Reading Death in Ancient Rome

Reading Death in Ancient Rome

Mario Erasmo 

• 2008
• Published by: The Ohio State University Pre

In Reading Death in Ancient Rome, Mario Erasmo considers both actual funerary rituals and their literary depictions in epic, elegy, epitaphs, drama, and prose works as a form of participatory theater in which the performers and the depicters of rituals engage in strategies to involve the viewer/reader in the ritual process, specifically by invoking and playing on their cultural associations at a number of levels simultaneously. He focuses on the associative reading process—the extent to which literary texts allude to funeral and burial ritual, the narrative role played by the allusion to recreate a fictive version of the ritual, and how the allusion engages readers’ knowledge of the ritual or previous literary intertexts. Such a strategy can advance a range of authorial agendas by inviting readers to read and reread assumptions about both the surrounding Roman culture and earlier literature invoked through intertextual referencing. By (re)defining their relation to the dead, readers assume various roles in an ongoing communion with the departed. Reading Death in Ancient Rome makes an important and innovative contribution to semiotic theory as applied to classical texts and to the emerging field of mortality studies. It should thus appeal to classicists as well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in art history and archeology.

ISBN

9780814271759

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9780814210925

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OCLC

1227264818

Pages

257

Launched on MUSE

2020-12-22

Language

English

Open Access

Yes

 

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1. Introduction: Reading Death
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1. 1. Playing Dead
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1. 2. Staging Death
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1. 3. Disposing the Dead
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1. 4. Disposing the Dead?
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1. 5. Animating the Dead
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1. Works Cited
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The Other Four Plays of Sophocles: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes

The Other Four Plays of Sophocles: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes 

Sophocles
translated by David R. Slavitt

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Famed translator David Slavitt lends his distinctly contemporary voice to four lesser-known plays of Sophocles.

There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the Theban Plays, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the remaining tragedies—the "other four plays:" Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes.

Punchy and entertaining, Slavitt reads Athena's opening line in Ajax as: "I’ve got my eye on you, Odysseus. Always." By simplifying the Greek and making obscure designations more accessible—specifying the character Athena in place of "aegis-wearing goddess," for example—his translations are highly performable. The Other Four Plays of Sophocles will help students discover underlying thematic connections across plays as well.

 

 

Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Pamela O. Long

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A history of the book and intellectual property that includes military technology and military secrets.

Winner of The Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas

In today's world of intellectual property disputes, industrial espionage, and book signings by famous authors, one easily loses sight of the historical nature of the attribution and ownership of texts. In Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Pamela Long combines intellectual history with the history of science and technology to explore the culture of authorship. Using classical Greek as well as medieval and Renaissance European examples, Long traces the definitions, limitations, and traditions of intellectual and scientific creation and attribution. She examines these attitudes as they pertain to the technical and the practical. Although Long's study follows a chronological development, this is not merely a general work. Long is able to examine events and sources within their historical context and locale. By looking at Aristotelian ideas of Praxis, Techne, and Episteme. She explains the tension between craft and ideas, authors and producers. She discusses, with solid research and clear prose, the rise, wane, and resurgence of priority in the crediting and lionizing of authors. Long illuminates the creation and re-creation of ideas like "trade secrets," "plagiarism," "mechanical arts," and "scribal culture." Her historical study complicates prevailing assumptions while inviting a closer look at issues that define so much of our society and thought to this day. She argues that "a useful working definition of authorship permits a gradation of meaning between the poles of authority and originality," and guides us through the term's nuances with clarity rarely matched in a historical study.

 

 

Ritual Boundaries Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity

Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity

by Joseph E. Sanzo (Author)

• Series

  Christianity in Late Antiquity

• Endowments

  Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature

• Title Details

  Rights: Available worldwide
  Pages: 188
  ISBN: 9780520399181
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.182
  Trim Size: 6 x 9
  Illustrations: 11 color photographs

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

In Ritual Boundaries, Joseph E. Sanzo transforms our understanding of how early Christians experienced religion in lived practice through the study of magical objects, such as amulets and grimoires. Against the prevailing view of late antiquity as a time when only so-called elites were interested in religious and ritual differentiation, the evidence presented here reveals that the desire to distinguish between religious and ritual insiders and outsiders cut across diverse social strata. The magical evidence also offers unique insight into early biblical reception, exposing a textual world in which scriptural reading was multisensory and multitraditional. As they addressed sickness, demonic struggle, and interpersonal conflicts, Mediterranean people thus acted in ways that challenge our conceptual boundaries between Christians and non-Christians; elites and non-elites; and words, materials, and images. Sanzo helps us rethink how early Christians imagined similarity and difference among texts, traditions, groups, and rituals as they went about their daily lives.

 

Oracular inquiries and daily life. The oracle of Dodona in the Classical and Hellenistic period

Oracular inquiries and daily life. The oracle of Dodona in the Classical and Hellenistic period

Frank, Karolina Barbara

This thesis examines the daily life and religiosity of ancient Greeks through their consultations at the oracle of Zeus Naios and Dione in Dodona, Epirus, during the Classical and Hellenistic period, as well as explores the role that the oracle played in shaping its supplicants’ day-to-day reality. Past scholarship has predominantly centered on literary and archaeological sources in order to investigate the functioning of the sanctuary, its divinatory practices, and its staff. Of late, the focus of studies has shifted to the inquiries made by those visiting the oracle. However, it has been the very recent publication of the corpus of over 4000 oracular inscriptions from the Epirote sanctuary (Dakaris et al. 2013, 2 vols.), which has significantly expanded the source material for the study of Dodona and its supplicants. These previously unpublished tablets, dated to the 6th-2nd c. BC, contain a wide range of queries made by private individuals, poleis, and koina at the oracle, as well as answers given by the gods. By placing these texts in a broader socio-economic and historical context, this thesis analyzes the portrayal of the lives of the individuals and communities consulting at Dodona through the prism of their questions, requests, and concerns. It examines the identity of the supplicants, arguing that most seem to have been of local Epirote and Northwestern Greek origin. Each chapter addresses a different topic of inquiry concerning religious, social, and economic issues, demonstrating the extent and range of the oracle’s influence over worship, local economies, and socio-cultural norms. The thesis also explores the different ways in which the supplicants used oracular divination to solve their problems. It contributes to the understanding of the role of oracles in personal religiosity and communicating with the divine in order to alleviate one’s concerns and shape one’s decision-making process.

Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Qualification:	Ph.D
Title:	Oracular inquiries and daily life. The oracle of Dodona in the Classical and Hellenistic period
Event:	UCL (University College London)
Language:	English
Additional information:	Copyright © The Author 2021. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request.

 

 

 

Tactical and strategic communications in ancient Greece, Fifth Century BC

Tactical and strategic communications in ancient Greece, Fifth Century BC

Peithis, Sotirios Christos

his dissertation will examine how effective the transmission of orders was in Ancient Greece in the fifth century BC. We will focus both on short-range tactical means of communication, such as vocal orders, and on wider-ranging strategic methods such as fire-signals. This largely neglected topic falls within the wider purview of ancient military intelligence, which has received some attention over the last decades. Following recent re-examinations of Greek Warfare, we will argue against the prevalent idea that fifth century Greek armies neglected communications. In this we will be following, and furthering, the works of scholars such as Everett Wheeler and Frank Russel, among others. While neither Wheeler nor Russell focus exclusively on the transmission of orders, their respective theories on generalship and intelligence gathering are invaluable to any examination of our own topic. Our main goals concerning tactical communications will be threefold. We will firstly determine whether vocal orders were audible on an ancient battlefield; secondly, we will examine whether Hellenic generals were in a position to issue commands; and thirdly, we will analyse how far Greek armies could be counted upon to follow instructions. As for strategic communications, we will aim to prove that the Greeks were capable of delivering more than rudimentary pre-arranged messages via their fire-signals. We will also examine how crucial strategic communications could be in the planning of a military campaign. This dissertation will thus contribute to the ongoing movement of re-consideration that has gripped ancient Greek military history over the last decades, and hopefully temper seemingly outdated notions concerning Hellenic communications

Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Qualification:	Ph.D
Title:	Tactical and strategic communications in ancient Greece, Fifth Century BC
Event:	UCL (University College London)
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language:	English
Additional information:	Copyright © The Author 2021. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request.

 

 

 

Pichvnari VIII

Pichvnari VIII

Publié le 28 avril 2024 par Th. Castelli

Kakhidze, A. et N. Surmanidze, éd. (2023) :ფიჭვნარიVIII / Pichvnari VIII, Batoum.

Ce volume rassemble des articles sur ce site et ses environs depuis la préhistoire, notamment l’âge du Bronze avec le site de Namcheduri, jusqu’à la période romaine. Pour l’Antiquité, il y a notamment des articles sur les monnaies, les terres cuites et les structures urbaines de Pichvnari.

L’ouvrage en ligne : https://ajaraheritage.ge/files/downloads/2024/%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98%E1%83%AD%E1%83%95%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98VIII.pdf

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Free course: Herodotus and the invention of history

Free course: Herodotus and the invention of history 

Course description

Course content

Course reviews

With the information explosion online, how can you tell fake news from the real thing, or be more sensitive to how information can be weaponised? In the fifth century BCE, a Greek by the name of Herodotus faced a similar challenge when he set out to examine why his people, the Greeks, and the Persians went to war with each other. Chief among his tasks was deciding what and whom to believe, as he pieced together the events of the past. His response was to produce an enquiry (in Greek: historiē, which is where the English word ‘history’ comes from). In this free course, Herodotus and the invention of history, explore how Herodotus puts together his enquiry and learn how in doing so he makes the problem of finding out what happened to our own history too. 

Interested in taking your learning further? You might find it helpful to explore the Open University’s Classical Studies courses and qualifications.

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• identify the context in which Herodotus was writing and the subject matter of his Histories, as well as key episodes, themes and issues
• analyse passages of Herodotus' text in order to learn how he presents his material and his methods as a historian
• evaluate sources (including Herodotus' writing as well as modern-day material) as you assess their reliability and significance
• discuss aspects of identity in the ancient Greek world, especially the opposition between Greeks and non-Greeks
• reflect on personal experiences as an informed critical reader.

 

 

Waste management in ancient Greece from the Homeric to the Classical period: concepts and practices of waste, dirt, recycling and disposal

Waste management in ancient Greece from the Homeric to the Classical period: concepts and practices of waste, dirt, recycling and disposal

Lindenlauf, A

This doctoral thesis has two purposes. First, it develops a universally applicable model for the analysis of waste disposal and recycling practices. This model synthesises Schiffer's behavioural analysis of the formation processes of the archaeological record with the history, sociology and anthropology of conceptualisations of dirt. Second, it shows how this model may be applied to ancient Greece. In the tradition of material culture studies, it aims to challenge the entrenched oppositions between archaeology, philology, history and sociology, and to interpret archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources within an integrated theoretical-methodological framework. The model is used to explore various aspects of ancient Greek waste management. It analyses the interdependence of ancient Greek waste management practices with changing concepts of dirt, pollution and cleanliness in the context of the development of the Greek polis. It also examines the universal analytical categories of waste disposal and recycling practices within diverse social and historical situations and settings with a view to analysing the cultural categories of these practices. Practices of disposal and recycling of solid and liquid waste are analysed in various contexts, including sanctuaries, settlements, agorai, and cemeteries, with respect to depositional processes, diversion rate and range of recycling practices. Materials studied include organic waste, potsherds, ostraka, building material, slaughter and consumption waste, funerary implements, votive offerings, architectural features and water. These examples allow the analysis - within the limits of a study using data in an exemplificatory rather than a statistically valid way - of the influence of the concepts of the sacred and the profane on the treatment of waste in ancient Greece and the degrees to which economic, political, social or symbolic aspects of recycling practices were stressed in different contexts.

Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Title:	Waste management in ancient Greece from the Homeric to the Classical period: concepts and practices of waste, dirt, recycling and disposal
Language:	English
UCL classification:	UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1317693

 

 

Open Access Journal: Mythological Studies

 [First posted in AWOL 10 March 2013, updated 28 April 2024]

Mythological Studies Journal

Welcome to the Mythological Studies Journal featuring writings by students enrolled in the MA/PhD Mythological Studies Program with a specialization in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. The essays reflect the interdisciplinary approach of this program, which integrates perspectives on myth from religious studies, literature, and depth psychology as a means of elucidating issues and motifs that shape the cultural dynamics, diverse worldviews, and complexities of psychological life in the contemporary world.

Many thanks are due to all of the peer-reviewers and authors and our faculty advisor, Dr. Emily Lord-Kambitsch, for their contributions to the most recent volume of essays.

Sincerely,
The Mythological Studies Journal Editorial Team

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Volume XI (2023)

• 2023 Mythological Studies Journal
  Print edition of the journal can be ordered through MagCloud (costs listed are the cost of print-on-demand): https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/2674992

Volume X (2022)

• 2022 Mythological Studies Journal
  Print edition of the journal can be ordered through MagCloud (costs listed are the cost of print-on-demand): https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/2339669?__r=2994226

Volume IX (2021)

• 2021 Mythological Studies Journal
  Print edition of the journal can be ordered through MagCloud (costs listed are the cost of print-on-demand): https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/2096105

Volume VIII (2020)

• 2020 Mythological Studies Journal
  Print edition of the journal can be ordered through MagCloud (costs listed are the cost of print-on-demand): https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1851776

Volume VII (2019)

• 2019 Mythological Studies Journal

Volume VI (2018)

• 2018 Mythological Studies Journal

Volume V (2014)

• Good Man Down: The Myth of Masculine Violence in American Society by David S. McCabe
• Violence and Veneration: Tapping a sadomasochistic vein in the American psyche by Angelina Avedano
• Soul-Making and the Colorado Shooting: James Holmes as the Joker, Trickster, Savior by Michael Bogar
• Demeter and Persephone as Temenos: A Perspective of Understanding Postpartum Depression by Stephanie Zajchowski
• Shading in a Violent Shadow: A Hero’s Confrontation with the American Shadow in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas by Leontine Armstrong

Volume IV (2013)

• Cheap Tattered Gloves: Getting a Grip in the Modern World by Timothy Hall
• The Ecopsychology of Milk by Odette Springer
• The (Mal) Creation of Food the Monsanto Way: A Call to Return a Mythic Sensitivity to Food Production by Clara Oropeza
• The Necessary Relativity of Secrecy by Nina Hatfield
• A Transformation of Gawain: A Human Experience by Leontine Armstrong
• From Republican Chaos to Imperial Cosmos: Virgil’s New Myth for Augustan Rome in the Aeneid by Matt Wheeler
• “The Music of the Spheres”: Musical Theory and Alchemical Image by Margaret Mendenhall

Volume III (2012)

• The Loa Mounts: Physical, Religious, Cultural, and Psychological Aspects of Possession by Jody Gentian Bower
• Re-Visioning Patriarchy Through the Lens of Homer’s Odyssey by Michael Dean Bogar
• The Salt That She Became: The Unnamed Wife in Genesis by Emma Tresemer
• The Hermetic Christ by Rebecca Diggs
• The Concubine as Mytheme of Convergence and Differentiation in Hebrew Mythology by Karin Zirk
• Terminal Mercury Poisoning: The Threatened Extinction of Primordial Mind by Anita Doyle
• In Techno-Eden: Fantasies of Death and Rebirth in The Fountain by Dorene Sue Koehler
• Drawing Water, Drawing Breath by Odette Springer

Volume II (2011)

• In a Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See: Plumbing the Subtle Depths of Alchemical Saturn by Anita Doyle
• The Lyre and the Drum: Dionysus and Apollo throughout Music History by Kathleen Asbo
• Get Lost! The Psychic Value of Wilderness Adventures in the Lives of Children by Aaron Duggan
• Relinquishing Grief: Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes in Truly Madly Deeply by Jody Bower
• Archetypal Interpretation of Sleeping Beauty: Awakening the Power of Love by Grace Hogstad
• The Underworld at the End of the Maze: Re-entering Pan’s Labryinth by Emma Tresemer
• Mandalas of Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish: Geometric Soul-Images in Melville’s Moby-Dick by Laura Strudwick

Volume I (2010)

• Epic Fathering: Homer’s Odyssey as Healer of the Puer-Senex Split and Restorer of Mythic Movement by Gustavo Beck
• Woodlands, Farmlands and Homesteads: The Landscapes of Childhood and Discovery of Soul by Kathie Collins
• The Whirling Subalpine Fir: An Encounter with Nature, Psyche and Myth by Darla Dench
• Under-Standing: The Divine Messenger Hermes and the Character of Hermeneutics by Rebecca Diggs
• Nex Ex Machina, Or Bringing It All Back Home: The Fallacy and Fantasy of Sacrificeless Warfare and Why It Will Never Work by Aaron Duggan
• The Tri-Wizard Cup: Alchemy and Transformation in Harry Potter by Priscilla Hobbs
• The Longissima Via by Maureen Murdock
• Thinking in Narrative: Seeing Through To the Myth in Philosophy by Joe Muszynski
• “Red Feels Like Red!”: The Aesthetic Body in the Sensual World by Leslie Stoupas
• Infinite Space and Self-Similar Form in Alchemy and Fractal Geometry by Laura Strudwick
• The Open-Mouthed Condition: Odysseus’ Transition from Warrior to Ruler by S. Asher Sund
• When Shadows Meet: The Interplay of Archetypes in The Bacchae by Emma Tresemer

See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Open Access Journal: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures News & Notes

 [First posted in AWOL 23 April 2010. Most recently updated 28 April 2024]

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures News & Notes

News & Notes is a quarterly publication of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly The Oriental Institute), printed for members as one of the privileges of membership.

n.b. issue 247, p. 1: "COVID-19 restrictions stemming from office closure have led to the decision to transition the bulk of OI print material to online-only formats. We will no longer mail print copies of News & Notes. We will continue to publish News & Notes each quarter in a digital format available to our members. Moving away from printed editions will ensure that every dollar of your membership donation now fully supports the current work and scholarship of the Oriental Institute."

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For years prior to 2002 the  Lead Article(s) from various issues were also being made available electronically with the permission of the editor.

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1998

• No. 159 Fall 1998: CLAY SEALINGS AND TABLETS FROM TELL ASMAR: AN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN PALACE REINVESTIGATED
• No. 157 Spring 1998: ACHAEMENID ROYAL INSCRIPTIONS FROM PERSEPOLIS IN ELECTRONIC FORM
• No. 156 Winter 1998: LETTERS FROM THE FIELD, 1950-1951 - EXCAVATIONS AT JARMO

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1997

• No. 155 Fall 1997: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE AMUQ VALLEY PROJECT: The 1996 Field Season
• No. 154 Summer 1997: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE DHAMAR PROJECT - NOTES ON THE 1996 FIELD SEASON
• No. 153 Spring 1997: EXCAVATIONS AT CHOGHA BONUT - THE EARLIEST VILLAGE IN SUSIANA, IRAN
• No. 152 Winter 1997: INSTITUTE ON THE INTERNET

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1996

• No. 151 Fall 1996: THE REVOLUTIONARY ROLE OF THE SUN IN THE RELIEFS AND STATUARY OF AMENHOTEP III
• No. 150 Summer 1996: RENOVATION MOVES FORWARD
• No. 149 Spring 1996: ETYMOLOGY AND ELECTRONICS: THE AFROASIATIC INDEX
• No. 149 Spring 1996: AQABA WORK DEFIES MOTHER NATURE
• No. 148 Winter 1996: THE AMUQ VALLEY PROJECT, 1995

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1995

• No. 147 Fall 1995: A BALIKH PROSPECT
• No. 146 Summer 1995: TIN SMELTING AT THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE
• No. 145 Spring 1995: RECENT DISCOVERIES AT ASHKELON
• No. 144 Winter 1995: WHO WAS WHO AMONG THE ROYAL MUMMIES

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1994

• No. 143 Fall 1994: EXPEDITION TO EGYPT, 1919: EXCERPTS FROM THE LETTERS OF JAMES HENRY BREASTED
• No. 142 Summer 1994: MORE MEDINET HABU DOCUMENTS RECOVERED
• No. 142 Summer 1994: IRANIAN POTTERY IN THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE
• No. 141 Spring 1994: WATER AND RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT AQABA
• No. 140 Winter 1994: MEDINET HABU DOCUMENTS RECOVERED
• No. 140 Winter 1994: MANAGING METALS: AN EARLY BRONZE AGE TIN PRODUCTION SITE AT GÖLTEPE, TURKEY

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1993

• No. 138 Summer 1993: BIR UMM FAWAKHIR: 1993 Survet Project
• No. 137 Spring 1993: METHODS OF INVESTIGATION OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE KHIRBET QUMRAN SITE - A CONFERENCE REPORT

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1992

• No. 136 Winter 1992: THE PUPPY IN HITTITE RITUAL
• No. 136 Winter 1992: TWO WEEKS IN THE EGYPTIAN DESERT: THE BIR UMM FAWAKHIR PROJECT, JANUARY 1992
• No. 135 Fall 1992: EXCAVATIONS AT GIZA 1988-1991: The Location and Importance of the Pyramid Settlement
• No. 134 Summer 1992: EXCAVATIONS AT TELL ES-SWEYHAT IN SYRIA 1989 AND 1991
• No. 133 Spring 1992: CRUSADING TO THE PAST

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1991

• No. 132 Autumn 1991: MODERN BREWERS RECREATE ANCIENT BEER
• No. 131 September 1991: STUDYING THE MUMMY OF PETOSIRIS - A PRELIMINARY REPORT
• No. 129 May-June 1991: THE CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY AT SEVENTY

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1990

• No. 126 November-December 1990: RECONNAISSANCE IN AQABA
• No. 125 September-October 1990: NIPPUR, 1990: GULA, GODDESS OF HEALING, AND AN AKKADIAN TOMB
• No. 123 March-April 1990: WATER AND GOLD: THE 1989 SEASON AT AQABA
• No. 122 January-February 1990: AQABA/AYLA: EXCAVATING FOR THE FUTURE

See also  The Oriental Institute Archaeological Newsletter (1950-1973)

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