R J A Wilson

Dados Biográficos

ID165246
NOMER J A Wilson
PRENOMESR J A
SOBRENOMEWilson
ASSINATURAWILSON R J A
AFILIAÇÕESWith Appendices by Daniella Tsimbaliouk, Robyn Veal, Tianyi Wang, Sophie Rabinow, Piers D. Mitchell, and Tomoo Mukai
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES34
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1980
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2022
ÍNDICE H3

  • Mogontiacum (Mainz), Germany

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Rodney WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2022

    Mogontiacum is the site of a double legionary fortress first established under Augustus and enlarged and refurbished on several occasions later. It was occupied into the fourth century. Around it grew a civilian settlement of some 200 hectares, which became the capital of Upper Germany ca. 90 ce . In the fourth century it too had its own defensive walls. Two auxiliary forts are also known nearby. A funerary monument known as the Edelstein may be …

  • Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten, Germany)

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Rodney WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2022

    Xanten is the nearest modern town to the site of the Roman town of Colonia Ulpia Traiana , founded in ca. 99 ce . It was previously, for all of the first century ce , a settlement of the local Ciberni tribe. Excavation has revealed much about the defenses and some of the public and private buildings within, including classical‐style and Romano‐Celtic temples, a large bath, and an amphitheater. Its heyday was in the second century; it was damaged …

  • Vetera (Birten, Germany)

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2022

    Vetera is the ancient name of Roman legionary fortresses near the village of Birten, to the south of Xanten, on the Rhine in Germany. Vetera I is the site of a group of successive double fortresses (for two legions) from Augustan times until 70 ce , built first in earth and timber and then ca. 60 ce in stone. It was replaced by Vetera II, a single legion fortress further east, now lost to erosion by the Rhine.

  • Caddeddi, Sicily

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2022

    Caddeddi is a Roman villa near Noto in Sicily built in the second half of the fourth century ce . Overlooking the Tellaro River, the villa is imperfectly known, partly because of the collapse of the piano nobile on the north and east, and partly because a modern farm lies on top. Its most significant surviving features are four mosaics, one geometric and three figured. The latter show respectively the ransom of Hector; Bacchus and the fruits of t…

  • Piazza Armerina

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2022

    Piazza Armerina is a luxury Roman villa in Sicily probably built in the second quarter of the fourth century, although some date it either in part or in whole to the late fourth century. It has nearly 4000 sq m of mosaic floors, both figured and geometric, and one marble‐paved hall, as well as several fountains, two bath suites, and fragments of marble statues. The figured mosaics include genre scenes (marine displays), mythological compositions,…

  • Gerace, Sicily

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2022

    Gerace is a Roman landed estate near Enna in central Sicily. The principal excavated features are late Roman: a storehouse of ca. 300 ce , destroyed in a mid‐fourth‐century earthquake, a small unfinished villa ca. 375 ce with two geometric mosaics, and a bath‐house of ca. 380, entirely excavated. The last was in use until an earthquake severely damaged it ca. 475, after which it was stripped and filled in. The geometric mosaics were smashed in th…

  • UBC Excavations of the Roman Villa at Gerace, Sicily

    R J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonARTICLEMouseion Journal of the Classical…2022

    A sixth season of excavation at the late Roman rural estate of Gerace (Enna province, Sicily) took place in 2019. The principal goal, of completing the investigation of the bath-house of ca. 380 (first discovered in 2016), was achieved. A second cold pool of the frigidarium was excavated, and found to be very well preserved; in a secondary period, probably during construction, it had been made smaller than originally planned. Bricks underpinning …

  • Pantelleria Revealed

    R J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonARTICLEMouseion Journal of the Classical…2021

  • UBC Excavations of the Roman Villa at Gerace, Sicily

    R J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonARTICLEMouseion Journal of the Classical…2021

    A fifth season of excavation at the late Roman rural estate of Gerace (Enna province, Sicily) took place in 2018. A rectangular kiln of the fifth century ad, partially excavated in 2017, was confirmed as having internal walls of mud brick, hardened by successive firings. It was reduced in size in a secondary period. Investigation was conducted on another of the vertical shafts, extraordinarily hacked through the thickness of parts of the mud-bric…

  • The Baths on the Estate of the Philippiani at Gerace, Sicily

    R J A Wilson, Ross J Wilson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2020Referências: 14

    At Gerace near Enna in Sicily, excavation on a Roman villa-estate has revealed a freestanding bath house erected ca. 380 CE. It may never have been completed; one of three pools in its cold room was never installed, and the room's wall decoration was left unfinished. An unusual feature is the use of pisé (rammed earth) construction in one internal wall as insulation material. The baths were in use until an earthquake struck between 450 and 500 CE…

  • The Indirizzo Roman baths at Catania

    Open AccessMariangela Liuzzo, Giuseppe Margani et al.ARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2018

    The Terme dell’Indirizzo (to give them their Italian name) stand near the centre of modern Catania (access today is from Piazza Currò) on Sicily's E coast (fig. 1). They are not a new discovery: the ancient structure remains as a standing building. It is not just the best-preserved Roman bath-building in Sicily; it is among the best-preserved examples of its type anywhere in the empire, the original roofs of nearly every surviving room being, rem…

  • On Early Thimbles

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonARTICLEOxford Journal of Archaeology2016Referências: 16

    A copper‐alloy thimble was found in 2010 at Punta Secca, Sicily, in a sealed context datable by coins to the first quarter of the seventh century AD. It has generally been thought that thimbles did not reach the Mediterranean area until the ninth century AD, but at least nine metal examples are in fact attested at various places from contexts datable between the late sixth century and the early ninth. It is suggested that the increasing use of si…

  • Obituary

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2015Referências: 1

    died at the age of 98, was the foremost scholar of Romano-British history and archaeology for much of the second half of the 20th c. He was born in the Sussex village of Graffam, near Midhurst.. His father Noel served as a Provincial Commissioner in Sierra Leone, continuing a family tradition of diplomacy and overseas service. The latter soon settled the family in Norfolk, where Sheppard spent much of his childhood, and some of Sheppard's earlies…

  • Tile-stamps of Philippianus in Late Roman Sicily

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2014Referências: 5

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  • Hellenistic Sicily,c. 270–100 BC

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonCHAPTERHellenistic West2013

  • The Hellenistic West

    Open AccessJonathan Prag, Edward Bispham et al.BOOKHellenistic West2013

    Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the 'Hellenistic world'; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the 'Greek East' and the 'Roman West' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek histor…

  • An Unusual Early Byzantine "Thrice-Holy" Inscription and Accompanying Design From Punta Secca, Sicily

    R J A Wilson, R J A Wilson R J A WilsonARTICLEPhoenix2013Citada por: 1

    This article publishes a short Greek inscription of ca 625 A.D. found in 2009; it comes from a tombe privilegiée excavated at Punta Secca, Sicily. The text alludes to Isaiah 6.3 and is part of the Christian anaphora prayer in the Eucharist. The magical aspects of the inscription are also analyzed, including the design that surrounds the text panel; remarkably, the closest parallels for it are to be found in a wooden object dating to the Bronze Ag…

  • Xanten, Germany

    Open AccessR J A WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The Roman city of colonia Ulpia Traiana was founded ca. 99 CE on the site of an existing settlement (from ca. 40 CE ) of the local pro‐Roman tribe, the Ciberni ( Cibernodurum ).

  • Piazza Armerina

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The Roman Villa near Piazza Armerina consists of 45 rooms plus corridors covering some 1.5 ha (outbuildings remain undiscovered). It is renowned for the variety and sheer quantity of its polychrome figured and ornamental mosaic floors. The date is disputed. Pottery found in floor make‐up suggests a date of ca. 320/25–330 CE , the generally accepted chronology; recent arguments for a later date (ca. 375), at least for geometric mosaics, can be dis…

  • Mogontiacum (Mainz)

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Rodney WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    A double legionary fortress of 36 ha (89 acres), on a terrace above the Rhine at its confluence with the Main, was founded in 13/12 BCE in support of Augustus' ambition to conquer territory east of the Rhine, to be masterminded by his stepson Drusus. However, Drusus died in 9 BCE , much mourned by his troops. The 19.6 m (64 ft) high funerary monument outside the fortress to the southeast (“Eichelstein” or “Drususstein”) may well be a cenotaph bui…

  • Vetera (Birten, Germany)

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Rodney WilsonCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Vetera was the local name (probably meaning “Water”) of two successive Roman legionary fortresses on the Fürstenberg near the modern village of Birten; they lay at the ancient confluence of the Rhine and the Lippe, 2 km southeast of the later Roman colonia of Xanten, Germany.

  • Probable Atretic Cephalocele in an Adult Female from Punta Secca (Sicily, Italy)

    Open AccessCarrie L Sulosky Weaver, R J A Wilson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2012Citada por: 1Referências: 3

    Excavations at Punta Secca, Sicily (Italy), in 2008 uncovered a substantially built tomb of ca ad 625/630 inside a private house and accompanying evidence for libations and funerary feasting in honour of the deceased. Inside the tomb were the skeletal remains of an adult female aged approximately 20/25 years and a child aged approximately 3/5 years. DNA analysis showed the child to be female and the adult and child to have been consanguineous. Ar…

  • Funerary Feasting in Early Byzantine Sicily

    R J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2011

    In the Early Byzantine coastal settlement at Punta Secca (province of Ragusa), traditionally identified with the Kaukana of the ancient sources, excavations in a hitherto unexplored building took place over three seasons from 2008 to 2010. The structure, consisting of four chambers set around a yard (the latter contained a staircase to an upper story), has every appearance of being a domestic dwelling. Seven structural phases were identified, all…

  • An early Byzantine ‘élite’ tomb in a domestic context at Kaukana, Sicily

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J Wilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2009

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  • What's New in Roman Baden-Württemberg

    Open AccessR J A Wilson, Ross J WilsonARTICLEThe Journal of Roman Studies2006

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