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After Sulla: study in the settlement and material culture of the Piraeus peninsula in the Roman and Late Roman period
Full text linkModem text-based and ancient historical accounts take the sack of Piraeus, the port of Athens in Greece, by the Romans under Sulla in 86 ВС as the terminal point of the history of the area in antiquity. Archaeological work on the town has tended so far to regard the post-Classical phases of the settlement as less interesting than those marking the 'heyday' of the port in the Classical period. This thesis explores the nature and scale of settlement in the area in the centuries spanning the town's destruction by the Romans in 86 ВС and the Late Roman period. The study is based on a re-assessment of archaeological data from old and recent rescue excavations in the modem town up to 1997. It also presents and discusses in detail the results of post-excavation work by the author on unpublished material from an extensive site excavated in the early 1980s, These results are compared to and synthesized with epigraphic and other testimonies to answer questions about the nature of settlement and the degree of social and cultural change in the area during the period in focus. The discussion focuses in particular on; 1) exploring continuity and change in the settlement patterns, demography and topography of the town, 2) the changing nature of domestic space and its organization, and 3) investigating patterns of pottery consumption and trade. These issues are examined in the context of the social, economic and cultural changes documented for the Roman imperial and Late Roman period by previous archaeological fieldwork and excavations in the region of southern Greece and the Aegean
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The quick and the dead in the extra-urban landscape: the Roman cemetery at Ostia/Portus as a lived environment
No full textFour Groups of Roman Pottery from the Sanctuary of Apollo at Halasarna on the Island of Kos
Full text linkΤέσσερα σύνολα ρωμαϊκής κεραμικής από το ιερό του Απόλλωνα στην Αλάσαρνα της ΚωΣτην παρούσα μελέτη παρουσιάζονται τα ευρήματα κεραμικής από τέσσερα στρωματογραφημένα σύνολα των αυτοκρατορικών χρόνων που προέρχονται από την ανασκαφή του Τομέα Αρχαιολογίας και Ιστορίας της Τέχνης του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών στο ιερό του Απόλλωνα στην Αλάσαρνα (σημ. Καρδάμαινα) της Κω. Πρόκειται για υλικό που ήρθε στο φως κατά την ανασκαφική έρευνα του λεγόμενου Κτηρίου Δ, ενός μικρού δίστυλου εν παραστάσι ναού, στα ΒΑ του αρχαιολογικού χώρου. Τα ευρήματα παρουσιάζονται και αναλύονται σύμφωνα με τα ανασκαφικά τους συμφραζόμενα, καθώς επίσης σε συνάρτηση με τυποχρονολογικές και ποσοτικές παραμέτρους για κάθε σύνολο ξεχωριστά. Καλύπτοντας μια περίοδο 150 ετών από τα τέλη του 1ου/αρχές του 2ου αι. μ.Χ. μέχρι τα μέσα περίπου του 3ου αι. μ.Χ., τα σύνολα αυτά προσφέρουν μια ευρεία και αντιπροσωπευτική εικόνα της ποικιλίας των κεραμικών ειδών και της κυκλοφορίας τους στο ιερό σε διαχρονική κλίμακα. Τα δεδομένα αυτά δίνουν τα δυνατότητα να εξεταστεί υπό διαφορετικό πρίσμα ο αντίκτυπος στην οικονομία, το εμπόριο και το παραγωγικό δυναμικό της Αλάσαρνας που είχε ο σεισμός του 139 ή 141/142 μ.Χ., ο οποίος σύμφωνα με φιλολογικές μαρτυρίες έπληξε με σφοδρότητα το νησί και άλλες περιοχές του ΝΑ Αιγαίου και της Μ. Ασίας.This study presents and discusses the pottery from four recently investigated stratified assemblages of Roman Imperial date from the University of Athens excavations at the sanctuary of Apollo in Halasarna (modern Kardamena) on the island of Kos. The deposits come from the area of the so-called Building Δ, a distyle in antis temple of the Roman Imperial period, which is located in the northeastern part of the site. They span a period of ca. one and a half centuries, from the later first/ early second to ca. the mid-third century CE. The pottery is presented and analyzed contextually, followed by a catalogue of selected diagnostic finds. Detailed quantified data for each assemblage are presented in an appendix, allowing an understanding of the relative volume of pottery wares circulating in the sanctuary, the sources from which they came and the changes in their relative proportions over time. In addition to providing the first detailed publication of Roman pottery from the island of Kos, the paper offers an opportunity to glimpse into the economy and trade links of Halasarna in imperial times, especially for the period after the earthquake of 139 or 141/142 CE that reportedly devastated the island
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Roman pottery in the collection of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens: The finds from mainland Greece, the islands and Asia Minor
No full textDiese Untersuchung stellt im DAI aufbewahrte Keramikfunde vor, die deutsche Archäologen bei frühen Erkundungen verschiedener Orte des griechischen Festlandes, der Inseln und Kleinasiens gesammelt haben und die zwischen dem 1. Jh. v. Chr. und dem 7. Jh. n. Chr. datieren. Die Scherben gehören einem breiten Bereich von Funktionskategorien an, der importierte Feinkeramik, lokales und regionales Tischgeschirr, Gebrauchs- und Kochgeschirr, Lampen und Transportamphoren einschließt. Die meisten Fundorte sind aus früheren Erkundungen bekannt, aber nicht alle sind systematisch erforscht, insbesondere, was ihre Nutzungsphasen in römischer und spät an ti ker Zeit angeht. Die spezifischen Angaben, die zu den Fundorten vorliegen, machen daher das Material wertvoll für Vergleiche mit zukünftigen Surveys und Ausgrabungen. Außerdem sind diese Scherben eine wichtige Informationsquelle für die Verbreitung bestimmter keramischer Waren und Formen. Sie verdeutlichen das Vorkommen regionaler und lokaler Produktionen und erlauben einen weiten Überblick über ihr typologisches und chronologisches Vorkommen in bestimmten Regionen Griechenlands und der ÄgäisΠρωτότυπος τίτλος: Kaiserzeitliche und spätantike Keramik in der Sammlung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Athen. Die Funde des griechischen Festlandes, der Inseln und Kleinasiens
Στην παρούσα μελέτη παρουσιάζονται ευρήματα κεραμικής των αυτοκρατορικών χρόνων και της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας που βρίσκονται στη συλλογή του ΓΑΙ Αθηνών και περισυνελέγησαν κατά τη διάρκεια παλαιών ερευνών από Γερμανούς αρχαιολόγους σε διάφορες θέσεις της ηπειρωτικής και νησιωτικής Ελλάδας και την ακτή της δυτικής Μικράς Ασίας. Χρονολογούνται μεταξύ 1ου αι. π. Χ. και 7ου αι. μ. Χ. και αντικατοπτρίζουν ένα μεγάλο εύρος κεραμικών ειδών και χρηστικών κατηγοριών, όπως εισηγμένη λεπτή κεραμική, επιτραπέζια είδη τοπικών ή περιφερειακών εργαστηρίων, χρηστική κεραμική και μαγειρικά σκεύη, λύχνους και αμφορείς. Οι θέσεις προέλευσης στην πλειοψηφία τους είναι γνωστές στην έρευνα ωστόσο δεν έχουν σε όλες τις περιπτώσεις τύχει συστηματικής μελέτης, όσον αφορά τους ρωμαϊκούς αυτοκρατορικούς χρόνους και την Ύστερη Αρχαιότητα. Τα σωζόμενα στοιχεία σχετικά με αυτές τις θέσεις καθιστούν το υλικό αυτό κατ’ αρχήν χρήσιμο στο μέλλον για συγκριτικούς σκοπούς με συστηματικές έρευνες και ανασκαφές. Επιπλέον, τα όστρακα αυτά προσφέρουν σημαντικές πληροφορίες για τη διασπορά κεραμικών ειδών και σχημάτων, καταδεικνύουν την ύπαρξη τοπικών και περιφερειακών εργαστηρίων και επιτρέπουν μια επισκόπηση της χρονολόγησης και τυπολογικής κατανομής τους σε διάφορες περιοχές του ελλαδικού χώρου.Original title: Kaiserzeitliche und spätantike Keramik in der Sammlung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Athen. Die Funde des griechischen Festlandes, der Inseln und Kleinasiens
This study presents Roman pottery finds stored at the DAI Athens and collected during early explorations by German archaeologists from various sites on the Greek mainland, the islands and the western coast of Asia Minor. The sherds date from the 1st cent. B.C. to the 7th cent. A.D. and belong to a wide range of functional categories, including imported fine ware, local and regional tablewares, coarse and cooking ware, lamps and transport amphorae. Most of the sites they were recovered from are known from previous research, but not all of them have been investigated systematically, especially with respect to their Roman or Late Antique phases. The specific information about those sites makes the material valuable for comparison with future excavations and surveys. In addition, these sherds provide important information about the distribution of particular ceramic wares and shapes. They illustrate the existence of regional or local production and allow a broad overview of the typological and chronological characteristics for certain areas of Greece and the Aegean
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