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Book SynopsisIn 30 BCE, Egypt became a province of the Roman empire. Alongside unbroken traditions—especially of the indigenous Egyptian population, but also among the Greek elite—major changes and slow processes of transformation can be observed. The multi-ethnical population was situated between new patterns of rule and traditional lifeways. This tension between change and permanence was investigated during the conference. The last decades have seen an increase in the interest in Roman Egypt with new research from different disciplines—Egyptology, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Papyrology—providing new insights into the written and archaeological sources, especially into settlement archaeology. Well-known scholars analysed the Egyptian temples, the structure and development of the administration beside archaeological, papyrological, art-historical and cult related questions.Table of Contents1. Stile und Ikonographien im kaiserzeitlichen Agypten M. Bergmann 2. Un recu de rations militaires contre paiement des publica H. Cuvigny 3. Archaeological Research in Roman Soknopaiou Nesos: Results and Perspectives P. Davoli 4. Ein romerzeitliches Pyramidengrab und seine Ausstattung in Tuna el-Gebel. Ein Vorbericht zu den Grabungskampagnen 2007 und 2008 M. Flossmann and A. Schutze 5. Der Exercitus Aegyptiacus - ein provinzialer Heeresverband wie andere auch? R. Haensch 6. Tuna el-Gebel - Fundgruppen, Werkplatze und Ofen. Ein Zwischen bericht J. Helmbold-Doye 7. Lost in Translation? Beobachtungen zum Verhaltnis des lateinischen und griechischen Textes der Gallusstele F. Hoffmann 8. Offentliche Archive und romische Rechtspolitik A. Jordens 9. Galba's Cartouches at Ain Birbiyeh O.E. Kaper 10. Sobek und die Caesaren. Einige Bemerkungen zur Situation der Kroko dil gotterkulte des Fayum unter romischer Herrschaft H. Kockelmann 11. The Petosiris-Necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel K. Lembke 12. Memnon, His Ancient Visitors and Some Related Problems A. Lukaszewicz 13. Establishing Roman Rule in Egypt: The Trilingual Stela of C. Cornelius Gallus from Philae M. Minas-Nerpel and S. Pfeiffer 14. Archaeological Research in Roman Bakchias: Results and Perspectives S. Pernigotti 15. Inhomogenitat von agyptischer Sprache und Schrift in Texten aus dem spaten Agypten J.F. Quack 16. Tradition and Innovation in the Burial Practices in Roman Egypt C. Riggs 17. Tradition und Transformation-Einblicke in die Verwaltung des romischen Agypten nach den demotischen Urkunden M. Schentuleit 18. Il contesto e l'architettura del cosiddetto Antinoeion a Villa Adriana S. Sgalambro 19. Women and Gender in Roman Egypt: The Impact of Roman Rule K. Vandorpe and S. Waebens 20. Archaeology and Papyrology: Digging and Filling Holes? P. van Minnen

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Book SynopsisMedieval Jewelry and Burial Assemblages in Croatia analyzes the Croatian archaeological heritage from the 8th to the 15th century, consisting mostly of jewelry (earrings) findings from cemeteries. Stratigraphy is used to establish horizons and phases of material culture, as well as the structure of the burial chambers. All in comparison with materials from neighboring regions of Europe.Trade Review"[This book] is focused on analysis of so-called 'Old-Croat' medieval cemeteries on the Adriatic coast and deep hinterland, with the author aiming to redefine the existing chronologies of those cemeteries through assessment of grave architecture, cemeteries and grave assemblage - with earrings a particular focus. This is a poorly known field as most of the existing literature is written in Croatian, and so this book, if anything, is important for making this field accessible for a wider reading audience. Sokol offers a meticulous analysis of 16 selected cemeteries, revealing an excellent knowledge of the sites and the existing (Croatian) literature." Danijel Dzino, Macquarie University, in: Medieval Archaeology, 61/1 (2017), pp. 194-195.Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations x Introduction 1 part 1 Graves and Material Culture 1 A History of Research 5 The Beginning of Excavations—The First Finds 5 First Classification of Artefacts 5 Modern Research 7 Recent Research (1989–2012) 13 2 Cemeteries and Material Culture 17 Spatial, Temporal and Cultural Characteristics 17 Key Cemeteries 17 3 Cemetery Stratigraphy and the Classification of Material Culture 30 Methodology 30 Cemetery Analysis 31 Relative Chronology and the Interpretation of Groups 82 4 Cemetery Horizons and Material Culture Phases 88 Cemetery Horizons 89 First or Early (Pagan) Horizon (±795–850/855) 89 Second or Middle (Christian) Horizon (}850/855–1090/1110) 93 Third or Late Horizon (±1090/1110–1450) 95 5 The Development of Material Culture: Earrings and Their Evolution 99 PHASE I: Early or Pagan—±?795–850/855 99 PHASE II: Classical—± 850/855–1000 102 PHASE III: Interim ±1000–1090/1110 107 PHASE IV: Late (ca. 1110–1450) 110 6 Grave Architecture 114 General Remarks 114 Interpretation and General Remarks 1 Croat Burial Rites and Belief System 123 Material Culture and Non-Christian Spirituality among Croats—Its Duration and Cessation 124 2 Stone Cists: Late Antique or Early Medieval? 126 3 Burial Customs 129 4 Burial Horizons and Churches 132 5 Cemeteries between the Mountains and the River Sava 136 part 2 Earrings 1 Earrings as Grave Goods 141 List Sites with Earring Finds 142 2 Medieval Earrings in Croatia 144 Omega-shaped Earrings (no. “1”) 144 Plain Links 144 Plain Links with Pseudo S-loop and Clasp (no. “2”) 144 Plain Links with Thinner Hoop and Spiral Cone Ending (no. “3”) 145 Links with Three Interlaced Pendants on the Lower Part of the Hoop and Spiral Hoops on the Links (no. “4”) 152 Earrings with Grape-shaped Pendant with Filigree Ornament (no. “5”) 153 Earrings with Stylized Ear-of-wheat Spike (no. “6”) 158 Plain Links with Thinner Hoop, with Loop and Clasp (no. “7”) 159 Ancient-looking Earrings with Oppositely Placed Buds (no. “8”) 159 Ancient-looking Temple Pendants with Three Rings on the Link and Filigree Ornament (no. “9”) 166 Ancient-looking Earrings with Floral, Omega-shaped Ornaments (no. “10”) 167 Triple-beaded Earrings or Temple Pendants with Bell-shaped Calotte (no. “11”) 167 Finely Cast Grape-shaped Earrings (no. “12”) 174 Filigree Earrings with Almond-shaped Pendant (no. “13”) 174 Earrings with Single, Smooth Beads (no. “14”) 175 Tetra-beaded Temple Pendants with Filigree Ornament (no. “15”) 175 Earrings or Temple Pendants with Single Beads with Filigree Ornament (no. “16”) 186 Earrings or Temple Pendants with Intricately Fashioned, Single Beads with Filigree Ornament (no. “17”) 186 Earrings or Temple Pendants with Single, Smooth Beads (no. “18”) 187 Earrings or Temple Pendants with Twin Beads Decorated with Filigree Ornament (no. “19”) 187 Plain Links with Straight Open Ends (no. “20”) 193 Earrings with Single, Round Beads (no. “21”) 193 Earrings with Three Round Beads (no. “22”) 202 Temple Pendants with Single, Bi-conical Beads between Two Loops (no. “23”) 202 Temple Pendants with Three, Bi-conical Beads Arranged in a Y-shaped Pattern (no. “24”) 202 Earrings Made of Thin Interwoven Wire (no. “25”) 203 Earrings with Thicker Links and S-shaped Ends (no. “26”) 212 Earrings or Temple Pendants with Three Joints (no. “27”) 212 Earrings with Three Joints Decorated with Filigree (no. “28”) 213 Earrings with Filigree and Granulated Ornament (no. “29”) 213 Earrings with Three, Equally Sized, Round Beads Decorated with Filigree (no. “30”) 222 Triple-beaded Earrings with a Larger Central Bead and Filigree Decoration (no. “31”) 223 Table of Absolute Chronology for Earrings—31 Basic Types 229 Conclusion 232 List of Cited References 237 Index of Proper Names 251 Index of Geographical Names 253

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Book SynopsisUntil recently much of the discussion regarding the A-Group has emphasised the influence of Egypt in the region. Egyptian material found in A-Group contexts has pointed to some type of exchange system between the two regions but the lack of A-Group manufactured objects in Egyptian contexts has led to the argument that the relationship was somewhat one-sided. Yet was it and how different were Egyptians and Lower Nubians during the 4th millennium BC? Re-examining the material evidence from three major archaeological salvage campaigns, and using anthropological and economic theories this book takes a fresh look at exchange patterns between Egypt and Lower Nubia. The changes and developments in these relationships potentially impacted the development towards the Egyptian state and the fate of the A-Group.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1: Nubia and Egypt Chapter 2: Egypt in Nubia Chapter 3: Nubia in Egypt Chapter 4: Inscriptional, Pictorial, and Glyptic Evidence Chapter 5: Commodities Exchanged Chapter 6: The Nature of the Beast

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest archaeology, epigraphy and historical interpretation, this major volume presents a survey of ancient Macedon, important parts of which are published by their excavators for the first time, including the palace of King Philip II. Archaeologists and historians of the ancient Greek worlds will welcome this milestone in the study of this rapidly changing filed, packed with new information, interpretations and essential bibliography.Trade Review"This is a superb and hard-hitting volume that brings together the very best archaeologists and historians of ancient Macedonia - packed with exciting new material, handsomely illustrated, as well as strong arguments and important new perspectives." – R.R.R. Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Oxford University "..the book is very much up-to-date, [...] it lays out the current state of knowledge and understanding about ancient Macedon. Both the archaeological chapters and the historical ones aim to offer a reliable basis of knowledge on which, presumably, other scholars can build their own theories. It will be especially valuable in raising the profile of Macedon in studies of the Aegean world in the Classical period. [...] production values are high. What this volume does, it does very well." – Hugh Bowden, King's College London, in: Scripta Classica Israelica 31 (2012)Table of ContentsContributors Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Ioannis M. Akamatis, Stella Drougou, Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi, Angeliki Kottaridi, Chaiido Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, Sophia Kremydi, Dimitris J. Kyrtatas, Robin Lane Fox, Louisa D. Loukopoulou, John Ma, Manuela Mari, Olga Palagia, Selene Psoma, Chryssoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli, Stavros Paspalas, Thea Stefanidou-Tiveriou, Bettina Tsigarida

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates Hellenistic popular religion through an interdisciplinary study of terracotta figurines of Egyptian deities, mostly from domestic contexts, from the trading port of Delos. A comparison of the figurines’ iconography to parallels in Egyptian religious texts, temple reliefs, and ritual objects suggests that many figurines depict deities or rituals associated with Egyptian festivals. An analysis of the objects’ clay fabrics and manufacturing techniques indicates that most were made on Delos. Additionally, archival research on unpublished notes from early excavations reveals new data on many figurines’ archaeological contexts, illuminating their roles in both domestic and temple cults. The results offer a new perspective on Hellenistic reinterpretations of Egyptian religion, as well as the relationship between “popular” and “official” cults.Table of ContentsFront Matter List of Tables List of Plates Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Egyptianizing Cult at a Crossroads of Hellenistic Trade 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Ptolemaic Activity on Delos 1.3. “Egyptian Cult” or “Egyptian Cults”? 1.4. Contextual Analysis 1.5. Fabric Analysis 1.6. Technological Style 1.7. Organization of the Text 1.8. Religious Syncretism and Hybridity Chapter 2. Fabric Analysis: Evidence for the Local Origins of the Majority of Egyptianizing Figurines on Delos 2.1. Introduction: Local Production versus Imports 2.2. Methodology 2.2.1. Research Methods: Tools and Terminology 2.2.2. Selection of Comparanda from the Cairo Museum and the Athenian Agora 2.2.3. Presentation of Fabric Groups 2.3. Egyptian Coroplastic Fabrics: Greco-Roman-Era Terracottas from the Cairo Museum 2.3.1. Introduction to the Cairo Museum Corpus 2.3.2. Categorization of Egyptian Pottery Types 2.3.3. Fabrics of the Greco-Roman-Era Terracotta Figurines in the Cairo Museum 2.4. Greek Coroplastic Fabrics: Hellenistic Terracottas from the Athenian Agora 2.4.1. Introduction to the Athenian Corpus 2.4.2. Reddish Attic Fabrics 2.4.3. Blond “Aeginetan” Fabrics 2.4.4. Other Imported Fabrics 2.5. Coroplastic Fabrics from Hellenistic Delos 2.5.1. Introduction 2.5.2. Sampling Methodology 2.5.3. Reddish “Cycladic” Fabrics Associated with Local Production 2.5.4. Imported Fabrics on Delos 2.6. Fabric Analysis: Conclusions Chapter 3. Manufacturing Techniques, Technological Style, and the Question of Egyptian Coroplasts on Delos 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Methodology 3.3. Establishing the Unique Characteristics of Egyptian Coroplastic Techniques: A Comparison of Technological Style in Figurines from the Cairo Museum and the Athenian Agora 3.3.1. Fabric Preparation: Selection of Tempering Material 3.3.2. Shaping of the Figurine: Molding and Appliqués 3.3.3. Reworking: Trimming, Retouch, and Retooling 3.3.4. Removal of Surface Irregularities: Smoothing and Application of Slip 3.3.5. Post-Firing Manufacturing Techniques: Limewash, Painting, and Repair 3.3.6. Conclusions: Distinguishing Egyptian from Greek (Athenian) Manufacturing Techniques 3.4. Coroplastic Manufacturing Techniques on Delos 3.4.1. Fabric Preparation: Selection of Tempering Material 3.4.2. Shaping of the Figurine: Molding and Appliqués 3.4.3. Reworking: Trimming, Retouch, and Retooling 3.4.4. Removal of Surface Irregularities: Smoothing and Application of Slip 3.4.5. Post-firing Manufacturing Techniques: Limewash, Painting, and Repair 3.5. Conclusions Chapter 4. The Eye of the Sun and the Inundation of the Nile: Iconographic Evidence for Egyptian Theology on Delos 4.1. Introduction 4.1.1. A New Perspective on Religious Syncretism within the Household 4.1.2. Inundation Festivals in Egypt 4.1.3. Textual and Architectural Evidence for “Nile Water” on Delos 4.2. Depictions of Deities Identified with the Returning Goddess 4.2.1. Depictions of deities identified with the returning goddess (1): Isis 4.2.1.1. Isis and the Solar Eye 4.2.1.2. Heads with Isiac Crowns 4.2.1.3. Figurines with Isiac Costume 4.2.1.4. Figurines with Corkscrew Curls 4.2.2. Depictions of Deities Identified with the Returning Goddess (2): “Oriental Aphrodite” 4.2.2.1. “Oriental Aphrodite” figurines 4.2.2.2. “Oriental Aphrodite” Heads with Elaborate Coiffures, Often Incorporating Vegetal Elements 4.2.2.3. Clothed “Oriental Aphrodite” Bodies with Central Medallion on Chest 4.2.2.4. Nude Female Figurines Wearing Crossed Chains and Central Medallions 4.2.2.5. Male Figurines with Crossed Chains and Central Medallion 4.2.2.6. Higgins’ First Subgroup of “Oriental Aphrodite” Figurines: An Argument for Eliminating Them from the “Oriental Aphrodite” Category 4.2.3. Depictions of Deities Identified with the Returning Goddess (3): Sothic Dogs 4.2.4. Depictions of Deities Identified with the Returning Goddess (4): Arsinoe II 4.2.4.1. Ptolemaic Queens, Ptolemaic Royal Cult, and the Solar Eye 4.2.4.2. Double Cornucopiae 4.2.4.3. Figurines with the Portrait Features of Arsinoe II 4.2.5. Depictions of Deities Identified with the Returning Goddess: Summary 4.3. Sexual Imagery and the Inundation as Hieros Gamos 4.3.1. Sexual Imagery and Inundation Festivals in Egypt 4.3.2. Ithyphallic Harpocrates 4.3.3. Figurines of So-Called “Baubo” Type 4.3.3.1. The Isiac/Hathoric Symbolism of the So-Called “Baubo” Figurines 4.3.3.2. So-Called “Baubo” (Isiac/Hathoric) Standard Type 4.3.3.3. Male Variant of the “Baubo” Type 4.3.4. Divine Pair with Cornucopiae (Perhaps Agathos Daimon and Agathe Tyche/Shai and Renenutet) 4.3.4.1. Egyptian Parallels for A5622 4.3.4.2. Paired Deities with Cornucopiae in Greek Art 4.3.4.3. Egyptian Images of Anguiform Paired Deities 4.3.4.4. Agathos Daimon in Greek Iconography 4.3.4.5. Agathos Daimon and Shai 4.3.4.6. Agathe Tyche and Renenutet 4.3.4.7. Political Implications of Paired Serpentine Deities 4.3.4.8. Paired Serpentine Deities and the Hieros Gamos of the New Year 4.3.4.9. A5622 and the Delian Cult of Agathe Tyche and Agathos Daimon 4.3.5. Sexual Imagery and Hieros Gamos: Summary 4.4. Birth of the New Solar Child: Figurines of Harpocrates 4.4.1. The Birth of the Solar Child 4.4.2. Harpocrates with Double Crown 4.4.3. Harpocrates with Sidelock, Imported, Perhaps Archaic or Based on an Archaic Patrix 4.4.4. Solarized Harpocrates Figurines: Harpocrates Seated in a Flower or Wearing a Radiate Crown 4.4.5. Heads of Pataikoi and Nubians with Harpocratic Lotus Buds 4.4.6. Figurines of Harpocrates: Summary 4.5. Nubians and the Entourage of the Returning Goddess 4.5.1. Representations of Nubians in the Greco-Roman World 4.5.2. Dancing or Singing Nubians with Festival Wreaths, and a General Discussion of Nubian Terracottas on Delos 4.5.3. Head of a Possible Nubian Cultic Functionary of Harpocrates 4.5.4. Nubians, Possibly Dwarfs, Adopting a Bes-like Posture 4.5.5. Images of Nubians: Summary 4.6. Bes and Related Dwarf Deities (Ptah-Pataikos) 4.6.1. Representations of Bes 4.6.1.1. Bes and the Hathoric Sphere 4.6.1.2. Armed Bes 4.6.1.3. Bes-Silenos 4.6.2. Representations of Ptah-Pataikos 4.6.3. Dwarf Deities: Summary 4.7. Plastic Vases and Depictions of Water or Wine Vessels 4.7.1. Figurines Holding or Leaning on Vessels 4.7.2. Plastic Vases 4.7.2.1. Plastic Vases as Containers for Water or Wine 4.7.2.2. Plastic Vases Possibly Designed to Hold Perfume 4.7.3. Figurines Carrying or Taking the Form of Vessels: Summary 4.8. Dionysos Botrys 4.9. Herms Representing Hermes-Thoth 4.10. Flowers and Floral Wreaths 4.11. Pharaonic Predecessors for Ptolemaic and Roman-Period Egyptian Terracottas 4.11.1. Hathoric Figurines 4.11.2. Prunkgefässe 4.11.3. Faience Figurines 4.11.4. Textual References to Clay Figurines 4.11.5. Summary: Pharaonic Precedents 4.11.6. Excursus: Parallels in Two-Dimensional Greco-Roman Art (“Nilotic Scenes”) 4.12. Conclusions Chapter 5. A Contextual Analysis of the Findspots of Egyptian and Egyptianizing Terracotta Figurines on Delos 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Methodology 5.2.1. Sampling Methodology 5.2.2. Conventions for the Citation of Unpublished Material 5.3. Figurines from Private Houses 5.3.1. Figurines from Private Houses: Introduction 5.3.2. Egyptianizing Terracottas from the Theater Quarter 5.3.3. An Egyptianizing Terracotta from the Stadium Quarter 5.3.4. An Egyptianizing Terracotta from the Inopos Quarter 5.3.5. An Egyptianizing Terracotta from a House near the Port 5.3.6. An Egyptianizing Terracotta from the Lake Quarter 5.3.7. An Egyptianizing terracotta from the Post-Hellenistic Houses at the Northwest of the Hypostyle Hall 5.3.8. Household Ritual and the Possibility of Domestic Shrines 5.3.9. Figurines from Private Houses: Summary 5.4. Figurines from Streets in Residential Areas 5.4.1. Egyptianizing Figurines from Streets in the Lake Quarter 5.4.2. Egyptianizing Figurines from Streets in the Theater Quarter 5.4.3. An Egyptianizing Figurine from the “Street of the East” 5.4.4. Figurines from Streets: a General Discussion 5.4.4.1. The Possible Origins of Figurines from Streets 5.4.4.2. Ancient Looters, the Evidence for Repair of Figurines, and the Valuation of Terracotta Objects 5.5. Figurines from Ambiguous Contexts within Residential Districts 5.6. Figurines from Coroplastic Workshops 5.6.1. Introduction: Coroplastic Workshops on Delos 5.6.2. Local Production of Egyptianizing Figurines: Imported Patrices versus Locally- Made Patrices 5.6.3. Dating of the Coroplastic Workshops 5.6.4. Distribution of Mold Siblings of Figurines from the Delian Workshops 5.6.5. Presence of Egyptianizing and Non-Egyptianizing Figurines in the Same Workshops 5.6.5.1. Greek, Egyptian, and Anatolian Imagery in the Workshops 5.6.5.2. Greek, Egyptian, and Anatolian Coroplastic Imagery in the Overall Coroplastic Corpus from Delos 5.7. Figurines from Other Commercial Establishments: Shops in the Agora of the Italians and Elsewhere 5.7.1. Egyptianizing Figurines from Non-Coroplastic Shops in the Agora of the Italians 5.7.2. Egyptianizing Figurines from Shops in the Inopos Quarter 5.7.3. Figurines from Streets: The Possibility that Some May Have Originated in Shops as Well as Domestic Contexts 5.8. Egyptian Figurines from Graves on Rheneia 5.9. Egyptianizing Figurines from Non-Egyptianizing Sanctuaries 5.9.1. Introduction: Sanctuary Contexts 5.9.2. An Egyptianizing Figurine Possibly Originating from a Dionysiac Chapel 5.9.3. Egyptianizing Terracottas from the Kabirion/Samothrakeion 5.9.3.1. The Delian Sanctuary, the Kabeiroi, and the Great Gods of Samothrace 5.9.3.2. Egyptianizing Dwarf-Gods in the Kabirion/Samothrakeion 5.9.3.3. Evidence for A1758’s Having Been in Situ 5.9.3.4. Religious Syncretism between Egyptian Dwarf-Gods and the Kabeiroi 5.9.4. An Egyptianizing Terracotta from the Synagogue 5.9.5. An Egyptianizing Terracotta from the Archegesion 5.9.6. Egyptianizing Figurines from the Sanctuary of Apollo 5.10. Figurines from Ambiguous or Unknown Contexts 5.10.1. Egyptianizing Figurines with No Contextual Information 5.10.2. An Egyptianizing Figurine from a Clearly Secondary Context (Cistern) 5.10.3. Egyptianizing Figurines with Ambiguous or Imprecise Findspots 5.11. Figurines from Fill or Discard Contexts 5.12. Figurines from the Sarapeia 5.12.1. Figurines from the Sarapeia: An Introduction to the Data 5.12.2. Catalog of Figurines from Sarapeion A and Sarapeion C 5.12.3. Non-Egyptianizing Nature of the Figurines’ Iconography 5.12.4. Henotheism and Syncretism in the Sarapeia 5.12.5. A1983 and the Apparent Absence of Sarapis from the Delian Coroplastic Corpus 5.13. Conclusions Chapter 6. Conclusions: Syncretic Theology in Household Cult 6.1. Greco-Egyptian Religious Syncretism as a Meaningful Exchange of Ideas 6.2. “Personal Piety” 6.3. Egyptian Religious Festivals: Between Temple Ritual and Popular Cult 6.4. Hathor in Pharaonic Egypt, Isis in the Late Period, and the Role of Inundation Imagery on Delos 6.5. Producers, Consumers, and Differing Degrees of Religious Knowledge 6.5.1. Producers, Consumers, and the Reinterpretation of Meaning 6.5.2. Who Designed the Figurines’ Iconography? 6.6. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Influences on Egyptianizing Cult on Delos 6.6.1. Egyptianizing Figurines and the Ptolemaic State 6.6.2. Trade and the Isis Cult 6.7. Delos in Context 6.8. Cosmopolitanism in the Household Appendix A. Timeline of Delian History Appendix B. Catalog of Egyptian and Egyptianizing Terracotta Figurines and Plastic Vases from Hellenistic Delos Appendix C. List of Unpublished Field Notes Cited Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAmong the hundred or so tombs of post-Alexander date excavated by Roman Ghirshman between 1947 and 1952 on the mound of the “Ville des Artisans” at Susa, six are remarkable for their construction and burial contents. Shortly before his death in 1979, Ghirshman, director of the French “Mission de Suse” from 1946 until 1968, had started to write up his final report. Based on his notes, the authors have engaged to publish these tombs, together with the original plans, drawings and photographs of the burial goods. The grave contents consisted mainly of pottery, but also included glass vessels, figurines, metal objects and other small finds. The study of the material from these large vaulted subterranean structures indicates that they were most likely intended as family tombs, thus remaining in use for several decades and should be dated in the first or second century AD. Similar tombs are known at other sites in the region of Susa, and even in Mesopotamia, e.g. at Seleucia on the Tigris. A synthesis of the evolution in tomb architecture and typology, as well as the burial practices, for the whole site of Susa between the Seleucid and early Sasanian periods (third century BC to third century AD), is also presented, based on the short reports and unpublished excavation notes of Ghirshman, in addition to unpublished reports by his predecessors at the site.

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Book SynopsisOver the past 20 years, Boeotia has been the focus of intensive archaeological investigation that has resulted in some extraordinary epigraphical finds. The most spectacular discoveries are presented for the first time in this volume: dozens of inscribed sherds from the Theban shrine of Heracles; Archaic temple accounts; numerous Classical, Hellenistic and Roman epitaphs; a Plataean casualty list; a dedication by the legendary king Croesus. Other essays revisit older epigraphical finds from Aulis, Chaironeia, Lebadeia, Thisbe, and Megara, radically reassessing their chronology and political and legal implications. The integration of old and new evidence allows for a thorough reconsideration of wider historical questions, such as ethnic identities, and the emergence, rise, dissolution, and resuscitation of the famous Boeotian koinon. Contributors include: Vassilios Aravantinos, Hans Beck, Margherita Bonanno, Claire Grenet, Yannis Kalliontzis, Denis Knoepfler, Angelos P. Matthaiou, Emily Mackil, Christel Müller, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Isabelle Pernin, Robert Pitt, Adrian Robu, and Albert Schachter.Trade Review"The volume stands out for two reasons. First, it accumulates insights, arguments and viewpoints on a major historical phenomenon ("federalism") in a region of major importance (Boiotia) with a complex history across the archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Second, the volume includes sensational, drop-everything-and-read-this findings, in separate (coyly, unrevealingly titled) papers by Y. Kalliontzis and N. Papazarkadas." John Ma, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.07.11. ''Compétence, méthode, rigueur, perspicacité, clarté sont les mots qui viennent à l’esprit pour qualifier ce travail qui ouvre des pistes nouvelles, défend des positions originales et est digne, à bien des égards, de servir comme modèle à de semblables enquêtes.'' Andé Motte, L'Antiquité Classique 86, 2017.Table of ContentsContents Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction Section I: Boeotian History: New Interpretations 1. Hans Beck: “Ethnic Identity and Integration in Boeotia: the Evidence of the Inscriptions (6th and 5th Centuries BC)” 2. Emily Mackil: “Creating a Common Polity in Boeotia” 3. Denis Knoepfler: “ΕΧΘΟΝΔΕ ΤΑΣ ΒΟΙΩΤΙΑΣ: The Expansion of the Boeotian Koinon towards Central Euboia in the Early Third Century BC” 4. Adrian Robu: “Between Macedon, Achaea and Boeotia: The Epigraphy of Hellenistic Megara Revisited” 5. Christel Müller: “A Koinon after 146? Reflections on the Political and Institutional Situation of Boeotia in the Second Half of the Second Century BC” Section II: The New Epigraphy of Thebes 6. Vassilios L. Aravantinos: “The Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of Herakles at Thebes: An Overview” 7. Angelos P. Matthaiou: “Four Inscribed Bronze Tablets from Thebes: Preliminary Notes.” 8. Nikolaos Papazarkadas: “Two New Epigrams from Thebes” 9. Margherita Bonanno-Aravantinos: “New Inscribed Funerary Monuments from Thebes” Section III: Boeotian Epigraphy: Beyond Thebes 10. Albert Schachter: “Tlepolemos in Boeotia” 11. Yannis Kalliontzis: “Digging in Storerooms for Inscriptions: An Unpublished Casualty List from Plataia in the Museum of Thebes and the Memory of War in Boeotia” 12. Robert Pitt: “Just As It Has Been Written: Inscribing Building Contracts at Lebadeia” 13. Claire Grenet: “Manumission in Hellenistic Boeotia: New Considerations on the Chronology of the Inscriptions” 14. Isabelle Pernin: “Land Administration and Property Law in the Proconsular Edict from Thisbe (Syll.3 884)” Index Locorum General Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Verbruggen prize Montfort Castle, the principal fortress of the Crusader Teutonic Order, was built in the 1220s and occupied and dismantled by the Mamluk army in 1271. This volume includes discussions on the castle’s history, architecture, material culture, and the archaeological work carried out at Montfort.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2017 Verbruggen prize, awarded annually by the De Re Militari society for the best book on medieval military history. The awarding committee stated that the volume offers ‘a through exploration of all the sources, archaeological and literary, relating to an important site. A model for future work.’ "The last couple of decades have been marked by a series of major advances in our understanding of the archaeological remains surviving from the crusader period, particularly those pertaining to the kingdom of Jerusalem... This present work on Montfort Castle expands upon this trend and is, in essence, a survey and summary of the achievements of the Montfort Castle Project (MCP), which was originally started in 2006 by scholars working at the University of Haifa. This project is still underway, so this book provides an interim report on progress so far... Overall, this work stands as testimony to the diligence, inter-disciplinary skill and methodological originality both of the project team as a whole and of Boas and Khamisy (who authored many of these articles) in particular. This is a very impressive piece of work and I feel sure that the team will continue to produce further thought-provoking results in the years to come." Nicholas Morton, in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 28.2 (2017), 237-8. "Boas' fundamental collection offers a lot of new material and fresh views and will stimulate upcoming discussions in the scientific community." Thomas Wozniak, in H-Soz-Kult, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-27936Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements xi List of Plates xii List of Tables xxiii Note on Names xxiv List of Contributors xxv Introduction 1 Adrian J. Boas Section 1 The History of Montfort Castle 1 Montfort Castle and the Order of the Teutonic Knights in the Latin East 15 Kristjan Toomaspoeg 2 The Region of Montfort and Land Ownership in the Frankish Period 24 Rabei G. Khamisy 3 Montfort Castle (Qalʿat Al-Qurayn) in Mamluk Sources 28 Rabei G. Khamisy 4 Archaeological Evidence for the Mamluk Sieges and Dismantling of Montfort: A Preliminary Discussion 41 Adrian J. Boas Section 2 Montfort Castle after the Crusader Period 5 Montfort Castle in Travellers’ Descriptions and Illustrations 59 Rabei G. Khamisy 6 The Survey of Western Palestine Report on Montfort (1877) 73 Adrian J. Boas 7 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Expedition to Montfort (1926) 75 Adrian J. Boas Section 3 Architecture, Function, Design and Construction of Montfort Castle 8 Initial Thoughts on the Architectural Development of the Castle 95 Adrian J Boas and Rabei G. Khamisy 9 Interpretation of the Parts 102 Adrian J. Boas 10 The Building Below the Castle 120 Laura Aiello and Cecilia Luschi 11 History and Archaeology of the Frankish Village of Tarphile 128 Rabei G. Khamisy 12 The Stones of Montfort: Sources of Stone for Montfort Castle 137 Vardit Shotten-Hallel, Dorit Korngreen and Lydia Perelis Grossowicz 13 Masonry and Masons’ Marks 150 Rabei G. Khamisy Section 4 Finds from the 1926 Metropolitan Museum of New York Expedition to Montfort 14 Introduction to the Finds 160 Adrian J. Boas 15 Ceramic Finds 163 Adrian J. Boas 16 The Winepress at Montfort 168 Rafael Frankel 17 Glass Finds in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the 1926 Expedition 176 David Whitehouse†, Timothy B. Husband, Lisa Pilosi, Mary B. Shepard and Mark T. Wypysk 18 Stone, Metal, Wood and Worked Bone Finds from the 1926 Expedition 195 Adrian J. Boas 19 A Roman Imperial Wine Vessel? 221 Tamar Backner Section 5 New Research 20 The Montfort Castle Project (Mcp): A Summary of the Surveys and the First Six Excavation Seasons (2011–2015) 227 Adrian J. Boas 21 Coin Finds (1926–2012) and the Use of Money at Montfort 242 Robert Kool 22 Dendroarchaeological Investigations of Finds from Montfort Castle: Analysis of Finds from 1926 and 2011–2012 256 Nili Liphschitz 23 Tree Wormwood (Artemisia Arborescens) at Montfort Castle: The Possible Introduction of a Medicinal Plant from Western Europe to the Latin East in the Crusader Period 258 Nativ Dudai and Zohar Amar 24 The Stone Matrices from Montfort: About Moulds, Tin Relief and the Polychromy of Shields in the Thirteenth Century 266 Andrea Wähning 25 The Architectural Sculpture of Montfort Castle Revisited 273 Nurith Kenaan-Kedar 26 How Strong was Strong Mountain? Preliminary Remarks on the Possible Location of the Mamluk Siege Position at Montfort Castle 282 Rafael Lewis 27 Two Board Games and Some Graffiti from Montfort 287 Adrian J. Boas 28 Brief Preliminary Remarks on the Sampling and Analysis of Mortars Used in the Construction and Conservation of Montfort Castle 289 Jonathan J. Gottlieb Summary and Conclusions 302 Adrian J. Boas Appendix I Find Lists and the Division of Finds 305 Adrian J. Boas Appendix II Compositional Analyses of Vessels and Window Glasses from Montfort (Weight Percent) 309 David Whitehouse†, Timothy B. Husband, Lisa Pilosi, Mary B. Shepard and Mark T. Wypyski Bibliography Abbreviations 311 Primary Sources 311 Secondary Sources 313 Index 327

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Book SynopsisThe Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity. History, Religion, and Archaeology / Le Levant: Carrefour de l'Antiquité tardive explores the monumental, religious, and social developments that took place in the Roman province of Syria during the 3rd through 6th centuries CE. Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and John M. Fossey bring together the work of twenty scholars of archaeology, art history, religious studies, and ancient history to examine this dynamic period of change in social, cultural, and religious life. Close attention to texts and material culture, including palaeo-Christian mosaics and churches, highlights the encounters of peoples and religions, as well as the rich exchange of ideas, practices, and traditions in the Levant. The essays bring fresh perspectives on “East” and “West” in antiquity and the diversity of ancient religious movements.Table of ContentsContents / Table des matières List of Figures / Liste des illustrations Preface / Préface Section I - Literature and Theology / Litérature et théologie 1. Hearing God’s Silence: Ignatius of Antiokheia and the Music of the Spheres (Jeffrey Keiser) 2. The Beauty of Jesus and His Twin: Redirected Erotics in the Acts of Thomas (Catherine Playoust) 3. The Varieties of Religious Communication in the Rhetoric of Loukianos of Samosata (Ian H. Henderson) 4. “One Drop of Salvation from the House of Majesty”: Universal Revelation, Human Mission and Mythical Geography in the Syriac Revelation of the Magi (Brent Landau) 5. On Recycling Texts and Traditions: The Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions and Religious Life in Fourth-Century Syria (Nicole Kelley) 6. The Apostolic Constitutions and the Law (Marcie Lenk) 7. Space and Ritual Action: Divinization and the Construction of Sacred Place According to Dionysios Areopagites (Rebecca Coughlin) 8. The Rhetorical Topography of Prayer in the Mystical Theology of Pseudo-Dionysios, Rachel Smith Section ii - History and Archaeology / Histoire et archéologie 9. La christianisation de l’Antiochène dans l’Antiquité tardive (Pierre-Louis Gatier) 10. Was Edessa or Adiabene the Gateway for the Christianization of Mesopotamia? (Amir Harrak) 11. From Kastron to Qasṛ: Nessana between Byzantium and the Umayyad Caliphate ca. 602–689. Demographic and Microeconomic Aspects of Palaestina III in Interregional Perspective (Frank R. Trombley) 12. Palmyre, de la ville—centre commercial international—à la ville—centre militaire et chrétien (Christiane Delplace) 13. Ras el Bassit and the Late Antique Archaeological Landscape of Coastal North Syria (Nicolas Beaudry) 14. Rome and the Ghassānids: Comparative Perspectives on Conversion, Boundaries and Power in Near Eastern Borderlands (Greg Fisher) 15. Crossroads in the Desert (John Wortley) 16. Unity and Individuality: Reflections on Images of Animals from South Syria in the Roman Imperial Period (Felicia Meynersen) Section iii - The Mosaics / Les mosaïques 17. Management and Preservation of Mosaics in Syria: Between Theory and Practice (Amr Al-Azm) 18. Barrer la route au Malin: une typologie des stratégies utilisées. Images et signes à fonctionnement sécuritaire sur support fixe dans l’Antiquité tardive (Pauline Donceel-Voûte) 19. Contribution de la mosaïque syrienne à l’iconographie chrétienne (Rafah Jwejati) 20. Thoughts on the Meaning of a “Decorative” Early Christian Mosaic (George Kellaris) Summation / Conclusion Indices / Registres 1. Personal Names / Noms de personnes 2. Place Names / Toponymes 3. Ancient Texts / Textes anciens

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Book SynopsisThe The Olsztyn Group in the Early Medieval Archaeology of the Baltic Region: The Cemetry at Leleszki deals with a much neglected problem of the archaeology of the early Middle Ages. Between the 5th and the 7th century, the region of the Mazurian Lakes in northeastern Poland witnessed the rise of communities engaged in long-distant contacts with both Western and Eastern Europe. Known as the Olsztyn Group, the archaeological remains of those communities have revealed a remarkable wealth and diversity, which has attracted scholarly attention for more than 130 years. Besides offering a survey of the current state of research on the Olsztyn Group, Mirosław Rudnicki introduces the monographic study of the Leleszki cemetery (district of Szczytno, Poland) as one of the most representative sites. The prosperity and long-distance contact revealed by the examination of this cemetery shows that the West Baltic tribes had considerable influence in early medieval Europe, much more than scholars had been ready to admit until now.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures, Plates and Tables 1 Selected Aspects of Physical and Nature Geography 2 The History and Current State of Research on the Olsztyn Group 3 Burial Customs 4 The Olsztyn Group Connections during the Late Migration Period 5 The Cemetery in Leleszki 6 The Olsztyn Group and the Galindians Plates Appendix 1: List of Archaeological Sites of the Olsztyn Group Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHistorical and Archaeological Aspects of Egyptian Funerary Culture, a thoroughly reworked translation of Les textes des sarcophages et la démocratie published in 2008, challenges the widespread idea that the “royal” Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom after a process of “democratisation” became, in the Middle Kingdom, accessible even to the average Egyptian in the form of the Coffin Texts. Rather they remained an element of elite funerary culture, and particularly so in the Upper Egyptian nomes. The author traces the emergence here of the so-called “nomarchs” and their survival in the Middle Kingdom. The site of Dayr al-Barshā, currently under excavation, shows how nomarch cemeteries could even develop into large-scale processional landscapes intended for the cult of the local ruler. This book also provides an updated list of the hundreds of (mostly unpublished) Middle Kingdom coffins and proposes a new reference system for these.Table of ContentsPreface Note to the Reader Introduction Chapter I. Nomarchal Culture: Political, Administrative, Social, and Religious Aspects Chapter II. A Middle Kingdom Nomarchal Cemetery: Dayr al-Barshā Chapter III. The Coffin Texts and Democracy Concordance to the Sigla of Coffin Texts Manuscripts and Middle Kingdom Coffins Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA unique variety of approaches to all aspects of urban culture in the ancient world can be found in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity, a collection of 19 essays addressing ancient cities from an interdisciplinary perspective. As the title indicates, the volume considers both how ancient people lived in their cities as physical structures and how they thought with them as ideas and symbols. Essays in this volume deal with texts and sites from Spain to South India, but there is a particular focus on the archaeology and epigraphy of Roman-era Italy, civic identity in the Roman provinces, the Hebrew Bible and Early Christian literature, Vergil and other imperial Latin authors.Trade Review"The volume’s structure mirrors its theme, as the groupings themselves reflect qualities of a city—cohesive and planned, yet organic and sprawling. (...) The volume as a whole functions as an extended meditation on the epistemological and theoretical problem referenced in the title—the relationship between urban 'dreams' and urban 'realities.' Although each author displays preferences for certain types of evidence (remains or representations), no one takes the 'dreams' either more or less seriously than the 'realities.' Indeed, central to the volume are two implicit acknowledgements: 1) that the ancient urban 'realities' are inaccessible to the modern scholar except by means of imaginative approaches, and 2) that urban 'dreams' no less 'real' than their material counterparts." Jordan Conley (Boston University)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Adam M. Kemezis Part 1 - City as Space i: Remains on the Ground 1 In Defense of Arkadia: The City as a Fortress Matthew Maher 2 The Mundus of Caere and Early Etruscan Urbanization Fabio Colivicchi 3 “Fighting Over a Shadow?”: Hellenistic Greek Cities and Greco-Roman Cities as Fora and Media for Multi-Level Social Signaling LuAnn Wandsnider 4 Constructing an Oscan Cityscape: Pompeii and the Eítuns Inscriptions Tanya K. Henderson 5 Unraveling the Reality of a ‘City’ on the Deccan Plateau Aloka Parasher-Sen 6 Monumentalising the Ephemeral in Ancient Rome Steven Hijmans Part 2 - City as Space ii: Landscapes in Literature 7 Future City in the Heroic Past: Rome, Romans and Roman Landscapes in Aeneid 6–8 Eric J. Kondratieff 8 Reading the Civic Landscape of Augustan Rome: Aeneid 1.421–429 and the Building Program of Augustus Darryl A. Phillips 9 The Predatory Palace: Seneca’s Thyestes and the Architecture of Tyranny Daniel B. Unruh 10 Imperial Roman Cities as Places of Memory in Augustine’s Confessions Owen M. Ewald Part 3 - City as Identity i: Cultures in Stone 11 Sacred Exchange: The Religious Institutions of Emporia in the Mediterranean World of the Later Iron Age Megan Daniels 12 Greek Poleis in the Near East and Their Parthian Overlords Josef Wiesehöfer 13 Civic Identity in Roman Ostia: Some Evidence from Dedications (Inaugurations) Christer Bruun 14 Chariot Racing in Hispania Tarraconensis: Urban Romanization and Provincial Identity Raymond L. Capra Part 4 - City as Identity ii: Communities on Paper 15 The Seat of Kingship: (Re)Constructing the City in Isaiah 24–27 Ian Douglas Wilson 16 Remembering Pre-Israelite Jerusalem in Late Persian Yehud: Mnemonic Preferences, Memories and Social Imagination Ehud Ben Zvi 17 Memory and the Greek City in Strabo’s Geography Edward Dandrow 18 The Ekklēsia of Early Christ-Followers in Asia Minor as the Eschatological New Jerusalem: Counter-Imperial Rhetoric? Ralph J. Korner 19 From Kinship to State: The Family and the Ancient City in Nineteenth-Century Ethnology Emily Varto Index

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Book SynopsisBodzia is one of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the post-war period in Poland. It is one of the few cemeteries in Poland from the time of the origins of the Polish state. The unique character of this discovery is mainly due to the fact that a small, elite population was buried there. The burials there included people whose origins were connected with the Slavic, Nomadic-Khazarian and Scandinavian milieus. For the first time the evidence from this area is given prominence. This book is designed mainly for readers outside Poland. The reader is offered a collection of chapters, combining analyses and syntheses of the source material, and a discussion of its etno-cultural and political significance. The authors formulate new hypotheses and ideas, which put the discoveries in a broader European context. Contributors are Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Mateusz Bogucki, Andrzej Buko, Magdalena M. Buś, Maria Dekówna, Alicja Drozd-Lipińska, Władysław Duczko, Karin Margarita Frei, Tomasz Goslar, Tomasz Grzybowski, Zdzisław Hensel, Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke, Michał Kara, Joanna Koszałka, Anna B. Kowalska, Tomasz Kozłowski, Marek Krąpiec, Roman Michałowski, Michael Müller-Wille, T. Douglas Price, Tomasz Purowski, Tomasz Sawicki, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Stanisław Suchodolski and Kinga Zamelska-Monczak.Trade Review"A cemetery at Bodzia was fully excavated during the years 2004 and 2007–9. This book, produced for international readers by an interdisciplinary team of twenty-five authors, presents the material from most possible perspectives. It is welcome to have so comprehensive a book accessible in English so soon. The book is richly illustrated, consists of twenty-five chapters... To sum up, this cemetery provides important evidence, and the book makes an interesting contribution to international research on burial customs, communication, and politics in northwestern Europe from approximately the mid-tenth to the mid-twelfth century." Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide, Speculum 92.4 (2017).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations...ix List of Tables...xxvii List of Contributors ...xxix Looking Towards Bodzia: An Introduction...1 Andrzej Buko Part 1: The Area of the Middle and Lower Vistula River Valley between the 10th–11th Centuries: Archaeology and History 1 The Archaeological Context of the Bodzia Cemetery and the Trade Route along the Middle and the Lower Vistula during the Middle and Late Viking Period...9 Mateusz Bogucki 2 The Historical Context of the Discoveries at Bodzia...34 Roman Michałowski Part 2: The Bodzia Cemetery: Site Location, Environmental Data, Graves and their Contents 3 Bodzia: Site Location and History of Research...47 Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka 4 The Effect of Depositional and Post-Depositional Processes on the Preservation of Skeletal Remains in the Bodzia Cemetery...54 Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke 5 The Inventory of the Burials and their Contents...63 Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka Appendix: Wood and Plant Macro-remains Analysis...139 Joanna Koszałka 6 Analysis of the Skeletal Population from the Cemetery of Bodzia...143 Alicja Drozd-Lipińska and Tomasz Kozłowski Part 3: Grave Goods and their Context 7 Overview of the Finds from the Bodzia Cemetery...163 Andrzej Buko 8 Merchants’ Implements (the Folding Balance)...166 Michał Kara 9 Weapons...177 Michał Kara Appendix: Metallographic Analyses of Selected Finds from a Young Warrior’s Grave (E864/I)...197 Zdzisław Hensel 10 Status and Magic. Ornaments Used by the Bodzia Elites...202 Władysław Duczko 11 Glass Beads...222 Maria Dekówna and Tomasz Purowski 12 Iron Artifacts...262 Tomasz Sawicki 13 Costume Elements of Leather...272 Anna B. Kowalska 14 Ceramic and Wooden Containers...288 Kinga Zamelska-Monczak 15 Objects Made of Antler and Stone...304 Kinga Zamelska-Monczak 16 The Obol of the Dead...313 Stanisław Suchodolski Part 4: Funeral Rites 17 Description of the Cemetery, Organization of the Burial Space, the Burial Rites in the Light of the Cultural and Historical Determinants...343 Michał Kara 18 Tentative Reconstruction of Coffins...412 Tomasz Sawicki 19 Symbolic Aspects of the Remains of Wood from the Cemetery...421 Joanna Koszałka Part 5: Chronology of the Cemetery 20 Chronology of the Cemetery...427 Andrzej Buko and Michał Kara Appendix 1: AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Cemetery at Bodzia...438 Tomasz Goslar Appendix 2: Radiometric Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Cemetery at Bodzia...442 Marek Krąpiec Part 6: Locals or Aliens? 21 Isotopic Proveniencing of the Bodzia Burials...447 T. Douglas Price and Karin Margarita Frei 22 Genetic Analysis of Selected Graves from the Cemetery...465 Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Tomasz Grzybowski and Magdalena M. Buś Part 7: European Contexts of the Bodzia Cemetery 23 The Cemetery at Bodzia in a Broader European Context...481 Michael Müller-Wille 24 The Cemetery at Bodzia in the Context of the Funerary Practices in the Polish Lands in the Late 10th–11th Century...513 Michał Kara Part 8: The Bodzia Cemetery in Light of the Interdisciplinary Research 25 The Bodzia Cemetery in Light of the Interdisciplinary Research...525 Andrzej Buko Bibliography...557 Index...602

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Book SynopsisThe dry climate of Egypt has preserved about 130,000 Arabic documents, mostly on papyrus and paper, covering the period from the 640s to 1517. Up to now, historical research has mostly relied on literary sources; yet, as in study of the history of the Ancient World and medieval Europe, using original documents will radically challenge what literary sources tell us about the Islamic world. The renaissance of Arabic papyrology has become obvious by the founding of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) at the Cairo conference (2002), and by its subsequent conferences in Granada (2004), Alexandria (2006), Vienna (2009), and Tunis (2012). This volume collects papers given at the Vienna conference, including editions of previously unpublished Coptic and Arabic documents, as well as historical and linguistic studies based on documentary evidence from Early Islamic Egypt. With contributions by: Anne Boud’hors; Florence Calament; Alain Delattre; Werner Diem; Alia Hanafi; Wadād al-Qāḍī; Ayman A. Shahin; Johannes Thomann and Jacques van der Vliet. For more titles about Papyrology, please click here.Trade Review"More than a book on astronomy, calligraphy, herbs, on the economy of the monasteries, or the administation of the Umayyad era - all this valuable information discovered in papyri found, lost and re-discovered, unearthed, decodified, studied and treasured at various museums of the world, this volume is testimony of the toilsome on-going process of researching the fascinating field of papyrology and the need to perceive it withing the wider field of the history of culture." Stavros NikolaidisTable of ContentsContents Preface vii Contributors x Quoted Editions xiii Plates xvii 1 Three Remarkable Arabic Documents from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection (First-Third/Seventh-Ninth Centuries) 1 Werner Diem 2 Pour une étude des archives coptes de Medinet el-Fayoum (P.Louvre inv.e 10253, e 6893, e 6867 et e 7395) 23 Florence Calament and Anne Boud’hors 3 Death Dates in Umayyad Stipends Registers (Dīwān al-ʿAṭāʾ)? The Testimony of the Papyri and the Literary Sources 59 Wadād al-Qāḍī 4 Remarques sur la taxation au monastère de Baouît au début de l’époque arabe 83 Alain Delattre 5 Schreibübung und Schriftübungszettel zwischen Theorie und Praxis 95 Ayman A. Shahin 6 An Arabic Ephemeris for the Year 931–932ce 115 Johannes Thomann 7 Nekloni (al-Naqlūn) and the Coptic Account Book British Library Or.13885 153 Jacques van der Vliet 8 Two Arabic Documents from Cairo and Copenhagen 168 Alia Hanafi Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the earliest and most ambitious projects carried out by the Society of Jesus was the mission to the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, which ran from 1557 to 1632. In about 1621, crucial figures in the Ethiopian Solomonid monarchy, including King Susenyos, were converted to Catholicism and up to 1632 imposing missionary churches, residences, and royal structures were built. This book studies for the first time in a comprehensive manner the missionary architecture built by the joint work of Jesuit padres, Ethiopian and Indian masons, and royal Ethiopian patrons. The work gives ample archaeological, architectonic, and historical descriptions of the ten extant sites known to date and includes hypotheses on hitherto unexplored or lesser known structures.Trade Review“This is a first-rate and comprehensive study, richly illustrated and (as one would expect with Brill) well presented […]. It sets the standard for historical archaeological work in eastern Africa and will hopefully encourage other archaeologists, working with Ethiopian heritage professionals, scholars and communities, to engage with some of the more recent sites, all places that have much to reveal about the complex and rich history of imperial Ethiopia and its engagement with the outside world over the last six hundred or so years.” Niall Finneran, University of Winchester. In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Vol. 53, No. 1 (2018), pp. 123–125. A “monumental volume”. […] “It is of the highest quality and will reward any and all who consult it.” Steven Kaplan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 2019), pp. 191–192. “This substantial, well-produced book has raised the state of knowledge of this field, as well as our understanding of historical archaeology as applied to an African context, to a whole new level. […] It should remain a major reference work for archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians for many years to come.” Tania Tribe, SOAS University of London. In: Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 24, N. 3 (2020), pp. 293–295.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors 1 Introduction: The Fieldwork and the Team Víctor M. Fernández 2 The Infrastructure of the Mission: Convents, Palaces, and Temples Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner 2.1 The Jesuit Mission: From Oviedo to Mendes 2.2 Pedro Páez: The Experimental Phase, 1614–21 2.3 João Martins and the Indian Builders: The Patriarchal Phase, 1626–32 2.4 The Mughal Hypothesis 3 The Mission Sites Víctor M. Fernández, Jorge de Torres, Carlos Cañete, and Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Fǝremona 3.2.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.2.2 The Ruins 3.3 The Royal-Missionary Complex of Azäzo-Gännätä Iyäsus 3.3.1 Introduction 3.3.2 The Jesuit Church 3.3.3 The Fortified Enclosure 3.3.4 The Palace-Residence 3.3.5 The Hydraulic Systems 3.3.6 Gännätä Iyäsus after the Jesuits’ Departure 3.3.7 The Material Culture 3.4 Gorgora, the “Phoenix of Ethiopia” 3.4.1 Gorgora in the History of the Jesuit Mission 3.4.2 Locating the Different “Gorgoras” 3.4.3 The Remains of Gorgora Nova 3.4.4 The Church of Gorgora Iyäsus 3.4.5 The Residence 3.4.6 The Material Culture 3.4.7 An Oral History about Gorgora Nova 3.5 Dänqäz 3.5.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.5.2 The Palace 3.5.3 The Cistern 3.5.4 The Church 3.6 Däbsan 3.6.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.6.2 The Ruins 3.7 Särka 3.7.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.7.2 The Church of Virgin Mary 3.7.3 The Fortified Compound 3.7.4 The Main Building or “Palace” 3.7.5 The Subterranean Room or “Prison” 3.8 Ǝnnäbǝse—Märṭulä Maryam 3.8.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.8.2 The Ruins 3.9 Abba Gǝš Fasil (Lǝǧǧä Nǝguś?) 3.9.1 The Historical Data 3.9.2 The Ruins 3.10 Qwälläla 3.10.1 The Historical Data 3.10.2 The Ruins 3.11 Hadaša 3.12 The “Lost” Missions 3.12.1 Tanḵa 3.12.2 Näfaša 3.12.3 Ankaša 3.12.4 Atḵäna 3.12.5 Märäba 3.12.6 Gäbärma 3.12.7 Dǝbarwa 3.12.8 Adegada 4 The Politics of Domination in Missionary and Royal Architecture Carlos Cañete and Jorge de Torres 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Main Traits and Exceptions 4.3 Particular Interests, Global Consequences 4.4 The Material Accommodation of Power 4.5 The Regulation of Manners 4.6 From Materiality to Society 5 Conclusions Victor M. Fernández 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Before the Mission 5.3 Before the Chunambo 5.4 After the Chunambo 5.5 After the Mission: The Origins of Gondärine Architecture 5.6 After the Mission: The “Closure” and Transformation of Jesuit Structures 5.7 A Troubled Legacy 5.8 Conclusions Appendixes 1 The Topography of the Mission Sites Eduardo Martín Agúndez and Víctor del Arco Sanz 2 Three-Dimensional Laser-Scanner Reconstructions Christian Dietz and Gianluca Catanzariti 3 3D Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey at the Azäzo—Gännätä Iyäsus Jesuit Mission Gianluca Catanzariti and Christian Dietz 4 Technical Report on the Construction Materials, State of Conservation, and Restoration Proposals Jorge A. Durán 5 Public Archaeology in Azäzo Jaime Almansa Bibliography Manuscript Sources Printed Sources Secondary Literature Index

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Book SynopsisHow different was the practice of magic in the Latin West from that of the eastern Mediterranean basin? Was it just derivative from Greek practice, or did it have its own originality? The recent discovery of important new curse-tablets in Mainz and in the Fountain of Anna Perenna at Rome has made the question newly topical. This volume contains the first commented editions in English of most of these new texts as well as major surveys of new prayers for justice. Other sections are devoted to the discourse of magic in the West, to the linguistics and aims of cursing, and to the major field of protective and eudaemonic magic up to and including the Visigothic slates and the Celtic loricae. The essays are by well-known scholars in the field as well as by established and younger Spanish scholars.Table of ContentsContributors include: Henk Versnel, Chris Faraone, Matthew Dickie, James Rives, Roger Tomlin, Jürgen Blänsdorf, Marina Piranomonte, Maria Victoria Escribano, and Francisco Javier Fernández Nieto.

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Book SynopsisDestruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th Century France examines the fate of the building stock and prominent ruins of France (especially Roman survivals) in the 19th century, supported by contemporary documentation and archives, largely provided through the publications of scholarly societies. The book describes the enormous extent of the destruction of monuments, providing an antidote to the triumphalism and concomitant amnesia which in modern scholarship routinely present the 19th century as one of concern for the past. It charts the modernising impulse over several centuries, detailing the archaeological discoveries made (and usually destroyed) as walls were pulled down and town interiors re-planned, plus the brutal impact on landscape and antiquities as railways were laid out. Heritage was largely scorned, and identity found in modernity, not the past.Table of ContentsContents Preface Map of France Introduction: Heritage and Identity in 19th Century France 1 The Early Architecture of France Spolia and the Persistence of Re-use Prehistoric Antiquities Roman Sites in France Rome in Imperial Decline After Antiquity Conclusion: Preventable Destruction 2 The Defence of France The Enceintes of Late Antiquity Old Fortifications Cannot Satisfy New Requirements New Requirements: Barracks Le genie de la destruction: The French Military and the Defence of France Servitude et grandeur militaires – and boulevards The Genie in North Africa Conclusion: The Fate of Town Walls and Monuments 3 Technology and Change: Improved Communications Railways Map-making Military and Civil Roads, Canals and Bridges Photography Tourism Conclusion 4 Vandalism, Ignorance, Scholarship, Museums Heritage and Destruction Vandalism Preservation, Conservation, Restoration: The Dilemma Destruction, Resurrection and Vandalism Ignorance: Workmen, Administrators, Proprietors Administration and Destruction The Persistence of Vandalism Money, Speculators, Scholars Conclusion 5 The Organisation of Scholarship and Museums Archaeology and Archaeologists Cataloguing the Past: Censuses of Antiquities Conclusion 6 Modernity and its Architectural Consequences Modernity Communications and Industry Modernisation and Destruction Bordeaux and Paris: Leaders of the Pack Conclusion 7 The Île de France and Champagne Beauvais, Evreux, Reims, Laon, Sens, Soissons Conclusion 8 Normandy, the North, Burgundy and Points East Normandy and The Loire The North The East Burgundy (plus Points East and the Upper Rhone Valley) Conclusion 9 Centre and West Bourges, Auxerre, Orleans, Limoges, Clermont Ferrand, Perigueux, Poitiers, Saintes, Toulouse Conclusion 10 Centuries of Destruction: Narbonne and Nîmes Narbonne Nimes Conclusion 11 Provence and the South: Monumental Losses Arles Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, Dax, St-Lizier, Beziers, Perpignan, Frejus – Cannes – Antibes – Villefranche, Orange, Vaison-la-Romaine Conclusion Conclusion: Heritage? What Heritage? The Transformation of Townscape and Landscape Appendix Bibliography: Sources Bibliography: Modern Scholars Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThe volume presents the results of a detailed survey of north-western Samaria in Israel/Palestine. It is the third volume of the Manasseh Hill Country Survey publications. This project, in progress from 1978 and covering 2500 sq. km, is a thorough mapping of the archaeological-historical area between the River Jordan and the Sharon Plain and between Nahal 'Iron and the Dead Sea. The survey is a valuable tool for scholars of the Bible, Archaeology, Near Eastern history and other aspects of the Holy Land. This volume describes the area between Nahal 'Iron (Wadi 'Ara) in the north and Nahal Shechem (Wadi She'ir) in the south. It is a fully revised and updated version of the Hebrew publication of 2000.Table of ContentsABBREVIATIONS PREFACE PART ONE: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Geographical and Settlement Data CHAPTER TWO Geographical-Historical Identifications PART TWO: DESCRIPTION OF THE SITES CHAPTER THREE Nahal 'Iron (Wadi 'Arah) – Landscape Unit 22 CHAPTER FOUR The Fringes of Jezreel and the Ta'anach Hills – Landscape Unit 23 CHAPTER FIVE Hills of Ya'bad – Landscape Unit 24 CHAPTER SIX The District of Narbatah – Landscape Unit 25 CHAPTER SEVEN The Area of Bal'ah – Landscape Unit 26 GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY PART THREE: APPENDICES AND INDICES

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Book SynopsisIn Mikulčice and Its Hinterland, Marek Hladík presents an archaeological model of social and economic relations in Great Moravia, which is built on an analysis of the settlement structure near one of the most significant centres of Great Moravia, the Mikulčice-Valy agglomeration. The book offers the first systematic and conceptual view of Mikulčice’s relations with its economic hinterland. The author uses multidisciplinary research to interpret and understand the importance of the natural environment for the landscape settlement strategy, and to understand the relations between the fortified centre and its rural surroundings. Important methodological tools used by the author to answer the examined questions include non-destructive archaeological research, statistical modelling, and spatial analyses in the GIS environment.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Theoretical and Methodological Rationale, Research Aims  2.1 Theoretical Rationale of Research  2.2 Research Method  2.3 Object Aims of Research and Tested Hypotheses 3 Structure of Work and Research Methodology  3.1 Definition of Terms  3.2 Research Procedure  3.3 Functional Aims of Research 4 Settlement and Structure of Settlement—Definitions and Limitations  4.1 The Structure of Time—Time Limitation  4.2 Spatial Structure—Geographical Setting of the Studied Area  4.3 Functional Structure 5 Natural Environment (Eco-parameters)  5.1 Natural Environment and Evidence for Land Use  5.2 Hydrology  5.3 Geomorphology  5.4 Geology and Pedology  5.5 Vegetation  5.6 Climate 6 Settlement of the Basin on the Middle Course of the Morava River during the Early Middle Ages—General Model (Tested Hypotheses) and the First Preliminary Model  6.1 History of Research  6.2 State of Research and Source Basis  6.3 General Model (Tested Hypotheses)  6.4 The First Preliminary Model 7 The Settlement in the Southern Part of the Lower Morava Region during the Early Middle Ages (Testing of Models)  7.1 Phase I of Field Activities  7.2 Archaeological Data and the First External Testing of Prediction Models  7.3 Phase II of Field Activities  7.4 Research in the Northern Záhorie Region 8 The Southern Part of the Lower Morava Region during the Early Middle Ages—Syntheses, Interpretations and Models  8.1 Data Synthesis  8.2 Interpretation of Results  8.3 Research Results, Discussion, Settlement as a System and Narrative Model 9 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 5, the authors present their research in the areas of regional survey, salvage excavation, zooarchaeology, ceramic typology, experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. This work illustrates areas threatened and later destroyed by modern development and is a contribution to heritage documentation. These studies illuminate aspects of family and town life in the Iron Age, Roman, Byzantine and Late Ottoman–Early Mandate periods in central Jordan.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables, Charts and Appendices List of Illustrations PART ONE: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY CHAPTER 1. The Site in its Surroundings, P. M. Michèle Daviau and James R. Battenfield CHAPTER 2. Survey, Documentation and Excavation in Fields S and L, James R. Battenfield CHAPTER 3. Survey, Documentation and Excavation in Field M, James R. Battenfield CHAPTER 4. Excavations in Field M: Grape Treading Floor M2 and Cave M13, Jennifer L. Groves, James R. Battenfield and P. M. Michèle Daviau CHAPTER 5. A Roman Period Tomb at Tall Jawa: Excavations in 1994 and 1995, James R. Battenfield, Martin Beckmann, P. M. Michèle Daviau and Margaret A. Judd PART TWO: SPECIAL STUDIES CHAPTER 6. Random Coins and Inscribed Objects, N. J. Johnson, with contributions by Robert Weir and P. M. Michèle Daviau CHAPTER 7. Pottery and Objects from Various Periods, P. M. Michèle Daviau PART THREE: ZOOARCHAEOLEOGY AND ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY CHAPTER 8. Iron Age Animal Management at Tall Jawa, Peter R. W. Popkin CHAPTER 9. Traditional Methods of Cooking: The Evidence from Ethnography and Experimental Archaeology, P. M. Michèle Daviau with contributions by Joanne K. Hasan and Laurie Cowell Chapter 10 . Domestic Ottoman Architecture in Jordan, Susan Ellis PART FOUR: The Tall Jawa Online Archive at http://downloads.wlu.ca/TallJawa5 The Lithic Database and Images, C. M. Foley, U. Liname and P. M. Michèle Daviau The Faunal Database, Appendices and Images, P. R. W. Popkin Database and Illustrations of the Survey and Ethnographic Studies, P. M. Michèle Daviau and Helen Moore Tall Jawa over Time, P. M. Michèle Daviau Comprehensive bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFitful Histories and Unruly Publics re-examines the relationship between Eurasia’s past and its present by interrogating the social construction of time and the archaeological production of culture. Traditionally, archaeological research in Eurasia has focused on assembling normative descriptions of monolithic cultures that endure for millennia, largely immune to the forces of historical change. The papers in this volume seek to document forces of difference and contestation in the past that were produced in the perceptible engagements of peoples, things, and places. The research gathered here convincingly demonstrates that these forces made social life in ancient Eurasia rather more fitful and its publics considerably more unruly than archaeological research has traditionally allowed. Contributors are Mikheil Abramishvili, Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Magnus Fiskesjö, Hilary Gopnik, Emma Hite, Jean-Luc Houle, Erik G. Johannesson, James A. Johnson, Lori Khatchadourian, Ian Lindsay, Maureen E. Marshall, Mitchell S. Rothman, Irina Shingiray, Adam T. Smith, Kathryn O. Weber and Xin Wu.

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Book SynopsisIn Painted Pottery of Honduras Rosemary Joyce describes the development of the Ulua Polychrome tradition in Honduras from the fifth to sixteenth centuries AD, and critically examines archaeological research on these objects that began in the nineteenth century. Previously treated as a marginal product of Classic Maya society, this study shows that Ulua Polychromes are products of the ritual and social life of indigenous societies composed of wealthy farmers engaged in long-distance relationships extending from Costa Rica to Mexico. Drawing on concepts of agency, practice, and intention, Rosemary Joyce takes a potter's perspective and develops a generational workshop model for innovation by communities of practice who made and used painted pottery in serving meals and locally meaningful ritual practices.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Using Pots Chapter One: Forming Intentions Chapter Two: Feasting Families Chapter Three: Telling Stories Chapter Four: Honoring Ancestors Chapter Five: Burying Pots Part Two: Understanding Fragments Chapter Six: Collecting Pots Chapter Seven: Making Time Chapter Eight: Finding Places Chapter Nine: Tracing Boundaries Chapter Ten: Picturing Meaning Epilogue Afterword Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the results of a complete detailed survey of the north-eastern region of Samaria, mainly the northern area of the Jordan Valley, in the territory of Israel/Palestine. It is Volume 4 of the Manasseh Hill Country Survey publications. This project, in progress since 1978 and covering 2500 sq. km, is a thorough, metre-by-metre mapping of the archaeological-historical area between the River Jordan and the Sharon Plain, and between Nahal 'Iron and the north-eastern point of the Dead Sea. This territory is one of the most important in the country from the Biblical and archaeological points of view; and the survey is a valuable tool for scholars of the Bible, Archaeology, Near Eastern history and other aspects of the Holy Land. This volume (covering ca. 250 sq. km) describes the area of the Jordan Valley between Nahal Bezeq (Wadi Shubash) in the north and the Sartaba range in the south. It is a fully revised and updated version of the Hebrew publication of 2005.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface PART ONE: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: Geographical and Settlement Data CHAPTER TWO: The Geographical-Historical Identifications PART TWO: DESCRIPTION OF THE SITES CHAPTER THREE: The Southern Beit She'an Valley – Landscape Unit 27 CHAPTER FOUR: The Narrow Jordan Valley – Landscape Unit 28 CHAPTER FIVE: Nahal Tirzah Floodplain – Landscape Unit 29 CHAPTER SIX: The Sartaba Range and its Surroundings – Landscape Unit 30 GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY PART THREE: APPENDICES AND INDICES APPENDIX A: The Flint Assemblages, by Haim Winter APPENDIX B: Excavations at Bedhat esh-Sha'ab, an Early Iron Age Enclosure in the Jordan Valley: 2002-2003 Excavation Seasons, by Dror Ben-Yose APPENDIX C: Excavations at Yafit (3), an Iron Age Sandal-Shaped Enclosure in the Jordan Valley, by Dror Ben-Yosef APPENDIX D: Excavation at Elevation Point -167 (Site 192): 2007 Season, by Shay Bar. APPENDIX E: The Coin Finds, by Haim Shkolnik and Shay Bar

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the nature of religious change in the Greek-speaking cities of the Roman Empire. Emphasis is put on those developments that apparently were not the direct result of Roman actions: the intensification of idiosyncratically Greek features in the religious life of the cities (Heller, Muñiz, Camia); the active role of a new kind of Hellenism in the design of imperial religious policies (Gordillo, Galimberti, Rosillo-López); or the locally different responses to central religious initiatives, and the influence of those local responses in other imperial contexts (Cortés, Melfi, Lozano, Rizakis). All the chapters try to suggest that religion in the Greek cities of the empire was both conservative and innovative, and that the ‘Roman factor’ helps to explain this apparent paradox.Trade Review''Aesthetically, the book is pleasing. Color pictures are included in the final chapter. The book successfully reaches its goal in spurring discussion and debate regarding religion in the Greek territories under Roman rule. Each of the authors’ contributions could develop into a worthy book. (...) this book is a worthwhile read and contributes to a glaring hole in the historiography of religion in the Greek provinces under Roman rule.'' Kristan Foust, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2018.02.59 "[T]his strong set of papers illustrates nicely how “the religion of the Greek cities of the Roman Empire was both conservative and innovative at the same time, and that many (but not all) changes need the ‘Roman factor’ to be properly accounted for” (...) All students of the Roman East will benefit from taking heed of this volume." Ted Kaizer, Arys 16 (2018).

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Book SynopsisIn Auditive Räume des alten Ägypten Erika Meyer-Dietrich explores the sonic aspects of culture in the 18th Dynasty (1550-1290 BCE). Crucial to the transformation of an audio culture during the Amarna Period are the transfer of traditional sound patterns to new contexts and the position of the heard body in social spaces. Based on the iconography of sonic acting and the representation of urban places as auditive spaces in the rock tombs of Tell el Amarna she convincingly shows how, through sound sequences and the creation or omission of sounds, auditive spaces are given social and religious significance. Her work adds an important new aspect to the understanding of the Amarna Period, which until now has been studied mainly as a visual culture.Table of ContentsVorwort Abbildungsverzeichnis Abgekürzte Literatur Abgekürzte Museen und die Museen der unter dem Städtenamen geführten Objekte Einleitung 1 Der hörbare Körper  1.1 Der lebende hörbare Körper vor der Amarnazeit  1.2 Der hörbare Körper der nachtodlichen Existenz 2 Szenarien nach den Lehren  2.1 Die Rezeption der Lehren  2.2 Die in den Lehren geschilderten Szenarien  2.3 Spacing  2.4 Sinnstrukturen 3 Orientierungslaute in Landschaft und Nekropole  3.1 Hörräume der Landschaft  3.2 Das Talfest – die Stimme des Grabherrn in der Gesellschaft der Lebenden  3.3 Orientierungslaute der Nekropole  3.4 Der Empfang bei einem Gott 4 Der hörbare Körper im Bilddiskurs der Amarnazeit  4.1 Die Ikonographie des Mundes  4.2 Die Daten  4.3 Aufschlüsselung der Daten  4.4 Zusammenfassung und Interpretation der Ergebnisse 5 Achetaten – Lautliches Spacing urbaner Räume  5.1 Die Verteilung der Szenen  5.2 Die Rezeption visualisierter Hörräume der Stadt  5.3 Strukturen des auditiven Spacings urbaner Räume 6 Imaginierte religiöse Hörräume in der Amarnazeit  6.1 Aussagen zur Stimme auf den Grenzstelen  6.2 Gebetsorte im Siedlungsbereich  6.3 Anrufungen an die Grabbesucher 7 Die Umgestaltung einer Hörkultur  7.1 Der Wahrnehmungsraum Grabhalle  7.2 Wahrnehmungsräume des Übergangs  7.3 Wahrnehmungsräume im Siedlungsbereich  7.4 Fazit 8 Die Opetprozession – dynamisches Spacing  8.1 Der Verlauf der Opetprozession  8.2 Der beschallte Raum  8.3 Die Rezeption des Reliefs der Opetprozession Zusammenfassung Anhang Literaturverzeichnis Stellenindex

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Book SynopsisIn the 12th Dynasty (ca. 1985-1773 BC) the Egyptian state sent a number of seafaring expeditions to the land of Punt, located somewhere in the southern Red Sea region, in order to bypass control of the upper Nile by the Kerma kingdom. Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis on the Red Sea coast of Egypt from 2001 to 2011 have uncovered evidence of the ancient harbor (Saww) used for these expeditions, including parts of ancient ships, expedition equipment and food – all transported ca. 150 km across the desert from Qift in Upper Egypt to the harbor. This book summarizes the results of these excavations for the organization of these logistically complex expeditions, and evidence at the harbor for the location of Punt. “[There] is no shortage of analysis relating to the Punt expeditions, much of which is likely to become the new ‘standard’ account of these voyages and of the huge logistical and ideological undertaking they represented. The volume will therefore be of immense value to scholars and students of ancient Egypt, and of ancient seafaring more generally.” - Julian Whitewright, University of Southampton, in: The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 48.2 (2019)Trade Review“[There] is no shortage of analysis relating to the Punt expeditions, much of which is likely to become the new ‘standard’ account of these voyages and of the huge logistical and ideological undertaking they represented. The volume will therefore be of immense value to scholars and students of ancient Egypt, and of ancient seafaring more generally.” - Julian Whitewright, University of Southampton, in: The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 48.2 (2019)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1 Egyptian Long-distance Trade, Pharaonic Expeditions and Direct Control of Sources of Raw Materials in Northeast Africa and the Sinai in the Middle Kingdom  Introduction  Mining Turquoise and Copper in the Sinai  The Harbor Site at Ayn Soukhna  Mining Galena at Gebel Zeit  Mining Gold and Quarrying Stone in the Wadi Hammamat  Nubian Resources and Egyptian Occupation  The Harbor at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis 2 Archaeological Investigations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis  The Pharaonic Harbor at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis  Archaeological Investigations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis  Evidence of Ships and Cargo Boxes  Sealings, Stelae and Ostraca  Ceramics  Stone Tools  Plant and Animal Remains  Environmental Context of the Harbor Site  Chronology of the Harbor Site  Summary: Archaeological and Geological Investigations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis 3 Spatial Use of the Mersa/Wadi Gawasis Harbor in the 12th Dynasty  Overview  The Eastern Terrace  The Harbor  Central Terrace and Western Terrace Top  Western Terrace Slope  Western Terrace Slope, North  Western Terrace Slope, South  Caves 2 and 3  Cave 5  Cave 7 and the Alcove Shrine  Harbor Edge  Production Area  Ramps (slipways?)  Western Terrace, Southern Slope  Beach Area above the Harbor  Stelae Associated with the Gallery-Caves  Spatial Organization of the Harbor of Saww Compared to the Harbors at Ayn Soukhna and Wadi El-Jarf 4 Organization of Mersa/Wadi Gawasis Seafaring Expeditions in the 12th Dynasty: The Textual Evidence  Textual Evidence at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis  Stelae  Cargo Box Inscriptions  Sealings and Papyri  Ostraca  Two Wooden Tags  Dates of Known Expeditions Based on Textual Evidence  Translation by Eugene Cruz-Uribe† of the Hieroglyphic Text of the Ankhu Stela (Eastern Jamb, Central Block, and Western Jamb) Found at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis by A.M. Sayed and Recorded in These Articles 5 Organization of Seafaring Expeditions from Mersa/Wadi Gawasis in the 12th Dynasty: Archaeological Evidence at the Harbor  Archaeological Evidence of Seafaring Expeditions at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis  Shipbuilding  Ship Technology  Ship Wood  Cargo Boxes  Rope/Ship Rigging  Linen: Ship Sails, Caulking(?), and Clothing  Copper Alloy Strips for Ship Timber Fastenings  Other Expedition Supplies: Clothing, Footwear, Camp Furnishings  Egyptian Ceramics at the Harbor Site  Non-Egyptian Ceramics at the Harbor Site  Shelter for Expedition Members  Food Supplies and Storage, Food Processing and Baking/Cooking  Local Production of Stone Tools  Non-Egyptian Stone Tools at the Harbor Site  Summary Appendix: Bread Baking Experiments  Ancient Egyptian Bread Making  Evidence of Bread Making at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis  Experimenting with Middle Kingdom Bread Making  Conclusions 6 Interpreting Ideology at Saww: Ritual Practices, Memorial Shrines, and Commemorative Stelae  Ceremonial Shrines and Commemorative Stelae at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis  Shrines Constructed along the Red Sea Coast  Shrines/Monuments on the Terrace Top Overlooking Wadi Gawasis  The Alcove Shrine along the Western Terrace Slope  Stelae  Stelae in Monumental Structures  Stelae at Mersa Gawasis  Stelae Placed in Niches Carved in the Western Terrace Wall  Use of Stelae at Saww  Mersa/Wadi Gawasis Stelae and the Gods  Archaeology of Ritual and Religion at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis 7 The Land of Punt: A View from Mersa/Wadi Gawasis  Punt and Mersa/Wadi Gawasis  The Land of Punt: Egyptian Evidence  Location of Punt: Natural Resources (Figure 41)  The Land of Punt: Cultural Evidence (Figure 43)  Punt and Bia-Punt, and the Evidence from Mersa/Wadi Gawasis: Inscriptions  Punt and the Evidence from Mersa/WadiGawasis: Paleoethnobotanical Remains and Lithics  Punt and the Evidence from Mersa/Wadi Gawasis: Exotic Ceramics  Location of Bia-Punt and Punt: Ceramic Evidence at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis 8 Long-distance Routes Involved in the Punt Expeditions  Routes from Egypt to Punt/Bia-Punt  The Levant and Maritime Trade with Punt  Land Routes from the Nile Valley to the Red Sea Coast  Sea Route to and from the Southern Red Sea  Land Routes in Punt/Bia-Punt  Maritime Expeditions to Punt/Bia-Punt 9 The 12th Dynasty Punt/Bia-Punt Expeditions from Mersa/Wadi Gawasis References Index

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Book SynopsisWater played an important part of ancient Roman life, from providing necessary drinking water, supplying bath complexes, to flowing in large-scale public fountains. The Roman culture of water was seen throughout the Roman Empire, although it was certainly not monolithic and it could come in a variety of scales and forms, based on climatic and social conditions of different areas. This discussion seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water. The culture of water can be demonstrated through expressions of power, aesthetics, and spectacle. Further there was a shared experience of water in the empire that could be expressed through religion, landscape, and water’s role in cultures of consumption and pleasure.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Editors’ Note Water Culture in Roman Society  Dylan Kelby Rogers  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Ancient Roman Sources on Water  3 Roman Water Management: Administration, Distribution and Legal Regulations  4 Categories of Water Usage: Archaeological Evidence  5 Empire-Wide Trends and Phenomena  6 Water Culture and Its Implications  7 Conclusions  References

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Book SynopsisReading Medieval Sources is an exciting new series which leads scholars and students into some of the most challenging and rewarding sources from the European Middle Ages, and introduces the most important approaches to understanding them. Written by an international team of twelve leading scholars, this volume Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages presents a set of fresh and insightful perspectives that demonstrate the rich potential of this source material to all scholars of medieval history and culture. It includes coverage of major developments in monetary history, set into their economic and political context, as well as innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives that address money and coinage in relation to archaeology, anthropology and medieval literature. Contributors are Nanouschka Myrberg Burström, Elizabeth Edwards, Gaspar Feliu, Anna Gannon, Richard Kelleher, Bill Maurer, Nick Mayhew, Rory Naismith, Philipp Robinson Rössner, Alessia Rovelli, Lucia Travaini, and Andrew Woods.

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Book SynopsisWritten by an international cast of experts, The Materiality of Text showcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and perception: starting with an analysis of the forms of writing and its perception as an act of physical and cultural intervention, the volume moves on to consider the texts’ ubiquity and strategic positioning within epigraphic, literary, and architectural spaces. The contributors rethink modern assumptions about the processes of writing and reading and establish novel ways of thinking about the physical forms of ancient texts.Trade Review"This generously illustrated book is a welcome publication that should reinvigorate the way in which we read and conceptualize epigraphic texts [...]Since this publication includes essays from the field of epigraphy, philology, and history of art and architecture, it should be of great interest to scholars across ancient disciplines. It represents a wide variety of perspectives, each of them pushing the field of epigraphy forward". Hanna Golab Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.06.28. "Oltre alla specificità, un altro punto di forza dell'approccio adottato è la sua multidisciplinarità: storia antica, filologia e archeologia, più giustapposte che in dialogo, forniscono un quadro variegato e coprono un'ampia area, sia geograficamente, sia temporalmente. [...] Il volume ha il merito di ricordarci come nello studio di documenti iscritti, accanto all'esercizio dell'epigrafia come scienza storica, sia utile, e addirittura necessario, affrontare il monumento nella sua complessità. Per questo possiamo essere grati agli autori e agli editori." Filippo Battistoni, Sehepunkte 19 (2019), Nr. 9 [15.09.2019].Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Note on Contributors The Materiality of Text: An Introduction  Andrej Petrovic Part 1: Concepts 1 What is an ἐπιγραφή in Classical Greece?  Athena Kirk 2 The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek Literature  Alexei Zadorojnyi Part 2: Contexts Section 1: Epigraphic Spaces 3 The ‘Spatial Dynamics’ of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and Viewer-Readers  Joseph W. Day 4 Lectional Signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions  Valentina Garulli 5 Erasures in Greek Public Documents  P. J. Rhodes Section 2: Literary Spaces: The Materiality of Text in Greek and Roman Literature 6 The Authority of Archaic Greek Epigram  Donald E. Lavigne 7 Writing, Women’s Silent Speech  Michael A. Tueller 8 Hard Verses and Soft Books: The Materials of Elegy  S. J. Heyworth Section 3: Architectural Spaces 9 The Power of the Absent Text: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Greek Sacred Architecture and Altars  Joannis Mylonopoulos 10 Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of ‘Duplicate’ Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at Aphrodisias  Abigail Graham 11 Layers of Urban Life: A Contextual Analysis of Inscriptions in the Public Space of Pompeii  Fanny Opdenhoff 12 Damnatio Memoriae Inscribed: The Materiality of Cultural Repression  Ida Östenberg 13 Inscriptions between Text and Texture: Inscribed Monuments in Public Spaces – A Case Study at Late Antique Ostia  Katharina Bolle 14 Framing Late Antique Texts as Monuments: The Tabula Ansata between Sculpture and Mosaic  Sean V. Leatherbury Indices Index Locorum Index Nominum Index Rerum

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Book SynopsisOne of the world's oldest treaties provides the backdrop for a new analysis of the Egyptian concept of hetep ("peace"). To understand the full range of meaning of hetep, Peace in Ancient Egypt explores battles against Egypt's enemies, royal offerings to deities, and rituals of communing with the dead. Vanessa Davies argues that hetep is the result of action that is just, true, and in accord with right order (maat). Central to the concept of hetep are the issues of rhetoric and community. Beyond detailing the ancient Egyptian concept of hetep, it is hoped that this book will provide a useful framework that can be considered in relation to concepts of peace in other cultures. Read a recent blog post about the book here.

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Book SynopsisThe excavated foundations of a ninth-century sacral building in the northeastern suburb of Pohansko, an important centre of Great Moravia, and especially the find of the nobleman’s grave H 153, has focused scholarly attention onto the nature of the Mojmirid state and the reasons behind its sudden disintegration. In this volume, a group of archaeologists, historians and a natural scientist aim to incorporate this remarkable discovery into the wider frameworks of Moravian power, society, and culture, and thereby arrive at some surprising conclusions. Contributors: are Stefan Eichert, David Kalhous, Pavel Kouřil, Jiří Macháček, Vladimír Sládek, Ivo Štefan, Martin Wihoda, Roman Zehetmayer.Trade Review"the volume presents a new perspective on the emergence of Central Europe in the ninth century AD". Tomáš König, in Antiquity 94, (2020). "The volume offers valuable discussion on a complex period and region of history and archaeology, asking many more questions en route". Neil Christie, in Medieval Archaeology, 65 (1), 2021.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 The Great Moravian Rotunda at Pohansko and an Osteobiographical Profile of Its Founder  Jiří Macháček and Vladimír Sládek 2 The Austrian Danube Region in the Decades Around 900  Roman Zehetmayer 3 The Magyars and Their Contribution to the Collapse and Fall of Great Moravia or Allies, Neighbours, Enemies  Pavel Kouřil 4 The Second Life of the Mojmirid Dukes  Martin Wihoda 5 Graves, Churches, Culture and Texts: The Processes of Christianisation in the Early Middle Ages and Their Social and Cultural Context  David Kalhous 6 “Founder Tombs” in Early Medieval Carantania: A Survey  Stefan Eichert 7 Great Moravia, the Beginnings of Přemyslid Bohemia and the Problem of Cultural Change  Ivo Štefan 8 Conclusion: Who Was the Man Buried in Grave H153 in Pohansko and What Happened to Him and His Family at the End of Great Moravia?  Jiří Macháček Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Tomb of the Priests of Amun, also known as Bab el-Gasus, was uncovered in 1891 at Deir el-Bahari (Thebes). The site proved to be the largest undisturbed tomb ever found in Egypt, as there were found the intact burials of 153 individuals that lived under the 21st Dynasty (ca. 1069-945 BC). This outstanding find was subsequently divided in lots of antiquities and dispersed by 17 nations. This volume presents the first comprehensive publication of the Italian Lot, kept in the Egyptian Museum of Florence. Besides the formal description of the objects, a critical assessment of the collection is provided regarding the reconstruction of the burial assemblages, the reuse of the burial equipment and the art historical examination of coffin decoration. “Although aimed primarily at specialists, this is a splendid volume and will be easy to use by anyone having an interest in these objects.” -Lester L. Grabbe, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44.5 (2020)Trade Review“Although aimed primarily at specialists, this is a splendid volume and will be easy to use by anyone having an interest in these objects.” - Lester L. Grabbe, in Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2020Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Figures Presentation  M. Cristina Guidotti Shipping Documents and Correspondence Related to the Lot V  M. Cristina Guidotti Part 1 Catalogue Section 1 Coffin Sets  Marianna Zarli and Rogério Sousa Coffin Set of Djedmutiuesankh (A.15) Coffin Set of Tauhenut (A.20) Coffin Set of Khonsumes (A.22) Outer Coffin of an Anonymous Man (A.56) Coffin Set of an Anonymous Woman (A.60) Section 2 Shabtis  Marianna Zarli Section 3 Shabti-Boxes  M. Cristina Guidotti and Deborah Vannucci Part 2 Essays The Reconstruction of the Burial Assemblages  Marianna Zarli Coffin Reuse in the 21st Dynasty: a Case Study of the Bab el-Gasus Coffins in the Egyptian Museum of Florence  Kathlyn Cooney The Coffins from the Tomb of the Priests from an Art Historical Perspective: the Lot V at the Egyptian Museum of Florence  Rogério Sousa Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRecent scholarship has begun to unveil the culturally rich and dynamic landscape of southwest Iran during the first half of the first millennium BCE (aka the Neo-Elamite period) and its significance as the incubation ground for the Persian Empire. In Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors, Yasmina Wicks continues the investigation of this critical epoch from the perspective of the mortuary record, bringing forth fascinating clues as to the ritual practices, beliefs, social structures and individual identities of Elam’s lowland and highland inhabitants. Enmeshed with its neighbours, yet in many ways culturally distinct, Elam receives its due treatment here as a core component of the ancient Near East. “This is an important contribution to the study of Neo-Elamite culture.” -Lester L. Grabbe, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44.5 (2020)Trade Review“This is an important contribution to the study of Neo-Elamite culture.” - Lester L. Grabbe, in Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2020Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Plates List of Tables Abbreviations Alas, Short is the Joy of Life! Why Study Elamite Mortuary Practices? Part 1: The Backdrop: Elam in the First Millennium 1 Neo-Elamite Geography, Chronology, History, and the Textual and Iconographic Evidence Used in this Book  1.1 Geography  1.2 Chronology  1.3 Textual Evidence 1  1.4 Iconographic Evidence  1.5 Historical Overview Part 2: The Mortuary Evidence 2 b>The Burial Evidence  2.1 Lowlands   2.1.1 Susa  2.1.1.1Apadana  2.2 Foothills   2.2.1 Karkhai   2.2.2 Kalantar   2.2.3 Tall-E Gazir   2.2.4 Jubaji   2.2.5 Arjan  2.3 Highlands   2.3.1 Lama   2.3.2 Malyan 3 Burial Location, Typology, Orientation and Body Arrangement  3.1 Location  3.2 Typology   3.2.1 Pit   3.2.2 Amphorae-Lined Pit   3.2.3 Brick   3.2.4 Single Pot   3.2.5 Double Pot   3.2.6 Jar   3.2.7 Mudbrick Vaulted Tomb   3.2.8 Stone-lined, Gabled-Roof Tomb   3.2.9 Stone-Lined, Slab-Roofed Tomb   3.2.10 Bronze “Bathtub” Coffin in a Stone-Built Tomb   3.2.11 Geographical and Chronological Notes on Typology  3.3 Orientation  3.4 Body Arrangement 4 The Assemblages  4.1 The Skeleton  4.2 Costume   4.2.1 Clothing  4.2.1.1 Textiles and Textile Decoration  4.2.1.2 Garment Fasteners: Belts and Pins  4.2.1.3 Visualising Neo-Elamite Clothing   4.2.2 Jewellery  4.2.2.1 Jewellery in Neo-Elamite Funerary Contexts  4.2.2.2 Non-funerary Evidence for Jewellery  4.2.2.3 A Word on the Special Value of Eyestones   4.2.3 Seals   4.2.4 Grooming Utensils and Finishing Touches   4.2.5 Weapons   4.2.6 Ceremonial(?) “Rings”  4.3 Grave Goods: Equipping the Dead   4.3.1 Vessels, Implements and Food Offerings  4.3.1.1 Vessel Categories  4.3.1.2 Vessel Assemblages: Types and Distribution  4.3.1.3 Vessels as Evidence for Ritual in Graves  4.3.1.4 The Menu of the Dead: Food Remains in Graves   4.3.2 Fire Ritual Utensils  4.3.2.1 Lamps  4.3.2.2 Candelabra   4.3.3 Human Representations Part 3: Neo-Elamite Social Identities: Portraits in Graves 5 Social Identity in the Mortuary Record  5.1 Economic Status  5.2 Gender   5.2.1 Elamite Women in Life   5.2.2 Construction of Female Identity in the Neo-Elamite Mortuary Record   5.2.3 Construction of Male Identity in the Neo-Elamite Mortuary Record   5.2.4 Neither Male nor Female? Transcending the Male/Female Dichotomy   5.2.5 Non-Costume Grave Goods   5.2.6 Further Comments  5.3 Childhood  5.4 Individual and Family Identity: Naming the Dead?  5.5 Occupational Identity  5.6 Ceremonial Status and Notes on Two “Princesses” and a “Princely” Grave Part 4: Combining Archaeology and Text: Death, Afterlife and the Neo-Elamite Funeral  6“Alas, Short is the Joy of Life”: Death and the Afterlife through an Elamite Lens  6.1 Down to the House of Darkness: The Realm of the Dead  6.2 Close Encounters with the Netherworld Powers that Be  6.3 A Weighing and Judgement  6.4 When I am Dead You Will Make the kispu for Me  6.5 Temple Institutions and Funerary Cult? 7 Imagining the Neo-Elamite Funeral from Archaeology and Texts  7.1 A Ceremonial Farewell in the Lowlands and Foothills   7.1.1 Choosing a Location   7.1.2 Preparation of a Burial Site and Burial Container   7.1.3 Preparation of the Body   7.1.4 Dressing up the Dead   7.1.5 A Funeral Banquet   7.1.6 A Burial Ceremony   7.1.7 Mourning   7.1.8 Keeping up Relations  7.2 A Highland Funeral  Concluding Note: The Neo-Elamite Period at the Juncture of Old and New  Bibliography  Appendix 1: Table of Neo-Elamite Burials  List of Plates  Index

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Book SynopsisMaterial Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 case studies focusing on the early colonial history and archaeology of indigenous cultural persistence and change in the Caribbean and its surrounding mainland(s) after AD 1492. With a special emphasis on material culture and by foregrounding indigenous agency in shaping the diverse outcomes of colonial encounters, this volume offers new perspectives on early modern cultural interactions in the first regions of the ‘New World’ that were impacted by European colonization. The volume contributors specifically investigate how foreign goods were differentially employed, adopted, and valued across time, space, and scale, and what implications such material encounters had for indigenous social, political, and economic structures. Contributors are: Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma. M. Antczak, Oliver Antczak, Jaime J. Awe, Martijn van den Bel, Mary Jane Berman, Arie Boomert, Jeb J. Card, Charles R. Cobb, Gérard Collomb, Shannon Dugan Iverson, Marlieke Ernst, William R. Fowler, Perry L. Gnivecki, Christophe Helmke, Shea Henry, Gilda Hernández Sánchez, Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Rosemary A. Joyce, Floris W.M. Keehnen, J. Angus Martin, Clay Mathers, Maxine Oland, Alberto Sarcina, Russell N. Sheptak, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Robyn Woodward.Table of ContentsPreface: What’s in a Name?  Charles R. Cobb Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas  Floris W.M. Keehnen, Corinne L. Hofman and Andrzej T. Antczak 2 Colonial Encounters in Lucayan Contexts  Mary Jane Berman and Perry L. Gnivecki 3 Treating ‘Trifles’: the Indigenous Adoption of European Material Goods in Early Colonial Hispaniola (1492–1550)  Floris W.M. Keehnen 4 Contact and Colonial Impact in Jamaica: Comparative Material Culture and Diet at Sevilla la Nueva and the Taíno Village of Maima  Shea Henry and Robyn Woodward 5 European Material Culture in Indigenous Sites in Northeastern Cuba  Roberto Valcárcel Rojas 6 Breaking and Making Identities: Transformations of Ceramic Repertoires in Early Colonial Hispaniola  Marlieke Ernst and Corinne L. Hofman 7 Rancherías: Historical Archaeology of Early Colonial Campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, Venezuela  Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma. Magdalena Antczak and Oliver Antczak 8 Santa María de la Antigua del Darién: the Aftermath of Colonial Settlement  Alberto Sarcina 9 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in Early Colonial El Salvador  William R. Fowler and Jeb J. Card 10 Hybrid Cultures: the Visibility of the European Invasion of Caribbean Honduras in the Sixteenth Century  Russell N. Sheptak and Rosemary A. Joyce 11 Exotics for the Lords and Gods: Lowland Maya Consumption of European Goods along a Spanish Colonial Frontier  Jaime J. Awe and Christophe Helmke 12 Resignification as Fourth Narrative: Power and the Colonial Religious Experience in Tula, Hidalgo  Shannon Dugan Iverson 13 Indigenous Pottery Technology of Central Mexico during Early Colonial Times  Gilda Hernández Sánchez 14 War and Peace in the Sixteenth-Century Southwest: Objected-oriented Approaches to Native-European Encounters and Trajectories  Clay Mathers 15 ‘Beyond the Falls’: Amerindian Stance towards New Encounters along the Wild Coast (AD 1595–1627)  Martijn M. Bel van den and Gérard Collomb 16 Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles: Indigenous Resistance, Material Transformations, and Diversity in an Ever-Globalizing World  Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Arie Boomert and John Angus Martin Epilogue: Situating Colonial Interaction and Materials: Scale, Context, Theory  Maxine Oland Index

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Book SynopsisReligion in Ephesos Reconsidered provides a detailed overview of the current state of research on the most important Ephesian projects offering evidence for religious activity during the Roman period. Ranging from huge temple complexes to hand-held figurines, this book surveys a broad scope of materials. Careful reading of texts and inscriptions is combined with cutting-edge archaeological and architectural analysis to illustrate how the ancient people of Ephesos worshipped both the traditional deities and the new gods that came into their purview. Overall, the volume questions traditional understandings of material culture in Ephesos, and demonstrates that the views of the city and its inhabitants on religion were more complex and diverse than has been previously assumed.Trade Review"[Der] reich bebilderte Band, [sei] allen, die sich für die religiöse (Um-)Welt der frühen Christinnen und Christen in Ephesos interessieren, nachdrücklich empfohlen." - Klaus-Michael Bull, Rostock, in: TLZ 146 (2021) 9Table of ContentsContents List of Plans and Figures Notes on Contributors General Plans Introduction PART 1: Structures 1 The So-Called Imperial Cult Temple for Domitian in Ephesos  Sabine Ladstätter 2 The Architecture of the So-Called Serapeion in Ephesos  Thekla Schulz 3 Thekla in the Cave of St. Paul at Ephesos  Renate Johanna Pillinger 4 Selected Evidence of Christian Residents in Late Antique Ephesos  Andreas Pülz Part 2: Spaces 5 The Upper Agora at Ephesos: an Imperial Forum?  Dirk Steuernagel 6 The Magnesian Gate of Ephesos  Alexander Sokolicek 7 Mortuary Landscape and Group Identity in Roman Ephesos  Martin Steskal 8 Sacred Space for Dionysos in Ephesos and the House of C. Fl. Furius Aptus  Hilke Thür 9 The Artemision in the Roman Era: New Results of Research within the Sanctuary of Artemis  Lilli Zabrana 10 Invisible ‘Christians’ in the Ephesian Landscape: Using Geophysical Surveys to De-Center Paul  Christine M. Thomas Part 3: Objects 11 Ruler Cults and Imperial Cults at Ephesos: First Century BCE to Third Century CE  François Kirbihler 12 Archaeological Evidence for Private Worship and Domestic Religion in Terrace House 2 at Ephesos  Norbert Zimmermann 13 The Meaning and Use of Terracotta Figurines in the Terrace Houses in Ephesos  Elisabeth Rathmayr Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book discusses the history and the archaeology of Jerusalem in the Roman period (70-400 CE) following a chronological order, from the establishment of the Tenth Roman Legion’s camp on the ruins of Jerusalem in 70 CE, through the foundation of Aelia Capitolina by Hadrian, in around 130 CE, and the Christianization of the population and the cityscape in the fourth century. Cemeteries around the city, the rural hinterland, and the imperial roads that led to and from Aelia Capitolina are discussed as well. Due to the paucity of historical sources, the book is based on archaeological remains, suggesting a reconstruction of the city's development and a discussion of the population’s identity.Trade Review"Weksler-Bdolah has done a wonderful job in sketching a clear picture of the development of Jerusalem’s/Aelia’s topography and landscape. The many figures and especially the beautifully produced colored maps make that picture even more vibrant." - Jan Willem Drijvers, University of Groningen, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.09.35 "À notre connaissance, aucun ouvrage récent ne livre à la communauté internationale une synthèse aussi complète des fouilles archéologiques concernant l’époque romaine dans Jérusalem depuis le 19e siècle jusqu’à nos jours. À chaque fois qu’il en est question, les références des rapports des fouilles sont données en note de bas de page, afin de s’y référer à volonté. Ne serait-ce que pour cette raison, l’ouvrage de S. Weksler-Bdolah est indispensable à tout archéologue ou historien s’intéressant à l’archéologie de Jérusalem, fût-elle romaine ou autre. [...] Pour conclure, nous insistons pour répéter la grande qualité de l’ouvrage de Sh. Weksler-Bdolah appelé à devenir un livre de référence." - Dominique-Marie Cabaret, in: Revue Biblique 2021 - T. 128-3 (pp. 404-421)Table of ContentsPreface / Foreword List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 Chronological and Historical Framework  2 History of Research  3 Sources of Information for the Investigation of Aelia Capitolina 2 The Camp of the Legion X Fretensis  1 The Camp’s Fortifications and Related Structures  2 Structures, Roads and Installations inside the Camp  3 The Roman Dump on the Slopes of the Southwestern Hill  4 A Few Comments Relating to the Army in Aelia Capitolina 3 Aelia Capitolina  1 The Foundation of the Colony  2 The Urban Layout: The City Gates  3 Streets and Plazas  4 The Buildings of Aelia Capitolina 4 Aelia Capitolina in the Fourth Century  1 The Expansion of the City’s Limits  2 The Construction of a Wide-Circumference City Wall  3 The Identity of the Population  4 The Christianization of the Cityscape  5 Aelia/Hierosolyma in the Fourth Century: Summary and Conclusions 5 Water Supply: Cisterns, Pools and Aqueducts 6 The City’s Cemeteries  1 The Northern Cemetery  2 The South and Southwest Cemeteries  3 The East Cemetery 7 The Rural Hinterland of Aelia Capitolina  1 The Imperial Roads  2 Military Sites in the Rural Hinterland of Aelia Capitolina  3 Settlements and Residential Buildings  4 Rural Cemeteries  5 Road Stations 8 The City and Its Population 70 CE–c. 400 CE: Discussion and Summary  1 From Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina—Aspects of Change and Continuity  2 The Urban Development of Aelia Capitolina In Light of Archaeological Research, a Synthesis  3 Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects 33 papers that were presented at the international conference held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in November 2015 to celebrate the centenary of Bedřich Hrozný’s identification of Hittite as an Indo-European language. Contributions are grouped into three sections, “Hrozný and His Discoveries,” “Hittite and Indo-European,” and “The Hittites and Their Neighbors,” and span the full range of Hittite studies and related disciplines, from Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics and cuneiform philology to Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, history, and religion. The authors hail from 15 countries and include leading figures as well as emerging scholars in the fields of Hittitology, Indo-European, and Ancient Near Eastern studies.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction Part 1: Hrozný and His Discoveries 1 Hrozný’s Excavations at Kültepe and the Resurrection of a Bronze Age Palace  Gojko Barjamovic 2 Hrozný’s Excavations, 1924–1925: Sheikh Sa’ad, Tell Erfad  Jan Bouzek 3 Hrozný and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphic Luwian  J.D. Hawkins 4 Bedřich Hrozný and the Aegean Writing Systems: An Early Decipherment Attempt  Artemis Karnava 5 A Fruitful Collaboration between E. Sellin and B. Hrozný during his Viennese Years: The Cuneiform Texts from Tell Taanach and Their Impact on Syro-Levantine Studies  Regine Pruzsinszky Part 2: Hittite and Indo-European 6 Consonant Clusters, Defective Notation of Vowels and Syllable Structure in Caromemphite  Ignasi-Xavier Adiego 7 Tagging and Searching the Hittite Corpus  Dita Frantíková 8 The Phonetics and Phonology of the Hittite Dental Stops  Alwin Kloekhorst 9 Über die hethitische 3. Sg. Präsens auf -ia-Iz-zi  Martin Joachim Kümmel 10 The Word for Wine in Anatolian, Greek, Armenian, Italic, Etruscan, Semitic and Its Indo-European Origin  Reiner Lipp 11 Satzanfänge im Hethitischen  Rosemarie Lühr 12 Hittite Historical Phonology after 100 Years (and after 20 Years)  H. Craig Melchert 13 MUNUS/fduttarii̯ata/i- and Some Other Indo-European Maidens  Veronika Milanova 14 One Century of Heteroclitic Inflection  Georges-Jean Pinault 15 From Experiential Contact to Abstract Thought: Reflections on Some Hittite Outcomes of PIE *steh2- ‘to stand’ and *men- ‘to think’  Marianna Pozza 16 Hittite Syntax 100 Years Later: The Case of Hittite Indefinite Pronouns  Andrei V. Sideltsev 17 Das unerwartete in der altassyrischen Nebenüberlieferung hethitischer Wörter  Zsolt Simon 18 The Personal Deictic Function of Hittite kāša, kāšma and kāšat(t)a: Further Evidence from the Texts  Charles W. Steitler 19 Lycian Erimñnuha  Jan Tavernier 20 The Indo-European Feminine, the Neuter, and the Diagnostic Value of the τὰ ζῷα τρέχει rule in Greek and Anatolian  Annette Teffeteller 21 Sidetisch – Ein Update zu Schrift und Sprache  Christian Zinko and Michaela Zinko Part 3: The Hittites and Their Neighbors 22 The LÚ.MEŠ SAG and Their Rise to Prominence  Tayfun Bilgin 23 Virginity in Hittite Ritual  Billie Jean Collins 24 Venus in Furs: Sappho fr. 101 Voigt between East and West  Alexander Dale 25 A Problem of Meaning: Variations in Hittite Landscape as Narrated in the Sun-god’s mugawar (CTH 323)  Romina Della Casa 26 „Fehler“ und Fehlschreibungen in hethitischen Texten  Susanne Görke 27 Personennamen der hethitischen Großreichszeit als Quellen religiöser Verhältnisse  Manfred Hutter 28 Die Gottheit Nikarawa in Karkamiš  Sylvia Hutter-Braunsar 29 From Nerik to Emar  Patrick M. Michel 30 The Last Foothold of Arzawa: The Problem of the Location of Puranda and Mount Arinnanda Revisited  Rostislav Oreshko 31 Phrygia and the Near East  Maya Vassileva 32 The Disappearance of Telipinu in the Context of Indo-European Myth  Roger D. Woodard 33 Foreign Medical Knowledge in Ḫattuša: The Transmission and Reception of Mesopotamian Therapeutic Texts in the Hittite World  Valeria Zubieta Lupo Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit Mary Buck takes a new approach to the field of Amorite studies by considering whether the site of Ugarit shares close parallels with other sites and cultures known from the Bronze Age Levant. When viewed in conjunction, the archaeological and linguistic material uncovered in this study serves to enhance our understanding of the historical complexity and diversity of the Middle Bronze Age period of international relations at the site of Ugarit. With a deft hand, Dr. Buck pursues a nuanced view of populations in the Bronze Age Levant, with the objective of understanding the ancient polity of Ugarit as a kin-based culture that shares close ties with the Amorite populations of the Levant. "The author covers a contentious area of scholarship with confidence and competence, and has produced a convincing case for the Amorite origins of Bronze Age Ugarit." -Nick Wyatt, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44.5 (2020) The Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Harvard Semitic Studies and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.Trade Review“At every stage, the discussion gives a full account of scholarship on all the main points of controversy, and recognises the limitations of our knowledge so far. The study concludes with two appendices, a list of Amorite personal names, and an Amorite lexicon. The author covers a contentious area of scholarship with confidence and competence, and has produced a convincing case for the Amorite origins of Bronze Age Ugarit.” - Nick Wyatt, in Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2020Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 History of the Site of Ugarit  1.2 Methodological Approach  1.3 Material and Linguistic Sources: An Interdisciplinary Approach to History  1.4 Uncharted Areas and Blind Spots: Aim and Trajectory of the Present Study 2 Amorites, Canaanites, and the Emergence of Urbanism  2.1 Introduction  2.2 Interpretations for the Patterns of Urbanism  2.3 The Genetic Classification of Ugaritic in the Semitic Language Tree  2.4 The Historical Convergence of Material Culture and Linguistic Subgrouping 3 Methodology and Terminology  3.1 Archaeological Corpus, Methodology, and Definitions  3.2 Historical Terminology  3.3 Linguistic Corpus, Methodology, and Definitions  3.4 Linguistic Terminology  3.5 Conclusion 4 The Amorite Cultural Koiné  4.1 Archaeological Overview  4.2 Middle Bronze IIB-Late Bronze I Material Assemblage of Ugarit  4.3 The Amorite Material Koiné 5 Northwest Semitic in the Bronze Age Levant  5.1 Introduction  5.2 Methodological Challenges  5.3 Methodological Approach  5.4 Central Semitic  5.5 Northwest Semitic  5.6 Aramaic and Canaanite Subbranches  5.7 Historical Evidence for the Canaanite Languages  5.8 Unique Features of Western Amorite  5.9 The Genetic Subgrouping of Western Amorite  5.10 Western Amorite Onomastic Evidence for the Middle Bronze Pantheon  5.11 Conclusion 6 Conclusion  6.1 Historic Emergence of Ugarit, Canaan, and the Amorites  6.2 Middle Bronze Age Material Assemblage of Ugarit  6.3 Development of the Northwest Semitic Languages in the Bronze Age  6.4 The Local Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Conclusions  6.5 Legacy of Complexity: Historical Implications Appendix A: Western Amorite Corpus Appendix B: Western Amorite Lexicon Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery, the excavation team provides crucial information about the Old Kingdom and Graeco-Roman Egypt. While both periods have been heavily studied, Kerry Muhlestein and his contributors provide new archaeological information that will help shape thinking about these eras. The construction and ritual features of the early Fourth Dynasty Seila Pyramid represents innovations that would influence royal funerary cult for hundreds of years. Similarly, as one of the largest excavated cemeteries of Egypt, Fag el-Gamous helps paint a picture of multi-cultural life in the Fayoum of Egypt during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Excavations there provide a statistically impactful understanding of funerary customs under the influence of new cultures and religion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustration  Introduction  Kerry Muhlestein  1 The Fayoum, the Seila Pyramid, Fag el-Gamous and its Nearby Cities  Kerry Muhlestein, Cannon Fairbairn, and Ronald A. Harris  2 History of the Excavations at Fag el-Gamous and the Seila Pyramid  Kerry Muhlestein and Bethany Jensen  3 Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Ritual Ramifications  Kerry Muhlestein  4 Ritual Objects from the Northern Side of the Seila Pyramid  Kerry Muhlestein, Brian D. Christensen and Ronald A. Harris  5 Death of a Common Man  Kerry Muhlestein and Cannon Fairbairn  6 The Mummy Portraits of Fag el-Gamous  Bethany Jensen and Kerry Muhlestein  7 An Introduction to the Textiles of Fag el-Gamous: The Use of Basket Weave Linen in Burials of the Necropolis of Fag el-Gamous  Kristin H. South  8 Textiles and Jewelry at Fag el-Gamous  Joyce Y. Smith, Kerry Muhlestein, and Brian D. Christensen  9 They’ll Never Be Royals: The “Purple” Textiles of Fag el-Gamous  Bethany Jensen, R. Paul Evans, Giovanni Tata, and Kerry Muhlestein  10 A Paleopathological Pilot Study of the Fag el-Gamous Cranial Collection  Casey L. Kirkpatrick  11 Fag el-Gamous Pottery with “Kill Holes”  Kerry Muhlestein, Brian D. Christensen, and Cannon Fairbairn  12 Report on Botanical Macro Remains at the Fag el-Gamous Necropolis  Terry B. Ball and Kerry Muhlestein  13 The Fag el-Gamous Papyrus Fragment  Lincoln H. Blumell  14 Philadelphia: A Preliminary Report  John Gee  15 A Complete List of Publications about the Fag el-Gamous Necropolis and Seila Pyramid Excavations by Members of the BYU Egypt Excavation Team (Including Those from the Year that I.E.S. Edwards Was Part of the Team, and Those Resulting from Work at Kom Aushim)  Bethany Jensen and Masen Williamson

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Book SynopsisIn Mittani Palaeography, Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from the Late Bronze Age Mittani state, which was situated in the region between modern Aleppo, Erbil and Diyarbakır. The ancient communication network reveals a story of local scribal tradition blended with regional adaptation and international political change, reflecting the ways in which written knowledge travelled within the cuneiform culture of the Middle East. Mittani signs, their forms, and variants, are described and defined in detail utilising a large digital database and discussed in relation to other regional corpora (Assyro-Mittanian, Middle Assyrian, Nuzi and Tigunanum among others). The collected data indicate that Mittanian was comparatively standardised – an innovation for the period – signifying the existence of a centralised system of scribal training.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together scholarship from many disciplines, including history, heritage studies, archaeology, geography, and political science to provide a nuanced view of life in medieval Ireland and after. Primarily contributing to the fields of settlement and landscape studies, each essay considers the influence of Terence B. Barry of Trinity College Dublin within Ireland and internationally. Barry’s long career changed the direction of castle studies and brought the archaeology of medieval Ireland to wider knowledge. These essays, authored by an international team of fifteen scholars, develop many of his original research questions to provide timely and insightful reappraisals of material culture and the built and natural environments. Contributors (in order of appearance) are Robin Glasscock, Kieran O’Conor, Thomas Finan, James G. Schryver, Oliver Creighton, Robert Higham, Mary A. Valante, Margaret Murphy, John Soderberg, Conleth Manning, Victoria McAlister, Jennifer L. Immich, Calder Walton, Christiaan Corlett, Stephen H. Harrison, and Raghnall Ó Floinn.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Publications by T.B. Barry Notes on Contributors Introduction  Victoria L. McAlister and Linda Shine PART 1: Reappraising Watery Settlement 1 Moated Sites in Ireland: The Current State of Knowledge  Kieran O’Conor 2 Castle Strategy and the Rock of Lough Key  Thomas Finan and James G. Schryver 3 Form, Function and Fluidity in Castles: Water and Fortification in Medieval Britain  Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham PART 2: Rethinking Material Culture 4 Power and Literacy in Viking-Age Dublin  Mary Valante 5 Possessions, Luxury Objects, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland  Margaret Murphy 6 Zooarchaeological Views into Late Medieval Ireland  John Soderberg PART 3: Settlement and Landscape Afterlives 7 The Decline of the Settlement at Clonmacnoise  Conleth Manning 8 What Is Lost Can Be Found: History and Geographical Information Systems as Tools for Identifying Deserted Medieval Rural Settlement  Victoria L. McAlister and Jennifer Immich 9 Intelligence and Landscapes: Past, Present, and Future  Calder Walton PART 4: Settlements in the Medieval and Modern Landscape 10 Stagonil, Powerscourt Demesne, County Wicklow: A Sub Manor of the Archbishop of Dublin  Christiaan Corlett 11 Arklow and the Cistercians: A Medieval Borough and Manor Reconsidered  Stephen H. Harrison 12 The End of Lagore: Later First Millennium CE, Medieval, Post-medieval and Modern Activity on an Early Medieval Royal Site  Raghnall Ó Floinn Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book concerns the ancient rock-cut monuments carved throughout the Near East, paying particular attention to the fate of these monuments in the centuries after their initial production. As parts of the landscapes in which they were carved, they acquired new meanings in the cultural memory of the people living around them. The volume joins numerous recent studies on the reception of historical texts and artefacts, exploring the peculiar affordances of these long-lasting and often salient monuments. The volume gathers articles by archeologists, art historians, and philologists, covering the entire Near East, from Iran to Lebanon and from Turkey to Egypt. It also analyzes long-lasting textual traditions that aim to explain the origins and meaning of rock-cut monuments and other related carvings.Trade Review"The volume’s contents are thus wide-ranging and the main message to learn is that ancient rock-cut monuments triggered vivid yet very varied reactions throughout their existence. (...) The editors’ intent to consider the “afterlives” of monuments in this inclusive way is to be praised" - Marc Van De Mieroop, Columbia University, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.04.26 "This is an interesting collection on how inscriptions were interpreted before modern scholarship and who was interested in doing so." - Lester L. Grabbe, in The Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2022 “The volume’s contents are thus wide-ranging and the main message to learn is that ancient rock-cut monuments triggered vivid yet very varied reactions throughout their existence. (…) The editors’ intent to consider the “afterlives” of monuments in this inclusive way is to be praised, and I hope that the chapters that do so successfully will inspire others to pursue the same path.” - Marc Van De Mieroop, Columbia University, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.04.26.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Felipe Rojas and Jonathan Ben-Dov 2 Entangled Images: Royal Memory, Posthumous Presence, and the Afterlives of Assyrian Rock Reliefs  Karen Sonik and David Kertai 3 Narrating Temporality: Three Short Stories about Egyptian Royal Living-Rock Stelae  Jen Thum and Anne-Claire Salmas 4 Forgetting an Empire, Creating a New Order: Trajectories of Rock-Cut Monuments from Hittite into Post-Hittite Anatolia, and the Afterlife of the “Throne” of Kızıldağ  Lorenzo d’Alfonso and Matteo Pedrinazzi 5 A Carving in Antioch: History, Magic, Antiquarianism, Archaeology  Felipe Rojas 6 Herodotus and Empire: Ancient Near Eastern Monuments and Their Cultural Recycling in Herodotus’ Histories  Robert Rollinger 7 Sculpting in Time: Rock Reliefs, Inscriptions and the Transformation of Iranian Memory and Identity  Matthew P. Canepa 8 Éminences grises: Emergent Antiquities in Seventeenth-Century Iran  Lindsay Allen and Moya Carey 9 Neo-Babylonian Rock Reliefs and the Jewish Literary Imagination  Jonathan Ben-Dov 10 Translatio studii: Stelae Traditions in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Byzantium  William Adler 11 The Long History of an Imaginary Inscription: Josephus’s Two Pillars in Early Modern European Histories of Astronomy  John Steele Index

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Book SynopsisThe book presents the results of a complete detailed archaeological survey of parts of Eastern Samaria. It is Volume 6 of the Manasseh Hill Country Survey series of publications. This territory is one of the most important in the country from the archaeological, Biblical and other points of view, and the survey is a valuable tool for scholars of the Bible, archaeology, Near Eastern history and other aspects of the Holy Land.

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Book SynopsisThis archaeological study investigates the meaning of the Egyptian and egyptianising artefacts that have been preserved from the Roman world in different ways. Its point of departure is a detailed study on the so-called Nilotic scenes or Nilotic landscapes. The book presents a comprehensive and illustrated catalogue of the genre that was popular all around the Mediterranean from the Hellenistic period to the Christian era as well as a contextualisation and interpretation. Drawing on the conclusions thus reached the whole group of Aegyptiaca Romana is subsequently studied. Based on a general overview of this material in the Roman world and, moreover, a case-study of the Aegyptiaca from the city of Rome the different meanings of this cultural phenomenon are mapped. Together with other Egyptian deities popular in the Roman world, the goddess Isis plays an important role in this discussion. Aegyptiaca Romana, among them the Nilotic scenes, are part of the reflection of the Roman attitude towards and thoughts on Egypt, Egyptian culture and the East. The concluding part of the book illustrates and tries to explain this Roman discourse on Egypt.Trade Review'Aegyptiaca Romana brings together a large amount of important material […] Versluys has provided not only a convenient repository of Nilotic scenes but also a new perspective on Egypt in Rome.' P.J. Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2003 'Vorbildlich ist die Behutsamkeit, mit der verschiedene Ansätze aus der kulturwissenschaftlichen Debatte zu Identität und Alterität (z.B. Kolonialismus, Orientalismus) zu den Belegen gestellt und auf IhreTragfähigkeit in diesem Zusammenhang untersucht werden. Beeindruckend ist außerdem die Souveränität, mit der die enorme Menge der Belege und der Sekundärliteratur zum Thema der Aegyptiaca gehandhabt wird. Grundsätzlich weiterführend und, wie mir scheint, für einen Teil zumal der jüngeren archäologischen Forschungen durchaus paradigmatisch ist ein Bewußtsein für die geistes- und wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Bedingtheit von Interpretationen und für die Notwendigkeit kontextueller Interpretation archäologischer Funde.' M. Haase, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte. 2003 'L’étude de Versluys fait prevue de grandes qualités intellectuelles: un discours prudent, la volonté de resituer un problème dans un cadre beaucoup plus large [..], finesse de l’analyse, volonté de comparatisme avec d’autres époques, large inventaire des Aegyptiaca de Rome, excellente connaissance de la bibliographie. [..] l’effort courageux d’une jeune chercheur qui a pris, à bras le corps, un sujet aussi complexe.' M. Malaise, Chronique d’Égypte, 2003 'The great merit of this fascinating book is that wide-ranging and original thinking is constantly informed by the results of sound empirical research. [..] Even a lengthy summary would do no justice to the author’s wealth of insights and vividness of thought [..]. Aegyptiaca Romana will certainly become the standard of reference for Nilotic scenes, but it can also serve as an exemplum of how our silent archaeological witnesses can be made to speak in a variety of fresh and captivating discussions.' R.A. Tybout, Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2003 'The book is well written, well argued, and the product of deep research. [..] This is a sensitive and intelligent account, full of valuable insights.' J. Elsner, Journal of Roman Studies, 2003 'I applaud his thorough catalogue and survey of the study of Aegyptiaca; in this aspect Versluys leaves few stones unturned.' J.R. Clarke, New England Classical Journal, 2004 'His aim is to highlight shades of meaning rather than search for an (one) answer. The overall result is a stimulating addition to the subject. [..] Versluys’ book is one of the most thought –provoking archaeologically. It has the potential to motivate new and exciting forays in this field.' C. Vout, Ancient West & East, 2005 '... précision de vocabulaire, clarté de l’expression, ampleur de réflexion, richesse de la documentation. [..] la somme des connaissances et la richesse de la documentation rendront le livre indispensable à tous les spécialistes de la mosaïque, de la peinture et des rapports de l’Égypte avec Rome.' H. Lavagne, L’Antiquité Classique, 2005 'This is not only a very useful book but also a thought provoking one. [..] One hopes his book, with its persuasive insights and promise, will therefore inspire more comprehensive explorations of Roman systems of visual signification.' S.E. Hijmans, Bulletin Antieke Beschaving, 2006

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Book SynopsisThe diffusion of the cults of Isis is recently again intensively studied. Research on this fascinating phenomenon has traditionally been characterised by its focus on L'Égypte hors d'Égypte, while developments in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself were often seen as belonging to a different domain. This volume tries to overcome that unhealthy dichotomy by studying the cults of Isis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself in relation to developments in the Mediterranean at large. The book not only presents an overview of the most important deities, often based on new or unpublished material, but also pays ample attention to the cultural processes behind Isis on Nile, like relations between style and identity, religious choice, social- and cultural memory and Egypt’s view of its own past.Table of ContentsContributors include: Pascale Ballet, Laurent Coulon, Françoise Dunand, Geneviève Galliano , Angelo Geissen, Olaf Kaper, Pierre Koemoth, Michel Malaise, Frederick Naerebout, Klaus Parlasca, Kyriakos Savvopoulos, Marjorie Venit, Miguel John Versluys, Youri Volokhine

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Book SynopsisFlourishing in the centuries around the birth of Christ, the Nabataean kingdom covered a large swathe of the north-western Arabian Peninsula and was shaped by cultural influences from the Mediterranean, Arabian and wider Semitic worlds. The Religious Life of Nabataea examines the inscriptions, sculptures and architectural remains left by worshippers in every corner of the kingdom, from the spectacular remains of the desert city of Petra to the fertile plains of southern Syria. While previous scholarly approaches have minimised the diversity of cultic practices and traditions found in Nabataea, this study reveals a vibrant religious landscape dominated by a variety of local traditions.Trade Review"Alpass displays a good grasp of the material and manages to present it clearly and coherently, as well as exploring current issues and debates concerning the topic." Lucy Wadeson, Université Libre de Bruxelles, STRATA: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, Vol. 32 "This volume examines the religious, social, and geographical background of the Nabataean kingdom that covered a large swathe of the northwestern Arabian peninsula and flourished around the 1st-centuries B.C. and A.D." New Testament Abstracts 58:2

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive monographic treatment of the New Kingdom (1539–1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara, the burial ground of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and addresses questions fundamental to understanding the site’s development through time. For example, why were certain areas of the necropolis selected for burial in certain time periods; what were the tombs’ spatial relations to contemporaneous and older monuments; and what effect did earlier structures have on the positioning of tombs and structuring of the necropolis in later times? This study adopts landscape biography as a conceptual tool to study the long-time interaction between people and landscapes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Plates and Tables Abbreviations 1 A Quiet and Desolate Plateau, Once Bustling with Life  1.1 Introduction  1.2 The ‘Walking Dead’ at Saqqara  1.3 Problems and Research Questions  1.4 A Few Notes on Landscape Archaeology  1.5 Landscape Biography  1.6 Structure of This Study 2 Exploring Landscape: Layerdness, Temporality, Authorship  2.1 The Layered Landscape  2.2 Landscape and Temporality  2.3 Landscape’s Temporal Paradox  2.4 The Landscape Connecting Moments in Time  2.5 Landscape Authorship  2.6 Pitfalls of Desired Life-Paths  2.7 Landscape, Temporality, and Heritage Practices  2.8 Landscape and Social Norms 3 The Memphite Necropolis at Saqqara in the New Kingdom  3.1 Topography of the North Saqqara Plateau and Its Eastern Escarpment  3.2 The North Saqqara Wadi’s: A Network of Desert Roads  3.3 The River Nile and Its Changing Floodplain  3.4 A Scattered Cemetery?  3.5 The Necropolis as a Space Inhabited by the Living and the Dead  3.6 A Myriad of Tomb Numbering Systems (and Their Absence)  3.7 Introducing a New Tomb Numbering System for the Saqqara New Kingdom Necropolis  3.8 Memphite Tombs and Tomb Clusters Not Included in This Study 4 The Unas South Cemetery  4.1 Extent of the Cemetery  4.2 History of Excavation  4.3 Notes on the Site before the New Kingdom  4.4 The New Kingdom before the Amarna Period  4.5 The Expanding Cemetery in the Reign of Amenhotep III  4.6 The Amarna Period  4.7 Post-Amarna Period: Reign of Tutankhamun  4.8 Excursus: The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb  4.9 Transition of the 18th to the 19th Dynasty  4.10 The Cemetery’s Lateral Growth in the Early 19th Dynasty  4.11 Reign of Ramesses II, First Half  4.12 Reign of Ramesses II, Second Half  4.13 The ‘Labyrinth’ at Its Most Complex: Towards the End of the New Kingdom 5 The Teti Pyramid Cemetery and the Cliff of Ankhtawy  5.1 Setting the Scene  5.2 A New Kingdom Cemetery Founded on the Remains of the Old Kingdom  5.3 Methodological Problems with Virtually Recreating a Largely Lost Cemetery  5.4 Notes on the Extent of the Cemetery  5.5 A Cemetery of Pit-Burials  5.6 Evidence for Above-ground Markers of Pit-Burials  5.7 The Earliest Evidence for Tomb Chapels: Reign of Amenhotep III  5.8 Late 18th Dynasty: Amarna and Post-Amarna Period  5.9 Ramesside Period  5.10 Rock-Cut Tombs in the Cliff of Ankhtawy 6 The Dead and the Living in the Memphite Cultural Landscape  6.1 The Place of the Tomb in the Memphite Cultural Landscape  6.2 The Sokar Festival at Memphis  6.3 From Object to Landscape: The Sokar Festival and the Stela of Ptahmose (mma 67.3)  6.4 The Cemetery En Route to the Serapeum  6.5 Temples of Millions of Years and Their Relationship to the Necropolis  6.6 On Wadi’s and Pyramid Causeways: Accessing the Teti Pyramid Cemetery  6.7 Closing Note on the Landscape of the Living East of the Teti Pyramid Cemetery and the Cliff of Ankhtawy 7 Saqqara through the New Kingdom: Synthesis and Final Thoughts  7.1 A Cultural Landscape Forever in the Making  7.2 Unas South Cemetery  7.3 Teti Pyramid Cemetery and the Cliff of Ankhtawy Catalogue of New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together the work of scholars from disparate fields of enquiry, this volume provides a timely and stimulating exploration of the themes of transmission and translation, charting developments, adaptations and exchanges – textual, visual, material and conceptual – that reverberated across the medieval world, within wide-ranging temporal and geographical contexts. Such transactions generated a multiplicity of fusions expressed in diverse and often startling ways – architecturally, textually and through peoples’ lived experiences – that informed attitudes of selfhood and ‘otherness’, senses of belonging and ownership, and concepts of regionality, that have been further embraced in modern and contemporary arenas of political and cultural discourse. Contributors are Tarren Andrews, Edel Bhreathnach, Cher Casey, Katherine Cross, Amanda Doviak, Elisa Foster, Matthias Friedrich, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Aideen Ireland, Alison Killilea, Ross McIntire, Lesley Milner, John Mitchell, Nino Simonishvili, and Rachael Vause.Table of ContentsContents List of Plates List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors Introduction  Megan Henvey and Amanda Doviak Part 1: Translating Text, Image and the Material across the Medieval World 1 Unconquered Rome? Translating the Visual in Early Medieval Material Culture  Matthias Friedrich 2 Grasping the Cross: Transforming the Body and Mind in Early Medieval England  Rachael Vause 3 Crossing and Re-crossing; Translating and Transmitting. The ‘Art of the Archipelago’  Jane Hawkes 4 Transmitted in Stone: Church Organisation in Early Christian Ireland  Megan Henvey 5 Finding Dewisland: Hagiography and Landscape in Gerald of Wales’ Vita Davidis Episcopi Menevensis  Ross McIntire Part 2: The Power of Transmission: Images and Ideas across the Medieval World 6 Adapting the Ascension: Transmitting Visual Languages on the Leeds Cross  Amanda Doviak 7 Transmitting Sacred Authority through Stone: The Clematius Inscription and Cologne’s Cult of the Holy Virgins  Cher Casey 8 Images of Identity at the Edge of Empires: The Visual Concept of Power in Medieval Georgia in the Second Half of the 10th Century  Nino Simonishvili 9 Abul-Abbas and All That: Visual Dynamics between the Caliphate, Italy and the West in the Age of Charlemagne  John Mitchell 10 Ecce Videns Arabes Se: Revisiting the Question of Islamic Influence at Le Puy Cathedral  Elisa A. Foster 11 Ingrediente Domino In Sanctam Civitatem: The Golden Gate in Jerusalem and Its Echoes in 12th-Century Christendom  Lesley Milner Part 3: Transmission and Translation: Medievalists and Medievalisms 12 Cacophony in C: Custodian, Curator and Collector. Sir William Betham’s Collecting and Redistribution of Medieval Manuscripts  Aideen M. Ireland 13 Through a ‘Celtic’ Mist: The Translation of Sacred Places into Theatre Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland  Edel Bhreathnach 14 Beyond the Pale: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf as Postcolonial Translation  Alison Elizabeth Killilea 15 From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler Colonialism  Tarren Andrews 16 ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Artefacts in English ‘World’ Museums, 1851–1906  Katherine Cross Index

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