Opuscula 17 (2024)
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To be published in November 2024. Opuscula 17 is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from The Swedish Research Council (grant no. 2023-00215). Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View volume at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Article abstracts and author affiliations listed below.   Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 17, 2024   Contents Articles Pergamos. An unexplored fortified site in north-eastern Greece By Patrik Klingborg, Georgia Galani, Jesper Blid, Stavroula Dadaki & Penelope Malama, pp. 7–24, https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-17-02 (Pdf-download will be made available in November 2024) The Palamas Archaeological Project 2023. A preliminary report of the Greek–Swedish collaboration in the municipality of Palamas, region of Karditsa, Thessaly By Maria Vaïopoulou, Robin Rönnlund, Fotini Tsiouka, Johan Klange, Derek Pitman, Ian Randall, Rich Potter & Harry Manley, pp. 25–45, https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-17-03 (Pdf-download will be made available in November 2024) A bronze deposit excavated at Kalaureia in 2016. A statuette of the Herakles Chiaramonti type, a stand and a thymiaterion By Julia Habetzeder, pp. 47–67, https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-17-04 (Pdf-download will be made available in November 2024) A Roman bath with broken windows in Asine, Argolis. The result of repeated earthquakes? By Dominic Ingemark, pp. 69–93, https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-17-05 (Pdf-download will be made available…

Opuscula 16 (2023)

Opuscula 16 is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View volume at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Contents Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge et al. | The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition (The Söderberg Expedition): Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke autumn 2021 and spring 2022. Preliminary results Maria Vaïopoulou, Robin Rönnlund, Fotini Tsiouka, Johan Klange, Derek Pitman, Rich Potter, Ian Randall, Harry Manley, Elisabet Schager, Sotiria Dandou & Lewis Webb | The Palamas Archaeological project. A preliminary report of the 2022 fieldwork conducted by the ongoing Greek–Swedish archaeological field programme in Palamas, region of Karditsa, Thessaly Stelios Ieremias & Robin Rönnlund | A preliminary report on sculptures and figurative terracottas found at the site of Vlochos, region of Karditsa, Thessaly Robin Rönnlund | An overlooked 2nd century BC decree by the polis of the Orthieians, Thessaly Anna Tornberg | The humans of ancient Hermione. The necropolis in the light of bioarchaeology Linda Talatas | Statuettes of pregnant sows from Knidos. New light on the cult of Demeter Hüseyin Uzunoğlu & N. Eda Akyürek Şahin | New Greek inscriptions from Akmoneia and its territory Paweł Gołyźniak | Hieronymus Odam, engraved gems and antiquarianism Christian Klose | Johan Niklas Byström and the so-called Venus of Stockholm. New research on a presumably lost sculpture Lovisa Brännstedt & Lewis…

Opuscula 15 (2022)
Open Access , Opuscula / 2022-11-02

Opuscula 15 is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View volume at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Contents Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge et al. | The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition (The Söderberg Expedition): Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke 2020 and 2021. Preliminary results (pp. 7-76) Maria Vaïopoulou, Robin Rönnlund, Fotini Tsiouka, Johan Klange, Derek Pitman, Sotiria Dandou, Rich Potter, Lawrence Shaw, Lewis Webb, Stelios Ieremias, Ian Randall & Harry Manley | Roman and Early Byzantine evidence from the area of Palamas. A preliminary report of the ongoing Greek-Swedish archaeological work in the region of Karditsa, Thessaly (pp. 77-103) Örjan Wikander | Late Etruscan tripod thymiateria (pp. 105-155) Henrik Gerding & Nicolò Dell’Unto | The Basilica Sempronia and the Forum Romanum (pp. 157-188) Nicholas Stanley-Price | Memorial sculpture in the Protestant Cemetery at Rome. New discoveries and an inventory of identified works (pp. 189-219) Erika Weiberg & Martin Finné | Human-environment dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean. Keywords of a research field (pp. 221-252) Book reviews (253-260) Dissertation abstracts 2020–2022 (261-266) Bibliographical information Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome (OpAthRom) 15, Stockholm 2022. ISSN: 2000-0898. ISBN: 978-91-977799-4-4. Softcover, 268 pages. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-15

Opuscula 14 (2021)
Open Access , Opuscula / 2021-10-21

Opuscula 14 is published with open access. Printed edition distributed by Eddy.se AB. Also available at Amazon.com, Adlibris, and Bokus. View volume at ERIH PLUS. Contents Žarko Tankosić, Fanis Mavridis, Paschalis Zafeiriadis & Aikaterini Psoma | Gourimadi Archaeological Project. The results from the first excavation season (2018) of a prehistoric site in the Karystia, southern Euboea (pp. 7-26) Anton Bonnier, Therese Emanuelsson-Paulson, Dimitra Mylona & Arto Penttinen | The Kalaureia Excavation Project. A preliminary report of the work carried out in Area L between 2015 and 2018 (pp. 27-54) Maria Vaïopoulou, Robin Rönnlund, Fotini Tsiouka, Derek Pitman, Sotiria Dandou, Rich Potter & Johan Klange | Some preliminary notes on the limited 2020 campaign of the Palamas Archaeological Project (PAP) (pp. 55-63) Alcestis Papadimitriou | An ancient cityscape and its people: A study of ancient Hermione. Introductory remarks on historical sources and visible remains, archaeological research and prospects (pp. 65-76) Henrik Gerding | The topography of Hermione—A preliminary outline (pp. 77-99) Jesper Blid, with an appendix by Baukje van den berg | The Temple of Demeter Chthonia at Hermione (pp. 101-134) Patrik Klingborg | The cisterns of the Bisti promontory at Hermione. With a preliminary description of the Roman aqueduct (pp. 135-155) Angeliki Kossyva | Life and death in ancient Hermione. Excavations in the necropolis (pp. 157-167) Jenny…

Opuscula 13 (2020)
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All content of Opuscula 13 is available with open access. Printed edition distributed by Eddy.se AB. Also available at Amazon.com, Adlibris, and Bokus. View volume at ERIH PLUS. Contents Maria Vaïopoulou, Helene Whittaker, Robin Rönnlund, Fotini Tsiouka, Johan Klange, Derek Pitman, Rich Potter, Lawrence Shaw, Josephine Hagan, Ellen Siljedahl, Matilda Forssén, Sujatha Chandrasekaran, Sotiria Dandou, Veronica Forsblom Ljungdahl, Asta Pavilionytė, Hayden Scott-Pratt, Elisabet Schager & Harry Manley | The 2016–2018 Greek-Swedish archaeological project at Thessalian Vlochos, Greece (pp. 7–72) Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge | The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2019: Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke (The Söderberg Expedition). Preliminary results, with contributions by L. Recht, B. Placiente Robedizo, C. Eriksson, L. Andersson, M. Svensson, L. Avial Chicharro, S. Hermon, M. Polig & D. Kofel (pp. 73–111) Katie Demakopoulou | A Mycenaean pictorial vase from Midea (pp. 113–121) Erik Østby | A Protocorinthian aryballos with a myth scene from Tegea (pp. 123–138) Nikolaos Papazarkadas & Jenny Wallensten | Religion and family politics in Hellenistic Kalaureia. Three new inscriptions from the sanctuary of Poseidon (pp. 139–164) Svante Fischer & Ian N. Wood | Vidracco, Braone, and San Lorenzo. Recruitment or dilectio? (pp. 165–186) Nicholas Stanley-Price | The Old Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome with a new Inventory of its burials (pp. 187–222) Fredrik Tobin-Dodd | Erik…

Opuscula 12 (2019)
Open Access , Opuscula / 2019-11-07

All content available with open access, use links below. Printed edition distributed by Eddy.se AB. Also available at Amazon.com, Adlibris, and Bokus. View volume at ERIH PLUS. Contents Anne Ingvarsson & Ylva Bäckström | Bioarchaeological field analysis of human remains from the mass graves at Phaleron, Greece. With an introduction by Stella Chryssoulaki and an appendix by Anna Linderholm, Anna Kjellström, Vendela Kempe Lagerholm, & Maja Krzewińska Arto Penttinen & Dimitra Mylona | Physical environment and daily life in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros. The bioarchaeological remains. Introduction Dimitra Mylona | Animals in the sanctuary. Mammal and fish bones from Areas D and C at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia. With an appendix by Adam Boethius Dale Serjeantson | Animals in the sanctuary. Bird bones and eggshell Petros Lymberakis & Giorgos Iliopoulos | Snakes and other microfaunal remains from the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia George E. Syrides | Marine and terrestrial molluscs in the sanctuary. The molluscan remains from the 2003–2004 excavations in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia Maria Ntinou | Trees and shrubs in the sanctuary. Wood charcoal analysis at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros Anaya Sarpaki | Plants in the sanctuary….

Opuscula 11 (2018)
Open Access , Opuscula / 2018-11-08

All content available with open access, use links below. Printed edition distributed by eddy.se AB at Bokorder.se. Also available at Amazon.com, Adlibris, and Bokus. View volume at ERIH PLUS. Contents Rebecca Worsham, Michael Lindblom & Claire Zikidi | Preliminary report of the Malthi Archaeological Project, 2015–2016 Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge | The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2017: Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke (The Söderberg Expedition). Preliminary results. With contributions by M. Ausiayevich, B. Placiente Robedizo, V. Barrera Alarcón, L. Recht & D. Kofel Michael Lindblom, Gullög Nordquist & Hans Mommsen | Two Early Helladic II terracotta rollers from Asine and their glyptic context Gina Salapata | Tokens of piety. Inexpensive dedications as functional and symbolic objects Signe Barfoed | The use of miniature pottery in Archaic–Hellenistic Greek sanctuaries. Considerations on terminology and ritual practice Katia Margariti | Painting early death. Deceased maidens on funerary vases in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens Susanne Berndt | The hand gesture and symbols of Sabazios Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos & Manolis Petrakis | Cella alignment and 4th century BC Doric peripteral temple architecture in Mainland Greece Book reviews Dissertation abstracts 2017–2018 Bibliographical information Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome…

Opuscula 10 (2017)
Open Access , Opuscula / 2017-12-01

All content available with open access, use links below. Printed edition distributed by eddy.se AB at Bokorder.se. Also available at Amazon.com, Bokus.com, and Adlibris.com. View volume at ERIH PLUS. Contents Katie Demakopoulou, Nicoletta Divari-Valakou, Joseph Maran, Hans Mommsen, Susanne Prillwitz & Gisela Walberg | Clay paste characterization and provenance determination of Middle and Late Helladic vessels from Midea Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge | The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2016. Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke (The Söderberg Expedition). Preliminary results Marie-Christine Marcellesi | Power and coinage. The portrait tetradrachms of Eumenes II Paavo Roos | The stadion of Labraunda Stella Macheridis | Symbolic connotations of animals at early Middle Helladic Asine. A comparative study of the animal bones from settlement and its graves Jeannette Forsén, Tatiana Smekalova & Esko Tikkala | The lower city of Asea, Arcadia. Results from a geophysical project 2001–2012 Nektarios-Peter Yioutsos | The last occupation of Asine in Argolis Book reviews Dissertation abstracts 2016–2017 Bibliographical information Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome (OpAthRom) 10, Stockholm 2017. ISSN: 2000-0898. ISBN: 978-91-977798-9-0. Softcover, 195 pages. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-10

Opuscula 9 (2016)
Open Access , Opuscula / 2016-12-01

All content available with open access, use links below. Printed edition distributed by eddy.se AB at Bokorder.se. Also available at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Bokus.com and Adlibris.com. View volume at ERIH PLUS. Contents Henrik Gerding | Later, laterculus, and testa. New perspectives on Latin brick terminology Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge | The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2015. Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke. Preliminary results. With a contribution by D. Kofel Eleni Fassa | Divine commands, authority, and cult. Imperative dedications to the Egyptian gods Stella Macheridis | Home, refuse, and reuse during the Early Helladic III to the Middle Helladic I transitional period. A social zooarchaeological study of the Asine bothroi Melissa Vetters, Ann Brysbaert, Maria Ntinou, Georgia Tsartsidou & Evi Margeritis | People and plants. Piecing together archaeological and archaeobotanical data to reconstruct plant use and craft activities in Mycenaean Tiryns Jesper Blid, Fr Maximous El-Antony, Hugo Lundhaug, Jason Zaborowski, Meira Polliack, Mengistu Gobezie Worku & Samuel Rubenson | Excavations at the Monastery of St Antony at the Red Sea Serena Sabatini | Textile tools from the East Gate at Mycenaean Midea, Argolis, Greece Svante Fischer & Fernando López Sánchez | Subsidies for the Roman West? The flow of…

Opuscula 8 (2015)
Open Access , Opuscula / 2015-12-01

All content available with open access, use links below. Printed edition distributed by eddy.se AB at Bokorder.se. Also available at Amazon.com, Bokus.com and Adlibris.com. View this volume at ERIH PLUS. Contents John K. Papadopoulos | The Charitonidis Class. A group of large Athenian Late Protogeometric skyphoi Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge | The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2014. Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke. Preliminary results. With contributions by B. Stolle, I. Trinks, L. Mazzotta & L. Recht, A. Lindqvist & D. Kofel Vassos Karageorghis & Efstathios Raptou | Two new Proto-White Painted ware vases of the pictorial style from Palaepaphos, Cyprus Susanne Berndt | Cutting the Gordian knot. The iconography of Megaron 2 at Gordion Hedvig Landenius Enegren | Loom weights in Archaic South Italy and Sicily. Five case studies Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge | The Swedish Jordan Expedition 2014 at Tall Abu al-Kharaz. Preliminary results from Areas 12 and 13 Gregor Maurach | Terenz’ Hecyra – Spiel der Voreiligkeiten Book reviews Bibliographical information Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome (OpAthRom) 8, Stockholm 2015. ISSN: 2000-0898. ISBN: 978-91-977798-7-6. Softcover, 196 pages. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-08.