Day 4

Sessions of the Limes congress are ongoing at Batumi Shota Rustaveli state university. Various topics are up for discussion, primarily covering the issues of Roman history, archaeology, numismatics, architecture, etc.

Several sections are still open today, and important issues are being discussed, such as:

• Buffer zones in archaeology.

• Geophysical prospections in Roman border regions – sharing technical knowhow and encouraging sustainable knowledge transfer.

• Roman-Barbarian Interaction. Materialising diplomacy, East and West. Comparing Roman diplomacy across different parts of the limes.

• It’s all been done before. Why re-evaluating 19th and 20th century excavations is worth it.

• Rituals on the borders.

• Reconstructing Handicrafts on the Limes.

• The Roman Army Beyond the Provinces.

• Rethinking Borderlands: Examining the Outer Hinterlands of the Roman Empire.

• Hoarding on the Roman frontiers and…beyond. The interpretation of coin assemblies with and without archaeological contexts: military, civilian, and funerary.

• Via Nova: New Perspectives on the Roman Roads in the Roman Frontier Studies.