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Second Century AD (second + century_ad)

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Text and image in celtiberia: the adoption and adaptation of written language into indigenous visual vocabulary

OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 2 2003
FIONA A. ROSE
SummaryThis study is concerned with the relationships between text and image in central Spain during the period second century BC,second century AD. Three discrete relationships are isolated, each one representative of a unique strategy for communicating with both written and figured language. The paper argues that the Celtiberian populi adopted Roman epigraphic practice into a pre-existing visual vocabulary, reconfiguring written communication into an indigenous framework that met local predilections. [source]

Towards the earliest history of Kinda

ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 1 2009
M.D. Bukharin
In the second century AD Rome could not protect the caravan trade in north-west Arabia to the south of Dedan with its own military detachments, stationed in Mad,'in and al-'Ul,. Rome seems to have attracted Aksum for the subjugation of the Arab nomads of north-west Arabia and protection of the ,Incense Road'. At the end of the second century AD Rome, Aksum and Saba' shared common interests: Aksum helped Rome to restore peace on the caravan routes, in which Saba' seemed to have been interested as well, and Rome provided a market for East African and South Arabian products. During the west Arabian campaign, described in the inscription RIÉ 277 (Monumentum Adulitanum II), which is to be dated to the very end of the second century AD, the unnamed Aksumite king, presumably Gad,rat, conquered the lands of Kinaidokolpites and Arrabites. The former name represents a combination of two names, the first of which seems to be derived from the name of Kinda (identification of the entire name with Kinda is taken for ,somewhat unlikely' in Retsö 2003: 450, n. 60). The Kinda seem to have been also known in the earlier classical tradition under the name of Kanraitai , the inhabitants of Ghamr dh,-Kinda , and thus were the most aggressive and dangerous obstacle for the Roman traders on the land routes in north-west Arabia and in the northern Red Sea in the first,second century AD. The Aksumite invasion forced the resettlement of the Kinda on the other branch of the ,Incense road', through modern Qaryat al-F,w , and its blockade, consequently followed at the beginning of the third century by the campaigns of the Sabaean king ,,'ir ,Awtar against them. [source]

Tracing a major Roman road in the area of ancient Helike by resistivity tomography

ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION, Issue 4 2009
G. N. Tsokas
Abstract In his journey through Achaea in the second century AD, Pausanias mentioned the destroyed Classical site of Helike on the sea and noted that its ruins were still visible underwater near the southwest shore of the Corinthian Gulf. In 2001, the Helike Project excavators discovered on the coastal plain of Helike southeast of Aigion the first ruins of Classical buildings, buried under lagoon sediments 3,m deep. They also found segments of a major Roman road oriented NW,SE and buried 1,1.50,m deep under the contemporary surface. Pausanias referred to the main road through the Helike plain, which he followed during his visit. According to his description, he saw the submerged ruins of Helike toward the sea north of the Roman road. Tracing the exact location of the road would, therefore, help to locate the lost city. We employed resistivity tomography to explore the areas between trenches where the road had been unearthed and also to investigate its possible extension beyond those locations. Since 2004, resistivity studies performed by grids or single profiles have been carried out at 11 locations. As a result, the ancient road was detected for a length of about 2,km. It was also imaged either in two-dimensional or three-dimensional contexts at all the locations where it was detected. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS INSCRIPTION

BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, Issue 1 2005
R. W. SHARPLES
It does, however, show conclusively for the first time that his post was at Athens, and strongly suggests that at the end of the second century AD the term diadokhos ,successor' was applied to the imperially appointed holders of the chairs of philosophy at Athens. It also provides us with a possible candidate for the authorship of works attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias but not apparently by him, notably On fevers. [source]

TRAGEDY AND ARCHAEOLOGY, FORTY YEARS AFTER,

BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, Issue 1 2003
AXEL SEEBERGArticle first published online: 12 MAR 2010
There is new evidence, including some with a possible bearing on the early popularity of Euripides outside Athens (as reported by Plutarch); his superior popularity in later Antiquity is also stressed. A few working hypotheses seem to merge: revival of interest in the second century AD transformed the craft of acting (as in Comedy) , in performance, comedies may have outlasted tragedies. Tragic myths are depicted as myths, while stage illustration stands for feats of acting, as evidenced by the emphasis on servant parts. [source]

THE RADIOCARBON CHRONOLOGY OF KOPIA, AN EARLY GLASS MANUFACTURING CENTRE IN INDIA

ARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 5 2010
A. K. KANUNGO
Right from the time of the Painted Grey Ware (PGW) culture, dating to c. 1200,600 bce, more than 210 archaeological sites in India have provided evidence of glass, but there has been no attempt to date the glass-yielding layers by radiometric techniques. This has hampered the establishment of a chronology for the beginning and evolution of glass-making in India. The site of Kopia was excavated by the first author for three seasons from 2004 to 2006 to understand the history, development and technology of glass production in India. The excavation produced evidence of a long period of occupation, covering the Fine Grey Ware (FGW), Northern Black Polished Ware (NBP), Sunga,Kushana and Gupta periods. Twenty accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and radiocarbon dates, all derived from charcoal samples and processed independently by three laboratories, are available from the site. The dates range in their calibrated form on average from the ninth to the second century bce in locality I and from the second century bce to the second century ad in locality II. [source]