Maresha Excavations Final Report I: Subterranean Complexes 21, 44, 70

Maresha Excavations Final Report I: Subterranean Complexes 21, 44, 70

Amos Kloner

This is the first of the series of final reports on the excavations at the Hellenistic city of Maresha, and documents the work in the extensive man-made subterranean complexes below the lower city during the 1980s. Three subterranean complexes are presented here (70, 21, 44–45), including the study of their architecture, pottery and small finds and the industries that took place there. Chapters 1 and 2 present the setting of the site and review previous excavations, while Chapter 9 summarizes all the data in order to present a human face for the finds uncovered here.

EISBN

9789654065566

Publication Date

2003

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Keywords

Judean Shephelah, Hellenistic necropolis, subterranean complexes, columbarium, amphora stamps

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

Kloner, Amos, "Maresha Excavations Final Report I: Subterranean Complexes 21, 44, 70" (2003). IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority. 60.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69704/iaaRepV000.1996.60

https://publications.iaa.org.il/iaareports/60

 

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Download Preface (30 KB)

Download Chapter 1: Introduction (372 KB)

Download Chapter 2: Overview of the Excavation (2.4 MB)

Download Chapter 3: Subterranean Complex 70 (1.1 MB)

Download Chapter 4: Subterranean Complex 21 (965 KB)

Download Chapter 5: Subterranean Complexes 44 and 45 (3.2 MB)

Download Chapter 6: Pottery and Small Finds from Subterranean Complexes 21 and 70 (3.4 MB)

Download Chapter 7: Pottery and Small Finds from Subterranean Complex 44 (89 KB)

Download Chapter 8: Amphora Stamps and Imported Amphoras (480 KB)

Download Chapter 9: Summary and Conclusions (34 KB)

Download Appendix 1: Maresha: Selected Bibliography (52 KB)

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Salvage Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Site of Qiryat Ata

Salvage Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Site of Qiryat Ata

Amir Golani

Some 1400 sq m were exposed in the IAA excavations of the protohistoric site of Qiryat Ata. The study of the paleogeography reveals this location was an optimal area for exploitation of natural resources, including alluvial valleys, coastal habitats and forests, with stable water sources and extensive available farmland. The site yielded a wealth of stratified, well-dated architecture in a chronological sequence within the Early Bronze Age, illustrating the development from EB IB curvilinear structures, to late EB IB rectilinear forms with rounded corners, and finally EB II angular-cornered rectilinear buildings in a large, dense, urbanized town. The rich pottery, flint, groundstone and small-find assemblages are typical of the northern Israel EB I–EB II culture.

EISBN

9789654065573

Publication Date

7-2003

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Keywords

Early Bronze Age architecture, Early Bronze Age pottery, Early Bronze Age flint, EB I–II transition, Early Bronze Age groundstone

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

Golani, Amir, "Salvage Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Site of Qiryat Ata" (2003). IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority. 59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69704/iaaRepV000.1996.59

https://publications.iaa.org.il/iaareports/59

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Download Chapter 3: The Architecture (10.4 MB)

Download Chapter 4: The Pottery of Strata III–I (12.8 MB)

Download Chapter 5: The Flint Assemblage (17.7 MB)

Download Chapter 6: The Groundstone Assemblage (3.7 MB)

Download Chapter 7: The Small Finds (3.6 MB)

Download Chapter 8: Early Bronze Age Exploitation at Qiryat Ata (2.8 MB)

Download Chapter 9: The EB I–II Transition and the Urbanization Process at Qiryat Ata (1.1 MB)

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The Neolithic Site Of Abu Ghosh

The Neolithic Site Of Abu Ghosh

Hamoudi Khalaily
Ofer Marder 

Excavations at the Neolithic site of Abu Ghosh in the Jerusalem Hills uncovered two periods: the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) and the Pottery Neolithic (PN). This volume documents the results of the excavations of villages of these two consecutive periods, including architecture, lithics, groundstone, pottery, small finds and fauna. The PPNB village comprised domestic structures, courtyards, plaster floors and enclosing fences. Domestic activities took place in the courtyards. The PN village layout is less clear, as it was dug into the earlier remains. The faunal analysis reveals evidence of incipient domestication of wild goats in the PPNB assemblage, and by the time of the PN village, domestic goats had become part of the village subsistence strategy.

EISBN

9789654065580

Publication Date

12-2003

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Keywords

Pre-pottery Neolithic, Neolithic architecture, Neolithic flint, Neolithic burials, Neolithic fauna

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

Khalaily, Hamoudi and Marder, Ofer, "The Neolithic Site Of Abu Ghosh" (2003). IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority. 58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69704/iaaRepV000.1996.58

https://publications.iaa.org.il/iaareports/58

 

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Download Chapter 2: The Geological Setting (430 KB)

Download Chapter 3: The Stratigraphy and Architecture (782 KB)

Download Chapter 4: The Lithic Assemblage (1.5 MB)

Download Chapter 5: Use-Wear Analysis of Sickles and Glossed Pieces (1.0 MB)

Download Chapter 6: The Groundstone Assemblage (619 KB)

Download Chapter 7: The Pottery Assemblage (44 KB)

Download Chapter 8: The Small Finds (121 KB)

Download Chapter 9: The Human Remains from the Pottery Neolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Layers (238 KB)

Download Chapter 10: The Neolithic Fauna (356 KB)

Download Chapter 11: Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Fauna from the Lechevallier Excavations at Abu Gosh (509 KB)

Download Chapter 12: Verification of Capra Speices at Abu Gosh Using Ancient DNA Analysis (54 KB)

Download Chapter 13: Radiocarbon Dating (30 KB)

Download Chapter 14: Magnetic Susceptibility Measurments of Soil: A Diagnostic Tool for Locating Human Activity Areas (171 KB)

Download Chapter 15: General Discussion (47 KB)

Download Appendix 1: Basket List (101 KB)

Ancient Settlement of the Negev Highlands: Volume II: The Iron Age and The Persian Period

Ancient Settlement of the Negev Highlands: Volume II: The Iron Age and The Persian Period

Rudolph Cohen
Rebecca Cohen-Amin

Publication Date

2004

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

Cohen, Rudolph and Cohen-Amin, Rebecca, "Ancient Settlement of the Negev Highlands: Volume II: The Iron Age and The Persian Period" (2004). IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority. 77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69704/iaaRepV000.1996.77

https://publications.iaa.org.il/iaareports/77

 

 

 

Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) Beta Version 0.2

[First posted in AWOL 23 October 2023, updated 30 May 2025]

 

 

 Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) Beta Version 0.2

• Müller, Gerfrid (Project leader)¹ 
  
• Prechel, Doris (Project leader)²
• Rieken, Elisabeth (Project leader)³ 
  
• Schwemer, Daniel (Project leader)¹ 
  

Contributors

Hosting institutions:

• University of Würzburg 
  
• Academy of Sciences and Literature 
  

Project leaders:

• Müller, Gerfrid¹ 
  
• Prechel, Doris²
• Rieken, Elisabeth³ 
  
• Schwemer, Daniel¹ 
  

Project members:

• Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität¹
• Baier, Herbert¹
• Bastici, Fabio² 
  
• Chadbourne, Kevin¹
• Christiansen, Birgit⁴ 
  
• Eyselein, Björn¹
• Herdt, Paul³
• Sasseville, David³
• Savino, Letizia²
• Somel, Turna³
• Steitler, Charles Wayne⁵ 
  

Description

The dataset contains the XML documents of the online database Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) Beta Version 0.2 (hethiter.net/TLHdig), a tool that forms part of the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz (HPM: hethiter.net).

TLHdig is under constant development; the dataset made available here to researchers and developers reflects the TLHdig data online at the time of publication. If you further develop the dataset, please consider making your work available through HPM.

TLHdig is an open, growing digital repository for the presentation of standard-compliant, searchable, and annotated transliterations of cuneiform manuscripts from Hittite tablet collections.

The transliterations in TLHdig were not created by the TLHdig team, but reflect the collective endeavour of a century of Hittitological research. For a detailed description of the creation of the TLHdig data, see the Contributors section on the TLHdig website.

As a peer-reviewed, living archive of cuneiform manuscripts in transliteration, TLHdig is a collaborative, low-threshold research tool that enables researchers to add transliterations of yet unpublished cuneiform texts to a comprehensive digital corpus in an easy manner, without providing a definitive text edition. Thus the epigraphical and philological quality of the data contained in TLHdig is uneven and under constant development.

TLHdig is a community research tool, created by the community of Hittitologists for the community of Hittitologists. TLHdig is neither a dictionary, nor a critical text edition, nor an online journal, but supports, as a fundamental digital tool, any kind of advanced philological, lexicographical, and grammatical research on the language, history, and culture of the Hittites.

The first Beta Version of TLHdig (Beta 0.1) was published in September 2023 and contained already transliterations of more than 21,000 tablets and fragments. In early March 2025, the current version, TLHdig Beta 0.2, went online, containing transliterations of more than 98% of all published cuneiform fragments from Hittite tablet collections.

 

 

Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages: Proceedings from the UISPP Metal Ages colloquium, 13–16 October 2022, Ankara (Türkiye)

Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages: Proceedings from the UISPP Metal Ages colloquium, 13–16 October 2022, Ankara (Türkiye)

Brandherm, Dirk (editor)

Zimmermann, Thomas (editor)

Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages gathers papers originally presented at the Metal Ages 2022 colloquium, hosted by the Archaeology Department of Bilkent University, Ankara and bringing together the UISPP’s Scientific Commissions ‘Metal Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean’ and ‘Archaeometry of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Inorganic Artefacts, Materials and their Technologies’ for their respective annual meetings.Five of the papers included here focus specifically on water supply and water management. Others cover copper metallurgy, pottery studies and fighting techniques, and overall they range chronologically from the Chalcolithic to the Late Iron Age, and geographically from Iran to Iberia. A significant number of papers cover topics focusing on artefact archaeometry, due to the participation in the Ankara colloquium of many colleagues from the UISPP’s Archaeometry commission.The publication of these proceedings in their present format was made possible thanks to generous financial support by Valentín de Torres Solanot and E2IN2.

URI

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99990

ISBN

9781803279060, 9781803279060

Publisher

Archaeopress Publishing

Publisher website

https://www.archaeopress.com/

Publication date and place

2024

Grantor

• Knowledge Unlatched

Imprint

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

 

 

 

Excavation in the Roman Legionary Fortress at Caerleon: The Priory Field Store, 2007-2010

Excavation in the Roman Legionary Fortress at Caerleon: The Priory Field Store, 2007-2010

By Peter Guest, Andrew Gardner

Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 126

The Priory Field excavation was a research, training and engagement project that investigated a large courtyard store-building in the legionary fortress of Isca at Caerleon. This was the first legionary store excavated to modern standards in the Roman Empire. The excavation exposed the building’s main entranceway and two small adjoining rooms, as well as four squarer storerooms. The coins and pottery provide an excellent chronological sequence for the store, which was constructed around AD 90-110 and remained in use until the end of the 3rd century, after which it fell into a derelict state before being partially demolished and levelled by around 350. Debris from the building’s collapse and demolition sealed the floors of two store rooms, one of which was littered with military finds, many of which survived in a very fragile condition. These included the highly fragmentary remains of a rare example of an elaborately decorated horse’s headpiece, at least one set of dismantled lorica segmentata body armour, as well as another set of unusual scale armour. Two new buildings were constructed among the ruins of the old and partially demolished legionary store, including one 3 room cottage-like building. Radiocarbon dates demonstrate this building was constructed and in use between 430 and 600. This is the first new structure at a Roman site definitively dated to the post-Roman 5th and 6th centuries from Wales (and, arguably, from Britain), and it has an important story to tell about life in Isca after the ending of Britannia, c. 410.

Contents

Summary

Crynodeb

Résumé

Zusammenfassung

Chapter 1: Introduction and Background

From Caerleon to Isca

The Priory Field excavation summary

Post-excavation: assessment, conservation and analysis

Excavation archive

Final research questions

Chapter 2: Overview and Discussion of Key Themes

The fortress of Isca and the Second Augustan Legion at Caerleon

Site formation processes, phasing and chronology

Architecture of the Legionary Store Building

‘Post-Roman’ buildings and occupation

Themes in Roman archaeology

Chapter 3: History of the Legionary Store and Post-Roman Occupation in Priory Field

Introduction

PHASE 0: Pre-legionary store building

PHASE 1: Construction of the masonry store building

PHASE 2: Occupation and alteration of the store

PHASE 3: Dereliction and demolition of the store building

PHASE 4: Post-Roman masonry buildings

PHASE 5: Wall robbing

PHASE 6: Medieval and early-modern occupation

PHASE 7: Modern activity

Chapter 4: Finds Catalogues and Specialist Reports

Introduction and discussion

Registered Artefacts Reports and Catalogues

Soil Blocks lifted from Room 2

Building Fabric

Ceramics

Animal Bone (Murray Andrews)

Botanical Remains (Astrid E. Caseldine and Catherine J. Griffiths)

Summary of the Archaeometallurgical Residues (T.P. Young)

Chapter 5: Bibliography

Appendix: Radiocarbon dates from the Priory Field excavation

Appendix: Soil Blocks Lifted from above Phase 2 floor in Room 2

Appendix: Evaluation Excavations in Golledge’s Field and Priory Field, 2007

Appendix: Summary of Community Engagement Activities, 2007-10

Appendix: Excavation Teams 2007, 2008 and 2010

Appendix: Archaeometallurgical Residues (T.P. Young)

 

Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Images from the Levant to Mesopotamia: Studies Offered to Tallay Ornan

Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Images from the Levant to Mesopotamia: Studies Offered to Tallay Ornan

Edited by Benjamin Sass, Laura Battini

Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology 12

Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Imagery from the Levant to Mesopotamia is dedicated to Tallay Ornan, a scholar who has distinguished herself in ancient Western Asian iconographic studies and has become an undisputed reference in this field. It is divided into three parts, which give greater prominence to Tallay Ornan’s major themes: New Discoveries and Approaches in twelve chapters; The Human World (e.g. royals, women) in fourteen chapters; The Divine World (anthropomorphic deities and divine symbols) in eighteen chapters.

The chapters discuss iconological and textual problems from the Levant to Mesopotamia, in a chronological span from the third to first millennia BCE.

H 290 x W 205 mm

712 pages

424 figures

Published May 2025

Archaeopress Archaeology

ISBN

Paperback: 9781803272931

Digital: 9781803272948

DOI 10.32028/9781803272931

 

 

Excavations at Tiberias, 1973–1974 the Early Islamic Periods

Excavations at Tiberias, 1973–1974 the Early Islamic Period

David Stacey

This volume documents two seasons of excavation of the Early Islamic levels in ancient Tiberias, including detailed analysis of the stratigraphy and a thorough treatment of the Islamic-period pottery, as well as the glass and the numismatic finds.

EISBN

9789654065597

Publication Date

10-2004

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Keywords

Sea of Galilee, Early Islamic pottery, Early Islamic glass, Early Islamic oil lamps, earthquakes

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

Stacey, David, "Excavations at Tiberias, 1973–1974 the Early Islamic Periods" (2004). IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority. 57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69704/iaaRepV000.1996.57

https://publications.iaa.org.il/iaareports/57

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Download Chapter 2: History of Excavations (208 KB)

Download Chapter 3: State of Ceramic Research (109 KB)

Download Chapter 4: The Stratigraphy (7.3 MB)

Download Chapter 5: The Pottery (9.9 MB)

Download Chapter 6: The Oil Lamps (1.9 MB)

Download Chapter 7: The Glass (1.6 MB)

Download Chapter 8: The Coins (388 KB)

Download Chapter 9: Conclusions (62 KB)

Download References (76 KB)

Download Appendix 1: Concordance (69 KB)

Download Appendix 2: Umayyad Decorative Elements (179 KB)

 

 

Open Access Journal: Historiae

[First posted in AWOL  5 August 2012, updated (new URLs) 29 May 2025

Historiae 

ISSN paper: 1697-5456 

ISSN electrònic: 2462-3636 

 

Historiae és una revista acadèmica de publicació anual, on s'editen articles científics centrats específicament en els àmbits de la Història Antiga i l'Arqueologia. Els treballs publicats són originals inèdits que prèviament han estat avaluats de manera anònima per dos especialistes en la matèria. Els articles estan escrits en qualsevol de les llengües occidentals de major difusió científica.

Núm. 22 (2025)

Sumari

Revista Historiae

i-ii

Articles

Sumerian Lexical Archive

Miguel Civil

1-16

Una tauleta escolar lenticular paleobabilònica

Lluís Feliu Mateu

17-27

Hefestión, doble de Alejandro en la tienda de las mujeres persas, y las tradiciones de rituales de sustitución del rey en el Próximo Oriente Antiguo

Borja Antela Bernárdez

29-43

The Teaching of History and Geography in Italian Schools and the Creation of Stereotypes

Frances Pinnock

45-68

Les conferències arqueològiques de Pelegrí Casades (5)

Prehistòria de Catalunya (1905)

Jordi Vidal

69-124

Artículos-recensión

The Ancient Middle East as "White Man's Burden"

Reception Studies and American Identity Formation

Marc Marin Webb

125-132

El poder de les dones a Grècia i Roma

Formes femenines de lideratge a l’Antiguitat clàssica

María Navarro López

133-145

Recensiones

Milena Mariani / Mercedes Navarro Puerto, Recorridos de cristología feminista, Editorial Trotta, Madrid 2023, 215 p. ISBN: 978-84-1364-193-5.

Agnès Garcia Ventura

147-150

Carla Rubiera Cancelas / Agnès Garcia-Ventura / Borja Méndez Santiago (eds.), Cuerpos que envejecen. Vulnerabilidad, familias, dependencia y cuidados en la Antigüedad, Madrid, Dykinson, 2023, 309 pp. ISBN: 9788411229333

Sara González Moratinos

151-153

Pierfrancesco Musacchio, La ricezione del Marius di Plutarco nelle comunità culturali dell’Impero romano, Trento, Università degli Studi di Trento, 2024, 494 pp. ISBN: 978-88-5541-082-3 / 978-88-5541-083-0.

Carlos Heredia Chimeno

154-156

Jordi Vidal, Arqueologia de Mesopotàmia. Les conferències de Pelegrí Casades (1906), Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 2024, 210 p. ISBN: 978-84-1050-037-2.

Blai Gratacós

156-157

 

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Núm. 17 (2020)

Núm. 16 (2019)

Núm. 15 (2018)

Núm. 14 (2017)

Núm. 13 (2016)

Núm. 12 (2015)

Núm. 11 (2014)

Núm. 10 (2013)

Núm. 9 (2012)

Núm. 8 (2011)

Núm. 7 (2010)

Núm. 6 (2009)

Núm. 5 (2008)

Núm. 4 (2007)

Núm. 3 (2006)

Núm. 2 (2005)

Núm. 1 (2004)

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Spanish/Catalan/Portuguese Open Access Journals on the Ancient World

Remembering royalty in ancient Egypt: shared memories of royal ancestors by private individuals in the eighteenth dynasty

Remembering royalty in ancient Egypt: shared memories of royal ancestors by private individuals in the eighteenth dynasty

Heffernan, Gabrielle Mary

Sociological theories relating to collective forms of memory and forgetting have received little attention in Egyptological studies thus far with the work of Jan Assmann providing the primary source. Understanding these two processes, however, can support important insights
into the lives and cultures of ancient communities; they should not, therefore, be viewed as peripheral theories but as central in developing understanding of societies below the elite. Consequently, this study looks at collective forms of memory and forgetting in the Egyptian
Eighteenth Dynasty, focusing on commemoration of deceased kings and queens (‘royal ancestors’). The first three chapters use case studies to highlight different memory stores; written, pictorial and active. The final chapter focuses on forgetting. The evidence is analysed using both Egyptological and sociological theory to facilitate discussion on the subjects of community, identity and legitimation, and to develop understanding of material culture as a site of memory. The study argues that collective forms of remembering, particularly cultural memory, played a key role in the construction of individual and group identity and the legitimation of the
ruler. Furthermore, it concludes that existing studies of memory provide good frameworks to understanding Egyptian society, although they should not be used without careful
consideration of context.

Type of Work:	Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)
Award Type:	Doctorates > Ph.D.
Supervisor(s):	Supervisor(s) Email ORCID Bommas, Martin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
College/Faculty:	Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law
School or Department:	School of History and Cultures
Funders:	None/not applicable
URI:	http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/7223

 

 

Yodalpha: A Search Engine Dedicated to Religious Theological and Biblical Studies

Yodalpha: A Search Engine Dedicated to Religious Theological and Biblical Studies

Yodalpha was conceived by Rubin Jean-Noel, a Haitian-American computer specialist who majored in Biblical Studies at Eastern University, PA. The revolutionary idea came to him in 2012 after a Bible 101 class where he heard the term “Ancient Near East (ANE)” for the first time.

That day, when he went home after class, he searched “ANE” on Google to learn more. However, the search results yielded nothing fruitful about the Ancient Near East. Instead, they returned a lot of information about the TV station A&E and the English translation of the French word 'âne,' meaning 'donkey.'

At that instant, Rubin understood the necessity of a specialized search engine to serve students and educators. After years of research and development, his efforts came to fruition in December 2020, when the website was finally launched.

Yod is the tenth and smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

Have fun searching YodAlpha!

 

Hortus Floridus: Studies in Honour of Anne Lill

Hortus Floridus: Studies in Honour of Anne Lill

Contributor(s)

Volt, Ivo (editor)

Päll, Janika (editor)

Näripä, Neeme (editor)

Classical studies at the University of Tartu (Estonia) have had several beginnings. As a separate academic discipline, classical philology was introduced to the university curriculum by Professor Karl Morgenstern right after the re-establishment of the university in the beginning of the 19th century. At the end of the second decade of the 20th century, the world’s first Estonian-language university was born, and with it classical studies in Estonian language, guided for years by another founding father, Pärtel Haliste. There then came a hiatus, and for decades only elementary Latin was taught at the university. However, a few classicists continued teaching students who were eager to learn more. One of those eager students was Anne Lill, on whose initiative classical philology as a separate discipline was re-established at the university in 1990. Anne Lill was the Professor of Classical Studies from 1992 to 2012, and is Emerita since 2012. This volume is dedicated to her as a token of gratitude and friendship. The volume includes papers by Jaanika Anderson, Michail Bibikov, Jerker Blomqvist, Heinz Hofmann, Maarit Kaimio, Katre Kaju, Mait Kõiv, Peter Kuhlmann, Maria-Kristiina Lotman, Neeme Näripä, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Kadri Novikov, Janika Päll, Vita Paparinska, Jaan Puhvel, Merike Ristikivi, Paavo Roos, Heikki Solin, Martin Steinrück, Gregor Vogt-Spira, and Stephanie West.

URI

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100649

ISBN

9789916276228, 9789916276235

Publisher

University of Tartu Press

Publication date and place

2024

Series

Acta Societatis Morgensternianae, 8-9

Pages

368

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

 

 

Fortuna durior: Gewalt und Macht im Goldenen Esel des Apuleius

Fortuna durior: Gewalt und Macht im Goldenen Esel des Apuleius

Sassi, Islème

Wer Apuleius’ Goldenen Esel liest, begibt sich mit dem jungen Lucius auf einen Trip durch einen bedrohlichen, dysfunktionalen Kosmos, in dem das Verderben hinter jeder Ecke lauert. Dabei vermischen sich fantastische und stereotype Geschichten mit alltäglichen, realistischen Situationen, die sich als Gesellschaftskritik verstehen lassen. Die Gewaltspirale dreht sich; die Personen wechseln, doch der Schrecken reproduziert sich, sodass wir uns – zusammen mit dem Esel – mit fortschreitender Lektüre immer dringender nach Erlösung sehnen. Diese erscheint in Isis als göttlicher Retterin, die Apuleius platonisch auflädt: Die Antwort auf die allgegenwärtige Gewalt ist die von Platon geforderte Ordnung der Seele, die einzig Gerechtigkeit und damit Unabhängigkeit von Gewalterfahrung ermöglicht.

URI

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91960

DOI

10.24894/978-3-7965-4974-8

ISBN

9783796549748, 9783796549748

Publisher

Schwabe Verlag

Publisher website

https://schwabe.ch/

Publication date and place

Basel, 2024

Grantor

• Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung - 10BP12_221757 - Fortuna durior. Gewalt und Macht im Goldenen Esel des Apuleius - Open Access Books

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

 

Enchanted Reception: Religion and the Supernatural in Medieval Troy Narratives

Enchanted Reception: Religion and the Supernatural in Medieval Troy Narratives

Author(s)

Scheijnen, Tine

Schoess, A. Sophie

Hölzlhamme, Lilli

Wright, Susannah L.

van den Berg, Baukje

Goldwyn, Adam J.

Hoogenboom, Hilke

Söderblom Saarela, Ellen

Contributor(s)

Scheijnen, Tine (editor)

Söderblom Saarela, Ellen (editor)

This volume offers a series of cross-cultural, in-depth studies of twelfth- to fifteenth-century medieval Troy narratives, mainly romances. Source texts are situated across a wide range of language traditions and include famous literary highlights (e.g. Benoît, Guido, Tzetzes and Eustathios) as well as lesser-known work (e.g. the Irish tradition) and expert comparative analyses within the same language traditions (e.g. Middle English, German). With a unique synchronical focus, it highlights the classical reception of religious and supernatural elements, events and characters in the Middle Ages, embedded in the contemporary socio-cultural (notably Christian-political) ideological context. The volume subscribes to the transnational perspective that has long since proven its relevance for medieval studies and actively builds bridges between the ‘eastern’ Byzantine and ‘western’ vernacular traditions, which on a scholarly level are often still segregated.

URI

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100345

ISBN

9789151323688

Publisher

Uppsala University Publications

Publication date and place

Uppsala, 2025

Series

Studia Graeca Upsaliensia, 24

Pages

243

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

 

 

Can an Object Love? A Philological Essay on Female Subjectivity

Can an Object Love? A Philological Essay on Female Subjectivity

Söderblom Saarela, Ellen

Philologists not only investigate, but also tell the story of philology – this loving study of the words, the texts, the narratives of the past. Every instance of philological research is accordingly part of its history and we, as philologists, travel along and with the words, perhaps never fully in charge. This series started with a study of Modern Greek literature, written in French and published in 1962, and has then moved primarily back in time through various periods and kinds of texts, until the last volume (2015) landed in Homeric reception studies. In many ways, this journey is symptomatic of Greek Studies at Uppsala University, stretching from Homer to Byzantine times and often even further.With this volume we wish to introduce new and wider perspectives and call attention to our own role as readers and scholars. Because philology, as any reading practice, is situated – in our minds, our bodies, and the world we live in. We can strive for accuracy and objectivity, but we also need to accept that situatedness. Such an approach, long overdue, has rather recently been adapted in a new form usually called autotheory: personal and yet critical readings of (most often) historical works, practiced by thinkers and writers such as Hélène Cixous in her Mother Homer is Dead (Homère est morte, 2014) and Maggie Nelson in The Argonauts (2015). Autotheory challenges our own position as scholars and pressing contemporary social and political concerns such as women’s subjectification and objectification, embodiment, feminism, and neo-liberalism. Re-reading the classics from different perspectives is both vital and unavoidable in a modern world. It is necessary for the survival of the classics, and maybe for our intellectual survival as well. Ingela Nilsson, series editor

DOI

10.33063/8as54r50

ISBN

9789151320007, 9789151320007

Publisher

Uppsala University Publications

Publication date and place

Uppsala, 2024

Series

Studia Graeca Upsaliensia, 23

Pages

231

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/