Recent offerings from the Griffifth Institute

Since the beginning of 2010, the Griffith Institute has published and updated the following files:

• Theban tomb tracings made by Norman de Garis Davies online: (a) TT 64, Hekerneheh, (b) TT79, Menkheper Menkheperrasoneb and (c) TT 80, Djehutinufer. (May 17, 2010)
• Working files of Topographical Bibliography 8 Part 4 (Objects of Provenance Not Known: Stelae from the beginning of Dynasty XVIII to the Roman Period): Stelae of the New Kingdom and Stelae from the beginning of the 3rd Intermediate Period to the Roman Period (April 30, 2010)
• The list of research tools has been brought up to date. (April 21, 2010)
• Hector Horeau's watercolours made in Egypt in 1848. (April 7, 2010)
• A revised list of Griffith Institute Archive projects. (April 7, 2010)
• A revised list of objects in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. (March 3, 2010)
• More working files have been added to the Topographical Bibliography lists for periodicals. (March 3, 2010)
• Alfred Lucas's notes on conservation of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Seasons 1926-7 and 1927-8. (March 3, 2010)

And see Open Access Archives: Griffith Institute.

Digital islam: 971 Islamic Studies Ph.D. theses

Digital islam: Theses on EThOS

This project aims to digitise the 860 doctoral theses sourced from UK HEIs identified by the JISC funded ‘Review of User Requirements for Digitised Resources in Islamic Studies’.

The project will also run an initial feasibility study to test whether the 860 identified thesis are available for digitisation, and if not, how the allocation may be delivered from other related theses.

The project will use The British Library digitisation suite and experience to digitise the identified PhD theses on a cost recovery basis and to make them available via EThOS and the proposed National Gateway to islamic Resources.

This project is now complete and 971 Ph.D. Islamic Studies theses are now available.

A full list can be obtained by using the search phrase 'JISC Digital Islam' on the Ethos service

See also the AWOL Monday, April 5, 2010 posting ETHoS: Electronic Thesis Online Service

Ancient Music

NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN ARCHAEOMUSICOLOGY

The website of ICONEA (International Conference of Near Easten Archaeomusicology) includes information on conferences as well as the following two open access publications:

ICONEA 2008: Proceedings of the International Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology Held at the British Museum December 4, 5 and 6, 2008
Edited by RICHARD DUMBRILL & IRVING FINKEL
© Copyright 2010 Richard Dumbrill and Irving Finkel

Table of Contents

• POSSESSED BY THE GREAT MOTHER: MUSIC AND TRANCE IN ANCIENT POMPEII AND IN THE POPULAR TRADITION OF SOUTHERN ITALY, Roberto Melini page 1
• NEW LIGHT ON THE BABYLONIAN TONAL SYSTEM, Leon Crickmore page 11
• THE ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN SISTRUM AND ITS REFERENCES IN CUNEIFORM
• LITERATURE: THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE ŠEM AND MEZE, Uri Gabbay page 23
• MUSICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HURRIAN MATERIAL BY STATISTICAL
• ANALYSIS, David Halperin page 29
• ANOTHER LOOK AT ALLEGED ANCIENT BAGPIPES, Terence Mitchell page 33
• PLAYING IN CONCERT IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, Dominique Collon page 47
• A QUEENS’S ORCHESTRA AT THE COURT OF MARI: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE ARCHAIC INSTRUMENTARIUM IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BC, Myriam Marcetteau page 67
• ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND EARLY JEWISH LYRE TRADITIONS, Siam Bhayro page 77
• BULL LYRES, SILVER LYRES, SILVER PIPES AND ANIMALS IN SUMER, Bo Lawergren page 83
• A SUMERIAN TEXT IN QUANTIFIED ARCHAEOMUSICOLOGY, Ernest McClain page 89
• EVIDENCE AND INFERENCE IN TEXTS OF THEORY IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, Richard Dumbrill page105
• A TRAVELER’S TALES: OBSERVATIONS ON MUSICAL MOBILITY IN MESOPOTAMIA
• AND BEYOND, Piotr Michalowski page 117
• MUSICAL ENSEMBLES IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA, Theo Krispijn page 125
• A NEW HYPOTHESIS FOR THE ELABORATION OF HEPTATONIC
• SCALES AND CONSEQUENCES IN UNDERSTANDING THEIR ORIGINS, Amine Beyhom page 151

ARANE: Archaeomusicological Review of the Ancient Near East
A publication of ICONEA, The International conference
of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology
Volume I - 2009

Table of Contents

• THE TONAL SYSTEMS OF MESOPOTAMIA AND ANCIENT GREECE : SOME SIMILARITIES
• AND DIFFERENCES, Leon Crickmore page 1
• ANCIENT ISRAEL/PALESTINE AND THE NEW HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MUSIC: SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, Joachim Braun page 17
• FOUR TABLES FROM THE TEMPLE LIBRARY OF NIPPUR: A SOURCE FOR PLATO’S
• NUMBER IN RELATION TO THE QUANTIFICATION OF BABYLONIAN TONE NUMBERS, Richard J Dumbrill, page 27
• EMBODYING MUSICAL PERFORMANCES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN, Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Mireia López-Bertran page 39
• IS THE HEPTAGRAM IN CBS1766 A DIAL?, Richard J Dumbrill page 47
• HARMONIC MYTHOLOGY Nine interdisciplinary research notes Leon Crickmore page 51
• THE HORN QUARTET: A STUDY OF BULL, COW, CALF AND STAG FIGURES ON SUMERIAN LYRES, Myriam Marcetteau page 67

These volumes are also available for sale in hard copy.

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

More Göttinger Miszellen online

In the past couple of days, additional volumes of Göttinger Miszellen have come on line.
Volumes (1972) - 219 (2008) are currently accessible to subscribers to Digizeitschften.

Other ancient content in this aggregation is here.

If you'd like to have access to these and the rest of the Digizeitschriften collection, bring it to the attention of your librarians.

Open Access Journal: SCA Proceedings

SCA Proceedings (Society for California Archaeology)

Abstracts (1988-2004; vols. 1-16) and Articles (2004-present; vols. 17-22) of the SCA Proceedings
Follow the links below to search the SCA Proceedings for articles by volume, region, author, or topic of interest.

• Proceedings by Volume
• Proceedings by Region
• Proceedings by Author
• Proceedings by Topic

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

Open Accesss Journal: Gennadeion News

Gennadeion News

Newsletter of the Gennadius Library. Gennadeion News is published by the ASCSA Development Office and sent free of charge to friends of the Gennadius Library approximately twice a year. Past issues are available to download as PDFs.

The current issue of of Gennadeion News is the Spring 2012 Edition. 
Download the current issue.
Archived back issues:
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
2009 Edition
2008 Edition
2007 Edition
Fall 2006
Winter/Spring 2006
Winter/Summer 2005
Summer 2004
Winter 2004
Summer 2003
Winter 2003
Summer 2002
Winter 2002

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

AWOL Administrative Note and Statistics

As of this afternoon

• Twelve hundred addresses are subscribed to the AWOL by email function (up from nine hundred on 15 February, 2010)
• AWOL surpassed 128,540 page loads. (ca. 40,000 since 15 February, 2010)
• The List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies contains 648 titles (49 titles added since 15 February, 2010) and remains the most popular page in AWOL.

I appreciate the interest and support of those of you who use AWOL, and
encourage you to comment, make suggestions, and

the content when appropriate (noting the button which
appears at the bottom of all new and revised pages).

I am seeking your assistance in particular in identifying scholarship on the ancient world which is appearing unembargoed in institutional repositories. Please direct me to your own or other useful collections and I will add them to the AWOL page Ancient World in Open Access Institutional Repositories.

Administrative notes with user statistics have been posted in March 2012, November 2011, October 2011,  July 2011, April 2011, January 2011,  December 2010,  October 2010, August 2010,  July 2010, May 2010, and  January 2010.