Archaeology by period / region Books
Brill Aelia Capitolina – Jerusalem in the Roman Period: In Light of Archaeological Research
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
£112.00
Brill Excavations at Mendes: Volume 2 The Dromos and Temple Area
Book SynopsisThe second volume of Excavations at Mendes furthers the publication of our archaeological work at the site of Tel er-Rub’a, ancient Mendes, in the east central Delta. Mendes is proving to be one of the most exciting sites in the Nile Delta. Occupied from prehistoric times until the Roman Period, Mendes reveals the nature of a typical Late Egyptian city, its distribution of economy, and demography. The discoveries reported on in this volume were wholly unexpected, and bear meaning fully on Ancient Egyptian history: these include the prosperity and size of the original Old Kingdom city, the major contributions of Ramesses II and Amasis to the monumental nature of the city, and the role of the city in the period c. 600–100 B.C. as an entrepot for Mediterranean trade.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Contributors 1 The Site of Tel er-Rub’a: The Lie of the Land Donald B. Redford 2 Rock & Mineral Analysis Clair R. Ossian 3 The Naqada III-First Intermediate Period Stratification Matthew J. Adams 4 The T-A Vaults Donald B. Redford 5 Human Remains From the Temple Area George R. Milner 6 The New kingdom Pylon Foundation Deposits Alicia Daneri Rodrigo 7 Temple T (Field T) Donald B. Redford and Susan Redford 8 The Foundation Deposits of Temple T Susan Redford 9 The Organic and Other Materials of the Temple T Foundation Deposits DeeAnne Wymer 10 The Northwestern Harbor (Field F) Donald B. Redford Plates
£141.60
Brill Hrozný and Hittite: The First Hundred Years
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
£242.40
Brill The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels
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
£236.00
Brill Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag
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
£166.40
Brill Byblos in the Late Bronze Age: Interactions between the Levantine and Egyptian Worlds
Book SynopsisIn Byblos in the Late Bronze Age, Marwan Kilani reconstructs the “biography” of the city of Byblos during the Late Bronze Age. Commonly described simply as a centre for the trade of wood, the city appears here as a dynamic actor involved in multiple aspects of the regional geopolitical reality. By combining the information provided by written sources and by a fresh reanalysis of the archaeological evidence, the author explores the development of the city during the Late Bronze Age, showing how the evolution of a wide range of geopolitical, economic and ideological factors resulted in periods of prosperity and decline. 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.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 Aims of the Book 2 Structure of the Book 2 Sources – Archaeological Evidence 1 Archaeological Sources – Overview 2 The City – Buildings and Organization 3 Archaeological Evidence – Elaboration of the Data 3 Archaeological Evidence – Quantitative Analyses 1 Introduction 2 Mycenaean Pottery – Distribution and Spatial Density 3 Egyptian Scarabs – Distribution and Spatial Density 4 Spindle Whorls and Loom Weights – Distribution and Spatial Density 5 Egyptian Objects and Inscribed Blocks from Byblos 4 Archaeological Evidence – Sectors and Areas of Interest 1 Introduction 2 The Tower Temple 3 The Temple of the Lady of Byblos 4 The Obelisk Temple 5 The Chapel of Ramses II 6 The Temples of Byblos – Discussion 7 Necropolis K 8 The Royal Tombs and the Area of the Palace 9 The Nahr El-Kalb 5 Written Sources 1 Thutmose III 2 From Amenhotep II to the Amarna Period 3 The Amarna Period 4 The Late Eighteenth and the Early Nineteenth Dynasties 5 Ramses II and the Nineteenth Dynasty 6 The End of the Late Bronze Age 7 Other Sources 6 Byblos in the Late Bronze Age – Biography of a City 1 Introduction 2 Geographical and Geopolitical Layout 3 Economy and Economic Landscape 4 Society in Byblos 5 Ideology 6 Byblos in the Late Bronze Age Appendixes A Software B Online Supplement 1 GitHub Repository – Content C Identification of the Late Bronze Age Layers 1 Definition of the Theoretical Framework 2 Definition of the Terminus Sub Quo and Terminus Super Quem 3 Figures References Index Index of Cited Texts and Passages
£188.00
Brill The City Gate in Ancient Israel and Her Neighbors: The Form, Function, and Symbolism of the Civic Forum in the Southern Levant
Book SynopsisIn The City Gate in Ancient Israel and Her Neighbors, Daniel A. Frese provides a wide-ranging portrayal of one of the most prominent social institutions in the kingdoms of the southern Levant during the Iron II period: the use of the city gate as a hub for numerous and diverse civic functions. The book provides an up-to-date description of the architecture of gate complexes based on archaeological evidence, and a systematic description of the many functions of the gate seen in hundreds of texts from the Hebrew Bible and the broader ancient Near East. The final chapters of the book discuss the conceptual significance of gates in Israelite culture, based on idiomatic and symbolic gate terminology in the Hebrew Bible.Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction 1Sources, Goals, Methodology 2Goals of the Present Study 3Synchronic Analysis 4The Hebrew Bible 5Archaeological Data 6Assyrian Reliefs 7Gates and the Rural Population of Ancient Israel 8Corpus of Gates Section 1: Gate Architecture 1Gatehouse Architecture: the Ground Floor 1Building Materials 2“Gatehouse” in the Hebrew Bible 3Gatehouse Passage and Chambers 4Gatehouse Doors 5Posts and Pivots 6Metal Bands 7Thresholds 8Locking the Gate 2Gatehouse Architecture, Part 2: the Upper Floor 1Ceilings 2Doorways 3Windows 4The Second Floor 5The Gatehouse Roof 6Towers 3The Architectural Purpose of the Gatehouse 1Three Sets of Doors? 2Emergency Blockage? 3Guardrooms? 4Horse Hitching Stalls? 5The Architectural Function of Piers and Chambers 6Metrological Data 7Contemporaneous Architecture in the Southern Levant 8Stacked Broad Rooms 9Middle Bronze Gatehouse Architecture 4The Use of the Gatehouse 5Gate Complexes and City Planning 1Plazas 2Number and Location of Gates 3Water Drainage 4Considerations Affecting Gate Size and Building Materials 5Public Works in the Gate Complex Section 2: Gate Functions 6The Gate as a Public Space 1Public Notice 2Public Assembly and Public Address 3Display of Corpses or Body Parts 4Public Humiliation 5Propaganda 6Privacy in the Gate 7The City Council in the Gate 1Elders, Kings, and Honor in the Gate 2Legal Transactions in the Gate 3Judicial Proceedings in the Gate 4Punishment in the Gate 5Governmental Functions in the Gate 8Other Gate Functions 1Cultic Functions in the Gate 2Commercial Use of the Gate 3Agricultural Functions in the Gate 4Military Functions of the Gate 5Indirect Entry Gates 6Social Functions of the Gate Section 3: Figurative Gates And Gate Symbolism 9Figurative Gates 1“Gates” in the D Source 2The Entrance to the Tabernacle Courtyard 3The Desert Encampment “Gate” 4Other Figurative Uses of שער 5Possible Figurative Uses of שער 6“Entering” and “Exiting” at the City Gate 10Gate Symbolism 1Monarchs and Building Projects 2New States, New Buildings 3City on a Hill 4Designed to Impress 5Conspicuous Consumption 6The Gate as a Symbol of Community Well-Being 7Gates and Prophetic Discourse 11Gates as Boundaries 1Gates and Liminality 2Gates as Literal and Symbolic Boundaries 3Magic and Ritual at the Gate 4Dangerous Gateways? 5Evaluation of Liminality Summary and Conclusion Appendix A: Chart of Gatehouse Dimensions Appendix B: Chart of Average Gatehouse Dimensions Appendix C: Plans of Gates in Corpus Bibliography Index
£172.80
Brill Mittani Palaeography
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.
£172.00
Brill Public Baths and Bathing Habits in Late Antiquity: A Study of the Evidence from Italy, North Africa and Palestine A.D. 285-700
Book SynopsisIn this book Sadi Maréchal examines the survival, transformation and eventual decline of Roman public baths and bathing habits in Italy, North Africa and Palestine during Late Antiquity. Through the analysis of archaeological remains, ancient literature, inscriptions and papyri, the continued importance of bathhouses as social hubs within the urban fabric is demonstrated, thus radically altering common misconceptions of their decline through the rise of Christianity and elite seclusion. Persistent ideas about health and hygiene, as well as perpetuating ideas of civic self-esteem, drove people to build, restore and praise these focal points of daily life when other classical buildings were left to crumble.Trade Review"This book will be a welcome reference resource to scholars interested in the intersection between society and the urban built environment in the Late Antique Roman world. [...] This is a work of reference which interested academics will find to be a welcome resource for understanding Late Antique built environments. Maréchal pays strict attention to space and time and casts a very wide net for the types of data catalogued in this volume. The eight urban case studies in particular offer a comprehensive view of Late Antique cities as spaces that constantly changed alongside the needs of their residents. Maréchal keeps his readers cognizant that this study covers well-trodden ground—indeed the introduction even opens with the question ‘Why Baths Again?’—but the study’s strengths lie in the meticulous manner in which the data has been collected. By assembling data from hundreds of archaeological reports, standardizing representations of their plans, supplementing them with maps and colour photographs, and summarizing their findings in English, this volume significantly increases accessibility for non-specialist scholars to all manner of evidence for one of the most defining features of life in Late Antique cities". Douglas Whalin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, June 2021.Table of ContentsForeword List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Why Baths Again? General Aims and Outline of the Research Geographical Framework Chronological Framework Methodology and Sources The Structure of the Book Notes on Terminology Notes on Abbreviations 1 General Introduction to Roman Baths and Earlier Research on Late Antique Baths General Introduction to Roman Baths and Bathing Habits Technology of the Baths The Functioning of the Heating System Water Management of Baths Decoration Popularity of Bathhouses Earlier Research on Late Antique Baths 2 Written Evidence of Baths Late Antique Literature Legal Documents Epigraphic Evidence Papyrological Evidence 3 Archaeological Evidence Introduction Rome Ostia Cuicul Thamugadi Carthage Sufetula Ptolemais Scythopolis Archaeological Evidence of Early Hammams 4 Continuity and Change in Late Antique Public Baths and Bathing Habits Architecture Bath Technology Public Baths and Their Contexts Decay or Continuity of Baths and Bathing Habits Epilogue—The Transition to the Hammams General Concluding Remarks and Prospects for Future Research Appendix 1: Late Antique Inscriptions Mentioning Baths Introduction Inscriptions from the Italian Peninsula Inscriptions from North Africa Inscriptions from Palestina Appendix 2: Late Antique Papyri Mentioning Baths Appendix 3: Lists of Late Antique Baths, Possible Baths and Continued Use of Baths Glossary Bibliography Primary Sources Modern Sources Gazetteer Introduction Key to the General Plans Baths in the Italian Peninsula, Sicily and Sardinia Baths in Roman North Africa New Construction Baths in Cyrenaica Baths in Egypt Ecclesiastical Baths Fortress Baths Baths in Palestina Index Late Antique Archaeology
£208.80
Brill Rethinking Medieval Ireland and Beyond: Lifecycles, Landscapes, and Settlements, Essays in Honor of T.B. Barry
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
£134.40
Brill Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean
Book SynopsisIn Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. This broad chronological and geographical canvas demonstrates how our modern concepts of religion and economy were entangled in the ancient world. By taking material culture as a starting point, the volume examines the ways that landscapes, architecture, and objects shaped the pilgrim’s experiences, and the manifold ways in which economy, belief and ritual behaviour intertwined, specifically through the processes and practices that were part of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage over the course of more than 1,500 years.Table of ContentsPreface Author Biographies List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 Embedded Economies of Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen part 1: Movements 2 Movement, Labour and Devotion: a Virtual Walk to the Sanctuary at Mount Kasios Anna Collar 3 Braided Networks: Pilgrimage and the Economics of Travel Infrastructure in the Late Antique Holy Land Marlena Whiting part 2: Communities 4 Gathering in the Panhellenic Sanctuary at Delphi: an Archaeological Approach Hélène Aurigny 5 Hellenistic Festivals: Aspects of the Economic Impact on Cities and Sanctuaries Marietta Horster 6 Housing Pilgrims in Late Antiquity: Patrons, Buildings, and Services Robin M. Jensen part 3: Transactions 7 The Monetisation of Sacrifice F.S. Naiden 8 ‘What Will You Give Me?’: Narratives of Religious Exchange Esther Eidinow 9 Space, Exchange and the Embedded Economies of Greek Sanctuaries Troels Myrup Kristensen 10 Pricing Salvation: Visitation, Donation and the Monastic Economies in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt Louise Blanke 11 Do ut des: the Function of Eulogiai in the Byzantine Pilgrimage Economy Max Ritter part 4: Sociological and Comparative Perspectives 12 Festivals, Fairs and Foreigners: Towards an Economics of Religion in the Mediterranean Longue Durée Barbara Kowalzig 13 Gods of Trust: Ancient Delos and the Modern Economics of Religion Dan-el Padilla Peralta Index
£164.80
Brill Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur
Book SynopsisIn Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, CHEN Fei conducts a full investigation into that king list, which records all the kings of Assyria and Babylonia in contemporary pairs from the 18th to the 7th century BC. The texts of all the exemplars of the Synchronistic King List are reconstructed anew by the existing studies and the author’s personal collations on their sources, and part of the text of the main exemplar is thus revised. The author also looks into the format of the Synchronistic King List and draws the conclusion that the Synchronistic King List was composed by Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, to support his Babylonian policy.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 King Lists in Mesopotamia 2 The Synchronistic King List from Ashur 3 Research Review on the Synchronistic King List 4 Main Arguments of This Study 2 The Texts of the Synchronistic King List 1 A.117 2 KAV 10 3 KAV 13 4 KAV 9 5 KAV 11 6 KAV 12 7 A.118 3 The Format of the Synchronistic King List 1 Comparisons between the Synchronistic King List and the Other King Lists 2 Comparisons between A.117 and the Other Exemplars of the Synchronistic King List 3 The Arrangement of the Parallel Pairs of Kings in A.117 4 The Composition of the Synchronistic King List 1 The Date of the Synchronistic King List 2 The Beginning Entry of A.117 3 The Number of Kings Listed in A.117 4 The Use of “MIN” 5 The Meanings of “Ummânu” 6 The Implications of “King of Akkad” 5 The Purpose of the Synchronistic King List 1 Studies on the Purposes of Some Other King Lists 2 Previous Propositions on the Purpose of the Synchronistic King List 3 A Tentative Solution to the Purpose of the Synchronistic King List: the Babylonian Policy of Ashurbanipal 6 Conclusion Appendix I: A List of Assyrian Kings Appendix II: A List of Babylonian Kings Appendix III: The Selected Synchronistic Kings of Assyria and Babylonia in the Lacunae of A.117 Bibliography Plates
£150.40
Brill The Egyptian Elite as Roman Citizens: Looking at Ptolemaic Private Portraiture
Book SynopsisIn The Egyptian Elite as Roman Citizens Giorgia Cafici offers the analysis of private, male portrait sculptures as attested in Egypt between the end of the Ptolemaic and the beginning of the Roman Period. Ptolemaic/Early Roman portraits are examined using a combination of detailed stylistic evaluation, philological analysis of the inscriptions and historical and prosopographical investigation of the individuals portrayed. The emergence of this type of sculpture has been contextualised, both geographically and chronologically, as it belongs to a wider Mediterranean horizon. The analysis has revealed that eminent members of the Egyptian elite decided to be represented in an innovative way, echoing the portraits of eminent Romans of the Late Republic, whose identity was surely known in Egypt.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Map Abbreviations Introduction 1 Ptolemaic Portraiture: Historical Prejudice and Previous Research 1 Project’s Motives and Objectives 2 History of Research 3 Methodology 4 Terminology and Conventions 2 Contextualising Ptolemaic Private Portraiture 1 Egypt between Greece and Rome 2 Ptolemaic Private Sculpture between Local Tradition and Artistic Innovation 3 Egyptian Portraiture and Its Coeval Mediterranean Context 3 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture: Stylistic, Archaeological and Prosopographical Analysis 1 Materials 2 Dimensions and Proportions 3 Statue Forms 4 Iconography 5 Treatment of the Face 6 Treatment of the Body 7 Dorsal Support 8 Inscriptions 9 Bases 10 Rework and Usurpation 11 Individuals 12 Provenance 4 Analysis, Interpretation and Dating 1 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture and Roman Republican Portraiture: Defining a Relationship 2 Sculptures without Realistic Traits 3 Sculptures Dated to the Early Ptolemaic Period and Statues of Uncertain Date 4 Conclusion 5 Catalogue 1 Introduction to the Catalogue 2 IP 3 UP Appendix 1: ‘Alexandrian’ Portraits of the First Century BC Appendix 2: Egyptian Antecedents of the Roman Republican Verism Appendix 3: Map of Egypt Bibliography Index
£224.00
Brill Middle Kingdom Palace Culture and Its Echoes in the Provinces: Regional Perspectives and Realities
Book SynopsisThe chapters of Middle Kingdom Palace Culture and Its Echoes in the Provinces discuss the degree of influence that provincial developments played in reshaping the Egyptian state and culture during the Middle Kingdom. Contributors to the volume are Egyptologists from around the world who have developed their research following a conference held at the University of Jaén in Spain.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphics and Tables Introduction Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Antonio J. Morales 1 The Funerary Chambers of Sarenput II and the Destruction of His Outer Coffin José M. Alba Gómez 2 Regional Differences in Pottery Repertoires: Two Case Studies of Early and Late Middle Kingdom Ceramic Assemblages Bettina Bader 3 The “Prince’s Court Is like a Common Fountain”: Middle Kingdom Royal Patronage in the Light of a Modern Sociological Concept Martina Bardonova 4 Sinuhe: Popular Hero, Court Politics, and the Royal Paradigm Miroslav Bárta and Jiří Janák 5 A Wood Workshop at Meir at the Beginning of the Middle Kingdom: The Case of the Wooden Models Gersande Eschenbrenner-Diemer 6 The Burial in Qubbet el-Hawa of a Woman Named Sattjeni Luisa M. García González 7 Some Remarks on a Multidimensional Approach to the Unique Spells of the Coffin Texts Carlos Gracia Zamacona 8 The Non-use of Titles in the Early Middle Kingdom Wolfram Grajetzki 9 “Co-regencies” in the First Upper Egyptian Nome during the Twelfth Dynasty Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Juan Carlos Sánchez-León 10 The Issue of Residence and Periphery in the Middle Kingdom: Surveying the Delta Eva Lange-Athinodorou 11 The Craft of the Non-mechanically Reproducible: Targeting Centres of Faience Figurine Production in 1800–1650 BC Egypt Gianluca Miniaci 12 Opening the Vision of Osiris Sarenput: A Contextual and Typological Analysis of the Coffin of Sarenput the Younger from Qubbet el-Hawa Antonio J. Morales 13 Elite Tombs at the Residence: The Decoration and Design of Twelfth Dynasty Tomb Chapels and Mastabas at Lisht and Dahshur Adela Oppenheim 14 Middle Kingdom Settlement Geography at the First Cataract Cornelius von Pilgrim 15 Tombs and Objects of the Middle Kingdom in the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmosis III in Luxor Myriam Seco Álvarez and Javier Martínez Babón 16 The Holders of the Titles šmsw nswt and šmsw pr-ꜥꜣ Danijela Stefanović 17 Djoser’s Complex as a Source of Inspiration for the Decoration of Private Coffins in the Middle Kingdom Harco Willems Index
£203.20
Brill Contextualizing Jewish Temples
Book SynopsisJewish temples stood in Jerusalem for nearly one thousand years and were a dominant feature in the life of the ancient Judeans throughout antiquity. This volume strives to obtain a diachronic and topical cross-section of central features of the varied aspects of the Jewish temples that stood in Jerusalem, one that draws on and incorporates different disciplinary and methodological viewpoints. Ten contributions are included in this volume by: Gary A. Anderson; Simeon Chavel; Avraham Faust; Paul M. Joyce; Yuval Levavi; Risa Levitt; Eyal Regev; Lawrence H. Schiffman; Jeffrey Stackert; Caroline Waerzeggers, edited by Tova Ganzel and Shalom E. Holtz.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction Tova Ganzel and Shalom E. Holtz 2 The Sacred Bureaucracy of Neo-Babylonian Temples Yuval Levavi 3 Priestly Courses and the Administration of Time in Neo-Babylonian Temples Caroline Waerzeggers 4 The Priestly Sabbath and the Calendar: between Literature and Material Culture Jeffrey Stackert 5 Between the House of the Father and the House of the Lord: Privacy and Purity in the Israelite Dwelling and the Israelite Temple Avraham Faust 6 Literary Artistry and Divine Presence Gary A. Anderson 7 Yahweh Become a Temple? MT Ezekiel 11:16 מִקְדָּ֣שׁ מְעַ֔ט Revisited Simeon Chavel 8 On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Heavenly and Earthly Temple in Ezekiel 40–48 Paul M. Joyce 9 The Temple Scroll and Mishnah Middot: a Literary Comparison Lawrence H. Schiffman 10 Why Did the Early Christians Care about the Temple after 70 CE? The Case of the Gospel of Matthew Eyal Regev 11 Divine Presence in the Absence of the Temple Risa Levitt Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Subjects
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Brill Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East: Carvings in and out of Time
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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Brill The Manasseh Hill Country Survey Volume 6: The Eastern Samaria Shoulder, from Nahal Tirzah (Wadi Far'ah) to Ma’ale Ephraim Junction
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.
£107.20
Brill Aegyptiaca Romana: Nilotic Scenes and the Roman Views of Egypt
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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Brill Isis on the Nile. Egyptian Gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt: Proceedings of the IVth International Conference of Isis Studies, Liège, November 27-29 2008
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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Brill The Religious Life of Nabataea
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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Brill The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom: Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape
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
£92.00
Brill Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture
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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Brill Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality and Other Digital Humanities in Egyptology
Book SynopsisThis volume of collected studies takes stock of most recent developments in Egyptology and the Digital Humanities, considering future directions for the application of new technologies in Egyptology. The book presents the results of an international conference held in 2019 at Indiana University – Bloomington, in which Egyptologists and digital humanists with interest in Egyptology gathered in 2019 to present current projects in 3D modeling, virtual and augmented reality, game technology, digital pedagogy, database projects, computational and corpus linguistics and E-publications. Those projects, along with a selection of others that were not presented in Bloomington, are now described and discussed in this volume.Table of ContentsPreface: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Ancient Egypt—New Technology Acknowledgments 1 Ethics of Digital Representation in Egyptology Willeke Wendrich 2 The Contribution of Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics to the Study and Preservation of Monuments in Alexandria, Egypt Mohammed Abdelaziz and Mohamed Elsayed 3 The Digital Rosetta Stone Project Miriam Amin, Angelos Barmpoutis, Monica Berti, Eleni Bozia, Josephine Hensel and Franziska Naether 4 Mythological Landscapes and Real Places: Using Virtual Reality to Investigate the Perception of Sacred Space in the Ancient City of Memphis Nevio Danelon and David J. Zielinski 5 “Mythophor”: A Digital Tool for the Collection and Analysis of Mythical Metaphor in Ancient Egypt Katja Goebs 6 Mapping the Ancient Mind: iClassifier, a New Platform for Systematic Analysis of Classifiers in Egyptian and Beyond Haleli Harel, Orly Goldwasser and Dmitry Nikolaev 7 Not Just Another Photogrammetry Report: Using Modern Technology to Help Solve Ancient Riddles Mark D. Janzen and Terrence J. Nichols 8 The 3D Digital Documentation of Shaft K24 in Saqqara Matthias Lang, Ramadan Hussein, Philippe Kluge 9 Digital Archaeology and Ancient Egypt: Reflections on the Results of the 2017 el-Hibeh Digital Archaeology Project Jean Li, with contributions by Jimmy Tran and Devin Ostrom 10 Digitizing and Annotating Ancient Egyptian Coffins: The Book of the Dead in 3D Rita Lucarelli and Mark-Jan Nederhof 11 Photogrammetry and Face Carvings: Exploring the ‘Face’ of the Egyptian Anthropoid Coffins by 3D-Modelling Stefania Manieri 12 VÉgA (Vocabulaire de l’Égyptien Ancien): A New Definition of a Dictionary Anaïs Martin 13 The Egyptian Road Most Taken: Mapping the Least Cost Path Routes from the Nile to the Red Sea Coast Morgan E. Moroney 14 Secondary Epigraphy in Egypt: A Case for a Research Infrastructure Hana Navratilova 15 SIGSaqqâra: A Digital Project to Understand the Spatial Occupation of Saqqara Éloïse Noc 16 ‘Where Did THAT Come From?!’ The Giza Project’s Development of Citation and Referencing Documentation for 3D Archaeological Visualizations Nicholas Picardo 17 All Words and No Play: Identifying Paronomasia in New Kingdom Texts with Pattern Matching Julia Viani Puglisi and Daniel Dakota 18 Gaining New Perspectives on the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak through the Use of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Other Emerging Techniques Jean Revez, Peter J. Brand, Emmanuel Laroze and Owen Murray 19 Representing Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions of the Old Kingdom Digitally: Dynamic Visualizations of Poetic Form and Inscriptional Layout Julie Stauder-Porchet 20 Puzzling Tombs: Virtual Reconstruction of the Middle Kingdom Elite Necropolis at Dayr al-Barsha (Middle Egypt) Toon Sykora, Roberto De Lima, Marleen De Meyer, Maarten Vergauwen and Harco Willems 21 Project Croato-Aegyptica (2002–2020) Mladen Tomorad and Goran Zlodi 22 Virtual Reality Storytelling: Pedagogy and Applications Julia Troche and Eve Weston 23 Cleo—the Artificial Intelligence Egyptology Platform Heleen Wilbrink and Joshua Aaron Roberson Index
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Brill Ancient Egyptian Clothing: Studies in Late Period
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive analysis of clothing in Late Period Egypt (750 to 332 BC) through a comparison of representations on reliefs, paintings, and statues to preserved textiles, and supplemented by references in ancient texts. It shows the historical evolution of clothing that extends far beyond the Late Period. The book reveals the influence of archaism and innovation, as well as how clothes reflect geography, ethnicity, and social roles. It provides some new criteria for dating and interpretation of representations through careful examination of changes in Egyptian fashion. The resulting work is of value to anyone studying dress in ancient Egypt and other areas of the ancient world.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations How to Use This Book Notes on the Transliteration and Transcription of Egyptian Names and Words 1 Introduction: Researching Late Period Egyptian Clothing 1.1 Purpose of the Study 1.2 Difficulties and Challenges: Preliminary Observations 1.3 Private Clothing / Non-royal Clothing 1.4 Chronological Framework 1.5 Corpus of Visual Sources and Their Limitations 1.6 Methods and Methodology 2 Ancient Egyptian Garments 2.1 Two Groups of Egyptian Garments 2.2 Linen and Egyptian Garments 2.3 Represented vs. Excavated Garments 2.4 Reading Ancient Egyptian Garments from Iconographic and Archaeological Sources 2.5 Nomenclature of Egyptian Clothing 2.6 Analysis of Rendered Garments 3 Male Clothing 3.1 Kilts—Introduction 3.2 Hip-Cloth (Open Kilt) 3.3 Short and Long Kilts 3.4 High-Waisted Kilt 3.5 Other Kilts 3.6 Shendjyt (Kilt Type 6) 3.7 Sashes 3.8 Tunic and Single-Strap Undergarment 3.9 Pelt Vestment 3.10 Shawls and Cloaks 4 Female Clothing 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Women in Late Period Art 4.3 Dresses before the Late Period 4.4 Wraparound Dresses (Type 1) 4.5 Wraparound Dress Tied under Breast (Type 2) 4.6 Bead-Net Dress (Type 3) 4.7 Tunics (Type 4) 4.8 Conclusion 5 Final Conclusions 6 Tables—Catalogue of Analyzed Objects 6.1 Hip-Cloth (Chapter 3.2): Tables 6.2 Short and Long Kilt (Chapter 3.3): Tables 6.3 High-Waisted Kilt (Chapter 3.4): Tables 6.4 Other Kilts (Chapter 3.5): Tables 6.5 Shendjyt (Chapter 3.6): Tables 6.6 Sashes (Chapter 3.7): Tables 6.7 Tunics and Single-strap Undergarment (Chapter 3.8): Tables 6.8 Pelt Vestment (Chapter 3.9): Tables 6.9 Cloaks and Shawls (Chapter 3.10): Tables 6.10 Wraparound Dresses (Types 1) (Chapter 4-4): Tables 6.11 Wraparound Dress (Type 2) (Chapter 4-5): Tables 6.12 Bead-net Dress (Type 3) (Chapter 4-6): Tables 6.13 Tunic (Type 4) (Chapter 4-7): Tables Appendix 1: Typology of Late Period Clothing Appendix 2: Chronology Bibliography Index Plates List of Copyrightholders
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Brill The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions
Book SynopsisThis book approaches the religion and rituals of the pre-Islamic Arabian nomads using the Safaitic inscriptions. Unlike Islamic-period literary sources, this material was produced by practitioners of traditional Arabian religion; the inscriptions are eyewitnesses to the religious life of Arabian nomads prior to the spread of Judaism and Christianity across Arabia. The author attempts to reconstruct this world using the original words of its inhabitants, interpreted through comparative philology, pre-Islamic and Islamic-period literary sources, and the archaeological context.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Sigla 1 Introduction 1 Religion and the Inscriptions of the Pre-Islamic Nomads: From Thamudic B to Safaitic 2 Scope and Methodology 2 Rites 1 Animal Sacrifice 2 Erection of the nṣb Stone 3 The Ritual Shelter 4 The Pilgrimage 5 Ritual Purity 6 Offerings 7 Vows and Oaths 8 Sacred Water 3 Divinities and Their Roles in the Lives of Humans 1 Location of the Deities 2 The Gadds 3 The Gods and Their Worshippers 4 Sin, Obedience, and Repentance? 5 Malignant Magic 4 Fate 5 Afterlife 1 Burial Installations 2 Invoking the Names of the Dead 6 Visual Representation of Deities and the Divine World 7 Amplification and Why Write 8 Worldview—A Reconstruction Appendix 1: Glossary of Divinities Appendix 2: Previously Unpublished Inscriptions Bibliography Index
£95.20
Brill The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān: A Description and Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation
Book SynopsisThis work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Maps and Tables Sigla and Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Outline of the Present Work 2 The Corpus 3 A Holistic Approach to the Epigraphic Object 4 Scribal School and Variation 1 The Oasis of Dadan in Space and Time 1 The Dadanite and Liḥyanite Kingdoms 2 Philological Arguments 3 Minaean Presence at Dadan 4 Paleography 5 Dadan in Other Corpora 6 Archaeological Evidence 7 Summary of the Dating Evidence 2 Script and Manners of Inscribing 1 Glyphs and Their Variant Forms 2 Script Styles 3 Dadanitic Alphabetic Text 4 Summary: Varying Styles, Varying Forms 3 Genres and Compositional Formulae 1 Superscriptio 2 Narratio 3 Invocatio 4 Graffiti 5 Summary 4 Orthography and Phonology 1 Word Dividers 2 Matres lectionis 3 Triphthongs 4 Final Short Vowels 5 Diphthongs 6 Sound Changes 5 Verbal Morphology 1 Suffix Conjugation 2 Prefix Conjugation 3 Derived Stems 4 Participles 6 Nominal and Pronominal Morphology 1 Gender 2 Number 3 Noun Formation 4 Demonstrative Pronoun 5 Relative Pronoun 6 hmḏ 7 mh 8 mn 9 Personal Pronouns 10 Prepositions 11 Numerals 12 Adverbs 13 Particles 14 Conjunctions 7 A Quantitative Approach to Variation 1 Methodology: Statistics 2 The Data and Methodology 8 Analysis 1 Text Internal Variants 2 Register Indicators 3 Important Non-significant Co-occurrences 4 Discussion 5 Summary Conclusions 1 Descriptive and Grammar Chapters 2 Chapters Analyzing Variation 3 Variation and Literacy 4 Future Directions 5 Summary Glossary Bibliography Index of Inscriptions
£119.20
Brill The Manasseh Hill Country Survey Volume 7: The South-Eastern Samaria Shoulder, from Wadi Rashash to Wadi 'Aujah
Book SynopsisThe book presents the results of a complete detailed archaeological survey of parts of Eastern Samaria. 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, tourism, and other aspects of the Holy Land.
£91.20
Brill Tel Akko Area H: from the Middle Bronze Age to
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Aaron Brody and Michal Artzy offer the first in-depth analysis from excavations at Tel Akko. The most prominent harbor city on the northern coast of the southern Levant, the city was a nexus between the sea routes of the eastern Mediterranean and the overland networks of its hinterland. Stratigraphy, architecture, and material culture from the site’s Area H are presented, along with studies by Jennie Ebeling, Jeffrey Rose, and Edward Maher on stone artifacts and animal bones from burials. The volume presents Middle Bronze IIA rampart materials and MB IIB-IIC burials; transitional end of Late Bronze-beginning of Iron I finds; and southern Phoenician ceramics. 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://semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/publications.
£248.80
Brill A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba: Capital of Roman Baetica and Caliphate of al-Andalus
Book SynopsisA Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba cover the history and culture of Roman, late antique, Visigoth and al-Andalus Cordoba in nineteen contributions, from the foundation of the city in the 169/168 B.C. by the praetor Marcus Claudius Marcellus to the end of the Muslim period in 1236 B.C., when the city fell into the hands of Ferdinand III the Saint, King of Castile. Making use of archaeological data and historical sources, combined with the latest research on the various fields under study, its authors give a compelling account of Cordoba’s most important archaeological, urban, political, legal, social, cultural and religious facets throughout the most exciting fifteen centuries of the city.
£152.80
Brill The Tomb of the Priests of Amun: Burial Assemblages at the National Museum of Denmark Gate of the Priests Series Volume 2
Book SynopsisPreviously unpublished, the Danish Lot of antiquities from the Tomb of the Priests of Amun (Bab el-Gasus) is thoroughly examined in this book. The in-depth analysis of the objects is followed by an assessment of how these objects were crafted, designed, used and recycled in the Theban necropolis, a procedure that not only reveals to be instrumental in the dating of the objects, as it sheds light into the extraordinary dynamics of funerary workshops during the 21st Dynasty. The volume also examines the arrival of the Lot and its reception in Denmark.
£168.00
Brill Susa and Elam II: History, Language, Religion and Culture.
Book SynopsisSusa and Elam II: History, Language, Religion and Culture presents 16 contributions on various topics, all related to the history of Susa and Elam, both situated in the southwest of modern-day Iran. More specifically, the volume is the proceedings of an international conference held at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) from 6 to 9 July 2015. There are four main sections (history, language, religion, and culture) containing articles by Belgian and internationally renowned researchers, as well as some young scholars, specialized in Susian and Elamite studies. The contributions cover various themes such as royal names, diplomatic history, Elamite weights, and socio-environmental history among others.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Part 1 History 1 Tradition und Nationalgefühl in der elamischen Konföderation Michael Andreas Mäder 2 Agricultural Production of the Girsu-Lagaš Institution at Susa During the Ur III Period Kazuya Maekawa 3 Neo-Elamite Eastern Territories and Pastoralist People: The Case of Persian Tribes Kiumars Alizadeh 4 Perilous Journeys for Elamite Messengers and Envoys Elynn Gorris Part 2 Language 5 Mesopotamia and the East: The Perspective from the Literary Texts from Fāra and Tell Abū Ṣalābīḫ Kamran Vincent Zand 6 The Logogram for ‘King’ in Susa and Elam Gian Pietro Basello 7 Kings (and Others) with Too Many Names: An Elamite Onomastic Imbroglio Jan Tavernier Part 3 Religion 8 The Elymaean Temple of Bard-e Neshandeh: A New Interpretation Davide Salaris Part 4 Culture 9 The Bow of Elam, the Mainstay of Their Might Javier Álvarez-Mon 10 The Historical Geography of Western Iran: An Archaeological Perspective on the Location of Kimaš Steve Renette 11 Royal Imagery of Old Elamite Kings: A Competition for Identity Holly Pittman 12 On the Way from Susiana to the Deh Lurān Plain: New Evidence of the Elamite Settlements on the Western Bank of the Karkheh River, Southwest Iran Ali Zalaghi 13 Female, Fish and Frying Pan: An Enigmatic Funerary Unique to Elam Yasmina Wicks 14 Elam and Persia: Between the Environment and Land Use, Comparable Models? Nabil Ibnoerrida 15 Note on New Weights from Susa: Further Evidence on Susa-Indus Commercial Transactions and Cultural Relations Enrico Ascalone 16 Scales and Weights from Susa and Ur: Metrological Interaction Spheres between Southern Mesopotamia and Western Iran during the Middle Bronze Age Luca Peyronel Index of Divine Names Index of Personal Names Index of Topographical Names Index of Text Citations
£217.60
Brill The Iconography of Family Members in Egypt’s Elite Tombs of the Old Kingdom
Book SynopsisIn The Iconography of Family Members in Egypt’s Elite Tombs of the Old Kingdom,, Jing Wen offers a comprehensive survey of how ancient Egyptians portrayed their family members in the reliefs of an elite tomb. Through the analysis of the depiction of family members, this book investigates familial relations, the funerary cult of the dead, ancestor worship, and relevant texts. It provides a new hypothesis and perspective that would update our understanding of the Egyptian funerary practice and familial ideology. The scenes of family members are not a record of family history but language games of the tomb owner that convey specific meaning to those who enter the chapel despite time and space.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Charts Abbreviations Introduction 1 Children of the Tomb Owner 1 The Designations of Children 2 The Titles of Children 3 Stances, Clothing, and Accessories of Children 4 Children as Offering Bearers 5 Rituals Performed by Children 2 Siblings of the Tomb Owner 1 The Designations of Siblings 2 The Titles of Siblings 3 Stances, Clothing, and Accessories of Siblings 4 Siblings as Offering Bearers 5 Siblings in Ritual Scenes 3 Parents and Other Relatives 1 The Designations and Titles of Parents of the Tomb Owner 2 Designations and Titles of Other Relatives 3 Stance of Parents 4 Stance of Other Relatives of the Tomb Owner 5 Conclusion: the Depiction of Family Members 4 Family Groups and the sn-ḏt Problem 1 Family Groups 2 The sn-ḏt and Its Meaning 3 Conclusion 5 The Role of Family Members in the Funerary Cult 1 Family Members Carrying Offerings 2 Family Members Carrying stpt-Offerings 3 Textual Evidence for Making Offerings 4 The Role of Family Members as Offering Bearers and Language-Games in Different Contexts 5 Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1 References of Tombs Appendix 2 Designations and Titles of Family Members Appendix 3 Stance of Family Members Appendix 4 Family Groups Appendix 5 Occurrences of Stances Appendix 6 Tombs Containing Specific Stances Bibliography General Index Index of Egyptian Words
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Brill The Pediments of the Parthenon
Book SynopsisThis is the only comprehensive account of the Parthenon pediments in English and the first in any language since 1963. It serves as an up-to-date introduction to their study and includes new proposals for the restoration and interpretation of their composition. Debate on the Parthenon pediments has concentrated on the interpretation of individual figures, the restoration of the missing parts and the question of Roman repairs. The present study is based on autopsy and considers the evidence of technical details. It questions the attribution of certain familiar pieces and offers new suggestions for restoring the east pediment. All sculptures are illustrated, some with photographs taken especially for this book, and there are new drawings of the restorations proposed by the author. Chapter 1 is a general introduction to the study of the pediments. It includes an assessment of the documentation and a summary of stylistic and technical characteristics of the sculptures. Chapters 2 and 3 treat each pediment separately. The discussion of individual sculptures is incorporated in a continuous narrative which sets them within the context of the overall composition.Trade Review'Libraries supporting courses or research in these areas should own this book.' Amy L. Wordelman, Religious Studies Review, 1994. '...a useful monograph.' Greece and Rome 1993. '...fine new synthesis...tackles the major issues head-on...' Ian Jenkins, Bvrlington Magazine, 1993. 'Her painstaking efforts have greatly enhanced the accesibility of these difficult sculptures to a wider readership than ever before and will certainly stimulate further research.' Ian Jenkins, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1994. 'Zusammenfassend darf man festhalten, daß die neue Publikation von Olga Palagia für dei Auseinandersetzung mit den Parthenongiebeln ein zuverlässiges "Handbuch" darstellt. Auch die Auswahl der 120 Bilder ist wohl überlegt und ausgewogen, vermißt man doch selten eine für das Verständnis des Gedankenganges wichtige Abbildung...Bewundernswert ist die signifikante und disziplinierte Auswahl der Gesichtspunkte und die klare und knappe Darlegung der Sachverhalte.' Ernst Berger, Gnomon, 1996.
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Brill Roman Marble Quarries in Southern Euboea: And the Associated Road Systems
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of the particularly interesting network of quarries and roads in southern Euboea. The quarries were a major source of Cippolino marble in Roman times. The study presents a survey and examination of the quarries and roads serving them and analyses of samples of marble collected there. The inaccessibility of the quarries has meant that they and the road systems around them have been unusually well preserved, but also that existing literature on the area is scanty and far from accurate. The material discussed here is of great historical, economic and technological significance. The preliminary mapping and registration offered here is of further value in the attempt to save the materials from further deterioration and destruction.
£208.24
Brill Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: The Cobannus Hoard
Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the first comprehensive publication of a cache of eight bronzes from east-central Gaul. The types of objects and accompanying inscriptions suggest that these bronzes originally came from a sanctuary of a god named Cobannus. The first part of the book describes, analyzes, and interprets the individual objects, which are divided between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Shelby White - Leon Levy Collection. The latter part of this work places the cache within a chronological, cultic, and cultural context. The Cobannus hoard is valuable not only from an artistic point of view but also for the information it provides on many different aspects of the religious, social, and political life of Roman Gaul. The book is lavishly illustrated, with 2 maps and 117 illustrations.
£190.00
Brill State and Local Society in Third Century South
Book SynopsisIn 1996 archaeologists excavated over 70,000 inscribed pieces of wood from a well in Changsha, the largest such discovery ever made in China. They are local administrative records of the state of Wu in the 230s and provide remarkable detail on the society, governance, and economy of third century central China. Although Wu was one of the famous Three Kingdoms, its administrative history was poorly known until these documents were found, so we have written this book to explain the context and content of these document to help researchers use these valuable texts to rewrite the history of South China.
£84.00
Brill Ancient Egyptian Clothing: Studies in Late Period Private Representations: Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive analysis of clothing in Late Period Egypt (750 to 332 BC) through a comparison of representations on reliefs, paintings, and statues to preserved textiles, and supplemented by references in ancient texts. It shows the historical evolution of clothing that extends far beyond the Late Period. The book reveals the influence of archaism and innovation, as well as how clothes reflect geography, ethnicity, and social roles. It provides some new criteria for dating and interpretation of representations through careful examination of changes in Egyptian fashion. The resulting work is of value to anyone studying dress in ancient Egypt and other areas of the ancient world.
£139.84
Brill Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank
Book SynopsisFor the first time, this book presents the complete collection of Greek inscriptions of Gebel el-Silsila East – Ancient Egypt’s largest and most important sandstone quarry, including lists of names and professions of individuals involved in the quarry expeditions. The inscriptions are described, illustrated and analysed and placed within their archaeological context based on careful documentation in situ with up-to-date methodology. The work makes substantial contributions in the form of novel and improved readings and interpretations of known texts and of the new publication of texts discovered through the fieldwork. It is the first volume of three dealing with Graeco-Roman inscriptions on the east bank, with the following two volumes to cover the demotic texts and quarry marks respectively.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 Gebel el-Silsila—the Site 2 Brief Historical Outline 3 Research History 4 Main Objectives 5 Methodology 6 Sigla 2 The Material 1 Introduction 2 Paleographic Commentary 3 Onomastic and Prosopographic Commentary 4 Dates, Professions, and Eeligious Functions 5 General Commentary on the Chronology 6 Abbreviations 7 Singular Alphabetic Letters 8 Monograms and Ligatures 9 The Quandary of Literacy 10 The Graffiti Dialogue 3 The Northern Quarries 1 Introduction 2 Quarry 11 (Q11) 3 Corpus 4 Quarry 13 (Q13) 5 The Inscriptions 6 Corpus 7 Quarry 14 (Q14) 8 The Inscriptions 9 Corpus 10 Quarry 19 (Q19) 11 The Inscriptions 12 Corpus 13 Rock Art Site 11 (RAS11) 14 Corpus 4 Q24—Tiberius’ Stables 1 Introduction 2 Tiberius’ Stables and Its Administration Building 3 The Epigraphy 4 Quarry Face ‘E’ 5 Corpus 6 Quarry Face ‘TS’ 7 Corpus 5 Q34—The Main Quarry 1 Introduction 2 Archaeological Overview 3 The Epigraphy 4 Contents of Texts 5 Dedicators 6 Name Variants and Scribes 7 Dates, Professions, and Religious Functions 8 Corpus 6 The Southern Quarries 1 Introduction 2 Quarry 35 (Q35—‘the Situla Quarry’) 3 Corpus 4 Quarry 37 (Q37—‘the Naos Quarry’) 5 The Epigraphy 6 Corpus 7 Quarry 40 (Q40 and ‘Commemoration Road’) 8 Corpus Appendix 1: Quarry Faces Marked with Greek Inscriptions (Nos.) Appendix 2: Original Photographs Bibliography Indices
£148.00
Brill Variability in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts
Book SynopsisThis book spins around the convening idea of variability to offer fourteen new views into the Pyramid and Coffin Texts and related materials that overarch archaeology, philology, linguistics, writing studies, religious studies and social history by applying innovative approaches such as agency, politeness, material philology and object-based studies, and under a strong empirical focus. In this book, you will find from a previously unpublished coffin or a reinterpretation of the so-called ‘Letters to the Dead’ to graffiti’s interaction with monumental inscriptions, ‘subatomic’ studies in the spellings of the Osiris’ name or the puzzles of text transmission, among other novel topics.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Carlos Gracia Zamacona Part 1 Individuals 1 Secondary Epigraphy and Interaction with Transfigured Dead: The Case of Nikauizezi, Saqqara Julia Hamilton 2 Decorated Coffin of King’s Ornament Setib Buried at Abusir Veronika Dulíková and Marie Peterková Hlouchová 3 Putting Intentions in Their Place: Materialising Meaning through Spatial Dynamics in Appeals to the Dead Angela McDonald 4 De Khenti-Mentiou à Khenti-Imentiou : miroir du monde funéraire royal de l’ ge Thinite à l’Ancien Empire Jean-Pierre Pätznick 5 Osiris as Written in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts César Guerra Méndez and Carlos Gracia Zamacona Part 2 Groups 6 Repeating the Ritual under the Ground: Performance of the Royal Object Ritual in the Middle Kingdom Seria Yamazaki 7 Dmjw, N(j)wtj‘Citizen’ in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts in the Context of the Social and Political Changes Occurred in Egypt at the Turn of the 3rd Millennium BC Juan Carlos Moreno García 8 New Spells, New Compilations, and the Concept of Variability in Sequences of Pyramid and Coffin Texts Christelle Alvarez 9 Becoming Wind? Observations on Identity and Identification in the So-called Transformation Spells Anne Landborg Part 3 Tracers 10 Variation in the Graphical Form of the First-Person Stative Ending in the Coffin Texts Jorke Grotenhuis 11 (Re)connecting Artefacts and Thinking in the Afterlife: the Case of Funerary Wooden Models Gersande Eschenbrenner Diemer 12 Variation as a Social Device: ‘Middle Egyptianisms’ in Old Kingdom Letters M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro 13 Problematising Linguistic Variation in the Coffin Texts: A Case-Study on Spell CT 335 Dina Serova 14 Occurrences of Grave Goods and Their Representations on Coffins: A Concept of Substitution? Elisabeth Kruck Index
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Brill SinoIranian and SinoArabian Relations in Late
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Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica Prehistoric Guiana
Book SynopsisFor more than 25 years Denis Williams, one of Guyana's most accomplished scholars, travelled from one end of the country to the other conducting surveys and excavations. The result is the first comprehensive reconstruction of the history and characteristics of human settlement of the Guianas. In this work of painstaking scholarship, Denis William integrated a wide variety of evidence from original research with previously published archaelogical, geological, ecological, ethnographic, climatic and even nutritional data to develop the first major synthesis of the prehistory of Guyana. Prehistoric Guiana includes over 250 sketches, photographs, maps and tables as well as an extensive bibliography.
£25.99
Springer Bronze Trend in East Asia
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- The Temporal-Spatial Framework.- Early Bronze Trend.- Core Regions and Their Influences.- The Periphery: An Overview.- Reflections on the Bronze Trend.
£104.49
Palgrave Macmillan Prehistoric Modernization
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Explanation for the Origin of Agriculture.- Chapter 3. Theoretical Explanation: Why Agriculture Did Not Originate.- Chapter 4. A Simulation Study of Chinese Hunter-Gatherer.- Chapter 5. Accumulation of Resource Endowment.- Chapter 6. Initial Environmental Conditions.- Chapter 7. The Basic Model of the Origin of Chinese Agriculture.- Chapter 8. Southern and Northern Areas of Yan Shan Mountain.- Chapter 9. South China Northeast China.- Chapter 10. Southwest China.- Chapter 11. Who Colonized the Tibetan Plateau.- Chapter 12.Conclusion: Completed and Unfinished Issues.
£113.99
Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia
Book SynopsisThe cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community researching them. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia brings together chapters by an international group of scholars on the history and archaeology of Nubia.Trade Review...this volume will be essential for all those intrigued by human history of this captivating region. It will also become a key text for students of ancient Egypt and Sudan for many years to come. * Anna Garnet, Ancient Egypt *The Handbook is indeed a treasure chest for those who seek to enrich their knowledge of the Nubian past. This is primarily thanks to the latest achievements in the field of archaeology, based on the continuing fieldwork in the same localities, such as Meroe and the Makuritan heartlands, for more than half a century. This fieldwork has amassed extensive data that have broadened the perspectives of Nubiology and has created schools of Nubian studies that have produced impressive results * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction (Geoff Emberling and Bruce Beyer Williams) 1. History of Archaeological Work in the Middle Nile Region (Salah M. Ahmed) 2. Past, Present, Future: The Archaeology of Nubia (Claudia Näser) 3. Geology of Nubia and Surrounding Regions (James A. Harrell) 4. Holocene Environments in Northeast Africa (Martin Williams) Nubia: A Deep History 5. Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers of Nubia (Miroslaw Masojc) 6. From Foraging to Food Producing: The Mesolithic and Neolithic of the Middle Nile Valley (Donatella Usai) 7. The A-Group and Fourth Millennium BCE Nubia (Maria Carmela Gatto) 8. The Pre-Kerma Culture and the Beginning of the Kerma Kingdom (Matthieu Honegger) 9. The C-Group People in Lower Nubia: Cattle Pastoralists on the Frontier between Egypt and Kush (Henriette Hafsaas) 10. Kush in the Wider World during the Kerma Period (Bruce Beyer Williams) 11. The Cities of Kerma and Pnubs-Dokki Gel (Charles Bonnet) 12. The Eastern Cemetery of Kerma (Charles Bonnet and Matthieu Honegger) 13. Pan-Grave and Medjay: At the Intersection of Archaeology and History (Kate Liszka and Aaron de Souza) 14. From Hunters to Herders: The Libyan Desert in Prehistoric Times (Friederike Jesse) 15. Egyptian Fortresses and the Colonization of Lower Nubia in the Middle Kingdom (Laurel Bestock) 16. Nubians in Egypt from the Early Dynastic Period to the New Kingdom (Georg K. Meurer) 17. Human Adaptation to Environmental Change in the Northern Dongola Reach (Derek A. Welsby) 18. Egyptian Conquest and Administration of Nubia (Dominique Valbelle) 19. The Amun Cult and its Development in Nubia (Luc Gabolde) 20. The Nubian Experience of Egyptian Domination during the New Kingdom (Stuart Tyson Smith) 21. History and the Kushite Royal Inscriptions (Jeremy Pope) 22. The Napatan Neo-Kushite State 1: The Intermediate Period and Second Empire (Bruce Beyer Williams) 23. The Napatan Neo-Kushite State 2: Eclipse and Revival in the Later Napatan Period; Conditions in the State (Bruce Beyer Williams) 24. Jebel Barkal: "Karnak" of Kush (Timothy Kendall and El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed) 25. Nubians in Egypt during the 25th Dynasty (Julia Budka) 26. Kushites in Egypt, 664 BCE-14 CE: Egypt and Kush in the Borderlands of Lower Nubia (Kathryn Howley) 27. The Meroitic Heartland (Pawel Wolf and Ulrike Nowotnick) 28. The City of Meroe (Krzysztof Grzymski) 29. The Royal and Elite Cemeteries at Meroe (Janice W. Yellin) 30. Death and Burial in the Kingdom of Meroe (Vincent Francigny) 31. Prolegomena to the Study of Meroitic Art (Janice W. Yellin) 32. Language and Writing in the Kingdom of Meroe (Claude Rilly) 33. The Eastern Desert in the 1st Millennium BCE and 1st Millennium CE (Andrea Manzo) 34. Greek and Roman Views of Ancient Nubia (Stanley M. Burstein) 35. The X-Group Period in Lower Nubia (Rachael J. Dann) 36. Post-Meroe in Upper Nubia (Mahmoud El-Tayeb) 37. The History of Medieval Nubia (Giovanni R. Ruffini) 38. Nubian Texts, Nubian Lives (Giovanni R. Ruffini) 39. Language Use and Literacy in Late Antique and Medieval Nubia (Adam Lajtar and Grzegorz Ochala) 40. The Topography of Power in Medieval Nubia (Bogdan Zurawski) 41. The Archaeology of Medieval Nubian Kingdoms (Artur Obluski) 42. Arts and Crafts of the Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia (Dobrochna Zielinska) 43. Islam in the Funj and Ottoman Periods in Sudan: A Historical and Archaeological Approach (Intisar Soghayroun) 44. Islamic Nubian Kingdoms (Jay Spaulding) Perspectives on Nubia 45. Cattle Cultures in Ancient Nubia (Jérôme Dubosson) 46. Savanna on the Nile: Long-term Agricultural Diversification and Intensification in Nubia (Dorian Q. Fuller and Leilani Lucas) 47. Exploitation of Geological Resources: Ancient Mines and Quarries in Nubia (James A. Harrell and Abdelrahman Ali Mohamed) 48. Iron Production at Meroe (Jane Humphris) 49. Trade in Ancient Nubia: Routes, Goods, and Structures (Mahmoud Suliman Bashir and Geoff Emberling) 50. Women in Ancient Kush (Angelika Lohwasser and Jacke Phillips) 51. Perspectives on the Body in Ancient Nubia (Rachael J. Dann) 52. Bioarchaeology of Nubia (Michele R. Buzon) 53. Landscape Archaeologies in Nubia and the Middle Nile (David N. Edwards) 54. Nubian Rock Art (Henryk Paner) 55. Archaeological Practice in the 21st Century: Reflecting on Archaeologist-Community Relationships in Sudan's Nile Valley (Jane Humphris, Rebecca Bradshaw, and Geoff Emberling)
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Thames & Hudson Ltd The Making of the Middle Sea
Book SynopsisThe first full, interpretive synthesis for a generation on the rise of the Mediterranean world from its very beginnings up to the threshold of Classical times - winner of the Wolfson History Prize. The Mediterranean has been for millennia one of the global cockpits of human endeavour. World-class interpretations exist of its Classical and subsequent history, but there has been remarkably little holistic exploration of how its societies, culture and economies first came into being, despite the fact that almost all the fundamental developments originated well before 500 BC. Mediterranean archaeology is one of the world's richest sources for the reconstruction of ancient societies, yet this book is the first to draw in equal measure on ideas and information from the European, western Asian and African flanks, as well as the islands at the Mediterranean's heart, to achieve a truly innovative focus on the varied trajectories and interactions that created this maritime world. The Mak
£28.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Celts
Book SynopsisMuch that is known of the Celts, apart from their weapons and ornaments, has come to us from their enemies, the Romans. Yet we can assemble a portrait of a cultured people. These barbarians were driven to the edges of Europe, yet shone out once more in Celtic Christianity.Table of ContentsFirst masters of Europe; birth of a warrior aristocracy; the splendour of the first Celtic princes; the all-conquering Celts; the Celts against the might of Rome; realms of religion; Celtic memories; documents.
£7.55
Kegan Paul Corpus Of Reliefs V 1 001 Chatham House Papers
Book SynopsisOne of the remarkable anomalies of Egyptian History is that the source material for the study of one of the country''s principal settlements sites and one of the greatest cities of antiquity-Memphis-is comparatively scarce. The Memphite cemeteries, however, have yielded up masses of material, particularly for the Archaic Period and the Old Kingdom. In the New Kingdom, with which we are concerned in this volume, Memphis was a city of immense administrative and cultural importance, as well as being the seat of the royal court, and there seems little reason to doubt that many of the great officials and courtiers of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and to some extent the Twentieth Dynasties were buried in Saqqara, the Memphite necropolis.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Provenance of the Reliefs, etc. THE CATALOGUE, THE PLATES between pages 48 and 49, Indexes, Concordance of Museum and Collection numbers and present Catalogue, Index of Personal Names, Index of Titles, Epithets, Administrative Departments, etc. Index of Deities and Epithets of Deities, General Index, Egyptian Names etc.
£356.25
Kegan Paul Index Of Names Titles Of The
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2005. An index of names and titles in Mariette''s Mastabas, and Lepsius'' Demkmalen. With names listed as they are written and title as they are read. Kings are arranged chronlogically and Names in numerical order.
£256.50
