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Book SynopsisThe Egyptian Museum of Florence, in collaboration with the University of Florence, hosted the Eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place from 23rd to 30th August 2015, under the patronage of the IAE – International Association of Egyptologists. This volume publishes 136 papers and posters presented during the Congress. Topics discussed here range from archaeology, religion, philology, mummy investigations and archaeometry to history, offering an up-to-date account of research in these fields.Table of ContentsPreface – Volume Editors ; Papers ; Development of Old Kingdom pottery: three cases studies (‘Cemetery of the Workers’, Heit el-Ghurab and the Khentkawes Town) – Sherif M. Abdelmoniem ; Of Min and moon – cosmological concepts in the Temple of Athribis (Upper Egypt) – Victoria Altmann-Wendling ; Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages Les relations entre l’horloge stellaire diagonale et le corpus des Textes des Sarcophages dans le sarcophage intérieur de Mésehti : le temps et les décans – Bernard Arquier ; The Qubbet el-Hawa casting moulds – Late Period bronze working at the First Cataract – Johannes Auenmüller ; Overlapping and contradictory narratives in Ancient Egyptian visual programs – Jennifer Miyuki Babcock ; Sāmānu as a human disease in Mesopotamia and Egypt – Susanne Beck ; The pyramid as a journey – cultic encounters between father and son in the Pyramid of Pepy I – Nils Billing ; The Ancient Egyptian dialects in light of the Greek transcriptions of Egyptian anthroponyms – Ana Isabel Blasco Torres ; Dalla sabbia alla teca: esempi di interventi conservativi eseguiti su alcuni papiri del Museo Egizio di Firenze – Paola Boffula Alimeni ; New evidence on the king’s son Intefmose from Dra Abu el-Naga: a preliminary report – Francisco L. Borrego Gallardo ; The Merenptah Sarcophagi restoration project – Edwin C. Brock and Lyla Pinch Brock ; Egyptian names and networks in Trismegistos (800 BC – AD 800) – Yanne Broux ; The Ptolemaic dedication of Archepolis in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina: materiality and text – Patricia A. Butz ; Bernard V. Bothmer and Ptolemaic sculpture: papers on Ptolemaic art from his archives held at the Università degli Studi di Milano – Giorgia Cafici ; The Tell el-Maskhuta Project – Giuseppina Capriotti Vittozzi and Andrea Angelini ; Silence in the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: themes and problems – Ilaria Cariddi ; Progetto Butehamon. Prospettive e ricerche nella necropoli tebana – Giacomo Cavillier ; Notes on the inscribed Old and Middle Kingdom coffins in the Egyptian Turin Museum – Emanuele M. Ciampini ; Rethinking Egyptian animal worship (c. 3000 BC – c. 300 AD): towards a historical-religious perspective – Angelo Colonna ; Before and after the Temple: the long-lived necropolis in the area of the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II – Western Thebes – Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino and Angelo Sesana ; Papyri with the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth in the Egyptian Museum in Turin – Federico Contardi ; Notes for a building history of the temple of Ramesses II at Antinoe. The architectural investigation – Michele Coppola ; Nouvelle lecture d’une scène de la théogamie d’Hatshepsout – Alice Coyette ; Worship and places of worship in the Greco-Roman town at Marina El-Alamein – Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner and Rafał Czerner ; Middle Kingdom coffin of Khnum from the National Museum of Warsaw – Dorota Czerwik ; Non-destructive analysis on 11 Egyptian blue faience tiles from the 2nd and 3rd Dynasties – Joseph Davidovits and Frédéric Davidovits ; Scenes from the Amduat on the funerary coffins and sarcophagi of the 21st Dynasty – Cássio de Araújo Duarte ; Votive pottery deposits found by the Spanish Mission at Dra Abu el-Naga – Elena de Gregorio ; The building activity of Pinudjem I at Thebes – Gabriella Dembitz ; The ‘Book of Going Forth by Day’ in the funerary chamber of Djehuty (TT 11): past, present, and future – Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos ; The pre-Egyptological concept of Egypt as a challenge for Egyptology and the efforts to establish a research community – Florian Ebeling ; The Gebelein Archaeological Project, 2013–2016 – Wojciech Ejsmond ; Trois nouvelles harpes découvertes à Thèbes ouest Quel apport pour l’égyptologie ? – Sibylle Emerit ; The ‘pantheistic’ deities. Report from research on iconography and role of polymorphic deities – Grzegorz First ; Études sur le cadre de vie d’une association religieuse dans l’Égypte gréco-romaine : l’exemple de Touna el-Gebel – Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze ; Forme di imitazione egizia nella decorazione architettonica di Nea Paphos – Leonardo Fuduli ; Ahmose-Sapair in Dra Abu el-Naga: old and new evidence – José M. Galán ; The Moon god Iah in ancient Egyptian religion – Gudelia García-Fernández ; Expression of loyalty to the king – A socio-cultural analysis of basilophoric personal names dating to the Old and Middle Kingdoms – Christina Geisen ; Love and Gold in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Amarna Letters – Graciela Gestoso Singer ; Some unpublished inscriptions from Quarry P at Hatnub – Yannis Gourdon and Roland Enmarch ; Names of eye parts in different text genres: a contribution to technical language in ancient Egypt – Nadine Gräßler ; The transformation of Theban Tomb 39 (TT39). A contribution from a conservation viewpoint in terms of its history after dynastic occupation – Dulce María Grimaldi and Patricia Meehan ; The complete corpus of viticulture and winemaking scenes from the ancient Egyptian private tombs – Maria Rosa Guasch-Jané, Sofia Fonseca and Mahmoud Ibrahim ; Des étoiles et des hommes : peurs, désirs, offrandes et prières – Nadine Guilhou ; Cracking a code: deciphering the marks of the royal necropolis workmen of the New Kingdom – Ben Haring ; The Egyptian Dionysus: Osiris and the development of theater in Ancient Egypt – Allison Hedges ; The Abydos Dynasty: an osteoarchaeological examination of human remains from the SIP royal cemetery – Jane A. Hill, Maria A. Rosado and Joseph Wegner ; You up – I down: orientational metaphors concerning ancient Egyptian Kingship in royal iconography and inscriptions – Shih-Wei Hsu ; Image processing. Elaboration and manipulation of the human figure in the Pyramid Texts – Francesca Iannarilli ; Hieroglyphic inscriptions on precious objects: some notes on the correlation between text and support – Agnese Iob ; Predynastic precursors to the Festival of Drunkenness: beer, climate change, cow-goddesses, and the ideology of kingship – Victoria Jensen ; Crowdsourcing in Egyptology – images and annotations of Middle Kingdom private tombs – Peter Kalchgruber and Lubica Hudáková ; 3D-Reconstructions of Late Roman fortresses in Egypt – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; ‘To build a temple in the beautiful white stone of Anu’. The use of Tura limestone in Theban architecture – Christina Karlshausen and Thierry De Putter ; The motif of the kiosk during the first half of the 18th dynasty – Edyta Kopp ; A heritage in peril: the threat to Egypt’s urban archaeological sites – Peter Lacovara ; Le sḏm.f circonstanciel. Une forme verbale rare en néo-égyptien littéraire – Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney ; Amduat type papyri in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow – Nika Lavrentyeva ; Carving out identities in the Egyptian desert: self-presentation styles adopted by the ancient travelers of Kharga Oasis – Nikolaos Lazaridis ; Ya-t-il une « fabrique d’albâtre » et un atelier de tissage au Ramesseum? – Guy Lecuyot ; Deux nouvelles ‘Recommandations aux prêtresʼ datées de Ptolémée X Alexandre Ier – Nicolas Leroux ; Scenes representing temple rituals on some 21st Dynasty coffins – Éva Liptay ; Building B, a domestic construction at Tell el-Ghaba, North Sinai – Silvia Lupo, Eduardo Crivelli Montero, Claudia Kohen and Eva Calomino ; The Montecelio Obelisk in Rome – Lise Manniche ; The role of e-learning in Egyptology: ‘Hieroglyphs: Step-by-Step’ website as a case study – Ahmed Mansour and Azza Ezzat ; The function and importance of some special categories of stars in the Ancient Egyptian funerary texts, 1: AxAx- and iAd-stars – Alicia Maravelia ; Chapel of the tomb belonging to Amenhotep III’s Vizier, Amenhotep Huy. Asasif Tomb No. 28, Luxor-West Bank. Excavation results: ‘Vizier Amenhotep Huy Project’ (2009–2014) – Francisco J. Martín-Valentín and Teresa Bedman ; Objets découverts dans des tombes Thébaines situées sous le Temple de Millions d’Années de Thoutmosis III à l’ouest de Louxor – Javier Martínez Babón ; Fish offerings found in Area 32 of the archaeological site of Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa, Egypt) – Maite Mascort Roca and Esther Pons Mellado ; The Akh-menu of Thutmosis III at Karnak. The Sokarian Rooms – Julie Masquelier-Loorius ; The 13th Dynasty at Abydos: a royal tomb and its context – Dawn McCormack ; The transmission of the Book of the Twelve Caverns – Daniel M. Méndez Rodríguez ; A new reading of Problem No. 53 in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The limits of proportionality – Marianne Michel ; The ang-morphs in Coptic and their grammaticalization in Later Egyptian – So Miyagawa ; ‘Augmented Reality’ technology and the dissemination of historical graffiti in the Temple of Debod – Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo, Alfonso Martín Flores, Jorge Martín Gutiérrez, Cristóbal Ruiz Medina, Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos, Fernando Guerra-Librero Fernández, Daniel Miguel Méndez Rodríguez, Luis Navarrete Ruiz, Manuel Rivas Fernández and Ovidia Soto Martín ; The Min Project. First working seasons on the unpublished Tomb of Min (TT109) and Tomb Kampp -327-: the Tomb of May and a replica of the Tomb of Osiris – Irene Morfini and Milagros Álvarez Sosa ; Figurative vase painting from the First Intermediate Period through to the Fatimid Dynasty: a continuity? – Maya Müller ; Basic considerations on the construction of pyramids in the Old Kingdom – Frank Müller-Römer ; Die Verwendung von Münzen in pharaonischer Zeit – Renate Müller-Wollermann ; In the footsteps of Ricardo Caminos: rediscovering the ‘Speos of Gebel el Silsila’ – Maria Nilsson and Philippe Martinez ; The folding cubit rod of Kha in Museo Egizio di Torino, S.8391 – Naoko Nishimoto ; The mystery of the ‘high place’ from the Abbott Papyrus revealed? The results of the works of the Polish Cliff Mission at Deir el-Bahari 1999–2014 – Andrzej Niwiński ; The mummies of the ‘Three Sisters’ in the Museo Egizio: a case study. Conservation and studies of textiles and bandages – Cinzia Oliva and Matilde Borla ; Technical aspects of faience from Hierakonpolis, Egypt – a preliminary report – Marina Panagiotaki, Elizabeth Walters, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Horus Seneferou ka-s quand le dernier souverain de la Ire dynastie devint la première femme pharaon de l’Histoire à porter un nom d’Horus – Jean-Pierre Pätznick ; The Herakleopolis Magna Project: seasons 2012–2015 – M. Carmen Pérez-Die ; The Stelae Ridge cairns: a reassessment of the archaeological evidence – Hannah Pethen ; The Italian-Egyptian Mission at the Monastery of Abba Nefer at Manqabad: results of the first four seasons’ work – Rosanna Pirelli, Ilaria Incordino, Paola Buzi and Anna Salsano ; Wedjat-eyes as a dating criterion for false doors and stelae to the early Middle Kingdom – Melanie Pitkin ; La collection égyptienne du Musée Sandelin à Saint-Omer (France) – Jean-Louis Podvin ; Some remarks on the Egyptian reception of foreign military technology during the 18th Dynasty: a brief survey of the armour – Alberto Maria Pollastrini ; Medical re-enactments: Ancient Egyptian prescriptions from an Emic viewpoint – Tanja Pommerening ; Textual layers in Coffin Texts Spells 154–160 – Gyula Priskin ; The cat mummies of the Società Africana d’Italia: an archaeological, cultural and religious perspective – Maria Diletta Pubblico ; Khnum the Creator: a puzzling case of the transfer of an iconographic motif – Maarten J. Raven ; Temple ranks in the Fayyum during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: documentary sources and archaeological data – Ilaria Rossetti ; Le musee de Mallawi : etat des lieux apres les destructions et projets pour l’avenir – Ashraf Alexandre Sadek ; A new light on Coptic afterlife (O.4550 from the Coptic Museum in Cairo) – Hind Salah El-Din Somida Awad ; The lost chapels of Elephantine. Preliminary results of a reconstruction study through archival documents – Daniele Salvoldi and Simon Delvaux ; Doors to the past. Rediscovering fragments in the new blockyard at Medinet Habu – Julia Schmied ; Les dépôts de fondation de la Vallée des Rois : nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur l’histoire de la nécropole royale du Nouvel Empire – François C. A. Schmitt ; Economic mentalities and Ancient Egyptian legal documents – Alexander Schütze ; Excavations in the ‘Temple of Millions of Years’ of Thutmosis III – Myriam Seco Álvarez ; Rituels funéraires au temps de Hatchepsout : le sanctuaire de la tombe de Djehouty et ses parallèles – José M. Serrano ; The so-called Book of Two Ways on a Middle Kingdom religious leather roll – Wael Sherbiny ; Ibyc. PMGF 287 and Ancient Egyptian love songs – Anna Sofia ; The Physiologus in Egypt – Marco Stroppa ; A survey of astronomical tables on Middle Kingdom coffin lids – Sarah L. Symons ; Blue painted pottery from a mid-18th Dynasty royal mud-brick structure in northwest Saqqara – Kazumitsu Takahashi ; Studies on BD 17 vignettes: iconographic typology of Rw.tj-scene (New Kingdom – Third Intermediate Period) – Mykola Tarasenko ; Were components of Amarna composite statues made in separate workshops? – Kristin Thompson ; Research on Old Kingdom ‘dissimilation graphique’. World-view and categorization – Simon Thuault ; La funzione del tempio tolemaico di Deir el-Medina alla luce dell’archeologia – Claudia Tirel Cena ; The ‘geography’ of the hierogrammateis: the religious topography of the Western Harpoon (7th Nome of Lower Egypt) – Elena Tiribilli ; The Ancient Egyptian shabtis discovered in the regions of Roman Illyricum (Dalmatia, Pannonia) and Istria: provenance, collections, typological study and dating – Mladen Tomorad ; From Egypt to the Holy Land: first issues on the Egyptian collection in the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem – Benedetta Torrini ; Tradition and innovation within the decoration program of the temple of Ramesses II at Gerf Hussein – Martina Ullmann ; The Egyptian Execration Statuettes (EES) Project – Athena Van der Perre ; A new long-term digital project on Hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs – Ursula Verhoeven and Svenja A. Gülden ; Hierakonpolis Faience, 2005–2013, with context and accompanying finds – a quest for chronology and possible use – Elizabeth J. Walters, Amr El Gohary, Shelton S. Alexander, Richard R. Parizek, David P. Gold, Recep Cakir, Marina Panagiotaki, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Elhe Berlin Plans from the New Kingdom Period – Yoshifumi Yasuoka ; The career of Nakhtmin (TT 87) as revealed by his funerary cones – Kento Zenihiro ; Object biographies and political expectations: Egyptian artefacts, Welsh Heritage and the regional community museum – Katharina Zinn ; Who am I - and if so, how many? Some remarks on the ‘j-augment’ and language change – Monika Zöller-Engelhardt ; Poster presentations ; Vocabulaire de l’Égyptien Ancien (VÉgA) Plateforme numérique de recherche lexicographique – A. Almásy, Ch. Cassier, J. Chun-Hung-Kee, F. Contardi, M. Massiera, A. Nespoulous-Phalippou, Fr. Rouffet ; South African collections – Izak Cornelius, Salima Ikram, Ruhan Slabbert, Liani C. Swanepoel, Frank Teichert and Tiffany van Zyl ; Pottery from the Early Roman rubbish dumps in Berenike harbour – Agnieszka Dzwonek ; A sequence of five 13th Dynasty structures at Memphis – Rabee Eissa ; Funerary culture of the Memphite region during the Early Dynastic Period – Barbora Janulíková ; The Roman Imperial cult temple at Luxor: its architecture and possible connection between Roman and Egyptian cultures – Irina Kulikova and Dmitry Karelin ; One of the earliest discovered houses at Memphis – Hanan Mahmoud Mohamed ; Étude Pluridisciplinaire De Têtes De Momies (Lyon) – Annie Perraud, Matthieu Ménager, Pascale Richardin and Catherine Vieillescazes ; Progetto Osiris: valorizzazione delle piccole collezioni egizie – Massimiliana Pozzi Battaglia e Federica Scatena ; Study and restoration of two mummies from the Moulins Museum – Noëlle Timbart ; List of papers presented at ICE XI – M. Franci

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Book SynopsisThe House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations ever to have been undertaken at Pompeii. The methodology employed to the systematic examination of an entire city block, involving extensive artefact and ecofact recovery, using the latest scientific methods, has generated one of the single largest bodies of archaeological data ever produced on the development of ancient Pompeii, from the earliest traces of human habitation until its destruction. The first major section of this data is now made available in form of a study of the most famous and prominent of the houses on the block. The Casa del Chirurgo (House of the Surgeon) has been one of the most frequently cited houses in the ancient city since its discovery in 1771. The results of the exhaustive study of the house within its urban context not only challenge many of the conclusions of previous research, but also make it possible at last for this important property to contribute information to the full history of Pompeii’s urban development, illuminating the chronology of urban change, the processes involved in ancient domestic construction, aspects of the ancient environment, and changing socio-political and economic conditions within Italy throughout the middle to late Republic and early Empire.Trade Review…this is an excellent report, containing a wealth of new data expertly martialled, described and illustrated. * Antiquity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Foreword: The Old Certainties are Crumbling Rick Jones 1. Pompeii’s Insula VI 1 and the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 2. The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii Damian Robinson, Michael A. Anderson, H.E.M. Cool, Robyn Veal, and Charlene Murphy 3. Digging the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 4. The Stratigraphic and Structural Sequence of the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 5. Room by Room Discussion of Stratigraphy and Architecture Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 6. Glass Vessels and Small Finds H. E. M. Cool 7. Report on the Coinage Recovered from the AAPP Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo Richard Hobbs 8. Plaster Fragments from the Cisterns of the Casa del Chirurgo: a window onto the house’s lost decoration Helen White 9. Pavements of Mortar, Mosaic and Marble Inlay Will Wootton 10. The Faunal Remains Jane Richardson 11. Archaeobotanical Remains Charlene Murphy 12. Fuel and Timber in the Casa del Chirurgo Robyn Veal 13. The Ancient Campanian Environment and Results from the Casa del Chirurgo Robyn Veal and Charlene Murphy 14 Conclusions Michael A. Anderson Appendix I: Stratigraphic Unit Listing and Chapter 5 Concordance Appendix II: Harris Matrices for Areas Excavated Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of papers by leading international experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to study and record in detail its collection. Papers address a series of topics including: the development of coffins in antiquity, including iconographic and text-based studies, providing new insights into ancient Egyptian belief systems at different periods and regional differences in coffin presentation; the post-antiquity history of coffins, including their acquisition and subsequent treatment in museums around the world; developments in technical examination and methods of studying coffins, especially the use of multispectral imaging to provide non-invasive analysis of materials, and what this tells us about construction and decorative techniques at different periods and in response to the availability of different materials and increasing evidence of the re-use of materials and complete re-working of coffins for new owners, leading us to question fundamental attitudes to the purpose of coffins as a containers of human remains and the practices of craftsmen in the funerary industry. The papers stem from a conference held at the Museum to accompany a major new exhibition.Trade Review[T]hese studies superbly show how productive the concurrence of technical and art historical approaches in this emerging field of research has been […] it is fair to recognize the work carried out by the Editors in assuring a remarkable unity to the volume, despite the heterogeneity of the studies. * Bibliotheca Orientalis *Table of ContentsUta Siffert: Middle Kingdom mummy shaped coffins: investigating meaning and function Hans-Hubertus Münch: High class coffins? Some remarks on the black coffins of the Eighteenth Dynasty from KV40 Lisa Sartini: The black coffins with yellow decoration of the New Kingdom: an original iconographic study Carolina Teotino: The apotropaic entourage of Osiris: The protective genii on sarcophagi and coffins of the Late and the Graeco-Roman Periods Asja Müller: Contextualising Roman Mummy Masks: The Cambridge Collection Andrzej Niwinski : Coffins of the 21-22 Dynasties as a source of information about the sacred landscape of Western Thebes Raphaële Meffre: The funerary ensemble of a Libyan princess of the beginning of the Twenty- second Dynasty and the iconography of early Twenty-second Dynasty cartonnages P. Buscaglia, M. Cardinali, T. Cavaleri, P. Croveri, G. Ferraris di Celle, A. Piccirillo and F. Zenucchini: Nesimenjem and the Valley of the Queens’ Coffins Cynthia Sheikholeslami: A Libyan singer in the Karnak temple choir Fruzsina Bartos: Cartonnages with painted and moulded decoration from the Twenty-second Dynasty Susanna Moser :The coffin of the Anthropology Museum in Padua and the others: A peculiar type of Late to Ptolemaic Period wooden anthropoid coffins Yolanda de la Torre Robles: Late Period Coffins from Qubbet el-Hawa tomb 33 Marie Peterková Hlouchova: Late Period wooden coffins from Abusir Jonathan P. Elias and Carter Lupton: Regional Identification of Late Period Coffins from Northern Upper Egypt Katalin Kothay: On the dating problems of the coffins of Gamhud Lisa Bruno, Anna Serotta and Yekaterina Barbash: Ancient Egyptian Coffins at the Brooklyn Museum: New Insights on Manufacture, History and Treatment Patricia Rigault : The rediscovery and the restoration of the outer coffin of Tanetmit (Louvre N2588) – Twenty-second Dynasty Marco Nicola, Simone Musso and Simone Petacchi: Non-invasive diagnostic techniques in the authentication and study of Egyptian coffins: the case of the anthropoid coffin of Pakharw, son of Panehesy and the cartonnage of Asetirdis in the Stibbert Museum, Florence Eman H.Zidan, Mohamed Gamal Rashed and Sabah Abd el Razzik: The conservation of some “unknown” wooden coffins: Re-contextualizing archaeological context, technical examination and conservation approaches Caroline Cartwright: Identifying Egyptian coffin woods using scanning electron microscopy N.M.N. El Hadidi, S. Darwish, M. Ragab, H. Abd El Gaoudi, S. Abd El-Razik, M. Abd Elrahman and K. Attia: Beyond the Visible, Merging scientific analysis and Traditional methods for the documentation of the anthropoid coffin of Amenemhât T. Cavaleri, P. Buscaglia, M. Cardinali, M. Nervo, M. Pisani, P. Triolo and M. Zucco: Multi and hyperspectral imaging and 3D techniques for discovering Egyptian coffins Alessia Amenta: The restoration of the coffin of Butehamon: New points for reflection from the scientific investigations Nour Mohamed Badr, Mona Fouad Ali, Nesrin M.N. El Hadidi, Hanaa El-Gaoudi, Mohamed Abd El Rahman with Raphaële Meffre: Egyptological and non-destructive analytical study of a Ptolemaic wooden coffin lid from Abusir el-Meleq in The Egyptian Museum, Cairo Antje Zygalski: Coffin lid of an unidentified person from the end of the Third Intermediate Period/beginning of the Late Period: Observations on wood and construction. Kara Cooney: Different patterns of coffin reuse from the Twentieth to Twenty-second Dynasties John H. Taylor: Decoding ancient Egyptian coffins: the judgement of the dead and their eternal destiny.

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Book SynopsisThis report outlines investigation of the early manor at Guiting Power, a village in the Cotswolds with Saxon origins, lying in an area with interesting entries in the Domesday Survey of 1086. Excavation has shown that, during the later Saxon period, a lightly defended compound contained a principal area of habitation, with an adjacent, more open ‘working area’ partly divided by ditched sub-enclosures, perhaps related to subsidiary settlement, or other economic activity. This complex may have formed the main estate-centre for a more extensive land-holding, scattered over the northern Cotswolds, and leased from the king, its last Saxon tenant being one ‘Alwin’, as sheriff of the county a thegn of some standing. During the major economic and social changes following the Conquest, under a change to Norman lordship, the manorial perimeter was reinforced, and a small apsidal church was constructed within it, now restored as a standing monument. Subsequently, a new complex of manorial buildings was established on a fresh site within the enclosure, the precursor of the present parish church was constructed nearby, with further development of manor and village into the full medieval period.Table of ContentsSECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SITE, OBJECTIVES, AND METHODS OF INVESTIGATION ; SECTION 2: STRUCTURAL SEQUENCE AT THE SITE ; SECTION 3: GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE SITE ; SECTION 4: FINDS AND SAMPLES FROM THE SITE ; SECTION 5: CONSERVATION OF THE SITE ; SECTION 6: SUPPORTING INFORMATION/SOURCES ; SECTION 7: FIGURES AND PLATES ; SECTION 8: ONLINE CONTENT

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Book SynopsisArchaeologists have yet to consider seriously the impact of slaving and enslavement on socio-cultural developments in Iron Age Europe. Commonly treated as a mere byproduct of incessant tribal warfare, it is generally held that slavery was not a significant phenomenon in temperate Europe before the Roman era. This is a curious state of affairs considering the clear cross-paradigmatic recognition of competition and conflict as prime movers of historical transformation. How is it that prehistorians see evidence for social stratification and inter-group conflict in so many contexts, yet grant slavery so little attention? If slaving and enslavement can be shown to have been a significant transformative phenomena in Iron Age Europe, how would this affect the interpretation of (old and new) archaeological evidence, and how would this change ideas about broader socio-cultural developments that have long been considered known by those who have looked at these things through the lens of ‘acculturation’ or ‘complexification’? Comparative research shows how slavery is a multifaceted phenomenon with complex interrelated material, behavioral, and ideological dimensions. Therefore, any meaningful archaeological study has to take a multi-thread approach whereby a wide range of material categories and domains of social practice are examined, contextually, relationally, and comparatively. In taking such an approach, this exploratory study of the dynamics of Iron Age slaving and enslaving in Northwest Europe contributes to a complex but neglected topic.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; The Evidence from Iron Age Hillforts ; Historicizing Regional Dynamics ; Exploring Dimensions of Slaving and Enslavement ; Conclusion ; References

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Book SynopsisThe Antonine Wall, the Roman frontier in Scotland, was the most northerly frontier of the Roman Empire for a generation from AD 142. It is a World Heritage Site and Scotland’s largest ancient monument. Today, it cuts across the densely populated central belt between Forth and Clyde. In this volume, nearly 40 archaeologists, historians and heritage managers present their researches on the Antonine Wall in recognition of the work of Lawrence Keppie, formerly Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University, who spent much of his academic career recording and studying the Wall. The 32 papers cover a wide variety of aspects, embracing the environmental and prehistoric background to the Wall, its structure, planning and construction, military deployment on its line, associated artefacts and inscriptions, the logistics of its supply, as well as new insights into the study of its history. Due attention is paid to the people of the Wall, not just the officers and soldiers, but their womenfolk and children. Important aspects of the book are new developments in the recording, interpretation and presentation of the Antonine Wall to today's visitors. Considerable use is also made of modern scientific techniques, from pollen, soil and spectrographic analysis to geophysical survey and airborne laser scanning. In short, the papers embody present-day cutting edge research on, and summarise the most up-to-date understanding of, Rome's shortest-lived frontier. The editors, Professors Bill Hanson and David Breeze, who themselves contribute several papers to the volume, have both excavated sites on, and written books about, the Antonine Wall.Trade Review'The volume’s strength lies in its collaborative approach with dialogue between contributors evident in the many joint papers and the overall coherence of the narrative throughout the book. No doubt this volume will become a go-to source of information on the state of knowledge and research on the Antonine Wall, and on Limes research more broadly.' -- Anna H. Walas * Antiquity Vol. 95 *Table of ContentsList of Figures ; List of Tables ; List of Contributors ; Abbreviations ; 1. Lawrence Keppie: an appreciation – David J. Breeze and William S. Hanson ; 2. The Antonine Wall: the current state of knowledge – William S. Hanson and David J. Breeze ; 3. The Landscape at the time of construction of the Antonine Wall – Mairi H. Davies ; 4. The Impact of the Antonine Wall on Iron Age Society – Lesley Macinnes ; 5. Pre-Antonine coins from the Antonine Wall – Richard J Brickstock ; 6. Planning the Antonine wall: an archaeometric reassesment of installation spacing – Nick Hannon, Lyn Wilson, Darrell J Rohl ; 7. The curious incident of the structure at Bar Hill and its implications – Rebecca H Jones ; 8. Monuments on the margins of Empire: the Antonine Wall sculptures – Louisa Campbell ; 9. Building an image: soldiers’ labour and the Antonine Wall Distance Slabs – Iain M. Ferris ; 10. New perspectives on the structure of the Antonine Wall – Tanja Romankiewicz, Karen Milek, Chris Beckett, Ben Russell and J. Riley Snyder ; 11. Wing-walls and waterworks. On the planning and purpose of the Antonine Wall – Erik Graafstal ; 12. The importance of fieldwalking: the discovery of three fortlets on the Antonine Wall – James J. Walker ; 13. The Roman temporary camp and fortlet at Summerston, Strathclyde – Gordon S. Maxwell and William S. Hanson ; 14. Thinking small: fortlet evolution on the Upper German Limes, Hadrian’s Wall, the Antonine Wall and Raetian Limes – Matthew Symonds ; 15. The Roman fort and fortlet at Castlehill on the Antonine Wall: the geophysical, LiDAR and early map evidence – William S. Hanson and Richard E. Jones ; 16. ‘... one of the most remarkable traces of Roman art ... in the vicinity of the Antonine Wall.’ A forgotten funerary urn of Egyptian travertine from Camelon, and related stone vessels from Castlecary – Fraser Hunter ; 17. The Kirkintilloch hoard revisited – J.D. Bateson ; 18. The external supply of pottery and cereals to Antonine Scotland – Paul Bidwell ; 19. The army of the Antonine Wall: its strength and implications – David J. Breeze ; 20. Why was the Antonine Wall made of turf rather than stone? – Nick Hodgson ; 21. Antoninus Pius’ Guard Prefect Marcus Gavius Maximus with an Appendix on new evidence for the Fasti of Britain under Antoninus – Anthony R. Birley ; 22. Civil settlement and extra-mural activity on the Antonine Wall – William S. Hanson ; 23. Roman women in Lowland Scotland – Lindsay Allason-Jones, Carol van Driel-Murray and Elizabeth M. Greene ; 24. Where did all the veterans go? Veterans on the Antonine Wall – Alexander Meyer ; 25. ‘So the great Romans with unwearied care’: Sir John Clerk’s museum – Iain Gordon Brown ; 26. John Anderson and the Antonine Wall – Geoff B Bailey and James Mearns ; 27. Reconstructing Roman lives – Jim Devine ; 28. The power of vivid images in Antonine Wall reconstructions: re-examining the archaeological evidence – Christof Flügel and Jürgen Obmann ; 29. The Antonine Wall: some challenges of mapping a complex linear monument – Peter McKeague ; 30. Connecting museums and sites Advanced Limes Applications – a Creative Europe project – Erik Dobat ; 31. The Antonine Wall as a World Heritage Site: People, priorities and playparks – Patricia Weeks ; 32. Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I – Iain Gordon Brown ; Index

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Book SynopsisCarving a Professional Identity: The occupational epigraphy of the Roman Latin West presents the results of long-term research into the occupational epigraphy from the Latin-language provinces of the Roman Empire. It catalogues stone epigraphs of independent professionals (thus excluding state workers, imperial slaves, freedmen and military personnel), comprising some 690 people, providing quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of the raw data. A glossary translating the occupational titles is also included. The book reveals a very lively work market, where specialisation responded to demand and brought social and economic status to the worker. The coherence of epigraphic habits and manifestations within a professional group, along with all the other existing clues for a rather unitary use of symbols, endorse once more the existence of a Roman provincial, commercial, middle class.Trade Review‘As the author says, the data in this book is meant to constitute «an instrument for further research» (1), «a solid starting point for future examinations of the Roman provincial professions and professionals» (3). This the volume certainly does provide, and for this thanks are offered to Rada Varga and, behind her, the entire R1by1 team.’ – Elizabeth A. Meyer (2023): GNOMON 95, nr. 7'...through its quality it deserves our full-attention and can be considered as a work of reference for future researches in the field.' – Annamária- Izabella Pázsint (2021): Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology No. 8.1Table of ContentsI. Introductory notes ; II. Historiographic coordinates for Roman-era occupational epigraphy ; Professions, occupations and Roman economy ; Ancient middle classes ; Historiographic outline ; III. Quantitative analyses on the primary data ; Demography and representativeness ; Encoding the attested occupations ; Space and time ; People and monuments ; IV. People and professional identities ; Tales of trade and friendship ; Doctors – the healing science ; Crafting for a living ; Entertaining the masses ; Case study: local identities ; V. Concluding remarks ; Index ; Glossary ; Catalogue ; References ; Abbreviations used in the catalogue

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Book SynopsisDuring the Ptolemaic period, Egyptian temples were divided into three ranks: first, second and third class. There was no trace of this classification of sacred buildings in the papyri of the Roman period when only the most important temples were classified by the epithet logima hiera. This work aims to understand the rules according to which Egyptian sacred buildings were classified and how these first, second and third-class temples were planned and arranged. To do this, an integrated analysis of different kinds of sources was carried out: all the Graeco-Roman papyri and the inscriptions, which contain rank epithets, were examined and different archaeological data about the temples of the Fayyum region were investigated. Based on these sources, it was possible to put forward different hypotheses on the administration and architectural aspects of these sacred buildings.Table of ContentsIndex ; Premise ; Methodological introduction ; Part I: Written sources. Classification of temples in papyrus and epigraphic documents ; Chapter 1: Πρῶτα, Δεύτερα καὶ Ἐλάσσονα ἱερά ; Chapter 2: Λόγιμα ἱερά ; Chapter 3: Registration ; Part II: Archaeological contexts. The temples of Fayyum ; Chapter 4: The temples of the meris of Herakleides ; Chapter 5: The temples of the meris of Polemon ; Chapter 6: The temples of the meris of Themistos ; Part III: Reconstruction of the historical-administrative, architectural and cultural context of the Fayyum temples ; Chapter 7: Reconstruction of the historical and administrative context ; Chapter 8: Temple architecture in the Fayyum ; Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Concordance Tables

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Book SynopsisRepresentations and inscriptions on tomb and temple walls and individual stelae have provided considerable knowledge of ancient Egyptian daily life, religious custom and military achievements. However, as visual or eulogistic textual evidence they are unable to provide the insight into the people themselves, their personalities and the events and issues they were concerned with, insight which can be found in personal correspondence. Daily Life in Ancient Egyptian Personal Correspondence addresses a selection of letters from the Old Kingdom up to and including the Twenty-first Dynasty. Under the topic headings of problems and issues, daily life, religious matters, military and police matters, it will show the insight they provide regarding aspects of belief, relationships, custom and behaviour, evidencing the distinctiveness of the data such personal correspondence can provide as a primary source of daily life in ancient Egypt – the extra dimension.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating read that really brings ancient Egyptian people to life - from the standard-bearer Maiseti threatening a man with death while also asking him to provide more rope, to the horrified Khay sent a jar of fat instead of honey. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in Egyptology, with plenty of background notes and references to keep the academics happy. -- Sarah Griffiths * Ancient Egypt *In one letter a man demands his maidservant be returned, while in another a brother complains that his sister doesn’t write to him. Each provide a unique snapshot of what it was to live in the shadow of the pyramids. This work yields a fascinating glimpse of what it was to be a part of this long-vanished world. -- Dianna Wray * AramcoWorld *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Problems and issues ; Letter 1 ; Letter 2 ; Letter 3 ; Letter 4 ; Domestic issues and responsibility ; Letter 5 ; Letter 6 ; Provisioning ; Letter 7 ; Letter 8 ; Personal and familial issues ; Letter 9 ; Letter 10 ; Letter 11 ; Letter 12 ; Summary ; Daily Life ; Building work and labour ; Letter 1 ; Letter 2 ; Husbandry ; Letter 3 ; Letter 4 ; Letter 5 ; Provisions ; Letter 6 ; Letter 7 ; Personal topics ; Letter 8 ; Letter 9 ; Letter 10 ; Raw materials ; Letter 11 ; Letters 12 and 13 ; Summary ; Religious matters ; Religious duties, festivals, and a divine offering problem ; Letter 1 ; Letter 2 ; Letter 3 ; Letter 4 ; Letter 5 ; The ‘God’s Father Priests of “He of the Camp”’ ; Letter 6 ; Letter 7 ; Letter 8 ; Letter 9 ; Letter 10 ; Letter 11 ; Letter 12 ; Letter 13 ; Summary ; Military and police matters ; Military duties and responsibility ; Letters 1, 2 and 3 ; Letter 4 ; Letter 5 ; Letter 6 ; An assassination plot ; Letter 7 ; Letter 8 ; Letter 9 ; Summary ; Further analysis ; Aspects of agricultural organisation and natural resources ; Religious aspects ; Aspects of feelings and emotion ; The role of women ; Delivery ; Writers and recipients ; Aspects regarding distinctiveness of data ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; Letters within collections ; Letters from a specific period ; Letters grouped by topic ; Letters grouped by same sender and/or recipient ; Letters studied with respect to specific aspects of structure and focus ; In conclusion: other categories of correspondence ; References

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Book SynopsisPottery of Manqabad presents a catalogue of selected pottery from the monastic site of Manqabad (Asyut, Egypt), which has, since 2011, been the object of an ongoing study and conservation project at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ (UNIOR). The ceramic material, dated to the Late Antique Period, derives mostly from the SCA warehouse of el-Ashmunein, where it was kept soon after its accidental discovery in 1965. About 40 items derive from the surface collection and survey conducted on the site during the last fieldwork season (2018). The typologies identified include the most relevant Byzantine classes and a particular link with production from the Middle Egypt region. Part of the field survey was devoted to the analysis of the pottery material still in situ, found in the Northern Sector of the site where a 230m long row of monastic housing units is located. Further investigations will hopefully support the hypothesis of a local pottery production area, which could be identified in a large ‘dump’ at the southern end of the site. More generally, the analysis of the ceramics from Manqabad has underlined the undoubtedly high cultural level of the local monastic community, which can be deduced also from the textual, architectural and wall depiction evidence from the site. Manqabad was largely unknown to the scientific community, but since the first season of work by the Italian-Egyptian project, it has emerged as an important venue for the religious development of Coptic culture between the second half of the Vth to the end of the VIII- early IXth century AD.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter I. A selected catalogue of pottery from El-Ashmunein SCA store and Manqabad site ; Introduction to the catalogue ; The Catalogue ; Chapter II. Observations and comments on the typologies ; Chapter III. The pottery survey on the site ; Conclusions ; References ; Plates

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Book SynopsisEngraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus deals with small, but highly captivating and stimulating artwork – engraved gemstones. Although in antiquity intaglios and cameos had multiple applications (seals, jewellery or amulets), the images engraved upon them are snapshots of people's beliefs, ideologies, and everyday occupations. They cast light on the self-advertising and propaganda actions performed by Roman political leaders, especially Octavian/Augustus, their factions and other people engaged in the politics and social life of the past. Gems can show both general trends (the specific showpieces like State Cameos) as well as the individual and private acts of being involved in politics and social affairs, mainly through a subtle display of political allegiances, since they were objects of strictly personal use. They enable us to analyse and learn about Roman propaganda and various social behaviours from a completely different angle than coins, sculpture or literature. The miniaturism of ancient gems is in inverse proportion to their cultural significance. This book presents an evolutionary model of the use of engraved gems from self-presentation (3rd-2nd century BC) to personal branding and propaganda purposes in the Roman Republic and under Augustus (until 14 AD). The specific characteristics of engraved gems, their strictly private character and the whole array of devices appearing on them are examined in respect to their potential propagandistic value and usefulness in social life. The wide scope of this analysis provides a comprehensive picture covering many aspects of Roman propaganda and a critical survey of the overinterpretations of this term in regard to the glyptic art. The aim is the incorporation of this class of archaeological artefacts into the well-established studies of Roman propaganda, as well as the Roman society in general, brought about by discussion of the interconnections with ancient literary sources as well as other categories of Roman art and craftsmanship, notably coins but also sculpture and relief.Trade Review'... this volume—splendidly produced at an extraordinarily low price for what it contains (and actually free to download in PDF format)—is a book of enduring worth. Gołyźniak deserves our gratitude for writing one of the best books on Roman gems to have been published for a very long time.' - Dr Martin Henig (2020): The Journal of Gemmology'The catalog (331-445) is the result of a collector's tour de force. All of the approximately 2,900 objects are listed with basic information and, to a significant extent, also illustrated. It is this enormous collection of material that gives the impression that all the objects assembled should be given equal consideration. As a result, motives that can be associated with the aspect of propaganda stand alongside those for which such a connection remains questionable. As a result, the present volume is a comprehensive compendium on a range of motifs within Glyptic, which previous research has linked to political topics of the late Republic and early Imperial period. The challenge of analyzing the complex problem area of propagating political issues within the framework of a narrow personal world of images will have to be faced again on the basis of this volume.' - Jörn Lang (2022): Redaktion sehepunkte'All in all, Paweł Gołyźniak has presented a very stimulating and largely very convincing study on the political use of gems in Rome, which makes the material easily accessible, especially for historians, and will represent the starting point for further work.' – Klaus Scherberich (2021): Bonner Jahrbücher 221 Table of ContentsForeword and acknowledgments ; Part I Introduction ; 1. Preface ; 2. State of research ; 3. Aims, methodology and structure ; Part II Theory ; 4. Self-presentation and propaganda – definitions and characteristics ; 4.1. Definitions of ‘self-presentation’ and ‘propaganda’ ; 4.2. Propaganda and persuasion ; 4.3. Propaganda and public opinion ; 4.4. Propaganda as a form of communication ; 4.5. Forms of propaganda ; 4.6. Tools and techniques of propaganda ; 4.7. The effectiveness of propaganda ; 5. Roman propaganda on engraved gems – general introduction ; 5.1. Anticipated areas of propaganda on engraved gems ; 5.2. Problems with studying propaganda in ancient times with emphasis on engraved gems ; Part III Evidence ; 6. Beginnings (3rd-2nd centuries BC) ; 6.1. Etruscan and Italic tradition (self-presentation) ; 6.2. Hellenistic influences ; 6.3. Roman tradition (family symbols, personal branding, commemoration, state propaganda) ; 7. Early 1st century BC ; 7.1. Lucius Cornelius Sulla ; 7.2. Gaius Marius ; 7.3. Lucius Licinius Lucullus ; 7.4. Other politicians ; 8. Civil War: Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar and contemporaries ; 8.1. Pompey the Great ; 8.2. Julius Caesar ; 8.3. Less significant politicians and women from the times of the Civil War ; 9. Post-Caesarian and Liberators’ Civil Wars (from death of Caesar to Octavian’s sole rule: 44-27 BC) ; 9.1. The Pompeians ; 9.2. The Republicans ; 9.3. The Caesarians ; 9.4. Less significant politicians ; 9.5. Women and their propaganda significance on engraved gems ; 10. Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) ; 10.1. Collecting ; 10.2. Gem engravers working for Augustus ; 10.3. The final seal of Augustus ; 10.4. Portraits – personal branding induction and manifestation of loyalty ; 10.5. Commemoration and State Cameos ; 10.6. Divine and mythological references ; 10.7. Mythological Foundations of the New Rome ; 10.8. Promotion of peace and prosperity ; 10.9. Luxury objects (State Cameos, cameo vessels etc.) and religious propaganda ; 10.10. Promotion of family and successors ; 10.11. Divus Augustus ; Part IV Summary and conclusions ; 11. Provenance, provenience, production and distribution of propaganda gems ; 12. Statistics ; 13. Summary and conclusions: ; 13.1. Use of gems in triumphs ; 13.2. Collecting ; 13.3. Employment of gem engravers ; 13.4. Seals ; 13.5. Personal branding and self-promotion ; 13.6. Induction and manifestation of loyalty and support ; 13.7. Use of heritage ; 13.8. Promotion of family and oneself through origo ; 13.9. Promotion of faction ; 13.10. Commemoration ; 13.11. Religious, divine and mythological references ; 13.12. Political symbols and promotion of abstract ideas (ordo rerum, Pax Augusta and aurea aetas) ; 13.13. Luxury objects: State Cameos – carved vessels – works in the round ; 13.14. Final remarks ; Part V Catalogue, figures, bibliography and indices ; Catalogue ; Figures ; Figure credits ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisDiscussions on consanguineous marriage within Egyptology usually focus on brother-sister marriages recorded in census returns from Roman Egypt, or royal sibling marriages amongst the ruling Ptolemies. However, no wide-ranging review exists of non-royal consanguineous marriage in ancient Egypt despite the economic and biological implications of such relationships. This is the first time that evidence for nonroyal consanguineous marriage in ancient Egypt has been collated from select sources spanning the Middle Kingdom to the Roman Period and a method created to investigate the potential economic and biological outcomes of these unions, particularly beyond the level of sibling and half-sibling unions. The working definition of consanguineous marriage used throughout this study is that used by clinical geneticists: unions contracted between cousins biologically related as second cousins or closer biological kin. This research argues that for some families, and under certain conditions, consanguineous marriage was a preferred economic strategy in terms of gifts given at marriage and in inheritance, and that families who married consanguineously may have received greater levels of intra-familial support without the expectation of reciprocity. Although there may have been adverse biological outcomes arising from congenital anomalies and genetic disorders in the offspring of consanguineous marriages, the research suggests that it is unlikely that these physical or cognitive disorders were distinguished from other medical disorders in the general health environment of ancient Egypt. The investigation focuses primarily on ancient Egyptian documentary and archaeological sources, including human remains, and is informed by research on consanguinity from a range of disciplines including anthropology, demography, economics and pathology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Glossary ; Ancient Egyptian Chronology ; Papyri and ostraca ; Chapter 1: Ancient Egyptian marriage and kin terms, definitions of consanguinity and consanguineous marriage ; Chapter 2: Consanguinity in historical context: evidence from select sources for consanguineous marriage in ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome ; Chapter 3: The use of inheritance and matrimonial goods as economic strategies in non-royal consanguineous families ; Chapter 4: Consanguineous marriage in Deir el-Medina and economic impacts: family interrelationships, occupations, offspring, and expectations of altruism and reciprocity ; Chapter 5: Biological outcomes of non-royal consanguineous marriage: prevalence, impact and perceptions of abnormality in ancient Egypt ; Chapter 6: Conclusion ; Appendix 1: Table of probable or possible non-royal consanguineous marriages from select sources ; Appendix 2: Details of consanguineous and affinal links between consanguineously married couples in Deir el-Medina ; Appendix 3: Number of known children in the eight family trees in which there are consanguineous marriages ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPre and Protohistoric Stone Architectures: Comparisons of the Social and Technical Contexts Associated to Their Building presents the papers from Session XXXII-3 of the XVIII UISPP Congress (Paris, 4-9 June 2018). This session took place within the commission concerned with the European Neolithic. While most of the presentations fell within that chronological period and were concerned with the Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean basin, wider geographical and chronological comparisons were also included. This volume aims to break the usual limits on the fields of study and to deconstruct some preconceived ideas. New methods developed over the past ten years bring out new possibilities regarding the study of such monuments, and the conference proceedings open up unexpected and promising perspectives. This volume is a parallel text edition in English and French.Table of ContentsPréface – Catherine Perlès ; Prefacio – Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez ; Chapter 1: Stonemasons, and even engineers, for megalithic building in Neolithic Europe? / Des maçons, voire quelques ingénieurs, pour le bâti mégalithique du Néolithique européen ? – Luc Laporte, Florian Cousseau, Philippe Gouézin, José-Antonio Linares-Catela and Hélène Pioffet ; Part I: Big and Small Stones for megaliths ; Chapter 2: Dry stone, old but innovative / Pierre sèche, ancestrale et innovante – Eric Vincens, Nathanaël Savalle and Claire Cornu ; Chapter 3: Megalithic architectures: a methodological experience to study their elevation / Architectures mégalithiques : une expérience méthodologique pour étudier leurs élévations – Florian Cousseau ; Chapter 4: Raised stones in the open and raised stones in burial chambers: Towards a convergence of the arrangements. The example of the megaliths in the department of Morbihan / Pierres dressées à l’air libre et pierres dressées des espaces sépulcraux Vers une convergence des dispositifs. L’exemple des mégalithes du département du Morbihan – Philippe Gouézin ; Chapter 5: Techniques and criteria for the geometric documentation of the excavation of the dolmen ‘Alto de la Huesera’ (Álava, Spain) and its virtual reconstruction / Técnicas y criterios para la documentación geométrica de la excavación del dolmen « Alto de la Huesera » (Álava, España) y su reconstrucción virtual– Javier Fernández-Eraso, José A. Mujika-Alustiza, José M. Valle-Melón and Álvaro Rodríguez-Miranda ; Chapter 6: Where were the dead buried in Recent Prehistory? The problem of architectures versus chronologies in Central Alentejo (Portugal) / Onde se enterravam os nossos mortos na Pré-história Recente? : O problema das arquiteturas versus cronologias no Alentejo Central (Portugal) – Leonor Rocha ; Part II: Enclosures, Tower-tombs and ‘Temples’ ; Chapter 7: The tower-tombs of Arabia from the 4th to the 3rd millennium BC: a standardised megalithic architecture for egalitarian societies? / Les tombes tours d’Arabie du 4ème au 3ème millénaire av. J.-C. : une architecture mégalithique standardisée pour des sociétés égalitaires ? – Tara Steimer-Herbet and Marie Besse ; Chapter 8: ‘Temples’ or merely Buildings for Congregation? The prehistoric megalithic structures of Malta (3600-2500 BCE) / “Templi” o semplicemente edifici per la congregazione? Le strutture megalitiche preistoriche di Malta (3600-2500 a.C.) – Anthony Bonanno ; Chapter 9: Stone architectures: entrances of Neolithic enclosures in Western France (5th-3rd millennium BC) / Architectures en pierre : les systèmes d’entrées des enceintes néolithiques de l’ouest de la France (Ve-IIIe mill. av. J.-C.) – Jean-Noël Guyodo, Audrey Blanchard and Luc Laporte ; Chapter 10: Architectural study of an Iron Age rampart undergoing destruction: Guennoc Island, Landéda (Finistère, France) / Étude de l’architecture d’un rempart de l’âge du Fer en cours de destruction : l’Île Guennoc à Landéda (Finistère, France) – Hervé Duval, Florian Cousseau, Chloë Martin and Marie-Yvane Daire ; Conclusion – Florian Cousseau and Luc Laporte ; Abstracts ; Bibliography ; Authors

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Book SynopsisGlazed bricks applied as a new form of colourful and glossy architectural decor first started to appear in the early Iron Age on monumental buildings of the Ancient Near East. It surely impressed the spectators then as it does the museum visitors today. Glazed Brick Decoration in the Ancient Near East comprises the proceedings of a workshop held at the 11th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) at Munich in April 2018, organised by the editors. Over the last decade excavations have supplied new evidence from glazed bricks that once decorated the facades of the Ancient Near East’s public buildings during the Iron Age (1000–539 BC) and especially significant progress has been achieved from revived work on glazed bricks excavated more than a century ago which today are kept in various museum collections worldwide. Since the latest summarising works on Ancient Near Eastern glazed architectural décors have been published several decades ago and in the meantime considerable insight into the subject has been gained, this volume aims to provide an updated overview of the development of glazed bricks and of the scientific research on the Iron Age glazes. Furthermore, it presents the on-going research on this topic and new insights into glazed bricks from Ashur, Nimrud, Khorsabad, and Babylon.Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: ‘I had baked bricks glazed in lapis lazuli color’ ‒ A Brief History of Glazed Bricks in the Ancient Near East – Anja Fügert and Helen Gries ; Chapter 2: Scientific Research on the Iron Age Glazes from Iran and Iraq: Past and Future – Parviz Holakooei ; Chapter 3: The Reconstruction of the Glazed Brick Facades from Ashur in the Vorderasiatisches ; Museum, Berlin (GlAssur Project) – Anja Fügert and Helen Gries ; Chapter 4: Glazed Bricks by the Dozens: A Khorsabad Jigsaw Reassembled at the Louvre – Ariane Thomas ; Chapter 5: Glazed Tiles from Nimrud and the Visual Narrative of Esarhaddon’s Egyptian Campaign – Manuela Lehmann and Nigel Tallis ; Chapter 6: The Glazed Bricks that Ornamented Babylon ‒ A Short Overview – Olof Pedersén

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Book SynopsisThe Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland presents a new regional history of the middle Tiber valley as a lens through which to view the emergence and transformation of the city of Rome from 1000 BC to AD 1000. Setting the ancient city within the context of its immediate territory, the authors reveal the diverse and enduring links between the metropolis and its hinterland. At the heart of the volume is a detailed consideration of the results of a complete restudy of the pioneering South Etruria Survey (c. 1955–1970), one of the earliest and most influential Mediterranean landscape projects. Between 1998 and 2002, an international team based at the British School at Rome conducted a comprehensive restudy of the material and documentary archive generated by the South Etruria Survey. The results were supplemented with a number of other published and unpublished sources of archaeological evidence to create a database of around 5000 sites across southern Etruria and the Sabina Tiberina, extending in date from the Bronze Age, through the Etruscan/Sabine, Republican and imperial periods, to the middle ages. Analysis and discussion of these data have appeared in a series of interim articles published over the past two decades; the present volume offers a final synthesis of the project results. The chapters include the first detailed assessment of the field methods of the South Etruria Survey, an extended discussion of the use of archaeological legacy data, and new insights into the social and economic connectivities between Rome and the communities of its northern hinterland across two millennia. The volume as a whole demonstrates how the archaeological evidence generated by landscape surveys can be used to rewrite narrative histories, even those based on cities as familiar as ancient Rome. Includes contributions by Martin Millett, Simon Keay and Christopher Smith, and a preface by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.Trade Review'To conclude, this monograph, like its predecessor, must be welcomed. Any detailed analysis of old data is certain to enrich our historical perspective.' – Richard Hodges (2021): Bryn Mawr Classical Review'Tracking through time the rise and fall of settlements, the transformations in economies, and the different choices for supply sources, the authors provide a detailed analysis of demography, economy, social organization, and agricultural production. Without doubt the volume represents a fundamental breakthrough for all of those interested in researching the history of Rome, as well as the developments of settlements and economies in the classical Mediterranean.' – Alessandro Sabbastiani (2021): American Journal Online‘The Tiber Valley Project has entailed restudying all the pottery and the recalibration of previous site chronologies. It is fascinating and admirable work. While benefitting our knowledge of the Tiber Valley, it leads one to reflect upon how objective are conclusions drawn from other field surveys in Italy where more effort is often taken in locating artefact scatters than in trying to fathom their true significance in writing history… This is thus not a book for hunting down material parallels, whether of sites or ceramics, but one of maps and graphs, based on solid statistics. Even if details are presented elsewhere (see the extensive bibliography), this study marshals 70 years of collected evidence so as to become a book of elegant synthesis and conclusions.’ – Paul Arthur (2022): Medieval Archaeology, 65/2, 2021‘However, the major step forward ‘The Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland’ makes with respect to that volume is indeed the clarity and depth with which the methodological choices made in the presentation and analysis of the data are discussed. This allows the readers to thoroughly evaluate synthetic interpretations in relation to the underlying archaeological evidence, to agree or disagree with these and, to some extent, to explore for her/himself the effects of alternative methodological choices upon such interpretations – which will be further enabled by the planned final step of the TVP, the open-access archiving of the full database. Thus, the volume – as much as the SES and TVP themselves – forms another important landmark within the study of Mediterranean rural landscapes.’ – Tymon de Haas (2023): GNOMON 95, nr. 7Table of ContentsPreface – Andrew Wallace-Hadrill ; Chapter 1 The Tiber Valley Project: an introduction – Simon Keay, Martin Millett and Christopher Smith ; Chapter 2 The middle Tiber valley: history of studies and project methodologies – Robert Witcher ; Chapter 3 The protohistoric to late Republican landscapes of the middle Tiber valley – Helga Di Giuseppe ; Chapter 4 The early and mid-imperial landscapes of the middle Tiber valley (c. 50 bc–ad 250) – Robert Witcher ; Chapter 5 The late antique landscapes of the middle Tiber valley: the mid-third to mid-sixth centuries ad – Helen Patterson ; Chapter 6 The end of the Roman unity: the Tiber valley in the late sixth to seventh centuries ad – Helen Patterson ; Chapter 7 The middle Tiber valley in the eighth and ninth centuries ad – Helen Patterson ; Chapter 8 The Tiber Valley Project: retrospect and prospect – Martin Millett ; Appendix 1 List of Tiber Valley Project participants ; Appendix 2 List of Tiber Valley Project publications ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisOn the Origins of the Cartouche and Encircling Symbolism in Old Kingdom Pyramids is a treatise on the subject of encircling symbolism in pharaonic monumental tomb architecture. The study focuses on the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt; from the first dynasty through the sixth. During that time, encircling symbolism was developed most significantly and became most influential. The cartouche also became the principal symbol of the pharaoh for the first time. This work demonstrates how the development of the cartouche was closely related to the monumental encircling symbolism incorporated into the architectural designs of the Old Kingdom pyramids. By employing a new architectural style, the pyramid, and a new iconographic symbol, the cartouche, the pharaoh sought to elevate his status above that of the members of his powerful court. These iconic new emblems emphasized and protected the pharaoh in life, and were retained in the afterlife. By studying the available evidence, the new and meaningful link between the two artistic media; iconographic and architectural, is catalogued, understood, and traced out through time.Table of ContentsForeword ; Introduction ; Architectural expressions of encircling symbolism ; Eary Dynastic Period (Dynasties One and Two) ; Third Dynasty ; Fourth Dynasty ; Fifth Dynasty ; Sixth Dynasty ; Later Kingdoms ; Conclusions ; Glossary ; Catalogue ; Addendum: A mathematical note ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe numerous rescue excavations conducted in Athens and Attica by the Archaeological Service during and after the major construction projects of the 2004 Olympic Games brought to light significant new prehistoric finds which have transformed our understanding of the region in prehistory. However, despite their importance, the new discoveries had remained mostly unnoticed by the international community, as the results were scattered in various publications, and no synthesis was ever attempted. The goal of the 2015 international conference Athens and Attica in Prehistory, which was organized by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the University of Athens (Department of Archaeology and History of Art), the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Ephorate of Antiquites of East Attica (Hellenic Ministry of Culture) was to gather scholars working in the region and present for the first time a survey of Attic prehistory which would include the most recent discoveries and integrate over a century of scholarship. The 668- page conference proceedings include over 66 papers in Greek and English with sections dedicated to topography, the palaeo-environment, the Neolithic, the Chalcolithic transition, the Early Bronze Age, the Middle and Late Bronze Age, as well as the contacts between Attica and its neighbouring regions. A series of new detailed maps, derived from an exhaustive GIS-related database, provide the most up to date topographical and archaeological survey of Prehistoric Attica. Athens and Attica in Prehistory provides the most complete overview of the region from the Neolithic to the end of the Late Bronze Age. Its importance goes beyond the field of Aegean prehistory, as it paves the way for a new understanding of Attica in the Early Iron Age and indirectly throws new light on the origins of what will later become the polis of the Athenians.Trade Review'Athens and Attica in Prehistory emerges as a seminal work by producing ample evidence on hitherto unknown or barely known eras in the region, bringing new and important sites into focus, and exploring societal, political, economic, ideological and environmental facets through a variety of sophisticated, inter-related studies. The book also serves as a source of general insight on Attic prehistory, helping to contextualize later habitation. In sum, it is a truly impressive work and a welcome contribution to Aegean and Greek archaeology that fills a major gap in scholarship.' – Anastasia Dakouri-Hild (2021): Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsCATALOGUE OF PREHISTORIC SITES IN ATTICA ; SITE DISTRIBUTION MAPS I-IV ; LIST OF AUTHORS ; INTRODUCTION ; TOPOGRAPHY ; ELENI ANDRIKOU (a) – East Attica: The prehistoric finds in the 21st century ; ELENI ANDRIKOU (b) – Thorikos in context: The prehistory ; PALAEOENVIRONMENT ; DIMITRIOS VANDARAKIS, KOSMAS PAVLOPOULOS, KOSTAS VOUVALIDIS, ERIC FOUACHE, VASILIOS KAPSIMALIS – The contribution of simulated lithostratigraphy in the geoarchaeological research of the Athenian Basin during the Holocene ; KOSMAS PAVLOPOULOS, DIMITRIOS VANDARAKIS, SYLVIAN FACHARD, ALEX R. KNODELL, VASILIOS KAPSIMALLIS – Long-term sea level changes in the Saronic and Southern Euboean Gulfs ; ODYSSEAS KAKAVAKIS, IRINI SKIADARESI – Bronze Age depositions at the Phaleron Delta wetland: Approaches to interpretation ; UPPER PALAEOLITHIC/MESOLITHIC - NEOLITHIC ERA ; ANTIGONI PAPADEA, FANIS MAVRIDIS, DESPOINA MINOU-MINOPOULOU, DAISUKE YAMAGUCHI, ORESTIS APOSTOLIKAS – Searching for the Pleistocene/Holocene transition: The case of the lithic industry from the anonymous Schisto cave at Keratsini ; ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΣΤΑΪΝΧΑΟΥΕΡ – Ο νεολιθικός οικισμός της Παλλήνης ; ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΑ ΡΑΜΜΟΥ, ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΑ ΖΟΥΒΕΛΟΥ – Λουτρός Παλλήνης: προκαταρκτικά συμπεράσματα για τη χρήση του χώρου κατά τη Νεολιθική εποχή ; ΖΟΕ ΖGOULΕTA – Neolithic settlement at Gyalou, Spata ; STELLA RAFTOPOULOU, IRAKLIS TSONOS – A Neolithic site at Kalyvia Thorikou (Mesogeia): Preliminary report on the architectural remains ; ΠΕΛΛH ΦΩΤΙΑΔΗ, ΜΑΡΙΑ ΣΥΡΙΓΟΥ – Νέα ευρήματα από τη νεολιθική Νέα Μάκρη: η λιθοτεχνία του αποκρουσμένου λίθου και ενδεικτική κεραμική από την ακτή ; ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΟΛΟΓΟΣ, ΜΑΡΙΑ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ – Η προϊστορική τοπογραφία στη βόρεια Αττική: πρόσφατες ανακαλύψεις ; STELLA KATSAROU, DIMITRIOS PALAIOLOGOS, MARIA STEFANOPOULOU – The Northern Attic Basin in the Early/Middle Neolithic: The household vessels ; ALEXANDRA MARI – From Mount Aigaleo to Mount Penteli: New prehistoric finds from Attic caves ; MAIRY GIAMALIDI, AMYGDALIA ANDREOU, IOULIA LOURENTZATOU – The Northern hill at the peninsula of Laimos in Vouliagmeni: Preliminary evidence from the prehistoric site ; FINAL NEOLITHIC / EARLY BRONZE AGE TRANSITION ; ZOΪ TSIRTSONI – The end of the Neolithic and the transition to the Early Bronze Age in Attica (mid 5th-late 4th millennium BC): Present state and research perspectives ; MYRTO GEORGAKOPOULOU, KERASIA DOUNI, MICHALIS GINALAS, OLGA KAKAVOGIANNI, IOANNIS BASSIAKOS – Recent finds from Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age silver production sites in Southeastern Attica ; MARIA KAYAFA – The metal resources of Laurion during the Early Bronze Age. A synthesis of the archaeological and archaeometric data ; MARGARITA NAZOU – Thorikos in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age: A view from the Mine 3 pottery ; OLGA KAKAVOGIANNI – Subterranean chambers of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age date in Koropi and Merenda (Mesogeia), Attica ; ΚΛΕΙΩ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ – H κεραμική του τέλους της Νεολιθικής και των αρχών της Πρώιμης Eποχής του Χαλκού από τον οικισμό της Μερέντας στο Μαρκόπουλο ; ΙΩΑΝΝΑ ΣΠΗΛΙΩΤΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ – Λιθοτεχνίες της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Χαλκού: η περίπτωση της Μερέντας ; ΜΑΡΙΑ ΠΑΝΤΕΛΙΔΟΥ ΓΚΟΦΑ – Οι παλαιότεροι τάφοι στο Τσέπι Μαραθώνος ; ELEANNA PREVEDOROU – Bioarchaeological approach to Early Helladic Attica: The human skeletal remains from Tsepi at Marathon (1970-1973 excavations) ; PANAGIOTIS POMONIS – Deposit 39 of the prehistoric cemetery at Tsepi (Marathon, Greece): Preliminary results from the petrographic analysis of the pottery ; ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΚΟΥΦΟΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ – Οι οστέινοι ‘χρωματοτρίπτες’ της Χαλκολιθικής και ΠΕ περιόδου ; ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ ΕΛΕΝΗ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ – H Ακρόπολη της Αθήνας κατά την Τελική Νεολιθική και Πρωτοχαλκή περίοδο. Νέα στοιχεία από τη ανασκαφή D. Levi ; EARLY BRONZE AGE ; KERASIA DOUNI – EB II ceramic production in Attica ; MARIA MEXI, ΚERASIA DOUNI, EVI MARGARITIS, ANGELOS HADJIKOUMIS – The study and reconstruction of food production and processing practices in Early Bronze Age Koropi, Attica ; ΣΤΕΛΛΑ ΧΡΥΣΟΥΛΑΚΗ, ΙΩΑΝΝΑ ΜΑΥΡΟΕΙΔΗ, ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΨΑΡΑΚΗ – Μια πρωτοελλαδική εγκατάσταση στο Μοσχάτο ; ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΑ ΚΑΖΑ-ΠΑΠΑΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ – Αστέρια Γλυφάδας ; THEODORA GEORGOUSOPOULOU – Public space and communal practices: The evidence from ΕΗ II Νea Kephissia ; ΕLENI ASIMAKOU, AIKATERINI PASCHALI – EH rock-cut chamber tombs with finds of EC type from the area of Kephissos in Aigaleo ; ΑΝΝΑ ΠΛΑΣΣΑΡΑ – Eγκατάσταση της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Χαλκού στο Γέρακα Αττικής ; ΜΑΡΙΑ ΣΥΡΙΓΟΥ – Η οργάνωση της τεχνολογίας του οψιανού στο Έλος Σχινιά και στο Λιμάνι του Πασά στην Αττική ; ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΑ ΑΥΓΕΡΙΝΟΥ, ΑΘΗΝΑ ΜΑΝΙΚΗ – Oι πρώτες ενδείξεις για προϊστορική κατοίκηση στα Μέγαρα ; THEODORE ELIOPOULOS – New evidence on the Early Helladic “House of Akademos” in Plato’s Academy ; ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΚΑΠΕΤΑΝΙΟΣ – Παλεύοντας με τα Δρακόνερα: περιβαλλοντική μεταβολή στο τέλος της 3ης χιλιετίας π.Χ. σε μια πρωτοελλαδική θέση στο «Μεγάλο Έλος» του Μαραθώνα ; MIDDLE AND LATE BRONZE AGE ; NIKOLAS PAPADIMITRIOU, MICHAEL B. COSMOPOULOS – The political geography of Attica in the Middle and the Late Bronze Age ; ANNA PHILIPPA-TOUCHAIS, ANTHI BALITSARI – Attica in the middle: Middle Helladic pottery traditions and the formation of cultural identity ; TOBIAS KRAPF – Regionality in the Middle Helladic period: Replacing Attica in its wider context ; SYLVIAN FACHARD, ALEX R. KNODELL – Out of Attica: Modeling mobility in the Mycenaean period ; ΓΙΑΝΝΑ ΒΕΝΙΕΡΗ – “Rethink Middle Helladic Athens”: ανασύνθεση της μεσοελλαδικής κατοίκησης γύρω από την Ακρόπολη ; ΑΘΗΝΑ-ΜΑΡΙΑ ΡΩΜΑΝΙΔΟΥ – Εγκατάσταση της Μέσης Εποχής του Χαλκού στην Κάντζα Παλλήνης (πρώην Κτήμα Καμπά) ; MARIA PANTELIDOU GOFA, ANNA PHILIPPA-TOUCHAIS – NIKOLAS PAPADIMITRIOU – The prehistoric tumuli of Vranas, Marathon: The study of S. Marinatos’ excavations ; ROBERT LAFFINEUR – Tomb V at Thorikos revisited ; NIKOLAS PAPADIMITRIOU – Ceramic material from Valerios Stais’ excavation at the prehistoric settlement of Thorikos: A summary ; ΜΑΡΙΑ ΣΤΑΘΗ, ΜΑΡΙΑ ΨΑΛΛΙΔΑ – Το μυκηναϊκό νεκροταφείο στη θέση Κολικρέπι Σπάτων: προκαταρκτική παρουσίαση ; ΕΛΕΝΗ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΙΔΗ-ΣΥΒΡΙΔΗ, ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ ΠΛΙΑΤΣΙΚΑ – Ο θολωτός τάφος του Μενιδίου: επανεξετάζοντας τα δεδομένα ; ΝΑΥΑ POLYCHRONAKOU-SGOURITSA, ΕVANGELOS KAKAVOGIANNIS† – Minoans in Mesogaia? ; ANASTASIA PAPATHANASIOU, ANTHI TILIAKOU, CYNTHIA S. KWOK, IOANNA MOUTAFI, OLGA KAKAVOGIANNI – The human remains of the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Glyka Nera ; IRENE VRETTOU – The dead and their burial gifts. The case of two Mycenaean tombs from Fouresi, Glyka Nera ; THANASIS J. PAPADOPOULOS, LITSA KONTORLI-PAPADOPOULOU† – Life and death in Eastern Mycenaean Attica: The evidence of the Vravron (Brauron) cemetery and other sites of the region ; CONSTANTINOS PASCHALIDIS – Finds that are intriguing. A group of Mycenaean vases and minor finds from the Acropolis – debating the question of their provenance and significance ; KONSTANTINA KAZA-PAPAGEORGIOU – Kontopigado, Alimos, Attica ; ELEFTHERIA KARDAMAKI – The definition of LH IIIB2 at Kontopigado, Alimos ; ΕΙΡΗΝΗ Μ. ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΑΔΟΥ – Υπομυκηναϊκή Αθήνα (1075/1050-1000 π.Χ.): από την προϊστορία στην ιστορία ; FLORIAN RUPPENSTEIN – The end of the Bronze Age in Attica and the origin of the polis of Athens ; ΕΥΓΕΝΙΑ ΤΣΑΛΚΟΥ – Τμήμα υπομυκηναϊκού νεκροταφείου στα νότια της Ακρόπολης (Κουκάκι). Μια προκαταρκτική παρουσίαση ; NEIGHBORS AND INTERACTIONS ; ΜΑΡΙΑ ΚΟΣΜΑ† – Νέα στοιχεία για τις σχέσεις Αττικής και Ευβοίας κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού, μέσα από τα δεδομένα του πρωτοελλαδικού νεκροταφείου στα Νέα Στύρα Ευβοίας ; EΛΕΝΗ ΚΟΝΣΟΛΑΚΗ-ΓΙΑΝΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ – Διασυνδέσεις Αττικής και Τροιζηνίας στην Εποχή του Χαλκού ; WALTER GAUSS – Considerations on Kolonna on Aegina and Attica from the Early to the Late Bronze Age (ca. 2100 to ca. 1600 BC) ; KALLIOPE SARRI – Attica and Boeotia in the Middle Bronze Age ; EVI GOROGIANNI, NATALIE ABELL, JILL HILDITCH – Kea and Attica: Revisiting connections in the Middle and Late Bronze Age ; ΤΡΙΑΝΤΑΦΥΛΛΙΑ ΚΑΤΤΟΥΛΑ – Σαλαμίνα: νεκροταφείο της μετάβασης ΜΕΧ-ΥΕΧ και η Κούλουρη κατά την Εποχή του Χαλκού ; ELENI SALAVOURA – ‘The eyesore of Piraeus’: Attica and Aegina in the Late Bronze Age ; ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΖΥΓΟΥΡΗΣ – Από την Ευρώπη στο Αιγαίο: το ήλεκτρο στη μυκηναϊκή Αττική ; LAETITIA PHIALON – Attica and Boeotia in LH IIIC

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Book SynopsisAleksei P. Okladnikov: The Great Explorer of the Past (Volume II) is about the life and works of Aleksei P. Okladnikov (1908–1981), a prominent archaeologist who spent more than 50 years studying prehistoric sites in various parts of the Soviet Union and in Mongolia. This part of Okladnikov’s biography concentrates on his works in 1961–1981, when he was organiser (1961–1966) and since 1966 the Director of the Institute of History, Philology, and Philosophy, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in Novosibirsk. This institute was a part of large-scale project of Akademgorodok (Academic Town) built in 1957– 1964, the unique phenomenon of Soviet science. In Novosibirsk, Okladnikov continued active fieldworks in Siberia, Russian Far East, Central Asia and Mongolia, and writing of books and articles on different subjects of archaeology and history. He also created the Novosibirsk school of archaeologists who continue to work in Siberia and the neighbouring regions of Asia until today. In 1974, Okladnikov with four colleagues participated in joint US–Soviet expedition to the Aleutian Islands, where W. S. Laughlin and he directed the excavations of early sites. The book is for archaeologists, historians, and everyone who is interested in the history of scholarship (particularly the humanities) in the twentieth century.Table of ContentsList of figures ; Translators’ introduction ; Aleksei P. Okladnikov and the Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk: story of twenty fruitful years ; Part I - Introduction ; Part II - On business trips, at home, in the field (the first half of the 1970s) ; Part III - Trip to the United States, 1974 ; Part IV - The last years of life (1975–1981) ; Appendices ; Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume publishes accounts of archaeological exploration carried out during the last 30 years or so in the Sudanese Eastern Desert. It is divided into two related parts. The first and foremost covers results from the work of the Centro Ricerche sul Deserto Orientale (CeRDO), which is based at Varese in northern Italy. Between 1989 and 2006, CeRDO, directed by the brothers Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni, ran a pioneering programme of expeditions, which traversed the so-called ‘Korosko Road’ (the main desert route connecting Egypt and Sudan) and followed multiple other tracks throughout the Eastern Desert. They encountered in the process a rich archaeological landscape, hundreds of previously undocumented sites, many frequented over millennia, prominent among them gold-production areas and their associated settlements. The CeRDO record, the photographic database, the material retrieved, to which several of the papers published here are devoted, are now all the more valuable, in that many of these sites have since been badly disturbed and some entirely destroyed by recent goldmining activities. The second part, introduced by a concise account of the historical usage of the Korosko Road, reports in full on a single, short season of documentation, organized in 2013 under the auspices, and with the support, of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society. Its main aim was detailed recording of a group of pharaonic rock-inscriptions discovered by CeRDO expeditions, most located along the Korosko Road and almost all related to the colonial gold-working industry. The project included also a degree of investigation and mapping of the wider context, as well as the recording and study of associated archaeological material, in particular of ceramic remains. The results complement and usefully extend in part those of CeRDO.Trade ReviewThe Korosko Road serves as the main route through the desert between Egypt and the Sudan. The present volume covers the archeological exploration carried out in the region over the past 30 years in a series of essays by several scholars. The first part explores and documents the region between 1989 and 2006. There are chapters on the archeological remains, pottery finds and on the gold mines—the main reason for colonial penetration into this region otherwise inhospitable to Europeans. The second part of the book, the fruit of a brief season in 2013 by the Sudan Archeologist Research Society, opens with a useful summary of travelers to the region going back to antiquity. The aim is to consolidate the previous survey and document the more than 40 hieroglyphic inscriptions found in the region. The book is beautifully produced with full and detailed academic records of all finds. The hundreds of excellent photographs are of importance, since the recent informal reopening of many mines has led to much looting of archeological sites. -- Caroline Stone * AramcoWorld *Table of ContentsPreface – W. Vivian Davies and Derek A. Welsby ; Part I. The CeRDO expeditions (1989-2006) ; 1. Explorations in Sudan’s Eastern Nubian Desert, 1989 to 2006 1-4 – Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni ; 2. Wadi Terfowi 5-10 – Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni ; 3. The gold mines of Kerma and exploration of the south-eastern Nubian Desert 11-21 – Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni ; 4. The Tracks of Egyptian Penetration 22-47 – Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni ; 5. Traces of the Past – First Expedition 48-55 – Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni ; 6. Traces of the Past – Second Expedition 56-61 – Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni ; 7. The Journey to Onib Crater (el-Hofra) 62-67 – Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni 8. The Nubian and Pharaonic Ceramic Materials 68-83 – Andrea Manzo ; 9. Imported wares in the Sudanese Eastern Desert: finds from the CeRDO Survey 2004 84-98 – Serena Massa ; 10. Preliminary study of the macro-lithic tools collected by CeRDO in the Sudanese Eastern Desert 99-124 – Francesco Michele Rega ; Part II. The SARS Korosko Road Project (2013) ; 11. The Korosko Road as a major cross-desert route: a brief overview 125-130 – Derek A. Welsby ; 12. Gazetteer of sites 131-163 – Derek A. Welsby ; 13. The Korosko Road Project: Final Report on the Pottery 164-183 – Philippe Ruffieux and Mahmoud Suliman Bashir ; 14. The hand-axe and denticulated tool 184 – Donatella Usai ; 15. Securing the Gold of Wawat: pharaonic inscriptions in the Sudanese-Nubian Eastern Desert 185-220 – W. Vivian Davies

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Book SynopsisDoors are more than a physical means to close off an entrance or an exit; doors can also indicate that a boundary between two worlds has been crossed. This is above all the case for the door into the chapel. Such a door constitutes a barrier between the world of the living and the world where the living and the dead can coexist, while, inside the chapel, the false door acts as a barrier between the world of the living and that of the dead. Taking into account both physical and non-physical aspects of the door, Doors, Entrances and Beyond... proposes that porticos, false doors, niches and mastaba chapel entrances are interconnected in their function as a barrier between two worlds, of which the entrance into the chapel is the most important. The different elements of the entrance have a signalling, identifying, inviting and in some cases a warning function, but once inside the entrance itself, the decoration of its corridor walls adds a guiding and an explanatory function to it. The main themes there are the tomb owner standing or seated with or without members of the family, and subsidiary figures. Over the course of time, decreasing tomb dimensions correlate with the decreasing size of the chosen decoration themes. At the same time, both on the walls of the corridor and the false door, a change of decoration themes took place which can be explained through the changing mode of supply of the k3 of the deceased.Table of ContentsChapter One: About this Study ; Chapter Two: The Rituals and Tomb Elements ; Chapter Three: Introduction ; Doors ; Chapter Four: Doors, Closing the Monument ; Chapter Five: Doors, Other uses ; Chapter Six: Doors, False Doors and Porticos ; Chapter Seven: The Chapel and its Elements ; Chapter Eight: Decoration Directionality in Entrances and Chapels ; Chapter Nine: Portico Chapels ; Chapter Ten: The Themes of the Decoration ; Entrances and Decoration ; Chapter Eleven: The Door Jambs and the Entrance Thicknesses ; Chapter Twelve: The Entrance Thicknesses and Chapel Walls ; Offering Places ; Chapter Thirteen: Offering places ; Chapter Fourteen: Discussion and Conclusions ; Tables ; Bibliography, Abbreviations and Technical Terms ; General Index

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Book SynopsisCurrent Research in Egyptology 2019 presents the papers and posters from the twentieth meeting of the prestigious international student Egyptology conference, on this occasion held at the University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. The conference took place 17–21 June 2019 at the Major College of San Ildefonso, the historic centre of the University of Alcalá, with almost 200 participants from various countries and institutions all over the world. The conference addressed a wide range of topics including all periods of ancient Egyptian History and different aspects of its material culture, archaeology, history, society, religion and language. Fifteen wide-ranging papers are published here with wider information on the scientific and cultural programme of the conference.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; List of paper presentations ; List of poster presentations ; List of keynote lectures ; Speaking bodies: an approach to the Egyptian and Aegean ritual gestures of the Bronze Age (preliminary remarks) – Christos Kekes ; Classification of ‘directive speech acts’ in Egyptian teaching texts – Simon Thuault ; Preliminary study on offering trays in Qubbet el-Hawa – Cristina Lechuga Ibánez ; Towards a prosopography of the priests of Akhmim from the Late Period to the Roman Period – Marion Claude ; Architectural models of ancient Egypt: the soul houses of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden – Filippo Mi ; The feminine touch: aspects of the role of women as evidenced in ancient Egyptian personal correspondence – Susan Thorpe ; The temple of Khonsu at Karnak: the decoration of the south gate of the pylon – Abraham I. Fernández Pichel ; Officials under Queen Mother Ahhotep – Beatriz Noria Serrano ; Evidence for medical relations between Egypt and Ḫatti: a brief overview – Marco De Pietri and Elena Urzi ; Jmy-r# jp.t nsw at the end of the 18th dynasty: an iconographical study – Dana Bělohoubková ; The perception of bodily fluids in ancient Egypt – Clémentine Audouit ; Presenting four coloured linen in Ptolemaic temples – Dorotea Wollnerová ; Ancient Arabian horses? Revisiting ancient equine imagery – Lonneke Delpeut and Hylke Hettema ; The demon-deity Maga: geographical variation and chronological transformation in ancient Egyptian demonology – John Rogers ; What might the temple of Millions of Years of Thutmosis III at Luxor have looked like? Some hypotheses about the decorative programme on sandstone remains – Linda Chapon

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Book SynopsisExcavations at Chester. Roman land division and a probable villa in the hinterland of Deva reports on excavations carried out by Northern Archaeological Associates (NAA) at Saighton Camp a former British Army training camp located to the south of the Roman legionary fortress of Chester (Deva Victrix) which revealed important and extensive Roman period remains. Part of a high-status settlement of second- to fourth-century date, together with a regular field system laid out over more than 20 hectares, were encountered.The excavated settlement appears to be an ancillary area to a much larger site, the centre of which lies to the south and is believed to be a villa. This is the closest such site to Chester, and villas are notably rare in the region. The field system was probably laid out by the legion at Deva as part of the prata legionis, agricultural lands they controlled around the fortress.

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Book SynopsisSignalling and Performance: Ancient Rock Art in Britain and Ireland presents a state of the art survey of the ancient rock art of Britain and Ireland, bringing together new discoveries and new interpretations. Ancient rock art offers unique insights into the mindsets of its makers and the landscapes in which they lived. The making of rock art was not just an aesthetic practice, but an activity informed by deep social and cultural meanings held by its makers - meanings that they were compelled to express on rocks in Britain and Ireland, through mostly abstract images, for thousands of years. For a long time, ancient rock art remained a topic on the fringes of Archaeology. Since the 1960s, however, there has been sustained recording and research into ancient rock art. Increased publicity has evoked growing interest in British and Irish rock art, with professional and amateur archaeologists and the public, with the latter being responsible for many discoveries. In 2007, Aron Mazel, George Nash and Clive Waddington published the first edited volume focusing on ancient British rock art, entitled Art as Metaphor. Since then, there have been a number of publications covering this topic. Building on the increased interest in rock art, this lavishly illustrated volume constructed of thirteen thought-provoking chapters and an Introduction will do much to further enhance of understanding of this fascinating and meaningful resource. It will further establish ancient British and Irish rock art as a significant archaeological assemblage worthy of attention and additional study.Trade Review'This study of prehistoric rock art does indeed provide an 'insight into the mindset of its makers', investigating how prehistoric people interacted with these motifs and what they meant to them culturally and socially. It is an important contribution to the exploration of this subject in Britain and Ireland, as well as being an enjoyable and academic read that will engage a range of archaeologically minded audiences.' – Ceri Pennington (2023): Current Archaeology Issue 399Table of ContentsIntroduction: Recording and Interpreting the Ancient Rock Art of Britain and Ireland – Aron Mazel and George Nash ; The Past, Present and Future of Rock Art Research in Scotland – Tertia Barnett, Joana Valdez-Tullett, Maya Hoole, Stuart Jeffrey, Guillaume Robin, Linda Marie Bjerketvedt and Frederick Alexander ; Marking the Earth: History of Research and the Distribution of Open-Air Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Panels and Motifs at Lordenshaw in Central Northumberland, United Kingdom – Aron Mazel ; East of Eden: Monumental Rock Art in Cumbria, North-West of England – Kate E. Sharpe ; The Early Bronze Age Landscape of Burley Moor, West Yorkshire – Keith Boughey ; The Carver and the Rock: The Physicality of Carving – Vivien Deacon ; A Wirral Enigma: Understanding the Origins of the Willaston Stones – Ron Cowell, George Nash and Elizabeth Stewart ; A Reappraisal of the Cronk yn How Stone, Isle of Man – George Nash ; Rewriting Landscapes: Exploring the Context, Regionality and Extended Chronologies of Irish Rock Art – Rebecca Aroon Enlander ; Conserving Rock Art in South-West Ireland – Clare Busher O’Sullivan ; A Single Panel Case Study in Kerry – Deconstructing a Rock Art Palimpsest – Aoibheann Lambe ; Linear Art in the European Neolithic – Anne Teather ; The Discovery of Late Upper Palaeolithic Rock Art at Cathole Cave on the Gower Peninsula, South Wales – George Nash ; Prehistoric Rock Art in Glamorgan and Gwent – Edith Evans

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Book SynopsisJosé C. Martín de la Cruz es uno de los investigadores más relevantes durante los últimos años del siglo XX y primeros del siglo XXI tanto en la investigación en Prehistoria como de la difusión del patrimonio a nivel internacional. Este volumen aspira a servir de homenaje a una trayectoria profesional, al reunir alrededor de medio centenar de investigadores para tratar diferentes ejes temáticos y cronológicos relacionados con la investigación prehistórica y su difusión. Por lo tanto, se trata de un volumen multidisciplinar cuyos especialistas interpretan la prehistoria desde sus orígenes más remotos hasta el paso previo a las colonizaciones históricas, así como exploran las diferentes vías en las que pervive el patrimonio prehistórico. El volumen se estructura en cuatro partes, organizadas de manera cronológica desde lo más reciente hasta lo más antiguo. La primera parte trata sobre las economías locales desde la Edad del Hierro hasta los contactos interculturales que se producen durante la Edad del Bronce en el ámbito mediterráneo. En un segundo bloque retrocedemos en el tiempo para explorar las últimas investigaciones realizadas sobre historiografía, secuenciación cronológica, ideología y religiosidad de las sociedades calcolíticas y sobre la economía de las primeras sociedades productoras neolíticas. La tercera parte indaga sobre los primeros pobladores de la península ibérica, las representaciones artísticas y su entorno natural. Por último, cierra el volumen un apartado multidisciplinar que aborda la prehistoria desde diversas áreas científicas. Al final, esta obra se convierte en punto de encuentro donde se reúnen desde investigadores consolidados hasta jóvenes investigadores, que ofrecen sus investigaciones científicas al mismo tiempo que rinden homenaje al profesor Martín de la Cruz.

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Book SynopsisCurrent Research in Egyptology 2021 presents papers from the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the international postgraduate conference Current Research in Egyptology, held online by the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean (Rhodes, Greece) on 9-16 May 2021. Almost 100 participants from institutions all over the world presented their insightful research on a wide range of topics regarding all periods of ancient Egypt. Fifteen Egyptological and Papyrological papers are published here, which investigate a great variety of issues, including social and religious aspects of life in ancient Egypt, ritual and magic, language and literature, ideology of death, demonology, the iconographical tradition, and intercultural relations, ranging chronologically from the Prehistoric to the Coptic period. The wide chronological and thematic scope of the book reflects the multifaceted, interdisciplinary and innovative character of modern Egyptology.Table of ContentsForeword ; Introduction ; List of paper presentations ; List of poster presentations ; List of keynote lectures ; Reared in prehistory: uncovering the evidence for children in ancient Egypt – Mona Akmal M. Ahmed ; The ‘commander of the ruler’s crew’: some remarks about a high military title in the Second Intermediate Period and the Egyptian army in the 17th dynasty – Francesco de Gaetano ; Spectacle of imperial splendour: the presentation of gifts and tributes ceremony in the 18th dynasty – Ziting (Rebecca) Wang ; Festivals and duties: aspects of religious life found in ancient Egyptian personal correspondence – Sue Thorpe ; Sun, moon, and myth: the function and symbolism of fish in water features of ancient Egyptian formal gardens – Jayme Reichart ; Being annihilated or being satisfied in the Duat. About the dynamic of the sw.wt in the New Kingdom Books of the Underworld – Mariano Bonanno ; ‘And all large and small cattle’ - Is there a ‘zoogony’ in the Religious Hymns of the New Kingdom (c. 1539-1077 BC)? – Guilherme Borges Pires ; Water, protection and destiny: an interpretation of the wr.t-demon – Gabriele Mario Conte ; The transmission of themes and motifs between copy and innovation: the decorative programmes of the late monumental tombs – Valeria Tappeti ; Unpublished Greek and Demotic papyri from Graeco-Roman Tebtunis: a research project at the University of Parma – Nicola Reggiana and Alessia Bovo ; The Πλοιαφέσια in the Greek landscape: a local expression of a global festivity – Dafni Maikidou-Poutrino ; Iconographical and iconological study of the snake-footed Anubis in Alexandria: connections and new creations – Beatriz Jiménez Meroño and Francisco L. Borrego Gallardo ; Eggs in Graeco-Roman Egypt: food, medicine, ritual – Dimitris Roumpekas ; The scarab, from amulets to magical gems: transmissions and transpositions of an emblem of the pharaonic civilisation – Dominique Barcat ; The role of Greek loanwords in Coptic magical texts. Mere technical terms or indicators of scribal education? – Krisztina Hevesi

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Book SynopsisDe façon paradoxale, alors que le morcellement, la profanation ou l’abandon des dépouilles sont attestés dans de nombreux contextes archéologiques ou historiques, l’absence intentionnelle de rites funéraires n’a pas fait l’objet jusqu’à présent d’études systématiques ou comparatives d’envergure dans le champ des sciences sociales. Et au final, nous en savons donc encore bien peu sur ce qui conduit une société à priver ou dispenser intentionnellement un individu de traitement funéraire. Ainsi, les modalités de la privation de funérailles sont-elles toujours et partout les mêmes ? Ou bien varient-elles selon les contextes socio-historiques, en étant singulièrement reliées aux situations de crises ? Quels sont les différents enjeux qui président à la privation de traitement funéraire ? Plus généralement et de façon analytique, à partir de quels éléments factuels nous est-il possible d’identifier et de qualifier les situations de privation de rites funéraires ? Pour répondre à ce vaste ensemble de questions, nous avons rassemblé dans ce volume douze contributions d’archéologues, d’anthropologues et d’historiens, fruit d’un travail collectif mené lors de journées d’études qui se sont déroulées en 2021 et 2022 à Montpellier et à Marseille. Ces journées ont initié une dynamique interdisciplinaire et diachronique de réflexion, particulièrement riche et dense, sur la diversité des motivations qui conduisent à la privation intentionnelle de funérailles. Dans leur prolongement, ces douze chapitres invitent également à réfléchir sur le cheminement intellectuel qui permet à partir de données archéologiques, historiques ou ethnographiques, d’attester de l’absence de traitement funéraire, et sur les outils intellectuels et théoriques disponibles pour aborder la question de la privation de funérailles.Table of ContentsPréambule : Les morts sans funérailles, un pan de recherche encore inexploré – Élisabeth Anstett et Aurore Schmitt ; Des morts privés de funérailles : cadre général de réflexion – Bruno Boulestin ; Identifier des morts sans funérailles en contexte archéologique : des cas datés du Néolithique – Aurore Schmitt ; Le refus de sépultures paroissiales à Troyes aux XIVe-XVe siècles : la découverte d’un lieu d’inhumations de prisonniers – Cécile Paresys, Vincent Marchaisseau, Cédric Roms ; « Je te condamne toute vive a estre enfouye » : trois probables cas d’enfouissement vif à Orléans (XIIe et XIIIe siècle) – Laure Ziegler ; Des morts à évacuer : le cas des fœtus avortés et des nouveaux-nés handicapés (pays kabyè, Togo) – Marie Daugey ; Les refus de sépulture aux enfants non baptisés : un enjeu politique et religieux dans la France impériale – Vincent Gourdon et Nathalie Sage Pranchère ; La poubelle, le cimetière et l’état civil : Malaises et évolutions du droit français quant au traitement des embryons nés sans vie – Lisa Carayon ; Des morts privés de funérailles et des morts sans repos au Moyen ge chez les Slaves orientaux – Enrique Santos Marinas ; Le meurtre du connétable d’Armagnac (12 juin 1418) : itinéraires parisiens d’un mort outragé au temps de la guerre civile – Myriam Gilet ; « On ne les enterrera point et ils seront comme du fumier sur la terre » (Jr 8, 2) : la privation de sépulture dans l’ancien Israël au Ier millénaire av. J.-C. – Piotr Kuberski ; Mourir en bord de mer : naufrages et inhumations des « corps noyez » sur les côtes du golfe du Lion au XVIIIe siècle – Léa Tavenne et Sébastien Berthaut-Clarac ; Une étude de cas ethnoarchéologique : le traitement des individus décédés de malemort dans les communautés animistes actuelles de l’île de Sumba (Indonésie) – Christian Jeunesse et Bruno Boulestin ; Des morts sans funérailles ni sépulture : premier bilan et perspectives – Aurore Schmitt et Élisabeth Anstett

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Book SynopsisThis special issue of ARAMAZD presents a collection of papers dedicated to Ruben S. Badalyan, a leading specialist in prehistoric archaeology of the Caucasus region. Born September 23, 1957 in Yerevan, he obtained his Master of Arts in History from Yerevan State University in 1979. Upon completion of his studies, he began working at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (IAE) of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR and in 2007 he was appointed as the Head of the Department of Early Archaeology of the IAE NAS RA, a role he continues to perform to date.Table of ContentsForeword ; Seal and sealing in the Kura-Araxes culture: New findings from northwestern Iran – Akbar Abedi ; The Kura-Araxes tombs in Shirak region, Armenia – Levon Aghikyan ; Homo mobilis: Some observations on the characteristics of the Kura-Araxes cultural complex – Pavel Avetisyan ; Feminine figurine of Shengavit and its parallels – Anna Azizyan ; The spatial Matryoshka doll: New perspectives on the settlement dynamic of the Kura-Araxes – Stephen Batiuk ; Vertical use of space in Ancient Armenia and the case of Kura-Araxes tradition – Arsen Bobokhyan ; The settlement of Norabats – Seda Devejyan and Ruben Davtyan ; Materials from excavations of Fioletovo – Aram Gevorgyan and Anna Azizyan ; Twenty years of Kura-Araxes research at Tel Bet Yerah: What we have learned – Raphael Greenberg, Mark Iserlis and Sarit Paz ; The Kura-Araxes ‘expansion’: A climate change-related phenomenon? – Yervand Grekyan ; The story of Karaz: A brief history of the research, and an understanding of the process of the Kura-Araxes culture in the Erzurum Highlands – Mehmet Işıklı ; On the Kura-Araxes expansion – Aram Kosyan ; Transformations in the Caucasus: Cultural interactions and movements of people from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age – Bertille Lyonnet ; Evaluation of the Kura-Araxes migration: From a mono-factorial phantasm to a multi-dimensional phenomenon – Sepideh Maziar ; Encountering the Kura-Araxes. Changes in the Malatya plain at the end of the 4th millennium – Giulio Palumbi and Marcella Frangipane ; Thirty years in the making: A critical overview of the Kura-Araxes periodization from a radiocarbon perspective – Annapaola Passerini ; Recent investigations on the Early Bronze Age sites in the Marmarik River Valley as part of the Kotayk Survey Project – Artur Petrosyan, Roberto Dan and Boris Gasparyan ; Why deer? Figural imagery and faunal remains in the Bronze Age South Caucasus – Karen S. Rubinson ; Zoomorphic clay figurines from the Early Bronze Age settlement of Harich – Mariam Saribekyan ; Early Bronze Age settlement from ancient city Samshvilde – Nino Shanshashvili and Goderdzi Narimanishvili ; New data on the construction and meaning of the Shengavit settlement wall – Hakob Simonyan and Mitchell S Rothman ; Early Bronze Age obsidian networks: A view from Project ArAGATS – Adam T. Smith ; On motifs and patterns on Early Trans-Caucasian IIA pottery from Yanik Tepe in northwestern Iran – Geoffrey D. Summers ; Preliminary results of excavations of the Early Bronze Age settlement in Lernakert (Armenia) – Benik Vardanyan, Mariam Saribekyan, Ruben Davtyan, Levon Mkrtchyan and Sona Manukyan ; Bronze Age tomb from the cemetery of Sasunik – Nora Yengibaryan ; Clay figurines from Agarak – Nora Yengibaryan ; Armenian Summaries

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Book SynopsisPottery from Manqabad 2 presents, documents and analyses a new selection of ceramics from the Egyptian site of Manqabad (Asyut). The Italian Egyptian project at this monastic complex started in 2011, sponsored by the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (UNIOR) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation (MAECI). One of the principal goals of the project is the study and publication of the related finds, today stored at the SCA warehouses in el-Ashmunein and Shutby, together with the analysis of the material deriving from the ongoing excavations. Of course, pottery has a prominent role in the identification of the different phases of occupation and production/domestic activities performed in the ancient monastic community. Therefore this volume aims at presenting the most significant ceramic typologies from Manqabad, while collecting as many references and parallels as possible deriving from several different monastic sites in Egypt.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter I. A selected catalogue of pottery from El-Ashmunein SCA store and Manqabad site ; Introduction to the catalogue ; The pottery from the el-Ashmunein SCA store ; The pottery from the Site of Manqabad ; The Catalogue ; Chapter II. Observations and comments on the typologies ; Analysis of the pottery typologies: coarse wares ; Fine wares ; Amphorae and lamps ; Chapter III. The survey of the production area ; The investigation of the Southern Sector ; The furnace of Manqabad ; Kilns for pottery production in Byzantine Egypt ; Some remarks about the pottery production at the Manqabad monastery ; Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Plates

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Book SynopsisNormative, Atypical or Deviant? Interpreting Prehistoric and Protohistoric Child Burial Practices, the tenth volume in the SSCIP monograph series, explores the response of the living when dealing with the death of a child. This response is strongly connected to belief systems and concern for the fate of the deceased in the afterlife. The funerary rituals for each culture generally follow a prescribed format that will both satisfy the needs of the dead and ensure there are no negative consequences for the living. But how do we interpret burials that do not adhere to the recognised formula for their society? Can we find evidence that such differences involved positive or, indeed, negative emotions? Should atypical rites for children actually be considered normal since they are typical for their age cohort, differing only from those of adults, and perhaps simply reflect adult-centric interpretations of the past? The papers within the volume discuss these issues by focusing on juvenile burial practices in Europe and the Near East during recent prehistory and protohistory. The interpretation of normative, atypical or deviant is interrogated based on the context of the burials and the intentionality of the practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Normative, Atypical or Deviant? Interpreting Prehistoric and Protohistoric Child Burial Practices – Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy Moments of Memory and Belonging. A Special Child Burial from Neolithic Ba`ja, Southern Jordan – Marion Benz, Hala Alarashi, Julia Gresky, Christoph Purschwitz and Hans Georg K. Gebel The First Youngsters of a New Age: Juveniles in the Neolithic of Hungary – Alexandra Anders Where Do the Children Go? Funerary Treatments of Juveniles Within Collective Burial Sites in Neolithic Southern France – Mélie Le Roy Are They Really Missing? Non-Adult Graves of the Late Prehistory of Central Spain: An Archaeological and Bioanthropological Approach – Ana Mercedes Herrerro-Corral Juvenile Burial Practices in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland: Interpretations of the Atypical – Cormac McSparron and Eileen Murphy Sweet Child O’ Mine. Family Ties, Inheritance System and Representation of Infants in Iron Age Veneto: The Case of Mound L from Este, Padua – Fiorenza Bortolami An Integrated Approach Towards the Analysis of Child Burials in the Etruscan Po Valley, Italy (6th-3rd century BC): Representation and Spatial Choices – Anna Serra Burying Children in Iron Age Normandy: The Unusual Case of the Necropolis of Urville-Nacqueville, Second Century BC – Ana Arzelier, Caroline Partiot, Claire-Elise Fischer, Anthony Lefort, Melie Le Roy, Stéphane Rottier Funerary Rituals for Juveniles in Gaul. Specificities and Standards of Infant Burials in Avaricum from the 1st to 5th Centuries AD – Raphaël Durand A Childhood Cut Short? The Mortuary Analysis of Subadult Decapitation Burials in Western Roman Britain – Shaheen M. Christie Mors Immatura in the Civitas of Forum Iulii, Narbonnensis Gaul: An Archaeothanatological Approach – Alexia Lattard and Aurore Schmitt The Late Antiquity Burials of Verdier Nord, Lunel-Viel, Hérault, France: Graves on the Outskirts of the Necropolis – Sélim Djouad and Agathe Chen

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Book SynopsisThe third volume of the Homines, Funera, Astra series gathers works presented at the third and fourth editions of the International Symposium on Funerary Archaeology: Death and Fire in Ancient Times (15–18 September 2013), and Time and Cause of Death from Prehistory to the Middle Ages (21–23 September 2014), both held at the ‘1 Decembrie 1918’ University in Alba Iulia, Romania. The contributions focus on two central topics regarding past funerary behaviour in Central and South-Eastern Europe: cremation, and cause and time of death. As in previous volumes, interdisciplinarity is a key feature. The study of archaeological contexts through 14C dating and Bayesian modelling, osteological studies including palaeopathologies, and epigraphic and numismatic evidence were all taken into account to establish the various causes of death and/or the moment these tragic events took place. The present volume includes 13 studies, six of which are dedicated to prehistoric funerary practices – dating to the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods (four studies), Bronze Age (one study) and Iron Age (one study). Three more papers are focused on the Roman Age, while the volume is completed with four papers on the Medieval period, overall providing a wealth of new information on funerary behaviour in this part of Europe.Table of ContentsForeword ; Neolithic and the sacred fire – Sanda Băcueţ Crişan and Corina Bejinariu ; Burned bones from the Late Neolithic Hamangia cemetery from Cernavodă, Romania – Raluca Kogălniceanu and Angela Simalcsik ; The times of their death – question of contemporaneity in burials from a Late Neolithic settlement in Polgár– Csőszhalom (NE Hungary) – Alexandra Anders and Zsuzsanna Siklósi ; A ditch in time: A bioarchaeological analysis of the human skeletal remains discovered at Alba Iulia – Lumea Nouă (Romania) – Mihai Gligor, Kirsty McLeod, Ana Fetcu and Călin Şuteu ; Landscape of the living and landscape of the dead. Long barrows: fire in the mortuary practices of Funnel Beaker culture communities in the Polish Lowland – Andrzej Pelisiak ; Early Iron Age burials at Gelmar (Hunedoara County, Romania) – Gabriel Bălan, Adrian Bolog, Cristian Dima, Silviu Popa, Daniel Tentiş and Andrei Soficaru ; Mors immatura. The causes of death in inscriptions from the Roman Empire – Alexander Rubel ; The critical years of life: Censorinus on the right time of death – Kai Brodersen ; Osteoarchaeological study of cremation burials from the Roman period necropolis of Zadar: taphonomy, demography and pathology – Mario Novak and Smiljan Gluščević ; Meeting a medieval community of Bizere Monastery: lifestyle, occupation and nutritional status – Luminița Andreica-Szilágyi ; Disappearance of grave goods: changes in burial practices in 14th century Ivanec, Croatia – Juraj Belaj and Filomena Sirovica ; Can the position of the forearms serve as a dating determinant in medieval and early modern cemeteries on the territory of the northern Croatia? – Siniša Krznar ; Coin finds at Crkvari – Saint Lawrence Church site (northern Croatia) as terminus ante quem non for funerary features – Tatjana Tkalčec

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Book SynopsisBâtisseurs de mégalithes aims to develop and test a new methodology for Prehistory to enhance architectural analysis. A review of research into the European megalithic phenomenon from the 5th to the 3rd millennium BC in relation to western France reveals a disparity in our knowledge of megalithic sites. Technological data related to the construction process is almost non-existent compared to architectural data focusing on formal and ornamental aspects. Similarly, there is more data available for monoliths (orthostats and capstones) than for masonry.However, the study of more recent constructions provides crucial information for understanding their architecture, particularly through the use of building archaeology. This approach has been employed to read historical buildings for about thirty years and has demonstrated its full potential.Its application to megalithic architectures requires adaptation. Firstly, the vocabulary and construction principles were aligned with the dry stone masonry generally used. Secondly, the study includes an analysis of monoliths, which play a major role.The results highlight the architectural biography of Neolithic tumuli and the technology used in their construction. They also demonstrate that megalithic sites in western France underwent architectural modifications throughout the Neolithic period, requiring significant expertise from the builders. Overall, megalithic building archaeology can be seen to provide a promising methodology for understanding monumentality in later Prehistory.

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Book SynopsisThe Archaeological Survey of Nubia was one of the earliest and most extensive studies of the population of ancient Nubia. Beginning in 1907 in southern Egypt, the excavations ran for four seasons and involved the excavation of 151 cemeteries. Publication of the first season's work included an in-depth anatomical study of the cemetery populations found; this was not however replicated in future years. Until recently, it was assumed that any records for these later years produced by the anatomists in charge, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith and Dr Douglas Derry, were lost.This volume reconstructs the anatomical studies carried out for one of those missing seasons season two (1908-09) using newly discovered records, alongside archival records and the scant surviving human remains themselves. An introduction to the Archaeological Survey of Nubia season two excavations is given, alongside discussion of the source materials identified and the limitations these bring for researchers today. Following this, there is a full burial catalogue of the thirty-eight cemeteries where human remains were excavated. Data on the physical and pathological traits observed in each cemetery population are presented, and the detailed anatomical measurements taken by Smith and Derry are recorded as Appendices.

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Book SynopsisSlingers were an element in the Roman army over many centuries. Their activities are frequently reported in literary accounts of battles and sieges during the civil wars of the Late Republic. Sling bullets, in stone, clay and lead, have been found at many scenes of conflict. Lead bullets often bear brief inscriptions addressed to the recipients, naming military units, their commanders and centurions; others carry sexual insults. This is an ever-expanding body of ancient evidence. Yet some books on the Roman army scarcely mention slingers. This monograph seeks to redress the balance and draws attention to their role and effectiveness. It covers the period between the Social Warof 90-89 BC and the close of the civil wars at the battle of Actium in 31 BC, encompassing thecampaigns of Julius Caesar in Gaul between 58 and 50 BC, including his expeditions to Britain, the wars between Caesar and Pompey the Great (and his sons) in 49-45 BC, and between Caesar's heirs and successors in 44-31 BC, including Mark Antony and the future emperor Augustus.

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Book SynopsisThe first of a set of three volumes publishing the excavations at the site of Kawa, Northern Dongola Reach, between 1997 and 2018 by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society. Volume I contains a detailed study of the excavations carried out in Areas A, B, C, and F, as well as the temenos gateway, Building Z1 and the Kushite cemetery R18. Its comprehensive analysis of distinct building phases provides the reader with an in-depth understanding of the activities and subsequent changes at the site over its long history. This is heavily illustrated with photographs, maps, and line drawings, providing a thorough study of the research undertaken during this fieldwork.

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