Open Access Journal: e-Sasanika

 [First posted 7/26/10, updated 12/28/10, updated 9/30/11]

e-Sasanika

One of the most remarkable empires of the first millennium CE was that of the Sasanian Persian Empire. Emanating from southern Iran 's Persis region in the third century AD, the Sasanian domain eventually encompassed not only modern day Iran and Iraq, but also the greater part of Central Asia and the Near East, including at times, the regions corresponding to present-day Israel, Turkey, and Egypt.

This geographically diverse empire brought together a striking array ethnicities and religious practices. Arameans, Arabs, Armenians, Persians, Romans, Goths as well as a host of other peoples all lived and labored under Sasanian rule. It is the aim of the Sasanika: Late Antique Near East Project to bring to light the importance of the Sasanian civilization in the context of late antique and world history.

• A. Mousavi, A Survey of the Archaeology of the Sasanian Period during the past three decades
• T. Daryaee, The Political History of Ērānšahr (224-651 CE)
• K. Rezakhani, The Bactrian Collection: an Important Source for Sasanian Economic History
• G. Muradyan and A. Topchyan, The Romance of Artaban and Artašir in Agathangelos' History
• T. Greenwood, Sasanian Reflections in Armenian Sources
• M. Morony, Should Sasanian Iran be Included in Late Antiquity?
• A. Zohrabyan, An Exceptional Gold Coin of Shapur I
• T. Daryaee & K. Safdari, A Bulla of the Ērān-Spāhbed of Nēmrōz
• H. Emrani, Late Sasanian Imperial Ideology & the Rise of Bōrān to Power
• N. Mirir, Historical Geography of Fars During the Sasanian Period
• Gail Marlow Taylor, The Physicians of Jundishapur
• Touraj Daryaee & Keyvan Safdari, Spāhbed Bullae: The Barakat Collection
• Matteo Compareti, The State of Research on Sasanian Painting
• Jany Janos, Sasanian Law
• Rika Gyselen, The Coins of 3rd Century Sasanian Iran and the Formation of Historical Criteria
• Morvarid Mazhari Motlagh, Sasanian Vaults

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Open Access Journal: Sasanika Newsletter

Sasanika Newsletter 

Sasanika's Mission

One of the most remarkable civilizations of the first millennium CE was that of the Sasanian Empire. Emanating from southern Iran's Persis (Fars) region in the third century AD, the Sasanian domain eventually encompassed not only modern day Iran and Iraq, but also the greater parts of Central Asia and the Near East, including at times the regions corresponding to present-day Israel, Turkey, and Egypt. 

This geographically diverse empire brought together a striking array of ethnicities and religious practices. Arameans, Arabs, Armenians, Persians, Romans, Goths as well as a host of other peoples all lived under the Sasanian rule. It is the aim of Sasanika: the Late Antique Near East Project to bring to light the importance of the Sasanian civilization in the context of world and late antique history.

• Sasanika 5th Newsletter - September 2011
• Sasanika 4th Newsletter - December 2010
• Sasanika 3rd Newsletter - December 2009
• Sasanika 2nd Newsletter - December 2008
• Sasanika 1st Newsletter - June 2008

List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Classical Latin Texts Online

 [First posted 21 September 2011, updated 30 September 2011]

Classical Latin Texts: A Resource Prepared by The Packard Humanities Institute

• Authors
• Word Search
• Concordance

I've been alerted to the PHI Latin Texts Canon which is curiously absent from the site directory

Roman Imperial Coin Hoards

RICH - Roman Imperial Coin Hoards

Prof. Michael Crawford, University College London, in cooperation with Fundmünzen der Antike


RICH is a bibliography of coin hoards from the Roman Imperial period. It was originally assembled by Michael Crawford in continuation of his book Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic.

Numismatic Database NUMIDAT

NUMIDAT - elektronische Datenbank

Apart from publishing finds of ancient coins from Germany in the series "Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Deutschland (FMRD)", the project Fundmünzen der Antike (FdA) also holds a substantial digital library of records of coin finds in its computer database, NUMIDAT.


At present NUMIDAT contains nearly 90,000 records, including data on some 60,000 coins from the city of Rome (sotto suolo urbano) held in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme and the Museo Capitolino.

Until 2002 records were stored on NUMIZ, the database of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museum of Slovenia. Since then the project has developed its own, tailor-made application using FileMaker Pro®.
An online version, NUMIDAT-WEB, is now online and in the evaluation stage.


While NUMIDAT-WEB is not intended to replace the analogue publication of the main volumes of the FMRD-series, it is envisaged that NUMIDAT-WEB will replace future supplemenatry volumes.

 

A Biblical Studies Digital Library at biblicalstudies.org.uk

Biblical Studies.org.uk: Hosted Articles, Monographs and Books

Purpose

To make high quality theological material available throughout the world, thus providing Bible teachers and pastors with the resources they need to spread the Gospel in their countries. This is achieved by:

• Providing detailed bibliographies for Seminary level students and ministers.
• Reprinting, in co-operation with authors and publishers, rare and out-of-print theology books and articles.
• Providing, with the help of volunteers, translations of theological articles in a number of languages.
• Providing a single cross-linked resource made up of five websites collectively known as "Theology on the Web". Click here to read more

Most of the following journals are hosted on this site

Journals, Monographs and Lecture Series (not all yet on-line)

Anvil
Andrews University Seminary Studies
Australian Biblical Review
Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology
Baptist Quarterly
Baptist Review of Theology
Bibliotheca Sacra
Binah
Bulletin for Biblical Research
Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
The Campbell Morgan Memorial Bible Lectures
Canadian Journal of Theology
Caribbean Journal of Evangelical Theology
Christian Brethren Research Fellowship Journal
Christian Brethren Review
Conspectus
Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal
Eternity - the Magazine of Christian Truth
The Ethel M. Wood Lectures
European Journal of Theology
Evangel - the British Evangelical Review
The Evangelical Quarterly
Evangelical Review of Theology
Faith and Thought
Gospel Perspectives series
Grace Theological Journal
Indian Journal of Theology
Irish Biblical Studies
Journal of Biblical Literature
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute
Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Reformation & Revival
Reformed Baptist Theological Review
The Reformed Theological Review
Religion in Communist Lands
Religion, State and Society
Review & Expositor
Scripture (Catholic Biblical Association [UK]
Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology
Southern Baptist Journal of Theology
Themelios
Theological Students Fellowship (TSF) Bulletin
Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society
Trinity Journal
Tyndale Bulletin
Tyndale Press Monographs
Vox Evangelica
Westminster Theological Journal

Collections of Essays

Apostolic History and The Gospel. Biblical and Historical Essays presented to F. F. Bruce on his 60th Birthday

Christ the Lord: Studies in Christology presented to Donald Guthrie - Harold H. Rowdon, ed.

Howard N. Bream, Ralph D. Heim & Carey A. Moore, eds. A Light unto My Path. Old Testament Studies in Honor of Jacob M. Myers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974. ISBN: 0877220263. pp.529.

New Testament Interpretation: Essays on Principles and Methods - I. Howard Marshall (ed.)

Reconciliation and Hope. New Testament Essays on Atonement and Eschatology Presented to L.L. Morris on his 60th Birthday - Robert Banks, ed.

Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought . Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959.

James M. Efird, editor, The Use of the Old Testament in the New and Other Essays: Studies in Honor of William Franklin Stinespring. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1972. ISBN: 0822302888. pp.332.

Object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne

[First posted in AWOL 30 August 2010. Updated (version 3.6.4) 29 September 2011]


Arachne

 

Arachne is the central Object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne, administrated by Reinhard Foertsch.

Arachne is intended to provide archaeologists and Classicists with a free internet research tool for quickly searching hundreds of thousands of records on objects and their attributes. This combines an ongoing process of digitizing traditional documentation (stored on media which are both threatened by decay and largely unexplored) with the production of new digital object and graphic data. Wherever possible, Arachne follows a paradigma of highly structurized object-metadata which is mapped onto the CIDOC-CRM, to adress machine-readable metadata strategies of the Semantic Web. This »structured world« of Arachne requires high efforts in time and money and therefore is only possible for privileged areas of data. While on the ever-increasing range of new, digital born data in reality only a small effort-per-object ratio can be applied. It therefore requires a “low-threshold” processing structure which is located in the »unstructured world« of Arachne. All digital (graphic and textual) information is secure on a Tivoli Storage System (featuring long-term multiple redundandancy) and distributed online through the Storage Area Network in Cologne via AFS...

• About iDAI.images/Arachne
• Content
• Interfaces
• Help
• User agreements / Orders
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Access is free but registration is required.

New at ARTstor

Collections relating to antiquity recently announced on the ARTstor blog.

Allan Langdale: Cyprus Archive

September 28, 2011 by artstor

St George of the Greeks; Interior apses and vaulting, 14th century. Famagusta (Ammochostos, Gazimagusa), northern Cyprus. Allan Langdale Digital Archive of Cypriot Art and Architecture. © Allan Langdale 2008.

ARTstor is sharing more than 3,300 images of the historical architecture of Cyprus by Allan Langdale in the Digital Library. This collection was compiled between 2006 and 2008 and focuses on the lesser known and, in some cases, endangered architecture and archaeological sites of northern Cyprus. The archive includes Bronze Age sites such as Enkomi and the Tombs of the Kings, and the early Christian basilicas of Salamis. A significant portion of the collection is dedicated to the Byzantine architecture of the region, including examples that have received less attention from researchers since the embargo imposed on North Cyprus in 1974. There are very detailed sets of images of the better-known buildings, such as the Panagia Kanakaria. The Gothic monuments of the region are also well represented in the collection, including the medieval churches of Nicosia/Lefkoşa—such as the St. Sophia Cathedral and St. Nicholas Bedestan—and the Abbey of Bellapais. The most comprehensive portion of the collection focuses on the Lusignan Gothic churches of Famagusta, including St. Nicholas cathedral, St. George of the Greeks, St. George of the Latins, and Saints Peter and Paul.

Allan Langdale is an art historian, photographer, and filmmaker whose current research interests are in Cyprus, where he has done work on the medieval and Venetian monuments of Famagusta. He also has interests in the theory and methodology of art history and film theory.

View the collection in the ARTstor Digital Library.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Allan Langdale: Cyprus Archive page.
Related collections:

• Art, Archaeology and Architecture (Canyonlights World Art Image Bank)
• Sites and Photos
• QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture (Columbia University)

• SAHARA
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College)

 

World Monuments Fund

September 1, 2011 by artstor

Preah Khan; Exterior, ca. 12th century. Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. Photographer: John Stubbs/World Monuments Fund

ARTstor Digital Library has released nearly 1,000 images of important architecture, cultural heritage sites, and monuments from the World Monuments Fund (WMF). Among the sites currently available in the Digital Library are Easter Island (Chile), St. Paul’s Cathedral (London, England), Pompeii (Italy), Babylon (Iraq), Maya Sites of the Yucatan Peninsula (Yucatan, Mexico), Imperial Buddhist Convents (Nara and Kyoto, Japan), Brancusi Ensemble (Târgu-Jiu, Romania), Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey), and Ellis Island (New York and New Jersey, United States)

World Monuments Fund is the leading independent organization dedicated to saving the world’s most treasured places. Since 1965, in more than 90 countries, WMF experts have applied proven techniques to preserve important architectural and cultural heritage sites. Through partnerships with local communities, funders, and governments, the organization inspires an enduring commitment to stewardship for future generations. Every two years WMF publishes the World Monuments Watch, drawing international attention to cultural heritage sites around the world threatened by neglect, vandalism, armed conflict, commercial development, natural disasters, and climate change. Through the World Monuments Watch, WMF fosters community support for the protection of endangered sites, and attracts technical and financial support for the sites. The collection in ARTstor consists of images documenting various Watch List sites and monuments, with a particular focus on art and architecture.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the World Monuments Fund collection webpage.
Related collections:

• Art, Archaeology, and Architecture (Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives)
• QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture (Columbia University)
• Art, Archaeology, and Architecture (Canyonlights World Art Image Bank)
• Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts
• Sites and Photos

Open Access Journal: Zephyrus

Zephyrus

ZEPHYRVS es una Revista científica internacional de PREHISTORIA y ARQUEOLOGÍA, editada por la Universidad de Salamanca. ZEPHYRVS aparece semestralmente. Las secciones de ARTÍCULOS, VARIA y NOTAS CRÍTICAS/RESEÑAS publican, respectivamente, trabajos originales de investigación, informaciones científicas novedosas o hallazgos importantes, producidos en diversas partes del mundo, y estados de la cuestión o recensiones de monografías de calidad, seleccionadas entre aquellas obras recibidas en la Redacción de la Revista.

 At the moment Vol. 1 (1950) - 65 (2010) are available in full text.  The current volume has TOC and abstracts only

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies.

Open Access Publications from the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik

Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik, Schriftenreihe

Das Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik nimmt in seiner Schriftenreihe Stellung zur Diskussion über den Einsatz moderner Informationstechnologien in der Arbeit mit historischen Dokumenten und Texten. Es übernimmt die Herausgeberschaft für Publikationen aus dem Arbeitsumfeld des Instituts.

1. Bernhard Assmann, Patrick Sahle. Digital ist besser. Die Monumenta Germaniae Historica mit den dMGH auf dem Weg in die Zukunft – eine Momentaufnahme. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2008.
2. Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter / Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age. Hrsg. von Malte Rehbein, Patrick Sahle und Torsten Schaßan unter Mitarbeit von Bernhard Assmann, Franz Fischer und Christiane Fritze. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2009.
3. Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 2 / Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2. Hrsg. von Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritze und Georg Vogeler unter Mitarbeit von Bernhard Assmann, Patrick Sahle und Malte Rehbein. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2010.
4. Birgit Jooss: Die digitale Edition der Matrikelbücher der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. Ein Instrument zur Erforschung der Attraktivität einer international ausgerichteten Kunsthochschule (1808 – 1920). Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011.
5. [in Vorbereitung, s.u.]
6. Digitale Urkundenpräsentationen. Beiträge zum Workshop in München, 16. Juni 2010. Hrsg. von Georg Vogeler und Joachim Kemper. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011.

"La Sapienza" Expedition to Palestine & Jordan

[First posted in AWOL 14 June 2010. Updated 27 September 2011]

Rosapat - Rome "La Sapienza" Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan

Open access publications of  these projects include:

ROSAPAT 04			ROSAPAT 03
	(2007): L. Nigro (ed.), Byblos and Jericho in the Early Bronze I: social dynamics and cultural interactions. Proceedings of the International Workshop held in Rome on March 6th 2007 by Rome “La Sapienza” University, 144 pp.			(2006): L. Nigro (ed.), An Early Bronze Age Fortified Town in North-Central Jordan. Preliminary Report of the First Season of Excavations (2005), 280 pp.
	Download all Rosapat 04 here (PDF file)			Download all Rosapat 03 here (PDF file)

ROSAPAT 02			ROSAPAT 01
	(2006): L. Nigro - H. Taha (eds.), Tell es- Sultan/Jericho in the Context of the Jordan  Valley: Site Management, Conservation and  Sustainable Development, 320 pp.			(2005): L. Nigro (ed.), Tell es-Sultan/Gerico alle  soglie della prima urbanizzazione: il villaggio  e la necropoli del Bronzo Antico I (3300-3000), 224 pp.
	Download all Rosapat 02 here (PDF file)			Download all Rosapat 01 here (PDF file)
	Download Rosapat 02 abstract in Arabic Language here (PDF file)

QGer 2			QGer 1
	(2000): N. Marchetti - L. Nigro (eds.), Excavations  at Gerico. Preliminary Report on the Second  Season of Archaeological Excavations and  Surveys at Tell es-Sultan, Palestine, 381  pp.			(1998): N. Marchetti - L. Nigro (eds.), Scavi  a Gerico, 1997. Relazione Preliminare sulla  Prima Campagna di Scavi e prospezioni  Archeologiche a Tell es-Sultan, Palestina,  254 pp.
	Download all QGer 2 here (PDF file)			Download all QGer 1 here (PDF file)

Published Reports

L. Nigro, "Quattro asce di rame dal Palazzo B di Khirbet al-Batrawy (Bronzo Antico IIIb, 2500-2300 a.C.)" in Scienze dell'Antichità 16 (2010), pp. 561-572.

L. Nigro, "Nel palazzo delle asce di rame" in Archeo 304 (Giugno 2010), pp. 42-53.

L. Nigro, “Between the Desert and the Jordan: Early Urbanization in the Upper Wadi az-Zarqa - the EB II-III fortified town of Khirbet al-Batrawy”, in P. Matthiae et al. (eds), 6 ICAANE. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 5 May – 10 May 2008, “Sapienza”, Università di Roma, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2010, Vol. 2, pp. 431-458.

L. Nigro, “Khirbet al-Batrawy: a Case Study of 3rd millennium BC Early Urbanism in North-Central Jordan”, in F. al-Khraysheh et al. (eds), Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan X, Amman 2009, pp. 657-677.

L. Nigro, M. Sala, "Preliminary Report of the Fourth Season of Excavation by “La Sapienza” University of Rome at Khirbat al-Batrāwī in Upper Wādī az-Zarqā’, 2008" in Annual of the Department of Jordan 53 (2009), pp. 371-384.

L. Nigro, "Una porta sul deserto" in Archeo 298 (Dicembre 2009), pp. 72-81.

L. Nigro, "Khirbat al-Batrāwī”, in Munjazāt 9 (2008), pp. 72-74.

Khirbet al-Batrawy II.The EB II city-gate, the EB II-III fortifications, the EB II-III temple. Preliminary report of the second (2006) and third (2007) seasons of excavations (= Rome «La Sapienza» Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan, 6), Rome 2008.

L. Nigro, M. Sala, A. Polcaro, "Preliminary Report of the Third Season of Excavations  of Rome “La Sapienza” University at Khirbat al-Batrāwī (Upper Wādī az-Zarqā’)”, inAnnual of the Department of Jordan 52 (2008), pp. 209-230.

L. Nigro, "Khirbat al-Batrāwī”, in Munjazāt 8 (2007), pp. 63-65.

L. Nigro, "Preliminary Report of the Second Season of Excavations by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” at Khirbat al-Batrāwī (Upper Wādī az-Zarqā’)”, in Annual of the Department of Jordan 51 (2007), pp. 345-360.

L. Nigro, "Nella città fantasma" in Archeo 272 (Ottobre 2007), pp. 44-57.

L. Nigro, “Preliminary Report of the First Season of Excavations of Rome “La Sapienza” Univesity at Khirbet al-Batrāwī (Upper Wādī az-Zarqā’, Jordan)", in J. Córdoba - M. Molist - M. C. Pérez - I. Rubio - S. Martínez (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Madrid 2008, pp. 663-682.

L. Nigro, "Khirbet al-Batrawy: una città del Bronzo Antico tra il deserto basaltico e la Valle del Giordano" in Scienze dell'Antichità 13 (2006), pp. 663-688.

L. Nigro, "Khirbat al-Batrāwī”, in Munjazāt 7 (2006), pp. 57-59.

L. Nigro, "Preliminary Report of the First Season of Excavations by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” at Khirbat al-Batrāwī (Upper Wādī az-Zarqā’)”, in Annual of the Department of Jordan 50 (2006), pp. 229-248.

L. Nigro, Khirbet al-Batrawy. An Early Bronze Age Fortified Town in North-Central Jordan. Preliminary Report of the First Season of Excavations (2005) (= Rome «La Sapienza» Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan, 3), Rome 2006.

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies.

Open Access Journal: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

[First posted in AWOL 19 February 2001. Updated 27 September 2011]

Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
eISSN - 1969-6663

En 1857, Ernest Desjardins, membre de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, prit l'initiative personnelle de publier pour la première fois, sous le format maniable d’un volume in-8°, les Comptes rendus des séances de la Compagnie. A partir de 1865, l'Académie décida d’assumer elle-même la charge de la publication des Comptes rendus des séances, qui fut placée sous l'autorité de son Secrétaire perpétuel. Les CRAI font écho à l’actualité nationale et internationale des trois grands domaines de recherche qui correspondent aux trois vocations majeures de la Compagnie : archéologie, philologie et histoire.

1857-1859

1860-1869

1870-1879

1880-1889

1890-1899

1900-1909

1910-1919

1920-1929

1930-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

2000-...

See also Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: Lettre d’information

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Early Volumes of Analecta Orientalia Online

Fifteen early volumes of Analecta Orientalia
courtesy of the Oriental Institute Research Archives

A cura della Facoltà degli Studi per l'Oriente Antico del Pontificio Istituto Biblico.

• Vol 1: SCHNEIDER, N., Die Drehem- und Dioha-Urkunden der Strassburger Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, in Autographie und mit systematischen Wörterverzeichnissen. 1931. pp. 92, Taf. 112.
• Vol 2: DEIMEL, A., Sumerische Tempelwirtschaft zur Zeit Urukaginas und seiner Vorgänger, Abschluss der Einzelstudien und Zusammenfassung der Hauptresultate. 1931. pp. 112.
• Vol. 4: WITZEL, M., Texte zum Studium sumerischer Tempel und Kultstätten. 1932. pp. 98.
• Vol. 5: SUYS, E., Etude sur le Conte du fellah plaideur, récit égyptien du Moyen-Empire. 1933. pp. XXVIII-218-32*.
• Vol. 6: Keilschriften Miscellanea. 1933. pp. 72. Taf. 8.
• Vol. 7: SCHNEIDER, N., Die Drehem- und Dioha-Texte im Kloster Montserrat (Barcelona), in Autographie und mit systematischen Wörterverzeichnissen. 1932. pp. 88. Taf. 110.
• Vol. 8: POHL, A., Neubabylonische Rechtsurkunden aus den Berliner Staatlichen Museen. I. Teil. 1933. pp. 40. Taf. 85.
• Vol. 9: POHL, A., Neubabylonische Rechtsurkunden aus den Berliner Staatlichen Museen. II. Teil. 1934. pp. 34. Taf. 59.
• Vol. 11: SUYS, E., La Sagesse d'Ani. Texte, traduction et commentaire. 1935. XXII-128.
• Vol. 13: SCHNEIDER, N., Die Zeitbestimmungen der Wirtschaftsurkunden von Ur III. 1936. pp. 120.
• Vol. 14: ROSENTHAL, F. - von GRÜNEBAUM, G. - FISCHEL, W.J.,Studia arabica I. 1937. pp. VIII-82.
• Vol. 16: MONNERET DE VILLARD, Ugo, Aksum. Ricerche di topografia generale. 1938. pp. X-138, 3 tavv.
• Vol. 17: BLACKMAN, A.M. - OTTO, E. - VANDIER, J. - de BUCK, A., Studia Aegyptiaca I. 1938. pp. VIII-57.
• Vol. 18: van BUREN, E.D., The Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia as Represented in Art. 1939. pp. XII-116, 23 pl.
• Vol. 19: SCHNEIDER, N., Die Götternamen von Ur III. 1939. pp. XVI-120.

Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

Announced today (9/26/2011 01:30:00 AM) in a press release from Google:  From the desert to the web: bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls online

The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

The Israel Museum welcomes you to the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, allowing users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before possible. Developed in partnership with Google, the new website gives users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, offer critical insight into Jewish society in the Land of Israel during the Second Temple Period, the time of the birth of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project at this stage and are now accessible online.

"We are privileged to house in the Israel Museum's Shrine of the Book the best preserved and most complete Dead Sea Scrolls ever discovered," said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum. "They are of paramount importance among the touchstones of monotheistic world heritage, and they represent unique highlights of our Museum's encyclopedic holdings. Now, through our partnership with Google, we are able to bring these treasures to the broadest possible public." 

The five Dead Sea Scrolls that have been digitized thus far include the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, and the War Scroll, with search queries on Google.com sending users directly to the online scrolls. All five scrolls can be magnified so that users may examine texts in exacting detail. Details invisible to the naked eye are made visible through ultra-high resolution digital photography by photographer Ardon Bar-Hama– at 1,200 mega pixels each, these images are almost two hundred times higher in resolution than those produced by a standard camera. Each picture utilized UV-protected flash tubes with an exposure of 1/4000th of a second to minimize damage to the fragile manuscripts. In addition, the Great Isaiah Scroll may be searched by column, chapter, and verse, and is accompanied by an English translation tool and by an option for users to submit translations of verses in their own languages.

• Great Isaiah Scroll
• Temple Scroll
• War Scroll
• Community Rule Scroll
• Commentary on the Habakkuk Scroll

QuarryScapes

The QuarryScapes Project: conservation of ancient stone quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean

The spectacular monuments and cities of the ancient Near East are testament to an industrial past where large-scale stone procurement remains unsurpassed. Yet, stone quarries are forgotten as key archaeological sites, rich in material remains of crucial significance if we are to understand the social and technological practices of an age when stone was quarried and transported par excellence. Largely invisible, undocumented and unprotected, these ancient quarry landscapes are being destroyed from actions such as modern development and quarrying.

The inspiration for the ‘QuarryScapes' project comes from the necessity to put these ancient industrial landscapes on the map before it is too late and to raise awareness of their research potential across a broad spectrum of audiences, from archaeological researchers to the interested public. The ‘QuarryScapes' project drew together professionals from academic and other institutions in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, UK, Belgium, Italy and Norway to focus specifically on documentation, conservation and heritage management of these fragile quarry landscapes within the first collaborative and innovative project of its kind.

Publications - QuarryScapes dissemination

Quarryscapes deliverables

(Can be downloaded below. For printed copies, please contact biblioteket@ngu.no)

Deliverable No 4, Work Package 4: Characterisation of complex quarry landscapes; an example from the West Bank Quarries, Aswan. 275 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-118-4. Edited by: Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal, Per Storemyr. Authors: Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal, Per Storemyr, Adel Kelany, Patrick Degryse, Reidulv Bøe, Axel Müller. Download report, mapsheet 1, mapsheet 2.

Deliverable No 5, Work Package 4: The assessment of significance of ancient quarry landscapes - problems and possible solutions. The case of the Aswan West Bank. 26 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-119-2. Author: Elizabeth Bloxam. Download report.

Deliverable No 1, Work Package 1: Landscape and provenance and conservation of stone sources from selected archaeological sites in Jordan, 175 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-26-0 Edited by: Nizar Abu-Jaber and Ziad Al Saad Authors: Nizar Abu-Jaber, Ziad Al Saad, Mohammed Al Qudah, Nihad Smadi and Abeer Al Zoubi. Download report.

Deliverable No 2, Work Package 2: Inventory of Ancient quarry landscapes in Turkey: their characteristics, production and state of conservation. 29 pp, Edited by: Emine Caner Saltik. Authors: Emine N. Caner-Saltık, K. Göze Akoğlu, Evin Caner-Özler, Kemal Erdoğan, Alp Güney, Sinan Sülüner, Tamer Topal, Ayşe Tavukçuoğlu, V. Toprak, A.G. Turkmenoglu, M. C. Ustunkaya Taliye Yaşar. Download report.

Deliverable No 3, Work Package 3: The Sagalassos quarry landscape: bringing quarries in context, 84 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-122-2 Edited by: Patrick Degryse Authors: Patrick Degryse, Tom Heldal, Elizabeth Bloxam, Per Storemyr, Marc Waelkens, E. Trogh, Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Jeroen Poblome, Philippe Muchez. Download report.

Deliverable No 6, Work Package 5: Risk Assessment and Monitoring of Ancient Egyptian Quarry Landscapes, 207 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-125-3 Editors: Per Storemyr, Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal Authors: Per Storemyr, Elizabeth Bloxam, Tom Heldal, Adel Kelany, James A. Harrell, Rawda Yousri, El Shaimaa Fathy. Download report.

Deliverable No 7, Work Package 6: Site Management Concepts for Widan el Faras, Northern Fayoum, Egypt. 40 pp + appendices, ISBN 978-82-7385-135-4 Prepared by NSCE with the close collaboration with Naguib Amin. Download report.

Deliverable No 8, Work Package 7: GIS Products for Management of Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes: three Egyptian Site Maps, 20 pp and 7 maps, ISBN 978-82-7385-123-9 Edited by: Naguib Amin, Rawda Yousri, Sara Kayser Authors: Elshimaa Fathy, Marwa Sadek, Rabab Abd-el-Kader, Rawda Yosuri, Sara Kayser. Download report.

Deliverable No 9, Work Package 7: Map of Ancient Egyptian Stone Quarries, 26 pp /6 maps, ISBN 978-82-7385-133-8 Edited by: Naguib Amin, Azza Shawarby, Rawda Yousri, Sara Kayser Authors: Elshimaa Fathy, Marwa Sadek, Rawda Yousri, Sara Kayser. Download report.

Deliverable No 10, Work Package 8: Identifying heritage values and character-defining elements of ancient quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: an integrated analysis. 161 pp, ISBN 978-82-7385-134-6 Authors: Elizabeth Bloxam and Tom Heldal. Contributions from: Turkey: Emine N. Caner-Saltık, K. Göze Akoğlu, Evin Caner-Özler, Kemal Erdoğan,Alp Güney, Sinan Sülüner, Tamer Topal, Ayşe Tavukçuoğlu, V. Toprak, A.G.Turkmenoglu, M. C. Ustunkaya Taliye Yaşar Jordan: Nizar Abu-Jaber, Ziad Al Saad, Mohammed Al Qudah, Nihad Smadi and Abeer Al Zoubi Egypt: Naguib Amin, Adel Kelany, Rawda Yousri, Sara Kayser, Elshimaa Fathy, Marwa Sadek, Rabab Abd-el-Kader Belgium: Patrick Degryse, Marc Waelkens, E. Trogh, Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Jeroen Poblome, Philippe Muchez Norway: Per Storemyr, Reidulv Bøe, Axel Müller Italy: Lorenzo Lazzarini. Download report.

Delivery No 11, Work Package 9: QuarryScapes guide to ancient stone quarry landscapes: documentation, interpretation, and statement of significance. 85 pp, ISBN Compiled by: Tom Heldal and Elizabeth Bloxam Contributions from: Turkey: Emine N. Caner-Saltık, K. Göze Akoğlu, Evin Caner-Özler, Kemal Erdoğan, Alp Güney, Sinan Sülüner, Tamer Topal, Ayşe Tavukçuoğlu, V. Toprak, A. G. Turkmenoglu, M. C. Ustunkaya Taliye Yaşar Jordan: Nizar Abu-Jaber, Ziad Al Saad, Mohammed Al Qudah, Nihad Smadi and Abeer Al Zoubi Egypt: Naguib Amin, Adel Kelany, Rawda Yousri, Sara Kayser, Elshimaa Fathy, Marwa Sadek, Rabab Abd-el-Kader Belgium: Patrick Degryse, Marc Waelkens, E. Trogh, Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Jeroen Poblome, Philippe Muchez Norway: Per Storemyr, Reidulv Bøe, Axel Müller Italy: Lorenzo Lazzarini. Download report or follow this link for the web version.

Deliverable 12: QuarryScapes workshop proceedings – abstracts and extended abstracts. Edited by Patrick Degryse, Tom Heldal and Elizabeth Bloxam. Download.

Deliverable 13: QuarryScapes Atlas of Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes. Download report version or follow this link.

Journals and book chapters

Abu-Jaber, N., al Saad, Z. and al Qudah, M. (accepted): Geomorphological and geological constraints on the development of Early Bronze chert industries at the northern rim of the Al Jafr Basin, Southern Jordan. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaemetry

Bloxam, E. (2007): Who were the pharaohs' quarrymen? Archaeology International , 9: 23-7.

Bloxam, E. (in press) ‘Mapping ancient quarry landscapes’. Egyptian Archaeology 34.

Bloxam, E. and Heldal, T. 2007: The Industrial Landscape of The Northern Faiyum Desert as a World Heritage Site: Modelling 'Outstanding Universal Value' of 3rd Millennium BC Stone Quarrying in Egypt. World Archaeology Vol 39 No3: 305-323

P. Degryse, Ph. Muchez, M. Waelkens (2007) Geology and archaeology of late Hellenistic limestone quarries at Sagalassos. MARMORA, 2, 9-20.

P. Degryse, M. Waelkens, P. Vandevelde, Ph. Muchez, W. Viaene (2008) Weathering of limestone in the historical buildings of Sagalassos, in: P. Degryse, M. Waelkens (eds.) Sagalassos VI, Geo- and Bio-Archaeology at Sagalassos and in its Territory, Leuven University Press, 215-227.

P. Degryse, T. Heldal, E. Bloxam, P. Storemyr, M. Waelkens, Ph. Muchez (2008) The Sagalassos quarry landscape: bringing quarries in context, in: P. Degryse, M. Waelkens (eds.) Sagalassos VI, Geo- and Bio-Archaeology at Sagalassos and in its Territory, Leuven University Press, 261-290.

Heldal, T., Bloxam, E., Storemyr , P. 2007: Unravelling ancient stone quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: three Egyptian case studies. In Broadening Horizons: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Landscape Study, eds Bart Ooghe and Geert Verhoeven, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 90-112 Abstract online.

Storemyr, P. (2008): Prehistoric geometric rock art at Gharb Aswan, Upper Egypt. Sahara, 19, 61-76 Abstract online

Storemyr, P., Kelany, A., Negm, M. A., Tohami, A. (2008). More "Lascaux along the Nile"? Possible Late Palaeolithic rock art in Wadi Abu Subeira, Upper Egypt. Sahara, 19, 155-158

Storemyr, P. (in press): A Prehistoric Geometric Rock Art Landscape by the First Nile Cataract. Archéo-Nil, 19 (2009)

Storemyr, P., Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. & Kelany, A. (in press): The Aswan West Bank ancient quarry landscape: Stone procurement, hunting, desert travel and rock-art from the Palaeolithic to the Roman period. Papers from the conference: The First Cataract: One region – Various Perspectives. Berlin, September 2-5, 2007.

Storemyr, P., Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. & Kelany, A. (in press): Ancient Desert and Quarry Roads on the West Bank of the Nile in the First Cataract Region. Desert Road Archaeology, edited by Heiko Riemer and Frank Förster.

Conferences

Storemyr, P., Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. and Kelany, A.: ‘Conservation of Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes in Egypt' in Prehistoric Mines and Quarries: a Transatlantic Perspective . Papers from the Society for American Archaeology, 71 st Annual Meeting, April 26-April 30 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. & Storemyr, P. (2005): QuarryScapes: conservation of ancient stone quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean. British Egyptology Congress, Cambridge, 24-25 September.

Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. & Storemyr, P. (2006): Late Palaeolithic Origins of a Grinding Stone Industry at Aswan, Egypt. Society for American Archaeology, 71 st Annual Meeting , April 26-April 30, San Juan, Puerto Rico (presentation and abstract in proceedings)

Bloxam, E., Storemyr, P., Heldal, T. & Kelany, A. (2006): "The myth of control": Re-assessing the role of the Egyptian state in ancient quarrying. ASMOSIA 8 , Aix-en-Provence, June 2006. Presentation and abstract in "Book of Abstracts". Abstract online.

Degryse, P., Bloxam, E., Heldal, T., Storemyr, P. & Waelkens, M. (2006): Quarries in the landscape : a survey of the area of Sagalassos (SW Turkey). ASMOSIA 8 , Aix-en-Provence, June 2006. Presentation and abstract in "Book of Abstracts". Abstract online.

Heldal, T., Bloxam, E. & Storemyr, P. (2006): New evidence for the use of fire in ancient quarrying. Society for American Archaeology, 71 st Annual Meeting , April 26-April 30, San Juan, Puerto Rico (presentation and abstract in proceedings)

Heldal, T., Bloxam, E., Storemyr, P. & Kelany, A. (2006): Interpreting a physical stone quarry landscape; the case of the Aswan West Bank quarries, Egypt. ASMOSIA 8 , Aix-en-Provence, June 2006. Presentation and abstract in "Book of Abstracts". Abstract online.

Kelany, A. (2006): Marks of quarry workers at the Unfinished Obelisk Quarry, Aswan, Egypt. ASMOSIA 8 , Aix-en-Provence, June 2006. Presentation and abstract in "Book of Abstracts". Abstract online.

Storemyr, P., Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. & Kelany, A. (2006): Difficulties in preserving an extensive ancient stone quarry landscape: The Aswan West Bank Quarries (Upper Egypt). ASMOSIA 8 , Aix-en-Provence, June 2006. Presentation and abstract in "Book of Abstracts". Abstract online.

Storemyr, P., Heldal, T. & Bloxam, E. (2006): QuarryScapes: Conservation of Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean. Society for American Archaeology, 71 st Annual Meeting , April 26-April 30, San Juan, Puerto Rico (presentation and abstract in proceedings)

Bloxam, E. (2007) ‘The West Bank Aswan ancient quarry landscape: raising the significance and value of an invisible archaeological site under threat’. British Museum International Egyptological Colloquium, 11-13 July.

Heldal T.,  Bloxam, E, Degryse, P, Storemyr, P. & Kelany, A. (2007): Connecting quarries with stone. The significance of the Old Kingdom gypsum quarries at Umm es-Sawan, Northern Faiyum, Egypt. Norwegian Geological Society Winter Conference, Stavanger, January

Storemyr, P., Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. and Kelany, A. (2007): Quarries and areas of rock-art, raw materials of the region. Conference: The First Cataract: One region - Various Perspectives, Berlin, September 2-5, 2007

Storemyr, P., Bloxam, E., Heldal, T. and Kelany, A. (2007): Stone procurement and rock-art at the West Bank of Aswan, Egypt, Implement Petrology Group Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK, September 6th-11th 2007. Abstract online

Amin, N. (2007): presentation at A special presentation for the (Institut de Sciences de l'Homme) in France in April 2007

Bloxam, Elizabeth 2008: Multidisciplinary approaches to the investigation of ancient quarries in Egypt: Enhancing our understanding of ancient quarrying in antiquity. 33^rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway, 6 - 16 August 2008

Bloxam, E. 2008: Landscape transformation and millstone quarrying in Egypt and Norway: multi-discplinary approaches to assessing the significance of utilitarian production. 9^th Nordic Conference on the Application of Scientific Methods in Archaeology (SMIA IX) Trondheim, Norway, 11-14 September 2008

Heldal, Tom 2008: A geological approach to ancient stone quarry landscapes. 33^rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway, 6 - 16 August 2008

Degryse, Patrick 2008: The Sagalassos quarry landscape: Bringing ancient quarries in context. 33^rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway, 6 - 16 August 2008

TV-programmes

History Channel (2006): Ramses' Egyptian Empire, Series: Lost Worlds,
episode no. 3, originally broadcasted Monday July 24 (contribution to the programme by QuarryScape's Adel Kelany, Elizabeth Bloxam and Per Storemyr on the ancient quarries in Aswan)

International newsletters

‘Digging Diary’ Egyptian Archaeology Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society, No. 32 Spring 2008, pp. 28.

'News and Notes: Quarryscapes' Egyptian Archaeology Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society, No. 29: 8 Autumn 2006.

Heldal, T. (2006): Research summary: QuarryScapes — EU project on ancient quarries. ASMOSIA Newsletter , Vol. 16, Issue 2, Fall 2005/Winter 2006. Online.

Newspaper articles, Web news and Public lectures

Kalliomaeki, A. (2007): EAIS and QuarryScapes. Public lecture. House of Sciences / University of Helsinki, Finland, Organised by the Egyptological Society of Finland, 23.1.2007. Audience: 49

Storemyr, P. (2007): Aegyptische Steinbrueche und ihre Bedeutung zu Zeiten der Roemer. Public Lecture attached to the special exhibition "Wege des Steines", Vindonissa Museum, Brugg, Switzerland, 28.1.2007. Audience: ca. 55 [English translation of title: Ancient Egyptian Quarries and Their significance in the Roman Period]

EAIS presentation of QuarryScapes and Egyptian Quarries. Online.

Fayoum's ancient quarry under threat. Feature article by Nadja Tomoum. Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo), April 2006. Online.

Egyptian Antiquities Information system – EAIS Newsletter, December 2005: QuarryScapes field school in Aswan. Conservation of ancient stone quarry landscapes in Egypt. Online.

Egyptian Antiquities Information system – EAIS Newsletter, March 2006: QuarryScapes Kick-Off 30 Jan – 01 Feb 2006. Online.

Bloxam, E., Storemyr, P. & Heldal, T. (2005): QuarryScapes: conservation of ancient stone quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean. EES-Lecture, Egypt Exploration Society , Cairo, 7 November 2005

Presentation of the work at Sagalassos at "Archaeology's interactive dig". Online.

Field schools and training courses

The Aswan Ancient Quarry Landscape: Recognition, Significance and Risks. Field School , Aswan, Egypt, 19 – 24 November 2005 (13 participants, mostly inspectors from Supreme Council of Antiquities)

The Northern Faiyum Ancient Quarry Landscape: GPS-based Archaeological Survey. Field training course , Northern Faiyum, Egypt, 26 – 30 March 2006 (5 participants, mostly inspectors from Supreme Council of Antiquities)