The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt Voices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers 2000-1550 BC

The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt Voices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers 2000-1550 BC

Miniaci, G; Garcìa, JCM; Quirke, S; Stauder, A

This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research. During the past decades, the “imaginative” figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from “workers” to “artisans” and, most recently, to “artists”. In a search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material production in past societies, and moving away from a series of modern preconceptions, this volume aims to analyse the mechanisms of material production in Egypt during the Middle Bronze Age (2000–1550 BC), to approach the profile of ancient Egyptian craftsmen through their own words, images and artefacts, and to trace possible modes of circulation of ideas among craftsmen in material production. The studies in the volume address the mechanisms of ancient production in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, the circulation of ideas among craftsmen, and the profiles of the people involved, based on the material traces, including depictions and writings, the ancient craftsmen themselves left and produced. 

 

ISBN-13:	9789088905230
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Keywords:	Ancient Egypt; middle bronze age; material production; craftsmanship; craftsmen-women; makers; technological production; workshop; artist signature; centre and periphery; material culture; circulation of knowledge in production; comparative approach
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Freedom and Power in Classical Athens

Freedom and Power in Classical Athens

Naomi T. Campa

Athenian democracy was distinguished from other ancient constitutions by its emphasis on freedom. This was understood, Naomi T. Campa argues, as being able to do 'whatever one wished,' a widely attested phrase. Citizen agency and power constituted the core of democratic ideology and institutions. Rather than create anarchy, as ancient critics claimed, positive freedom underpinned a system that ideally protected both the individual and the collective. Even freedom, however, can be dangerous. The notion of citizen autonomy both empowered and oppressed individuals within a democratic hierarchy. These topics strike at the heart of democracies ancient and modern, from the discursive principles that structure political procedures to the citizen's navigation between the limitations of law and expression of individual will to the status of noncitizens within a state. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

 

Publication date:

04 April 2024

ISBN:

9781009221443

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009221443

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The Many Histories of Naqada: Archaeology and Heritage in an Upper Egyptian Region

The Many Histories of Naqada: Archaeology and Heritage in an Upper Egyptian Region 

Stevenson, Alice and Van Wetering, Joris (Eds)

This edited volume presents a series of reviews, overviews and unpublished archives from several historic expeditions in the Naqada region of Upper Egypt. This includes nineteenth-century fieldwork led by Gaston Maspero, Jacques de Morgan and Flinders Petrie through to surveys conducted in the twentieth century and new initiatives in the region in the 2010s. It encompasses not just the better-known Predynastic finds, but also later Pharaonic era material as well as Coptic heritage. Together the volume argues that the Naqada region in worthy of renewed critical attention and is a more dynamic and complex landscape than has generally been acknowledged. 

 

SBN:	1906137692
ISBN-13:	9781906137694
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version:	https://www.goldenhp.co.uk/egypt.htm
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Die römische Villenanlage von Bruckneudorf (Pannonia superior, Österreich): Chronologie, Typologie und spätantike Mosaikausstattung

Die römische Villenanlage von Bruckneudorf (Pannonia superior, Österreich): Chronologie, Typologie und spätantike Mosaikausstattung

Stefan Groh, Helga Sedlmayer  

Die römische Villa von Bruckneudorf (Burgenland, Österreich, Pannonia superior bzw. Pannonia prima) lag an der Bernsteinstraße und wurde in der Antike als Villa Murocincta angesprochen. Neue Grabungen und Prospektionen der 2000er Jahre erlauben es nunmehr, ein umfassend neues Bild von den Baustrukturen und ihrer diachronen Entwicklung zu zeichnen. Die Villenanlage in ihrer letzten Ausbaustufe ist als größter römerzeitlicher ländlicher Baukomplex auf österreichischem Boden anzusprechen. Von besonderer Bedeutung sind die repräsentative Mosaik- und Wandmalereiausstattung der spätantiken Villa. 

Lizenz

Urheberrechtsschutz

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1771

ISBN 978-3-96929-513-7 (PDF)

Veröffentlicht

22.09.2026 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Seiten

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Titelei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

5-6

Vorwort

7-8

A. Einleitung und Methodik

9-26

B. Befunde und Interpretation

27-118

C. Mosaiken und Wandmalerei der spätantiken Villa von Bruckneudorf

119-179

D. Zusammenfassung

181-185

E. Anhang

187-211

Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy

Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy

Bart Danon, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 

Dismantling the simplistic equation of wealth, political power and social rank in the Roman empire, this study presents a new reconstruction of the distribution of elite wealth in Roman Italy based on an innovative combination of economic modelling and archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Bart Danon follows a quantitative approach to show that the Roman economic elite was in fact much larger than the political and social elites. The many wealthy households outside the socio-political orders fuelled intense competition for junior political offices, while paradoxically strengthening the resilience of the Roman political system. By challenging long-held assumptions, this book offers fresh perspectives on the complexities of wealth and power in ancient Rome. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 

 

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Publication date:

23 July 2025

ISBN:

9781009496940

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009496940

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Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul: History and Reception

Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul: History and Reception

Matthijs den Dulk, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen 

Do Paul's letters draw on ethnic stereotypes? Did they influence how ethnic and racial outsiders were viewed in later eras? In this volume, Matthijs den Dulk offers a series of case studies that analyze different ways in which ethnic stereotypes were used or exerted influence on Pauline writings. Informed by recent empirical research on the impact of stereotypes, Den Dulk shows that paying attention to ancient stereotypes about Galatians, Corinthians, Scythians, Cretans and other groups sheds significant new light on the context, composition and content of Paul's letters. Den Dulk's exegetical argument integrates analyses of the history of interpretation, which demonstrate that Paul's letters were used to support modern conceptions of ethnic difference, including racist theories. This study thus raises important and timely questions about the content of Paul's letters as well as their influence on subsequent ideas about race and ethnicity. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 

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  Cambridge University Press

  Publication date:

  20 February 2026

  ISBN:

  9781009718127

  DOI:

  https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009718127

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  Radboud University Nijmegen, University of the Free State

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Ancient Persian: A Linguistic History

Ancient Persian: A Linguistic History

Kevin T. van Bladel

When ancient Persian conquerors created a vast empire from the Mediterranean to the Indus, encompassing many peoples speaking many different languages, they triggered demographic changes that caused their own language to be transformed. Persian grammar has ever since borne testimony to the social history of the ancient Persian Empire. This study of the early evolution of the Persian language bridges ancient history and new linguistics. Written for historians, philologists, linguists, and classical scholars, as well as those interested specifically in Persian and Iranian studies, it explains the correlation between the character of a language's grammar and the history of its speakers. It paves the way for new investigations into linguistic history, a field complementary with but distinct from historical linguistics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Publication date:

10 April 2026

ISBN:

9781009727709

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009727709

Open access funder:

Yale University

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