Elizabeth Fentre

Biographic Data

ID	194562
NAME	Elizabeth Fentre
GIVEN NAMES	Elizabeth
FAMILY NAME	Fentre
SIGNATURE	FENTRE E
AFFILIATIONS	Film Independent
ORCID	0000-0002-2801-7977
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	38
TOTAL CITATIONS	52
AUTHOR COUNT	38
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	3

Bir el Knissia at Carthage: A Martyrial Basilica Complex. Second and Final Report
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2026
Islamizing Berber Lifestyles
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEMedieval Worlds2022
The article focuses on the â Islamizationâ of Berber lifestyles, rather than the effects of the conquest on the Romanized inhabitants of towns in the Africa Proconsularis, the medieval Ifriqiya. The examination follows aspects of material culture as a whole, particularly in the Western Maghreb, where urbanism was far less dense. The evidence comes largely from later texts, although new archaeological work, particularly at Rirha and Volubilis, has…
Urban life in early Islamic Morocco: New light from the excavations at Walīla (Roman Volubilis)
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2022
This article presents a research update from the INSAP-UCL excavations at the UNESCO site of medieval Walīla (Roman Volubilis), Morocco. Though the site is best known as the Roman city of Volubilis, in the Middle Ages, and by then called Walīla, it took on a new importance as a Berber centre, the probable locale of an Umayyad or Abbasid garrison and the capital of Idrīs I, the founder of one of the earliest Islamic states in Morocco. It is the on…
Slave Spaces: Housing Dependent Workers at Villa Magna
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressCHAPTERThe Archaeology of Inequality2021
Slave Spaces: Housing Dependent Workers at Villa Magna
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressCHAPTERThe Archaeology of Inequality2021
Berbers, Barley and Bsisa
Open AccessElizabeth FentreARTICLEAntiquités africaines2021
The article underlines the importance of barley in the ancient North African diet, looking at a specific contemporary food, bsisa. This is made from green barley, toasted, ground, and mixed with spices and water and oil into a sort of porridge. It constituted an important resource for a time of year when stocks of other grains might be running low. The porridge is made by rubbing the ground grain against the side of the bowl while water is added …
Utica’s urban centre from Augustus to the Antonines
Open AccessImed Ben Jerbania, J Andrew Dufton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2019Cited by: 1
Since 2010, a team from the Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine and the University of Oxford 1 has been investigating Utica’s monumental centre, located at the tip of the promontory on which the city is built (fig. 1). The range and scale of architectural elements littering this area were remarked upon by most antiquarian investigators of the site. Nathan Davis, working at the site in 1858, noted that, despite the fact that it “had been rans…
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya . Le qṣar, type d'implantation humaine au Sahara: Architecture du Sud Algérien (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 91). 2016. xiv+340 pages; numerous colour and b&w ill…
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEAntiquity2017
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya . Le qṣar, type d'implantation humaine au Sahara: architecture du Sud Algérien (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 91). 2016. xiv+340 pages; numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: Archaeopress 978-1-78491-347-2 paperback £50. - Volume 91 Issue 355
The Geoarchaeology of Utica, Tunisia: The Paleogeography of the Mejerda Delta and Hypotheses Concerning the Location of the Ancient Harbor
Open AccessHugo Delile, Abdelhakim Abichou et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2015Cited by: 9References: 9
Although the ancient site of Utica has been studied since the 19th century, the location of its harbors remains unresolved as they were buried under sediments as the Mejerda delta prograded and left Utica 10 km inland. Using relief data and a coring survey with sedimentological analysis, we identify the dynamics of the delta's progradation, which produced a double system of alluvial fans. These show that the ancient bay of Utica silted up faster …
Strangers in the city: Élite communication in the Hellenistic central Mediterranean
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressCHAPTERHellenistic West2013
The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean
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…
Villa Magna near Anagni: The emperor, his winery and the wine of Signia
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Marco MaiuroARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2011Cited by: 4References: 1
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Cooking pots and cooking practice: An African bain-marie
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2010References: 6
Sommarii: L'articolo prende in considerazione tre particolari forme di ceramica da cucina: l'Hayes 23B, 196 e 197. Realizzati nella Tunisia settentrionale fin dal periodo flavio, esse rappresentano le forme più comuni tra i rinvenimenti africani nei siti del Mediterraneo occidentale. Comunque, ci sono problemi nell'interpretare i modi in cui erano usati. In questa sede suggerisco che le tre forme costituissero un set per la cottura a bagnomaria (…
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Utica
Open AccessSophie Hay, Elizabeth Fentre et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2010Cited by: 2References: 3
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Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Excavations at Villa Magna, 2009
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2010
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Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Villa Magna Project
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2009
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Fouilles de la Rábita di Guardamar I: El ribāṭ califal. Excavaciones e investigaciones (1984–1992) ‐ Edited by Rafael Azuar Ruiz
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Abdallah FiliARTICLEEarly Medieval Europe2008
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Villa Magna project
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2008References: 1
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Where Were North African Nundinae Held?
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressCHAPTERCommunities and Connections2007
Like several other contributors to this volume I wrote my doctoral thesis for Barry (on the economic effects of the Roman army on Southern Numidia), learning from him of the possible ways in which Roman and indigenous peoples could interact, and the various Welds in which that interaction could take place. I was then, as now, interested in the Roman economy, and while my research has moved far away from both North Africa and the economy over the …
Museum Review: Around the Temple: The New Galleries of the Capitoline Museum
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2007Cited by: 2
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Villa Magna Project
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth Fentress et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2007
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Romanizing the Berbers
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPast & Present2006Cited by: 2
Journal Article Romanizing the Berbers Get access Elizabeth Fentress Elizabeth Fentress Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 190, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 3–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gti026 Published: 01 February 2006
On the block: Catastae, chalcidica and cryptae in Early Imperial Italy
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2005Cited by: 24
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Protective shelters for archaeological areas and buildings A one-day conference held at the Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, October 2000
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEConservation and Management of…2002
The Volubilis project, Morocco: Excavation, conservation and management planning
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Hassan Limane et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2001

On the block: Catastae, chalcidica and cryptae in Early Imperial Italy
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2005Cited by: 24
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The Geoarchaeology of Utica, Tunisia: The Paleogeography of the Mejerda Delta and Hypotheses Concerning the Location of the Ancient Harbor
Open AccessHugo Delile, Abdelhakim Abichou et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2015Cited by: 9References: 9
Although the ancient site of Utica has been studied since the 19th century, the location of its harbors remains unresolved as they were buried under sediments as the Mejerda delta prograded and left Utica 10 km inland. Using relief data and a coring survey with sedimentological analysis, we identify the dynamics of the delta's progradation, which produced a double system of alluvial fans. These show that the ancient bay of Utica silted up faster …
Villa Magna near Anagni: The emperor, his winery and the wine of Signia
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Marco MaiuroARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2011Cited by: 4References: 1
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Villas, wine and kilns: The landscape of Jerba in the late Hellenistic period
Open AccessElizabeth FentreARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2001Cited by: 3
The island of Jerba emerges unobtrusively from its shallow waters. The landscape is flat, the vegetation varies from scrubland to sparse palms to large olive trees whose ample root-stocks suggest several centuries of life. The olive groves are ploughed to allow every possible drop of water to reach the roots. Dry farming of cereals is more or less pointless although, when rain is plentiful, barley will be thinly sown on land that is otherwise unc…
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Utica
Open AccessSophie Hay, Elizabeth Fentre et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2010Cited by: 2References: 3
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Museum Review: Around the Temple: The New Galleries of the Capitoline Museum
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2007Cited by: 2
Romanizing the Berbers
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPast & Present2006Cited by: 2
Journal Article Romanizing the Berbers Get access Elizabeth Fentress Elizabeth Fentress Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 190, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 3–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gti026 Published: 01 February 2006
Cosa in the empire: The unmaking of a Roman town
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology1994Cited by: 2
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Utica’s urban centre from Augustus to the Antonines
Open AccessImed Ben Jerbania, J Andrew Dufton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2019Cited by: 1
Since 2010, a team from the Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine and the University of Oxford 1 has been investigating Utica’s monumental centre, located at the tip of the promontory on which the city is built (fig. 1). The range and scale of architectural elements littering this area were remarked upon by most antiquarian investigators of the site. Nathan Davis, working at the site in 1858, noted that, despite the fact that it “had been rans…
Heba, the XXIXth legion, and the Campo della Chiesa tile
Open AccessElizabeth FentreARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology1991Cited by: 1
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Late Roman and medieval Cosa I: The arx and the structure near the Eastern Height
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth Fentress et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…1991Cited by: 1References: 6
COSA TARDO ROMANO E MEDIEVALE I: L'ARCE E LA STRUTTURA NELLA PARTE NORD-ORIENTALE DELLA CITTA L'obiettivo degli scavi è di ricontrollare e datare l'insediamento post-romano a Cosa alla luce dei recenti studi sulla ceramica tardo-romana e medievale. Due aree sono state esplorate sull'Arce: la prima a nord della porta principale e la seconda a ovest del tempio D. Infine, una torre posta al di sopra delle mura romane nella parte nord-orientale dell …
Excavations at Fosso Della Crescenza, 1962
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth Fentress et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…1983Cited by: 1References: 11
FOSSO DELLA CRESCENZA, 1962 Oggetto della campagna di scavo 1962 al fosso della Crescenza è stato un mausoleo di età Giulioclaudia visibile nell'argine del fosso, insieme con i resti di un edificio di fine II secolo d.C. accanto ad essa. Questo articolo raccoglie una serie di studi sulla topografia della via Veientana, sulla stratigrafia dello scavo, sulla natura e le cause del deposito alluvionale posteriore all'abbandono dell'edificio, sulla de…

Tribe an Faction: The Case of the Gaetuli
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEMélanges de l École française de…1982
Elizabeth W. B. Fentress, Tribe and Faction : the Case of the Gaetuli, p. 325-334. An examination of the circumstances of the Marian enfranchisement and settlement of the Gaetuli suggests that it is hardly likely that this took place in the period immediately following the Jugurthine war, and that it may be dated more reasonably to the last year of Marius' life. Further, the Gaetuli may be seen to have been consistently allied to the democratic f…
Excavations at Fosso Della Crescenza, 1962
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth Fentress et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…1983Cited by: 1References: 11
FOSSO DELLA CRESCENZA, 1962 Oggetto della campagna di scavo 1962 al fosso della Crescenza è stato un mausoleo di età Giulioclaudia visibile nell'argine del fosso, insieme con i resti di un edificio di fine II secolo d.C. accanto ad essa. Questo articolo raccoglie una serie di studi sulla topografia della via Veientana, sulla stratigrafia dello scavo, sulla natura e le cause del deposito alluvionale posteriore all'abbandono dell'edificio, sulla de…
Via Aurelia, Via Aemilia
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…1984
VIA AURELIA, VIA AEMILIA Una pietra miliare scoperta nella valle di Albegna nomina M. Aemilius Scaurus e riporta la distanza per Rome come 91 miglia. Sembra che questa pietra miliare stia a indicare la via Aemilia Scauri, una continuazione della Via Aurelia, che sembra sia stata iniziata de Scaurus nel 115 a.C. e finita nel 109
Heba, the XXIXth legion, and the Campo della Chiesa tile
Open AccessElizabeth FentreARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology1991Cited by: 1
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Late Roman and medieval Cosa I: The arx and the structure near the Eastern Height
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth Fentress et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…1991Cited by: 1References: 6
COSA TARDO ROMANO E MEDIEVALE I: L'ARCE E LA STRUTTURA NELLA PARTE NORD-ORIENTALE DELLA CITTA L'obiettivo degli scavi è di ricontrollare e datare l'insediamento post-romano a Cosa alla luce dei recenti studi sulla ceramica tardo-romana e medievale. Due aree sono state esplorate sull'Arce: la prima a nord della porta principale e la seconda a ovest del tempio D. Infine, una torre posta al di sopra delle mura romane nella parte nord-orientale dell …
Cosa in the empire: The unmaking of a Roman town
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology1994Cited by: 2
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Fieldwork Grants
Open AccessNeil Christie, Elizabeth Fentre et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…1995
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Fieldwork grants: Excavations at Cosa, 1995
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…1996
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The Berbers
Lawrence Rosen, Michael Brett et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1997
Field Work Support: Excavations at Cosa, May 1997
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…1998
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Myth, memory and archaeology as historical sources
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth Fentress et al.ARTICLEAntiquity1999References: 1
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The Volubilis project, Morocco: Excavation, conservation and management planning
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Hassan Limane et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2001
Villas, wine and kilns: The landscape of Jerba in the late Hellenistic period
Open AccessElizabeth FentreARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2001Cited by: 3
The island of Jerba emerges unobtrusively from its shallow waters. The landscape is flat, the vegetation varies from scrubland to sparse palms to large olive trees whose ample root-stocks suggest several centuries of life. The olive groves are ploughed to allow every possible drop of water to reach the roots. Dry farming of cereals is more or less pointless although, when rain is plentiful, barley will be thinly sown on land that is otherwise unc…
The Volubilis project, Morocco: Excavation, conservation and management planning
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth Fentress et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2001
Volubilis in northern Morocco is famous for the impressive remains of its Roman city, but it was also an important early Islamic town and is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. Teams from Morocco and the Institute of Archaeology recently began a joint project there, focused on the investigation of the Islamic occupation and the conservation and presentation of the site to the public
Protective shelters for archaeological areas and buildings A one-day conference held at the Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, October 2000
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEConservation and Management of…2002
On the block: Catastae, chalcidica and cryptae in Early Imperial Italy
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2005Cited by: 24
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Romanizing the Berbers
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPast & Present2006Cited by: 2
Journal Article Romanizing the Berbers Get access Elizabeth Fentress Elizabeth Fentress Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 190, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 3–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gti026 Published: 01 February 2006
Where Were North African Nundinae Held?
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressCHAPTERCommunities and Connections2007
Like several other contributors to this volume I wrote my doctoral thesis for Barry (on the economic effects of the Roman army on Southern Numidia), learning from him of the possible ways in which Roman and indigenous peoples could interact, and the various Welds in which that interaction could take place. I was then, as now, interested in the Roman economy, and while my research has moved far away from both North Africa and the economy over the …
Museum Review: Around the Temple: The New Galleries of the Capitoline Museum
Elizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2007Cited by: 2
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Villa Magna Project
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth Fentress et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2007
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Fouilles de la Rábita di Guardamar I: El ribāṭ califal. Excavaciones e investigaciones (1984–1992) ‐ Edited by Rafael Azuar Ruiz
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Abdallah FiliARTICLEEarly Medieval Europe2008
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Villa Magna project
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2008References: 1
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Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Villa Magna Project
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2009
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Cooking pots and cooking practice: An African bain-marie
Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, Elizabeth FentressARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2010References: 6
Sommarii: L'articolo prende in considerazione tre particolari forme di ceramica da cucina: l'Hayes 23B, 196 e 197. Realizzati nella Tunisia settentrionale fin dal periodo flavio, esse rappresentano le forme più comuni tra i rinvenimenti africani nei siti del Mediterraneo occidentale. Comunque, ci sono problemi nell'interpretare i modi in cui erano usati. In questa sede suggerisco che le tre forme costituissero un set per la cottura a bagnomaria (…
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Utica
Open AccessSophie Hay, Elizabeth Fentre et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2010Cited by: 2References: 3
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