Academic Social Network: Academia.edu

Go to academia.edu and build (or update) your profile. Encourage your students, colleagues and teachers to do so as well. Those of you whose institutions have an inadequate repostitory (or lack one altogether) can deposit your scholarly writing as a part of their profile on academia.edu.

Once you have a profile, find me at one or another of my manifestations there (merging of profiles for those with appopintments a more than one institution or department is an issue they are working on solving), and add me as a contact.

Eleven additional books from the Oriental Institute available in Open Access

• OINE 2. Ausgrabungen von Khor-Dehmit bis Bet El-Wali. H. Ricke. Originally published in 1967.
• OIP 106. The Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak, Volume 1, Part 1: The Wall Reliefs. By Harold Hayden Nelson. Edited by William J. Murnane. Originally published in 1981
• OIP 94. Medinet Habu, Vol. VIII: The Eastern High Gate with Translations of Texts. The Epigraphic Survey. Originally published in 1970
• OIP 87. The Egyptian Coffin Texts 7, Texts of Spells 787-1185. By Adriaan de Buck. Originally published in 1961
• OIP 86. The Tomb of Tjanefer at Thebes. By Keith C. Seele. Originally published in 1959
• OIP 82. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. Edited by Thomas George Allen. Originally published in 1960
• OIP 66. Post-Ramessid Remains. The Excavation of Medinet Habu, Volume 5. By Uvo Hölscher. Originally published in 1954
• OIP 71. Coptic Ostraca from Medinet Habu. By Elizabeth Stefanski and Miriam Lichtheim. Originally published in 1952
• OIP 64. The Egyptian Coffin Texts 3: Texts of Spells 164-267. By Adriaan de Buck. Originally published in 1947
• OIP 54. The Mortuary Temple of Ramses III, Part 1. The Excavation of Medinet Habu, Volume 3. By Uvo Hölscher. Originally published in 1941
• OIP 41. The Excavation of Medinet Habu, Volume 2: The Temples of the Eighteenth Dynasty. By Uvo Hölscher. Originally published in 1939

Open Access: Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens

The Internet Archive has surfaced early issues of the Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens.

• Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens I (1883) [REPORT OF WILLIAM W. GOODWIN, PROFESSOR IN HARVARD COLLEGE, Director of the School in 1882-1883].
• Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens II (1885) [MEMOIR OF LEWIS R. PACKARD, PROFESSOR IN YALE COLLEGE, Director of the School in 1883-1884. With the Resolutions of the Committee, and a Report on the School for 1883-1884].
• Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens IV (1895) [REPORT OF JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE. Ph.D., Professor in Harvard University, Professor of the Greek Language and Literature at the School in 1893-94.].
• Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens V (1902) [THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OP CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS, THOMAS D. SEYMOUR, LL.D.].

I have added these to :

AWOL - The Ancient World Online - 5: Publications of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens are available online in open access formats

JURN. Access to free ejournals in the arts & humanities

JURN is a curated academic search-engine, indexing 3,154 free ejournals in the arts & humanities.

JURN is a search-engine indexing free ‘open access’ ejournals in the arts and humanities, along with other arts and scholarly journals offering free content.

How do I use it? You can use it just like Google. JURN is running on a Google Custom Search; so JURN is speedy, and you can use all the usual Google search modifers, such as intitle:”your phrase” and filetype:pdf But I assume the typical user will have an adequate grasp of the best ways to search Google, and will thus also have some idea of the exact terms they need to use. For example, a unsophisticated search for…

Gender Studies Shakespeare

…will only obtain an interesting but very broad overview, while a search such as such as…

intitle:”The Tempest” gender

… will return much more specific results.

In the right hand sidebar of AWOL (those of you reading this in feed aggregators or by email will need to click through to see this) is a search box giving access to the data curated by JURN.

Is it useful? Leave a comment

Open Access: Propylaeum - Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften

Propylaeum - Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften - Virtual Library Classical Studies

Das Projekt Propylaeum – Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften ist ein Internetportal, das Fachinformationen für den gesamten Bereich der Altertumswissenschaft anbietet, derzeit für die Fächer Ägyptologie, Alte Geschichte, Klassische Archäologie, Klassische Philologie und Vor- und Frühgeschichte. Geplant ist der Ausbau um die Fächer Alter Orient, Byzantinistik und Mittel- und Neulateinische Philologie.

Die Gesamtschau Alle Fächer bietet einen Überblick über die einzelnen Module aller im Portal vertretenen Fächer. Über die Metasuche Propylaeum-Search werden nach und nach Angebote so eingebunden, dass gleichzeitig in mehreren Nachweisinstrumenten und Datenbanken recherchiert werden kann.

The Propylaeum project is a virtual library that offers subject information across the entire spectrum of Classical Studies. At the moment the Internet portal has coverage of the following subjects: Egyptology, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology and Pre- and Early History. It is planned to add the subjects Ancient Near and Middle East, Byzantine Studies and Medieval and Neo-Latin Philology, at a later date.

An overview of the individual subject modules that are offered by this portal is available via the option “All Subjects.” The meta-search Propylaeum-Search will be constantly expanded to cover more sources, allowing simultaneous searching in a number different retrieval systems and databases.

Propylaeum offers a wide variety of points of entry to scholarly material on Antiquity. Notable among these is:

Propylaeum-DOK

Propylaeum-DOK is the full-text server of Propylaeum, the Virtual Library for Classical Studies and provides an opportunity for publishing, indexing and long-preservation of documents on Classical Studies. Propylaeum-DOK is a service of the University Library of Heidelberg, which within the scopes of its special subject collections Classical Archaeology and Egyptology funded by German Research Foundation, offers members of the academic community worldwide the opportunity to publish their texts (monographs, articles, lectures) under terms of Open Access in electronic format on the Internet at no charge.

Available at the moment are:

Nine MA Theses:

1. Widmann, Esther (2007) Die Archäologie des Haushalts in der kretischen Neupalastzeit: Archäologische und ikonographische Zeugnisse zum alltäglichen Bereich (Daidalos 1) (Abschlussarbeit (Diplom, Magister, Master etc.))

2. Eckert, Martin (2007) Piräus: Der Hafen als Wirtschafts-, Kontakt- und Problemzone der klassischen Polis (Abschlussarbeit (Diplom, Magister, Master etc.))

3. Zöller, Sebastian (2005) Die Gesellschaft der frühen „Dunklen Jahrhunderte“ auf Kreta. Eine Untersuchung der archäologischen Hinterlassenschaften der Bevölkerung Kretas während der Spätminoisch IIIC und Subminoischen Zeit im Bezug auf ihre soziale Aussagekraft und Bedeutung (Daidalos 2) (Abschlussarbeit (Diplom, Magister, Master etc.))

4. Schweinfurth, Dagmar (2005) Ekphrasis topôn und ekphrasis tropôn. Aspekte der topographischen Ekphraseis in der griechischen Prosa der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike (Abschlussarbeit (Diplom, Magister, Master etc.))

5. Sinn, Valérie (2005) Medea und Médée. Senecas Drama im Vergleich mit dem Opernlibretto Thomas Corneilles (Abschlussarbeit (Diplom, Magister, Master etc.))

6. Kleibl, Kathrin (2003) Die Wasserkrypten in den hellenistischen und römischen Heiligtümern der ägyptischen Götter im Mittelmeerraum (Abschlussarbeit (Diplom, Magister, Master etc.))

7. Schütt, Birger (1998) "Altägypten im deutschen Schulbuch" – 25 Jahre später : Wiederholung einer Untersuchung von R. Klemm von 1976 (Basis 1972) (Abschlussarbeit (Diplom, Magister, Master etc.))

8. Kuhs, Clemens (1996) Das Dorf Samareia im griechisch-römischen Ägypten. Eine papyrologische Untersuchung (Abschlussarbeit (Diplom, Magister, Master etc.))

9. Villing, Alexandra Claudia (1992) The Iconography of Athena in Attic Vase-painting from 440–370 BC (Abschlussarbeit (Diplom, Magister, Master etc.))

Ten Doctoral Dissertations:

1.	Müller-Römer, Frank (2007) Pyramidenbau mit Rampen und Seilwinden: ein Beitrag zur Bautechnik im Alten Reich (Dissertation)
2.	Veigel, Isabell (2007) Untersuchungen zum Einfluss der Wohnhaus- und Tempelarchitektur auf die Beamtengräber des Neuen Reiches in Amarna, Theben und Memphis (Dissertation)
3.	Hallof, Jochen (2006) Die Baustufen I bis IV der Großen Anlage von Musawwarat es Sufra (Dissertation)
4.	Hesse, Katrin (2006) Kindsmord und Wahnsinn: Untersuchungen zur Überlieferung mordender Eltern in der Antike (Dissertation)
5.	Arnolds, Markus (2005) Funktionen republikanischer und frühkaiserzeitlicher Forumsbasiliken in Italien (Dissertation)
6.	Voß, Susanne (2004) Untersuchungen zu den Sonnenheiligtümern der 5. Dynastie: Bedeutung und Funktion eines singulären Tempeltyps im Alten Reich (Dissertation). [Also found here]
7.	Fitzenreiter, Martin (2001) Statue und Kult. Eine Studie der funerären Praxis an nichtköniglichen Grabanlagen der Residenz im Alten Reich (Dissertation)
8.	Lehmann, Katja (2000) Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches (Dissertation)
9.	Bommas, Martin (2000) Der Tempel des Chnum der 18. Dyn. auf Elephantine (Dissertation)
10.	Vierck, Sigrid (1991) Die Aigis : zu Typologie und Ikonographie eines mythischen Gegenstandes (Dissertation)

Four Books:

1. Taruashvili, Leonid Iosifovich (2008) Monimenta antiquae urbis Romae ad artes elegantes pertinentia: Itinerarium Latine adumbratum (altera versio emendata et amplificata) (Buch (Monographie))

2. Müller-Römer, Frank (2008) Pyramidenbau im Alten Ägypten. Pyramidenbau mit Rampen und Seilwinden - ein Beitrag zur Bautechnik im Alten Reich (2. Aufl.) (Buch (Monographie))

3. Taruashvili, Leonid Iosifovich (2007) Monimenta antiquae urbis Romae ad artes elegantes pertinentia: Itinerarium Latine adumbratum (Buch (Monographie))

4. Perali, Pericle (1949) I Fasti (Buch (Monographie))

and a variety of other sources, including on open access periodical:

OCCIDENT & ORIENT: Newsletter of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman

Open Access Introductions to Iranian Languages

Served from the Iranian Studies at Harvard website:

• Introduction to Young Avestan by P. Oktor Skjærvø
• Introduction to Old Avestan by P. Oktor Skjærvø
• Introduction to Old Persian by P. Oktor Skjærvø
• Introduction to Manichaean Sogdian by P. Oktor Skjærvø
• Sorani Kurdish: A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings by W. M. Thackston
• Kurmanji Kurdish: A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings by W. M. Thackston

And see also

• Introduction to Zoroastrianism by P. Oktor Skjærvø
• Introduction to Manicheism by P. Oktor Skjærvø

Disclaimer: The material on this site is intended for teaching and learning. As such it is constantly corrected, updated and, hopefully, improved. It is therefore recommended that you check back regularly for updates. Obviously, it reflects the author's current opinions on many issues, but not on all. Therefore, if you want to cite anything here for the purpose of scholarly discussion, please check with the author first.

New Ancient World Content in JSTOR

The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive since the last update in AWOL:

The Annual of the British School at Athens (Arts & Sciences V)

Release Content:
Vols. 1- 98 (1894/1895 - 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The British School at Athens
ISSN: 0068-2454

Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Ireland)

Release Content:
1908 - 1918 (Vols. 1 - 4)
Publication of this title ceased in 1918.
Publisher: Kerry Archaeology Magazine
ISSN: 2009-1362

Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (Arts & Sciences V)

Release Content:
Bde. 1- 31 (1974-2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag GmbH
ISSN: 0340-2215

Previously missing issues:

Ars Islamica (Arts & Sciences V)

Release Content:
Vol. 2, No. 2 (1935);
Vol. 3, Nos. 1-2 (1936);
Vol. 4 (1937)
Moving Wall: N/A
Publisher: The Smithsonian Institution and the Regents of the University of Michigan
ISSN: 1939-6406
Note: Ars Islamica is the previous title to Ars Orientalis.

Classical Philology (Arts & Sciences II)

Release Content:
Vol. 84, No. 4 (October, 1989)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 0009-837X

The Classical Weekly (Arts & Sciences VII)

Release Content:
Vol. 17, Nos. 1-14, 18-27 (1923 - 1924);
Vol. 19, Nos. 1-4, 7-16, 20 (1925 - 1926)
Moving Wall: N/A
Publisher: Classical Association of the Atlantic States
ISSN: 1940-641X
Note: The Classical Weekly is the previous title to The Classical World.

Transactions of the American Philological Association (Arts & Sciences II)

Release Content:
Vol. 131 (2001)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISSN: 0360-5949

The following new content has been added to the Aluka collections.

The Heinz Rüther Collection

The cultural heritage site, Great Zimbabwe, has been added to the Heinz Rüther Collection. 831 digital objects, including 3D models, aerial photographs, and high-resolution photographs, have been added to the more than 7,000 geo-spatial objects and images already available. This adds to already extensive documentation of cultural heritage sites and landscapes from across Africa documented by Prof. Rüther and his team at the University of Cape Town.

By about 1270, a wealthy elite emerged at Great Zimbabwe and started laying the foundations for an elaborate urban complex than grew into state that traded in gold, ivory, cloth, and glass beads with the Swahili city states along the Indian Ocean coast. At its peak in the 14th and 15th centuries, Great Zimbabwe was one of the largest cities in sub-Saharan Africa, a metropolis of more than 700 hectares composed of elite residences, ritual centres, public forums, markets, and the houses of commoners and artisans. Great Zimbabwe was added to World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1986.

Papyrological Navigator Update

The Papyrological Navigator

From an announcement on PAPY:

Colleagues:

The Papyrological Navigator now resides at New York University.
Functionality remains the same. It is improved in many places, and minor
corrections associated with the migration are in process, but it is the
same PN.

Earlier bookmarks may not work.

Start at http://papyri.info and click "Search the Navigator" or else go
straight to http://papyri.info/navigator/search

Please feel free to send feedback on functionality to Hugh Cayless
(hugh dot cayless at nyu dot edu)

All best,
Josh Sosin, Rodney Ast, James Cowey

Twenty six more Oriental Institute publications online open access

OIP 3. The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Volume 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary. By J. H. Breasted. Oriental Institute Publications 3. 1930

OIP 4. The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Volume 2: Facsimile Plates and Line for Line Hieroglyphic Transliteration. By J. H. Breasted. Oriental Institute Publications 4. 1930

OIP 17. Paleolithic Man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide in Nubia and Upper Egypt: A Study of the Region during Pliocene and Pleistocene Times. By K. S. Sandford and W. J. Arkell. Oriental Institute Publications 17, Prehistoric Survey of Egypt and Western Asia II. 1933

OIP 34. The Egyptian Coffin Texts 1: Texts of Spells 1-75. By Adriaan de Buck. Oriental Institute Publications 34. 1935

SAOC 33. Late Ramesside Letters. By Edward F. Wente. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 33. 1967

SAOC 34. A Study of the Ba Concept in Ancient Egyptian Texts. By Louis V. Zabkar. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 34. 1968

SAOC 35. Studies in Honor of John A. Wilson. Edited by E. B. Hauser. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 35. 1969. Kindly note that this volume is also available in print.

SAOC 39. Studies in Honor of George R. Hughes, January 12, 1977. Edited by Janet H. Johnson and Edward F. Wente. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 39. 1976. Kindly note that this volume is also available in print.

SAOC 40. Ancient Egyptian Coregencies. By William J. Murnane. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 40. 1977

SAOC 47. Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene J. Kantor. Edited by Albert Leonard Jr. and Bruce B. Williams. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 47. 1989. Kindly note that this volume is also available in print.

SAOC 48. Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization. By Ann Macy Roth. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 48. 1991

SAOC 51. Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond. Edited by Janet Johnson. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 51. 1992. Kindly note that this volume was already available; the replacement PDF file is created from a better scan.

SAOC 52. A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text (P. Brooklyn 47.218.135). By Richard Jasnow. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 52. 1992. Kindly note that this volume is also available in print.

SAOC 55. For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer. Edited by D. P. Silverman. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 55. 1994

SAOC 56. Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (I-IV Centuries A.D.) with a Catalog of Portrait Mummies in Egyptian Museums. By Lorelei H. Corcoran. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 56. 1995

SAOC 57. The Presentation of Maat: Ritual and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt. By Emily Teeter. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 57. 1997

SAOC 58. Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente. Edited by Emily Teeter and John A. Larson. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 58. 2000. Kindly note that this volume is also available in print.

MISC. The Burden of Egypt: An Interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Culture. By John A. Wilson. Oriental Institute Essay. 1951

MISC. The Culture of Ancient Egypt. By John A. Wilson. Oriental Institute Essay. Phoenix Edition 1956. Kindly note that this title was first published under the title The Burden of Egypt: An Interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Culture (1951).

MISC. Quseir Al-Qadim 1978: Preliminary Report. By D. S. Whitcomb and J. H. Johnson. 1979

MISC. Quseir al-Qadim 1980: Preliminary Report. By Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson. American Research Center in Egypt Reports 7. 1982

MISC. Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature. By Henri Frankfort, with a new Preface by Samuel Noah Kramer. Oriental Institute Essay. 1948

MISC. Most Ancient Egypt. By William C. Hayes, edited by Keith C. Seele. 1965

MISC. Ancient Egyptian Paintings Selected, Copied, and Described, Volume III: Descriptive Text. By Nina M. Davies with the editorial assistance of Alan H. Gardiner. 1936

MISC. When Egypt Ruled the East. By George Steindorff and Keith C. Seele, revised by Keith C. Seele. 1957

MISC. Ancient Textiles from Nubia: Meroitic, X-Group, and Christian Fabrics from Ballana and Qustul. By Christa C. Mayer Thurman and Bruce Williams. 1979

Open Access Journal: Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association

Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association

The focus of the Bulletin is the prehistory of eastern Asia (east of 70º longitude) and the Pacific region. Regions thus defined include South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania (the latter including Australasia). The Bulletin aims to maintain regular scholarly communication between researchers in these regions, and has published many papers from our 4-yearly international congresses. BIPPA also considers papers on all apects of Indo-Pacific palaeohistory, from archaeological, biological and linguistic perspectives.

Volume 1 (1979) - current are available online.

Open Access Journal: Bulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (BSEAA)

Bulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (BSEAA)
online version:ISSN 1864-6018
print version: ISSN 1864-6026

The 'Bulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (BSEAA)' (ISSN 1864-6018, print version: ISSN 1864-6026) was initiated in March 2007. It provides a means of publishing smaller manuscripts such as field reports, project outlines, conference reports and papers, book reviews, museum roundups etc., as well as essays on issues in East Asian archaeology. The contributions appear online at varying intervals over the year. BSEAA is an open access publication, with the exception of a 3-months preview period for SEAA members and author.

BSEAA 1 (2007) and BSEAA 2 (2008) are online at the moment.

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS) Going Open Access

The Editors of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS) [ISSN 0017-3916] have issued the following announcement:

Volume 49 (2009) will be the last volume of GRBS printed on paper. Beginning with volume 50, issues will be published quarterly on-line on the GRBS website, on terms of free access. We undertake this transformation in the hope of affording our authors a wider readership; out of concern for the financial state of our libraries; and in the belief that the dissemination of knowledge should be free.

The current process of submission and peer-review of papers will continue unchanged. The on-line format will be identical with our pages as now printed, and so articles will continue to be cited by volume, year, and page numbers.

Our hope is that both authors and readers will judge this new medium to be to their advantage, and that such open access will be of benefit to continuing scholar¬ship on Greece.

– The editors

This is an excellent move and they are to be congratulated!

Individual Access to The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Books

Having recently discussed access to digital resources by scholars who are unaffiliated with a subscribing/licensing institution with respect to members of the the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) and the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), I received the following notification on Monday from the American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Books Project:

HEB is now pleased to make individual subscriptions available through standing membership in any of the 70 ACLS constituent societies.

The subscription offers unlimited access to 2,200 cross-searchable, full-text titles across the humanities and related social sciences. Titles have been selected and peer reviewed by ACLS constituent learned societies for their continued value in teaching and researching, and approximately 500 are being added each year. The collection includes both in- and out-of-print titles ranging from the 1880s through 2009. Titles link to publishers websites and to online reviews in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other sites. Individual subscriptions are USD $35.00 for a twelve-month subscription.

Individual subscriptions are ideal for those whose school might not yet have an institutional subscription to HEB or for individual members of a learned society who might not be affiliated with a subscribing institution.

Please see the links below for more information on individual subscriptions.

Online Purchase

Terms

ACLS constituent societies of particular relevance for ancient studies include

• American Numismatic Society


• American Oriental Society


• American Philological Association


• American Schools of Oriental Research


• Archaeological Institute of America


• Middle East Studies Association of North America


• Society of Biblical Literature

Taking advantage of this offer allows the unaffiliated scholar access to 2,200 fully searchable full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies and nearly 100 contributing publishers.

The Virtual Museum of Iraq is Online

The Virtual Museum of Iraq

The Virtual Museum of Iraq was unveiled yesterday in Italy. Available in Arabic, English and Italian, the Virtual Museum of Iraq offers visitors the opportunity to move through eight virtual galleries and see highlights from the collection from the prehistoric to the Islamic period. Animated videoclips provide details.

For a news feature on the virtual museum see Italy puts Baghdad Museum online, (ANSA) - Rome, June 9

The treasures of Baghdad's National Museum went online for the first time Tuesday as Italy inaugurated the Virtual Museum of Iraq as part of an ongoing cultural collaboration between the two countries.

Looted during the United States-led invasion in 2003, the Baghdad Museum partially reopened in February after six years but the website is designed to make its most important artefacts accessible to everyone...

As far as I can tell there are no reciprocal links between The Virtual Museum of Iraq and The Iraq Museum, which is understood to be the official web presence of the Museum and the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage.

Open Access Journal: Archeologia e Calcolatori

Archeologia e Calcolatori
Istituto per l'archeologia etrusco-italica.; Università di Siena. Dipartimento di archeologia e storia delle arti.
ISSN 1120-6861

The first issue of Archeologia e Calcolatori was published in 1990 on the initiative of the Istituto per l'Archeologia Etrusco-Italica (now Istituto di Studi sulle civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), together with the Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia delle Arti of the University of Siena. Edizioni All'Insegna del Giglio in Florence were chosen as the publishers because of their long-established experience in the publication of journals and books relating to archaeology.

The stimulus to establish a new journal came from an analysis of this field of studies in Italy. In fact, whilst growing interest and various applications allowed for the recognition of the positive introduction of computers in archaeology, the obvious need emerged to create a stable point of reference, in order to collect projects and diffuse the results of Italian research internationally.

Such a publication had been lacking up till then. As a result, the journal was established with the idea of publishing in a homogeneous and systematical way the results of computer research carried out in the field of historical archaeology, offering an up-to-date edition of projects in progress both in Italy and abroad: thus, the way was paved for new developments in computer application.

Vol. 9 (1998) and following are available in open access.

And see also

Moscati, Paola [ed.]
VIRTUAL MUSEUMS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: The Contribution of the Italian National Research Council
Istituto di Studi sulle civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico, 2007
Archeologia e Calcolatori Supplemento 1
ISBN 978-88-7814-353-1

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) updates

Late last week, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) added three new data sets:

From announcements circulated by CDLI:

Images of nearly all mathematical tablets kept at Jena are now available online through the CDLI database. The images were produced as part of the publication Tablettes mathématiques de la collection Hilprecht (C. Proust with the collaboration of M. Krebernik and J. Oelsner) = TMH 8 (2008), and were batch-processed to CDLI standard format by UCLA staff.

New images of mathematical tablets from Nippur kept at Istanbul have also been added to CDLI. Like the Jena files, the photographs of the Istanbul texts prepared for CD insertion in the publication Tablettes mathematiques de Nippur (C. Proust; 2007) were processed for web at UCLA...

Please see Proust, "Numerical and Metrological Graphemes: From Cuneiform to Transliteration," CDLJ 2009/1, for a description of plans to include, in the standard format of an alliance of online cuneiform projects led by CDLI and ePSD, transliterations of all cuneiform metrological and mathematical texts.

and

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, in partnership with the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California, is pleased to announce the addition of new digital content to its web offerings.

In March of this year, two UCLA staff members of the project (Brumfield and Heinle) scanned 148 San Jose tablets, and processed the tablet surface images according to CDLI's "fat-cross" standards to complement the SET (Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty) publication of Rosicrucian and other US tablet collections published in 1961 by Tom B. Jones and John W. Snyder in transliteration only; collations of the REM tablets in SET were subsequently published by M. Cooper in 1986 (ASJ 8, 309-344) and by J. Carnahan and K. Hillard in 1993 and 1994 (ASJ 15, 246-251; ASJ 16, 310). Bob Englund posted these images to web this week; the entire REM collection can be accessed here.

This digital imaging was supported by a National Leadership Grant for Libraries - Building Digital Resources from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and is part of the on-going mission of CDLI to ensure the long-term preservation of texts inscribed on endangered cuneiform tablets, and to provide free global access to all available text artifact data in furtherance of cuneiform research.

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era. We estimate the number of these documents currently kept in public and private collections to exceed 500,000 exemplars, of which now nearly 225,000 have been catalogued in electronic form by the CDLI.

CDLI also produces a variety of other essential resources.

Three journals

• Cuneiform Digital Library Journal (CDLJ)
  
• Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin (CDLB)
  
• Cuneiform Digital Library Notes (CDLN)

Who's Who in Cuneiform Studies
List of standard abbreviations for Assyriology

and more.

Blog changes

I've made two small changes to the blog over the weekend. If you're reading this in a feed reader or by email you may not see them, so if that's the case, click the link and go AWOL.

In the righthand side bar I now have added the widget delivering the feed from Abzu. Abzu is a partner project to this blog. Not everything that appears here appears there, and vice versa. Abzu's focus is on the ancient Near East and Mediterranan world, and AWOL's focus is the ancient world more broadly conceived. It's easy enough to follow both if you wish to.

Also in the righthand side bar is a form allowing you to receive notifications of updates to AWOL by email. This seems useful for those for whom news feeds are not. Your address will be safe. Neither AWOL nor feedburner will send spam. I have been testing it for some weeks and I'm satisfied that it works reliably.

Access to the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology at JSTOR

[Links updated 27 January 2012]

Having posted a message in May about the availability of ASOR journals at JSTOR, I am informed that a similar arrangement has been made by the Egypt Exploration Society . Members of the society who do not have institutional access to JSTOR can now have access to the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology on JSTOR as an add-on the EES membership. Volumes 1 (1914) - 92 (2006) are currently accessible - there is a five year moving wall.

I can also point you to the EES library catalogue online.

President Barack Obama's visit to Giza in Egypt and Open Access Egyptian Archaeology

Earlier today, as the world knows, President Barack Obama gave an important speech at Cairo University. On this same day, he was given a tour of Giza by the ubiquitous Zahi Hawass. In addition to the usual tour of the pyramids and the Sphinx, he was privileged to visit the tomb of Qar, a small Dynasty 6 subterranean chapel with engaged statuary on the east side of the Great Pyramid. This tomb, numbered G 7101, was excavated in 1924-25 by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. As luck would have it this tomb is quite completely documented and published in an open access publication from the Giza Archives project, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

William Kelly Simpson Giza Mastabas Vol. 2: The Mastabas of Qar and Idu Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1976

Needless to say, luck has nothing at all to do with it. Peter Der Manuelian and his team have been working for years to organize and provide open access to the archaeological record of the excavations at Giza. For the full documentary record, go to the Giza Archives project page and enter "G 7101" in the search box.

Open Access Mandate at University College London

I don't generally remark on institutions adopting Open Access Policies because it isn't really within the scope of this blog, but UCL's announcement today: UCL to implement Open Access policy to all research is interesting for a couple of reasons. First among these is the fact that a publication within Ancient Studies is the most frequently downloaded document at UCL Eprints with nearly three times as many downloads as the runner-up.

Smelik, W. (2001) Sources for manuscripts of Targumic literature in public collections. Selective bibliography: catalogues.

Hard to believe!

Academic Social Network: Academia.edu

Academia.edu

Academia.edu does two things:

• It displays academics around the world in a tree format, according to what university/department they are affiliated with.


• It enables an academic to have an easy-to-maintain academic webpage. A sample page on Academia.edu is here: http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice

Open Access Journal: Paléo - Revue d'archéologie préhistorique

Appearing today at Revues.org

Paléo - Revue d'archéologie préhistorique

Paléo accueille, sans limitation de champ géographique, toute contribution traitant des paléopopulations, activités humaines et comportements, paléoenvironnements physique et biologique, chronologie et datation numérique, stratigraphie (lithostratigraphie et biostratigraphie), géoarchéologie, art paléolithique, paléoanthropologie, étude des industries, archéologie expérimentale, ethnoarchéologie, processus de formation des sites, méthodologie, conservation et préservation des vestiges de tout type.
Paléo se compose de divers supports : un bulletin périodique annuel comportant des articles originaux d’intérêt national et international et des suppléments non soumis à périodicité (actes de colloque, thèses, monographies, etc.).

Open Access Monographs from Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure

Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure has 47 open access monographs online. The following eight deal with the ancient world.

1.	Armée romaine et provinces I
2.	Armée romaine et provinces II
3.	Cisalpine gauloise du IIIe au Ier siècle avant J.-C. (La)
4.	AUVRAY-ASSAYAS, Clara. Images romaines
5.	AUVRAY-ASSAYAS, Clara; DELATTRE, Daniel. Cicéron et Philodème: La polémique en philosophie
6.	BOUTET, Dominique; HARF-LANCNER, Laurence. Pour une mythologie du Moyen Âge
7.	BRIQUEL, Dominique. Chrétiens et haruspices. La religion étrusque, dernier rempart du paganisme romain
8.	HARF-LANCNER, Laurence. Métamorphose et bestiaire fantastique au Moyen Âge

Open Access Journal: Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis

Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis
ISSN 1583-1817

Publisher: Institutul pentru Cercetarea si Valorificarea Patrimoniului
Cultural Transilvanean in Context European
Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis publishes Central European archaeological
research.
Content in English.
Editor:
prof.univ.dr. Sabin Adrian LUCA
Email: sabinadrian.luca@ulbsibiu.ro
Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis is available free of charge as an Open Access
journal on the Internet.

Open Access Journal: Arqueología de la Arquitectura

Arqueología de la Arquitectura

Arqueología de la Arquitectura is a yearly published journal, addressed to archaeologists, historians, art and architecture historians, restorers, architects and professionals related to archaeological record, analysis and involvement on building heritage. This journal has a double aim. On one hand, it wants to promote a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas among the scholars interested in the archaeology of architecture. On the other, the journal intends to improve the establishment of basic analytical instruments in order to provide coherence to those experiences carried out within this field. Arqueología de la Arquitectura provides free access to full-text articles six months after publication in print. During this embargo period full-text is accessible only to the subscribers of the printed edition.