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This paper presents the methodological approach adopted to prioritize and comparatively assess alternative design solutions aimed to retain the Byzantine antiquities that were found during the construction works of the new city Metro main line, without cancelling the construction and operation at the Venizelou station in which they were found during excavation. It is shown, on the basis of cost over the respective benefit, that such a challenging engineering task is indeed feasible from both a technical and a financial viewpoint through a pragmatic compromise between the infrastructure logistics and the priceless nature of the archaeological findings. The particular feasibility study was the first of its kind made at a city and national level, it is deemed as a significant contribution to the public debate between the local and governmental authorities that essentially paved the way towards complex engineering solutions, innovative ideas and fruitful interactions, which are currently at the heart of the public debate. Even though it is not seen by any means as the unique solution to the particular problem, it is considered as a useful contribution to the present state-of-the art of potential strategies that can be adopted by decision-makers in resolving a multiple-objective, dual engineering and archaeological problem.

How Much Trade was Local, Regional and Inter-Regional? A Comparative Perspective on the Late Antique EconomyIntegration and Disintegration in the Late Roman Economy:The Role of Markets, Emperors, and Aristocrats; PRODUCTION IN INLAND REGIONS; Villas, Taxes and Trade in Fourth Century Hispania; The Lessons of Gaulish Sigillata and Other Finewares; Patterning the Late Antique Economies of Inland Sicily in a Mediterranean Context; Diana Veteranorum and the Dynamics of an Inland Economy; The Economic Expansion of the Anatolian Countryside in Late Antiquity: The Coast versus Inland Regions.

Introduction : purpose and perspectives -- Texts and topography : Nazareth in context -- A liminal landscape? Living between Nazareth and Sepphoris in the Roman and Byzantine periods -- A divided land : interpreting the landscape -- Jewish village to Christian pilgrimage centre : Nazareth in the Roman and Byzantine periods -- Beneath the basilica: the Church of the Annunciation site -- Reinterpreting Roman and Byzantine Nazareth -- Appendix 1. Survey data -- Appendix 2. Glass vessels from Nazareth in Western European and North American collections.

With one major and a couple of minor episodes, the exceptional archaeological heritage of the Maltese islands has been the exclusive domain of British archaeologists since the archipelago came under British rule in 1802: Themistokles Zammit a distinguished Maltese doctor, dominated the archaeological scene during the first three decades of the 20th c., and then a German scholar (Albert Mayr) and an Italian a{chaeologist (Luigi Maria U goHni) made some inroads but were never allowed to conduct excavations. Throughout the long colonial period (1802-1964), the British government never made an effort to set up the necessary local mechanism for training curators of the island's archaeological heritage. It was only in 1939 that J. B. Ward Perkins was appointed professor of archaeology at the then Royal University of Malta, presumably with the intention of starting such a process of transfer of expertise. But that was not to be, since Ward Perkins' appointment had to be abandoned because of the War. In this scenario, and against the pre-independence political background of the early 1960s, the concession by the Maltese government to an Italian archaeological rnissione from the university of Rome and the Universita Cattolica di Milano to conduct monumental excavations on three major sites was an ideological (religious and culturat as well as political) statement by the ruling Nationalist Party. The mission conducted 8 annual archaeological campaigns employing tens of local workmen, again, however, without the training of local archaeologists as part of their remit. The final campaign took place in 1970, on the eve of the return to government of the Labour Party, which had a quite different ideological agenda' ; peer-reviewed