Supplements

The BABESCH Supplements is a series of books in the field of Mediterranean Antiquity, which complements the annual journal. The series includes monographs as well as the proceedings of symposia and edited volumes. The topics range from Mediterranean Prehistory to the Early Middle Ages. The hallmark of the series is the high quality standard which is accomplished by the academic peer-reviewing as well as through the careful editing and the high amount of figures and (colored) illustrations.

The volumes in the BABESCH Supplements are subject to academic anonymous peer review.

Current Supplement – Volume 47

BABESCH Supplement 47
Marcello Turci, Lo sviluppo termale del settore costiero della città di Ostia: Riesame della documentazione e nuove indaginialle Thermae Maritimae (IV, X, 1) e alle c.d. Terme Marittime (III, VIII, 2)

The present study is the result of a research on the thermal/roman baths located in the coastal district of Ostia. In Hadrian’s time, the coastline of the port town was developed with a series of thermal buildings: the Thermae maritimae (IV, X, 1), the «Terme del Sileno» and the so-called «Terme Marittime» (III, VIII, 2). This thermal vocation increased in late antiquity when a series of bathing facilities were built along the coastal road. Through the direct study of the thermal architecture, the revision of ancient excavations and the examination of the urban evolution of Ostia, as well as the wider territorial contexts (connections, infrastructures, exchanges, trades), this volume offers new perspectives integrating archaeological research with the economic, political and social history of the imperial and late Roman period.

Current Supplement – Volume 48

BABESCH Supplement 48
Gemma Jansen, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Richard Neudecker (eds), Sixty-Six Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City of Rome. Sanitary, Urbanistic, and Social Agency

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Upcoming Supplement – Volume 49

BABESCH Supplement 49
Babette Bechtold, Stefano Vassallo, Le anfore Greco-occidentali dale necropoli di Himera (VI-V sec. A.C.). Produzioni e circolazione

In recent years, the increasing quantity and quality of specialised analysis have invigorated the study of ancient amphorae, enhancing our understanding of transport dynamics along maritime routes and the relationship between the origin of the products contained in the amphorae, their distribution, and the primary commissioning centres.
This volume presents the results of the research conducted on the Western Greek amphorae discovered in the necropo¬leis of Himera, dating from the early 6th century to 409 BCE, the year of the settlement’s destruction and abandonment. Building upon previous examinations of Phoenician-Punic amphorae from the same site, this new study encompasses 554 specimens utilised as containers for children’s burials. By formally studying the vessels and employing mineralogical and chemical clay analyses, numerous centres that adopted this unique amphoric shape to market and transport their agricultural products, primarily wine, between the 6th and 5th centuries BCE were identified.
Through the analysis of the amphorae excavated at Himera, a point of arrival for these containers along one of the most dynamic trade routes in the Tyrrhenian world, the evolution of this amphoric shape can be traced. Its earliest examples originated from Sibari in the early 6th century BCE, followed by widespread adoption by numerous Greek settlements in Sicily and Magna Graecia, as well as Marseille, Corcyra, Butrint, and Corinth. The popularity of this typology is further evidenced by its production in non-Greek centres, such as the Punic emporia of Palermo and Solunto, and the indigenous centre of Entella.

Upcoming Supplement – Volume 50

BABESCH Supplement 50
Gilbert Wiplinger (ed.), Bathing Culture in Budapest. Proceedings of the International Frontinus Conference Budapest, September 8-15, 2022

The present volume is another publication of a Frontinus conference edited by Gilbert Wiplinger as a BABESCH supplement volume on historical water science. This time the conference was held in Budapest from September 8-15, 2022 under the title “Bathing Culture in Budapest” and dealt first of all with bathing and bathing culture through the ages.
For the first time, the organizer of the conference and editor of the volume wanted to take a new path by introducing the participants to Roman and Ottoman bathing leisure through active visits on-site to two baths in Budapest.
There are 20 contributions published in this volume. The first section is dedicated to the award of the Frontinus Medal to Christer Bruun, who was honoured during the conference in recognition of his foundational work on Roman water systems, in particular his research on hydraulic epigraphy, and to acknowledge his vast contribution to larger social questions in the Mediterranean world.
The second section is dedicated to bathing and baths from ancient Egypt up to the Islamic hammam. After a general introduction (first opening lecture) on the development of baths it moves on from Egypt to Ottoman-period baths followed by baths in Pannonia and Aquincum. Then the section provides an overview of baths in Roman Macedonia along with a discussion of different baths from Pompeii, Heerlen/Coriovallum and Antiochia ad Cragum. Another contribution is included that deals with texts about bathing in Roman literature and the section is then closed with the second opening lecture on the hammam in the pre-modern Islamic city.
The topics of the third section are thermomineral baths from Roman times to Ottoman kaplıca. Some Roman examples from the western provinces of the Empire in context were followed by Baiae, Baden and the Roman “Kleopatra Güzellik Ilıcası” in the micro-region of Pergamon. The section is closed with the connections between Ottoman baths in Hungary and the center of the Ottoman Empire to Budapest SPA’s of today.
The last and fourth section deals with various water-related topics not in direct connection with bathing culture such as the repair of a stone siphon of Patara, water control in Hierapolis and Laodicea, and a used water aqueduct at Ephesus.
The conference programme was impressively complemented by several full-day and half-day excursions. It offered the opportunity to visit monuments that are otherwise not accessible to the public. Once again it became clear that neither a lecture, nor a publication or pictures can replace the encounter with real archaeological findings. The presentation of new research results on ancient hydraulic engineering and the enhancement of knowledge by visiting comparative examples on-site is the declared aim of this conference series.

Guidelines for submission

BABESCH is always interested to publish original research and conference proceedings in the wider field of Mediterranean Antiquity and Archaeology. In order to propose a book in the Supplements, the following guidelines apply.

Proposal

Please make sure that your proposal includes the following:

  • Full contact information and academic affiliations
  • A summary of the book’s content (ca. 500 words) and a preliminary table of contents.
  • In case of a volume with multiple articles: a full list of contributors and the extent to which they have agreed to participate
  • A description (ca. 100 words) of the scientific impact of the book
  • An estimate of the total number of words (or signs); the total number of figures and the total number of colored figures
  • A schedule for publication and a provisional date for the submission of the final manuscript

Proposals and/or requests may be sent to the chairman of the BABESCH Supplements Committee. All proposals will be evaluated by the BABESCH Supplements Committee. Anonymous peer review is part of the decision procedure. Generally, you will be informed on the committee’s decision within 10 weeks after submission of the proposal.

After acceptance

With regards to the editorial preparation of your manuscript, please follow the BABESCH instructions for authors.
Books in the BABESCH Supplements usually do not have more than 350 pages and contain a restricted number of colored figures; in case the text and/or the figures exceed the standards, the publisher may require additional funds from the applicant.
You will be asked to submit an abstract of ca. 100 words.
You will regularly be asked to inform BABESCH about the progress in preparing the manuscript.
Preparation for print of the manuscript will be done in cooperation with the BABESCH editorial office. 

Supplements Volumes 1-48 (1975-2024)

Supplement 48
2024
Gemma Jansen, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Richard Neudecker (eds.), Sixty-Six Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City of Rome. Sanitary, Urbanistic, and Social Agency
Supplement 47
2024
Marcello Turci
Lo sviluppo termale del settore costiero della città di Ostia: Riesame della documentazione e nuove indaginialle Thermae Maritimae (IV, X, 1) e alle c.d. Terme Marittime (III, VIII, 2)
Supplement 46
2023
Alexandra Alexandridou, Yannos Kourayos, Ilia Daifa (eds.)
Despotiko, the site of Mandra. The “Temple” complex and its deposits
Supplement 45
2022
Alexandra Dardenay
L’insula V d’Herculanum: Transformations spatiales et diachroniques de l’architecture et du décor des habitations
Supplement 44
2022
Paolo Tomassini
Ostie, fenêtres sur cour
Le caseggiato delle taberne finestrate: reconstruire cinq siècles de vie Ostienne
Supplement 43
2022
Jan Driessen, Gert Jan van Wijngaarden
Political geographies of the Bronze Age Aegean.
Proceedings of the joint workshop by the Belgian School at Athens (EBSA) and the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA)
Supplement 42
2021
Marijke Gnade, Martina Revello Lami
Tracing Technology. Forty years of archaeological research at Satricum
Supplement 41
2021
Geralda Jurriaans-Helle
Composition in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Panting:
The ‘Chariot In Profile’ Type Scene
Supplement 40
2020
Gilbert Wiplinger (editor)
De aquaeductu urbis Romae
Sextus Iulius Frontinus and the Water of Rome

Proceedings of the International Frontinus Congress Rome, November 10-18, 2018
Supplement 39
2020
Matthew McCarty & Mariana Egri, editors
The Archaeology of Mithraism
New Finds and Approaches to Mithras-Worship
Supplement 38
2019
Marike van Aerde
Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
An Interpretative Archaeological Overview
Supplement 37
2019
Carina Hasenzagl
North Tunisian Red Slip Ware from Production Sites in the Salomonson Survey (1960-1972)
Supplement 36
2019
Gilbert Wiplinger
Der Degirmendere Aquädukt von Ephesos
Supplement 35
2018
Itamar Taxel
Fragile Biography
The Life Cycle of Ceramics and Refuse Disposal Patterns in Late Antique and Early Medieval Palestine
Supplement 34
2018
Babette Bechtold & Stefano Vassallo
Le Anfore Puniche dalle Necropoli di Himera
Seconda metà del VII – fine del V sec. a.C.
Supplement 33
2018
Alessandra Avagliano
Le Origini di Pompei
La città tra il VI e il V sec. a.C.
Supplement 32
2017
Gilbert Wiplinger and Wolfram Letzner (editors)
Wasserwesen zur Zeit des Frontinus
Bauwerke – Technik – Kultur

Tagungsband des Internationalen Frontinus- Symposiums Trier, 25.-29. Mai 2016
Supplement 31
2017
Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric M. Moormann (editors)
Context and Meaning
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of the Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique, Athens, September 16-20, 2013
Supplement 30
2017
Frank Vermeulen
From the Mountains to the Sea
The Roman Colonisation and Urbanisation of Central Adriatic Italy)
Supplement 29
2017
Patricia S. Lulof and Christopher J. Smith (editors)
The Age of Tarquinius Superbus: Central Italy in the Late 6th Century
Proceedings of the Conference ‘The Age of Tarquinius Superbus, A Paradigm Shift?’ Rome, 7-9 November 2013
Supplement 28
2016
Roger Wilson
Caddeddi on the Tellaro
A late Roman Villa in Sicily and its Mosaics
Supplement 27
2016
Gilbert Wiplinger (editor)
De Aquaeductu Atque Aqua Urbium Lyciae Pamphyliae Pisidiae
The Legacy of Sextus Julius Frontinus
Tagungsband des Internationalen Frontinus-Symposiums
Antalya, 31. Oktober – 9. November 2014
Supplement 26
2015
A. Andrea Di Castro and Colin A. Hope (editors) and assisted by Bruce E. Parr
Housing and Habitat in the Ancient Mediterranean
Cultural and Environmental Responses
Supplement 25
2014
Antonis Kotsonas (editor)
Understanding Standardization and Variation in Mediterranean Ceramics:
Mid 2nd to Late 1st Millenium BC

Supplement 24
2013
Gilbert Wiplinger (editor)
Historische Wasserleitungen
Gestern – Heute – Morgen

Tagungsband des Internationalen Frontinus-Symposiums
Wien, 19.-23. Oktober 2011
Supplement 23
2013
Sandra Lucore and Monica Trümper (editors)
Greek Baths And Bathing Culture
New Discoveries and Approaches
Supplement 22
2013
Ted Kaizer, Anna Leone, Edmund Thomas and Robert Witcher (editors)
Cities And Gods
Religious Space In Transition
Supplement 21
2012
Ralf Kreiner und Wolfram Letzner (editors)
SPA. Sanitas Per Aquam
Tagungsband des Internationalen Frontinus-Symposiums zur Technik und Kulturgeschichte der antiken Thermen. Aachen, 18.-22. März 2009
Supplement 20
2013
Paul Meyboom and Eric Moormann
Le Decorazioni Dipinte e Marmoree della Domus Aurea di Nerone a Roma
Parte I (Testo) & Parte II (Illustrazioni)
Supplement 19
2011
Gemma Jansen, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Eric Moormann (editors)
Roman Toilets
Their Archaeology and Cultural History
Supplement 18
2011
Peter Attema, Tymon de Haas and Gijs Tol (editors)
Between Satricum and Antium
Settlement Dynamics in a Coastal Landscape in Latium Vetus
Supplement 17
2010
Kristina Winther-Jacobsen
From Pots to People
A ceramic approach to the archaeological interpretation of ploughsoil
assemblages in Late Roman Cyprus
Supplement 16
2010
L. Bouke van der Meer (editor)
Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion
Proceedings of the International Colloquium
Leiden, May 29 and 30, 2008
Supplement 15
2010
Olivier Hekster & Stephan T.A.M. Mols (editors)
Cultural Messages in the Graeco-Roman World
Acta of the BABESCH 80th Anniversary Workshop
Radboud University Nijmegen, September 8th 2006
Supplement 14
2009
Eric M. Moormann & Vladimir V. Stissi (editors)
Shapes and Images
Studies on Attic Black Figure and Related Topics in Honour of Herman A.G. Brijder
Supplement 13
2009
Hubertus Manderscheid
Dulcissima Aequora
Wasserbewirtschaftung und Hydrotechnik der Terme Suburbane in Pompeii
Supplement 12
2006
G. Wiplinger (editor)
Cura Aquarum in Ephesus Volume I & II
Supplement 11
2006
C.M. Stibbe
Agalmata. Studien zur griechisch-archaischen Bronzekunst
Supplement 10
2004
J. Poblome, P. Talloen, R. Brulet & M. Waelkens (editors)
Early Italian Sigillata
The Chronological Framework and Trade Patterns.
Proceedings of the First International ROCT-Congress, Leuven, May 7 and 8, 1999.
Supplement 9
2004
P. Attema (editor)
Centralization, Early Urbanization and Colonization in First Millennium BC Greece and Italy
Part 1: Italy
Supplement 8
2002
C. Berns, H. von Hesberg, L. Vandeput & M. Waelkens (editors)
Patris und Imperium
Kulturelle und politische Identität in den Städten in den römischen Provinzen Kleinasiens in der frühen Kaiserzeit Kolloquium Köln, November 1998.
Supplement 7
2001
F. Vermeulen & M. Antrop (editors)
Ancient Lines in the Landscape
A Geo-Archeological Study of Protohistoric and Roman Road and Field Systems in Northwestern Gaul
Supplement 6
2000
Gemma C.M. Jansen (editor)
Cura Aquarum in Sicilia
Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region
Syracuse May 1998.
Supplement 5
2000
F. Vermeulen & M. de Dapper (editors)
Geoarchaeology of the Landscapes of Classical Antiquity
International Colloquium Ghent, 23-24 October 1998.
Supplement 4
1996
N. de Haan & G.C.M. Jansen (editors)
Cura Aquarum in Campania
Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region. Pompeii, 1-8 October 1994.
Supplement 3
1993
Eric M. Moormann (editor)
Functional and Spatial Analysis of Wall Painting
Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Ancient Wall Painting
Amsterdam, September 1992
Supplement 2
1989
H. Geertman & J.J. de Jong (editors)
Munus non Ingratum
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Vitruvius’ De Architectura and the Hellenistic and Republican Architecture
Leiden, January 1987
Supplement 1
1975
G. Schneider-Herrmann
Eine niederländische Studiensammlung antiker Kunst

Committee

Babesch Supplements Committee as of January 1st, 2024

Dr Gert Jan van Wijngaarden (chair)
supplements (at) babesch.org
Universty of Amsterdam
Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology; Archaeological Theory and Methodology

Professor Paolo Liverani (Italy) 
Università di studi Firenze
Roman and Late Roman Art; Vatican Museums

Professor Eric Moormann (Netherlands, Germany)
Radboud University, Nijmegen; Liebig Giessen, Germany
Ancient Classical art ; Roman archaeology and art

Professor Cathérine Saliou (France) 
Université Paris VIII
Roman Architecture and urbanism; Roman History 

Professor Monika Trümper (Germany)
Freie Universität Berlin
Greek and Roman Architecture, Urbanism; Settlement Archaeology

Professor Athina Tsingarida (Belgium)
Université libre de Bruxelles
Greek Art and Archaeology

Professor Kevin Walsh (United Kingdom)
University of York
Landscape Archaeology

Dr Antonis Kotsonas (United States, Greece)
New York University
Greek archaeology; Iron Age-Archaic periods

Drs. Beatrice De Fraiture
editorial secretary
contact (at) babesch.org