The Locus of Carthage: Compounding Geographical Logic

North Africa’s Phoenician city of Carthage was above all a logical place from which the well-informed maritime Phoenicians colonized and controlled the Western Mediterranean. The leading important factors affecting the founding of Carthage were mostly geographical: overall centrality along the southern coast of the Western Mediterranean; proximity to the island bridge of Italy via Sicily; nascent oceanographic knowledge of water currents and wind gyres as well as shoals such as the Gulf of Sidra and the shelter of the Gulf of Tunis itself; and important local topography and religious landmarks.     

Third Carthage: Struggles and Contestations Over Archaeological Space

This paper investigates how the archaeological site of modern Carthage was (re)produced and (re)appropriated by various interest groups from the early 19th century to the present. It traces the struggle of archaeologists and conservationists to protect Carthage’s ancient ruins within a changing urban environment invariably dominated by Tunisia’s most powerful and influential elites. The paper highlights some controversial issues that have affected the unity of an envisaged archaeological park in the area. In doing so, it brings to the fore the ongoing conflict between the different statuses of Carthage: symbolic capital of Tunisia, historic site, living city and tourist destination.     

A Father,a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage

The prison narrative attributed to the early third‐century Christian martyr Perpetua of Carthage has long attracted attention because of its dramatic portrayal of a Roman father's failure to extract obedience from his adult daughter as he tries to dissuade her from allowing herself to be punished as an enemy of the Roman state. This study explores the alignment between paternal authority and the authority of the Roman procurator Hilarianus in Perpetua's narrative, considering how the civic spaces of forum and arena became theatres for both filial and civil disobedience.     

陕西铜川市印台区发现瓷器窖藏

2003年8月30日,铜川市印台区红土镇东王村西王组村民在取土过程中发现瓷器窖藏.印台区文物部门闻讯后随即对出土地点进行了全面勘查,在当地公安部门协助下,共追回各类文物标本62件.主要为瓷器,另有少量铜铁残器.现将结果简报如下.     

The Cross-Legged Effigy at Horsted Keynes,Sussex, with Some Remarks on Early Effigies of Diminutive Dimensions

The Summer Meeting of the Institute in 1976 included a visit to Aydon Castle, and has provoked discussion of this important and well-preserved building. Here it is shown that the house was in single ownership at the time of its construction, and the implications of its lay-out and the sequence of development are considered.     

江苏溧水永阳镇元代窖藏出土的瓷器与初步认识

1975年,江苏溧水县永阳镇发现一处元代窖藏,出土了以青花瓷、哥窑瓷、龙泉窑瓷及枢府瓷等瓷器为主的19件文物。比较发现,窖藏瓷器具有明显的时代特征,均为元代晚期器物,为研究元代制瓷技术发展提供了珍贵的实物资料。窖藏形成原因可能与元末溧水的战乱有关。     

沈阳白塔堡白塔年代辨疑

沈阳市南郊的白塔堡白塔,在1905年日俄战争中被毁,久 已不存,因此不知其年代。近日有文章考其为明塔,并又说当地正在复建。因此事有关沈阳 的历史文化问题,故笔者根据往年对这座被毁白塔的考古调查,并结合有关文献记载,考证 其为辽代所建,应是一座很高大精美的辽塔,而非明塔。