ANTW is a weblog maintained by members of the Amsterdam Centre for New Testament Studies (ACNTS). Contributors are present or former staff of what used to be the New Testament department of the Faculty of Theology at VU University Amsterdam (now the VU School of Religion and Theology). Interests of the weblog include Biblical Exegesis and Theology, Textual Criticism and Bible Software.
The Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund is a registered 501c3, private, nonprofit organization with a mission is to support research and conservation on Egyptian history and culture. In particular, it seeks to record and publish sites and monuments at risk from agricultural and urban expansion, looting, and vandalism.
In affiliation with the American University of Cairo and working at the Invitation of the Ministry of Antiquities of Egypt, we have been working since 2017 at the site of Deir el-Ballas. As the forward capital for the Theban kings during the Hyksos expulsion, Deir el-Ballas is of great archaeological and historical importance, but the site is at extreme risk from both looting and from the uncontrolled expansion of the neighboring modern town. Our fieldwork also dovetails with a grant we received from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications to prepare the results of the original expedition conducted at the site in 1900-1901 by George Andrew Reisner working for the Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition of the University of California.
Roman Copies, Collecting, and Culture in the Bay of Naples and Beyond presents ten chapters in celebration of the career, contributions, influence, and person of Eugene Dwyer, Professor of Art History Emeritus at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
The ten commissioned essays here are written by senior scholars in the fields of ancient Italic art history, architecture and archaeology, and focus on the visual and material culture of the Bay of Naples and Italy, from their points of creation in the late Republic and early Empire to their reception in the medieval, Early Modern, and Modern worlds. The essays are united in their engagement with topics of longstanding interest to their honorand: copies of famous marble statue types in antiquity (e.g., the Old Seneca in the Louvre, archaistic Athenas) and their later restorations and interpretation; the formation of collections of antiquities, from their original sites of display to their reconstitution in Early Modern venues (especially England); nineteenth and twentieth-century visual and poetic representations of Mount Vesuvius and of Giuseppe Fiorelli’s gypsum casts of Pompeian victims; and case studies of a wide array of both well-known and previously overlooked objects, whose imagery is subject to fresh interpretation and contextualized within its wider social and cultural settings.
H 276 x W 203 mm
188 pages
106 figures (colour throughout)
Published Oct 2026
ISBN
Paperback: 9781805833741
Digital: 9781805833758
Contents
Preface
Abstracts
Author Biographies
Bibliography of Works by Eugene J. Dwyer
Tabula Gratulatoria
Eugene J. Dwyer: Archaeologist of the Archives – Sinclair W. Bell
Triumph over Death: Italic Funerary Furniture in the Getty Museum – Claire Lyons and Jessica Arista
‘Fitter for the Wash-Tub’: The Old Fisherman/Seneca in the Louvre – A.A. Donohue
The Archaistic Athenas in Naples and Athens: Some Second Thoughts – Mark D. Fullerton
Wearing Antiquity: The Use of Sealing Stones on Finger Rings in Byzantium – Brad Hostetler
The First Bourbon Publication of the Finds from Herculaneum and the Biography of a Long-lost Marble Satyr – Carol C. Mattusch
English Country House Collections of Classical Sculpture and Roman Collecting Habits: A Methodological Comparison – Jane Fejfer
From Kitsch to the Sublime: The Many Lives of Mt. Vesuvius – Nancy H. Ramage
Death and Resurrection in Pompeii. Gypsum Casts from Pompeii Eternized in Poetry from Campbell to Komunyakaa – Eric M. Moormann
Giacomo Boni e il mausoleo da Tor di Quinto a Villa Blanc: Questioni di metodo – Pier Giovanni Guzzo
An Archaeological Investigation of the Hijaz Hajj/Hijrah Route between Makkah and Madinah 1
This volume presents the results of the first season of fieldwork on the Hajj/Hijrah route between Makkah and Madinah in the Hijaz region of Saudi Arabia. The project developed from the groundbreaking research of Professor Abdullah Alkadi, who identified 55 milestones demarcating an ancient caravan route, the Darb al-Anbiyā’, or ‘Way of the Prophets’, which later became a Hajj route surviving in sections between Makkah and Madinah. Preliminary survey was completed on this route in March 2023, and one of the key sites identified was Al-Juḥfah (7th/8th to 12th c. CE), approximately 185km north of Makkah, where there are the remains of a substantial stone-built town and qaṣr. Particular attention is given to the aerial and pedestrian surveys, ceramic transect survey, shovel test pitting, and test excavations at this abandoned settlement, which was one of the five mīqāt, the fixed boundaries where pilgrims adopted iḥrām for Hajj and ‘Umrah.
H 290 x W 205 mm
198 pages
152 figures, 5 tables (colour throughout)
Published Nov 2026
ISBN
Paperback: 9781805833864
Digital: 9781805833871
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction – Timothy Insoll
Chapter 2: Pedestrian Reconnaissance Survey – Timothy Insoll, Abdullah Alkadi, Mousa Algarni, Sultan Alrasheed, Talal Alzahrani, Abdullah Alrefaei, Ibrahim Aldayel, Mohammad Alqahtani, Abdurahman Athabayti, Nathan Anderson, Nicholas M.T. Tait, Frank Stremke, Endris Hussien, Mustafa Baig, Gamal Ali Shawali, Tariq Altuwayjiri, and Ahmed Qadiri
Chapter 3: Ceramic Transect Survey – Nicholas M.T. Tait
Chapter 4: Photogrammetric Survey – Frank Stremke
Chapter 5: Interpretation of the Aerial Survey Results – Timothy Insoll and Frank Stremke
Chapter 6: Shovel Test Pits – Timothy Insoll, Nathan Anderson, Endris Hussien, and Tariq Altuwayjiri
Chapter 7: Test Excavations – Timothy Insoll, Sultan Alrasheed, Nathan Anderson, Abdurahman Athabayti, and Endris Hussien
Chapter 8: Non-Ceramic Artifacts – Timothy Insoll
Chapter 9: Ceramics – Nicholas M.T. Tait
Chapter 10: General Conclusions – Timothy Insoll
References
Appendices
Rebecca Lindsay reads the book of Ruth from her location in Australia, paying attention to the impacts of colonization on biblical interpretation. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods, including decolonial studies, this volume places the book of Ruth in conversation with texts from Australia and stories from Linday’s own experience, revealing common themes of home, land, memory, and identity. Engagement with Indigenous voices and settler colonial studies leads to an honest grappling with the challenges of decolonizing biblical interpretation. Scholars and students of both biblical studies and Australian studies will discover how to adopt the embodied reading postures of feet on the ground, being in relationship, ceding control, and attending to justice. Lindsay’s embodied interpretive approach offers an alternative to the colonial legacies of biblical hermeneutics as it is practiced today.
Rebecca Lindsay is Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at the United Theological College, part of the School of Theology at Charles Sturt University, and an ordained Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church in Australia. Her dissertation won the 2023 Flinders University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence and went on to receive a commendation in the 2024 Lyndall Ryan Thesis Award for Australian Studies.
ISBN9781628378276VolumeIVBS 22StatusAvailablePrice$75.00Publication DateJuly 2026
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