Antiquité Tardive - Late Antiquity - Spätantike - Tarda Antichità

A Roman bronze measure with inscription is presented here. It can be dated to AD 402-408, due to the three emperors mentioned, Arcadius, Honorius, and Theodosius II. In the incised text the measure is called a sextarium exagialem, unc(iae) XXIIII, a sextarium for the weight of 24 ounces (= two Roman pounds). A test of the weight with spelt led to the confirmation of this weight indication.

The beaker has an extraordinary designed handle. The busts of three emperors looking at the vessel are fixed on a vertical crossbeam at the top of the handle, illustrating imperial control and authority. An inscription from the horreum of Andriake (Lycia) provides the late antique terminus technicus for this kind of measure, sextarium trisaugusteum.

This paper presents the results of sixteen years research on the mountain of the Jabal Harun at Petra. Conducted by a Finnish team led by Jaako Frösen from the University of Helsinki, the project focused on the archaeological excavations and the analysis of the monastery of Aaron, including the complete survey of the mountain. As it implemented all the disciplines that compound the today archaeological sciences, the results go way beyond simply studying the architecture of the monastery, by reconstituting the human settlement on the mountain, from the Palaeolithic period up to the present day, and its relations with the city of Petra.

Archéologie et histoire de l’art de l’Antiquité tardive

Armin F. Bergmeier, Visionserwartung. Visualisierung und Präsenzerfahrung des Göttlichen in der Spätantike, Wiesbaden (C. Olovsdotter) ; Daniel Chrupcala (dir.), Christ Is Here! Studies in Biblical and Christian Archaeology in Memory of Michele Piccirillo ofm (B. Riba) ; Johannes G. Deckers, Guntram Koch, Repertorium der christlich-antiken Sarkophage, 5. Konstantinopel, Kleinasien-Thracia, Syria, Palestina-Arabia (J. Dresken-Weiland) ; Gregor Kalas, The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity: Transforming Public Space (F. Diosono) ; Daniel Keller, Jennifer Price, Caroline Jackson (dir.), Neighbours and Successors of Rome: Traditions of glass production and use in Europe and the Middle East in the later first millennium AD (S. Fünfschilling) ; Janine lancha, Cristina Oliveira, Corpus dos mosaicos de Portugal/Corpus des mosaïques du Portugal, II, 2, Algarve este (J. Balty) ; Philipp Niewöhner (dir.), Milet, XI. Die Byzantinischen Basiliken von Milet (J.-P. Sodini) ; Thilo Ulbert (dir.), Forschungen in Resafa-Sergiupolis, vol. 7 (J.-C. Balty) ; Emilie M. van Opstaal (dir.), Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity (A.E. Felle) ; David Walsh, The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity. Development, Decline and Demise ca. A.D. 270-430 (A.B. Griffith) ; Sebastian Watta, Sakrale Zonen im frühen Kirchenbau des nahen Ostens. Zum Kommunikationspotential von Bodenmosaiken für die Schaffung heiliger Räume (P. Niewöhner)

Histoire de l’Antiquité tardive

Roberto Alciati (dir.), Norm and Exercise. Christian Asceticism between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (D. Brakke) ; Elena Gritti, Prosopografia romana fra le due partes imperii (98-604). Contributo alla storia dei rapporti fra Transpadana e Oriens (V. Puech) ; Georgios Kardaras, Byzantium and the Avars, 6th-9th Century AD. Political, Diplomatic and Cultural Relations (G. Szenthe) ; Soazic Kerneis (dir.), Une histoire juridique de l’Occident. Le droit et la coutume (iii^e-ix^e siècle) (P. Jaillette) ; Clemens Koehn, Justinian und die Armee des frühen Byzanz (G. Sartor) ; Avshalom laniado, Ethnos et droit dans le monde protobyzantin, v^e-vi^e siècle. Fédérés, paysans et provinciaux à lumière d’une scholie juridique de l’époque de Justinien (G. Sartor) ; Adolfo La Rocca, Fabrizio Oppedisano, Il Senato romano nell’Italia ostrogota (V. Fauvinet-Ranson) ; Marta Sordi, Les chrétiens et l’Empire romain ; Marta Sordi, Ambroise, Rome et Milan (364-395 ap. JC). Naissance de l’Empire romain-chrétien et fin du paganisme politique (C. Ferrari) ; Lucia Maddalena Tissi, Gli oracoli degli dèi greci nella Teosofia di Tubinga (N. Spanu) ; Lucia Maddalena Tissi, Helmut Seng, Chiara Ombretta Tommasi (dir.), Stimmen der Götter. Orakel und ihre Rezeption von der Spätantike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit (E.G. Simonetti) ; Giusto Traina (dir.), Mondes en guerre, 1. De la préhistoire au Moyen Âge (D. Lee)

Régions

Walter Ameling (dir.), Die Christianisierung Kleinasiens in der Spätantike (S. Destephen) ; Constantinople réelle et imaginaire. Autour de l’œuvre de Gilbert Dagron (S. Destephen) ; Cristiano Dognini, Ilaria Ramelli, Les Apôtres en Inde dans la patristique et la littérature sanskrite (C. Jullien) ; Andrei Gândilă, Cultural Encounters on Byzantium’s Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700. Coins, Artifacts and History (A. Madgearu) ; Philipp Pilhofer, Das frühe Christentum im kilikischisaurischen Bergland. Die Christen der Kalykadnos-Region in den ersten fünf Jahrhunderten (S. Destephen)

Philologie et sources

Laurent Capron, Codex hagiographiques du Louvre sur papyrus (P.Louvre Hag.) (A. Papaconstantinou) ; Grégoire de nysse, Homélies sur le Notre Père (M. Danezan) ; Ludwig Koenen, Jorma Kaimio, Maarit Kaimio, Robert W. Daniel, The Petra Papyri, II ; Antti arJava, Jaakko Frösén, Jorma kaimio, The Petra Papyri, V (J. Gascou) ; Paulin de Nole, Correspondance avec Sulpice Sévère (S. Gioanni) ; Dracontius, De raptu Helenae (L. Galli Milić)