Constanze Höpken

• Archaeologist at Landesdenkmalamt Saarland

This paper reports the preliminary results from three seasons of excavations in the Christian cemetery by the Tunisian-British Bulla Regia Archaeological Project. In 2017–2019, excavations in, and around, the Late Antique church in the western cemetery uncovered a complex funerary landscape with a variety of different tomb types, including mosaic c...

The eastern Limes of Dacia in today's department Mures at the western foot of the eastern Carpathians consists of a line of auxiliary castles - Brancovenesti, Calugareni und Sarateni - which are connected by a limes road. To the East in front of them stood a row of watch towers. Numerous archaeological surveys were undertaken in the limes secion be...

Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanized provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental ‘Barbaricum’. Recent decades have seen a major effort by German archaeologists, an...

Remains of at least four so-called chimney pots or lanterns were excavated in the canabae of Nijmegen. They are fragments of a locally produced wheel-turned and round type, distributed in Britain and along the Rhine and Danube limes. So far, there are no traces of its use indicating its function; therefore, it is sought to analyse the find context...

Ludi circensis on the play board: on counters and play boards of a Roman circus game Counters from the western provinces characterised either by names or depictions of horses or charioteers as racing horses or quadrigas, belonged to a circus game the rules of which at first was unknown. Only in association with play boards from North Africa showing...

In 2007, a square glass furnace was discovered at Sarmizegetusa (Romania), one of the main settlements in Roman Dacia. It is a tank furnace in which about 500 kilograms of glass could be melted. Similar furnaces were used to manufacture raw glass at Bet Eli'ezer (Israel), but these were located near sand deposits and combustibles, and they were far...

In the naval base of Köln-Alteburg two complete pots were found in 1998, the contents of which - animal bone, charcoal and a coin - were interpreted as a ritual sacrifice. The pots were buried about the middle of the 1 st century A.D. outside a barrack in the vicinity of a lane. An interpretation as a foundation sacrifice cannot be excluded, howeve...