Recently, Simon Glenn and Gunnar Dumke identified the Bactrian and Indo-Greek coins in the National Numismatic Collection of the Netherlands at De Nederlandsche Bank, linking them to URIs in the Bactrian and Indo-Greek Rulers (BIGR) project. These 158 new coins bring the total number of objects linked to the typology to 5,670, adding the sole photographic example for at least a handful of types.
Apollodotus II 17.3, with one NNC-DNB example: RE-00076
In Der Alltag des Todes , Claudia Näser explores mortuary practices in New Kingdom Egypt (1470–1070 BC) based on a dataset from Deir el-Medina, the community of workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Highly skilled, these workmen also constructed their own tombs in the cemeteries around Deir el-Medina. Their use of mortuary consumption to negotiate professional and social positions led to the development of a commercial sector for the production of decorated funerary objects, primarily coffins, with an accompanying textual record.Combining archaeological and textual evidence, Claudia Näser outlines the development of mortuary practices in this tightly-knit community across fourhundred years. She reconstructs and systematizes the processes of assembling the burial equipment and the mechanics of the burial itself. She also discusses a range of later ' intracultural ' interventions, including grave plundering and subsequent inspections, tidying-up and reburial. Using a micro-historical approach, Claudia Näser reveals a multidimensional network of actors and factors that conditioned mortuary expressions: religious concepts, access to knowledge and economic resources, individual and collective experiences and aspirations, as well as the contingencies of when and how someone died. Across 600 pages, Der Alltag reveals a uniquely detailed panorama of ancient Egyptian mortuary practices.
GHP Egyptology 35
708 pages, A4,
PRINT version - hard cover (£100), will appear at end of July 2024
ISBN 978-1-906137809
ISBN 978-1-906137885 (e-book)
Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this volume showcases the expertise in classical learning that flourished in medieval Gaelic Ireland. Providing translations of all excerpts, it situates better known ‘antiquity sagas’ in the Middle Irish language, such as Togail Troí (The Siege of Troy, based on Dares Phrygius), Imtheachta Aeniasa (The Wanderings of Aeneas, based on Virgil’s Aeneid), In Cath Catharda (The Civil War, based on Lucan) and Togail na Tebe (The Siege of Thebes, based on Statius), within the broader constellation of medieval Irish literature that references and engages with classical antiquity. Included are synchronistic poetry and world chronologies; lesser-known Irish poetry and prose recounting episodes from Graeco-Roman mythography and featuring, for instance, Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses and Penelope, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, Daedalus and the Minotaur; linguistic and metaphysical tracts; place-name lore; and medieval historiographies of Alexander the Great, Hercules, and warriors of Irish legend recast as classical heroes. Creating access to this body of texts and revealing the marked influences of classical concepts on the imaginative resources of medieval Ireland fills a conspicuous lacuna in our knowledge of classical reception in European literatures. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council, grant no. 818366.OI
10.5040/9781350333307ISBN
9781350333284, 9781350333284, 9781350333291Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/Publication date and place
London, 2024Series
Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception,Classification
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalPages
480
The archaeological site of eh-Sayyeh is located north of the city of az-Zarqa in central Jordan and was re-explored between 2013 and 2015 after initial investigations in the 1990s. It has a longer sequence of Neolithic layers from the late 8th and 7th millennia BC (calibrated dates) and shows also traces of more recent occupation up to Late Antiquity. The results of the 2013–2015 excavations prove that the settlement phases LPPNB (7500–7000/6900 BC) and PPNC (7000/6900–6400 BC) are characterised by clear continuities in terms of subsistence, architecture and the inventory of chipped lithic finds, which can be traced in part to the Yarmoukian.
Published
June 27, 2024Series
Print ISSN
1434-162XBibliographic Information and Reviews
Copyright (c) 2024 Deutsches Archäologisches InstitutChapters
Volume 48 in the series Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies
Daily life in Late Antiquity was heavily influenced by the tradition of Roman games. This is the first comprehensive study of the world of games in Late Antiquity, with special attention to specific forms of games in the provinces. Using both documentary and archeological sources, the author suggests new regional and chronological differentiations in the development of games.
- Language: German
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Copyright year: 2014
- Audience: All those interested in Roman Late Antiquity and Roman games
- Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 508
- Illustrations
- Illustrations: 68
- Coloured Illustrations: 67
- Tables: 6
- Other: Tafelteil
- Keywords: Roman games; Late Antiquity; ancient cultural and social history; Early Christianity
eBook
- Published: December 11, 2014
- ISBN: 9783110337594
Hardcover
- Published: November 17, 2014
- ISBN: 9783110337457
Volume 5 in the series Materiale Textkulturen
This study focuses on Holy Scriptures as material objects. What are the contexts for the appearances and the usages of these objects? Is there a difference between Holy Scriptures and other objects, and is it inevitably their sacred content that renders them holy? Interdisciplinary perspectives offer new incentives for understanding the material phenomenon of the ‘Holy Scriptures’.
- Language: German
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Copyright year: 2015
- Audience: Religious scholars, classics scholars, ethnologists, art historians
- Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 349
- Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 40
- Keywords: Materiality; Holy Scripture; usage practices
eBook
- Published: December 17, 2014
- ISBN: 9783110371277
Hardcover
- Published: November 26, 2014
- ISBN: 9783110371246
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