[{"id":141194,"title":"Roman Names in the Cyclades","subtitle":"Part I","description":"This volume presenting the first part of the Roman onomastic material from the Cyclades combines two of the most productive fields of interest of the Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity (KERA) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, that of the Roman onomastic in the Greek-speaking East and that of the study of many aspects of the Aegean islands.\u003cbr\u003eOur research was supported and facilitated by several institutions and colleagues. We owe warm thanks to the XXI Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Cyclades and especially to the director, Dr Marisa Marthari, not merely for permission to examine the epigraphic material from the islands but also for the accommodation willingly provided during our expeditions to the islands. We are especially grateful to Dr Christina Televantou.\u003cbr\u003eDrs Maria Lagogianni and Nicolaos Kaltsas, directors respectively of the Epigraphic Museum and the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, helped us greatly by providing us with the opportunity to identify inscriptions from the Cyclades kept in the storerooms of their museums and by supplying photographs.\u003cbr\u003eOur catalogue would have been poorer without the kind offer of the onomastic material from the unpublished inscriptions from Andros by Dr N. Petrochilos, who is preparing the epigraphic corpus of Andros.\u003cbr\u003eThanks to the kind permission of the Most Reverent bishop Frangiskos Papamanolis of the Catholic Diocese of the Cyclades it was possible to work on the inscriptions which are kept in the Collection of the church of Agios Georgios in Ano Syros.\u003cbr\u003eIt was of great importance for the improvement of our catalogue that we had the opportunity to study the old squeezes, diaries, notes and correspondence of the admirable epigraphists of the two last centuries, which are kept in Berlin, in the Bradenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Archiv der \"Inscriptiones Graecae\", where Prof. Dr Klaus Hallof and Dr Renate Heinrich kindly provided valuable assistance of every sort. [...]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(from the preface)","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b143893.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7905-49-9","isbn13":"978-960-7905-49-9","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5467,"name":"Μελετήματα","books_count":41,"tsearch_vector":"'melethmata' 'meletimata'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:38:29.577+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:38:29.577+03:00"},"pages":364,"publication_year":2008,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"87.0","price_updated_at":"2009-06-11","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1161,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":143893,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/roman-names-in-the-cyclades.json"},{"id":158146,"title":"Weight and Value in Pre-Coinage Societies","subtitle":null,"description":"This second volume by the same author, on the subject of weight and value in pre-coinage societies1, consists of five parts. Each explores an independent subject, although all five focus on those who owned and used measuring tools in Bronze Age societies in the Aegean and the Orient. Part I presents the framework of the discussion: it deals with the material and symbolic significance of the balance and with the circulation of goods that required measurement and accounting. Part II presents a case study from the Aegean, the settlement of Akrotiri on the island of Thera. Balance pans and balance weights are discussed within their context as are metal items of standard forms and weight values. Part III presents three case studies of the Aegean in connection with the custom of depositing balances and weights in the tombs of their owners. The case studies concern three gold balances from Mycenae, the five sets of bronze pans from Vapheio and the reconstructed balance from Pylos. Part IV examines cultures from the Orient that have yielded comprehensible textual documentation on weight measuring and value estimation. It concentrates on valueadding textile production and acquaints the reader with current debate on problems of money, markets and prices. In Part V, the focus returns to the ancient users of the measuring tools in the settlement of Akrotri and offers an approach to dealing with the domain of the private economy. The interest here centers on the wealth of individuals and the cost of acquiring it, whether this wealth consists of real estate and house equipment, agricultural and animal capital, industrial products, private property in the form of metal, or accumulated merchandise. Textual information from the Orient is used at every step in the research presented in this book. The main aim is to present the material and offer arguments in the hope of provoking further discussion on the\u003cbr\u003ematter of personal economics in Late Bronze Age Aegean societies.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b161149.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7905-46-8","isbn13":"978-960-7905-46-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5467,"name":"Μελετήματα","books_count":41,"tsearch_vector":"'melethmata' 'meletimata'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:38:29.577+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:38:29.577+03:00"},"pages":320,"publication_year":2008,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"80.0","price_updated_at":"2010-12-07","cover_type":null,"availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1161,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":161149,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/weight-and-value-in-precoinage-societies-8209fbd7-008c-45e7-bb04-e66182840dbc.json"},{"id":141197,"title":"The Coins from Maroneia and the Classical City at Molyvoti","subtitle":"A Contribution to the History of Aegean Thrace","description":"Compared with the showy and carefully selected silver and gold coins that typically represent Greek coinage inmost book illustrations and museum displays, coins recovered in archaeological excavations can be difficult to appreciate. By their very nature, excavation coins are unselected. Almost all are made of bronze, a metal that readily corrodes when buried in the ground. Apart from any damage by corrosion, many are heavily worn or broken. Because they were often lost and have been recovered in huge numbers, they can be extremely repetitive. And yet, while this might make them tedious from a museum or connoisseur's point of view, for the ancient historian the very quantity of such data is a rare blessing. Their abundance and the even more important criterion of provenience -the circumstance that every excavated coin was used at a particular site and so is tied in some way to the site's imperfectly known history- make these coins an invaluable documentary source for the history of the habitation in question.\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless, despite a century and a half of extensive archaeological activity in Greece, it is disappointing how few of the country's excavations have produced published numismatic reports. A recent survey of Greek coins found in archaeological excavations lists only nine ancient cities and sanctuaries in Greece for which there exists a published account of excavated coins. Moreover, all but one of these records pertain to excavations that were run by foreign archaeologists and published by foreign scholars. The shining exception was Zone, a little known urban site on the Aegean coast of Thrace that was excavated under the auspices of the Greek Archaeological Society and whose coins were summarily listed and reviewed in a 1996 article by Mina Galani-Krikou. A third of these 2.229 coins are the critically important coins of Zone that made possible the site's very identification.\u003cbr\u003eIn the present volume Selene Psoma of the Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity (National Hellenic Research Foundation), Chryssa Karadima and Domna Terzopoulou of the XIX Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (Ministry of Culture) now give us not only a welcome second publication of site coins excavated in Aegean Thrace but one in extended monograph form with commentaries and full attention to numismatic detail. Notably, the study treats the coins from two sites, one that has long been recognized as Maroneia, the other a previously unidentified city site on Cape Molyvoti. [...]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(from the preface)","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b143896.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7905-48-2","isbn13":"978-960-7905-48-2","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5467,"name":"Μελετήματα","books_count":41,"tsearch_vector":"'melethmata' 'meletimata'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:38:29.577+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:38:29.577+03:00"},"pages":437,"publication_year":2008,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"97.0","price_updated_at":"2009-06-11","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1161,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":143896,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-coins-from-maroneia-and-classical-city-at-molyvoti.json"},{"id":141270,"title":"Achaïe III","subtitle":"Les cités achéennes: Épigraphie et histoire","description":"La publication du corpus des inscriptions grecques et latines des cites acheennes fait suite a celui de Patras, publie en 1998 dans la meme serie (MEΛETHMATA 25). Si le present volume contient moins de documents, ceux-ci sont plus varies et se repartissent mieux dans le temps; contrairement au volume precedent, le nombre de documents publics est important et illustre bien l'histoire de certaines cites, particulierement a l'epoque hellenistique. Comme par le passe, nous n'avons pas voulu presenter un catalogue laconique mais nous avons cru bon de pousser au maximum le commentaire des textes meme les plus humbles puisque ceux-ci constituent une des bases de l 'histoire des cites. Celle-ci a ete brievement dressee avant le corpus de chaque cite et sert de cadre au catalogue qui suit; le sous-titre de l'ouvrage \"Epigraphie et histoire\" indique l'importance attribuee, peut-etre pour la premiere fois, pour l'elaboration de cette synthese historique, aux documents epigraphiques bien que les autres sources -litteraires, numismatiques ou archeologiques- n'aient pas ete negligees.\u003cbr\u003eAu moment de la parution de la presente publication, il m'est agreable de remercier les nombreuses personnes qui, de facons diverses, m'ont aide dans l'elaboration de cet ouvrage. Mes remerciements s'adressent, tout d'abord, au Service des Antiquites Helleniques et particulierement aux ephores et epimeletes de Patras (V. Petracos, Ph. Petsas, Iph. Decoulacou, 1. Papapostolou, L. Kolonas, M. Petropoulos, Z. Aslamatzidou, L. Papazoglou-Mathioudaki, M. Lacakis-Marchetti, M. Petritaki, A. Gadolou, A. Vassilogamvrou, L. Papakosta, G. Alexopoulou, E. Kollia et A. Vordos) qui, soit m'ont cede le droit de publication des textes inedits, soit ont facilite mon acces aux monuments durant mes sejours acheens. Je dois beaucoup aux discussions que j'ai eues avec chacun d'eux (particulierement avec M. Petropoulos, L. Papakosta, G. Alexopoulou, E. Kollia et A. Vordos). Leurs observations m'ont aide a eviter des erreurs, precisement dans la partie de la synthese concernant l'interpretation des documents archeologiques. 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