London's Hadrianic War?

Perring, Dominic

doi:10.1017/s0068113x17000113

Britannia

2017

DOI: 10.1017/s0068113x17000113

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London's Hadrianic War?

Dominic Perring¹

Abstract: Recent work has advanced our understanding of human crania found in London's upper Walbrook valley, where skull deposition appears to have peaked during the occupation of the Cripplegate fort, itself probably built soon after London's Hadrianic fire. Although this fire is usually considered to have been accidental, parallels can be drawn with London's Boudican destruction. This article explores the possibility that these three strands of Hadrianic evidence — fire, fort and skulls — find common explanation in e… Show more

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“… 35 Perring 2017, 61. Perring also cited scholars who had suggested that the issues minted at Alexandria in a.d .…”

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Imaging Hadrian in Britain between Coinage and Sculpture: A New Digital Approach to the Study of Roman Imperial Portraiture

Calomino,

Bologna,

Wilson

et al. 2023

Britannia

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This paper presents a new approach to an old problem, the provincial reception of the image of Roman emperors. Applying 3D computer modelling, we captured the portrait features of Hadrian as represented on coinage minted for the British province, produced a 3D model from a coin and compared it with the bronze head of Hadrian found in London. The aim was to test the possibility, previously posited by other scholars, that the London portrait might have been produced by an artisan who used coin portraits of the emperor as his main – if not only – model. More generally, the paper examines the dependencies of coinage and sculpture on shared models and applies new technology to Roman portrait studies.

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Imaging Hadrian in Britain between Coinage and Sculpture: A New Digital Approach to the Study of Roman Imperial Portraiture

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Bologna,

Wilson

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Britannia

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“… 11 Shepherd 2012; Perring 2017, 52–5. Construction of the fort is dated by samian to the 120s, but the absence of Hadrianic fire debris suggested to Perring that it may have been built after the fire dated c .…”

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Hadrian and Britain: The Civil Zone

Fulford

2022

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The lack of written sources and the difficulties of establishing close chronologies from archaeological material mean that it is difficult to identify initiatives other than the commissioning of Hadrian's Wall that can confidently be attributed either to the emperor's visit to Britain in 122 or to his reign more generally. However, the early second century presents several archaeological proxies which point to a quickening of economic activity integrating the frontiers of Wales and the north of Britain with the civil zone of the south. Developments in the countryside hint at the growth of larger estates, including the emergence of larger, ‘complex’ farms, villages and better communications, together assuring the province's sustained ability to feed both military and civilian populations. At the same time there is evidence for public building across the towns of the south, especially of forum basilicas, which may be linked to administrative reforms including the establishment of new civitates.

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“… 70 Bradley and Gordon 1988; Edwards et al . 2009; Knűsel and Carr 1995; Marsh and West 1981; Schulting and Bradley 2013; Redfern and Bonney 2014; Perring 2017; Harward et al 2015.…”

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The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?

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Disarticulated human remains were recovered from a first-century fort ditch at Vindolanda on the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Ancient DNA analysis revealed the skeleton to be that of a male individual and forensic taphonomic analysis suggested a primary deposition of the body in a waterlogged environment with no obvious evidence of formal burial. Occurrences of disarticulated human remains outside a cemetery context are often overlooked in Roman bioarchaeology. This discovery adds to the growing body of literature regarding alternative funerary practice in the Empire, highlighting that the concept of burial and disposal of the dead is more complex than ancient historical sources suggest. Details of the DNA analysis are provided in the Supplementary Material available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X1900014X.

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London's Hadrianic War?

Cited by 6 publications

References 57 publications

Imaging Hadrian in Britain between Coinage and Sculpture: A New Digital Approach to the Study of Roman Imperial Portraiture

Imaging Hadrian in Britain between Coinage and Sculpture: A New Digital Approach to the Study of Roman Imperial Portraiture

Hadrian and Britain: The Civil Zone

The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?

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