will emerge, ones that might tell us about cultural values shared between the people who produced or commissioned the individual monuments.
Jane E. Francis and Anna Kouremenos (eds) Roman Crete. New Perspectives
Authors: Karambinis Michalis
Published: November 2022

This volume was instigated by a panel on Roman Crete presented at the Roman Archaeology Conference in Frankfurt, Germany in March 2012. The current book comprises a selected number of papers from the RAC panel, to which are added seven other articles. Totally, the volume is consisting of 13 articles, plus a foreword written by Hugh Sackett, and an introduction and an afterword, where the editors present an account of the previous archaeological and historical research on Roman Crete, summarize the outputs of the volume papers, and propose directions for future research.
Georgios Deligiannakis. The Dodecanese and the Eastern Aegean Islands in Late Antiquity, AD 300–700.
Authors: Roussos Konstantinos
Published: November 2022

This substantial book derives from Deligiannakis’ doctoral thesis, and for this reason it is bibliographically updated until 2006, although it has been published 10 years later in 2016. It focuses on a particular chronological period – Late Antiquity (300–700) – during which insular communities played a major role on multiple levels. Despite the fact that it places a particular focus on the Dodecanese and the Eastern Aegean Islands, the author adopts a broader geographical perspective, using comparative material from both island (Crete, Cyprus, Cyclades etc.) and mainland regions (Asia Minor, Greek mainland etc.).
Philipp Niewöhner (ed.). The archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia. From the end of late antiquity until the coming of the Turks.
Authors: Intagliata Emanuele E.
Published: November 2022

Until not long ago, the history and archaeology of Anatolia had traditionally been dominated by Roman-oriented studies. The surge of interest in Byzantine remains of the last decades has contributed considerably in shedding light on later phases, clarifying the development of important processes that had so far been understudied, like the evolution of urbanism. Invaluable review-like studies and groundbreaking discoveries such as those at Amorium, have helped re-draw a picture of Byzantine Anatolia that is not merely one of decline, collapse and urban shrinkage. All this has translated into a large corpus of secondary literature that is difficult to navigate by non-specialists that approach the topic for the first time.
Jerome J. Pollitt (ed.) The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World.
Authors: D’Angelo Tiziana
Published: November 2022

Reconstructing a single coherent history of painted images over almost two and a half millennia and across a wide variety of cultural contexts in the Mediterranean and Europe is a daunting task, especially today, at a time when the notions of diversity and multiplicity play a crucial role in the study of classical antiquity. The editor Jerome J. Pollitt introduces this study as the first attempt, after Mary Hamilton Swindler’s 1929 Ancient Painting, to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of ancient Greek and Roman panel and mural painting from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, and to offer a critical assessment of past and current research on the paintings’ style, technique, iconography and sociocultural context. This ambitious study gathers nine essays by world-leading experts in different areas of ancient painting and is an essential tool for both students and specialists.
Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier. Das Orakelheiligtum des Apollon von Abai/Kalapodi. Eines der bedeutendsten griechischen Heiligtümer nach den Ergebnissen der neuen Ausgrabungen.
Authors: Donnellan Lieve
Published: November 2022

Whereas one would usually not proceed with acquiring the booklet of a named public lecture, the present volume could be an exception, for it brings to the reader an excellent overview of the history and current state of the grossly overlooked Apollo sanctuary of Abae in Phocis. Wolf-Dietrich Niemeyer, director of the excavations at Abae since 2004, was invited to deliver the yearly Winckelmann lecture in Trier in 2013. His lecture includes a comprehensive overview of recent work done at the sanctuary, and presents some of the groundbreaking conclusions that can be drawn from it. None of the recent excavations have been fully published and even less is available in English, this despite the fact that Abae was one of the most important oracle sanctuaries of the ancient world.
Brice L. Erickson, Lerna, Volume VIII, The Historical Greek Village, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Authors: Van der Enden Mark
Published: November 2022

Brice Erickson’s the Historical Greek Village is an excellent new addition to the Lerna series and significantly furthers our understanding of the nature and character of the site from circa 970 to 175 BC. Volume VIII in the series follows contributions that detail the fauna, people and prehistoric pottery and architecture of Lerna. Ericson’s Historical Village not only presents an important and rich corpus of material, it also attempts to interpret the available archaeological data to reconstruct the nature and character of the site and its place within the wider Argolid. In this the books succeeds marvellously and Ericson’s work significantly furthers our understanding of village life and culture in Geometric – Hellenistic times.
Francesco Collura with contributions by Sergio Cascella, Emiliano Arena and Benedetto Caroccio, Studia Calactina I. Ricerche su una città greco romana di Sicilia: Kalè Akté – Calacte.
Authors: Bergemann Johannes
Published: November 2022

The Tyrrhenian north coast of Sicily is in its eastern part, and apart from Tyndaris and Alaesa, archeologically far less explored than the south and east coast with its numerous Greek settlements. The new publication about Kale Akte is therefore very welcome. The city is located about 100 km west of Milazzo and about 60 km east of Cefalù, the ancient Kephaleodium. In the immediate vicinity are Halesa, about 20 km west, Apollonia (San Fratello) 20 km, Aluntium (San Marco d’Alunzio) 30 km and the villa of Patti Marina 60 km east.
Barbara A. Barletta. The Sanctuary of Athena at Sounion. pp. 360, with col. and b/w ills. 2018. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Ancient Art and Architecture in Context 4). ISBN: 978-0-87661-967-4, hardcover £65.
Authors: Lohmann Hans
Published: November 2022

The extensive and lavishly illustrated book by Barletta is partly based on an unpublished manuscript by H.A. Thompson, the former director of the Agora Excavations, and of W.B. Dinsmoor Jr., the architect of the excavation. It was first editorially revised by M. McAllister and finally Barletta assumed the task to publish it after her own intensive studies of the sanctuary and its remains. Because of her untimely death, she did not see the final publication which was provided meticulously by D. Scahill.
Sarah James. Hellenistic Pottery: The Fine Wares. Corinth VII.7. pp. 360, with 45 ills, 44 plates, 3 plans, 3 tables. 2018. Princeton NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ISBN 978-0-87661-077-0, hardcover £150.
Authors: Daems Dries
Published: November 2022

The latest edition in the Corinth volumes, Hellenistic Pottery: The Fine Wares by Sarah James, is the seventh instalment of the pottery volumes, initiated by Saul Weinberg in 1943. It provides a much-needed extension and revision of the chronology of Hellenistic pottery posited in Roger Edwards’ book Corinthian Hellenistic Pottery, which was published as the third volume in this series in 1975.
Enora Le Quéré, Les Cyclades sous l’Empire romain: Histoire d’un renaissance. pp. 456, b/w ills. 2015. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes (Collection: Histoire). ISBN 978-2-7535-4045-3, paperback €23
Authors: Karambinis Michalis
Published: November 2022

This is the fourth book dedicated to the Cyclades during the Roman period, after P. Nigdelis’ Πολίτευμα και Κοινωνία των Κυκλάδων κατά την Ελληνιστική και Αυτοκρατορική Περίοδο, Thessaloniki (University of Thessaloniki) 1990, L. Mendoni’s and S. Zoumbaki’s Roman Names in the Cyclades. Part I, Athens (National Hellenic Research Foundation) 2008, and S. Raptopoulos’, Κυκλάδες Νήσοι: Συμβολή στην Οικονομική τους Ιστορία κατά την Ελληνιστική και Αυτοκρατορική Εποχή, Tripolis (Archaeological Institute of Peloponnesian Studies) 2014. Le Quéré’s book essentially updates that of Nigdelis. Mendoni’s and Zoumbaki’s study is a catalogue of Roman names, while Raptopoulos’ work has clearly a more archaeological perspective.
Hjalmar Torp. La rotonde palatine à Thessalonique: Architecture et mosaïques. 2 Vols. pp. 568, 192 col. and b/w ills and plates. 2018. Athens: Éditions Kapon. ISBN: 978-618-5209-37-7, hardcover €86.
Authors: Elsner Jaś
Published: November 2022

The great American satirist, Tom Lehrer, once said (in relative youth) ‘when Mozart was my age, he’d been dead two years’. When Hjalmar Torp began to write about the Rotunda (or Church of St George) in Thessaloniki, this reviewer hadn’t been born for 8 years… Torp’s first contribution to the study of this remarkable and enigmatic building was published in 1954. It was the beginning of a string of discussions. If anyone knows this monument really well, it is the great – now 95-year-old – doyen of Norwegian early Christian archaeology. What he has published here is a beautifully produced and lovingly written summa of a lifetime’s work, with publications spanning French, Norwegian and English over 65 years – a period that included significant events in the lifetime of the building itself, such as the damage of the earthquake of 1978 and the painstaking restorations thereafter. The book is commanding, comprehensive and fundamental, and the addition of a brief typology of the portraits of the saints by the distinguished art historian Bente Kiilerich is welcome (pp. 187-93).
Natascha Sojc (ed.), Akragas. Current Issues in the Archaeology of a Sicilian Polis
Authors: Bergemann Johannes
Published: November 2022

In recent years research regarding Agrigento was the most intensive of all the ancient places in Sicily. This resulted from the stimulating charisma of the Archaeological Park and its administration, as well as the Soprintendenza. Italian and international teams examined the architecture, urban planning, the newly found theatre, and the Roman and late antique city. The Park and the Archaeological Museum have exhibited the results in museums for the public. In addition, archaeological surveys examined the ancient city and its hinterland. Natascha Sojc, first affiliated to Leiden University and now to the University of Augsburg, carried out archaeological and geophysical surveys in the suburban sanctuary of S. Anna. This collaborative effort resulted in the present volume that is based on a colloquium.
Walter Scheidel, Escape from Rome. The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
Authors: Ward-Perkins Bryan
Published: November 2022

This is a long book with a big theory: that innate features in Europe’s geography and culture made it peculiarly empire-proof after the collapse of Rome, and that it is the failure of any empire to control Europe that best explains the exceptional technological, scientific and economic development which gave us the world we have today, in which the majority of us are ‘so much richer, healthier and better educated than our ancestors used to be’ (p. 1). The principal driver of this change is for Scheidel the persistent polycentrism in Europe after Rome, and the consequent thriving of competition, not only between numerous independent states but also within states, between different groups competing for wealth and influence – merchants, lords, bishops and kings.
María-Paz de Hoz, Juan Luis García Alonso and Luis Arturo Guichard Romero (eds), Greek paideia and local tradition in the Graeco-Roman east
Authors: Stavrou Dorothea
Published: November 2022

Greek Paideia and Local Tradition in the Graeco-Roman East enriches our knowledge and understanding of the process of Hellenization in the Graeco-Roman East. In the foreword to the volume it is stated that its aim was to study this process especially in areas of Asia Minor and Egypt and to a lesser extent in Syria. The volume examines the various elements involved in the interaction between Greek and local cultures, to show how various aspects of Greek culture were adopted and transformed by indigenous populations who converted such features ‘into their own identity traits’. This collection of essays shows how the process of Hellenization that took place in the dynamic environment of the Graeco-Roman East, peopled by various ethnic entities, was modified and manipulated over time.
John Boardman, A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story So Far. An Autobiography
Authors: Osborne Robin
Published: November 2022

John Boardman’s contribution to Classical Archaeology has been prodigious. The list of publications at the end of this autobiography admits to 44 books (14 of which have been translated, most of them into more than one language), 18 joint books (4 of them translated), about 10 edited books (plus 7 years as editor of JHS, editor for 17 BSA Supplements, joint editor for 20 issues of OJA and for LIMC and ThesCRA, and major editorial roles for CVA and Kerameus), and some 280 articles, with more listed as forthcoming and something published in every year from 1954 to 2016. It is hard to think that this is a record that will ever be surpassed.
A beekeeper’s kit of the First Byzantine period in Eleutherna (Crete)
Authors: Yangaki Anastasia G.
Published: November 2022

The site of ancient Eleutherna is located in the regional unit of Rethymnon, around 25 km away from the town of that name, in the region of Mylopotamos, northwest of Mount Ida. Hills characterise the archaeological zone of the site, deeply cut through by two streams, to the east and to the west. It is a naturally fortified site, blessed with rich vegetation. Systematic excavations in Eleutherna by the University of Crete began in 1985. The whole site was divided into three Sectors. The eastern and western sides of one of these hills, Pyrgi, have been excavated (Sectors I and III, respectively), as well as the hill of Pyrgi (Figure 1), itself, which corresponds to the acropolis, and the hill to west of Pyrgi, Nisi (Sector II). These two hills are oriented north-south. The former has a more pointed shape at the northern end, and consists of terraces that have an elevation of 320 to 380 m. There lies the Central Plateau of the Acropolis of Eleutherna. Thanks to the investigations, architectural remains from various eras have been revealed on the eastern and western sides, as well as on the end of each of these hills.

During the period from the 4th until at least the first half of the 8th century AD, forming part of the so-called First Byzantine period of the island, which is of interest to us, Eleutherna experienced great growth. Important architectural remains from a settlement of that period are mainly concentrated in the valley east of Pyrgi (Sector I) and on the hill of Pyrgi (Sector II).
Sharon E.J. Gerstel, Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography.
Authors: Tzortzopoulou-Gregory Lita
Published: November 2022

Sharon E.J. Gerstel, Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography. pp.xvi, 207, 124 ills, 3 maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-5218-5-1596, hardcover £95.
Anastasia G. Yangaki, Ceramics in Plain Sight: The Bacini of the Churches of Crete. “Reflections” of the Late Medieval and the Early Modern Material Culture of the Island. Vol. 1. The Regional Unit of Chania.
Authors: Armstrong Pamela
Published: November 2022

Anastasia G. Yangaki, Ceramics in Plain Sight: The Bacini of the Churches of Crete. “Reflections” of the Late Medieval and the Early Modern Material Culture of the Island. Vol. 1. The Regional Unit of Chania. pp. 352, 311 figs. Athens: Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2021. ISBN 978-960-7905-70-3, paperback €40.
Eva Apostolou and Charles Doyen (eds), Obolos 10. Coins in the Peloponnese. La monnaie dans le Péloponnèse. Proceedings of the Sixth Scientific Meeting of the Friends of the Numismatic Museum, Argos, May 26–29, 2011.
Authors: Grandjean Catherine
Published: November 2022

Eva Apostolou and Charles Doyen (eds), Obolos 10. Coins in the Peloponnese. La monnaie dans le Péloponnèse. Proceedings of the Sixth Scientific Meeting of the Friends of the Numismatic Museum, Argos, May 26–29, 2011. Volume 1: Ancient Times. Volume 2: Byzantine and Modern Times. BCH Supplément 57. pp. 527 + 285, with figs, ills, maps. Athens: École Française d’Athènes, 2017. ISBN 978-2-86958-279-8, paperback €90.
D.J. Ian Begg, Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece. Gilbert Bagnani: The Adventures of a Young Italo-Canadian Archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924.
Authors: Struffolino Stefano
Published: November 2022

D.J. Ian Begg, Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece. Gilbert Bagnani: The Adventures of a Young Italo-Canadian Archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924. pp. xxxviii + 309, 14 ills, 5 maps, 1 tbl. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78969-452-9, hardcover £25.
David W.J. Gill, Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator.
Authors: Tzortzopoulou-Gregory Lita
Published: November 2022

David W.J. Gill, Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator. pp. vi + 276, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78491-879-8, paperback £30; 978-1-8491-880-4, E-book £16.
Manolis I. Stefanakis (ed.), Kymissala: Archaeology-Education-Sustainability.
Authors: Wallace Saro
Published: November 2022

Manolis I. Stefanakis (ed.), Kymissala: Archaeology-Education-Sustainability. pp. xii+192, with 147 col. and b/w ills, plates, and tbls. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. ISBN 9781-78491-768-5, paperback £42; open access E-book via Archaeopress website.
“Hot spots” of geoecological risk and problems of territorial planning
Authors: Svalova   V. B.
Published: November 2022

Introduction. The tasks of territorial planning are closely related to the problems of locating new high-risk facilities without increasing the environmental load. Thus, the task of locating high environmental risk facilities for recycling and deep processing of wastes appears to an essential economic and scientific problem that requires an immediate solution. The long-term consequences of such decisions should be forecasted and analysed.

Aim. To identify “hot spots” according to their risk degree in order to exclude the most dangerous areas from further planning and use.

Materials and methods. The stated problem is solved on the basis of environmental risk management, which includes the following concepts: 1) hazard identification; 2) vulnerability assessment; 3) risk analysis; 4) acceptable risk concept; 5) risk assessment; 6) risk mapping; 7) risk reduction measures, including a) legislative; b) organisational and administrative; c) economic, including insurance; d) engineering; e) modelling; f) monitoring; g) informational. Data and maps of hazardous natural and technogenic processes and potential damage to the territories of the Moscow Oblast were used.

Results. When carrying out territorial planning and location of additional hazard facilities, representing an increased ecological load, such as incineration plants and landfills for recycling and deep processing of wastes, high ecological risk regions should be excluded from the potential location list. In the Moscow Oblast, these are primarily Lyuberetsky and Ramensky districts (east-southeast of Moscow). Lyubertsky district can be considered as a “hot spot” of the first class in terms of ecological risk due to the high natural hazard and potential damage. The findings obtained when determining “hot spots” based on geological, geodynamic, tectonic and socio-economic parameters, were confirmed by the areas of geochemical pollution and environmental stress zones.

Conclusion. The developed method of identifying the risk “hot spots” represents a basis for solving the problems of territorial planning for the purpose of excluding the most ecologically stressed sites and selecting suitable sites for locating hazard facilities, in particular, recycling and waste processing plants.
On the textbook “Genetic analysis of terrigenous deposits”
Authors: Komarov V. N. , Samokhvalov S. A.
Published: November 2022

The textbook under review considers the fundamentals of the genetic analysis of terrigenous and associated sediments. A classification scheme of the genetic types, subgroups, groups, and supergroups of these deposits is provided. According to the proposed scheme, continental, transitional, marine, and mixed genetic types are sequentially described. A set of sedimentation features that allow for identification of the genetic type, its lateral and vertical transitions to other genetic types, is introduced. The form and size of modern accumulative bodies formed by genetic types of deposits and their fossil analogues are indicated.
What Factors Influence the Profitability of Firms in Malawi? Evidence from the Non-Financial Firms Listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange
Authors: Banda Fredrick Mangwaya , Edriss Abdi-Khalil
Published: November 2022

For firms listed on the stock market, profit is crucial as it ensures the efficient allocation of scarce resources, and leads to the increase in the price of shares. The purpose of this study was to identify the drivers of profitability for the non-financial firms listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE). Previous studies have only focused on commercial banks without considering the determinants of profitability of non-financial firms. This study, therefore, adds to the literature by analyzing the drivers of profitability for non-financial firms listed on the MSE. It employs the panel data method, particularly, the Random Effects model (REM) using quantitative data collected from the financial statements of six non-financial firms listed on the MSE from the period 2014 to 2018.  Regression results indicate that taxation and asset tangibility are the negative determinants of profitability on the MSE while non-tax debt shield (NDTS) and interest rate coverage ratio are positive determinants of profitability.  The general policy implication arising from this study is that in order to make more profits managers of the firms should focus on increasing NDTS and interest coverage ratio, having more liquid assets than tangible ones, and reducing the corporate tax charged to firms.
Does Foreign Aid Have an Expected Role in the Economic Growth of Bangladesh? An Analysis in ARDL Approach
Authors: Hossain Md Ismail , Hossain Md Istiak , Islam Mollah Aminul , Sultanuzzaman Md Reza
Published: November 2022

Bangladesh, a lower-middle-income country in South Asia and expected to be a developing country by 2024, is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with 166.30 million (WDI, 2021) people. Foreign Aid (FA) plays a vital role in the economic development of Bangladesh. Foreign Aid, loans, and grants generally, which we call Official Development Assistance (ODA) (in this study, we have used the term 'Foreign aid') have increased gradually over the years after the liberation of Bangladesh with the increase of per capita GDP. In our study, we have conducted a single country investigation on Bangladesh and examined the impact of Foreign Aid on the Economic growth of Bangladesh from 1971 to 2019. The ARDL bounds test methodology was applied in the study, followed by the unit root test and the bound test for cointegration. Several diagnostic tests were conducted to check the stability and reliability of the model. The obtained results revealed that Foreign Aid has a significant and positive impact on the Economic growth of Bangladesh in the long- and short-run. The coefficients of the variables of our study refer that a 1(one) unit increase in foreign Aid would intensify 0.24 units of Economic growth in Bangladesh. In line with Foreign Aid, Gross capital formation also has a significant positive impact on the country's economic development. On the contrary, trade openness has a negative but insignificant impact both in the short and long run. Besides, population growth negatively and significantly impacts economic growth in the long run. In this study, finally, we have recommended some policy implications for the Government of Bangladesh.
Behavioral Biases Influencing Investment Decisions of Life Insurance Investors
Authors: Shunmugasundaram V. , Sinha Aashna
Published: November 2022

The purpose of this paper is to validate the scale of behavioral biases and investment decisions concerning investors of life insurance and to evaluate the impact of behavioral biases on investment decisions made by them. The study is based on a questionnaire survey by including the investors of life insurance residing in Bihar (India) using a convenient sampling technique. The collected data were analyzed using SmartPLS. The study found that the scale used to measure behavioral biases and investment decisions of investors of life insurance were valid and behavioral biases have a positive and significant impact on investment decisions of life insurance investors. The study found that the investors are behaviorally biased while making investment decisions related to life insurance and only four biases are included in the study. The study contributes to the academia of behavioral aspects of life insurance investors. The study helps in understanding the mindset of investors investing in life insurance. This study contributes to the limited study undertaken in the area of behavioral aspects of life insurance investors. It also contributes to the lacking academe of life insurance.
The Impact of Purpose as a Principal Leadership Skill on the Performance of Select Township Schools in South Africa
Authors: Marais P. , Govender Krishna K.
Published: November 2022

This study aimed to investigate the impact of “purpose” as a principal leadership skill on the performance of two township schools using a quantitative research design and collecting data from the school principals, teachers and matric learners, using the 28-scale Servant Leadership Test as well as Gallup’s Q12 Employee Engagement survey. The questionnaires addressed the key objectives, namely, the extent to which the principals of the participating schools exhibited servant leadership and their understanding of “purpose” as one word in leadership and how teachers and learners perceived the impact of a “one-word” purpose-driven leader on the performance of the selected schools. Although no relationship could be demonstrated between ‘’purpose’’ and the performance of the two township schools, it became evident that a significant increase in Servant Leadership leads to a significant increase in engagement and performance, as measured by the matric pass rate. It is recommended that workshops be facilitated with principals and teachers in order to entrench ‘’purpose’’ deeper throughout the schools. In addition, Servant Leadership training has to conduced to increase the leadership ability of the school principals. Future research in the area of ‘’purpose as one word’’, as well as Servant Leadership as a principal skillset within the South Africa’s public school’s leadership is recommended.
Nanosponges – A Review on Noval Drug Carriers
Authors: A Anto. , Kumar.S Ranjith , L.V Vigneshwaran , Kumar.M Senthil
Published: November 2022

Pharmaceutical nanotechnology, the pharmaceutical sciences' most recent subfield, offers new resources, chances, and possibilities that are anticipated to have a big impact on illness treatment and diagnosis.. Pharmaceutical nanotechnology comprised of nano-sized products which can be transformed in numerous ways to improve their  characteristics. A Nanosponge is a novel and emerging technology which offers targeted & controlled drug delivery for topical as  well as oral use. Nanosponges are based on nano, polymer-based spheres that can suspend or entrap a wide variety of substances  and then be incorporated into a formulated product such as a gel, lotions,cream, ointments, liquid or powder. This technology  offers entrapment of ingredients and thus reduced side effects, improved stability, increases elegance and enhanced formulation flexibility.A component of advanced medicine delivery is nanosponge. It is a special tool for the regulated administration of both lipophilic and hydrophilic medicines to specific patient populations.

Keyword: Nanosponges, Cyclodextrins,Drug delivery
Autonóm járművek kooperatív irányítása
Authors: Szabolcsi Róbert
Published: November 2022

Az elmúlt és a következő évek egyik nagy kihívása az autonóm (A) járművek kooperatív irányítása. Az autonóm  járművek, mint például a pilóta nélküli légi jármű (AUAV), a  vezető nélküli felszíni jármű (AUGV), a vízfelszíni jármű  (AUSV) kooperatív irányítása viszonylatában számos esetben találkozunk olyan forgatókönyvvel, hogy egy-egy közös cél (például UAV zárt kötelékes repülési alakzatainak létrehozása, vagy az UAV repülési alakzatának bontása, UAV földi utántöltése, felderítő UAV-repülések, UAV leszállása  autonóm földi jármű fedélzetére, UAV automatikus leszállása hajók fedélzetén stb.) elérése érdekében a  különféle autonóm járművek együttműködnek egymással.  A szerző célja néhány speciális UAV-alkalmazás koncepciójának leírása, és a fő kooperatív irányítási  stratégiák bemutatása.
A monitoringrendszerek és a pilóta nélküli légi járművek lakosságvédelmi célú alkalmazása a veszélyes üzemek környezetében
Authors: Bene Viktória
Published: November 2022

Napjainkban egyre gyakoribbak a veszélyes üzemek területén történt súlyos balesetek, amelyek emberi hibára,  technológiai meghibásodásra, valamint természeti  események bekövetkezésére vezethetők vissza. Az ipari balesetek az esemény veszélyességi fokától függően az üzemben tartózkodó személyeken kívül az üzem  körzetében lévő lakosságra és azok környezetére is hatással lehetnek. A baleset bekövetkeztével emberre és a környezetre ártalmas mérgező vegyi anyag kerülhet a  levegőbe, ezért létfontosságú a monitoring- és lakossági  riasztó rendszerek fejlett és gyors tevékenysége.
A pilóta nélküli légi járművek együttműködésének lehetőségei a szárazföldi erőkkel egyes katonai műveletekben
Authors: Major Gábor , Tóth Zoltán
Published: November 2022

A tudomány, a technológia és az ipar által megalkotott eszközök és rendszerek az élet számos területét teszik  könnyebbé, hatékonyabbá és biztonságosabbá. A katonai  műveletek alapesetben nem tartoznak a nyugodt,  biztonságos feladatok, küldetések közé, ám a technikai  fejlődés ezt a szegmenst is azon területek közé emelte, ahol lehet „biztonságosan harcolni”. Az alábbi publikációban a  szerzők bemutatják, hogy a klasszikus szárazföldi katonai  műveletek milyen módon válhatnak „túlélhetőbbé” a pilóta  nélküli légi járművek „tudásának, képességének” támogatásával. Ezek a katonai UAV-ok képesek támogatni a  szárazföldön (de akár a vízen is) harcoló katonákat,  növelni a túlélési esélyeiket és a harci effektivitásukat. A szerzők célja, hogy képet fessenek az olvasó számára a  szárazföldi harc során bevethető, azt támogató és a bevetés sikerét elősegítő pilóta nélküli légi járművek sokszínűségéről, a nagyvilág néhány hadseregét  megvizsgálva.