The British Academy Sir Aurel Stein Archive

The British Academy Sir Aurel Stein Archive

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These aerial photographs from 1938 and 1939 were taken as part of an archaeological survey conducted by Sir Marc Aurel Stein in modern day Syria, Iraq and Jordan. They were captured by or with the assistance of the Royal Air Force, then conducting aerial reconnaissance in the territories under British Mandate. These photographs are held by The British Academy, and shown here with their kind permission. The digitisation of these photographs was made possible by cooperation with the EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa) Project (eamena.org/).

The photographs are a fantastic record of sites that have changed drastically over time, including the well known sites of Qasr Azraq, Balad Sinjar and Hatra for example. Stein's particular interest in the Roman Limes means that a large number of circumvallations are also photographed, many of which have never been investigated further and are now almost invisible or erased from the landscape.

 

The photographs have been catalogued according to their noted date and The British Academy reference number. Where known, the sites have been named and georeferenced according to the site depicted. Where a site name discrepancy is known, whether between the photograph information and Stein's report, or with another source, alternatives have been given. Where possible, the hand written notes on the obverse and reverse of the photograph have been included in the image description. Should you know anything further regarding any of the sites depicted, please feel free to share your knowledge and leave a comment on the individual photograph's page. In many cases the sites photographed do not have known individual site names but are referenced according to the identification provided by Stein - for example, as 'Castellum' or 'Post', but these are in no way definitive.

This particular collection of photographs relate to Stein's research of the Roman 'Limes' and many were intended as illustrations of his 'Limes Report'. Stein's 'Limes Report' was posthumously published from the original and typescript manuscripts held at The Bodleian Library in 1985: Shelagh Gregory & David Kennedy 1985 Sir Aurel Stein's 'Limes Report', BAR International Series 272.

This collection is held at The British Academy, britak.co.uk, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH. All image requests and enquiries regarding the collection should be directed to the archivist (library@britac.ac.uk). The collection also includes notes and plans made by Stein which are not included here.

These images were scanned from the prints using an EPSON Perfection V700 Photo Scanner, April 2015.

For more information regarding the extensive collection of Stein material, please consult the handbook to his collections edited by Helen Wang & John Perkins (2008): www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publ...

Cyrenaica Terracottas

Cyrenaica Terracottas

This project focuses on the digital presentation of the Greek votive terracottas brought to light at the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone in the Wadi Bel Gadir at Cyrene, Libya, by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1979 (see above). This has lead to the inclusion of other corpora of terracottas, including those from Cyrene's Artemision and the sanctuary of the Chthonic Nymphs, as well as from the site of Apollonia.

While terracotta figurines have been found at Cyrene's Artemision, theater, agora, so-called Temple of the Divinity of Fecundity, Temple of Demeter, Sanctuary of the Chthonic Nymphs, and in tombs from Cyrene's necropoleis, those from the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone represent the largest extant corpus of figurines found to date anywhere in Cyrenaica. They complement the figurines discovered outside of Cyrene, at Tocra, Apollonia, Benghazi, Eusperides, El Gubba, and Budrasc, but far exceed these in number. 

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All the images for the terracottas from the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene have been scanned from the original black and white negatives that were made during the course of the 1969 to 1979 campaigns. No subsequent photographic documentation has been possible.

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Open Access Journal: Newsletter of the Association for Coroplastic Studies

[First posted in AWOL 19 March 2014, updated 10 December 2015]

Newsletter of the Association for Coroplastic Studies

The Association for Coroplastic Studies (ACoSt) has developed out of the former Coroplastic Studies Interest Group (CSIG). Originally organized in 2007 under the auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), the CSIG was one of the 13 Interest Groups of the AIA that normally comprise AIA members. Although membership in the AIA was not a prerequisite for membership in the CSIG, CSIG members were encouraged to join the AIA.

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Banque de données des textes coptes documentaires - Brussels Coptic Database

Banque de données des textes coptes documentaires - Brussels Coptic Database

Welcome to the site of the database of the Coptic documentary texts of the "Centre de Papyrologie et d'Épigraphie Grecque" of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

This work, started early in 2000 and online since 2005, was conceived on the model of the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens , which had to be adapted to the specificities of the Coptic material. 

This project is also fully integrated with the Trismegistos plateform, which now numbers more than 100 000 records. 

The database regroups all the documentary Coptic texts published, i.e. more than 8000 documents. This database is updated periodically.

A card is devoted to each text. The information is recorded in the following fields : sigla, inventory number, support, origin, date, dialect, content, bibliography, remarks and Trismegistos number.

For a full description of the fields, click here. To start a research, click here.

Bienvenue sur le site de la banque de données des textes coptes documentaires du Centre de Papyrologie et d'Epigraphie Grecque de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Ce travail, commencé au début de l'année 2000 et en ligne depuis 2005, a été conçu sur le modèle de la banque de données des papyrus grecs de Heidelberg ( Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens ), qu’il a fallu adapter aux spécificités du matériel copte.

Le projet est intégré au sein de la plateforme Trismegistos, qui rassemble plusieurs banques de données partenaires et compte à présent plus de 100.000 fiches.

La banque de données contient l'ensemble des textes coptes documentaires publiés, soit à l'heure actuelle plus de 8000 documents. Elle est mise à jour périodiquement.

Une fiche est consacrée à chaque texte. Les informations sont enregistrées dans les champs suivants : sigle, numéro d'inventaire, support, provenance, date, dialecte, contenu, bibliographie, remarques et le numéro du texte dans la banque de données Trismegistos.

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Bibliographia Iranica

Bibliographia Iranica

Bibliographia Iranica is a collective effort, continuing the work that Arash Zeini started at his blog over at www.arashzeini.com. This new website and connected social media share and distribute information on recent publications and events in Iranian Studies, understanding the field in its broadest sense from antiquity through to late antiquity and the early Islamic era with occasional excursions into neighbouring disciplines, geographies and eras.

In this newest manifestation the blog is operated by Sajad Amiri, Shervin Farridnejad, Yazdan Safaee and Arash Zeini (Learn more).

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Rubensohn-Sammlung - Rubensohn Collection

Rubensohn-Sammlung - Rubensohn Collection

During the 5th century BCE, while Egypt stood under Persian sovereignty, an Aramaeo-Jewish community settled on an island in the Nile River called Elephantine, opposite the city Syene, today’s Aswan. The Hebrew Bible sources in Jeremiah 41 and 2 Kings 25 refer to the existence of this Jewish diaspora in Egypt; this description has been confirmed by a sensational discovery of Aramaic papyri on Elephantine Island itself, whose extra-biblical texts provide contemporaneous attestation to the community. By means of commercial trade, Aramaic papyri from Elephantine Island emerged early in the European antiquities market; in this way, Richard Lepsius would obtain an Aramaic papyrus for his Egyptian and Nubian collection. This papyrus was an Aramaic text from the Athanasi Collection, which Lepsius had purchased on behalf of the Museum in Berlin in 1842. In Syene, the city opposite Elephantine, a larger find of very well preserved papyri was acquired by Robert Mond, and equally as many by Lady William Cecil. These were published in 1906 by Sayce and Cowley. Subsequently, the desire arose to complete the new holdings through systematic archaeological excavation, and thereby recover additional papyri prior to their deterioration. Under orders from the Königliche Museen zu Berlin, three archaelogical campaigns on Elephantine Island were ultimately conducted by the German archaeologist Otto Rubensohn and the German papyrologist Friedrich Zucker between 1906 and 1908. Adolf Erman, the Director of the Egyptian Museum at the time, wrote concerning these events in his memoirs:

„Smaller excavations, which we had attempted at various Egyptian sites with city ruins in order to obtain papyri, caused us far fewer efforts and costs than these large excavations. Nevertheless, at least one of them produced outcomes that are of the greatest scholarly significance. It was known that the Fellahin had found papyrus in the old city of Elelphantine Island, and in 1904 a large find came to light there, which included Aramaic documents concerning Jewish soldiers; in the Persian era a garrison of all manner of foreigners had been situated in this border fortification. In order to follow this lead further, Otto Rubensohn went to Elephantine in 1906, and at the same time French scholars also went there with the same purposes. The general director Maspero divided the excavation site between both parties, but we were the ones who drew the better lot this time, because in our area, close to the boundary of the French area, Rubensohn came upon a simple house, and it turned out to contain the records of the Jewish community.“

Rubensohn also began his excavation report summary with a reference to the Aramaic document, stating:

„The Elephantine excavations are a result of the discovery of a few Aramaic papyri, which have been published by Sayce and Cowley as „Aramaic Papyri discovered at Assuan.“ Another visit to Aswan in the year of the discovery, 1904, allowed me to gain the acquaintance and the trust of those considered dealers and Sebakh diggers. At my request they led me to discovery site of the papyri. The site which they showed me did not lie in Aswan, but rather on the western edge of the koms of Elephantine. It was a spot about 1 meter north of the location at which we would later make the larger find of Aramaic papyri. At my proposal the general administration of the royal museums in Berlin shut down the work that had begun, and with customary courteousness Mr. Maspero in the name of the Service des Antiquités issued the requested permission to operate papyrus excavation on the western half of the Koms of Elephantine.“

On December 5, 1904 the excavation license was issued to „Monsineur le Docteur Rubensohn, in the name of the direction of the Royal Museums of Berlin“ for the duration of one year; on November 8, 1905 and again on December 10, 1906 additional one-year extensions were granted, and at last the license was transferred to Friedrich Zucker. […]

Today, the largest portion of the papyri, ostraca, and seal stamps that were granted via partage to the Berlin Museums on December 24, 1907 is found in the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin.

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Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

The Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress houses over 225 manuscripts; most of them in Hebrew but with a fair sampling of manuscripts  also written in cognate languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Yiddish.  It is a highly diverse collection, dating from the 11th to early 20th centuries and drawn from Jewish communities throughout the world. It is also a very eclectic collection, particularly rich in kabalistic material from Italy and Safed yet also offering material in everything from music and poetry to folk medicine and synagogue rites. Very little of the material is illustrated; the major exception to the rule being, in this case, a most spectacular exception indeed: the famous Washington Haggadah by Joel ben Simeon, an illuminated treasure from the late 15th century.

Lesser-known treasures in the collection are waiting to be discovered and researched. Amongst these we might mention a manuscript of the Diwan containing unpublished poems by Solomon ben Meshullam Dapiera (MS 154); a responsum concerning the kiddushin of two daughters, apparently in Lebanon (MS 31), and a pinkas of a synagogue in Mantua from the years 1739-1749 (MS 29). Those interested in Jewish folk culture will find rich materials (e.g., MSS 21, 35, 57, 182) as will those researching the modes of Jewish music in the Ottoman Empire (MSS 24; 144). Of special interest, perhaps, is a large autograph fragment by Moses b. Abraham Provençal (MS 147),  a chapter from Hayyim Vital’s unpublished redaction of Shemoneh She^carim(MS43), and an unpublished novel in Hebrew written just after the first Zionist Congress in 1896 (MS 77). 

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EPWING for the Classics

EPWING for the Classics

このプロジェクトでは、古典ラテン語・ギリシア語を学ぶ方のために、羅英辞典(ELD, LS)、希英辞典(LS, LSJ)などのデータをEPWING形式で公開しています。 羅英・希英辞典は、数十万件に及ぶ変化形見だし付きのものも作りました。 いずれも著作権保護期間の過ぎた、CCL, GPLで公開されているデータを元にしていますので、どなたでも無料で自由に使えます。
This project provides EPWING data of

• Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary
• Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary
• Liddell and Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon
• Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon.
• W.Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890, 3rd ed.)
• W.Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• W.Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) etc

EPWING is a popular format of electronic dictionary in Japan. You can read it on Windows/Mac/Unix/iPhone/PDA etc with free viewers.

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Anfore Brindisine

Anfore Brindisine

ANFORE

Le anfore da trasporto che si producevano, a partire dall’età repubblicana, nelle fornaci rinvenute nell’ager Brundisinus - già segnalate in una sezione particolare nel IX vol. del Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, pp. 613-615, sotto la denominazione di Amphorae Calabrae - sono oggetto negli ultimi decenni di studi articolati tesi a distinguere i vari centri di produzione, in connessione, ove possibile, con le varie tipologie e cronologie. I siti produttori individuati sono i seguenti: Apani e Giancola, lungo il litorale a nord di Brindisi, Marmorelle nell’entroterra e La Rosa nella zona portuale, alla periferia sud della città. Tutti questi siti presentano una conformazione ed una localizzazione geografica adatta all’impianto di officine per la produzione ceramica: vale a dire disponibilità in loco di cave di argilla, presenza di un corso d’acqua e di un facile approdo, vicinanza di un’arteria viaria.

Le forme
Il catalogo dei bolli: Aniniana, C. Aninius, L. Aninius, Antiochus, Apelles, Damas, Eikadios, Heraios, Kephalon, Numenius, Philemon, Pulades, Soterichus
Il gentilizio Aninius
I nomi servili
Il caso dei nomi
Note grafiche, linguistiche, paleografiche
Cronologia
Fenomeni di bilinguismo

CATALOGO DEI BOLLI

INDICE
Aniniana, C. Aninius (caratteri greci e latini ), L. Aninius, Antiochus (caratteri greci), Apelles (caratteri greci e latini ), Damas (caratteri greci e latini ), Eikadios (caratteri greci), Heraios (caratteri greci), Kephalon (caratteri greci), Numenius (caratteri greci e latini ), Philemon (caratteri greci e latini ), Pulades (caratteri greci e latini ), Soterichus (caratteri greci e latini ).

Altri gentilizi su anfore di forma II: Gentilizi seguiti dalla sigla Q, Altri gentilizi.
Gentilizi su anfore brindisine di forma non identificabile

Referenze bibliografiche

Open Access Book: Aproximación al "Antiguo Egipto".

Flammini, R. (Comp.), Aproximación al "Antiguo Egipto".
Buenos Aires, EDUCA, 2004. 180 pp., with maps and illustrations. ISBN 950-523-314-0.
This book reunites the outcomes of an extra-curricular Conference entitled “The Ancient Egypt, a Millenary Civilization,” that took place at UCA during October 2002.

Content

13 Prólogo
17 Diversos aspectos de la representación plástica y la expresión en el arte del Antiguo Egipto
Jorge Bedoya
51 Próximos y distantes: Egipto y África, del Período Predinástico al Reino Antiguo
Marcelo Campagno
81 Ciudades de Egipto. Historia y Cerámica. Tell er -Ub'a (Mendes)
Alicia Daneri Rodrigo
101 Asiáticos en Egipto: Los Hicsos
Roxana Flammini
141 La vida en el más allá: de Mastabas, Pirámides e Hipogeos
Javier Paysás

Descripción: Prologo: El antiguo Egipto, lejano en el tiempo y en el espacio, no deja de sorprendernos cuando -mucho más allá de los descubrimientos arqueológicos que suelen concitar las primeras planas de los periódicos- logramos visualizar en una frase, en una imagen, en una construcción o en un ajuar funerario, parte del sentido que esa sociedad le daba al mundo. Por cierto, ese sentido del mundo dista mucho de asemejarse al nuestro: un universo permeado por lo sagrado, una concepción diferente del espacio y del tiempo, un Estado gobernado por un rey-dios. Si bien diferente, no carece de orden, sino que posee un ordenamiento propio, único y preciso. He aquí, entonces, que lo novedoso del enfoque se conjuga con lo ya conocido sobre esa sociedad para aproximarnos a ella con nuevos ojos. De este modo, ese antiguo Egipto nos convocó en el Curso de Extensión Universitaria organizado por el Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente (CEHAO) y el Departamento de Historia, en el ámbito de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Católica Argentina, durante el mes de octubre de 2002. Bajo el título de "El Antiguo Egipto: una civilización milenaria", cinco encuentros pretendieron acercar algunos aspectos de ese universo a los jóvenes universitarios y al público en general; encuentros donde se hicieron presentes la historia, la arqueología, la antropología, la arquitectura y la historia de las artes. La explicación de las transformaciones expresivas de la representación plástica y de las técnicas utilizadas para elaborar esas imágenes y esculturas, proporcionó una visión del arte como vehículo de expresión de esa cosmovisión particular; mientras que la aproximación histórico-antropológica giró en tomo a una problemática que concitó -y concita- profundas discusiones teóricas en los ámbitos más especializados: los orígenes del Estado en Egipto. En este caso particular, compartimos una aproximación original al surgimiento del Estado, basada en el análisis de los lazos de parentesco dentro de las comunidades pre-estatales y el carácter de las relaciones intercomunitarias en un contexto netamente africano. El enfoque histórico-arqueológico se hizo presente en las aproximaciones a dos sitios de suma importancia para la historia de Egipto: Tell er-Rub'a y Tell el-Dabca. Ambos ubicados en el Delta del Nilo, el primero era el lugar donde se había erigido la ciudad de Mendes, habitada desde el Predinástico, que adquirió mayor preponderancia con los avatares político-económicos del 1 milenio a.C.; el segundo, de la antigua Avaris, capital de la dinastía hicsa, que controló parte de Egipto desde 1640 a 1540 a.e. pero que poseía una riquísima existencia anterior a ese momento. Finalmente, la perspectiva arquitectónica e histórica se conjugó en la presentación de los cambios y continuidades en el ámbito funerario egipcio. Un recorrido por las diferentes configuraciones espaciales, que las tumbas presentaron a lo largo de los 3000 años de la historia del Egipto faraónico, nos introduce en las variantes de ese tipo de construcciones: mastabas, pirámides e hipogeos. Como se observará, algunos de los trabajos conjugan aproximaciones originales para descubrir ese universo de formas y contenidos únicos, singulares y específicos; otros, sugieren la revisión de conceptos, modelos y teorías, presentando lo conocido desde ángulos poco concurridos; pero en definitiva, y más allá de todo, nuestro más profundo deseo radica en que el lector nos acompañe en esta búsqueda de nuevas perspectivas y percepciones para comprender mejor a esos antiguos conocidos, los egipcios

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The Theatre of Pompey

The Theatre of Pompey

 The Theater of Pompey stood on the southern section of ancient Rome’s Campus Martius, the Field of Mars. As its name suggests, in the period when the Senate ruled Rome (the “Republic,” 509 B.C.–  31 B.C.), this largely empty space was the site where the Roman citizen army assembled before marching out against the city’s enemies, and its chief topographical features (marshes, streams, a sizeable lake) did not encourage extensive construction.

But, by the late second century B.C. some buildings were  already  beginning to go up, and after Pompey, the conqueror of Asia Minor (Turkey) and Syria, constructed his massive  theater, in 55 B.C., the whole area developed rapidly. By the early second century A.D., private citizens and the emperors had filled the entire zone with elegant public and private buildings.

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Museo Archeologico Regionale "Paolo Orsi" Siracusa: Google Earth Walkthrough

Museo Archeologico Regionale "Paolo Orsi" Siracusa: Google Earth Walkthrough

L'edificio fu costruito fra il 1967 e il 1986, su progetto dell'architetto Franco Minissi.

Situato, al momento della progettazione, in un'area non ancora urbanizzata, all'interno del parco storico di Villa Landolina,era destinato a costituire il punto focale di una zona di alto valore archeologico, caratterizzata dalla presenza del parco monumentale della Neapolis, con il teatro greco, l'ara di Jerone e l'anfiteatro romano, e il complesso delle catacombe.

E' stato aperto al pubblico nel 1988, sotto la direzione di Giuseppe Voza, dopo il trasferimento da Piazza Duomo, cuore della città vecchia, e sede storica del Museo Archeologico Nazionale

The present museum was built between 1967 and 1986 based on the design of architect Franco Minissi. Sited in a then undeveloped part of Siracusa, the museum would become the focal point of a territory of great archeological importance, including the Neapolis Park with its Greek theatre and Hieron altar, the Roman anphiteather and the immense catacombs. It was opened to the public in 1988 under the direction of Giuseppe Voza, completing the Museum's transition from its old seat in Piazza Duomo in the heart of the city centre.

New Online at the CHS: Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus
Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner, editors,

Foreword. Leonard Muellner

Introduction. Ioanna Papadopoulou, Testing Our Tools: Open Questions on the Derveni Papyrus

Chapter 1. Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou, Some Desiderata in the Study of the Derveni Papyrus

Chapter 2. Alberto Bernabé, On the Rites Described and Commented Upon in the Derveni Papyrus, Columns I–VI

Chapter 3. Franco Ferrari, Democritus, Heraclitus, and the Dead Souls: Reconstructing Columns I–VI of the Derveni Papyrus

Chapter 4. Fritz Graf, Derveni and Ritual

Chapter 5. Sarah Iles Johnston, Divination in the Derveni Papyrus

Chapter 6. Walter Burkert, How to Learn about Souls: The Derveni Papyrus and Democritus

Chapter 7. Jeffrey Rusten, Unlocking the Orphic Doors: Interpretation of Poetry in the Derveni Papryus between Presocratics and Alexandrians

Chapter 8. Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos, The Derveni Papyrus and the Bacchic-Orphic Epistomia

Chapter 9. Claude Calame, The Derveni Papyrus between the Power of Spoken Language and Written Practice: Pragmatics of Initiation in an Orpheus Poem and Its Commentary

Chapter 10. Anton Bierl, “Riddles over Riddles”: “Mysterious” and “Symbolic” (Inter)textual Strategies: The Problem of Language in the Derveni Papyrus

Chapter 11. Evina Sistakou, Reading the Authorial Strategies in the Derveni Papyrus

Chapter 12. David Sider, The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus

Chapter 13. Richard Hunter, The Garland of Hippolytus

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Open Access Journal: Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities (Cyprus)

Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities (Cyprus)

by Ministry of Communications and Works. Department of Antiquities, Cyprus

ISSN: 1010–1136

The Department of Antiquities is responsible for the management of the archaeological heritage of Cyprus. The Department's main areas of activity and responsibility are the following:

-systematic and rescue excavations as well as archaeological surveys,

-the establishment, management and operation of archaeological museums,

-the conservation, restoration, protection and promotion of Ancient Monuments in the First and Second Schedule of the Antiquities Law, of archaeological sites and of monuments of architectural heritage.

One of the aims of the Department of Antiquities is also the use of both ancient monuments and archaeological museums for educational purposes and cultural activities, as well as for the stimulation of cultural tourism. In order to achieve the above, the Department of Antiquities organises conferences, exhibitions and lectures both in Cyprus and abroad.

An activity which has emerged over the last few years is the contribution of the Department of Antiquities towards the establishment of private/thematic museums. In this case the Department acts as a consultant and as a guide by offering its personnel's specialised knowledge.

The activities of the Department of Antiquities are published in its two annual publications, namely the Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus and the Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. 

Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 2006
Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 2007
Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 2008
Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 2009

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The Natacha Rambova Archive, Yale University

The Natacha Rambova Archive, Yale University

Born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy on January 19, 1897, Natacha Rambova pursued a number of diverse careers, in each achieving considerable — and in some cases lasting — success. Unfortunately, her true contributions to the field of Egyptology are not as well known as her other pursuits. Natacha Rambova’s legacy also lives on in her scholarly archive, generously donated by Edward L. Ochsenschlager in memory of Donald P. Hansen (1931–2007) to the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. The physical transfer of the archive was greatly facilitated by Dr. Christine Lilyquist of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the gift was officially recognized at an event entitled “Natacha Rambova’s Egypt,” which took place on April 17, 2009 at Yale University.

Rambova’s unpublished manuscripts and over 10,000 additional items, including photographs, drawings, notes, and letters, form the Natacha Rambova Archive, housed at Yale University. The diversity of the textual and visual material spans Rambova’s wide-ranging interests, which vary tremendously in time and space. Rambova collected photos, drawings, and paintings not only from Egypt but also Mesopotamia, India, Greece, Italy, Cambodia, Tibet, China, Mexico, Peru, Ireland, and England; the photographs and line drawings within the archive span the period from the fourth millennium BCE through to the nineteenth century CE. The Natacha Rambova Archive is a small, yet significant, piece of the history of Egyptology, and will be made accessible to any scholar seeking information about her life and research.

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Open Access Journal: Dabiq

Dabiq

The Islamic State's (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Magazine. Scans of Dabiq have been made available online by The Clarion Project.

The Islamic State (ISIS) regularly puts out a glossy propaganda magazine aimed at recruiting jihadists from the West. It is sophisticated, slick, beautifully produced and printed in several languages including English...

'Dabiq' as it is called, bills itself as "a periodical magazine focusing on the issues of tawhid (unity), manhaj (truth-seeking), hijrah (migration), jihad (holy war) and jama'ah (community). It will also contain photo reports, current events, and informative articles on matters relating to the Islamic State."

It portrays the Islamic State as they see themselves: boasting of their victories and painting a romantic image of the restoration of an Islamic golden age and the heralding of a glorious new Caliphate based on holy war. 

Dabiq is a place in Syria that is supposed to be the location for one of the final battles according to certain Muslim myths about a final apocalypse. Choosing such a name for the magazine highlights the Caliphate's goals...
In order to combat extremist groups, it is important to understand their underlying ideology. Therefore, Clarion Project will continue to post the issues of Dabiq here as they are released.

Issues of Dabiq released so far: 

The fifteenth issue of the Islamic State’s Dabiq magazine is called Breaking the Cross and is targeted at discrediting Christianity and Western secularism. Unlike previous issues which have primarily been directed at Muslim majority societies, this issue is full of propaganda aimed at converting non-Muslims to Islam.
Sections include “Why we hate you and fight you” along with a conversion story “Why I came to Islam” from a former Christian woman from Finland. The main feature “Breaking the Cross” is an extended rebuttal of Christian and Jewish theology which sets forth the arguments to believe in Islam.

The Islamic  State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq – Issue 15

Issue fourteen of the Islamic State’s magazine is entitled The Murtadd Brotherhood, referring to the Egyptian Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood as apostates. In addition to sections praising the terrorists who carried out the attack on Brussels airport on March 22, Dabiq features a section attacking the legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood. It also exhorts ISIS supporters to kill a slew of Muslim leaders living in the West, some of whom are linked to the Brotherhood or hold Islamist views. Regular features boasting of alleged military victories, praising departed fighters and advertising ISIS videos are also included. 

The Islamic  State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 14

The thirteenth issue of the Islamic State's propaganda magazine is called The Rafidah: From Ibn Sa'ba to the Dajjal. Rafidah is a pejorative term for Shi'ite while the Dajjal is an antichrist figure in Muslim eschatology. The magazine opens by praising the San Bernardino attacks which killed 14 people in California. It goes on to attack Saudi Arabia's legitimacy and heavily criticize the history of Shiite Islam in Iran. Jihadi John received a full two page obituary in the recurring section 'Among the Believers are Men' and the 'To Our Sisters' section provides advice on the correct way to mourn a martyred husband.

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 13 

The twelth issue of the Islamic State’s propaganda magazine is entitled Just Terror. It boasts about the terrorist attacks in Paris, the double-bombing in Beirut, and the downing of a Russian plane in Sinai among other attacks. It spins terrorism in the language of a fairy story, referring to terrorists as “knights,” acting to defend Muslim honor. This issue is also striking for the high number of Islamic State propaganda videos it advertizes, a sign of increased output in that area. Other pieces continue long-running themes, including attacking the legitimacy of other Islamist factions, recounting its military victories and attacking women who oppose polygyny as opposing Islam.  

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 12


The eleventh issue of the Islamic State’s propaganda magazine is called From the Battle of Al-Ahzab to the War of Coalitions. Al-Ahzab refers to a battle in the Quran between a coalition of Meccan tribes and the nascent forces of Islam. ISIS attacks al-Qaeda and castigates the Taliban for concealing the death of Mullah Omar. ISIS also accuses the Shiite messiah (Mahdi) of being the dajjal (devil) in league with the Jews. More is directed at women, who are urged to have children and care for their jihadi husbands.
ISIS also tout their establishment of gold dinars as currency and boast of having captured a Norwegian and a Chinese hostage, who are offered up for ransom in full page adverts.

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq Issue 11

The tenth issue of the Islamic State's Dabiq magazine is called The Laws of All or the Laws of Men. It opened by praising the deadly simultaneous terror attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France and the massive casualties caused. It calls on children to obey Allah (ie. ISIS) before their parents and wives to leave their husbands who fight ISIS. It also boasts of expansions in the Caucasus and recruitment in Afghanistan. 
Since it is the Ramadan issue, it discusses the historical victories of some of the early Muslim armies during Ramadan as well as expounding on the holiness of the month.

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq Issue 10

The ninth issue of the Islamic State's Dabiq magazine is called They Plot and Allah Plots, referring to the central feature of the magazine which argues that Islamic State supporters should not fear any plans to defeat them since Allah controls the world. The issue focuses on legitimacy - both attacking that of its enemies in Syria and the surrounding Arab nations, and in building up its own, with pieces on the importance of jihad.
Most shockingly this issue ran a lengthy segments admitting to and justifying sex slavery. It threatens to sell US first Lady Michelle Obama into sexual slavery for a third of a dinar. 

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq Issue 9

The eighth issue of the Islamic State's Dabiq magazine is called Shari'ah Alone Will Rule Africa. Like other issues of Dabiq it focuses on Islamic State successes, leaving out the group's defeats in strategic areas of Iraq and Syria to focus on Africa. It emphasizes the pledge of allegiance from Boko Haram in Nigeria and terror attacks in Libya and Tunisia. It tries to portray an organization with a future by glorifying its child soldier program and undermining the legitimacy of Al-Qaeda affiliat Jabhat al-Nusra by attacking its allies as 'nationalists' and therefore un-Islamic. 

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 8

The seventh issue of the Islamic State's Dabiq magazine is entitled From Hypocrisy to Apostasy. It begins with a declaration of war against Japan. Dabiq then boasts about the murder of the Jordanian pilot by immolation, before going on to give advice for would be leaders within the Islamic State. It reiterates their commitments to war, arguing that “Islam is the religion of the sword.” It then proceeds to tout its successes in Egypt and Libya. It reiterates its division of the world into two camps and includes interviews with jihadists and hostage John Cantlie. 

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 7


The sixth issue of Dabiq is called "Al-Qa'idah of Waziristan: A Testimony From Within." This issue begins by taking responsibility for the terrorist attack in Sydney that killed two at St. Martin's place and again calls on the Islamic State's supporters worldwide to carry out killings of Westerners whenever and wherever they can without revealing their intentions by discussing them. Most of the rest of the magazine focuses on internal jihadi disputes, criticizing the Islamic State's detractors from within the jihadi movement.  

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 6 

The fifth issue of Dabiq is named after the Islamic State slogan, 'Remaining and Expanding.' In this theme, it announces the expansion of the Islamic State into Sinai, Libya, Yemen, Algeria and the Arabian Peninsula after accepting pledges of loyalty (bay'ah) from terrorist groups there. It also announces the minting of gold dinars and silver dirhams in order to separate it from the international fiat currency markets and build the economy of the Islamist state. 

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 5


The fourth issue of Dabiq is entitled "The Failed Crusade." It focuses on the attempts by the U.S.-led coalition to counter the Islamic State and mocks what the Islamists regard as a campaign doomed to fail. They express their certainty saying "This religion is the one promised with victory." The picture on the cover is of the iconic St. Peter's Square in Rome, displaying the group's ambitions of world conquest.

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 4


The third issue of Dabiq, "The Call to Hijrah" focuses on the jihadists' call to Muslims worldwide to move to Iraq and Syria to join the caliphate as soon as possible. Hijrah is Arabic for 'migration' and refers to the journey of the founder of Islam, Mohammed, and his companions from Mecca to Medinah in 622 C.E. The comparison is very deliberate and intended to invoke religious nostalgia. 

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 3


The second issue of Dabiq, "The Flood," uses the metaphor of the story of Noah to put across a stark message: you are either with the Islamic State, or against them and doomed to be destroyed. It calls on all Muslims around the world to pledge loyalty to the Islamic State and to move there immediately. There is also a section on the attempts to resolve the disputes between the Islamic State and other Jihadi factions such as Jabhat al-Nusra by means of mubahalah, an Islamic religious arbitration process.
Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 2


The first issue of Dabiq, "The Return of Khilafah" is focused on the declaration of the caliphate and what that means. Some of the ideology behind the group is explained in an attempt to persuade more Muslims to join. It also explains the name of the magazine, and boasts of ISIS' victories. It also talks about efforts made to build support among local tribal groups, reporting their pledges of loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghadi, the self-appointed caliph of the Islamic State.
Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 1

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First Preliminary Report on the Excavations at Tel "Gat" (Tell Sheykh 'Ahmed el-'Areyny). Season 1956-1958

First Preliminary Report on the Excavations at Tel "Gat" (Tell Sheykh 'Ahmed el-'Areyny). Season 1956-1958

This is a good quality enhanced facsimile of an out of print, short publication by Shemuel Yeivin with a contribution (physical anthropology) by Denise Ferembach. It describes in some detail several significant season of work at the tell, but before the Egyptian element and the Narmer Serekh were known. No matter what this site may say, Eliot Braun is not an author. Most of the finds are associated with the Early Bronze Age, but there are also later periods, including the physical anthropology chapter. Because of recent work at the site Tel Erani will become one of the primary sites for study of this period in the southern Levant, which is why I have posted it for one and all.

At academia.edu courtesy of Eliot Braun.

The Icons of Sinai

The Icons of Sinai

From 1956 to 1965, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Alexandria carried out a series of expeditions to the remote Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai—the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world, with a history that can be traced back over seventeen centuries. The documentation collected by these joint expeditions, under the direction of Princeton’s Professor Kurt Weitzmann (pictured below left) and Professor George Forsyth (below, right) of the University of Michigan, continues to have profound ramifications for Byzantine studies.

The Visual Resources Collection at Princeton University holds a key archive for the study of Byzantine icons, namely, the color photographs of the collection of icons owned by the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai taken during these expeditions. This rich body of material stretches from Late Antiquity until the modern era and encompasses the history of the icon.  The collection is unique in that it documents, in color, the condition of these icons after the cleaning and restoration carried out in the 1950s and 1960s. Photography of the expedition was under the direction of Fred Anderegg, head of photographic services at the University of Michigan. The VRC has digitized and catalogued the collection of several thousand color images (5 × 7 inch color Ektachrome transparencies and 35mm slides) of icons in the Monastery of Saint Catherine made by the joint expeditions. This project was funded by a David A. Gardner '69 Magic Grant from the Princeton University Council on the Humanities.  

Currently, this website displays about 1,200 transparencies. We will be adding about 2,000 images and revised data. The online images are limited to a size of 1024 pixels.

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Latsis Public Benefit Foundation volume on Mycenae

Since 1997, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation has produced each year a volume devoted to a single archaeological museum, aiming to create a series whose scholarly prestige and aesthetic approach contribute to a deeper knowledge and further understanding of the various aspects of the history of Greek civilisation. These volumes are distributed free of charge to those who are on the foundation's mailing list, and to others who request them.

The foundation also issues them in open access digital format. The volume on Mycenae is the most recent to appear. Seventeen volumes are now available

Mycenae

Author : Alcestis Papadimitriou

Year Published : 2015

©Copyright : John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2015

ISBN : 978-618-82150-0-9

Publisher : John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation

Pages : 328

Τhis book includes photographs of monuments and exhibits from the archaeological site and the museum of Mycenae, which are under the authority of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Argolida, as well as the National Archaeological Museum. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs has the copyright of the photographs of antiquities and of the actual antiquities that comprise the visual content of the photographs. The Archaeological Receipts Fund of Greece receives all fees for the publication of photographs bearing the Ministry’s copyright (Law 3028/2002). The Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs remains exclusively competent to grant to any third party permission to use the photographs.

Hortensii: Tackling the problems facing PhDs without permanent jobs

Hortensii: Tackling the problems facing PhDs without permanent jobs

Hortensii is a group of people inside and outside academia who want to alleviate the difficulties facing PhDs without permanent academic jobs. (We take our name from the Roman Quintus Hortensius, who in c. 287 BC sponsored the Lex Hortensia giving civil rights to Roman plebeians; our photograph is of Benjamin Franklin, who would also have wanted to help.) We think that even given current unpleasant realities facing academia many positive steps could be taken; see ‘What to do and why’ for exactly what these are, but to oversimplify grossly our goals are both to reduce the oversupply of disappointed would-be academics and to make life easier for PhDs who choose to remain in academia without a permanent job. We welcome anyone who shares these goals and is in broad agreement with our proposed actions to join us and help implement them, and we ask people with other agendas to respect ours and leave us to it. We are not fighting against anyone or anything and are not affiliated with any movement, political party, or country. Nor are we trying to help individuals gain employment or to interfere in any way with decisions on who should get the limited number of academic jobs available; as we have different subjects and different views on what constitutes good academic work in our fields, we wish to avoid internal dissension by remaining strictly neutral in such matters so we can work together to make life better for a group that badly needs such help. At present the contact person for Hortensii is Eleanor Dickey, a Classicist at the University of Reading in England.

New in OAPEN: Klassizismus in Aktion

Klassizismus in Aktion

Author(s)    Wolf, Norbert Christian & Ehrmann, Daniel
Publisher    Böhlau, Wien
Published    2015-11-16
Abstract:    The collection of essays considers the art journal Propyläen that was edited by Goethe in the years between 1798 and 1800 for the first time as a whole. This enterprise, which was of great significance for the history of aesthetics, will be placed in a new light. The book situates the texts within their historical contexts, and thus provides a key resource for future research, for literary as well as art studies.
Abstract (other language):    Die Beiträge des Bandes beschäftigen sich mit der von Goethe herausgegebenen Kunstzeitschrift Propyläen. Erstmals werden die darin veröffentlichten Texte und Abbildungen aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive unter Berücksichtigung des inneren Zusammenhangs der Zeitschrift sowie der zeitgenössischen Kontexte untersucht. Der Forschung soll so ein vertiefender Einblick in die spannungsreiche Beschaffenheit des klassizistischen Weimarer Kunstprogramms eröffnet werden.
Keywords    Classicism, Goethe, around 1800, Aesthetics, Literary Theory and Literary History, Art Theory and Art History, Classical Archeology
Language    de
Number of pages    462 Seiten
ISBN    9783205200895