This doctoral dissertation is a study of Sozomen of Bethelia's HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA . Sozomen (Salamanes Hermias Sozomenos ca. 370 - after 450) was a lawyer, a native of Bethelia (present day Beit Lahiye near Gaza in Palestine) who settled in Constantinople. His ecclesiastical history was intended to cover the period between 324 and 439, but ends...
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Commencé en 1965 sous l'égide de Jean Hubert, l'inventaire de la sculpture du haut Moyen Âge publiés par le CTHS sous le nom de Recueil général des monuments sculptés en France pendant le Haut Moyen Age (IVe-Xe siècles) a été mené par une équipe du CNRS jusqu'au milieu des années 1980. Cet inventaire joue un rôle majeur pour faire connaître cette s...
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
The article analyzes evidence related to the latrine in late antique literature. It shows that the latrine was commonly seen as a demonic domain in both pagan and Christian thought of the period. The Christians gave the moral value to the latrine and associated it with the humankind’s sinful nature. However, there are two narratives from Greek coll...
Este artículo comunica el hallazgo de un posible edificio de culto tardoantiguo durante los trabajos de prospección con métodos no invasivos del yacimiento de Santa Olalla (Olmillos de Sasamón, Burgos) en los años 2021-2023. Documentado a partir de la fotografía aérea en el espectro visible y la prospección geofísica mediante georradar, el edificio...
The transition from the thirteenth to the twelfth century BCE is marked by the development of fortified settlements in Cyprus. But it was with the establishment of the city-kingdoms that the fortifications became the prerogative of the urban centers, the seats of power. Whether they had a defensive or prestige function, fortifications protected eve...
The Bir el-Umdan cistern, a prominent archaeological site in the Judean Desert, is one of the largest and best preserved water systems in the region. Hewn in chalk, the cistern area measures 114 m2 and has a ~700 m3 volume. Two massive columns, each with a base diameter of 2.5 m, support the ceiling within the cistern’s interior. This impressive st...
Published in Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete
A sequel to a series of notes on high-ranking persons in Late Antique Egypt, continued from APF 67 (2021) 90-101. It includes editions of two papyri described in P.Lond. III and V.
Abstract Qaryatum dhāt Kāhlim (‘the City of [the god] Kahl’) is the Ancient South Arabian name of the modern site of Qaryat al‐Fāw. This compound refers to the tutelary deity of the city, in this case, a god called Kahl. However, the identity of this Kahl is obscure. Who is this god that makes his appearance in history towards the end of the second...
Histoire urbaine de l'Orient romain tardif. https://huort.hypotheses.org/?p=1418
