Approaching Late Antiquity: the Transformation from Early to Late Empire

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by  Edited by Simon Swain and Mark Edwards

Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to
Late Empire
Simon Swain and Mark Edwards
Print publication date: 2006
Print ISBN-13: 9780199297375
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: Jan-10
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297375.001.0001
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APPROACHING LATE ANTIQUITY Approaching Late Antiquity
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Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to
Late Empire
Simon Swain and Mark Edwards
Print publication date: 2006
Print ISBN-13: 9780199297375
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: Jan-10
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297375.001.0001
Acknowledgements
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The editors would like to acknowledge the material support of the
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, the
Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick, and All Souls College,
Oxford. We are extremely grateful to All Souls College, Oxford, and Christ
Church, Oxford for generously funding the colour illustrations. We would
also like to thank Graham Sells for his translation of Chapter 3 and to
acknowledge the assistance of Hilary O’Shea and her team at OUP in the
production of this book. Thanks too to Bert Smith for support at a crucial
stage, and especially to H. J., J. J., and J. E. V.
S. S. and M. J. E.
Shotteswell and Oxford
July 2003 (p.vi)
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Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to
Late Empire
Simon Swain and Mark Edwards
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Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: Jan-10
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List of Colour Plates
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(to appear between pp. 242 and 243)
1. Trivulzio cage-cup, second half of the fourth century AD.
2. Theodolinda’s Gospel Book, c. AD 600, from Rome.
3. a and b. Late antique marble incrustation (Sta Sophia),
Constantinople, sixth century AD.
4. Painted stucco mummy with encaustic portrait of Artemidorus.
From Hawara, AD 100–130.
5. Painted linen shroud with a portrait of a woman in a dalmatic
with a mantle. From Antinoopolis, AD 300 –350.
6. Painted linen shroud with a portrait of a woman in a dalmatic and
stole. From Antinoopolis, AD 350 –400.
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Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to
Late Empire
Simon Swain and Mark Edwards
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Print ISBN-13: 9780199297375
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: Jan-10
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297375.001.0001
List of Figures
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CHAPTER 2
1. Wine amphorae at Ostia and Rome: percentage from Italy. Eight
samples with approximate dating.
2. Rural settlements in the Rhineland: percentage occupied in a
given period.
3. Site totals in the Segermes survey (sites with two or more
fineware sherds).
4. Public building in the African provinces: total per year AD 98–
395.
5. Sources of tableware AD 70–400, Ostia, Terme del Nuotatore
(percentages by region).
6. Documentation from Karanis (Arsinoite) AD 100 –399.
7. Numbers of documentary papyri from Egyptian finds AD 100 –
300 (shown as percentages of total).
8. Egyptian documentary papyri AD 284–540, yearly averages by
ten-year periods.
9. British stray coin-finds: percentage per year, AD 96 –402 (median
of Verulamium, Silchester, Piercebridge, Richborough).
10. Third-century silver hoards, average number per year, AD 200–
275 (major reigns).
11. Third-century silver hoards, median size in denarii, AD 200–275
(major reigns).
12. Dated imperial rescripts, AD 235–285.
CHAPTER 3
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1. Map showing towns under jurisdiction of the praefectus urbi
within 100-mile radius of Rome, from the Tyrrhenian coast to the
Apennines.
CHAPTER 11
1. Flavius Palmatus, Aphrodisias, late fifth or early sixth century AD.
2. Samuel anointing David, Dura Europos Synagogue, c. AD 245.
• (p.xi)
3. Arch of Constantine, general view, Rome, c. AD 312–15.
4. a and b. Rubens Vase, late fourth century AD.
5. a and b. Ludovisi Sarcophagus, Rome, c. AD 250 –60.
6. Head of Constantine recut from Trajan, from Arch of Con-
stantine, Rome, c. AD 315.
7. Symmachorum ivory leaf, late fourth century AD.
8. Barberini ivory, sixth century AD.
9. Meleager Plate from the Sevso Treasure, fourth century AD.
10. Dionysiac amphora from the Sevso Treasure, fourth century AD.
11. Justinianic capital from St Sophia, Constantinople, fourth decade
of sixth century AD.
12. a and b. Stone reliefs from St Polyeuktos, Constantinople, third
decade of sixth century AD.
13. Agate head of the emperor Augustus (late first century BC or
early first century AD) with a later Byzantine inscription.
CHAPTER 12
1. View of the ruins of the city of Antinoopolis, drawn by Jomard for
Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt.
2. Painted stucco mummy portraits of a man and a woman, and an
unpainted mummy of a child, excavated at Deir el-Bahri, western
Thebes, AD 270 –300.
3. Painted linen shroud of a boy, from Antinoopolis, AD 300 –400.
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Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to
Late Empire
Simon Swain and Mark Edwards
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Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: Jan-10
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Note on Contributors
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COLIN ADAMS is Lecturer in Ancient History in the School of Archaeology and
Ancient History, University of Leicester.
ALAN CAMERON is Charles Anthon Professor of Latin Language and
Literature, Columbia University, New York.
JOHN DILLON is Regius Professor of Greek, Trinity College, Dublin.
RICHARD DUNCAN-JONES is Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University
of Cambridge.
MARK EDWARDS is Lecturer in Patristics, University of Oxford, and Student of
Christ Church, Oxford.
JAŚ ELSNER is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Art History, University of Chicago.
PETER GARNSEY is Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity, University
of Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
TONY HONORÉ is Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
NEIL MCLYNN is Professor in the Faculty of Law, Keio University, Japan.
EMANUELE PAPI is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces,
Department of Archaeology and History of Art, University of Siena, Italy.
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SIMON SWAIN is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Department of
Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick.
(p.xiii) SUSAN WALKER is Deputy Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
The British Museum, London.
MICHAEL WHITBY is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Department of
Classics aand Ancient History, University of Warwick.
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