APHRODISIAS PAPERS 4 - Journal of Roman Archaeology

JOURNAL OF ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY
SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES NUMBER 70
APHRODISIAS PAPERS 4
NEW RESEARCH ON
THE CITY AND ITS MONUMENTS
edited by
Christopher Ratté and R. R. R. Smith
with contributions by
L. Bier, A. Chaniotis, P. D. De Staebler, A. C. Hrychuk Kontokosta,
N. Hudson, C. Kokkinia, J. Lenaghan, L. K. Phillips, C. Ratté, J. M. Reynolds,
R. R. R. Smith, P. Stinson, J. Van Voorhis, & B. Yıldırım
PORTSMOUTH, RHODE ISLAND
2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS
General abbreviations 6
1. The founding of Aphrodisias 7
C. Ratté
2. A statue of Julia Hera Sebaste (Livia) 37
J. Lenaghan
3. Aphrodisias’s ‘rights of liberty’: diplomatic strategies and the Roman governor 51
C. Kokkinia
4. Twelve buildings in search of a location: 61
unidentified buildings in the inscriptions of Aphrodisias
A. Chaniotis
5. The Civil Basilica: urban context, design, and significance 79
P. Stinson
6. The date of the reliefs from the colonnades of the Civil Basilica 107
B. Yıldırım
7. The inscriptions of the Basilica 131
J. M. Reynolds
8. The Bouleuterion 144
L. Bier
9. Inscriptions from the Bouleuterion/Odeion 169
J. M. Reynolds
10. Gladiatorial reliefs and élite funerary monuments 190
A. C. Hrychuk Kontokosta
11. Two portrait statues of boxers and the culture of athletics in the 3rd c. A.D. 230
J. Van Voorhis
12. Figural table supports: aspects of the archaeology of dining in the Roman world 253
L. S. Klar
13. The city wall and the making of a late-antique provincial capital 284
P. D. De Staebler
14. Three centuries of Late Roman pottery 319
N. Hudson
15. Sarcophagi and Roman citizenship 347
R. R. R. Smith
Addresses of contributors 395
ISBN-13: 978-1-887829-70-0 ISBN-10: 1-887829-70-9
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Printed on 80 lb coated paper. Cloth bound. 396 pages, roughly 400 illustrations.