Dissertatio historica - Jena. / Vita.

Inaug-diss.--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. "Das Album ordinis coloniae thamugadensis", p. 50-64 (text on p. 66 and folded leaf).

The Roman Empress Sabina is a pivotal figure in the representation of imperial women. She appears with more portrait types and on a higher proportion of the coinage produced both at Rome and in the provinces than any of her predecessors. While her sculpted likenesses do not compare in number to Livia’s, they do exceed those of most of the intervening women. This variety and quantity of representation created a new paradigm that was followed in subsequent reigns. All of this is contrasted with the lack of attention paid to Sabina in ancient historical writing, making the portraits of Sabina the best source on her life. My study differs from previous examinations of Sabina’s portraits in its methodological approach. I begin with a study of the coinage produced at Rome. I establish a concrete chronology of these coins through the use of die studies of both the aurei and dupondii/asses in order to resolve unanswered questions about the sequence and dating of Sabina’s portrait types. Through this new chronology, I interpret the significance of each portrait type. I then conduct the first detailed study of the provincial coin portraits of Sabina. The differences between the distribution of portrait types in quantity, chronology, and geography between the imperial and provincial coins reveals some of the mechanisms behind the two media and the reception of Sabina throughout the Empire. Comparing these data with the sculpture helps illuminate the distinctions in production and dissemination between media. Through this study, I create the most complete picture of Sabina’s portraiture to date and challenge previously held assumptions concerning the mechanisms of portrait creation. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / The Empress Sabina was married to the Emperor Hadrian for his entire reign of over twenty years (117-138). Although she is almost completely absent from the ancient historical record, her portraits are more plentiful and varied than those of any imperial woman before her, making these our best source of information about her. This study covers the portraits of Sabina which appear on coins produced in Rome, coins produced in the Roman provinces, and sculpture produced throughout the Empire. The analysis of the coins produced at Rome establishes the chronology of the different representations of Sabina. This chronology facilitates the interpretation of why these changes in the Empress’s appearance were made. Comparison between the portraits in different media and from different areas of the Empire reveals the impact of context on the production, dissemination, and style of imperial portraits.

This dissertation interrogates the agency of provincial communities in the Roman Empire to shape their urban environments though the integration of non-local building types, specifically Roman-style baths. By applying an urban-studies approach to the examination of these technologically complex and socially significant building types, this study intervenes in the traditional study of Roman baths, which have primarily studied these facilities in isolation or focused exclusively on their design and layout. Instead, this dissertation explores the placement of Roman-style baths in provincial settlements, the urban contexts of their integration, and the influence that pre-existing baths and bathing culture had on the construction of Roman-style baths. Recognizing that provincial communities made deliberate choices regarding the location of Roman-style baths in their pre-existing urban framework, this dissertation explores the factors that helped dictate the placement of these bathing facilities. Rather than focus on a single region of the Roman world, this dissertation studies the placement of baths in one hundred settlements across eleven provinces that stretch from the Britannia in the west and Asia in the East. This transregional study presents a balance between exploring empire-wide trends and local practices concerning the urban context of Roman baths, as well as the relationship between the two and reveals the widespread preference for placing Roman baths in high-traffic locations, where access and visibility would be greatest. This dissertation ends with a focused examination of baths in Roman Greece and Britain to investigate how pre-existing bathing culture influenced the integration of Roman-style baths in these regions and how the preferred high-traffic locations were adapted by the local communities to accommodate these facilities. These case studies highlight the preference for these provincial communities to construct their baths afresh in new locations that best suited local needs and expectations. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation examines the placement of Roman-style baths in provincial communities to investigate the factors that influenced the integration of these bathing facilities into pre-established urban landscapes. A total of one hundred settlements across eleven provinces are studied in order to identify the factors that influenced the placement and integration of these non-local building types and how these factors varied between regions. In addition, focused case studies on Roman-style baths in Britain and Greece are used to explore how pre-existing bathing culture impacted the adoption of Roman public baths. This dissertation represents the first transregional study of the placement of Roman-style baths and contributes to a growing trend of scholarship that highlights the agency of local communities in the adoption of the Roman cultural practice of public bathing.

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This work is focused on roman imports in Central Bohemia from 1st to 4th century A.D. My aim is to pay attention on findings of roman - provincial origin, which are published in a literature, the second aim is to sort these objects on a specific types and determine their inclusion on a timeline of archaeological absolute or relative chronology. This knowledge is very important to say what their importance was and which role they played in our history in Central Bohemia. It is clear that Central Bohemia had different position in some phases of a roman period. The study of imports also produce a knowledge about the importance of imported subjects from roman provinces for our society in roman period and about influences, that had many impacts on this society and her nature. Keywords Import, Central Bohemia, barbaricum, roman provinces, roman period

Thesis (D.Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2009. / Supervisor: Professor Alan Bowman. Bibliography: leaves 358-438.

Thesis (PH. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1931. / Vita. Description based on print version record. "Select bibliography": p. ix-xii.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America. / Description based on print version record. "Select bibliography": p. ix-x.

Thesis (PH. D.)--Catholic university of America, 1940. / Description based on print version record. Bibliography : p. xiii-xviii.