Journal of Roman Studies Monographs

No. 1. Joyce Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome

The texts from Aphrodisias in Caria at the core of this book provide remarkable documentation for Roman history during the Mithridatic War, the Second Triumvirate and the second-third centuries A.D. They include a Greek translation of the longest senatus consultum so far known and a number of imperial letters. They throw light on provincial attitudes to Rome, on Roman policies in the provinces, on the relation of Octavian with Antony, and on many fascinating details of Roman administrative practice.

1982. 214 pp., 32 pls. Hardback. ISBN 0 907764 00 2. £26/US$52
Discount price: £8/US$16

No. 2. Philip M. Kenrick, Excavations at Sabratha 1948-1951

This report on the British excavations at Sabratha, directed by Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward- Perkins, uses the original records of the excavations. The work includes chapters on the Forum, East Forum Temple, Capitolium, Basilica/Church and Temple of Sarapis, insulae, the Severan Monument, the Theatre, the Byzantine Defences and the Harbour, and on the pottery. Dr Kenrick has revised the structural history of Roman Sabratha, adding much to the understanding of its origins.

1986. 326 pp., 64 pls. Hardback. ISBN 0 907764 07 X. £30/US$60
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No. 4. Edited B. Levick, S. Mitchell, J. Potter and M. Waelkens. Coins by D. Nash. Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua (MAMA) IX: Monuments from the Aezanitis

MAMA I-VIII, published between 1928 and 1962, are a major source of documentary information for the history of Asia Minor, especially in the Roman imperial and early Byzantine periods. Vol. IX contains more than 600 Greek inscriptions from northern Phrygia, almost all previously unpublished. The texts include imperial documents relating to the sanctuary of Zeus, and many civic inscriptions relating to local cults. There are commentaries on each monument and introductions on the historical geography and history of the Aezanitis.
1988. 209 pp., 48 pls, 2 maps. Hardback. ISBN 0 907764 10 X. £30/US$60
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No. 7. Edited by B. Levick, S. Mitchell, J. Potter and M. Waelkens. Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua (MAMA) X: Monuments from Appia and the Upper Tembris Valley, Cotiaeum, Cadi, Synaus, Ancyra Sidera and Tiberiopolis

MAMA X contains material from seven cities and their territories. We find a characteristic range of verse and prose epitaphs, dedications to local pagan gods, monuments of early Christianity, boundary stones, and other texts which reveal many aspects of rural life in the villages of Phrygia. Most of the monuments are published here for the first time; some, like the well-known inscription from Aragua, are reproduced with the help of photographs, drawings and notes that reveal details now lost.
1993. 248 pp., 56 pls. Hardback. ISBN 0 907764 18 5. £40/US $80
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No. 8. Andrew Poulter (contributions by T. Blagg, K. Butcher, J. Reynolds, P. Strange and T. Sturge), Nicopolis ad Istrum: a Roman, Late Roman and Early Byzantine City: Excavations 1985-1992. Vol. 1

The remarkable preservation of this Bulgarian site and the comprehensive nature of the British research programme combine to provide a unique insight into the physical, economic and palaeo- environmental history of a Roman city from the early 2nd to the late 6th century A.D. This first volume contains the results of the excavations, geophysical surveys, coins, epigraphic finds and an analysis of the Severan frescoes. It also summarises the results of the large environmental programme, small- find, architectural material and ceramic studies and assesses their implications for the city in its regional context and its relations with other parts of the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine world.
1995. 331 pp. incl. 118 line drawings, 46 pls, incl. 6 col., 3 fold-outs. Hardback. ISBN 0 907764 20 7. £42/US$84
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No. 9.  Brian Campbell, The Writings of the Roman Land Surveyors. Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary

This book provides a reliable and readable translation of the writings of the Roman land surveyors. Although these works were first collected together probably in the 5^th century AD, this is the first attempt to produce a translation into English of all the most significant texts and to present them in a single volume, along with a Latin text and glossary. There is an historical introduction and commentary on ancient surveying and its historical importance in terms of law, society, and economy, and also the relationship of the texts to the identification of Roman field systems and settlements.

2000, reprinted 2008.  570 pp., incl. 54 pp. of line illus., 6 pls, 1 map. Hardback. ISBN 0 907764 28 2. £70/US$140; discount: £45/US$90

No. 10, David Langslow, The Latin Alexander Trallianus: the Text and Transmission of a late Latin Medical Book

The present work offers an extensive introduction to the text and transmission of the ancient Latin version of the medical works Therapeutica and On Fevers of the great sixth-century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. The importance of the Latin Alexander in medieval medicine in the West is seen in the richness of both mainstream and secondary, excerpting manuscript-traditions. The tradition is such that the reconstructed Latin text promises to be a much more important witness to the Greek text than the Greek is to the Latin, and of course a reliable edition is a prerequisite for any systematic work on questions such as the provenance of the translation and the Latinity of the translator(s). The volume comprises an introduction to Alexander; an outline account of his works in Greek compared with the Latin version; a description of the Latin manuscript copies, and a proposed reconstruction of the genetic relations between them; some preliminary remarks on the Latinity of the Latin Alexander; and a sample edition, with translation, critical apparatus, and extensive notes, of the chapters on coughing at the start of Book 2.
October 2006, c. 320 pp + 12 pls. Paperback. ISBN 0 907764 32 0; 978-0-907764-32-8.  £65/US$130.

No. 11.  James Crow, Jonathan Bardill & Richard Bayliss, The Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople

One of the greatest achievements of Roman hydraulic engineering, the water supply of Constantinople included the longest known aqueduct channels from the ancient world and the most complex system of water storage and distribution within the city itself. This monograph presents the results of ten years of fieldwork and research and provides a detailed account of the water channels and great bridges outside the city and the first comprehensive concordance of the water storage inside the city documenting over 150 cisterns. There is a historical introduction from Roman to early Ottoman times supported by a detailed collection of ancient sources translated into English. Later chapters integrate more closely the structural evidence with the written texts and provide the basis for new interpretations of the historical texts. Specific studies are concerned with the unique Christian iconography of the bridges and with the masons’ marks recorded from them. The volume is illustrated by detailed maps showing the course of the channels and the location of the water bridges, together with detailed elevation drawings of the great bridges in the wooded countryside outside the city. Within the city the cisterns are plotted in detail for the first time enabling an appreciation of the water system in its topographical setting.
2008. 286 pp + 15 maps & 150 illus. Hardback. ISBN 978 0 907764 36 6. £50/US$100