American Journal of Archaeology

Although Classical Greek religious traditions were well established in Cyprus, Greek-style temples appear to have been relatively rare. Newly documented and analyzed architectural fragments from the Latsithkia area, preserved in the museums of Episkopi and Limassol, suggest that a previously unknown temple may have existed in the chora of Kourion (Cyprus). The aims o...

Italian Terra Sigillata (ITS) was one of the most widely traded fine wares in the Roman world, seeing distribution across the Mediterranean and beyond. Northern Italian Terra Sigillata (NITS) has rarely been included in wider debates surrounding ITS, with its zones of production, consumption, and trade routes still matters of speculation. To better understand how NITS was pro...

This study aims to identify imperial portraits through contextual and iconographic markers rather than from physiognomy and hairstyle. Modern scholarship categorizes portraits into types based on facial features and hair arrangements, applying standards facilitated by photography, a mid 19th-century invention that fundamentally altered expectations with regard to physical res...

The second-century CE relief tondi now on the fourth-century CE Arch of Constantine are anomalous both in subject matter and in format. Among these eight reliefs, the scenes of the lion hunt and of the sacrifice to Hercules differ strikingly from the others, as well as from conventional iconography. The sacrifice to Hercules shows the image of the hero as an apparition in the...

This article presents the results of six years of archaeological excavations at Castellaraccio di Monteverdi, a minor fortified settlement in the middle valley of the Ombrone River in southern Tuscany. Previously known almost exclusively through 12th- and 13th-century CE documentary sources, the site now provides a tightly dated archaeological sequence that permits a reassess...