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Les lampes de Montans (Tarn): Une production céramique des Ier et IIe s. ap. J.-C. : modes de fabrication’ typologie et chronologie

Les lampes de Montans (Tarn): Une production céramique des Ier et IIe s. ap. J.-C. : modes de fabrication’ typologie et chronologie

Gabrielle Bergès

Documents d’archéologie française

Depuis une dizaine d’années, l’étude des lampes d’époque romaine connaît en France un regain d’intérêt : elle est ici abordée, pour la première fois et dans le cadre d’un mémoire de maîtrise, par le biais de l’étude systématique des productions d’un ensemble d’ateliers de potiers : ceux de Montans (Tarn) situés dans un contexte archéologique bien établi. Sortant du cadre de simples inventaires descriptifs, l’auteur propose une chronologie du Ier au IIe s. ap. J.-C. qui constitue un document de référence. Son analyse des trois caractères associés (décor/type/ signature, marque) surplus de 900 pièces révèle des aspects originaux de la pratique ouvrière des potiers et permet d’aboutir à des interprétations intéressantes sur le surmoulage, principale technique de fabrication utilisée.

• Éditeur : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme
• Collection : Documents d’archéologie française | 21
• Lieu d’édition : Paris
• Année d’édition : 1989
• Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 01 juin 2022
• Nombre de pages : 128 p.

Avant-propos

Introduction

Première partie. Étude des lampes

1. Le site et le mobilier archéologique étudié

1. A description of the site and the archaeological material

2. La fabrication des lampes

2. The lamp industry

3. Étude typologique et chronologique

3. Typological and chronological analysis

4. Conclusion

Les lampes dans la production céramique montanaise

4. Conclusions

Deuxième partie. Catalogues

1. Catalogue des lampes

1. Catalogue of lamps

2. Catalogue des décors

2. Catalogue of decorations

3. Catalogue des signatures et des marques

3. Catalogue of signatures and marks

Annexes

Bibliographie

Résumé

Abstract

 

 

 

Alexandrian Documents from the Reign of Augustus

Alexandrian Documents from the Reign of Augustus 
Peter van Minnen

 

In 2007, I launched a website for Original Documents from Ancient Alexandria, where one can still find various bibliographies (now somewhat outdated) and other helpful tools (such as a list of measures and containers and their modern equivalents). I also included the English translation of five related documents, with a promise to add more such translations in the future. I have now finished the translation of all published documents from Alexandria from the reign of Augustus that derive from cartonnage found at Abusir el-Melek in the Heracleopolite nome and that were mostly published by Wilhelm Schubart in BGU 4. The program used to generate the website is no longer available, and I therefore had to design a new, more sober website. The translations are presented in paragraphs and come with line numbers (preceded by |) to allow users to compare the Greek texts in the Papyrological Navigator. I have also incorporated several corrections (mostly from the BL), which are flagged by a reference in parentheses in the translation itself, and such parentheses are also used for the occasional explanation (e.g., of a measure) or addition to make it easier to follow the translations. Corrections of my own will be published in Korr.Tyche.

Each translation comes with a lemma, which flags other editions than the one used, other translations, scans, and other texts on the same papyrus as the translated text. Users will know which re-editions will be worth consulting, and they will also be able to figure out which language is used in the other translations. No links to scans are given, just a vague indication (links can be found at http://papyri.info/). The scans are almost always superior to published plates, which I have therefore not listed. I have access to a few more unpublished scans from Berlin and Warsaw (including the National Museum), which I expect to be added to their respective websites in the future. The description of what else is on a papyrus (and where exactly) is based in most instances on inspection of the originals in Berlin, sometimes of scans of papyri now in Cairo. For assistance with my work in Berlin I thank Günter Poethke and Marius Gerhardt. I would also like to thank the Loeb Classical Library for a fellowship that helped put the project back on track.

The literature referred to in the lemmata can be traced with the help of the bibliography.

For the translations arranged by edition (BGU 4.1050-1059, 1098-1184, plus a few stray items in other publications such as SB) click the numerical list of texts.

For an overview of the content of the texts click the alphabetical list of topics.

I have now (2022) added English translations of all Alexandrian synchoreseis not from the reign of Augustus and not retrieved from the cartonnage from Abusir el-Melek. Most of these are addressed to the archidikastes. I have not seen any of the originals of these texts, and I have been far less precise in rendering them (in only a few I have numbered each individual line). In some cases I used already rather accomplished translations (as in P.Oxy., flagged as “ET,” English translation, in the lemmata) as the basis for my translation. I have left out some old favorites long believed to be synchoreseis. I may return to all of these texts in a future article. I also added one new text to the Alexandrian documents from the reign of Augustus (P.Cair.Gad 8). 

For the translations of the synchoreseis not from the reign of Augustus, arranged by edition (BGU through SPP), click the numerical list of texts. 

For an overview of the content of the synchoreseis not from the reign of Augustus (rather different from that of the Augustan documents retrieved from cartonnage from Abusir el-Melek) click the alphabetical list of topics. 

For a geographical list of provenances where the synchoreseis (if issued by the authorities in Alexandria) were taken by one of the parties concerned, or where copies were made, click the alphabetical list of provenances. 

The bibliography is the same as for the Alexandrian documents from the reign of Augustus.  

• list of texts
• list of topics
• bibliography
• Contact

Greek and Etruscan Vases: Shapes and Markets

Greek and Etruscan Vases: Shapes and Markets 

Dimitris Paleothodoros (Hrsg.) 

Panel 5.15

Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018

Die acht Aufsätze, die in diesem Band veröffentlicht werden, behandeln Themen im Zusammenhang mit der Produktion, dem Verbrauch und dem Handel mit bemalter Keramik in der antiken mediterranen Welt, während der archaischen und klassischen Periode, mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf der italienischen Halbinsel, Griechenland und dem Balkan. Wichtige Fragen zum Gebrauch, zur Funktion und zur Rolle von Vasen auf einer breiteren sozialen oder religiösen Ebene wurden ebenfalls berücksichtigt, indem der Schwerpunkt auf die Reaktion einzelner Kunden sowohl auf Importe als auch auf lokale Vasen gelegt wurde oder indem spezifische Formen untersucht wurden, die sowohl auf dem heimischen Markt als auch in Übersee gehandelt wurden. Ein weiteres Ziel, welches anvisiert und weitgehend erreicht wurde, war die Präsentation neuen Materials, das kürzlich ausgegraben oder neu untersucht wurde. Vor allem war es unser Ziel, originelle Studien vorzustellen, die als wertvolle Beiträge zur Vasenkunde angesehen werden können.

Dimitris Paleothodoros ist außerordentlicher Professor für Klassische Archäologie an der Universität Thessalien. Er ist ein Spezialist für griechische und etruskische Vasen und befasst sich insbesondere mit Aspekten der Ikonographie, der Connoisseurschaft, des Handels und der Verwendung dekorierter Keramik.

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Identifikatoren

https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.903

ISBN 978-3-96929-078-1 (PDF)

ISBN 978-3-96929-079-8 (Softcover)

Veröffentlicht am 30.05.2022 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PDF

Titelei

Contents

Martin Bentz, Michael Heinzelmann

Preface

Dimitris Paleothodoros

Greek and Etruscan Vases: Shapes and Markets – An Introduction

Winfred Van de Put

Markets and the Survival of Shapes: the Case of the Column-Krater

Dimitris Paleothodoros

Attic Figured Mugs in the Market

Cécile Jubier-Galinier

Shapes, Markets and Workshop Strategies between Specialization and Diversification

Case Study of the ‘Sappho-Diosphos-Haimon’ Workshop

Amalia Avramidou, Despoina Tsiafaki

Attic Kraters and Pelikai from Ancient Thrace

Barbara Cavallaro

Vasi attici a Vassallaggi: possibili “special commissions” in un centro sicano

Aaron Rhodes-Schroder

Death Driving Deposition: Funerary Practice as a Motivator of Tarquinian Selection in the Attic Vase Trade

Delphine Tonglet

Etruscan Melting-Pot: Some Considerations about Etruscan Banquet Sets in Funerary Contexts

Vincenzo Baldoni

Vase Shapes from Picenum Funerary Contexts: Imports and Local Production of Numana

 

 

 

Studies on the Urban History of Meninx (Djerba): The Meninx Archaeological Project 2015–2019

Studies on the Urban History of Meninx (Djerba): The Meninx Archaeological Project 2015–2019 

Stefan Ritter (Hrsg.)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4192-3365

Sami Ben Tahar (Hrsg.)

National du Patrimoine, Tunis

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6535-4473

Meninx was the eponymous capital of the island of Djerba in Antiquity. The spacious seaport, situated on a protected gulf, was famous as one of the main production centres of purple dye in the Mediterranean and developed into one of the largest metropolises in Roman North Africa. In 2015, an archaeological research project was initiated in cooperation between the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Munich and the Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunisia, in order to explore the urban development of this previously little-known ancient site. First, the internal urban structure was clarified by means of a large-scale geophysical prospection. Then, during two field research campaigns in 2017 and 2018, targeted excavations were carried out, which, together with their rich and diverse finds, provided exemplary insight into various spheres of urban life in all periods of the city's history, from Punic times to Late Antiquity (4th century B.C. to 7th century A.D.). In addition, underwater archaeological investigations have for the first time shed light on the harbour facilities of Meninx.

The present volume offers a synthesis of the multifaceted results of these investigations. lt has become clear that Meninx, with its regional and supra-regional economic contacts, played a central role for the island, which functioned as a hub between Mediterranean maritime trade networks and the nearby mainland with its trading routes leading into the Sahara. In its role as a centre of production and trade, Meninx was strikingly different from the other Tripolitan coastal metropolises, Sabratha and Lepcis Magna, in that urban life was entirely focused on the sea and its resources.

Veröffentlicht

June 1, 2022

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Archäologische Forschungen

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Kapitel

• Preface: The Meninx Archaeological Project
  Stefan Ritter, Sami Ben Tahar
• I. Introduction: The History of Research on Meninx and our Objectives
  Stefan Ritter, Sami Ben Tahar
• II. Methodology

  1. Engineering Geodesy in Meninx – 2. Archaeological Geophysics – 3. The Database Management
  Agnes Weinhuber, Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Paul Scheding, Juliane Watson
• III. The Urban Layout: Results of the Magnetometer Survey
  Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Stefan Ritter
• IV. The Urban History of Meninx: A Synthesis of our Results

  1. The Punic and Late Punic Periods – 2. The Early, Middle and Late Roman Periods – 3. The Late Antique Periods
  Stefan Ritter, Sami Ben Tahar
• V. The Excavations

  1. Introduction – 2. Trench 1 – A Main Road through Meninx in the Area of the Macellum – 3. Secteur 2 – Une maison punique et son occupation jusqu’à la fin de l’Antiquité – 4. Schnitt 3 – Ein Thermengebäude am Forum – 5. Trench 4 – Early Punic ...
  Stefan Ritter, Sami Ben Tahar, Nichole Sheldrick, Nicolas Lamare, Christoph Lehnert, Robert C. Arndt, Linda Stoeßel, Lena Gabler, Mekki Aoudi, Saskia Kerschbaum, Marina Apatsidis, Alexander Köppe, Paul Scheding
• VI. The Underwater Archaeological Investigations (with Trenches 10–12)
  Max Fiederling, Tobias Pflederer, Ahmed Gadhoum
• VII. Other Field Studies

  1. Architekturhistorische Untersuchungen in Meninx – Die Bauteile im Pavillon – 2. Der Nördliche Zisternenkomplex – Bauforscherische Untersuchung der freiliegenden Strukturen – 3. The Quarries
  Johannes Lipps, Kilian Wolf, Dennis Mario Beck
• VIII. The Finds

  1. Die Funde: Einführung – 2. La céramique – 3. Liste des datations des unités stratigraphiques (SE) de Meninx 2017–2018 – 4. The Coin Finds – 5. Römische Statuetten aus den Thermen (Schnitt 3) – 6. Ein Marmorkopf des Antoninus Pius aus Meninx ...
  Karin Mansel, Sami Ben Tahar, Tomoo Mukai, Francesca Assirelli, Bianca Mancini, Saskia Kerschbaum, Bartlin Schöpflin, Lena Gabler, Martin Kovacs, Johannes Lipps, Stefan Ritter, Paul Scheding, Sebastian Kranz, Robert C. Arndt, Salvatore Ortisi, Stephanie Schmittner, Julia Thois, Max Fiederling
• IX. Natural-sciences Research

  1. Archaezoology in Meninx: Palaeoeconomy between Local Economic Structure and Supra-regional Network – 2. Fish Exploitation at Meninx – 3. Crop Cultivation and Land-use on Djerba from Phoenician Times to Late Antiquity (4th cent. B.C.–6th cent. A.D.) ...
  Simon Trixl, Joris Peters, Wim Van Neer, Wim Wouters, Michèle Dinies, Viola Podsiadlowski, Reinder Neef, Max Fiederling
• ملخص
  Sami Ben Tahar
• Bibliography
• List of Figures
• Illustration Credits

Tracking the Neolithic in the Near East: Lithic Perspectives on Its Origins, Development and Dispersals

Tracking the Neolithic in the Near East: Lithic Perspectives on Its Origins, Development and Dispersals

Edited by Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Osamu Maeda & Makoto Arimura

This book combines the latest studies of Near Eastern Neolithic lithics by leading international archaeologists to develop their analytical potential and advance our understanding of the world oldest farming societies of the Near East in human history.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East, hosted at the University of Tokyo, Japan, from November 12 to 16, 2019 (PPN9-Tokyo).

A unique point of the volume, while referring to the origins and development as in the proceedings of the previous conferences, is a greater emphasis on regional perspectives to evaluate the Near Eastern Neolithic. The current research indicates that the earliest farming societies of the Near East developed in interaction with neighbouring hunter-gatherer societies, that either coexisted with them for long periods or soon assimilated to the Near Eastern farmers. Understanding these contrasting processes would shed new light on identifying the Neolithisation practices of the “core” regions in the Near East itself. A similar attempt was made at the PPN2-Warsaw in 1995, but the present volume provides the most up-to-date discoveries and perspectives after a quarter century.

The 39 papers in this volume include contributions on the Iranian Zagros, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, a region whose Neolithic archaeological records are far less well understood but that we believe will enrich our understanding of the first farming societies of the Near East.

Paperback ISBN: 9789464260809 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464260816 | Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 210x280mm | ca. 600 pp. | Language: English | 211 illus. (bw) | 109 illus. (fc) | Keywords: archaeology; lithic industries; neolithic; Near Eastern prehistory; West Asia; obsidian; early farming; hunter-gatherers; neolithisation; Göbekli Tepe; Çatalhöyük

PREFACE
Y. NISHIAKI, O. MAEDA & M. ARIMURA

PART 1: NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE LEVANT

THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF DISTINCTIVE LITHIC OBJECTS

Drilling Tools at the End of the Natufian: Suggesting a Technological Innovation
T. YASHUV & L. GROSMAN

Arrows and Archery during the PPNB: An Experimental Approach: Points Production and Use
F. ABBÈS & F. PICHON

Weapons or Hunting Tools? Evaluating the Role of Big Arrowheads of the Neolithic Levant
O. BARZILAI & H. MAY

3D Morpho-Metric Analysis of PPNB Arrowheads from MOTZA: Preliminary Results
H. KHALAILY, K. VARDI, A. KARASIK & O. BARZILAI

Production and Use of Nahal Hemar Knives in the Southern Levant during the PPNB: New Evidence from Kharaysin (Jordan)
F. BORRELL, J.J. IBÁÑEZ, J. MUÑIZ, I. CLEMENTE CONTE & L. TEIRA

The Baʻja Daggers: Type, Technology and Commodification of a LPPNB Burial Object
H.G.K. GEBEL, C. PURSCHWITZ, D. ŠTEFANISKO & M. BENZ

Recycling of PPNB Artefacts in the Yarmukian Site of Tel Izhaki, Jezreel Valley, Israel: Some Chronological and Regional Implications
A. YAROSHEVICH, E.C.M. van den BRINK, R. CHASAN, D. ROSENBERG, A. BIELER, L. PERRY-GAL, E. BOARETTO & N. GREENBAUM

Innovation, Adaptation or Just a Development? Alternative Uses of Obsidian the Early Neolithic of the Near East
E. HEALEY and S. CAMPBELL

Typology, Material and Cultural Role of Stone Bracelets (Bangles) from the Neolithic Megasite of Motza: Preliminary Report
I. MILEVSKI, J. VARDI & H. KHALAILY

Flaking or Grinding? Habits of Stone Tool Production in Prehistoric Cyprus
A. MCCARTHY

The Processing of Construction Stones at the Neolithic Site of Mishmar Ha‘emeq, Israel
G. HAKLAY, N. GETZOV & O. BARZILAI

LITHIC ASSEMBLAGES AND KNAPPING TECHNOLOGIES

Refitting Lithics from Ais Giorkis, Cyprus: A Preliminary Analysis of Bidirectional Blade Technology
C. MCCARTNEY

Preliminary Analysis of the Lithic Assemblages of Nahal Yarmuth 38: A New PPNB Site in Central Israel
D. ACKERFELD, A. EIRIKH-ROSE, H. ASHKENAZI, K. ZUTOVSKI & A. GOPHER

Intra-Site Variability in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Site of Yiftahel: Lithic Techno-Typological Analysis
A. LEVY, N GETZOV, H. KHALAILY, I. MILEVSKI & O. MARDER

Skill, Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Lithic Production as Seen from LPPNB/FPPNB Baʻja, Southern Levant
C. PURSCHWITZ

Motza: A Village of the Final Phase of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Preliminary Observations
J. VARDI, D. YEGOROV, A. LEVY, A. SHATIL, N. MITKI & H. KHALAILY

Heat Treatment of Flint in the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Site of Motza (Judean Hills, Israel)
D. YEGOROV, H. KHALAILY & S.A. ROSEN

Tracing the Neolithic Occupation of ‘En Esur (Israel) and the Question of the Archaeological Visibility of the Neolithic in the Archeological Record: The Lithic Perspective
L. BRAILOVSKY-ROKSER, D. SHALEM & M. BIRKENFELD

PART 2: VIEWS FROM NEIGHBORING REGIONS

LITHICS FROM ARID LANDS

Hunting in the Dunes: Evidence for Late Natufian Hunting Practices in the Northwestern Negev Site of Ashalim
L. EDELTIN, J. VARDI & O. MARDER

Chipped Stone Tool Production Strategies at Nahal Efe (northern Negev) during the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
F. BORRELL & J. VARDI

The Ghassanian Techno-Complex: Late/Final PPNB Lithic Assemblages from Desert Kite-Associated Occupation Sites in Jibal al-Khashabiyeh, South-Eastern Jordan
R. CRASSARD, J.A. SÁNCHEZ PRIEGO, F. PICHON, W. ABU-AZIZEH & M. TARAWNEH

Harrat Juhayra 202 and the Jordanian Badia Early PPNB: Fresh Perspective on the PPNA/PPNB Transition in the Southern Levant
S. FUJII

Go West: New Discoveries Concerning the PPNB in the Eastern Desert of Egypt between the Sinai and the Nile Valley
F. BRIOIS, B. MIDANT-REYNES & Y. TRISTANT

The Local Development and Levantine Influence Seen in the Stone Tools of the Fayum Neolithic in Egypt
N. SHIRAI

NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM ANATOLIA

A Prehistoric Survey in Cappadocia and a New Early Holocene Site, Balıklı: Preliminary Insights into the Local Chipped Stone Industries
N. KAYACAN, A.N. GORING-MORRIS, G. DURU & M. ÖZBAŞARAN

Sırçalıtepe: A New Aceramic Neolithic Site in Volcanic Cappadocia (Central Anatolia)
S. BALCI & Ç. ALTINBILEK-ALGÜL & D. MOURALIS

Chipped Stone at the Late Neolithic TPC Area, Çatalhöyük: On-Site and Beyond
H.C. SCHECHTER

Tepecik Çiftlik (Turkey) and the Exploitation of Cappadocian Obsidian during the 7th Millennium
D. GUILBEAU

The Lithic Assemblages of Gusir Höyük: A Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site on the Upper Tigris Basin (Southeast Anatolia)
Ç. ALTINBILEK-ALGÜL, S. BALCI, D. MOURALIS & O. D. ASLANER

Change and Continuity in the Lithic Industry of Hasankeyf Höyük, a late 10th millennium cal. BC Site on the Upper Tigris O. MAEDA, T. CARTER & R. MOIR

“[…] but it is not clear at all where all the […] debris had been taken from […]” Chipped Stone Artefacts, Architecture and Site Formation Processes at Göbekli Tepe
J. BREUERS and KINZEL

LITHICS FROM FURTHER EAST

Exploring the Changes in Lithic Industries during the Neolithisation in Armenia (7th–6th millennium BCE): A Comparison of Chipped Stone Tools from Lernagog-1 and Masis Blur
M. ARIMURA, K. MARTIROSYAN-OLSHANSKY, A. PETROSYAN & B. GASPARYAN

Neolithic Chipped Stone Industry of Mentesh Tepe (Middle Kura Valley, Azerbaijan): Technological Markers and Relations to North-Eastern Anatolia
L. ASTRUC, D. GUILBEAU, B. GRATUZE, C. CHATAIGNER, O. BARGE, B. LYONNET & F. GULIYEV

Discard Patterns of Chipped and Ground Stone Refuse at Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe in the Southern Caucasus: Implications for the Residential Mobility and the Neolithization Process
S. KADOWAKI, F. GULIYEV & Y. NISHIAKI

Neolithic Sickles of the South Caucasus and North Mesopotamia (early 6th millennium BC)
Y. NISHIAKI

A Brand New Thing: Bladelet Production Techniques and Methods in Caspian Mesolithic and Neolithic Chipped Stone Industries
M. JAYEZ & H.V. NASAB

Towards Understanding the Early Neolithic in the Zagros Mountains: Results of New Investigations of the Austro-Iranian Team in Ilam Province, Iran
B. MILIĆ, B. HOREJS & L. NIAKAN

Returning to Hunting and Re-microlithisation during the Mushki Phase in Fars, Southwest Iran
M. ABE, S. ARAI & M. KHANIPOUR

The Symbolic Meaning of the Neolithic Manuports: The Examples from Nemrik 9, Northern Iraq, and Ayakagytma ‘The Site’, Uzbekistan
K. SZYMCZAK

 

 

 

The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’

The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’

 By Llewelyn Morgan, Luca Maria Oliveri

 

The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’ presents an edition with introductions and extensive commentary of a manuscript, discovered by Luca M. Olivieri in the fort at Malakand, Swat, Pakistan, of a seminal and pioneering account of the antiquities of Swat and Peshawar by Harold Deane. The article of which this manuscript is an earlier draft, the first significant contribution to the archaeology of Swat, was published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society (1896), and the manuscript contains interesting additional information that did not make the final text. The book presents and transcribes the manuscript, also including introductory material on its discovery and the life and significance of Deane, and (most importantly) extended notes identifying and describing the places that Deane discusses in his article. The book thus doubles as a gazetteer of this immensely rich archaeological space, and a history of its archaeological discovery. The book includes images of the original article, the manuscript, some of the artefacts referred to by Deane in his article, and an appendix publishing a manuscript by J. W. McCrindle, ‘Alexander’s Campaign in Afghanistan’, found among a small number of Deane’s papers in the possession of his great-grandson in England, which is directly relevant to the composition of his article.

H 276 x W 203 mm

286 pages

20 figures, 10 tables, 80 plates (colour throughout)

Published Jun 2022

Archaeopress Archaeology

ISBN

Paperback: 9781803272078

Digital: 9781803272085

Contents

Foreword – Peter Stewart ;
Foreword – Adriano Valerio Rossi ;
Introduction ;
H.A. Deane: Life, Work and Context ;
Notes on the Transcription ;
Transcription ;
Archaeological Comments on the Note ;
General Notes ;
Deane’s Article ;
McCrindle’s Letter ;
Commentary on McCrindle’s Letter ;
Index of Placenames ;
Plates ;
References