Jaworski, Piotr(Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2006)
Warsaw University Institute of Archaeology excavations at the so-called Villa with a View in Ptolemais, have contributed significantly to knowledge of town history and development. Numismatics is one field in which substantial verification as well as new evidence has been collected.
Current finds by the Polish mission, have helped to rethink Cyrenaican coinage in both the Hellenistic and Roman periods, especially with regard to local issues from the beginning of Imperial rule, which are presented in the article....
Tomas, Agnieszka(Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2006)
The article presents field surveys made at the site Ostrite Mogili, 2km east from Novae, Moesia inferior (present northern Bulgaria). Materials registered during two surveys in 1979 and 2000, as also the localization of the site, indicate, that the settlement was probably a "vicus" situated beyond the area controlled by th emilitary camp. During the two field surveys materials visible on the surface (building materials, pottery, other finds) were registered within the area of over 10 ha. On this basis several maps of dispersed materials were drawn. This allowed to reconstruct hypothetical infrastructure of the site.
The results of surveys brought the author to the conclusion, that the site existing from the 1st century A.D. could have been destroyeds eriously about the half of the 3rd century A.D. In Late Romanand Early Byzantine period the workshops could have been placed there....
This paper outlines the influence of the official visual language on the decoration of objects of daily use, and more particularly of the decorated "terra sigillata" ware, produced in "Arretium" (Arezzo in Italy) in the last three decades of the 1st century BC and in the first half of the 1st century AD. The decoration repertoire of this pottery includes triumphal motifs (trophies, pieces of military equipment, personifications of defeated peoples, captives, Victoria standing on a globe, Victoria holding a palm branch, a wreath or both , Venus "Victrix", triumphal quadrigas or bigas) and battle scenes (Roman and Barbarian soldiers). The motifs started appearing on pottery at the end of the 1st century BC. Most of them were in use during Augustus' lifetime and some of them even longer. Pottery with such decoration makes only a few percent of all the known decorated Arretine pieces. However, considering the mass scale of the production, these motifs had to be quite numerous. The group of motifs is interesting also because they were used by more than half of tthe Arezzo potteryworkshops producing relief ware at that time. Yet the phenomenon appears not to have depended solely on the official visual language, because some military and most of the triumphal motifs had already existed in official art and coinage of the later Roman Republic and first years of the Principate. There must have been some other reasons for their much later appearance in pottery decoration. One such reason was the economic situation of the workshops : after many years of prosperity they were forced to fight for new markets against a growing competition from Campania, North Italy and South Gaul. The political situation at the end of the 1st century BC offered a teasing opportunity. The workshops could find new buyers among the Romanized inhabitants of Roman provinces, as well as among the soldiers in legionary camps (especially along the Germanic border). It seems that these new groups of customers and their special needs inspired the craftsmen (not only from "Arretium") to introduce new themes to decorate their pottery....
Mikocki, Tomasz(Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2006)
The present article is a report on two seasons of excavations conducted by archaeologists of the Warsaw University, under the terms of the "License for Archaeological Excavations" issued on 22.07.2001. The 2004 and 2005 year missions were a continuation of excavations conducted in December 2001, April-May 2002 and October 2003. Works were carried out in four different spheres: 1. archaeological excavations; 2. conservation works; 3. geodetic measurements within the walls of the city; 4. geophysical investigations of one of the city's insulas (only in 2005)....