Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View journal at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Book reviews Kristian Göransson | G. Ceserani, Italy’s lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the making of modern archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012. 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-974427-5 & J. Arthurs, Excavating modernity: The Roman past in Fascist Italy, Ithaca & London: Cornell University  Press 2012. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4998-7. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-07-14 Örjan Wikander | R. Spain, The power and performance of Roman watermills. Hydro-mechanical analysis of vertical-wheeled watermills (BAR-IS, 1786). Oxford: Archaeopress 2008, xiv + 107 pp. ISBN 978-1-4073-0217-1. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-07-15 Gullög Nordquist | T.F. Tartaron, Maritime networks in the Mycenaean world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-00298-2. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-07-16 Julia Habetzeder | Kunst von unten? Stil und Gesellschaft in der antiken Welt von der »arte plebea« bis heute (Palilia, 27), eds. F. de Angelis, J.-A. Dickmann, F. Pirson and R. von den Hoff, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. Wiesbaden 2012. 184 pp. ISBN 978-3-89500-915-0. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-07-17 P.J. Rhodes | C.H. Lyttkens, Economic analysis of institutional change in Ancient Greece: Politics, taxation and rational behaviour (Routledge Explorations…

Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View journal at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Book reviews Jesper Blid | Building a new Rome: The imperial colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC–AD 700), eds. E.K. Gazda & D. Y. Ng, in collaboration with Ü. Demirer, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2011. 219 pp., 168 ills. +1 video disc. ISBN 978-0-9741873-4-1. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-06-11 Anton Bonnier | E. Farinetti, Boeotian Landscapes. A GIS-based study for the reconstruction and interpretation of the archaeological datasets of ancient Boeotia (BAR-IS, 2195), Oxford: Archaeopress 2011. xiv + 425 pp. + 1 CD. ISBN 978-1-4073-0750-3. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-06-12 Maja Kramer | G. López Monteagudo, M.L. Neira Jiménez, ‘Mosaico’, in Arte Romano de la Bética. Mosaico. Pintura. Manufacturas, ed. P. León, Sevilla: Focus-Abengoa 2010. 381 pp., 482 ills. ISBN 978-84-89895-27-0. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-06-13 Gullög Nordquist | Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8–12 mars 2006 (BCH Suppl., 52), eds. A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki &…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. Perspectives on ancient Greece. Papers in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens Edited by Ann-Louise Schallin Abstract This volume presents current research related to Greek prehistory and Classical Archaeology and thus serves as a crosssection of the research strategies, which the Swedish Institute at Athens promotes. The topics relate to research, which span from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic times. The reason for putting this publication together is twofold: one aim is to publish the papers, which were put forward by a select number of Swedish scholars who were invited to give lectures at the Swedish Institute at Athens during the celebrations commemorating the Institute’s 60th anniversary on 10 May 2008. The second aim is to honour professor emeritus Robin Hägg, who was the director at the Swedish Institute at Athens from 1976 to 1994. This book thus consists of articles based on the lectures, which were held at the Swedish Institute celebrations on May 10 2008 and also of a number of articles by scholars who wished to celebrate Robin Hägg and who thus joined the venture. Contents Acknowledgements Ann-Louise Schallin | Introduction…

Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View journal at ERIH PLUS. Content available with open access. Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 1, 2008 Contents ‘Front matter‘, 1–6 Katie Demakopoulou, Nicoletta Divari-Valakou, Monica Nilsson, Ann-Louise Schallin, with an appendix by Kalliopi Nikita, ‘Excavations in Midea 2006’, 7–30 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-01-02 John K. Papadopoulos, ‘The Archaic wall of Athens. Reality or myth?’, 31–46 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-01-03 Anton Bonnier, ‘Epineia kai limenes. The relationship between harbours and cities in ancient Greek texts’, 47–61 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-01-04 Fabrizio Vistoli, ‘Una nuova acquisizione di ceramica “white-on red” dall’ager Veientanus’, 63–77 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-01-05 Ola Wikander, ‘The religio-social message of the gold tablets of Pyrgi’, 79–84 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-01-06 This contribution is only available in print. Milette Gaifmann, ‘Visualized rituals and dedicatory inscriptions on votive offerings to the Nymphs’, 85–103 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-01-07 Gabriella Barbieri, ‘Materiali inediti da Sovana. Alcuni corredi funerari dalla necropoli di San Sebastiano’, 105–122 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-01-08 This contribution is only available in print. Maria Gabriella Scapaticci, ‘Nuovi dati sul popolamento nella pianura di Tarquinia durante la romanizzazione. Il caso della località “Il Giglio”‘, 123–135 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-01-09 Paavo Roos, ‘A forgotten tomb…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Atheniensia. Annual of the Swedish Institute at Athens 27, 2002 Contents Hans-Günther Buchholz | Arthur Milchhöfer, ein Verehrer und Führsprecher Schliemanns und “Die Anfänge der Kunst in Griechenland” (pp. 7-26) Katie Demakopoulou, Nicoletta Divari-Valakou, Ann-Louise Schallin, Gunnel Ekroth, Anna Lindblom, Monica Nilsson & Lena Sjögren | Excavations in Midea 2000 and 2001, with an appendix by Y. Bassiakos (pp. 27-58) Johan Flemberg | A female canon in Late Classical and Hellenistic sculpture (pp. 59-82) Jeannette Forsén, Björn Forsén & Lars Karlsson | The walls of Asea (pp. 83-104) Helen Mangou & Panayiotis V. Ioannou | Trends in the making of Greek copper-based artefacts during the prehistoric period (4000-1050 BC) (pp. 105-118) Gullög Nordquist | Pots, prestige and people. Symbolic action in Middle Helladic burials (pp. 109-135) Mirena Slavova | Mystery clubs in Bulgarian lands in antiquity. Greek epigraphical evidence (pp. 137-149) Helène Whittaker | Religion and power. The nature of Minoan influence on early Mycenaean religion (pp. 151-157) Book reviews Björn Forsén | E. Kourinou, Σπάρτη. Συμβολὴ στὴ μνημειακὴ τοπογραφία τησ (pp. 159-160) Johannes Siapkas | J. McInerney, The folds of Parnassos. Land and ethnicity in ancient Phokis…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Peloponnesian sanctuaries and cults. Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11–13 June 1994 Edited by Robin Hägg Abstract A collection of twenty-six papers read (or presented as posters) at an international symposium in Athens that dealt with various aspects of the ancient sanctuaries and cults in the Peloponnese, based on literary, iconographical and archaeological evidence. Among the special topics discussed are a newly excavated, Mycenaean sanctuary at Methana, the formation of sacred landscapes, Corinthian cult in the Late Geometric period, sacred places in early urban contexts (Argos), caves and cults at Isthmia, cults of Demeter and Kore, the sanctuary of Hera Akraia at Perachora, the Herakleidai in the Argive plain, the Archaic and Hellenistic temples at Mycenae, cult places in Argos, cults of Athena in Argos, mountain-top cults in Corinthia and the Argolid, new investigations of small cult buildings in the Asklepieion of Epidauros, results of recent work in the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Steges, Herakles and healing cults, sanctuaries of Artemis in the Peloponnese, the reality of the human sacrifices on Mr. Lykaion, the new excavation in the sanctuary of Zeus…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. New research on old material from Asine and Berbati in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens Edited by Berit Wells Abstract After an introductory paper on the creation of a Swedish Archaeological School at Athens, ten papers deal with subjects associated with material excavated at Asine and Berbati in the Argolid before the new wave of excavations in the 1970’s. The following subject matters are discussed in relation to Asine: the emergence of an élite in the Middle Helladic (MH) period; pre-firing marks on MH Aeginetan pottery; wooden boxes used as coffins for infants in MH times; MH child morbidity and child mortality; Asine as a case of economic interaction in the Argolid; the provenience and alloy compositions of metal objects diachronically; the source of iron during the Geometric period; bridging the gap in settlement between 700 and 300 BC. Two papers are concerned with Berbati: one underlines the continuity of the Mastos settlement from Early Helladic II into EH III; and one lays out the possibilities for a detailed study of the provenience of the local Mycenaean ceramics. Contents Preface (p. 7) Berit…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Atheniensia. Annual of the Swedish Institute at Athens 25–26, 2000–2001 Contents Therese Åkerstedt, ‘Hellenistic-Roman chamber toms at Milas: Swedish excavations 1938’, pp. 9–23 Yvonne Backe-Forsberg, Christina Risberg & Yannis Bassiakos, ‘Metal-working at Asine. Report on the remains of iron production from the Barbouna area and the area east of the Acropolis’, pp. 25–34 Katie Demakopoulou, Nicoletta Divari-Valakou, Paul Åström & Gisela Walberg, ‘Work in Midea 1997–1999: excavation, conservation, restoration’, pp. 35–52 Niklas Hillbom, ‘Minoan and Eastern Mediterranean games and game boards: a history of research’, pp. 53–65 Kerstin Höghammar, ‘A note on the border conflict between Argos and Sparta in the second century B.C.’, pp. 67–70 Petra Pakkanen, ‘The relationship between continuity and change in Dark Age Greek religion: a methodological study’, pp. 71–88 ‘Introduction: Mycenaean pictorial pottery’, p. 89 Vassos Karageorghis, ‘The Mycenaean pottery of the pictorial style: achievements and perspectives’, pp. 91–93 Hans Mommsen & Joseph Maran, ‘Production places of some Mycenaean pictorial vessels: the contribution of chemical pottery analysis’, pp. 95–106 Lucia Vagnetti, ‘Preliminary remarks on Mycenaean pictorial pottery from the central Mediterranean’, pp. 107–115 Miscellanea Evangelos Kyriakidis, ‘Pithos or baetyl? On the interpretation of…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions and Eddy.se AB. Asine 3. Supplementary studies in the Swedish excavations 1922–1930 Fasc. 1. Supplementary studies in the Swedish excavations 1922–1930 Edited by Robin Hägg, Gullög C. Nordquist & Berit Wells Abstract This is a collection of eleven papers inaugurating a new series of supplementary studies on the material from the old Swedish excavations at Asine. The first is a summary of the work undertaken between 1922 and 1930 and is intended to help in the study of the published reports and of the unpublished documentation. In further papers additional information is given on the Middle Helladic graves of the Lower Town, the Late Mycenaean terracotta head called “The Lord of Asine” is re-studied, and pottery and small finds from Mycenaean chamber tombs are discussed, including some technical aspects, such as the use of tin foil on pots. A group of Mycenaean vases from the village of Zafer Aga is published for the first time. Another paper deals with the animal bones from the Lower town of Asine. Finally, a concordance of the numbers of the graves and skeletons found at Asine is given as a tool for scholars…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Atheniensia. Annual of the Swedish Institute at Athens 21, 1996 Contents Edmund F. Bloedow, ‘‘Olympian’ thoughts: Plutarch on Pericles’ Congress Decree’ Katie Demakopoulou, Nicoletta Divari-Valakou, Paul Åström & Gisela Walberg, ‘Excavations in Midea 1994’ Lola Eriksson, ‘The Greek perception of nature—an ideological strategy? Preliminary outline for a working hypothesis’ Jeannette Forsén, ‘Prehistoric Asea revisited’ Jeannette Forsén, Björn Forsén & Mika Lavento, ‘The Asea valley survey: a preliminary report of the 1994 season’ Göran Henriksson & Mary Blomberg, ‘Evidence for Minoan astronomical observations from the peak sanctuaries on Petsophas and Traostalos’ Elizabeth Kosmetatou, ‘Midea in the post-Bronze-Age period. A preliminary report’ Peter Liljenstolpe & Patric von Schmalensee, ‘The Roman stoa of Poleites at Labraynda. A report in its architecture with an appendix by Johan Flemberg’ Arto Penttinen, ‘Excavations on the Acropolis of Asine in 1990’ Charlotte Scheffer, ‘Return or no return. The so-called ephedrismos group and the Hephaisteion’ Berit Wells, Gunnel Ekroth & Kai Holmgren, ‘The Berbati Valley Project: the 1994 season’ Book reviews E. Schorfield, ‘A.-L. Schallin, Islands under influence. The Cyclades in the late Bronze Age and the nature of the Mycenaean presence’ Carole Gillis, ‘T.P. Hutchinson,…