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ATF Press Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics
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ATF Press Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics
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ATF Press Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics
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Blueheart Press Nova Praetorian
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£17.10
The Blackburn Press The Economics of Fisheries Management: Revised and Enlarged Edition
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INSTAP Academic Press An Archaeological Palimpsest in Minoan Crete:
Book SynopsisThis publication presents the archaeological evidence from two associated Minoan sites situated at Apesokari in the Mesara Plain of South-Central Crete, Tholos Tomb A and the neighboring free-standing domestic complex on Vigla Hill. It thoroughly reconstructs the natural and social landscape of this Cretan community from the late Prepalatial to the early Neopalatial periods through its interdisciplinary character; this includes photogrammetric two- and three-dimensional models of the architectural remains, viewshed analysis of both monuments and of the earlier Tholos Tomb B, as well as A-DNA and stable isotope analysis of the bones. The study of the burial dataset provides insights into the social construction of collective memory and identity by the burying social group, whereas the habitational deposits from the building on Vigla hill establish the longevity and function of the site as a node of the southern Mesara communication and exchange networks.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Akhenaten and Tutankhamun: Revolution and
Book SynopsisEgypt's eighteenth dynasty, a period of empire building, was also for a short time the focus of a religious revolution. Now called the Amarna Period (1353-1322 BCE), after the site of an innovative capital city that was the center of the new religion, it included the reigns of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and his presumed son, the boy king Tutankhamun. Three Penn Egyptologists examine the concept of royal power and demonstrate how Akhenaten established, projected, and maintained his vision of it. They investigate how and why this unique pharaoh made fundamental changes in the social contract between himself and his subjects on one side, and between his new solar god, the Aten, and himself on the other. The authors also look at the radical religion, politics, and art, he introduced to Egypt as well as at the consequences of his actions after his death, including how his successors, most notably, Tutankhamun, Egypt's most famous pharaoh, dealt with the restoration of traditional ways. Why did this reversal take place? Could a youth effect such changes without significant help? In concise and readable form, this generously illustrated volume takes a fresh approach to a most fascinating period in Egyptian history. It deals with such topics as the evolution of Akhenaten's ideology and the concepts surrounding the foundation, construction, and use of his innovative city and its unique palaces, temples, and houses. Egypt's empire, the role of its women, its relations with other nations of the ancient world, and the remarkable place both Akhenaten and Tutankhmun hold in history are also among other issues discussed. An epilogue recaps how Amarna's modern discovery helped solve the mysteries surrounding this city, its unique founder, and the aftermath of his revolution.
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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. These essays written by his students and disciples focus on issues in Near Eastern archaeology but range as far afield as the Indus Valley and Mesoamerica. They are also concentrate on aspects of early complex society, but some refer back to the late Neolithic and others forward to Islamic times. The key foci of Adams' work are reflected in this collection: ecology, frontiers, urbanism, trade and technology are all explored. Yet in spite of the breadth of the scope of this volume, the various intellectual threads pioneered by Adams serve to tie the volume together. These include the use of multiple lines of evidence to attack problems, the use of a comparative approach - including the use of ethnographic analogy-as a means of understanding the development of early states, the importance of the continuum of settlement between city dwellers, farmers, marsh dwellers and pastoralists, and an overall appreciation of cultural ecology.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Elizabeth C Stone); Ecology Landscape Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Past, present and future (Nicholas Kouchoukos & Tony Wilkinson); Archaeological Surveys and Mesopotamian History (Hans J Nissen); KLM to Corona: Using satellite photography toward a new understanding of fifth/fourth millennium BC landscapes in the lower Mesopotamian alluvium (Jennifer R Pournelle); Cycles of Settlement in the Khorramabad Valley in Luristan, Iran (Frank Hole); Harappan Geoarchaeology Reconsidered: Holocene Landscapes and Environments of the Indus Plain (Joseph Schuldenrein, Rita Wright, and Mohammed Afzal Khan); Representing Abundance: The Visual Dimension of the Agrarian State (Irene J Winter); Frontiers Resisting Empire: Elam in the First Millennium BC (Elizabeth Carter); The Lattimore Model and Hatti's Kaska Frontier (Paul Zimansky); Urbanism Ancient Agency: Using Models of Intentionality to Understand the Dawn of Despotism (Henry T Wright); City and Countryside in Third Millennium Southern Babylonia (Piotr Steinkeller); The Mesopotamian Urban Experience (Elizabeth C Stone); The Archaeology of Early Administrative Systems in Mesopotamia (Mitchell S Rothman); Islamic Archaeology and the "Land behind Baghdad" (Donald Whitcomb); The Urban Organization of Teotihuacan, Mexico (George L Cowgill); The Harappan Settlement of Gujarat (Gregory L Possehl); Trade A Tale of Two Oikumenai: Variation in the Expansionary Dynamics of 'Ubaid and Uruk Mesopotamia (Gil J Stein and Rana Izbal); The Sumerian Takeoff (Guillermo Algaze); Technology Transformative Impulses in Late Bronze Age Technology:A Case Study from the Amuq Valley, Southern Turkey (K Aslihan Yener); References.
£46.08
Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project Volume IX: Ridges Basin
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project Volume X: Environmental
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Gorgias Press The Nestorians or the Lost Tribe
£30.37
Buenos Books America Maat, La filosofia de la Justicia en el Antiguo Egipto
£20.00
Mage Publishers Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride
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Fairwood Press LLC Inagehi
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CDL Press CUSAS 10: Babylonian Literary Texts in the
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CDL Press CUSAS 11: Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic
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CDL Press CUSAS 12: The Lexical Texts in the Schøyen
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CDL Press CUSAS 13: Classical Sargonic Tablets Chiefly from
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CDL Press CUSAS 15: Cuneiform Texts in the Carl A. Kroch
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CDL Press CUSAS 22: Entrepreneurs and Enterprise in Early
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Eisenbrauns Looking at the Ancient Near East and the Bible
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CDL Press CUSAS 18: Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in
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CDL Press CUSAS 23: Miscellaneous Early Dynastic and
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CDL Press CUSAS 27: The “Šuilisu Archive” and Other
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CDL Press CUSAS 32: Mesopotamian Incantations and Related
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CDL Press CUSAS 33: Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic
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Disinformation Company The Egypt Code
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Peeters Kres Texnites. l'Artisan Cretois: Recueil
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Lockwood Press Palamedes Volume 5: A Journal of Ancient History
Book SynopsisPalamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists, and epigraphists--in a word all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations--can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts. Trade Review Table of ContentsWitold Tyborowski, Samas-Hasir and the Babylonian Rule in Southern Mesopotamia under Hammurabi Anna K. Prostko-Prostynska, Twelve Horses for Sargon II. Some Remarks on the Assyrian Campaign to the Southwest of Palestine in 716 B.C. Sergei G. Karpyuk, Thucydides on Islands and Islanders Adam Paluchowski, La Propriete Fonciere Privee et la Main-D'Oeuvre Servile en Crete aux Epoques Hellenistique et Romaine Emanuele Santamato, Deversorium, Meritorium, Cellae: Pratiche Affituarie Nella Roma Antica e Gestione Amministrativa Dell'Habitare Tra Cesare e Augusto Sabina Crippa, Magic and Rationality in Pliny. Transmission of Knowledge: The Medical-Magical Pharmacopoeia Bartosz Wojciechowski, Athletic Games in the Roman Levant Kostas Buraselis, Insolence and Servility. Aelius Aristides as Critic of Greek Civic Policies in the Pronvicia Asia Varia Piotr Jaworski, Countermarks on the Coins Struck in Cyrenaica Under Tiberius Adam Lajtar, Two Honorific Monuments for Governors of Syria Palaestinae in Hippos Pawel Nowakowski, A Supposed Honorific Inscription for Iulia Mammaea in Cyprus Adam Lukaszewicz, Sardines in an Ancient Menu Reviews
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Lockwood Press Palamedes Volume 7: A Journal of Ancient History
Book SynopsisPalamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists, and epigraphists--in a word all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations--can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts. Trade Review Table of Contents
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Disinformation Company Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos
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Witches' Almanac Ancient Roman Holidays
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Witches' Almanac Ancient Greek Holidays
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Witches' Almanac Ancient Egyptian Holidays
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Arc Medieval Press The Jews in Late Antiquity
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Jerusalem Centre for Near Eastern Studies A Bible Reader's History of the Ancient World
Book SynopsisWith thirty-five maps and more than three hundred color images, A Bible Reader's History of the Ancient World provides a stunning introduction to the ancient Near East and the classical world. Telling the story of the lands where the events of the Old and New Testaments took place, this volume introduces its readers to the civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria-Palestine, extending its reach as far east as Persia and as far west as Rome. Its Chronological span is from prehistory to the medieval period, but its main focus is on the second and first millennia BCE and the first century CE. Based on current archaeology and historical research, this volume makes modern scholarship readable and engaging. Its sixteen authors show how scientific archaeology, examination of material culture, and careful reading of primary texts are the keys to understanding ancient societies. The many images-of artifacts, buildings, landscapes, and locations-are more than illustrations; they are central to the book's purpose. They combine with the words of the text to bring the ancient world alive.Table of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: Getting to Know the Ancient World 1: The World of the Bible Jared W. Ludlow 2: Archaeology Jeffrey R. Chadwick 3: The Earliest Civilizations and Cities of the Near East Edward Stratford Section 2: Old Testament Backgrounds 4: Early Mesopotamia Monica Louise Phillips 5: Egypt’s Old Kingdom Kerry M. Muhlestein 6: Egypt’s Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Kerry M. Muhlestein 7: Genesis and the Ancient Near East David Rolph Seely 8: The Canaanites George A. Pierce 9: Egypt’s New Kingdom Krystal V. L . Pierce 10: The Exodus Kerry M. Muhlestein 11: Sea Peoples and Philistines George A. Pierce 12: Israel’s Conquest and Settlement George A. Pierce 13: Early Israel in Canaan Andrew C. Skinner 14: Israel’s United Monarchy (1030?–931 BCE) Dana M. Pike 15: Temples in the Near East and Israel David Rolph Seely 16: The Neo-Assyrian Empire Edward Stratford 17: Ammonites, Moabites, Phoenicians, Arameans, and Edomites Aaron P. Schade 18: Israel’s Divided Monarchy, Part 1 (930–841 BCE) Dana M. Pike 19: Israel’s Divided Monarchy, Part 2 (841–722 BCE) Dana M. Pike 20: Judah Alone (722–586 BCE) David Rolph Seely 21: The Neo-Babylonian Empire Edward Stratford 22: The Fall of Judah and the Exile Jared W. Ludlow 23: The Persian Empire and the Restored Jewish Nation Andrew C. Skinner Section 3: New Testament Backgrounds 24: The Greeks and Alexander the Great Cecilia M. Peek 25: The Hellenistic Age Cecilia M. Peek 26: The Romans Eric D. Huntsman 27: The Time of Herod the Great Matthew J. Grey 28: Roman Palestine after Herod the Great Matthew J. Grey 29: Intertestamental Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls Jared W. Ludlow Section 4: After the Bible 30: Early Christianity Gaye Strathearn 31: The Byzantine Period Eric D. Huntsman 32: Palestine and the Arabs William J. Hamblin 33: Medieval Palestine and the Crusades William J. Hamblin Chronology of the Ancient World Authors and Acknowledgments Index
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Hugo House Publishers Under the Sphinx: the Search for the Hieroglyphic
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Lockwood Press The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece
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Lockwood Press Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular
Book SynopsisThis book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture have consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars-archaeologists, philologists, historians, and art historians-to reflect on how objects, ideas, and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been remembered, constructed, reimagined, mythologized, or indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. The exploration of cultural memories has revealed how they inform the values, structures, and daily life of societies over time. This is therefore not a collection of essays about the deep past but rather about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. Black & white illustrations throughout.Table of ContentsForeword, Paul Collins Preliminary Considerations, Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame Visual Arts Pedro Azara and Marc Marín Mesopotamia in Miró. Miró in Mesopotamia Jean M. Evans Case Studies in the Popular Reception of the Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard Silvana Di Paolo Images of Ruins as Metaphorical Places of Transformation: The Case of Persepolis Performing Arts Kerstin Droá-Krupe Artaserse: An Ancient Oriental Ruler on Modern Opera Stages? Valeska Hartmann When Imitation Became Reality: The Historical Pantomime Sardanapal (1908) at the Royal Opera of Berlin Daniele Federico Rosa Ye Go to Thy Abzu: How Norwegian Black Metal Used Mesopotamian References, Where It Took Them from, and How It Usually Got Them Wrong Film and Television Kevin McGeough "Babylon's Last Bacchanal": Mesopotamia and the Near East in Epic Biblical Cinema Eva Miller He Who Saw the Stars: Retelling Gilgamesh in Star Trek: The Next Generation Lorenzo Verderame Evil from an Ancient Past and the Archaeology of the Beyond: An Analysis of the Movies The Exorcist (1973) and The Evil Dead (1981) Novels and Comics Jana Myná?ová and Pavel Ko?ínek The Ancient Near East in Czech Comics and Popular Culture: The Case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil Luigi Turri Gilgamesh, The (Super)Hero Francesco Pomponio Mystery Literature and Assyriology Ryan Winters Ancient Aliens, Modern Cosmologies: Zecharia Sitchin and the Transformation of Mesopotamian Myth Archaeologist in the Middle Davide Nadali The (In)visibility of Archaeology Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós Imagining the Tower of Babel in the Twenty-First Century: Is a New Interpretation of the Ziggurat of Babylon Possible? Silvia Festuccia Athletic Disciplines in the Ancient Near East: Representation and Reconstruction Afterword. Memory and Memories: From the Ancient Near East to the Modern West Frances Pinnock Contributors Subject Index
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Lockwood Press Babylonian Ceremonial Script in its Scholarly
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a substantive introduction to Babylonian ceremonial script, along with a history of its modern study, and several case studies of how the script was actually used. Since the advent of Assyriology in the early nineteenth century it has been known that two distinct scripts were used in ancient Mesopotamian inscriptions and documents. One, usefully characterized as cursive, was used for the ephemeral documents of daily life as well as on most library and archival texts. The other was a deliberately archaizing script reserved for ceremonial use. This ceremonial script, of Babylonian origin, contained both archaic and archaizing signs, and was in productive use for over two millennia, not only in Babylonia but occasionally also in Assyria and beyond. Yet to date there has been no systematic study devoted specifically to this ceremonial script, nor any published syllabary of the archaic and archaizing signs it employs. This volume attempts to rectify this deficiency. The book's introduction is supplemented by an edition of the palaeographic lists of the second and first millennia BCE, which contain pedagogical inventories of the archaic and archaizing cuneiform signs, illustrating how the ceremonial script was taught, learned and transmitted in scholarly contexts.
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Lockwood Press Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh
Book SynopsisIn Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh Peter J. Brand paints with authoritative knowledge and colourful details a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age. Warrior, mighty builder and statesman, over the course of his 67-year-long reign (1279-1212 BCE), Ramesses II achieved more than any other pharaoh in the three millennia of ancient Egyptian civilization. Drawing on the latest research, Peter Brand reveals Ramesses the Great as a gifted politician, canny elder statesman, and tenacious warrior. With restless energy, he fully restored the office of Pharaoh to unquestioned levels of prestige and authority, thereby bringing stability to Egypt. He ended almost seven decades of warfare between Egypt and the Hittite Empire by signing the earliest international peace treaty in recorded history. In his later years, even as he outlived many of his own children and grandchildren, Ramesses II became a living god and finally, an immortal legend. Forty years after the publication of Kenneth Kitchen's Pharaoh Triumphant, here at last is a fresh, engaging look at Ramesses II, Egypt's ultimate Pharaoh Trade Review“Dr Brand’s book is well and authoritatively written, with an excellent choice of illustrations, mainly in colour. It is to be wholeheartedly recommended, and will certainly become the standard English language work on Rameses II for the foreseeable future.” Aidan Dodson, Egyptian Archaeology Issue 63 Autumn 2023Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Chronology Map of Egypt and Nubia Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Rise of the Ramessides: The Reigns of Ramesses I and Sety I Chapter 3: Crown Prince Ramesses and His Career under Sety I Chapter 4: The Early Reign of Ramesses II Chapter 5: The Battle of Kadesh Chapter 6: Great of Victories: Ramesses II's Later Wars Chapter 7: All the King's Wives: Ramesses II's Royal Women Chapter 8: The Royal Children and their Ideological Role Chapter 9: The Path to Peace: International Diplomacy and the End of the Egyptian-Hittite Conflict Chapter 10: The Silver Treaty: The Egyptian-Hittite Peace Accords Chapter 11: Peace and Brotherhood: Diplomatic Relations Between the Egyptian and Hittite Courts Chapter 12: A Time of Wonders: The Earliest Royal Jubilees of Ramesses II and the First Hittite Marriage Alliance Chapter 13: Ramesses the Great God Chapter 14: Rich in Years: Monumental Construction and Hittite Relations during the Jubilee Period Chapter 15: Twilight of the Great God: Ramesses II's Last Years and His Descendants Chapter 16: Afterlife: The Legacy of Ramesses II Glossary Bibliography Index
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Lockwood Press Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods:
Book SynopsisThe studies in this volume share a focus on religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: how ritual, myth, spectatorship, and travel reflect the continual interaction of human beings with the richly fictive beings who defined the boundaries of groups, access to the past, and mobility across land and seascapes. They share as well the methodological exploration of the intersection between human sciences, the integration of numerous disciplines around the study of all aspects of human life from the biological to the cultural, and the study of the past. In so doing, they continue a long dialogue that engages with critical models derived from specializations within history, philology, archaeology, sociology, and anthropology, and addresses, increasingly, the potentialities and pitfalls of quantitative and digital analyses. Many of the threads in this long conversation inform these chapters: the comparative project, human social evolution, disciplinary reflexivity, religion as an embedded, functional, and structural system, and the role for agency, networks, and materiality.
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Lockwood Press A Journey through the Beyond: The Development of
Book SynopsisThis volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the evolution over time of a foundational concept of the Egyptian afterlife beliefs: the Duat, or netherworld. The Duat is a complicated, multifaceted notion, which was never canonized into a single version of the beyond, but offered instead a variety of alternatives attempting to describe the metaphysical realms beyond the visible world, and beyond life. Theological speculations gave rise to a rich textual and visual repertoire, which underwent a process of evolution over thousands of years, during which newer ideas and images were constantly introduced. The book provides analysis of royal and non-royal funerary texts from the late Old Kingdom to the end of the New Kingdom, tracing the development of the conceptualization of the notion of Duat, outlining what it encompassed and where it was imagined to be located. In addition to the translation and discussion of the most significant passages of the texts analysed, each chapter also provides an overview of the individual compositions and of the relevant theological, cosmological and astronomical notions complementing the conceptual framework, of which the Duat formed but a part. Additionally, discussions of concurrent changes in Egyptian culture, society and ideology are included in order to clarify the context in which afterlife beliefs and related texts evolved. An analysis of the correlation between funerary compositions and their material supports complements the study, emphasizing the Egyptians' belief in a magical synergy between texts, images, and their contexts in the activation of a suitable, effective afterlife for the recipients of the texts.
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Lockwood Press Roman Sculpture in Context
Book SynopsisThis volume tackles a pressing issue in Roman art history: that many sculptures conventionally used in our scholarship and teaching lack adequate information about their find locations. Questions of context are complex, and any theoretical and methodological reframing of Roman sculpture demands academic transparency. This volume is dedicated to privileging content and context over traditions of style and aesthetics. Through case studies, the chapters illustrate multivariate ways to contextualize ancient objects. The authors encourage Roman art historians to look beyond conventional interpretations; to reclaim from the study of Greek sculpture the Roman originals that are too often relegated to discussions of "copies" and "models"; to consider the multiple, dynamic, and shifting contexts that one sculpture could experience over the centuries of its display; and to recognize that post-antique receptions can also offer insight into interpretations of ancient viewers. The collected topics were originally presented in three conference sessions: "Grounding Roman Sculpture" (Archaeological Institute of America, 2019); "Ancient Sculpture in Context" (College Art Association, 2017); and "Ancient Sculpture in Context II: Reception" (College Art Association, 2019).Table of Contents1 Introduction Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta and Peter D. De Staebler 2 The Statues on the Propylon of the Sebasteion Complex at Aphrodisias: "Grounding" and the Interpretation of Archaeological Context Julia Lenaghan 3 Grounding the Ny Carlsberg Vespasian: Analysis and Alternatives Steven L. Tuck 4 The Bronze Captive in the Rhone River and Roman Art History Kimberly Cassibry 5 The Sleeping Hermaphrodite: Reception and Interpretation in Three Eras Elizabeth McGowan 6 The "Lansdowne Homer": A Neo-Attic Relief Depicting the Seer Calchas Grounded in Ancient and Modern Collections Kenneth Lapatin 7 Provenance, Historic Restorations, and the "Perseus Triumphant" Statue Type: An Overlooked Group of Heroic Hunter Portrait Statues from Imperial Rome Mark B. Abbe 8 Investigating the Ungrounded: The Paired Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna in the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Julie Van Voorhis and Mark B. Abbe 9 The Farnese Hercules and Hercules within Roman Baths Maryl B. Gensheimer 10 Body/Culture: Display and Reception of the Farnese Hercules Marice Rose 11 Roman Sarcophagi in Context from the Catacomb of Praetextatus Sarah Madole Lewis 12 Lions at the Door: Ancient Context, Reuse, and Recreation on Italian Romanesque Facades Steve Burges 13 Eros and the Army (Constantinople and Context) Benjamin Anderson 14 Virtual Context for Roman Sculpture Sebastian Heath 15 Further Reflections on Groundedness Elizabeth Marlowe Contributors
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Lockwood Press Emperors in Images, Architecture and Ritual:
Book SynopsisThis volume presents current research on a variety of questions related to Roman emperors' uses of images and architecture. Drawing mainly on sculpture, coinage, and architecture, the papers consider topics ranging from the beard of Nero to Antonine funeral pyres to the roles of arches in shaping urban landscapes. Chronologically, the volume covers the reigns of Augustus through Constantine, and it examines the use of imagery by empresses as well as emperors. The contributors are Fae Amiro, Steven Burges, Laura L. Garofalo, Evan Jewell, Lillian Joyce, Jacob A. Latham, and Rosa Maria Motta, Gretel Rodriguez.Table of ContentsJacob A. Latham, Tensa or Triumphal Chariot? The Iconography of (Some) Empty Chariots on Roman Imperial Coins Evan Jewell, Fashioning an Imperial Aetas: Nero's Portrait, the Depositio Barbae, and the Iuvenalia Laura L. Garofalo, Sabine Retrospective: Stylistic Archaism in Flavian Imperial Portraiture Gretel Rodriguez, New Observations on the Three Arches of Benevento Lillian Joyce, In the Footsteps of Augustus: Hadrian and the Imperial Cult Fae Amiro, Sabina's "Plotina" Portrait Type Steven Burges, The Archaeology of Apotheosis: Roman Coinage, Funerary Pyres, and Imperial Cult Sites Rosa Maria Motta, Art Appropriation on the Coins of Fausta Flavia Maxima
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Perseid Press I, the Sun
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Adventures Unlimited Press Subterranean Realms: Subterranean & Rock Cut
Book SynopsisSUBTERRANEAN REALMS is a unique book that surveys underground and rock cut structures created in the past. It is the third book in Mutton''s trilogy on mysterious realms, the others being Sunken Realms and Water Realms. We know who built some of these astonishing and mysterious structures, but others were built by unknown civilisations in prehistory for reasons that are debated among researchers. Some subterranean structures may have been built for initiation ceremonies or perhaps for acoustic reasons or both. Mutton discusses such interesting sites as: Derinkuyu, an underground city in Cappadocia, Turkey that housed 20,000 people; Roman catacombs of Domitilla; Palermo Capuchin catacombs; Alexandria catacombs; Paris catacombs; Maltese hypogeum; Rock-cut structures of Petra; Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae; Elephanta Caves, India; Lalibela, Ethiopia; Tarquinia Etruscan necropolis; Hallstatt salt mine; Beijing air raid shelters; Japanese high command Okinawa tunnels; more. There are tons of illustrations in this fascinating book!
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Skyhorse Publishing The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Book Synopsis"As much a love letter to the cathedral as it is the story of two doomed lovers." --Smithsonian Magazine Written in 1831, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo is a beloved French gothic novel which centers around the wondrous Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. Set during the reign of King Louis XI, we are introduced to the gypsy dancer Esmerelda. A beautiful girl, both inside and out, Esmerelda captures the hearts of everyone around her, including Captain Phoebus, Pierre Gringoire, and the hunchback Quasimodo, who is hidden away in the tower of Notre Dame as a bell ringer. Unfortunately, Esmerelda has also caught the attention of Archdeacon Claude Frollo, Quasimodo's abusive guardian. Frollo battles with his lust, eventually succumbing, leading him to pursue Esmerelda while leaving morality behind. A beautifully written novel about love, lust, and thirteenth-century Paris, The Hunchback of Notre Dame will leave readers both marveling at the beauty of Notre Dame and reeling at the lengths that people will go for love. Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of literary geniuses such as Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of masterpieces by some of the most famous writers in history.
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