Archaeology by period / region Books
Peeters Publishers Bibliographie Analytique De L'archeologie De
Book SynopsisThis analytical bibliography of pre-Islamic Iranian archaeology, covering the years from 1996 to 2003, continues the same concept as the previous volumes. A first part covers "Generalities", while part two provides the entries organised by region and sites. Part 3 includes the bibliography by period, from Prehistory to the Sassanian period. This fourth Supplement provides almost 1500 entries. An index of authors is also present.
£40.58
Peeters Publishers Beyond the Homeland: Markers in Phoenician
Book SynopsisDespite the flurry of research on aspects of Phoenician culture, encompassing their socio-economic developments and the mechanics of their settlement of Mediterranean coastal lands, the fundamental issue of dating Phoenician achievements remains quite fluid. A range of criteria - textual sources, artefact analysis, stratigraphic data, and, increasingly, radiocarbon readings - provide a bewildering and sometimes conflicting picture of Phoenician chronology, which, in many respects, remains tenuous and free-floating. Owing to the nature of Phoenician colonisation, its chronology is often compartmentalised into discrete regional units. This volume brings together a number of essays focusing squarely on the chronology of the Phoenician-Punic world, ranging from the homeland to the western settlements. The essays are written by specialists in their field, who have encapsulated the chronological framework, and the problems therein, for regions touched by Phoenicians interests. A benchmark study, Beyond the Homeland will be of value not only to Phoenician-Punic scholars, but also to those in related fields who need an accessible study (in English) to navigate the chronological complexities of the field.
£135.00
Peeters Publishers The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the Proceedings of a conference held in October 2007 at Leiden University on the Libyan Period in Egypt. The study of the Third Intermediate Period, and most notably its chronology, has become stuck in controversies ever since publications by David Aston, Anthony Leahy, John Taylor and others raised doubts as to the chronology presented in Kitchen's seminal study The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1972). There was clearly need to discuss the controversial aspects of the chronology and culture of the period with all the parties involved. The timely nature of the conference was confirmed by the enthusiastic response from those colleagues who were invited to participate. In the end, a total of 24 speakers presented in front of an audience of some 120 scholars and students hailing from fifteen different countries. It was thought that the chronological issues surrounding Dynasties 21-24, the Libyan Period, should be the principal focus of discussion, because it is here that the largest uncertainties still remain. In addition, several scholars were invited to present recent archaeological finds from their own field work. Only by considering new material may we hope to solve the remaining problems, and new insights into the Libyan Period are likely to emerge from the combined study of a wide variety of sources. The topics of controversy lie mainly in the realm of chronology. Apart from this, several papers deal with the cultural developments of the period. An interesting joint theme that emerges from these is the appearance of archaism in the art of the second half of the Libyan Period. Several papers include comments on a newly found interest in the proportions and iconography from the classical periods of the past, notably of the Middle Kingdom.
£95.00
Peeters Publishers Tell Ahmar III. Neo-Assyrian Pottery from Area C
Book SynopsisTell Ahmar, ancient Til Barsib, on the east bank of the Euphrates River, close to the confluence of the Sajur River, was ideally placed to function as a crossing point from upper Mesopotamia to northern Syria. To a large extent the prominent and strategic location of Tell Ahmar determined the Assyrian interest in the site and it is apparent that Tell Ahmar reached its maximum size under the Assyrians.This study presents the Neo-Assyrian pottery from the excavations in Area C at Tell Ahmar. At least three buildings were identified in Area C. The distribution of the different pottery wares and types reflects patterns associated with the different activity areas identified within the buildings in Area C. Some wares and types were found with high degrees of frequency, other wares and types occurred infrequently. The buildings in Area C were only occupied for a short duration and this limited period of use is reflected in the ceramic evidence. The Area C pottery from Stratum 2 may be dated to the seventh century BCE, and most likely to the second half of the seventh century BCE.The Area C pottery from Tell Ahmar displays many correlations with other contemporary site assemblages. The Tell Ahmar pottery finds close parallels with similar wares and shapes in the Assyrian heartland, especially at Nimrud. The value of the Neo-Assyrian pottery from Tell Ahmar is that it offers an extensive ceramic corpus from three closely related residential buildings of an important provincial centre located in the middle and upper Euphrates valley of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
£123.72
Peeters Publishers Biainili-Urartu: The Proceedings of the Symposium
Book SynopsisThis overview of current research on the Iron-Age kingdom of Urartu offers studies by thirty scholars who met at an international symposium at Munich University in October 2007. Biainili, as this polity was known to its inhabitants, dominated the mountainous region of what is now eastern Turkey, north-western Iran, and southern Armenia from the ninth to the seventh centuries BC and is distinguished by its unique language and material culture. It was a rival to the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which provides much of the evidence for its history as well as the name by which is best known, Urartu (Biblical Ararat). An introductory chapter giving a general account of the history and culture of the kingdom is followed by more focused contributions on numerous aspects of Urartian culture based on textual records and archaeological sources both from Urartu itself and from neighbouring regions. As the most substantial treatment of the subject to appear in the 21st century, this book brings to light recent research in all areas of the kingdom, considers revisions to traditional chronology from several viewpoints, and provides an extensive bibliography.
£147.39
Peeters Publishers Les Tombes Hypogees de Basse Epoque F7, F17, H,
Book SynopsisCe second volume de la publication finale des resultats de la mission archeologique du Louvre a Saqqara concerne les tombes hypogees de Basse Epoque. Illustre de pres de 1000 photographies en couleur, dessins et plans, il presente l'etude des tombes F7, F17, H, j1, Q et n1 decouvertes en 2003-2007. Celles-ci sont situees au Nord de la chaussee d'Ounas, ou les fouilles dirigees par Christiane Ziegler de 1991 a 2007 ont mis au jour plus de 3000 ans d'occupation humaine, de l'epoque des pyramides jusqu'a la conquete arabe.Ces tombes hypogees sont exceptionnelles a plus d'un titre. La plupart etaient inviolees et leur contenu a ete retrouve dans sa disposition originelle. Elles se distinguent par la qualite des objets et leur rare etat de conservation. Enfin, une inscription demotique date precisement l'une d'entre elles de l'an II du pharaon Nectanebo II, 1er mois de l'inondation (21 novembre-20 decembre 360 av. J.-C.). L'ouvrage, en deux tomes, comprend la description architecturale et archeologique des differentes tombes ainsi que le catalogue detaille des objets qui y ont ete retrouves. En fin d'ouvrage, on trouvera une serie d'etudes scientifiques concernant les momies et le materiel d'embaumeur, les inscriptions (demotique, chypro-grec et copte) ainsi que les materiaux et les techniques (recherches sur les pigments, les vegetaux, les textiles et les cartonnages).
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Ancient Memphis, 'enduring is the Perfection':
Book SynopsisAncient Memphis 'Enduring is the Perfection' brings together some of the latest findings regarding Egypt's first capital. The twenty-two papers that comprise the volume were originally presented in August 2008 during a conference held at Macquarie University, Sydney, in which both international speakers and scholars from across Australia examined the administrative functions of Memphis, its social structure, demography, art, material culture, religious institutions, and mortuary beliefs from the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period to the end of the New Kingdom. Collectively, the papers provide a fascinating overview of one of the most important cities in dynastic history and reveal the potential of ancient Memphis for achieving a greater understanding of Egypt's socio-political and cultural development.
£104.90
Peeters Publishers Anatolian Iron Ages 7: The Proceedings of the
Book SynopsisThe seventh international colloquium devoted to the Iron Age of Anatolia and surrounding regions was convened at Edirne, Turkey, between the 19th and 24th April 2010. This volume contains the revised versions of some of the papers delivered at Edirne. They range geographically from southeastern Europe through central and eastern Anatolia to the Trans-Caucasus and northwestern Iran. As a survey of critical issues currently shaping critical discourse on Iron Age Anatolia, they provide an invaluable body of new information and ideas.
£104.50
Peeters Publishers Afrikanischstammiger Lehnwortschatz Im Alteren
Book SynopsisSprachkontakte zwischen Agyptern und Sprechergruppen des nordostafrikanischen Raumes haben vom ausgehenden vierten Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis in die Mitte des ersten nachchristlichen Jahrtausends zur Entlehnung eines nicht unerheblichen afrikanischstammigen Wortschatzes in die schriftliche Uberlieferung des Agyptisch-Koptischen gefuhrt. Die Relevanz, die diese Transferenzbefunde insbesondere fur die (Sprach-)geschichte des nordostafrikanischen Raumes besitzen, ist in ihrem besonderen sprachhistorischen Zeugniswert sowohl fur die afrikanischen Quellsprachen, als auch das Agyptisch-Koptische zu sehen. Wahrend die Transferenzbefunde agyptischer Quellen fur die unverschrifteten afrikanischen Einzelsprachen die einzigen greifbaren Reflexe fruher Sprachzustande darstellen, bieten sie fur das Agyptische die Moglichkeit zur Uberprufung besonders der lautlichen Verhaltnisse seiner fruhesten verschrifteten Sprachstufe, dem alteren Agyptisch. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, ausgehend von den agyptischen Quellen, vor allem die sprachliche Evidenz der Transferenzbefunde herauszuarbeiten und diese auch in den historischen und sprachhistorischen Kontext einzuordnen. Im ersten Abschnitt der Arbeit erfolgt zunachst ein diachroner Querschnitt zur agyptisch-afrikanischen lexikalischen Interferenz vom dritten Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis in das erste Jahrtausend n. Chr. Abschnitt II bietet synchrone Analysen zu den im alteren Agyptisch uberlieferten afrikanischstammigen Entlehnungen, dem kontextuellen und kotextuellen Zeugniswert der Trageruberlieferungen und der sprachlichen Evidenz der Transferenzbefunde. Im Rahmen eines Lemmakataloges werden daraufhin 428 Entlehnungen dokumentiert und besprochen. Durch die in dieser Arbeit vorgenommenen einzelsprachlichen Anschlusse vor allem nubischer Topo-, Ethno- und Anthroponyme an das nordkuschitische Beja, das Ost- und Zentralkuschitische, das Libysch-Berberische und das Meroitische, erhalten die historischen Sprachkontakte zwischen Agypten und seinen afrikanischen Nachbarn eine konkretere Gestalt.
£98.87
Peeters Publishers Etudes Ougaritiques II
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage rassemble des etudes, menees pour l'essentiel dans le cadre de la mission archeologique de Ras Shamra et concernant des periodes qui vont du PPNB au Bronze recent. Au nombre de quatorze, la moitie fut presentee lors de deux colloques internationaux organises a l'occasion du soixante-quinzieme anniversaire de la decouverte du site de Ras Shamra, en Syrie et en France. Les contributions d'Y. Calvet et de B. Geyer portent sur les recherches environnementales, en insistant sur la question des ressources en eau de l'antique cite d'Ougarit; l'article d'A. Bounni, de J. et E. Lagarce, et de S. Rey constitue le rapport preliminaire de la campagne de fouilles franco-syriennes menee en 1974 sur le tell de Ras Shamra, juste a l'ouest de l'extremite nord de la tranchee "Ville sud"; les etudes de J.-Y. Monchambert et d'E. Dardaillon portent sur la culture materielle du Bronze recent, le premier etant consacre a la ceramique peinte locale a decor figure et le second aux productions metalliques; les etudes epigraphiques abordent, dans la contribution de F. Malbran-Labat et C. Roche, la question du commerce et de l'elevage des chevaux dans le royaume d'Ougarit au travers de la documentation issue de la "maison d'Ourtenou", et, dans l'etude de G. del Olmo Lete, la litterature et le pouvoir royal a Ougarit. Les autres articles de cet ouvrage portent pour l'essentiel sur des decouvertes faites lors des fouilles anciennes mais restees inedites ou peu exploitees jusqu'ici. Deux etudes traitent de la prehistoire de Ras Shamra, selon une approche anthropologique pour la contribution de H. de Contenson et de J. Clere, qui porte sur la periode de Halaf, et archeozoologique pour celle de D. Helmer, qui offre une nouvelle presentation des donnees recueillies dans les niveaux allant du PPNB recent au Bronze ancien. Les autres concernent la periode du Bronze recent. Les etudes d'E. Bordreuil, R. Hawley et D. Pardee abordent des questions epigraphiques, le domaine de la metrologie et celui de la sphere royale, tandis que le travail de F. Onnis, qui s'inscrit dans le cadre du programme d'etude sur le mobilier du Palais royal d'Ougarit (cf. RSO XVII), et celui de R. Prevalet portent sur l'orfevrerie. Les decouvertes recentes sont abordees dans l'article de V. Matoian qui reprend la question des "marques" sur les vases en ceramique d'Ougarit au travers de l'etude du materiel mis au jour lors des fouilles du chantier de la "Grand-rue" (1992-2007). Pour clore ce volume, M. Al-Maqdissi presente un bilan des principales decouvertes faites, depuis 1990, sur un autre site de la cote syrienne, Tell Sianu, dans le cadre de la mission syrienne dirigee successivement par A. Bounni, B. Jamous et l'auteur.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers SPA. Sanitas Per Aquam: Tagungsband Des
Book SynopsisIn den letzten Jahren wurde zu den antiken Thermen intensiv geforscht. Umfangreiche Thermenkomplexe wurden vom Nahen Osten bis Westeuropa neu ergraben und dokumentiert. Der vorliegende Tagungsband enthalt 45 Beitrage des Internationalen Frontinus-Symposiums des Jahres 2009 in Aachen. In Anbetracht des Tagungsortes lag ein besonderer Schwerpunkt der Veranstaltung bei den antiken Heilbadern. Im Sinne einer integralen Konzeption von Geschichte stellen Forscher verschiedener Disziplinen unterschiedliche Aspekte des antiken Badewesens dar: Technische Gesichtspunkte etwa, wie die zentrale Frage nach der Wasserver- und -entsorgung oder der Beheizung. Fragen der Funktion und Organisation des offentlichen Badewesens in der Antike werden behandelt. Auch der kulturelle und religiose Kontext mit Blick auf die Romanisierung der romischen Provinzen findet Beachtung. Das Tagungsthema war explizit nicht auf die romischen Thermen eingeengt. So werden auch die Fruhformen des offentlichen Badewesens, sowie das Fortleben romischer Badeanlagen und der Badekultur im westlichen, byzantinischen und islamischen Mittelalter thematisiert. Von aktueller Bedeutung sind die abschliessenden Beitrage, die der Frage gewidmet sind: Wie kann man wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse bzw. bauliche Artefakte fur ein breites Publikum zuganglich machen?
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Seals and Sealing Practices in the Near East.
Book SynopsisThe cultural and historical setting of the Near East provides a unique opportunity to study a longer usage of sealing practices in administration and magic, which extends beyond the constraints of a specific time period or region. Comparing ancient practices with more recent ones can offer important insights into the development of sealing practices and provide answers to specific questions related to the handling of seals and the social status of the seal bearer. This collection of papers is the result of the workshop "Seals and Sealing Practices from Ancient Times until the Present Day. Developments in Administration and Magic through Cultures". The meeting was organized by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo on December 2-3, 2009, on the occasion of the annual Cleveringa lecture, delivered by Prof. Dr. Petra Sijpesteijn from the University of Leiden. It had the financial support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Cairo. Since the initiative towards the workshop was taken by staff members of the NVIC, the focus was on Egypt but other cultures in the Near East and Central Asia were also considered. Following up on the workshop, the present volume retains the geographical and chronological scope, but added a few contributions dealing with the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods. Glancing at the content, the reader will be struck by the diachronic and spatial persistence of the use of seals for administrative and other purposes, and by their multi-functionality. Indeed, sealing practices appear to be at least as consistent as writing systems, from their first appearance to modern times. One of the reasons for their success is their ability to adapt to the diverse political, social and cultural pecularities of the multicultural societies at the time.
£93.61
Peeters Publishers Yanik Tepe, Northwestern Iran: The Early
Book SynopsisExcavations at Yanik Tepe were conducted by Charles A. Burney over three seasons from 1960 to 1962. The site is located to the northeast of Lake Urmia, some 20 km from Tabriz. This volume comprises the final report on the long sequences of stratigraphy and architecture belonging to the Early Trans-Caucasian (ETC) period which lasted from about 3000 BCE into the early second millennium. It is argued that the ETC people who founded the village came from a long tradition of settled farming. While the first phase, ETC I, is characterised by round houses and the second, ETC II, by agglutinative rectilinear building there is strong continuity in the use of space and, particularly, of built-in kitchen ranges. The descriptive text is enhanced by numerous photographs and line drawings. A concluding chapter makes pertinent comment on chronology and the place of Yanik Tepe within a wider setting. A foreword by Charles Burney provides colourful background to his pioneering excavations.
£107.35
Peeters Publishers Cults, Creeds and Identities in the Greek City
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the complex and diverse developments in the religious cultures of Greek cities after the classical age. An international team of scholars considers the continuities of traditional Greek religious practices, and seeks to understand the impact of new influences on those practices, notably the deeper engagement with Judaism and how the emergence of Christianity redefined polis religion. The essays illustrate the inadequacy of 'decline' as a model for understanding Greek religion, exploring how dynamic change in religious life corresponded to the transformations in the Greek city. The volume explores how the citizens of the Greek city after the classical age used religion to construct their cultural identities and political experiences and how many of the features of traditional polis religion survived into and shaped the religious mentalities of the Christian era.
£87.54
Peeters Publishers Across the Border: Late Bronze-Iron Age Relations
Book SynopsisOne of the most intriguing issues facing archaeologists working in the second millennium BC is the collapse of Late Bronze Age palace economies and the rise of smaller principalities called the Iron Age kingdoms. Some of these kingdoms retain vestiges of the previous Hittite Empire while others represent an ethnic diversity of newly emerging centers of power. The decentralized kingdoms stretch from Cilicia to the Tigris River and are situated on both sides of the modern border of Syria and Turkey. Theories about this political transition have varied from environmental causes, internal dynastic squabbles in Hattusha, to marauding bands of mythical "Sea Peoples". Modern political realities across the border between Turkey and Syria have often minimized the flow of scholarly information about this important collapse. This book compares archaeological data from new as well as established excavations dating to the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Special attention is given to significant new understandings of chronology that will contextualize the structural collapses at the end of the Late Bronze Age and will illuminate the rise of new Iron Age kingdoms and their imperial ambitions.
£118.20
Peeters Publishers From Eurasia to Europe: Crete and the Aegean
Book SynopsisThis research, a unique compilation of scattered material, focused on a reconstruction of the sources of the European system of values embedded in the philosophy of Greco-Roman culture. The author is convinced that the Aegean cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages are to be seen as the dissociated links in a long historical chain uniting an infant Europe with the maternal womb of Eurasia. He carried out on the spiritual world of the Bronze Age man, his relation to nature, his notions of life and death, space and time, his critical values and aesthetic tastes. A detailed description of Greek society and its culture during the period of the so-called Dark Ages is given, and finally special attention has been paid to the critical 8th century BC, the century of Homer, which marks the actual starting point of the history of Ancient Greece. The significance of this manuscript is that all evidence that excavations have revealed, has been incorporated.
£124.00
Peeters Publishers Diet, Economy and Society in the Ancient Greek
Book SynopsisThe last decades have witnessed the adoption and refinement of various scientific techniques that allow us to reconstruct past diets, but also to understand the role of food in social interaction. These are exciting developments, but the proliferation of analytical techniques may also lead to over-specialization and fragmentation of the field. The papers in this volume explore the relation between diet, economy and society in the ancient Greek world by integrating different analytical techniques. Examples include the analysis of plant and animal remains, the bioarchaeological study of human remains, stable isotope and dental microwear analysis as well as the examination of organic residues. However, the aim of this volume is not only to compare different methods of analysis, but also to integrate method and theory and to reflect more widely on the integration of science and archaeology. The volume concludes with the report of a Round Table discussion on the institutional framework and the regulations surrounding the practice of archaeological science in Greece, as well as the ethical obligations of the practitioners.
£79.75
Peeters Publishers Greek Baths and Bathing Culture: New Discoveries
Book SynopsisThis volume is the outcome of the first conference to take place on the topic of Greek baths and bathing culture, a central but hitherto neglected area in the field of ancient studies. Fifteen papers by an international group of archaeologists, art historians and ancient historians discuss Greek bathing culture from a socio-historical and cultural-anthropological perspective, resulting in a comprehensive reassessment that elucidates the sophistication of both the architecture and the culture of bathing throughout the Greek world. Individual papers examine bathing in the context of science, medicine and the cultural discourses coded in images on vases, while the majority focus on the archaeological evidence itself, as the crucial component in this reassessment that removes Greek baths from the traditional category of 'primitive predecessors' to Roman baths. From Greece and Egypt in the east, to Sicily, southern Italy and France in the west, new information from recent excavations is brought to bear on a wide range of related issues, including urban contexts, regional variations in experimental design and construction, innovations in technology, and the social meaning of the rise of bathing culture in the Hellenistic period. This better understanding of Greek baths adds a crucial element to the much debated question of the relationship between Greek and Roman bathing culture. This book also provides the first comprehensive catalog of all known Greek public baths (balaneia), including descriptions, plans and bibliographies, as a major reference tool for future comparative research on ancient bathing culture and beyond. catalog and papers combined make this a rich study of a topic of newly recognized significance in the ancient world.
£85.00
Peeters Publishers A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents. C.
Book SynopsisTo complement the text-based organization of the emendations and corrections listed in the Demotic Berichtigungsliste vols. A-B, this volume provides the Indexes of Rejected and Adopted Readings. These enable the reader to search for individual lexemes, be they words, names of gods or private persons, toponyms, titles, or numerals. In an additional Index all randomly published texts, i.e. texts published in periodicals and volumes of miscellaneous studies (Festschriften, Proceedings of Congresses and Colloquia, etc.), are listed under their inventory numbers in order to enable the reader to ascertain the heading under which a given text can be found.
£83.37
Peeters Publishers Aspects of Demotic Orthography: Acts of an
Book SynopsisWhile mankind's fascination with the scripts of ancient Egypt has been a constant across the centuries, their study as part of modern Egyptology is only as old as the decipherment of the hieroglyphs by Champollion, now nearly two centuries ago. Although we feel confident that, at least in theory, we thoroughly understand these scripts, practical difficulties in reading the cursive variants of hieratic and demotic remain. These are often such that they constantly bring to mind the sometimes abstruse associations by which the ancient scribes arrived at the various orthographies they invented for writing the complex lingual structures. Demotic is a particularly interesting case in point, as it belongs to the multi-layered textual world of the Graeco-Roman period, where hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic are usually found in complementary use, but also occasionally in competition with each other. In their variety, the studies presented in these Acts bear witness to the rich texture of the script by investigating several parameters by which it may be measured, including the reading of individual signs and grammatical categories such as verbal morphology. Indices of words and signs discussed, as well as a full bibliography of studies in monographs and articles relating to the topic, complete the volume.
£75.32
Peeters Publishers Cities and Gods: Religious Space in Transition
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the impact of religious traditions on the physical and social organisation of cities in the ancient world. The contributors draw on diverse theories, methods and evidence to identify the existence of broad similarities and differences in the urban religious experience. Individual papers range from the Roman Republican period to Late Antiquity, and encompass the city of Rome, Italy, and both the eastern and western provinces. Specific themes include the relationship between liturgy and temple architecture, the influence of religious traditions on civic spaces, and the impact of Christianity on the pagan city. Together, these papers make the case for the centrality of ritual and religion in the experience of the ancient city and throw light on current debates by providing historical examples of the varied ways in which communities accommodate changing religious practices in the urban fabric.
£76.00
Peeters Publishers Early Iron Age Exchange in the West: Phoenicians
Book SynopsisThe so-called Phoenician 'expansion' in the western Mediterranean is treated here from the point of view of the social and economic factors that led to the phenomenon and the way it evolved over a period of approximately 300 years. To this end, the book gathers, collates and analyses the disparate evidence for networks of interaction in the western Mediterranean and Atlantic regions of Europe and north Africa in the period from the 9th to the 7th century BC. The focus form the less well-known areas of the expansion, the Iberian Peninsula and north-west Africa, which are studied within the broader context of Mediterranean interactions in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods from the Near East to the Atlantic. The discussion is detailed and takes into account some of the latest archaeological discoveries, along with previously unpublished material. Detailed descriptions of selected sites are provided in an appendix.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers The Iconography of Aegean Seals
Book SynopsisThe Iconography of Aegean Seals is a detailed analysis of the iconography of the images on the Aegean seals, signets and sealings, providing for the first time a comprehensive structured overview of these images and a presentation of the artistic rules governing the composition of their designs. The Icon Theory of Aegean glyptic art which encompasses all aspects of the complex iconography and the IconAegean standard vocabulary which reflects the visual language of the seal designs together give the reader a framework for discussion and study that has long been called for by researchers. In this book the reader is taken deep into the seal designs and asked to ponder anew the images in these miniature masterpieces that were of such importance to their Aegean owners. The exposition of the work of the icon in creating memorable seal designs is cogently argued through seal examples. The presentation of the terms of the standard vocabulary in an illustrated dictionary format makes the detail of the seal designs accessible as never before. The copiously illustrated closing discussion on design revises some of the old nomenclature, identifies new motifs and elucidates relationships between image groupings. This book takes a fresh view of the glyptic material, one that may surprise, but one that certainly provides new insights into the subtle, sophisticated and polyvalent iconography of the seal designs.
£112.20
Peeters Publishers Archaeozoology of the Near East X: Proceedings of
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the proceedings of the 10th international meeting of the working group "Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas" (ASWA X). The meeting took place at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels, Belgium) from June 28 to June 30, 2011. The 20 contributions presented here deal with a wide range of topics related to the human-animal interactions and gather the results of research that has been conducted in Anatolia and the Levant, more eastern regions (Armenia and Azerbaijan), northern Africa (Egypt and Sudan) and Oman. Research questions include issues such as the exploitation of animal resources, changing animal use, herding practices, social differences and/or identities, trade, animal burials and sacrifices, and cover periods ranging from the PPNB up to the Early Islamic period.
£125.40
Peeters Publishers Unearthing the Wilderness: Studies on the History
Book SynopsisThe arid areas of the Negev and Edom played a prominent role in the socio-economic and cultural development of the Iron Age civilizations of the southern Levant and northwestern Arabia, being at the interface of key trade routes, providing essential resources and developing cultic practices that spread to neighbouring regions. This volume comprises the papers presented at the symposium "Unearthing the Wilderness: Workshop on the History and Archaeology of the Negev and Edom in the Iron Age", held at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, on 12 December 2010, and supplemented with studies from other leading scholars. Research questions include the socio-economic and political fluctuations in the arid margins of the southern Levant, southern Judah, and the northern Hejaz in the Iron Age, the exploitation of the copper mines of Timna under New Kingdom Egyptian and local control, the relationships between the southern Levant and the Arabian world as seen from the archaeological and epigraphic record, and the question of the "Edomite" pottery assemblage in late Iron Age Judah.
£106.24
Peeters Publishers Bibliographie Analytique De L'archeologie De
Book SynopsisThis analytical bibliography of pre-Islamic archaeology in Iran covers the years 2004 to 2010 and contains 1412 entries. It is based on the same concept as the previous five volumes. A first part covers general works, has chapters on methodology, architecture and iconography covering various periods, as well as a chapter on exhibitions and collections. A second part is devoted to the archaeological sites, listed along the principal regions. The third part lists the publications arranged in chronological sections. An index of authors is provided.
£76.95
Peeters Publishers Construire en Crète minoenne: Une approche
Book SynopsisL’architecture crétoise néopalatiale (XVIIe-XVe s. av. J.-C.) est étudiée selon une approche énergétique qui permet de déterminer le temps nécessaire à la construction d’un édifice. Le nombre total d’heures de travail dévolues à l’accomplissement des différentes tâches sur le chantier, depuis l’acquisition des matériaux jusqu’à leur mise en place, est estimé. L’approche permet d’appréhender les comportements des bâtisseurs tels qu’ils se révèlent dans le choix et l’utilisation de matériaux distincts ou dans les travaux d’aménagement du terrain préalables à l’érection du bâtiment. Les résultats de l’application de l’approche énergétique à une sélection d’édifices illustrent la participation des habitants à la construction de leur propre maison, à la différence de la main-d’÷uvre abondante et en partie spécialisée impliquée dans la construction de bâtiments aux traits architecturaux élaborés. La diversité des résultats obtenus suggère l’accès ouvert à la main-d’÷uvre spécialisée, à laquelle l’élite néopalatiale disposait d’un accès certes privilégié, mais non pas exclusif.
£103.55
Peeters Publishers Acts of the Tenth International Congress of
Book SynopsisThe Acts of the Tenth International Congress of Demotic Studies held in Leuven illustrate the disciplinary diversity of the field. Apart from new editions of documents (receipts, contracts, letters, oracle questions,...) and presentations of new literary texts (including even those referring to raining frogs), this volume also contains contributions such as a new proposal to standardize transliterations, a discussion of the classification of magical texts, or a survey of the history of Demotic in Leuven. The volume will be of interest to egyptologists, papyrologists, and ancient historians.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers The Late Third Millennium BCE in the Upper
Book SynopsisThis volume is a revised version of a doctoral dissertation undertaken at The University of Sydney. It examines the florescene of urban society during the mid to late Third Millennium BCE in the northern Levant, focusing on the largely unexplored region of the upper Orontes Valley, specifically the site of Tell Nebi Mend, ancient Qadesh (on the Orontes). This work seeks to explore the role and significance of 'small' regional sites during the Early Bronze Age IV, by presenting a detailed stratigraphic and ceramic analysis of the Tell Nebi Mend sequence from the mid Third Millennium (Early Bronze Age III) through the early Second Millennium BCE (Middle Bronze Age I). One of the principal aims of this work is to construct a detailed ceramic typology for Tell Nebi Mend and the upper Orontes during the late Third Millennium BCE. This stratigraphically anchored assemblage was designed as a foil for the more intensively investigated 'mega-site' sequences of the region, such as Ebla and Hama. It was also designed to explore and examine the development and evolution of regional ceramic horizons and the growth of inter-site interaction that occurred during the later Early Bronze Age. Although this work will not be the last word on studies of the EB IV, the ceramic and stratigraphic information presented sheds new and important light on many of the key research issues that surround the Early Bronze Age IV, such as the nature of the Early Bronze Age III-IV transition and the regional response to the 'collapse' of the Early Bronze Age urban system ca. 2000 BCE.
£131.10
Peeters Publishers Production and Prosperity in the Theodosian
Book SynopsisDespite the large increase in material evidence datable to the Theodosian period (379-455 C.E.), textual sources still dominate our view of the period. This has led to a pretty bleak picture made up of foreign invasions, loss of territory, a weak ruler dynasty, a state-driven distribution system, and declining cities. And yet, many regions of the Roman Empire seem to have been doing quite well. For this reason, this volume aims at a re-evaluation of the prosperity of the Roman Empire under the Theodosii. Archaeological, historical, epigraphic and numismatic research are combined to investigate the vitality and socio-economic potential of distinct regions of the empire; to explore the relative importance of cities, villages, fortresses and estates in patterns of purchase and consumption; to gain insights into the mechanisms and forces underlying production, distribution and consumption of both staple goods and luxury products; and, eventually, to offer explanations for the general condition and functioning of the empire.
£78.12
Peeters Publishers Qasr Ibrim, Between Egypt and Africa: Studies in
Book SynopsisThe natural citadel of Qasr Ibrim in Northern Nubia occupied for thousands of years a strategic position between Egypt and the Middle Nile region, the present-day Sudan. The rich archaeological and textual finds from the site document its history from the rule of the 'Black Pharaohs' of Egypt's 25th dynasty onwards until the Ottoman period. Briefly occupied by the Romans under Augustus, Qasr Ibrim flourished as a stronghold of Meroitic culture in the first centuries AD. In Late Antiquity, it was the political centre of a tiny kingdom, Nobadia, bordering on the Byzantine empire. Following the Christianization of the region in the fifth and sixth centuries, it became the see of a bishop, for whom a magnificent stone-built cathedral was erected. During the Arab conquest of Egypt, Nubia secured its independence under the kings of Makouria, who had their capital further south, in Old Dongola. Qasr Ibrim became the residence of the eparch of Noubadia, an official who played a pivotal role in the contacts between Christian Nubia and Islamic Egypt. The capture of the citadel by Shams ad-Dawla, Saladin's brother, in 1173, was a dramatic event that inaugurated the decline of the Christian kingdoms of Nubia in the later Middle Ages. This volume contains thirteen papers that focus on Qasr Ibrim as a key witness to cultural interaction between Egypt and the world of the Mediterranean on the one hand, and Africa, the Sudan and beyond on the other. Drawing their inspiration from the rich material found on site, these papers combine text-based and archaeological approaches. Particular attention is paid, for instance, to pottery and textile finds, while texts written in Demotic, Meroitic, Greek, Coptic, Old Nubian and Arabic are presented and discussed. Beyond the mere presentation of material, the volume addresses more general questions concerning cultural liminality, the role of indigenous versus foreign models and centre-periphery relations. Above all, however, it chronicles a fascinating chapter in the history of North-South contacts.
£48.84
Peeters Publishers Istanbul and Water
Book SynopsisIstanbul stands at a unique conjunction of an inland sea with a long maritime inlet, and a winding, turbulent maritime strait that links two seas and separates two continents. These topographical features have greatly facilitated maritime trade, for which the city has had an enormous harbor capacity. Istanbul's relationship with fresh water is also idiosyncratic: its dearth meant that fresh water for consumption had to be channeled, stored, and distributed with the help of long-distance aqueducts, open-air reservoirs and cisterns. The natural environment combined with the norms of local societies created a culture of water that has constituted an important part of Istanbul's identity. Various aspects of it are explored in this volume, the outcome of a symposium organized by Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations. The eleven essays by leading scholars present research findings from the archaeological excavations at Yenikapi, examine the distribution and consumption of water in Byzantine times as well as the social impact of water in the Ottoman era, and offer reflections on the aesthetics of water.
£110.90
Peeters Publishers Egypt in the First Millennium AD: Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-first annual British Museum Egyptology Colloquium, which was the first in the series dedicated to post-pharaonic Egypt. The volume investigates continuity and change in the archaeological record in the First Millennium AD, focusing on the transitions to and from Late Antiquity (AD 250-800), when Egypt's population became Christian and, later, Islam was introduced. The fourteen contributors, representing the overlapping disciplines of Egyptology, Archaeology and Art History with specialisations in the pharaonic, Roman and Late Antique periods, present the results of new archaeological research at a range of sites currently under investigation. Seeking to identify trends and compare results, the volume is organised according to four major themes: 1) settlements, 2) cemeteries, 3) settling rock-cut tombs and quarries and 4) temple-church-mosque. Many of the contributions address adaptive reuse of earlier architecture, the recycling of earlier monuments as building material (i.e. spolia), or both. Traditionally neglected by modern scholars in favour of other periods in Egypt's long history, the study of First Millennium AD archaeology offers increasingly better opportunities to evaluate both Egypt's distinctiveness and its role within the wider Mediterranean region.
£114.00
Peeters Publishers Tas-Silg, Marsaxlokk (Malta) I: Archaeological
Book SynopsisTas-Silg, on the south-east coast of the island of Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains spanning four thousand years. A megalithic temple complex built in the early third millennium BC gave way to a Phoenician and Punic sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Astarte. The sacred place underwent major transformations in Roman times, becoming an international religious complex dedicated to the goddess Juno. Located on the maritime routes plied by mariners and traders, its fame did not escape the attention of the first-century BC orator Cicero. Excavated as part of a major archaeological project in the 1960s, the site of Tas-Silg lay abandoned for several decades. In 1996, the University of Malta renewed excavations at the site for ten seasons, uncovering Neolithic and Late Bronze Age occupation levels, and substantial deposits associated with ritual offerings of Punic date. This volume is the first monograph of the final publication of the excavations. It provides an account of those excavations and of the studies which accompanied them, including the lithic assemblages, the figurative representations, scarabs and amulets, the worked stone, the coins, and environmental analyses. It forms a companion volume to the second monograph, which reports on the pottery and the inscribed pottery.
£124.71
Peeters Publishers Tas-Silg, Marsaxlokk (Malta) II: Archaeological
Book SynopsisTas-Silg, on the south-east coast of the island of Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains spanning four thousand years. A megalithic temple complex built in the early third millennium BC gave way to a Phoenician and Punic sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Astarte. The sacred place underwent major transformations in Roman times, becoming an international religious complex dedicated to the goddess Juno. Located on the maritime routes plied by mariners and traders, its fame did not escape the attention of the first-century BC orator Cicero. Excavated as part of a major archaeological project in the 1960s, the site of Tas-Silg lay abandoned for several decades. In 1996, the University of Malta renewed excavations at the site for ten seasons, uncovering Neolithic and Late Bronze Age occupation levels, and substantial deposits associated with ritual offerings of Punic date. This volume is the second monograph of the final publication of the excavations. It provides an account of the pottery and of the hundreds of inscribed pottery sherds that were recovered during the excavations. It forms a companion volume to the first monograph, which reports on the history of the site and other finds.
£142.34
Peeters Publishers Funerary Reliefs from the West Pontic Area
Book SynopsisThis book brings together, for the first time, tombstones of the 6th-1st centuries BC from the necropoleis of the Greek colonies of the whole western Black Sea area (modern-day Bulgaria and Romania). It studies monuments with relief decoration - 98 pieces (from Apollonia, Bizone, Callatis, Dionysopolis, Histria, Mesambria, Naulochos, Odessos and Orgame) are examined and illustrated in a geographically arranged catalogue, which is preceded by a full discussion of typologies, iconography, chronology, compositional elements, material, workshops and production, etc. The book is not merely a case study but also an examination of Greek funerary art in general, offering parallels from mainland Greece, the Greek islands and Asia Minor, and noting general tendencies as well as local peculiarities specific to the western Black Sea.
£114.00
Peeters Publishers Understanding Standardization and Variation in
Book SynopsisThis volume is designed as a wide-ranging analysis of ceramic standardization and variation, and as a contribution to pottery studies in the Mediterranean and beyond. It originates in a conference session at the 16th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists which was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, and was organized by the research team of the project New Perspectives on Ancient Pottery (NPAP) of the Amsterdam Archaeological Centre, University of Amsterdam. Some of the most enduring questions archaeologists raise are explicitly or implicitly formulated around the concepts of standardization and variation. Yet, the significance of these concepts has rarely been acknowledged in archaeological literature and their full potential for the study of ancient culture remains under-explored. To demonstrate the significance of these concepts for the study of material culture, we adopt here a cross-cultural and diachronic perspective. The individual chapters cover a variety of case studies, ranging from Spanish handmade pottery to John Beazley's Greek vase painters. The range of approaches pursued is equally broad and involves traditional stylistic analyses, applications of archaeological science, statistical methodologies, and post-processual considerations. The result will hopefully stimulate pottery experts and specialists in other categories of artifacts to revisit their material from different and fresh angles.
£87.00
Peeters Publishers Minoan Stone Vessels with Linear A Inscriptions
Book SynopsisInscribed Minoan stone vessels are ritual gifts that index their dedicants’ intention that both their gift and their name should survive permanently at the place of dedication. These vessels contained offerings, yet the vessels themselves were also offerings, serving as permanent records of a ritual act. These rituals were most likely communal, incorporating group feasting and drinking. The seasonality of these rituals suggests that they were focused on the cycle of life: fertility, birth, death and renewal. Offerings left with the vessels suggest that these rituals also addressed other, more personal concerns. As for Linear A itself: the language behind the script appears to contain a fairly standard phonemic inventory, though there are hints of additional, more exotic phonemes. The morphology of the language appears to involve affixation, a typical mode of inflection in human languages. The presence of significant prefixing tends to rule out PIE as a parent language, while the word-internal vowel alternations typical of Afroasiatic verbal inflection are nowhere to be found in this script. In the end, Linear A appears most likely to represent a non-IE, non-Afroasiatic language, perhaps with agglutinative tendencies, and perhaps with VSO word order.
£123.30
Peeters Publishers Interpretations of Sinuhe: Inspired by Two
Book SynopsisThe Tale of Sinuhe is the best-known text from ancient Egypt, and equally the one about which the most has been written. And yet its depths have not been fully fathomed, in respect neither to its cultural and literary value, nor to its grammar and lexicon. The present volume originates in a conference held at Leiden University which took as its starting point two passages from the famous story: one from the beginning of the Tale, and one from the end. The idea was that the text could be opened up through them, from the inside out. The ten essays of this volume discuss the Tale from many different viewpoints, bringing new insights to its grammar, its literary ambition, and its cultural setting.
£55.37
Peeters Publishers The Workman's Progress: Studies in the Village of
Book SynopsisThis book contains twenty-two papers collected in honour of Robert J. Demarée by his friends and colleagues. Because of his expertise in the area of Western Thebes and ostraca of the village of Deir el-Medina in particular, the contributors have sought to address these topics in particular. Central theme of the Festschrift is the community of workmen of Deir el-Medina, which is investigated from many different angles. The papers discuss the documentary texts from the village, either written in graffiti, on papyri or on ostraca, but also aspects of the work in the Valley of the Kings, the workmen's use of oil, birthing beds, coffins, stelae as well as their religious beliefs and behaviour. The volume thus sheds new light on the workmen's community, as well as on the area of Western Thebes in more general terms. This volume is a token of gratitude from the Leiden University department of Egyptology for Rob's much appreciated contribution to its teaching programme, as well as a tribute by colleagues worldwide who have worked with him, also in fieldwork projects in Egypt.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Graeco-Roman Archives from the Fayum
Book SynopsisThe Fayum is a large depression in the western desert of Egypt, receiving its water directly from the Nile. In the early Ptolemaic period the agricultural area expanded a great deal, new villages were founded and many Greeks settled here. When villages on the outskirts were abandoned about AD 300-400, houses and cemeteries remained intact for centuries. Here were found thousands of papyri, ostraca (potsherds) and hundreds of mummy portraits, which have made the area famous among classicists and art historians alike. Most papyri and ostraca are now scattered over collections all over the world. The sixth volume of Collectanea Hellenistica presents 145 reconstructed archives originating from this region, including private, professional, official and temple archives both in Greek and in native Demotic.
£121.95
Peeters Publishers Engineering and Construction in Egypt's Early
Book SynopsisThroughout history people have marvelled at the pyramids, from the elemental beauty of the Step Pyramid of Djoser to the monumental scale and engineering achievement of the Great Pyramid in Giza. The knowledge needed to build such grand monuments was vast, but not acquired overnight. The precursors to the pyramids, the massive mud brick tombs of the First and Second Dynasties, reveal a high degree of proficiency, ingenuity and capability by the architects, engineers and builders of that time. These mud brick structures, built almost five centuries before the Giza pyramids, reveal a structured and well organised society with well developed construction and management skills. In fact, the construction time and labour force requirements in these earlier structures were efficient and small in comparison to ventures in the proceeding Dynasties. It is through these structures - and the development of the skills and diversity of industries required to sustain the building of them - that the foundation for the economic and social development of future generations and the dawn of large scale stone construction was laid.
£85.00
Peeters Publishers Tell Qudadi: An Iron Age IIB Fortress on the
Book SynopsisThis monograph presents the final excavation report of the Iron Age fortress at Tell Qudadi (Tell esh-Shuna) situated on the northern bank of the Yarkon river estuary in the central coast of Israel. The main excavations were conducted in 1937-38 and were published in a very preliminary form, dating the first phase of the fortress to the 10th or 9th century BC, whereas the second phase, attributed by the excavators to the northern Israelite kingdom, was ascribed to the latter part of the 9th century BC until 732 BC, when it was destroyed during the military campaign led by Tiglath-pileser III. Such a reconstruction of events was unreservedly accepted by other scholars. The present authors offer a new chronological scheme for two architectural phases of this impressive Iron Age fortress, suggesting a new chronological affiliation of the fortress to the period between the second half of the 8th and first half of the 7th centuries BC. Accordingly, the site formed part of the sophisticated network that was created on behalf of the Neo-Assyrian rule. The study of the site's Iron Age IIB pottery assemblages enables a reassessment of a number of contested chronological issues in a wider Mediterranean setting.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers The Erbstreit Papyri: A Bilingual Dossier from
Book SynopsisThe Erbstreit papyri, nineteen papyri with twenty texts, now dispersed over five different collections, represent a bilingual dossier that was collected in Antiquity as a result of inheritance disputes. They were once part of a family archive kept in the Upper-Egyptian town of ancient Pathyris, modern Gebelein. The disputes started after the death of the woman Tamenos, daughter of Panas alias Hermokrates, when members from several branches of her family claimed the plots of land she had bequeathed to her children. A series of lawsuits ensued which were dealt with by a wide range of officials, starting with the local Provost Nechoutes up to the Viceroy Boethos, to be settled eventually before the Greek high court from Ptolemais in Middle Egypt when in session in Thebes. The dossier is composed of written evidence produced by the parties, court minutes, court decisions, copies of temple oaths and amicable settlements. One of the attractive features of the dossier are the Greek translations of Egyptian pieces of evidence presented in the Greek courts. The volume provides a substantial introduction outlining the respective stages in the juridical dealings as well as (re-)editions of and comments in detail on the Greek and demotic texts. Appendixes on bilingualism and on Graeco-Egyptian double names as well as indexes and photographic plates complete the volume.
£94.00
Peeters Publishers Vienna 2 - Ancient Egyptian Ceramics in the 21st
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises thirty-three peer-reviewed papers presented at the international conference 'Vienna 2 - Ancient Egyptian Ceramics in the 21st Century' held at the University of Vienna in May 2012. The papers discuss pottery manufacture and use as well as its archaeological deposition and significance over the entire length of ancient Egyptian history from the prehistoric to early medieval periods. The spatial distribution of sites from which ceramic material is drawn and discussed covers the Nile Delta in the north, the Egyptian Nile valley down to the Sudan as well as adjacent regions. The papers not only provide detailed insights into the most recent analytical methods, results, theoretical approaches and relevant scholarly discussions in the field of ancient Egyptian ceramics, but also highlight ongoing research at archaeological excavations, in museums, storerooms and archives. The book therefore offers a comprehensive up-to-date reference collection of articles addressing the current state and future directions of ceramological studies in Egyptian archaeology.
£129.00
Peeters Publishers Het leven van elke dag in het antieke Sagalassos:
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£25.00
Peeters Publishers Aere perennius: Mélanges égyptologiques en
Book SynopsisCe volume de mélanges rassemble des contributions d'ami(e)s, collègues et élèves de Pascal Vernus, directeur d'études émérite à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). La diversité des thèmes égyptologiques abordés illustre les centres d'intérêts de Pascal Vernus, dont l'oeuvre abondante a tant fait progresser la connaissance dans nombre de domaines. Publications de documents inédits, réflexions sur la richesse de l'écriture égyptienne, études de lexicographie, analyses linguistiques, observations sur l'idéologie et la culture de l'Égypte ancienne, autant de sujets traités ici qui ont pour dénominateur commun l'insatiable curiosité scientifique de Pascal Vernus.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Nubia in the New Kingdom: Lived Experience,
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the proceedings of the 22nd Annual Egyptological Colloquium held at the British Museum in 2013, augmented by additional papers. It reflects an ongoing research focus, supported by new fieldwork, on the relationship between Egypt and Nubia during the New Kingdom (1550-1070 BC). Until recently characterised in terms that mirror the ideology promulgated on ancient temple walls - the pharaonic state enjoying complete political control and cultural dominance over 'wretched Kush' - the re-assessment of this relationship has foregrounded models of cultural entanglement and hybridisation. The papers reflect a variety of disciplinary approaches - archaeological, epigraphic, architectural, environmental and bioarchaeological - which are helping to provide a more nuanced understanding of what it was like to live in colonial Kush during the later second millennium BC.
£151.95
