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.
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.
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.
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
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
It is well known that classical mythology outlasted the Christianization
of the Roman Empire. This volume undertakes a new investigation of the
complex conditions under which it continued to exist and thrive in Late
Antiquity. Particular attention is devoted to the polemical and
educational contexts in which classical mythology was often used, and to
strategies designed to neutralize or assimilate it.
Languages:
German, English
Publisher:De Gruyter
Copyright year:2015
Audience:Classicists, scholars of Ancient History and literary theory, museums
The breakthrough of the alphabetic script early in the first millennium
BCE coincides with the appearance of several new languages and
civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine. Together, they form the
cultural setting in which ancient Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and,
transformed by Hellenism, the New Testament took shape. This book
contains concise yet thorough and lucid overviews of ancient Near
Eastern languages united by alphabetic writing and illuminates their
interaction during the first 1000 years of their attestation. All
chapters are informed by the most recent scholarship, contain fresh
insights, provide numerous examples from the most pertinent sources, and
share a clear historical framework that makes it easier to trace
processes of contact and convergence in this highly diversified speech
area. They also address non-specialists. The following topics are
discussed: Alphabetic writing (A. Millard), Ugaritic (A. Gianto),
Phoenician and Hebrew (H. Gzella), Transjordanian languages (K. Beyer),
Old and Imperial Aramaic (M. Folmer), Epigraphic South Arabian (R.
Hasselbach), Old Persian (M. de Vaan/A. Lubotsky), Greek (A. Willi).
Language:
English
Publisher:De Gruyter
Copyright year:2011
Edition:2nd edition
Audience:All those interested in the cultural environment of the Hebrew Bible, Assyriologists, and ancient historians.
The multidisciplinary contributions to
this collection of papers look at Rome as the cultural and Milan as the
political capital in the 4th and 5th centuries. In the literature of the
time both cities were perceived as spaces in which the political and
clerical power struggles, and the political and cultural changes which
were so important for the Latin West took place. The cities are thereby
understood as “stages” upon which the world theatre of the politics of
power, culture and the church was produced. The reconstruction of both
“stage settings” is based on texts, inscriptions and archaeological
remains.
Volume published in the new series of the Excellence Cluster Topoi
New, multidisciplinary study
The cities of Rome and Milan as cultural and political units in the 4th and 5th centuries
L’Agence de la protection du patrimoine culturel d’Ajara (Géorgie)
publie sur son site les principales publications archéologiques
concernant la région de Batoum, avec notamment les sites de Vani et de
Gonio Apsaros.
Un site bienvenu pour des publications difficiles à trouver en dehors de Géorgie.
The work Eikones (Imagines/Images) by Philostratus consists of
64 fictitious descriptions of images. Mario Baumann analyzes the
aesthetic virtuosity which characterizes this text. The speaker who
formulates the descriptions proves himself a master in interpreting the
images. He creates a unique textual composition of images which
continually surprises and challenges the reader due to its diversity.
The text of Eikones takes up the tradition of literature and at
the same time changes it through the creation of new combinations,
always revealing the virtuosity of the author.
Welcome to the online submission and editorial system for Sinus Persicus. Sinus Persicus is the official journal of Tissaphernes Archaeological Research Group. The journal was established by Dr. Shahin Aryamanesh. Sinus
Persicus is an international, peer reviewed journal, publishes
high-quality, original research. Sinus Persicus is a journal devoted to
Archaeology, history, linguistics, religion, epigraphy, numismatics, and
history of art of the Persian Gulf region, encompassing both
prehistoric and historic periods. The journal’s geographic range spans
the northern and southern coasts of the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz,
Persian Gulf islands, and Gulf of Oman.
Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
James V. Morrison considers the historical context as well as the
“triggers” (such as the 1609 Bermuda shipwreck) that inspired some of
these works, and modern responses such as novels (Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Coetzee’s Foe, and Gordon’s First on Mars, a science fiction version of the Crusoe story), movies, television (Forbidden Planet, Cast Away, and Lost), and the poetry and plays of Caribbean poets Derek Walcott and Aimé Césaire.
The
recurrent treatment of shipwrecks in the creative arts demonstrates an
enduring fascination with this archetypal scene: a shipwreck survivor
confronting the elements. It is remarkable, for example, that the
characters in the 2004 television show Lost share so many features with those from Homer’s Odyssey and Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
For
survivors who are stranded on an island for some period of time,
shipwrecks often present the possibility of a change in political and
social status—as well as romance and even paradise. In each of the major
shipwreck narratives examined, the poet or novelist links the
castaways’ arrival on a new shore with the possibility of a new sort of
life. Readers will come to appreciate the shift in attitude toward the
opportunities offered by shipwreck: older texts such as the Odyssey reveals a trajectory of returning to the previous order. In spite of enticing new temptations, Odysseus—and some of the survivors in The Tempest—revert
to their previous lives, rejecting what many might consider paradise.
Odysseus is reestablished as king; Prospero travels back to Milan. In
such situations, we may more properly speak of potential transformations.
In contrast, many recent shipwreck narratives instead embrace the
possibility of a new sort of existence. That even now the shipwreck
theme continues to be treated, in multiple media, testifies to its
long-lasting appeal to a very wide audience.
Hardcover
:
9780472119202,
256 pages,
15 Figs.,
6 x 9,
April 2014
Open Access
:
9780472902101,
256 pages,
15 Figs.,
6 x 9,
March 2020
This open access version made available with the support of libraries participating in Knowledge Unlatched.
Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm
is the first environmental history of Egypt’s Fayyūm depression. The
volume studies human relationships with flowing water, from the third
century BCE to the thirteenth century CE. Until the arrival of modern
perennial irrigation in the nineteenth century, the Fayyūm was the only
region of premodern Egypt to be irrigated by a network of artificial
canals. By linking large numbers of rural communities together in shared
dependence on this public irrigation infrastructure, canalization
introduced to Egypt a radically new way of interacting both with the
water of the Nile and with fellow farmers. Drawing upon ancient Greek
papyri, medieval Arabic literature, and modern comparative evidence,
this book explores the ways in which the Nile’s water, local farmers,
and state power together continually reshaped this irrigated landscape
over more than thirteen centuries. Following human/water relationships
through both space and time further helps to erode disciplinary
boundaries and bring multiple periods of Egyptian history into contact
with one another.
In a series of case studies, the contributions assess the extent to
which in the Ancient World control over large territories relied on the
settlement of active or retired soldiers. The central question is that
of the link between the historical situation of the foundation, those
involved, and the location of the settlement on the one hand and, on the
other, the strategic importance which can be derived from these factors
for the domination of territories on land and sea, roads, frontiers,
other towns, a previous population etc.; in other words the connection
between spatial conditions and historical events.
While ancient banquets are gaining traction in international research,
they still pose a number of interpretative challenges. By concentrating
on the early Greek symposium, this volume reviews previous
interpretative models and develops new questions. It reveals that
manifold mixtures – physical, visual, linguistic, cultural – shaped the
Greek banquet from the beginning.
Language:
German
Publisher:De Gruyter
Copyright year:2024
Audience:Scholars from the fields of ancient history, classical philology, archaeology, gender studies, religious studies
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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