Johann Rasmus Brandt

• "Archaeologia Panathenaica I. Panathenaic Prize-Amphorae from the Sixth Century B.C.", Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 8 (1978), 1-23

• "Pity and Fear. A Note on Raphael's 'Incendio di Borgo'", Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, ser. alt., 1 (1981), 259-274;

• "Ostia, Minturno, Pyrgi. - The Planning of three Roman Colonies", Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, ser. alt., 5 (1985), 25-87; M. Moltesen & J.R. Brandt, Excavations at La Giostra, a mid-Republican Fortress outside Rome, i Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, suppl. 21 (1994);

• Scavi di Ficana, vol. II.1: Il periodo protostorico e arcaico. Le zone di scavo 3b-c, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma 1996;

• "Roma Capitale e il Gianicolo. Progetti urbanistici nel cassetto", Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 16 (1996), 167-185;

• "Curio's Curious Theatres", i Magnusson B.R., Renzetti S., Vian P., & Voicu S.T. (red.): Ultra terminum vagari. Studi in onore di Carl Nylander, Roma 1997, 51-59; J.R. Brandt, E. Jarva, T. Fischer-Hansen,

• "Ceramica di origine e d'imitazione greca a Ficana nell VIII sec. a. C.", Le necropoli archaiche di Veio. Giornata di studio in memoria di Massimo Pallottino, Roma 1997, 219-231;

• "From craftsman to specialist: the formation of occupations in Late Iron Age Latium", i Brandt J.R. & Karlsson L., From Huts to Houses. Transformations of Ancient Societies (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom 56/Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 13), Stockholm 2001, 407-413;

• "Archaeologia Panathenaica II. Athena, Erechtheus, Peisistratos and the Panathenaic Festival", i Scheffer C. (red.), Ceramics in Context. Proceedings of the Internordic Colloquium on Ancient Pottery held at Stockholm, 13-15 June 1997 (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis/Stockholm studies in classical archaeology 12), Stockholm 2001, 103-113;

• "Hans Hansen Lilienskiold. A Norwegian Traveller to Italy 1669-1670. A Portrait of a Man and his Time", Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 28 (2002), 163-179.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2022). Roma Aurea: Guders hjem og keisers bolig. In Lamers, Han & Bär, Silvio Friedrich (Ed.), Studia in honorem Vibeke Roggen. Hermes Academic Publishing and Bookshop A/S. ISSN 9788280342126. p. 413–433. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This book pays homage to Vibeke Roggen, Associate Professor of Latin at the University of Oslo, who has been a driving force and guiding spirit of classical culture in Norway. On the occasion of her retirement in 2022, national and international colleagues as well as former students joined forces to acknowledge her commitment to Classics by contributing to this Festschrift. It is dedicated to Vibeke Roggen in gratitude and admiration for the inexhaustible energy, enthusiasm and generosity with which she has promoted the study of Latin and classical culture over the last few decades. Divided in four main thematic sections ("Verba et voces", "Studia Neolatina", "Miscellanea litteraria et historica", and "Paedogogica"), the book contains contributions in Norwegian, Danish, English, German, Latin, and Spanish. Contributors include Tor Egil Førland, Mari Brenna Volland, Siri Sande, Silvio Bär, Anastasia Maravela, Giuliano Sidro, Monika Asztalos, Boris Maslov, Milena Minkova, Han Lamers, Egil Kraggerud, Pieta van Beek, Andreas Fritsch, William M. Barton, Minna Skafte Jensen, Sigrid Albert, Synnøve des Bouvrie, Marek Thue Kretschmar, Paola Marongiu, Christian Laes, Dirk Sacré, Eirik Welo, Tuomo Pekkanen, Giancarlo Rossi, Sofia Heim, Pål Rykkja Gilbert, J. Rasmus Brandt, Tor Ivar Østmoe, Victoria Mostue, Halfdan Baadsvik, Mathilde Skoie, Hilde Sejersted, Tilman Hartenstein, Toon Van Hal, Jan Papy, Federico Aurora, Iris Brecke, and Thea S. Thorsen.

• Wong, Megan; Brandt, Johann Rasmus; Ahrens, Sven; Jaouen, Klervia; Bjørnstad, Gro & Naumann, Elise [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2018). Pursuing pilgrims: Isotopic investigations of Roman and Byzantine mobility at Hierapolis, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. ISSN 2352-409X. 17, p. 520–528. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.12.005. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  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.

• Wenn, Camilla Cecilie; Ahrens, Sven & Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2017). Romans, Christians, and pilgrims at Hierapolis in Phrygia. A funerary journey of mental changes. In Brandt, Johann Rasmus; Hagelberg, Erika; Bjørnstad, Gro & Ahrens, Sven (Ed.), Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781785703591. p. 196–216. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvh1dmdm.17. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  There are many ways a deceased person can be brought to rest, and the shape and position of the funerary structures are likewise many. In the North-East Necropolis of Hierapolis can be followed a funerary history spanning at least 14 centuries from the 3rd/2nd century BC to c. AD 1300. The aim of the present paper is not to describe the physical evidence of funerary activities and changes, but to investigate if, in the periods of funerary changes, the changes can also be related to mental processes or cognitive concerns in the population who made the burials.

• Ahrens, Sven & Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2016). Excavations in the North-East Necropolis of Hierapolis 2007-2011. In D'Andria, Francesco; Caggia, Maria Piera & Ismaelli, Tommaso (Ed.), Hierapolis di Frigia VIII, 1. Le attività delle campagne di scavo e restauro 2007-2011. Ege Yayinlari. ISSN 9786059680134. p. 395–414. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2016). I grenseland : begravelsesritualer og dødsreiseideologi fra antikken til tidlig middelalder. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. 28(2), p. 61–73. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus; Ahrens, Sven; Wenn, Camilla Cecilie; Hagelberg, Erika; Bjørnstad, Gro & Bortheim, Kjetil [Show all 15 contributors for this article] (2016). Liv og død i Hierapolis. Norske utgravninger i en hellenistisk–romersk–bysantinsk by i Lilleasia. Viking - Norsk arkeologisk årbok. ISSN 0332-608X. 79, p. 193–220. doi: https:/journals.uio.no/viking/article/view/3911. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2015). ""Å lytte til legene eller til guden"" : om helse, sykdom og helbredelse i antikken sett i et arkeologisk perspektiv. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. 27(2/3), p. 81–91. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). In ricordo di Pia Guldager Bilde. Lavori e Studi per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio. ISSN 2284-4848. 10, p. 13–17. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Volume 10 of the series "Lazio e Sabina": Obituary of the Danish archaeologist Pia Guldager Bilde, including a near complete list of her publications.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). Blood, Boundaries, and Purification. On the Creation of Identities between Memory and Oblivion in ancient Rome. In Alroth, Brita & Scheffer, Charlotte (Ed.), Attitudes towards the Past in Antiquity. Creating Identities. Stockholm University. ISSN 9789187235481. p. 201–216. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In two case studies identity and memory are discussed with reference to purification and liminality in late Republican/early Imperial Rome with Caesar and Octavian as the respective protagonists. Both studies regard the way the two protagonists handled the Lupercal cave (in the southwest corner of the Palatine Hill, an area dense with historical memories connected with Rome’s earliest history) and the Lupercalia as a means to create an identity of power. The first study discusses Caesar’s blunt use of the Lupercalia purification festival in 44 BC to create an identity as the Saviour of the city. The second study discusses Octavian’s subtle entry into the southwest corner of the Palatine Hill and his use of the Lupercal’s liminal position in early Roman history as a guideline for the position of his house, whereby he established an identity built on respect for ancient values and continuity. Their methods in the use of the past were different, as were the outcomes. The article ends with a few words on the Lupercalia and oblivion — the antonym of memory.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). Passage to the Underworld. Continuity or Change in Etruscan Funerary Ideology and Practices (6th–2nd Centuries BC)? In Brandt, Johann Rasmus; Lindhagen, Marina Prusac & Roland, Håkon (Ed.), Death and Changing Rituals. Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781782976394. p. 105–183. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Arnold van Gennep’s pioneering study on rites-de-passage more than a century ago has only recently been applied to Etruscan cultural studies and, in particular, opened up new aspects and interpretations of Etruscan funerary practices and iconography, as expressed in tomb paintings and sculpture. However, apart from definitions of funerary real and mental spaces, discussions on ancestral ideology, and occasional studies of one or more tombs and selected pictorial themes and details, no investigation has tried to apply van Gennep’s model in order to understand in greater detail the preserved Etruscan tomb paintings in coherence. - The present study is an attempt to remedy this defect, and it was carried out with references to Mary Douglas’ observations on taboos, pollution, and purification and to two additional important concepts in ritual studies: content and form. The investigation begins by returning to a central question in Etruscan tomb painting: the change in tomb iconology from merry revellers in the 6th/5th centuries BC to monstrous nether world scenes in the 4th century BC and later. In the past, this marked change was interpreted from either a political or an eschatological point of view. However, with the discovery of a new tomb at Tarquinia some 25 years ago, Tomba dei Demoni Azzurri, dated to 450–430 BC (or slightly later), these views have been somewhat modified. The aim of the present paper is thus to review some of the data on Etruscan painted tombs from the Archaic to Hellenistic times and discuss, with a view to van Gennep and Douglas, if the changes in iconology are due to a change in ritual content or only in form.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). The Tomba dei Tori at Tarquinia: A Ritual Approach. Nordlit. ISSN 0809-1668. 33, p. 47–64. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In a recent publication ("Passage to the Underworld. Continuity or Change in Etruscan Funerary Ideology and Practices (6th–2nd Centuries BC?", i J.R. Brandt, M. Prusac & H. Roland (eds): Death and Changing Rituals. Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices; Oxbow Books: Oxford 2014, 105-83) 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.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). Et hundeliv. Skjeve blikk mot hundens rituelle funksjon i antikken fra Homer til Augustus' Prima Porta-statue. Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 53–67. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Hunden ansees i artikkelen som et liminalt dyr, et dyr som beveger seg i grenselandet mellom natur og kultur. Hunden er vill og bedragersk samtidig som den er trofast og oppofrende. Gudinnen Hekate, som var budbringeren mellom de levendes og de dødes verden og følgelig beveget seg i liminalsonen mellom de to verdener, hadde hunden som sitt følgedyr. Hunder ble ofret ved typiske renselsesfester, som f.eks. ved Luperkalfesten i Roma og det er mulig i denne rolle vi skal se hunden på brystpanseret til Augustus' Prima Porta-statue. Ved tilbakeleveringen av erobrede romerske felt-tegn, måtte disse renses for den besmittelse de var påført i sitt "fangenskap". Hunden i dette siste tilfellet må følgelig sees på som en metafor for en handling, ikke som et attributt for en person (Mars, Romulus, Tiberius).

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). Introduction. Ritual, Change, and Funerary Practices. In Brandt, Johann Rasmus; Lindhagen, Marina Prusac & Roland, Håkon (Ed.), Death and Changing Rituals. Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781782976394. p. ix–xix. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the introduction some specific funerary terms (Change and Continuity, Belief and Ritual, Body and Deposition, Place and Burial, Performance and Commemoration) are discussed indicating how they have been used by the contributors to the volume. In the introduction some specific funerary terms (Change and Continuity, Belief and Ritual, Body and Deposition, Place and Burial, Performance and Commemoration) are discussed indicating how they have been used by the contributors to the volume. A leitmotif among the authors is that they are more concerned about the mental meaning of the tomb and the funeral than the social position of the deceased.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2013). Fra Troja til Konstantinopel. En fortelling om romerske historiske røtter i gresk mytisk garnityr. Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 58–78. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Konstantinopels historie begynner i Troja, noe et utvalg av skulpturer satt opp i byen i forbindelse med dens grunnleggelse i 325. I artikkelen trekkes en linje fra Troja til Roma og derfra til Konstantinopel, der temaet er hvilken betydning Trojas fall og Aeneas’ overlevelse hadde på de to verdensbyers grunnleggelse og senere historie.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2013). 1071 and all that! Et bysantinsk skjebneår? Om kilmaendringer og maktforskyvninger i Midtøsten rundt det første tusenårssikfte. Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 73–85. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Året 1071 var kanskje et viktigere år for Europas utvikling enn året 1066, som tittelen indirekte refererer til. Da ble den bysantinske keiser Romanos IV Diogenes slått av seldsjukklederen Alp Arslan ved Manzikert i det østlige Anatolia. Artikkelen trekker opp den historiske bakgrunn for slaget og seldsjukkenes erobringstokter sett i lys av markerte klimaendringer både i sentral-Asia og i Midtøsten og Egypt.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). From Sacred Space to Holy Places. The Christianization of the Roman Cityscape: Some Reflections. ORIZZONTI Rassegna di archeologia. ISSN 1591-2787. 13, p. 113–118. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In Late Antiquity burials, which before always were plaved outside, now started to appear inside the city walls. The process behind this change is discussed in relation to ideas about Roman sacred space, pollution (including the role of the Lupercalia), and the Christian view of the dead body, not as a polluter, but as sacred and holy, permanently purified at the moment of baptism.

• Iddeng, Jon Wikene & Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Introduction: Some concepts of ancient festivals. In Iddeng, Jon Wikene & Brandt, Johann Rasmus (Ed.), Greek and Roman festivals : content, meaning, and practice. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199696093. p. 1–10. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Content and form. Some considerations on Greek festivals and archaeology. In Iddeng, Jon Wikene & Brandt, Johann Rasmus (Ed.), Greek and Roman festivals : content, meaning, and practice. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199696093. p. 139–198. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). 3. Ceramica ionica e attica. - Appendice. Vasi di altre produzioni (ceramica corinzia, etrusca, di Gnathia e a vernice nera con rilievo). Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae. ISSN 0538-2270. 38(2), p. 45–58. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Scavi dell'Institutum Romanum Finlandiae nella zona di "Lacus Iuturnae" al Foro Romano, Roma: Rapporto finale su un gruppo del materiale ceramico. Titolo della publicazione: E.M. Steinby (a cura di): "'Lacus Iuturnae' II. Saggi degli anni 1982-85. 2. Materiali (ISBN 978-88-7140-477-6).

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). 9. Saggio I. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae. ISSN 0538-2270. 38(1), p. 207–212. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Scavi dell'Institutum Romanum Finlandiae nella zona di "Lacus Iuturnae" al Foro Romano, Roma: Rapporto finale degli scavi del saggio I. Titolo della publicazione: E.M. Steinby (a cura di): "'Lacus Iuturnae' II. Saggi degli anni 1982-85. 1. Relazioni di scavo e conclusioni (ISBN 978-88-7140-477-6).

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Pompeiis undergang - en katastrofe selv gudene ikke skulle ha ønsket. Fortid. ISSN 1504-1913. 9(1), p. 14–20. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Analyse av Pompeiis undergang i 79 e.Kr.: Forspill, katastrofen, etterspill og dagens Pompeii som arkeologisk laboratorium

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). En mester i det stille. Axel Seeberg (1931-2011) til minne. Vestfoldminne. ISSN 0504-0590. 2009-2011, p. 76–78. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Nekrolog over prof. Axel Seeberg, som i 1982-83 arbeidet ved det som den gang het Vestfold Fylkesmuseum

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2011). Når brannbilen er rød… Axel Seeberg (1931-2011) til minne. Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 101–113. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2010). Archaeologia Panathenaica III: Non-Panathenaic Panathenaics and the Panathenaia. In Metzler, Dieter (Eds.), Mazzo di fiori. Festschrift for Herbeert Hoffmann. Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen. ISSN 9783447062909. p. 97–113. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Three vases of Panathenaic shape, but not carrying the standard prize-vase motifs, two in red-figure technique, one in black-figure, are discussed. An attempt is made to see them not in relation to a political setting, but to a Pananthenaic ritual, in which the yearly Panathenaic festival is regarded as a rite of passage for young males to become fully grown up citizens with all their responsibilities and duties.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2010). Sacra privata in the Roman domus – Private or public? A study of household shrines in an architectural context at Pompeii and Ostia. Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia (ACTA). ISSN 0065-0900. 23, p. 57–118. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The household shrines, or lararia, in private dwelling houses at Pompeii and Ostia are discussed 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 the paper is first, from a synchronic point of view, to investigate which type 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.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2009). Reodor Felgen i Hierapolis? Om en "oppgangssag" for nedgangstider. Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 80–93. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2009). Ceramics in context. Some observations on the Late Iron Age and Archaic settlements at Ficana, Satricum, and Lavinium. Collection de l'École francaise de Rome. ISSN 0223-5099. 425, p. 93–111. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In an attempt to investigate the role of ceramics in a social context Late Iron Age and Archaic pottery from three Latin sites, Ficana, Satricum, and Lavinium are studied and compared according to their function.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). Oktavians hus på Palatinen. Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 38–58. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Diskusjon av maleriprogrammet i Oktavians hus på Palatin-høyden i Roma

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). Hvorfor ble Roma en by? Oslo Arkeologiske Serie - Oslo Archaeological Series (OAS). ISSN 1503-4089. 10, p. 339–350. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  En diskusjon av de topografiske, geologiske og økonomiske forutsetninger for plasseringen av Roma der byen nå ligger.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). "Før meg til Pompeii der kjærligheten er søt!" En fortelling om erotikk og byliv i skyggen av Vesuv. Kunst og Kultur. ISSN 0023-5415. 91(4), p. 262–279. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). Luperkalet på Palatinen. Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 62–80. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2006). "The warehouse of the world". A comment on Rome's supply chain during the Empire. ORIZZONTI Rassegna di archeologia. ISSN 1591-2787. VI, p. 41–63. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  An analysis of import routes, ship tonnages, and amount of wares imported to Rome every year. The article concludes that the Tiber was the main route of import, but it was also a potential bottleneck in the supply system. The river had a maximum carrying capacity and was perhaps the element which, in demographic terms, in the last instance determined Rome's point of saturation and stabilised the number of inhabitants at a certain number through the imperial period, a number that most likely was well below 1 million.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2006). Votives and veneration. Athena, Hellotis, and Europa at Gortyna. In Mattusch, Carol C.; Donohue, A.A. & Brauer, Amy (Ed.), Common ground: Archaeology, art, science and humanities. Proceedings of the XVIth international congress of classical archaeology, Boston, Aug. 23-26, 2003. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781842171837. p. 44–48. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  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. At the same occation Europa was celebrated as the heroine of Gortyna, and on whose presence the town depended.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus & Hostetter, Eric (2005). Rome. A new monumental building on the NE slope of the Palatine Hill. Rivista di Topografia Antica. ISSN 1121-5275. 12, p. 61–84. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Three discret archaeological features incorporated into a second and third c. AD Roman complex on the NE slope of the Palatine Hill appear to be the fragmentary remains of a monumental, two-storied building of the late Republican or earliest Empire. The surviving fragments are described, possible partial reconstructions are proposed on the basis of comparanda and on proportional models of construction, and the building is considered in the archaeological and architectural context of the NE corner of the Palatine Hill.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2005). Semper triumphans: Om buen og søylen - triumfens evige symboler fra Forum Romanum til Eidsvolds plass og La Grande Arche. Kunst og Kultur. ISSN 0023-5415. p. 152–169. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2005). The Oratory of the Forty Martyrs. From Imperial Hall to Baroque Church. In Brandt, Johann Rasmus (Eds.), Santa Maria Antiqua al Foro Romano cento anni dopo. Campisano editore. ISSN 9788888168210. p. 136–152. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Bok utgitt 2005, oppført trykkeår 2004

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2005). Movements and views. Some observations on the organisation of space in Roman domestic architecture from the Late Republic to Early Medieval times. Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia (ACTA). ISSN 0065-0900. 18, p. 11–53. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The atrium and the central peristyle house are two basic types in Roman domestic architecture. They can be followed from the 6th/5th centuries BC to the 5th/6th centuries AD, the second type overlapping the first in the Early Imperial period. In both types of houses can be observed two recurring and related ordering principles in the organization of spaces: movement patterns and visual axes. While the use of the visual, or “deep-view” axis appears to be modified over the centuries in relation to the manipulation of social self-advertisement performed by the elites, the architecturally conditioned movement patterns appear to remain constant.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2004). Det greske teater: gamle myter og nye idéer. En fremstilling i tre akter med en epilog om romeren Gaius Curios kuriøse teater (Del II). Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 82–100. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Diskusjon av forskjellige sceniske apparater brukt i gresk og romersk teater med en epilog om Curios to teatre, som kunne dreies rundt en aksel og settes sammen til et amfiteater. Forslag til hvorledes dette kan ha vært gjennomført fremføres med referanse til litterære og arkeologiske kilder

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2004). Det greske teater: gamle myter og nye idéer. En fremstilling i tre akter med en epilog om romeren Gaius Curios kuriøse teater (Del I). Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 93–115. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Artikkelen gjennomgår den moderne forskningshistorie rundt utviklingen av det greske teater. I den foreliggende Del I diskuteres "orchestras" form og scenebygningens utseende.

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• Brandt, Johann Rasmus; Hagelberg, Erika; Bjørnstad, Gro & Ahrens, Sven (2017). Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781785703591. 432 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  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.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus; Lindhagen, Marina Prusac & Roland, Håkon (2014). Death and Changing Rituals. Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781782976394. 456 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Iddeng, Jon Wikene & Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Greek and Roman festivals : content, meaning, and practice. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199696093. 405 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus & Hostetter, Eric (2009). Palatine East Excavations. Volume I. Stratigraphy and architecture. De Luca. ISBN 9788880169550. 302 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2005). Santa Maria Antiqua al Foro Romano cento anni dopo. Campisano editore. ISBN 9788888168210. 224 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

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• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2017). Dead Bodies – Live Data: Some Reflections from the Sideline. In Brandt, Johann Rasmus; Hagelberg, Erika; Bjørnstad, Gro & Ahrens, Sven (Ed.), Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781785703591. p. xvi–xxiv. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  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.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). Guds forbannelse? Den hellige bys to tusenårige historie sett mot en bakgrunn av jordskjelv, kult, religionsskifte og begravelser. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). Kon-Tiki: mare grosso, vento favorevole. [Radio]. RAI Radio3: Tre Soldi. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Un programma di 4 puntate (13., 15., 16., e 17.10.2014) di Carla Fioravanti su Thor Heyerdahl come esploratore, scienziato e uomo. Interviste con i figli Bjørn e Marian Heyerdahl, Mariano e Giuseppina (due abitanti di Colla Micheri), Paolo Venezia (Antropologo), Rasmus Brandt (Archeologo Classico dell'Università di Oslo) e Claudio Cerreti (vice presidente della società Geografica Italiana)

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). Societal Changes in Byzantine Anatolia in the 7th/8th centuries AD: Socio-Political Causes or Environmental Impacts? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The 7th c. AD was a turning point in the history of the Byzantine Empire. It was a period of great changes when the classical civic life was replaced with a provincial town life of a very different character. The kind of urban culture which survived bore little or no relation to antique cities whether evolving on their sites or founded as new settlements elsewhere. Were these changes due to internal, structural alterations independent of demographical changes, or were they conditioned by external environmental factors like pestilence and earthquakes, creating a demographic breakdown? An attempt is made, first, to look at the external forces in cohesion and at their intensity patterns, and, second, to place short term documented effects into a long term analytical picture.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2014). Summary and Concluding Remarks. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus & Wenn, Camilla Cecilie (2014). Romans, Christians, and Pilgrims at Hierapolis in Phrygia. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The University of Oslo has since 2007, on the invitation of the Italian Archaeological Mission at Hierapolis in Phrygia, been investigating the east necropolis at Hierapolis, the Roman necropolis in which also the apostle Philip was buried. The cult which developed around the apostle in the late Roman and early Byzantine times had a marked effect on the history of the east necropolis, a history which can be followed through the use, reuse and reuse of the reuse of the Roman necropolis all the way up to about AD 1300, and to a certain extent contrasting what we know of the habitation and activity in the ancient city. Using the results from meticulous excavations and studies of the deposited skeletons (including radiocarbon dating, DNA-, and isotope-analysis) and artifacts our aim is to give some insights into the changing burial practices of the area and the people practicing them. The presentation, with a view to future studies, will also include an evaluation of the work invested and the results obtained.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus & Götherström, Anders (2013). Ghost Towns in Anatolia. A Research Project on DNA and Demography in the Offing. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2013). Funerary and Mortuary Studies in Asia Minor – Some Challenges. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2013). Forma Urbis Romae. A Fragment of Ancient Rome. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2013). 1071 and all that. Et bysantinsk skjebneår? Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2013). Liminalità e purificazione: una chiave di lettura per le pitture funerarie degli Etruschi? Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Fra Troja til Konstantinopel: en fortelling om romerske røtter i gresk garnityr. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Livet i døden. Om graver og gravskikker i den gresk-romerske verden. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Earthquakes, pestilence, and consequences: the Byzantine world and the 'terrible' 6th century AD. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  An attempt is made to explain the marked decline of the Byzantine empire in the 7th century AD, not as due to the Persian wars early in the century, but as a result of serious demographic changes caused by continuous outbreaks of the Justininan pest from the 540's and a strong concentration of earthquakes (an earthquake storm) in the period ca. 520-580 AD.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Venerazione e cambiamenti rituali. Alcune osservazioni sulle celebrazioni di Athena Poliade sull'Acropoli di Atene in epoca arcaica. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Liminality and purification. Some reflections on funerary practices and ideological changes in the Roman and early Christian periods. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2012). Ikkje så gamal likevel? Nye forskningsresultat kring den kapitolinske ulvinna kan ha blitt haldne tilbake av politiske grunnar. [Journal]. Dag og Tid. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2011). Liminalità e purificazione: Alcuni aspetti sulle pratiche e le ideologie funerarie degli Etruschi (VI sec. - III sec. a.C.). Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2011). Thanatos - a Norwegian Research project on mortuary data from Hierapolis. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus & Ahrens, Sven (2011). Filips grav i Hierapolis. [TV]. NRK Schrødingers katt. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Presentasjon av apostelen Filips grav i Hierapolis funnet av italienske arkeologer i 2011. Funnet gir ny aktualitet til de norske utgravninger av den omkringliggende romersk-bysantinske gravplass og gjenbruk av romerske graver i mellom- og senbysantinsk tid.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2010). Metropolis - en romersk by i Tyrkia. [Radio]. Programposten: Verdt å vite. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2010). De døde forteller i Hierapolis. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2010). Dronning Margrethe av Danmarks glass-sarkofag. [Radio]. Programposten: Norgesglasset. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2010). Thanatos: Dead bodies - live data. Et NFR-prosjekt om livog død i Hierapolis i Frygia. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2010). The Thanatos project. Prospects and ideas. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  First international workshop meeting of the Thanatos project. Various project presentations and discussion groups with a particlar view to funerary archaeology in Turkey concentrating on: 1. The discussion on problems related to the necropoleis and graves (i.e. the funerary data) seen in a topographical and social setting; 2. The discussion on problems related to the deceased and funerary artefacts (i.e. the mortuary data) seen in a social and ritual setting

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2009). Jon W. Iddeng (red.): "Fra palass til polis. Den greske verden mellom bronsealdersivilisasjoner og bystatskultur (Skrifter utgitt av Det norske institutt i Athen, bind 7), Novus Forlag, Oslo 2008. Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. p. 96–105. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2009). Blood, boundaries, and purification. The creation of identities between memory and oblivion in ancient Rome. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2009). Roma aurea. La casa degli dei e la dimora degli imperatori. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Diskusjon om hvorfor Roma i senantikken og senere ble kalt "det gyldne Roma" og hvorfor byen ble stående som forbilde for senere imperiehovedsteder, som Konstantinopel (det nye Roma) og Moskva (det tredje Roma)

• Ingvaldsen, Håkon; Brandt, Johann Rasmus & Ahrens, Sven (2008). Utgravninger i Tyrkia 2002 - 2007. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0332-8937. p. 57–65. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). Fra viet rom til hellige steder. Kristningen av Romas bylandskap i peridoen 300-800 e. Kr. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). Mars og Venus i Pompeii. Romersk veggmaleri som minneteater. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). Luperkalgrotten på Palatinen og Augustus' hus: kunst og politikk i det antikke Roma. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). From revellers to monsters. Iconological changes in Etruscan tomb painting. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). Gaven - Reprise. [TV]. NRK1. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2008). Fra Aleksander den store til Konstantinopels fall. Hierapolis i Frygia: en brikke i et historisk puslespill. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Presentasjon av den historiske bakgrunn i forbindelse med resultater fra de italiensk-norske utgravninger i den romersk-bysantinske byen Hierapolis ved Denizli i vest-Tyrkia

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2007). Polis og urbs. Urbanisme og byliv i det antikke Hellas og Roma. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus & Synnevåg, Anne (2007). Ephesos: en gravplass for romerske gladiatorer. [Radio]. NRK P2 "Verdt å vite". Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2007). Gaven. [TV]. NRK 1. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2006). Non-Panathenaic Panathenaics and the Panathenaia. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2006). Content and form: some considerations on Greek festivals in archaeology. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2006). Form og innhold. Noen refleksjoner rundt kultfeiringer på Akropolis i Athen i det 6. årh. f. Kr. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2006). Sacra privata in the Roman domus. Private or public? Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2006). "Før meg til Pompeii der kjærligheten er søt" - erotikk og byliv i skyggen av Vesuv. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus & Aasheim, Erik (2006). Ibsen i Roma. [Radio]. NRK, P2, Kulturbeitet. Full text in Research Archive
• Haagensen, Nils-Øivind & Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2006). Roma regner bort. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus & Chilidis, Konstantinos (2005). Når Hollywood skriver historie. p. 12–12. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2005). Form og innhold. Noen løse refleksjoner rundt Panatheneerfesten sett i et diakronisk perspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2005). Alexanderslaget i Faunens hus i Pompei - et kontekstuelt problem. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2005). Fra Valhall til "Brede seil...". Nordmenns reiser til Roma fra antikken til nasjonalromantikken. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2004). Brød og sirkus � om privat gavmildhet og offentlig prestisje i det antikke Roma. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2004). Il Vittoriano. Storia e concetto. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus; Coulson, Sheila Dawn; Hedeager, Lotte; Lunde, Øivind; Prescott, Christopher & Skre, Dagfinn (2004). Forskningsstyring ved HF. Uniforum. ISSN 1891-5825. p. 8–8. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2004). Non-Panathenaic Panathenaics and the Panathenaic festival. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2004). The Panathenaic procession: content and form. Full text in Research Archive
• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2003). Ficana. Materiale di ceramica: funzione e contesto. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Analisi della funzione della ceramica trovata negli scavi di Ficana (XII-VI a.C.) e la loro distribuzione nell'insediamento.

• Brandt, Johann Rasmus (2003). Votives and veneration. Athena, Hellotis, and Europa at Gortyna. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  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 city protectress, 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. At the same occation Europa was celebrated as the heroine of Gortyna, and on whose presence the town depended.

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