M H Ballance
Biographic Data
| ID | 1212015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M H Ballance |
| GIVEN NAMES | M H |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballance |
| SIGNATURE | BALLANCE M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology Brown University Providence Rhode Island USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-3145-9586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Flat Country’
Although widely used throughout the territories colonized by Europeans, the colonial league remains difficult to consistently translate to a unit of distance. Attempts to convert the league to modern units have returned varied results, depending on where and when distances were reported. This confusion seems to be the result of a conflation of the league as a unit of distance and the league as a measurement of space‐time. The common league, used …
Regio Ipsina et Moeteana
This article stems from the writer's discovery in 1955 of an inscribed sarcophagus at Prymnessus, the modern Süğlün, 8 km. south-east of Afyon. It had been intended to follow this up by a reexamination of the stone itself and by an intensive survey, on the ground, of the ancient topography of the valley of the Phrygian Caÿster. But the necessary field-work has been prevented by various considerations, both inside and outside Turkey, and it seems …
The Origin of Africano
Africano is one of the most distinctive, although one of the most variable, of the ornamental stones commonly used by the Romans. It is a breccia containing lumps of white, grey or, most typically, pink marble, in which the crystals vary from minute to very large, the largest usually occurring in well-defined veins or patches. These lumps of marble, which may be of any size up to several feet long, are embedded in a black, dark green or greyish m…
Derbe and Faustinopolis
This article is the result, not of weeks of intensive field survey, but of three days borrowed from other work in order to check specific topographical points. My thanks are due to Mr. Gough for company and transport to Sidrova in 1958; to Leverhulme Awards and the Royal Geographical Society, who made possible the reconnaissance of western Cappadocia in 1961 that included the visit to Başmakçı; and to Mr. G. D. B. Jones for his help at Başmakçı a…
The Historical Geography of Asia Minor
The Site of Prostanna
The Pisidian city of Prostanna is mentioned in only two literary sources: Ptolemy (V, 5, 7) gives it as Prostama , while the list of bishops attending the Council of Constantinople in 381 includes Attalus Prostamensis among the Pisidian bishops. The only official inscription mentioning it is one from Delos, in which the Demos of the Prostaenneis honoured a quaestor propraetore of the Province Asia in 113 B.C. The comparatively numerous coins give…
Roman Roads in Lycaonia
The following article is an attempt to reconstruct the Roman road-system of Eastern Lycaonia from the Peutinger Table (the only ancient itinerary that refers to this region), from published and unpublished milestones and from impressions received on journeys there in 1956 and 1957. I am indebted especially to Sir William Calder for his help at all stages, including the use of his note-books, and also to Messrs. A. S. Hall and J. G. Macqueen, who …
The Site of Derbe; A New Inscription
The question of the site of Derbe has for many years exercised the ingenuity of those who have studied the topography of ancient Lycaonia. As long ago as 1824 Leake wrote that “of the cities, which the journey of St. Paul has made so interesting to us, the site of one only (Iconium) is yet certainly known. Perga, Antioch of Pisidia, Lystra, and Derbe, remain to be discovered”. Leake's own conjecture as to the site of Perga was confirmed within th…
Cumanin Cami'i at Antalya
This article is the result of a survey of Cumanin Cami'i carried out in the summer of 1953 during the writer's tenure of the Fellowship of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. That the survey took place is due in large measure to encouragement from the Director of the Institute, Mr. Seton Lloyd, and to the Turkish Antiquities Department, who readily gave the necessary permission. Further thanks are due to Mr. J. B. Ward Perkins for hel…
The Roman Bridges of the Via Flaminia
The article that follows is the result of two years spent in Italy under a scholarship of the British School at Rome. The writer's original intention was to attempt a general study of ancient bridge-construction in Italy. It soon became obvious, however, that this was an almost impossible task, owing to the lack of adequately published material. On the great roads leading out of Rome, comparatively little original work has been done in the last t…
The Origin of Africano
Africano is one of the most distinctive, although one of the most variable, of the ornamental stones commonly used by the Romans. It is a breccia containing lumps of white, grey or, most typically, pink marble, in which the crystals vary from minute to very large, the largest usually occurring in well-defined veins or patches. These lumps of marble, which may be of any size up to several feet long, are embedded in a black, dark green or greyish m…
The Roman Bridges of the Via Flaminia
The article that follows is the result of two years spent in Italy under a scholarship of the British School at Rome. The writer's original intention was to attempt a general study of ancient bridge-construction in Italy. It soon became obvious, however, that this was an almost impossible task, owing to the lack of adequately published material. On the great roads leading out of Rome, comparatively little original work has been done in the last t…
The Roman Bridges of the Via Flaminia
The article that follows is the result of two years spent in Italy under a scholarship of the British School at Rome. The writer's original intention was to attempt a general study of ancient bridge-construction in Italy. It soon became obvious, however, that this was an almost impossible task, owing to the lack of adequately published material. On the great roads leading out of Rome, comparatively little original work has been done in the last t…
Cumanin Cami'i at Antalya
This article is the result of a survey of Cumanin Cami'i carried out in the summer of 1953 during the writer's tenure of the Fellowship of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. That the survey took place is due in large measure to encouragement from the Director of the Institute, Mr. Seton Lloyd, and to the Turkish Antiquities Department, who readily gave the necessary permission. Further thanks are due to Mr. J. B. Ward Perkins for hel…
The Site of Derbe; A New Inscription
The question of the site of Derbe has for many years exercised the ingenuity of those who have studied the topography of ancient Lycaonia. As long ago as 1824 Leake wrote that “of the cities, which the journey of St. Paul has made so interesting to us, the site of one only (Iconium) is yet certainly known. Perga, Antioch of Pisidia, Lystra, and Derbe, remain to be discovered”. Leake's own conjecture as to the site of Perga was confirmed within th…
Roman Roads in Lycaonia
The following article is an attempt to reconstruct the Roman road-system of Eastern Lycaonia from the Peutinger Table (the only ancient itinerary that refers to this region), from published and unpublished milestones and from impressions received on journeys there in 1956 and 1957. I am indebted especially to Sir William Calder for his help at all stages, including the use of his note-books, and also to Messrs. A. S. Hall and J. G. Macqueen, who …
The Site of Prostanna
The Pisidian city of Prostanna is mentioned in only two literary sources: Ptolemy (V, 5, 7) gives it as Prostama , while the list of bishops attending the Council of Constantinople in 381 includes Attalus Prostamensis among the Pisidian bishops. The only official inscription mentioning it is one from Delos, in which the Demos of the Prostaenneis honoured a quaestor propraetore of the Province Asia in 113 B.C. The comparatively numerous coins give…
The Historical Geography of Asia Minor
Derbe and Faustinopolis
This article is the result, not of weeks of intensive field survey, but of three days borrowed from other work in order to check specific topographical points. My thanks are due to Mr. Gough for company and transport to Sidrova in 1958; to Leverhulme Awards and the Royal Geographical Society, who made possible the reconnaissance of western Cappadocia in 1961 that included the visit to Başmakçı; and to Mr. G. D. B. Jones for his help at Başmakçı a…
The Origin of Africano
Africano is one of the most distinctive, although one of the most variable, of the ornamental stones commonly used by the Romans. It is a breccia containing lumps of white, grey or, most typically, pink marble, in which the crystals vary from minute to very large, the largest usually occurring in well-defined veins or patches. These lumps of marble, which may be of any size up to several feet long, are embedded in a black, dark green or greyish m…
Regio Ipsina et Moeteana
This article stems from the writer's discovery in 1955 of an inscribed sarcophagus at Prymnessus, the modern Süğlün, 8 km. south-east of Afyon. It had been intended to follow this up by a reexamination of the stone itself and by an intensive survey, on the ground, of the ancient topography of the valley of the Phrygian Caÿster. But the necessary field-work has been prevented by various considerations, both inside and outside Turkey, and it seems …
In Flat Country’
Although widely used throughout the territories colonized by Europeans, the colonial league remains difficult to consistently translate to a unit of distance. Attempts to convert the league to modern units have returned varied results, depending on where and when distances were reported. This confusion seems to be the result of a conflation of the league as a unit of distance and the league as a measurement of space‐time. The common league, used …
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