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Conference Presentations by Johann Rasmus Brandt

C.C. Mattusch, A.A. Donahue & A. Brauer (eds): Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science and Humanities. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, Aug. 23-26, 2003, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 44-48, 2006

The composition of votive offerings found at the temple and altar on the acropolis at Gortyna, Cr... more The composition of votive offerings found at the temple and altar on the acropolis at Gortyna, Crete, suggests that the celebration of the goddess of the temple throughout its history (from 8th c. BC onwards) was dedicated to Athena as protector of the city, amalgamated with an obscure Minoan-Mycenean deity named Hellotis, and that the celebration of her at the festival called the Hellotia comprised initiation rites for young men. On the same occasion Europa was celebrated as the heroine of Gortyna, on whose presence the town depended.

J.R. Brandt & J.W. Iddeng (eds): Greek and Roman Festivals. Content, Form, and Practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-10, 2012

Papers by Johann Rasmus Brandt

Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, 1970

The household shrines, or lararia, in private dwelling houses at Pompeii and Ostia are discessed ... more The household shrines, or lararia, in private dwelling houses at Pompeii and Ostia are discessed according to the following parameters: type of lararia and their orientation, the rooms/spaces in which the lararia appear in the house, major movement lines within the house, deep-view axes and other viewed lines, the size of the houses, and the region in which the houses are situated. The aim of this paper is forst, from a synchronic point of view, to investigate which types of lararia were placed in what architectural contexts, in a private or public position, within the house. Then a diachronic view is adopted to see if there are changes over time. A tabular catalogue of all lararia registered in private dwelling houses at Pompeii and at Ostia is appended.

Proceedings of the Xvith Intrnational Congress of Classical Arachaeology Common Ground Archaeology Art Science and Humanities 2006 Isbn 1842171836 Pags 44 48, 2006

Analecta Romana Instituti Danici: …, 2002

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2003

Using scanning harmonic radar, we make visible for the first time the complete trajectories of 'g... more Using scanning harmonic radar, we make visible for the first time the complete trajectories of 'goal-vector' flights in honeybees. We demonstrate that bees captured at an established feeding station, and released elsewhere, nevertheless embark on the previously learned vector flight that would have taken them directly home from the station, had they not been artificially displaced. Almost all of the bees maintained accurate compensation for lateral wind drift, and many completed the full length of the vector flight before starting to search for their hive. Our results showed that bees tend to disregard landscape cues during these vector flights, at least initially, and rely on the 'optic flow' of the ground beneath them, and their sun compass, to judge both direction and distance.

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018

Abstract Using strontium isotope analysis, we investigated the mobility of Roman (1st to 7th cent... more Abstract Using strontium isotope analysis, we investigated the mobility of Roman (1st to 7th century AD) and Byzantine (9th–13th century AD) individuals buried at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hierapolis, Turkey. Results from Roman and Byzantine individuals show that while the majority of the population interred at this site have local strontium isotope values, there are some individuals with values outside the local range, which we identify as migrants. This conclusion agrees in particular with the known history of pilgrimage at Hierapolis in the Byzantine period (as defined above) and with the archaeological evidence of pilgrim badges associated with human burials unearthed from recent excavations. In addition, we present the first map of bioavailable strontium in southwestern Turkey.

Nordlit, 2014

In a recent publication (Brandt 2014b) an attempt was made to single out recurring pictorial moti... more In a recent publication (Brandt 2014b) an attempt was made to single out recurring pictorial motifs in Etruscan tomb paintings and to interpret them as elements of funerary ritual procedures with reference to Arnold van Gennep’s rites-de-passage model (1908) and Mary Douglas’ views on purity and danger (1996). The model is here applied on the Archaic and well-known Tomba dei Tori at Tarquinia in order to see if the tomb’s many enigmatic pictorial scenes can be read as coherent elements of such procedures.

The Journal of Roman Studies, 2003

VIKING Norsk arkeologisk årbok Bind LXXIX – 2016. pp193-220

Siden 1957 har italienske forskere drevet arkeologiske undersøkelser i den antikke byen Hierapoli... more Siden 1957 har italienske forskere drevet arkeologiske undersøkelser i den antikke byen Hierapolis i Lilleasia (figur 1).1 I 2007 ble norske arkeologer og naturvitere invitert til å undersøke en av byens gravplasser, den såkalte Nordøst-nekropolen. Det norske forskningsprosjektets primære mål var å foreta en full typologisk dokumentasjon av alle synlige graver og sarkofager på denne gravplassen, deres topografiske utbredelse og organisasjon, dernest å foreta utgravninger av utvalgte gravbygninger og gravområder for å avdekke nekropolens bruksperioder. Valget falt på en gruppe med tre bygninger og tre sarkofager i nekropolens øverste del; i tillegg ble det foretatt noen spredte stikkgravninger rundt i gravplassområdet. Dette arbeidet dannet grunnlaget for videre studier, der vi i en sosial sammenheng ønsket å undersøke en bybefolkning i detalj over en lengre periode gjennom studier av gravarkitektur og landskapsoppfatning, organisasjon, familietilhørighet og entreprenørvirksomhet, ri...

Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 28, 163-179, 2002

H. von Ehrenheim & M. Prusac-Lindhagen (eds): Reading Roman emotions. Visual and textual interpretations (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Roma, 4°, 64), 41-67, 2020

In a recent publication (Brandt 2015) an attempt was made to single out recurring pictorial motif... more In a recent publication (Brandt 2015) an attempt was made to single out recurring pictorial motifs in Etruscan tomb paintings and to interpret them as elements of funerary ritual procedures with reference to Arnold van Gennep’s rites-de-passage model (1908) and Mary Douglas’s views on purity and danger (1966). If this is right, the funerary rituals performed were most likely those between the moment of death and the interment of the deceased. This means during the period when, following van Gennep, both the deceased and the participants in the funerary ceremony for a given time found themselves in the liminal phase of transition. In funerary rites this transitional phase was the most critical, during which all participating members found themselves temporarily suspended from normal social life; they were in a borderland in which strong transcendental powers and dangers were released in order to prevent the deceased’s soul from reaching the Underworld of Hades and the ancestors. Death
normally triggers strong emotions of grief and despair. At the same time the Etruscans in their funerary rituals, through the use of dance, erotic acts, bloodshed, and laughter, orchestrated a series of changing emotions in the funerary participants, emotions like anxiety and fear, confusion and amusement, joy and gratitude. The aim was through both actions and emotions to come in contact with the transcendental powers and dangers in order to ward them off.

J.R. Brandt & J.W. Iddeng (eds): Greek and Roman Festivals. Content, Form, and Practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-10, 2012

Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, 1970

Proceedings of the Xvith Intrnational Congress of Classical Arachaeology Common Ground Archaeology Art Science and Humanities 2006 Isbn 1842171836 Pags 44 48, 2006

Analecta Romana Instituti Danici: …, 2002

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2003

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018

Nordlit, 2014

The Journal of Roman Studies, 2003

VIKING Norsk arkeologisk årbok Bind LXXIX – 2016. pp193-220

Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 28, 163-179, 2002

H. von Ehrenheim & M. Prusac-Lindhagen (eds): Reading Roman emotions. Visual and textual interpretations (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Roma, 4°, 64), 41-67, 2020

J.R. Brandt & J.W. Iddeng (eds): Greek and Roman Festivals. Content, Form, and Practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 139-198, 2012

On the seventeenth of May-the day before the participants of the present seminar, of which this p... more On the seventeenth of May-the day before the participants of the present seminar, of which this publication is the result, arrived at Bergen-Norway celebrated its national day, a secular festival containing many of the ingredients of an ancient religious festival. It is a commemorative festival, remembering the day in the year 1814 when the Constitution was signed. It consists of a 'ritual' process repeated every year in which processions make up a central part-not in the form of military parades, but composed mainly of schoolchildren walking behind marching bands. Public speeches are held and the national anthem and national romantic songs are sung, all together creating a sense of identity, inclusiveness, and solidarity. There is no common public meal, but it is a day when people meet privately to enjoy breakfast, lunch buffets, and/or dinners together-and the standard food offered for sale in the streets are hot dogs and ice cream, consumed in tons and tons (especially by the young ones). The most significant material symbols of the day are the national flag (in red, white, and blue), carried in small versions by everyone (but, of course, also used at other occasions, though limited to the participants of these occasions), and the particular buttonhole bow or rosette in the colours of the flag, in many shapes and sizes, carried

J.R. Brandt, M. Prusac & H. Roland (eds): Death and Changing Rituals. Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices, Oxford: Oxbow Books, ix-xix, 2014

J.R. Brandt, M. Prusac & H. Roland (eds.): Death and Changing Rituals, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 105-183., 2014

Ehrenheim, H. v. and M. Prusac-Lindhagen, eds. Reading Roman Emotions. Visual and Textual Interpretations. Acta Instituti Romani Regni Sueciae, Series IN 4º, 64, 2020

This volume is a contribution to the study of culturally bound emotions and emotional response in... more This volume is a contribution to the study of culturally bound emotions and emotional response in ancient Rome. Approaches to the study of ancient emotions and how they were culturally specific, appreciated and understood have recently come to the centre of attention, but not so much in the visual as in the literary culture. When socially and affectively contextualized, the material culture of ancient Rome is a potential goldmine of information with regard to emotions. The chapters in the present volume take the reader on a tour through various cases that demonstrate how emotions were expressed through the arts. The tour starts with a fresh view of how emotion history can be used to recover feelings from the visual culture of the past. Visual culture includes animated performances, and the reader is invited to revel in Roman drama, oratory, and love poetry. Words are often clear, but can images reveal laughter and joy, sadness, grief and mourning, virtue and anger? This volume argues that yes, they can, and through the study of emotions it is also possible to obtain a deeper understanding of the Romans and their social and cultural codes.

This book is a Festschrift dedicated to Synnøve des Bouvrie, professor of classical studies at Ui... more This book is a Festschrift dedicated to Synnøve des Bouvrie, professor of classical studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, who celebrates her seventieth birthday on 16th November 2014. Apart from the introduction, the Festschrift is divided into four parts, namely a Pars Mythologica, Philosophico-Litteraria, Thulensis, and Latinitatis Vivae. Twelve articles have been written in English, seven in Latin, four in Norwegian and a single article in each of the languages French, Sami and Swedish. A biographical interview is also included, along with several illustrations made by Synnøve herself. The book has been edited by Per Pippin Aspaas (Tromsø), Sigrid Albert (Saarbrücken) and Fredrik Nilsen (Tromsø).

Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asi... more Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC – AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christian topography, changing tomb typologies, funerary costs, family organization, funerary rights, rituals and practices among pagans, Jews, and Christians, inhumation and Early Byzantine cremations and use and reuse of tombs. The bioarchaeology chapters use DNA, isotope and osteological analyses to discuss, both among children and adults, questions such as demography and death rates, pathology and nutrition, body actions, genetics, osteobiography, and mobility patterns and diet. The areas covered in Asia Minor include the sites of Hierapolis, Laodikeia, Aphrodisias, Tlos, Ephesos, Priene, Kyme, Pergamon, Amorion, Gordion, Boğazkale, and Arslantepe. The theoretical and methodological approaches used make it highly relevant for people working in other geographical areas and time periods. Many of the articles could be used as case studies in teaching at schools and universities. An important objective of the publication has been to see how the different types of results emerging from archaeological and natural science studies respectively could be integrated with each other and pose new questions on ancient societies, which were far more complex than historical and social studies of the past often manage to transmit.
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Authors and Addresses ix

Introduction. Dead bodies – Live data: Some reflections from the sideline xiii

J. Rasmus Brandt

PART I: From life to death. Death and the social and funerary setting

1. The Sanctuary of St Philip in Hierapolis and the tombs of saints in Anatolian cities
. Francesco D’Andria

2. Necropoleis from the territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia: New data from archaeological surveys. Giuseppe Scardozzi

3. The South-East Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia: Planning, typologies and construction techniques. Donatella Ronchetta
4. Tomb 163d in the North Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia. An insight into the funerary gestures and practices of the Jewish Diaspora in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity and the Proto-Byzantine period. Caroline Laforest, Dominique Castex, and Frédérique Blaizot

5. Tomb ownership in Lycia; site selection and burial rights with selected rock tombs and epigraphical material from Tlos. Gül Işın and Ertan Yıldız

6. The sarcophagus of Alexandros, son of Philippos. An important discovery in the Lycian city of Tlos. Taner Korkut and Çilem Uygun

7. ‘Till death do them part’: Reconstructing Graeco-Roman family life from funerary inscriptions of Aphrodisias. Esen Öğüş

8. Social status and tomb monuments in Hierapolis and Roman Asia Minor. Sven Ahrens

9. New evidence for non-elite burial patterns in central Turkey. Andrew L. Goldman

10. Reflections on the mortuary landscape of Ephesus. The archaeology of death in a Roman Metropolis. Martin Steskal

11. Christian burials in a pagan context at Amorium. Christopher S. Lightfoot

12. Romans, Christians, and pilgrims at Hierapolis in Phrygia. A funerary journey of mental changes. Camilla Cecilie Wenn, Sven Ahrens, and J. Rasmus Brandt

PART II: From death to life. Man and ancient life conditions

13. Analysis of DNA in human skeletal material from Hierapolis. Gro Bjørnstad and Erika Hagelberg

14. Isotopic investigations of human diet and mobility at the site of Hierapolis, Turkey. Megan Wong, Elise Naumann, Klervia Jaouen, and Michael Richards

15. Diet in Roman Pergamon using stable isotope (C, N, S), osteoarchaeological and historical data – preliminary results. Johanna Propstmeier, Olaf Nehlich, Michael Richards, Gisela Grupe, Gundula H. Müldner, and Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen

16. Pergamon – Kyme – Priene: Health and disease from the Roman to the Late Byzantine period in different locations of Asia Minor. Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen

17. Toothache, back pain, and fatal injuries – what skeletons tell about life and death at Roman and Byzantine Hierapolis. Henrike Kiesewetter

18. Health and disease of infants and children in Byzantine Anatolia between AD 600 and 1350. Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz

19. Infant and child skeletons from the Lower City Church at Byzantine Amorium. F. Arzu Demirel

20. The wrestler from Ephesus: Osteobiography of a man from the Roman period based on his anthropological and palaeopathological record. Jan Nováček, Kristina Scheelen, and Michael Schultz

General Index