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Free Download Roger S. O. Tomlin, "The Uley Tablets: Roman Curse Tablets from the Temple of Mercury at Uley "
English | ISBN: 0192888625 | 2024 | 400 pages | PDF | 21 MB
The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the Cotswolds, the temple of the god Mercury at Uley, Gloucestershire, together with two from the nearby site of Tarlton. Like those found in the hot spring at Bath, they are ‘curse tablets’, so called because they seek divine intervention against the writer’s enemies, who are mostly thieves unknown. They complain of farm animals being stolen or bewitched, even a stolen beehive (the first document of bee-keeping in Britain), the theft of clothing such as gloves, cloaks and gaiters, woman’s underwear, the theft of rings and sums of money ranging from two ‘mites’ to a hundred thousand denarii. In formalised language they ask the god to recover their property and punish the thieves with ill health or the ‘greatest death’.

Free Download The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship
by Nina E. Livesey
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009487051 | 345 Pages | PDF | 3.13 MB

Free Download Gods in the House: Anthropology of Roman Housing II
by Alexandra Dardenay and Laurent Bricault
English | 2023 | ISBN: 2503601693 | 368 Pages | PDF | 4.3 MB

Free Download Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture: Aesthetics, Semantics and Function (Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy (Decor), 3) by Annette Haug, Adrian Hielscher, M. Taylor Lauritsen
English | January 4, 2022 | ISBN: 3110762900 | 294 pages | MOBI | 14 Mb
The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. It includes contributions on both architectural spaces (and their material design) and objects – types of ‘artefacts’ that differ greatly in the way they were used, perceived and loaded with cultural significance. With respect to architecture, the analysis of material aesthetics leads to a new understanding of the performance, imitation and transformation of surfaces, including the social meaning of such strategies. In the case of objects, surface treatments are equally important. However, object form (a specific design category), which can enter into tension with materiality, comes into particular focus. Only when materials are shaped do their various qualities emerge, and these qualities are, to a greater or lesser extent, transferred to objects. With a focus primarily on Roman Italy, the papers in this volume underscore the importance of material design and highlight the awareness of this matter in the ancient world.

Free Download Jasper de Bruin, "Border Communities at the Edge of the Roman Empire: Processes of Change in the Civitas Cananefatium "
English | ISBN: 9463728104 | 2019 | 308 pages | PDF | 27 MB
In Roman times, the area between the Lower Rhine and the Meuse in the present day province of South Holland in the Netherlands, was known as the administrative district of the community of the Cananefates (the civitas Cananefatium). The formation of this community, as well as the changes that took place within this group, were researched by means of a systematic analysis of the archaeological remains. In order to understand the role of the Roman state in these processes, the urban and military communities were also studied. In this way an overview was created of an administrative region in which aspects such as the interaction between the different groups, the character of the rural community and the differences with other rural groups along the borders of the Roman Empire could be studied.

Free Download Astrid van Oyen, "How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its terra sigillata Pottery "
English | ISBN: 9462980543 | 2016 | 184 pages | PDF | 26 MB
Bright red terra sigillata pots dating to the first three centuries CE can be found throughout the Western Roman provinces. The pots’ widespread distribution and recognisability make them key evidence in the effort to reconstruct the Roman Empire’s economy and society. Drawing on recent ideas in material culture, this book asks a radically new question: what was it about the pots themselves that allowed them to travel so widely and be integrated so quickly into a range of contexts and practices? To answer this question, Van Oyen offers a fresh analysis in which objects are no longer passive props, but rather they actively shape historical trajectories.

Free Download Patreon – Roman Bridge – Procedural Asset Creation
João (cgside) | Duration: 8:30 h | Video: H264 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC 44,1 kHz 2ch | 4,32 GB | Language: English
In this step by step course we will be creating from start to finish a procedurally generated roman bridge. It will be a good chance to learn about many procedural workflows, a lot of tips and tricks along the way.
We will be using mostly Houdini, but also Substance Painter for texturing and a bit of Speedtree too.
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Free Download Celia E. Schultz, Allen M. Ward, F. M. Heichelheim, "A History of the Roman People"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138724696, 1138708895 | PDF | pages: 783 | 11.5 mb
A History of the Roman People offers students a comprehensive, up-to-date, readable introduction to the whole span of Roman history. Richly illustrated, this fully updated volume takes readers through the mists of Roman prehistory and a survey of the peoples of pre-Roman Italy to a balanced, thoughtful account of the complexities of the Roman Republic, its evolution into a full-fledged empire, and its ultimate decline. This latest edition enhances the political narrative with explorations of elements of daily life in the Roman world.

Free Download Unrest in the Roman Empire
by Lisa Pilar Eberle;Myles Lavan;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3593519321 | 313 pages | True PDF EPUB | 12.65 MB

Free Download Light Infantry of the Greek and Roman World
by Jean Charl du Plessis;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399081489 | 257 pages | True PDF EPUB | 21.08 MB