The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory

This paper explores two contexts for Francis Skidmore and George Gilbert Scott's screen at Hereford Cathedral. First, it locates the screen within a succession of choir screens at Hereford from the middle ages to the present, thereby charting the typology of the choir screen within a single institutional context. Second, it shows that Skidmore and Scott's work at Hereford should be understood in light of their related work at Lichfield and Salisbury, and that, more distantly, the three buildings were subject to significant "improvements" in the eighteenth century that Scott and Skidmore's work was intended to erase

Social dynamics and conflicts in Middle Thyrrenian archaic age

The Archaic age (6th-5th c. BC) in central-Tyrrhenian Roman and Etruscan Italy represents an important moment of crisis for existing power structures. In the previous phase, during the Orientalising age (mainly during 7th c. BC), the great demand for sumptuous goods by the Etruscan and Roman principes contributed to the creation of a middle-class, mainly composed of craftworkers, that probably tried to seize some of the aristocracy's political power to match their newly acquired economic status. The archaeological and historical data of socio-political conflicts, for example the reorganisation of aristocratic spaces into public areas with temples, or the emergence of tyrannical powers, might be seen as evidence of discontinuities in the existing aristocratic-driven power which, at least in part, shifted in the hands of lower socio-political classes. In this contribution I shall try to highlight crucial archaeological and historical evidence related to social disorders and changing in the structure of power during the 6th-5th c. BC by comparing their outcomes in the Etruscan and Roman areas

SMID

Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect (SMID) contains glossaries of individual Mycenaean terms, tablet and series citations, and subject indices all linked to bibliographical references. As a reference tool, SMID is both complex and comprehensive, with indices of linguistic, archaeological, historical, religious, and cultural topics, as well as individual words and phrases in the tablets.Classic

Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect (SMID)

Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect (SMID) contains glossaries of individual Mycenaean terms, tablet and series citations, and subject indices all linked to bibliographical references. As a reference tool, SMID is both complex and comprehensive, with indices of linguistic, archaeological, historical, religious, and cultural topics, as well as individual words and phrases in the tablets

The PASP Database for the Use of Scripts on Cyprus

This database contains a complete record of inscriptions in all languages and on all media from the island of Cyprus through the Roman period. It includes Cypro-Minoan, Eteo-Cypriot and Cypriot Syllabic inscriptions which had been discovered up to the time of this database's original creation (c. 1996). The "Type" field relates the Script Type in abbreviations. These are: CM - Cypro-Minoan EC - Eteo-Cypriot CS - Cypriot Syllabic GA - Greek Alphabetic RA - Roman Alphabetic Ph - Phoenician Eg - Egyptia