Archaeology by period / region Books
Peeters Publishers Dayr alBarsha Volume III. The Nectanebo Quarries
£238.85
Peeters Publishers Archaeology of Eastern Anatolia I From
Book Synopsis
£180.00
Peeters Publishers Coiffures et parures de tête en Égée à l'Âge du
Book SynopsisLes coiffures et les parures de tête, en tant qu’éléments forts de communication, permettent d’aborder des champs d’investigation sur l’appartenance culturelle et identitaire de leurs porteurs. Cette recherche, à travers ce nouvel angle d’approche, vise à éclairer la place et le rôle de la chevelure et des coiffes dans les civilisations égéennes de l’ ge du Bronze. L’étude se fonde principalement sur deux types de sources complémentaires : les sources directes (bandeaux métalliques) et les sources indirectes (iconographie). La démarche conduit à proposer une nouvelle typologie morpho-stylistique des coiffures et parures de tête visibles dans l’iconographie. Ces diverses représentations montrent que certaines coiffures et parures de tête sont des marqueurs sexuels, chrono-culturels et sociaux. Grâce à un double examen visuel (observation macroscopique et microscopique) des bandeaux métalliques, on peut reconstituer leur chaîne opératoire. L’étude met en évidence des différences techniques (fabrication et décoration) et des traces d’usure intimement liées aux contextes chrono-culturels. La recherche tend également à montrer que le bandeau devait être porté en association avec un tissu. Par l’étude des traces immatérielles et grâce à la mobilisation de diverses sources (iconographiques, archéologiques, textuelles et comparatives), on a tenté d’appréhender les outils et la gestuelle associés au traitement de la chevelure, mais aussi les matériaux pouvant composer les parures de tête représentées en iconographie. Des reconstitutions du port du bandeau ont enfin montré le vaste champ de possibilités du port de cet artefact.
£112.00
Peeters Publishers Late Antique Wall Paintings from Porphyreon in
Book Synopsis
£160.00
Peeters Publishers Meir. Die Nekropole im Mittleren Reich
Book Synopsis
£196.65
Peeters Publishers Femmes en Égypte de lépoque perse à lépoque
Book Synopsis
£79.67
Peeters Despotiko the Site of Mandra
Book Synopsis
£101.65
Peeters Publishers Archaeology of Eastern Anatolia II From Prehistoric Times to the End of the Iron Ages
£105.00
Peeters Publishers La banque privée et léconomie monétaire
Book Synopsis
£72.04
Peeters Publishers Egypt at its Origins 7
Book Synopsis
£275.00
Peeters Publishers Demotic Funerary Stelae and Other Short Texts
Book Synopsis
£110.72
Peeters Publishers Lo sviluppo termale del settore costiero della città di Ostia
£153.36
Peeters Publishers SixtySix Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City
Book Synopsis
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Vinegrowing and Winemaking in the Roman World
£218.54
Peeters Publishers Le anfore grecooccidentali dalle necropoli di Himera VIV sec. a.C.
£98.00
Peeters Publishers Archéologie patrimoine et archives Les fouilles
Book Synopsis
£104.31
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) The Teachings of Sylvanus (Nag Hammadi Codex VII,
Book SynopsisThis posthumously published book was finished by the late Dr. Jan Zandee, Professor-Emeritus in Egyptology and the history of ancient religions. The 'Teachings' had indeed his interest for many years of his scholarly life. In the present book, a magnum opus, his earlier and latest findings are summarized. This Nag Hammadi-tractate, a pseudepigraphon using the name of the companion of St. Paul, is written in the form of the ancient sapiential literature. The Greek original may date from the early third century, the Coptic codex VII was created about A.D. 340. The theme of the writing is the battle of the soul against evil and the final victory with the additional and decisive help of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit. The author gives the Coptic text with translation and a rich commentary. Summaries, six excursusses and two indices (Greek and Coptic words) complete this fine book, a testimony of great learning.
£59.85
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) The Coffin of Djedmonthuiufankh in the National
Book SynopsisThis book is an in-depth study of a XXIst-early XXIInd Dynasty anthropoid coffin. It is modelled on a combination of D.L. Clarke's analytical and E. Panofsky's iconographic/iconological approaches to archaeological and art historical data respectively. The introductory chapter is followed by an "Analytical Description" which consists of two parts. In "Technical Aspects" the data are handled typologically and statistically, and the coffin's place among its corpus is established. In "Iconographic Description and Analysis" all decorative motifs and individual (often unique) vignettes are studied in detail. The "Preliminary Iconological Synthesis" in which the coffin and its corpus are placed in the broad cultural-historical framework at Thebes, concludes this volume. The book contains tables, diagrams, and over 500 illustrations.
£100.30
Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren Reconstructing Pathyris' Archives: A
Book SynopsisThe small town of Pathyris, modern Gebelein, is located south of Thebes. After a huge revolt suppressed in 186 B.C., a Ptolemaic military camp was built in this town, where local people could serve as soldiers-serving-for-pay. The Government took several initiatives to Hellenize the town, resulting in a bilingual society. The town produced hundreds of papyri and ostraka, discovered during legal excavations and illegal diggings at the end of the 19th century and in the 20th century. Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens describe the history of the town and reconstruct the bilingual archives by using, among other things, prosopographical data and the method of museum archaeology.
£59.13
Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren The Petrie Papyri Second Edition (P. Petrie²).
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of the long awaited new edition of the Petrie papyri, which were found in mummy cartonnage in a cemetery on the fringe of the Fayum and first published in the last decade of the 19th century. Hundreds of Greek and demotic papyri will be reedited with many additions to the editio princeps (which did not include the numerous fragments) and an up-to-date commentary. The present volume contains the remains of a register of Ptolemaic wills, dated between 238 and 226 B.C., and now housed in London, Dublin, Oxford and Jena. The more than fifty wills, some of them very fragmentary, are a prime source of information for Greek law of inheritance (with striking parallels in the wills of Plato and Aristotle), for the organisation of the Ptolemaic army (most wills are drawn up for soldiers in order to safeguard their military possessions), for women's rights (apparently the wife did not enjoy legal protection and had to be provided for by means of a will), for personal descriptions in official documents, for slavery and for the presence of Greeks and Alexandrians in the Egyptian interior in the third century B.C.
£42.71
Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren The Bilingual Family Archive of Dryton, his Wife
Book SynopsisThis volume contains an introduction and edition of the bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia alias Senmonthis and their offspring. The Cretan officer Dryton, son of Pamphilos, served in the Ptolemaic army of the second century B.C. A son was born out of his first marriage. When he was about 40 years old, Dryton entered a second marriage with an Egyptian girl Apollonia alias Senmonthis, a daughter of a fellow soldier. Dryton went to live in the small town of Pathyris, south of Thebes. The couple had five daughters. The family’s archive contains a diversity of Greek and Demotic texts written on papyrus and ostraka, reflecting Greek and Egyptian traditions. The archive is important for research on multicultural societies. In the Upper Egyptian town Pathyris nearly twenty bilingual family archives have been found, dating to the second and first centuries BCE. They contain different types of documents, but contracts play an important role. Most of the Greek contracts were written by notaries (agoranomoi), whose native language was Egyptian. This study describes the language contact situation in Hellenistic Egypt in general and in Pathyris in particular. Notarial offices and scribal families in Upper Egypt are also discussed.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers EK 8184. Tome II: Explorations Aux Qoucour
Book Synopsis
£999.99
Peeters Publishers The Missing Century: Palaestina Antiqua: 9
Book SynopsisThe Byzantine period is one of the less known periods in the history of Palestine. On the one hand, there is a wealth of archaeological evidence, albeit not in a final form; while, on the other hand, there are few historical sources. There is evidence of prosperity, but also testimonies of economic and demographic deterioration. The book offers a comprehensive historical framework describing the period, based on all the available material. In the absence of historical sources, full use must be made of the archaeological data; until the present, however, chronological definitions have not been determined for "Byzantine" pottery vessels. The book makes use of a new methodological tool: quantitative numismatic data.
£999.99
Peeters L'alabastre attique: Origine, forme et usages
Book Synopsis
£999.99
Peeters Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society:
Book Synopsis
£999.99
Peeters Terpsis: Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology in
Book Synopsis
£98.11
Brepols Publishers Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage
Book Synopsis
£47.50
Kapon Editions Ethniko Archaiologiko Mousio
Book Synopsis
£24.00
Kapon Editions The Ancient Astiki Odos and the Metro Beneath
Book Synopsis
£38.25
Kapon Editions Cipros: To Staurodromi tis Anatolikis Mesogiou
Book Synopsis
£41.25
Kapon Editions Armenizodas sto Xrono to Ploio Stin Elliniki
Book Synopsis
£45.00
Kapon Editions Guide to the Archaeological Museum of
Book SynopsisThe Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, one of the most important in Greece, houses masterpieces of Greek art associated with the history of Ancient Macedonia, from the 2nd millennium BC to the 4th century BC and the reigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. The Guide to the Museum presents the rich, varied finds from Vergina, Sindos and Derveni and many other important Macedonian sites. Detailed illustrations accompany the descriptions of the objects on display. The introduction to Ancient Macedonia and the informative texts prefacing the descriptions of individual sections are designed to set the objects on display in their historical context, to help visitors to the Museum to enjoy the beauty of ancient art and follow the history of Macedonia. 240 colour illustrations. German language text.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT MACEDONIA HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM GUIDE FOR VISITORS PORTICO - ANTE-ROOM sculpture Exhibition ROOM 1 ‘Temple of Therme’ ROOM 2 sculpture Exhibition ROOM 3 sculpture Exhibition ROOM 4 Thessalonike Exhibition Area a Therme Area b Hellenistic Thessalonike Area c Late Hellenistic and Roman Thessalonike Area d Religious cults in Thessalonike Area E Public Life in Thessalonike Area f Public Buildings Area g Private Residences ROOM 5 Sculpture Exhibition ROOM 6 Sculpture Exhibition ROOM 7 The Macedonian Tombs ROOM 8 Sindos Exhibition ROOM 9 Vergina and Derveni Exhibition ROOM 10 Archaic and Early classical periods ROOM 11 Prehistoric Collection BIBLIOGRAPHY
£26.46
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities In the Lands of Sumer and Akkad: New Studies
Book Synopsis
£22.00
NUS Press Unearthing Southeast Asias Past
Book Synopsis
£71.25
Butrint Foundation Gjirokastra The Essential Guide
Book SynopsisAt first sight Gjirokastra appears extravagantly fanciful - an oriental vision of towering stone mansions clinging to the sheer sides of the valley. Dominated by a mighty limestone fortress that thrusts forward to accost those who approach along the valley, the city takes your breath away.Old Gjirokastra is one of the best preserved examples of an Ottoman-style town in the Balkans and was inscribed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. This ancient city is a fascinating destination for those who want to dig deep into Albania's culture and history at this crossroads of East and West.The Essential Guide unravels the complex history of the city and its landscape, providing a comprehensive introduction to Gjirokastra's winding cobbled streets and impressive architecture. For those keen on exploring the region, it details trips into the surrounding countryside, where ancient fortresses and medieval churches lie alongside more recent ruins of the communist era.
£15.15
Oxbow Books Buttons and Design Scarabs
£31.85
Oxbow Books Objects of Daily Use
£32.26
Oxbow Books Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery and Palettes
Book SynopsisFacsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1921 corpus of prehistoric pottery and slate palettes from pre-dynastic, prehistoric Egypt. The pottery corpus was produced separately to accompany the catalogue of Egyptian artifacts in the volume Prehistoric Egypt and comprises hundreds of line drawings illustrating the shapes, forms and types of decoration. It was intended to be a ‘graveside’ aid for use during excavation, with the intent that it be used with record cards to classify and date pottery that could then be returned to the grave. The corpus of palettes updated Petrie’s original classification published Ballas and Naqada, to include many new finds and refine the typology and sequence.This series comprises facsimile re-issues of typological catalogues produced between 1898 and 1937 by W.M. Flinders Petrie, based on his vast collection of Egyptian artefacts which now reside in The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, University College, London. Long out of print, the catalogues were re-issued in facsimile by publishers Aris & Phillips in the 1970s alongside newly-commissioned titles by contemporary experts. Petrie’s catalogues remain invaluable source material today. The Oxbow Classics in Egyptology series now makes a selection of these important resources available again in print for a new generation of students and scholars.Table of ContentsThe corpus of Prehistoric pottery The corpus of slate palettes The registers Plates
£31.85
Oxbow Books Illahun, Kahun and Gurob
Book SynopsisFlinders Petrie undertook excavation and survey of ancient Egyptian towns in the Faiyum oasis, south-west of Cairo, in 1888–90. The work included opening of a pyramid at Illahun and excavation of a nearby cemetery, excavation and planning of over 2000 chambers of the city of Kahun, excavation of a Ptolemaic cemetery at Gurob, and work at the temple site at Medinet Gurob. This facsimile volume presents brief descriptions of the work with a focus on the artifacts and inscriptions recovered and recorded with an attempt to establish a chronology of occupation in the oasis.The entrance to the pyramid at Illahun, its peculiar structure and exploration of its various internal passages and chambers are described, including the sepulchre containing the red granite sarcophagus of Usertesen II, accompanied by a table of offerings. A series of nearby tombs produced a wealth of artifacts associated with burials, wooden coffins and cartonnages, including glazed objects, amulets, scarabs, beads, silver cowries, carved and inscribed wooden objects and statuettes. At Kahun the complete surviving plan of the ancient town revealed a regular layout thought by Petrie to be the work of a single architect. He identified the acropolis, at least eight great houses, dwelling houses, rubbish heaps, and storerooms arranged along numerous narrow ‘workmen’s’ streets with drainage channels. Much evidence for construction materials and techniques and house fittings, wall plaster and paint was recovered. Portable objects included decorated pottery, some of it imported; pottery trays of offerings; stonework; wooden carvings; flint sickles and knives; inscribed stelae; a variety of copper tools; scarabs and clay seals; stone weights and many tools, including several workshop groups. A family tomb in the cellar beneath one house contained 12 coffins, each containing several bodies with grave offerings buried in succession, two baby boxes and a heap of offerings. At Gurob, the plan of the main temple and surrounding enclosures, within which were contained most of the houses, was established and an outline of its history determined. An unusual practice of burning personal belongings in pits beneath the houses was identified and the groups of objects and inscriptions discussed. The nearby cemetery was also investigated with pit-like tombs producing undecorated coffins but finely painted cartonnages, badly decomposed papyri and a few funerary objects. A discussion of the wider urban landscape concludes the narrative. There are specialist reports on the papyri and stone implements.This series comprises facsimile re-issues of typological catalogues produced between 1898 and 1937 by W.M. Flinders Petrie, and re-issued in facsimile by publishers Aris & Phillips in the 1970s alongside newly-commissioned titles by contemporary experts. Petrie’s catalogues remain invaluable source material today. The Oxbow Classics in Egyptology series now makes a selection of these important resources available again in print for a new generation of students and scholars.Table of ContentsIntroductory 1. Pyramids of Illahun 2. The town of Kahun 3. The antiquities of Kahun 4. Medinet Gurob 5. The tomb of Maket 6. Illahun in the XXII Dyn. 7. Ptolemic cemetery, Gurob 8. Ptolemais and late sites 9. The Greek papyri (by Prof. Sayce) 10. The hieratic papyri (by F.Ll. Griffith) 11. The stone implements (by F.C.J. Spurrell, F.G.S.) Plates
£32.15
Oxbow Books The Birds of Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisHailed as a sumptuously produced and finely illustrated outstanding contribution to ancient Egyptian studies, this facsimile reprint of Patrick Houlihan’s 1986 comprehensive study makes a welcome return in the Oxbow Classics in Egyptology series.Animals of all kinds are amply illustrated in Egyptian art, none more so than birds, in both secular and religious contexts and in hieroglyphic scripts. A great variety of bird species has for millennia made twice yearly migrations passing over Egypt, which is also an important overwintering area for many. These migrant birds, together with indigenous species were an abundant and easily exploited source of food for ancient Egyptians, for domestication and status display. Tomb scenes displaying birds provided as food for the deceased are abundant, as are procession scenes of offering with bearers bringing gifts of fowl. Many birds also had religious associations. Houlihan provides a systematic and unparalleled survey of all the bird life depicted by the ancient Egyptians in art and hieroglyphic writing face=Calibri>– some 72 species (plus bats) – with a list of known mummified species, discussions on their religious and secular associations, and many illustrations. Their present-day distributions are compared with that known from the time of the Pharoahs. A checklist of the birds of modern Egypt is provided by Steven Goodman.Table of ContentsSources of the figures Map of Ancient Egypt Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations and references cited The catalogue Appendix I The mummified birds Appendix II A preliminary checklist to the Birds of Egypt, by Steven M. Goodman Notes to the catalogue and checklist Chronological table Index
£47.82
Oxbow Books Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1979, this facsimile edition of Jeffrey Spencer’s comprehensive study provides a detailed account of the brick architecture of ancient Egypt. Part I provides introductory information on brick manufacture, early use of brick in Egypt and explains the corpus of brick bonding systems. Part II provides an account of the surviving brick buildings, discussed by type, with special reference to technical and structural matter. Part III presents an examination of the constructional techniques employed at different periods for various purposes. A discussion of the kinds of bricks used, their sizes, and bonding is included.This series comprises facsimile re-issues of typological catalogues produced between 1898 and 1937 by W.M. Flinders Petrie, based on his vast collection of Egyptian artefacts which now reside in The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, University College, London. Long out of print, the catalogues were re-issued in facsimile by publishers Aris & Phillips in the 1970s alongside newly-commissioned titles by contemporary experts – of which Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt is one. The Oxbow Classics in Egyptology series makes a selection of these important resources – which remain invaluable source material – available again in print for a new generation of students and scholars.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface Introduction Part I 1. Brick manufacture 2. The earliest use of brick in Egypt 3. The bonding corpus Part II 4. Funerary architecture 5. Religious architecture 6. Administrative and official buildings 7. Domestic architecture 8. Fortresses and defensive town walls Part III 9. Brick walls 10. Floors and foundations 11. Arches, vaults, domes and corbels 12. Solid brick construction in mastabas and pyramids 13. Supplementary materials in brick construction 14. Bonding 15. Special bricks 16. Brick sizes Appendix I: Metrology of Egyptian brickwork Indexes Plates
£47.83
Oxbow Books Roman Urbanism in Italy: Recent Discoveries and New Directions
Book SynopsisThe study of Roman urbanism – especially its early (Republican) phases – is extensively rooted in the evidence provided by a series of key sites, several of them located in Italy. Some of these Italian towns (e.g. Fregellae, Alba Fucens, Cosa) have received a great deal of scholarly attention in the past and they are routinely referenced as textbook examples, framing much of our understanding of the broad phenomenon of Roman urbanism. However, discussions of these sites tend to fall back on well-established interpretations, with relatively little or no awareness of more recent developments. This is remarkable, since our understanding of these sites has since evolved thanks to new archaeological fieldwork, often characterised by the pursuit of new questions and the application of new approaches. Similarly, new evidence from other sites has since prompted a reconsideration of time-honoured views about the nature, role and long-term trajectory of Roman towns in Italy.Tracing its origins in the Laurence Seminar on Roman Urbanism in Italy: recent discoveries and new directions, which took place at the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge (27–28 May 2022), this volume brings together scholars whose recent work at key sites is contributing to expand, change or challenge our current knowledge and understanding of Roman urbanism in Italy. The individual chapters showcase some of the most recent methods and approaches applied to the study of Roman towns, discussing the broader implications of fresh archaeological discoveries from both well known and less widely known sites, from the Po Plain to Southern Italy, from the Republican to the Late Antique period (and beyond).Table of ContentsList of Contributors 1. Introduction Alessandro Launaro Part I. Methods and approaches 2. Approaches of Roman urbanism in Italy: the example of Falerii Novi Martin Millett 3. The changing face of the eastern Caelian in the 1st–2nd centuries AD: work by the Rome Transformed Project Ian Haynes, Paolo Liverani, Thea Ravasi & Stephen Kay 4. Luck is in the Research Method: Aquinum, the Rediscovery of an ‘Invisible’ Town Giuseppe Ceraudo Part II. Beyond the textbook 5. Cosa, Orbetello, and the Genesis of a Colony. Andrea U. De Giorgi 6. The archaeology of Fregellae: an update Francesca Diosono 7. One should always dress like a marble column (Jackie Kennedy-Onassis). New insights on the urbanism of Alba Fucens Cécile Evers Part III. Not your standard Roman town 8. From sanctuary to settlement. Mapping the development of Lucus Feroniae through geophysical prospection Stephen Kay, Sophie Hay & Christopher Smith 9. Septempeda: integrated approaches for revealing a ‘small town’ in Picenum Frank Vermeulen Part IV. Roman towns in the longue durée 10. Lunae: New Perspectives from Recent Archaeological Fieldwork Simonetta Menchelli, Paolo Sangriso, Silvia Marini & Rocco Marcheschi 11. Interamna Lirenas: how special? Alessandro Launaro 12. A Town and its Road: Aeclanum on the via Appia Ben Russell & Girolamo F. De Simone Part V. Late Antiquity and beyond 13. New archaeological perspective on Late Antique Aquileia Patrizia Basso 14. Bridging the gap. Bridging the gap: new data on the settlement continuity in Parma from the stone bridge Alessia Morigi 15. Conclusion: recent discoveries and new directions John Patterson
£50.69
Casemate Publishers Archaeology of Symbols: ICAS I: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology of Symbols
Book SynopsisThis third volume in the Material Religion in Antiquity series stems from the First International Congress on the Archaeology of Symbols (ICAS I) that took place in Florence in May 2022. The archaeological process of reconstructing and understanding our past has undergone several reassessments in the last century, producing an equal number of new perspectives and approaches. The recent materiality turn emphasizes the necessity to ground those achievements in order to build fresh avenues of interpretation and reach new boundaries in the study of the human kind and its ecology. Symbols must not be conceived only as allegory but also, and perhaps mainly, as reason (raison d'etre) and meaning (culture). They may be considered key elements leading to interpretation, not only in their physical manifestation but by being infused with the gestures, beliefs and intentions of their creators, created in a specific context and with a specific chaine operatoire. In this volume a variety of case studies is offered, representing disparate ancient cultures in the Mediterranean and central Europe and the Near East. The thread that connects them revolves around the prominence of symbols and allegorical aspects in archaeology, whether they are considered as expressions of iconographic evidence, material culture or ritual ceremonies, seen from a multicultural perspective. This (and subsequent ICAS) volumes, therefore, aims to embrace all the different aspects pertaining to symbols in archaeology in a specific 'place', allowing the reader to deepen their knowledge of such a fascinating and multifaceted topic, by looking at it from a multicultural perspective.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Guido Guarducci, Nicola Laneri, and Stefano Valentini Symbols in Currents or Strings of Energy: Ian Hodder Some Remarks about the Representation of the Cupping-Vessel ( /cucurbita) in the Ancient World: Maria Angeles Alonso Alonso Abstract Depictions of Animals on Late Bronze Swords from East Georgia: Simone Arnhold, Shorena Davitashvili A Comparison between Philistine/Canaanite and Judean Iconography during the Iron Age II: David Ben-Shlomo Reflection of a Soul? Mirror-Linked Symbolism in Early Nomadic Burials (Southern Urals, Russia): Natalia Berseneva, Margaryan Kseniya The Physical Materiality of the Divine and Its Symbols: The Case of Sarapis' Attributes in Hellenistic Egypt: Efstathia Dionysopoulou Ritual and Symbolism in the Matiate Underground City: Durmus Ersun The Architectural System of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara: Its Symbolic Expression Between Social and Semiotic Sphere: Massimiliano Franci Icon - Index - Symbol. Experiencing Material Signs through Ancient Figurines: Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Andrei Aioanei The Human Hand as a Symbol in Ancient Egyptian Thought: Christos Kekes Feminine Symbolism in the Iconography of 'Luristan Bronzes': Zahra Kouzehgari Images and Symbols of 12th c. BC Pictorial Pottery from Cyprus: Anna Lekka Insights from the Philistine 'Symbol-Scape' on Philistine Origins and Social Structure: Aren Maeir Deer Symbolism in the Kura-Araxes Culture: A View from the Village of Kvatskhelebi, Georgia: Sarit Paz Network of Symbolisms in a Private Tomb in Ancient Thebes: Maria Violeta Pereyra, Mariano Bonanno Is it the Hairstyle? Female Figurines with Hairdo in the Context of the 6th Millennium BC Imagery of the Southern Levant: Dina Shalem, Ianir Milevski, Nimrod Getzov, Ehud Galili, Anat Cohen-Weinberber
£72.09
Casemate Publishers Artifacts of Mourning: Archaeology of the Historic Burial Ground of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia
Book SynopsisIn 2016, construction workers in Philadelphia unexpectedly uncovered a long forgotten burial ground. Archaeologists quickly discovered this was the location of the burial ground of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, used as early as 1722. It was thought to have been exhumed and moved in 1859. Months of excavations revealed almost 500 individual burials still remained.This book shares the complex story of the discovery and excavations. It provides backgrounds of the church, Philadelphia, and the religious climate of the time to give context to the thousands of artifacts that were discovered and are presented in their entirety. The numerous coffin handles and plaques link directly back to English production and are embedded with powerful mortuary symbols. Highlighting cultural exchange between colonial America and England, Artifacts of Mourning provides an important record of 18th- and 19th-century funerary culture.Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 2. The First Baptist Church of Philadelphia and Burial Ground 3. Excavating an Historic Burial Ground 4. Religious Revival and Mourning in the 18th and 19th Century 5. Evidence of Funerary Dress and Textiles 6. Coffins from the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia Burial Ground 7. Miscellaneous Artifacts from the Burial Ground 8. Funerary Symbolism: Handle Grip Plates and Lid Plaques 9. On the Archaeology of Mourning References
£36.48
Oxbow Books Limited The Whittle Collection
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£25.49
