Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions

Modern Reception of Late Antique Egyptian Textiles

riographic project in a volume celebrating the work of Thomas F. Mathews, who, as my teacher and mentor, set me on the path of an intellectual adventure that never fails to surprise.1 At the center of this study is a set of Late Antique Egyptian textiles assembled in an album for Dikran Ga rabed Kelekian (1868–1951), an influential collector and art dealer who was a source of historic and archa...

Bone traumas in late antique populations from Croatia.

We present the results of the analyses of traumatic bone injuries in two Late Antique (3r to 5th century AD) skeletal samples from Croatia: Zadar--located on the eastern Adriatic coast, and a composite skeletal series from continental Croatia consisting of skeletons from Osijek, Vinkovci, Strbinci, and Zmajevac. The osteological series from continental Croatia are related to settlements located...

Ancient Letters. Classical and Late Antique Epistolography [book review]

A talk at the conference on “Other Realities: New Religions and Revitalization

1. Introduction One significant but not widely appreciated impact of the " new religions " has been to reopen the question of the relation of religion to science. I speak of new religions in the sense defined by Needleman in his book by that title, that is, I am referring primarily to Eastern teachings which have gained adherents and cultural influence in the West over the past two decades. To ...

Late Antique and early Byzantine spherical bronze commercial weights housed in the Archaeological Museum in Split

The 33 bronze weights from the Late Antiquity Collection in the Archaeological Museum in Split are catalogued in this paper. They exhibit the oldest (spherical) shape of commercial weights, used throughout the territory of the Eastern and Western Empires. Most of them have Greek or Latin letters on their surfaces as designations of their mass, while on six of them it is impossible to ascertain ...