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Papers by Mika Kajava
in: C. Bonnet, J. Alvar Ezquerra, V. Gasparini (eds.), My Name is Your Name. Anthroponyms as Divine Attributes in the Greco-Roman World, Berlin 2025. – forthcoming
in: Prayer in the Ancient World, vol. I, ed. by D. K. Falk - R. A. Werline, Boston 2025. – forthcoming.
in: B. Carè (ed.), Astragalomania. New perspectives in the study of knucklebones in the ancient world, Berlin – Boston 2025. – forthcoming.
Sphinx – Årsbok / Vuosikirja / Year Book 2023–2024. Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki 2024, 121-129.
Folium Classicum 100 (2023) 4-8.
in: G. Viscardi (ed.), Percorsi interdisciplinari della ricerca storico-religiosa sul mondo antico, Bologna, 18-19 maggio, 2021 (LARES. I linguaggi delle religioni 1), Bologna 2023, 159-174.
in: L. Chioffi – M. Kajava – S. Örmä (a c. di), Il Mediterraneo e la storia III: Documentando città portuali. Documenting Port Cities. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Capri, 9-11 maggio 2019 (Acta IRF 48), Rome 2021, 9-18.
Journal of Roman Archaeology 33 (2020) 969-971.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 213 (2020) 138-148.
Studi storico-epigrafici sul Lazio antico II, a cura di H. Solin (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 137), Helsinki 2019, 161-162.
In: A. Kavoulaki (ed.), Πλειών: Papers in Memory of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Rethymnon, Crete, 22-24 September 2012 (Ariadne Supplement 1), Rethymnon 2018, 289-331.
Extract from the Introduction: "The following discussion deals with inscribed disc-shaped artefac... more Extract from the Introduction: "The following discussion deals with inscribed disc-shaped artefacts and, more particularly, with objects which, in one way or another, may be associated with athletes, be they dedications to deities, commemorative objects belonging to their funerary monuments, or just works of art somehow inspired by the athletic world, whether appearing in funerary contexts or elsewhere. Most of the evidence, coming not only from Attica but from many parts of the Greek world, is datable from the late archaic to early classical periods. This article derives from our ongoing work on ”Greek Inscribed Discs” and as such will also include an introduction to inscribed discs in general as well as some notes on previous work by one of the authors on a disc from Kyme before delving into athletic discs in particular. It is our hope that this contribution may fittingly commemorate the remarkable scholarly efforts of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood. Some of the arguments presented below have benefited greatly from her acute observations".
In: B. Frischer, Edmund Buchner's Solarium Augusti: New Observations and Simpirical Studies, Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 89 (2016-2017) 80-81.
In: L. Chioffi – M. Kajava – S. Örmä (a cura di), Il Mediterraneo e la storia II: Naviganti, popoli e culture ad Ischia e in altri luoghi della costa tirrenica (Acta IRF 45), Rome 2017, 49-56.
Sphinx – Årsbok / Vuosikirja / Yearbook 2016-2017. Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki 2017, 75-89.
in: M. Giuman – M. P. Castiglioni – R. Carboni (a c. di), Hagnos, miasma e katharsis. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi in onore di Simonetta Angiolillo (Cagliari, 4-6 maggio 2016), Otium. Archeologia e Cultura del Mondo Antico 2 (2017), Perugia 2017, 1-14.
Arctos 50 (2016) 73-78., 2016
in: C. Bonnet, J. Alvar Ezquerra, V. Gasparini (eds.), My Name is Your Name. Anthroponyms as Divine Attributes in the Greco-Roman World, Berlin 2025. – forthcoming
in: Prayer in the Ancient World, vol. I, ed. by D. K. Falk - R. A. Werline, Boston 2025. – forthcoming.
in: B. Carè (ed.), Astragalomania. New perspectives in the study of knucklebones in the ancient world, Berlin – Boston 2025. – forthcoming.
Sphinx – Årsbok / Vuosikirja / Year Book 2023–2024. Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki 2024, 121-129.
Folium Classicum 100 (2023) 4-8.
in: G. Viscardi (ed.), Percorsi interdisciplinari della ricerca storico-religiosa sul mondo antico, Bologna, 18-19 maggio, 2021 (LARES. I linguaggi delle religioni 1), Bologna 2023, 159-174.
in: L. Chioffi – M. Kajava – S. Örmä (a c. di), Il Mediterraneo e la storia III: Documentando città portuali. Documenting Port Cities. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Capri, 9-11 maggio 2019 (Acta IRF 48), Rome 2021, 9-18.
Journal of Roman Archaeology 33 (2020) 969-971.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 213 (2020) 138-148.
Studi storico-epigrafici sul Lazio antico II, a cura di H. Solin (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 137), Helsinki 2019, 161-162.
In: A. Kavoulaki (ed.), Πλειών: Papers in Memory of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Rethymnon, Crete, 22-24 September 2012 (Ariadne Supplement 1), Rethymnon 2018, 289-331.
Extract from the Introduction: "The following discussion deals with inscribed disc-shaped artefac... more Extract from the Introduction: "The following discussion deals with inscribed disc-shaped artefacts and, more particularly, with objects which, in one way or another, may be associated with athletes, be they dedications to deities, commemorative objects belonging to their funerary monuments, or just works of art somehow inspired by the athletic world, whether appearing in funerary contexts or elsewhere. Most of the evidence, coming not only from Attica but from many parts of the Greek world, is datable from the late archaic to early classical periods. This article derives from our ongoing work on ”Greek Inscribed Discs” and as such will also include an introduction to inscribed discs in general as well as some notes on previous work by one of the authors on a disc from Kyme before delving into athletic discs in particular. It is our hope that this contribution may fittingly commemorate the remarkable scholarly efforts of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood. Some of the arguments presented below have benefited greatly from her acute observations".
In: B. Frischer, Edmund Buchner's Solarium Augusti: New Observations and Simpirical Studies, Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 89 (2016-2017) 80-81.
In: L. Chioffi – M. Kajava – S. Örmä (a cura di), Il Mediterraneo e la storia II: Naviganti, popoli e culture ad Ischia e in altri luoghi della costa tirrenica (Acta IRF 45), Rome 2017, 49-56.
Sphinx – Årsbok / Vuosikirja / Yearbook 2016-2017. Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki 2017, 75-89.
in: M. Giuman – M. P. Castiglioni – R. Carboni (a c. di), Hagnos, miasma e katharsis. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi in onore di Simonetta Angiolillo (Cagliari, 4-6 maggio 2016), Otium. Archeologia e Cultura del Mondo Antico 2 (2017), Perugia 2017, 1-14.
Arctos 50 (2016) 73-78., 2016
ATTI DELLA PONTIFICIA ACCADEMIA ROMANA DI ARCHEOLOGIA (SERIE III) RENDICONTI VOLUME LXXXIX
This article reports on research undertaken to determine the validity of Edmund Buchner’s theorie... more This article reports on research undertaken to determine the validity of Edmund Buchner’s theories that the Horologium Augusti had an Augustan and a Flavian phase; and that the Montecitorio Obelisk was aligned to the Ara Pacis such that
during the day of Augustus’ birthday (September 23, according to Buchner) the shadow of the obelisk proceeded down the equinoctial line of a hypothesized horizontal sundial inscribed on a monumental pavement to or toward the center of the
Ara Pacis. The research project sponsored a new geological core bored through the meridian discovered by Buchner; it developed and utilized two new independent surveys of the meridian fragment discovered by Buchner under the building at Via di Campo Marzio 48; and it also created interactive computer simulations of this area of the ancient city and of the apparent path of the sun in the sky during the period 9 BC to 40 AD. The major conclusions reached by the research project are that: (1) Buchner was wrong to postulate that the Horologium Augusti had a Flavian phase—its date is Augustan; (2) Buchner was correct to postulate a solar alignment
between the Ara Pacis and the obelisk, but he erred in detail—the alignment concerns not the equinoctial line of a hypothesized horizontal sundial but the axis of symmetry of the Ara Pacis; (3) Buchner’s positioning of the meridian and obelisk should be corrected; and (4) once these corrections are made, Buchner’s theory that the shadow of the obelisk reached the center of the Ara Pacis on Augustus’ birthday is not confirmed. Two independent tests confirming the results obtained from the computer simulation are included in appendices.