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The island of Sicily is at the heart of the Mediterranean and from
ancient times to the present day it has been a hub of migration and
settlement. Following on from the British Museum’s critically acclaimed
2016 exhibition Sicily: culture and conquest, this volume considers the
history and material culture of the different peoples occupying Sicily
at key points in the island’s history. With contributions from
international experts in the field, the volume presents new insights
into the economy, architecture and social identity of the island,
including research on recently excavated sites. The result is a rich
collection of essays that provides a comprehensive overview of this
cosmopolitan island’s unique identity and its significance in a wider
Mediterranean context.
This volume considers how the discovery of Etruscan sites and
artefacts has inspired artists, architects, statesmen, collectors,
scholars and travellers to Italy from the 16th through to the 20th
century, from Ferdinando de' Medici to Piranesi and Federico Fellini.
Subjects include the reclaiming of Etruscan identity and its influence
on Italian political history, the collecting and reproduction of
Etruscan artefacts, as well as new insights into the lives and
activities of early British Etruscologists and the pleasures and perils
which they encountered on their travels. Other essays look at Etruscan
concepts in jewellery, gems and pottery. The extent of Etruscan
influence on European culture has often been underestimated, but still
less well known till now is how knowledge of certain aspects of Etruscan
civilisation spread to the United States of America, as demonstrated,
for example, by the tomb of a Civil War officer which was inscribed with
an intriguing Etruscan-like inscription.
All users of the current Perseus Digital Library (Perseus 4: the
Hopper) will have experienced frustrating error messages. Tufts runs
Perseus on multiple virtual machines. Tufts moved Perseus to new real
machines and that may have contributed to the issue (although it is not
clear to us why simply moving to new hardware will have caused problems
when the virtual machines have not changed). We have, however, also
found that these virtual machines have experienced unusual spikes in
traffic and the local server logs have actually filled up the local
servers, causing them to freeze. Our collaborator on this at Tufts has
been very helpful but is on vacation for the next couple of weeks. The
Crowdstrike disaster from last week also was a major drain on the Tufts’
system administrators who are here (2,000 Tufts Windows machines were
affected). We will do what we can with those who are available as
quickly as possible. We apologize for the disruptions that all of us
experience.
The Scaife Viewer does not
offer all the services to which Perseus users are accustomed but it does
provide basic access to a large body of Greek and Latin texts and
translations. The Perseus 4 Greek and Roman collection page also contains links to the Scaife versions.
Our main focus is, and has been for the last two years, creating a
new version of Perseus, which we consider to be Perseus 6. Where the
Scaife Viewer, built on a new code base, provided us with a much more
easily expanded framework for publishing core textual data, a NEH
Digital Humanities Grant allowed us to develop Beyond Translation
and, in so doing, to learn how to integrate many types of data,
including classes of annotation (such as Treebanks and Translation
Alignments). We view Scaife and Beyond Translation together as a Perseus
5.0. You can see features implemented in Beyond Translation and read a white paper about the work that has been done.
Support from the NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
program has provided support to integrate the scalability of the Scaife
Viewer with the flexibility of Beyond Translation. We are fifteen
months into this new three year Perseus on the Web: preparing for the next Thirty Years.
We are moving as quickly as we can (and have accelerated our work to
the extent possible) to complete a working version of Perseus 6. Our
lead collaborator, James Tauber of Signum University, has made great
progress on a backend that can manage the data in Scaife and Beyond
Translation and that can be rapidly expanded. He is moving to the
frontend. We hope to begin replacing components of Perseus 4 in the
coming month. We are currently planning to test a prototype version of
the Perseus Word Study Tool.
Looking further down the line (and beyond what we can do in our
current project), the next step for Perseus would be to create what we
are calling a Portable Perseus. This would be a version of Perseus based
on the simplest technology base possible. This would not even require a
database – all links and all visualizations would be pre-computed. The
Canadian Endings Project has
proposed restricting implementation to widely supported technologies
such as HTML5, CSS and Javascript (without dependence on libraries that
may cease to run over time). The price would be flexibility: you would
only be able to perform functions that we had anticipated and run
services that we could implement in this simpler ecosystem. At the same
time, we believe we can represent the vast majority of services from
Perseus 4 in such a minimal computing framework. Such a version of
Perseus could be downloaded and run locally. It would be much faster and
would be structured to run for a very long time without needing to be
modified. David Mimno first developed Perseus 4 in 2003 and Bridget
Almas completed work on the current version ten years later in 2013. Our
hope is that a Portable Perseus could run much longer.
Mit
der rasch zunehmenden wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung des Bürgertums ab etwa
1870 wurden in Europa und Amerika private Vereine, Fonds und
Gesellschaften gegründet, um archäologische Expeditionen in die „Länder
der Bibel“ zu finanzieren, die staatliche Institutionen wie
Universitäten und Museen sowie Akademien der Natur- und
Geisteswissenschaften ergänzten.
Die Erforschung der Geschichte des Alten Orients diente von Anfang an
der Reflexion des „westlichen“ Selbstverständnisses und lieferte die
Grundlage für die Projektion der Weltanschauung. Vor dem Hintergrund der
zunehmenden Professionalisierung archäologischer Disziplinen
ermöglichten Gelehrtengesellschaften auch Laien, Amateuren und
Dilettanten die Teilnahme an wissenschaftlichen Debatten und die
Verbreitung bestimmter konzeptioneller Rahmen dessen, was als „Alter
Orient“ wahrgenommen wurde.
Hinter der Bewegung standen unterschiedliche Motivationen, aber auch
jeweilige „nationale“ Kulturen in der Wissenschaft. Obwohl
wirtschaftliche und strategische Interessen in diesem „Zeitalter des
Imperiums“ eine entscheidende Rolle spielten, sollte der Historiker
andere Faktoren nicht ignorieren. Angesichts der zentralen Bedeutung des
alten Nahen Ostens als „Wiege“ von nicht weniger als drei
Weltreligionen sowie der frühesten Staaten und sogar Imperien der
Weltgeschichte wurde es für europäische und andere „westliche“ Nationen
zu einer Prestigefrage, ihre Museen mit Objekten aus dieser fernen
Vergangenheit zu füllen – Objekte, die mit den Ursprüngen ihrer
„eigenen“ Kultur, wie sie sie wahrnahmen, in Zusammenhang standen.
Darüber hinaus darf die exotische Anziehungskraft des „Orients“ nicht
vergessen werden, denn er diente als Mittel der Selbstbestätigung in
Abgrenzung zum orientalischen „Anderen“, und legitimierte die koloniale
Ausbeutung und die Semantik einer „Bürde des weißen Mannes“, eine
zivilisierende „Mission“ und eine kulturelle Verantwortung für den
Orient aus sich zu nehmen.
Nach den vielen politischen Umwälzungen infolge des Ersten Weltkriegs
entstanden neue Vereinsformen, um den Verlust staatlicher Mittel
auszugleichen, aber auch um den Verlust zuvor fest verankerter
Weltanschauungen zu beheben.
Eine systematische und transnationale Untersuchung dieser
Zusammenhänge bleibt ein Desiderat. Dieser Band mit Beiträgen von
Historikern und Archäologen sowie Vertretern anderer Disziplinen aus
verschiedenen Ländern bietet die Grundlage für einen wirklich
interdisziplinären Diskurs, der sich auf orientalische Gesellschaften
als Mittel gesellschaftlicher Selbstbehauptung konzentriert.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Editor’s Foreword
Christoph Jahr: Europe and the Orient: Bourgeois Scholarship and Imperial Sense of Mission in the Long 19th Century
Part I: Early Encounters
Marco Bonechi: The Rise and Fall of the Società Asiatica Italiana
Felicity Cobbing: The Motivations of the Palestine
Exploration Fund: Hidden and not-so Hidden Agendas at Work in a Learned
Society in the Late 19th Century
Stefania Ermidoro: The “Assyrian Society” and the Early Exploration of Ancient Mesopotamia
Part II: Imperial Self-Reflections
Sebastiaan R. L. Berntsen: The Sichem Committee: A Case Study of Dutch Private Sponsorship of Near Eastern Archaeology
Silvia Alaura: Oriental Societies and Hittite Studies in Victorian England: Tracing the History of an Entangled Relationship
Reiko Maejima: Babylon Society, a Private Japanese Association in the Early Years of the 20th Century
Part III: Egyptian Stakeholders
Marleen De Meyer, Jean-Michel Bruffaerts and Jan Vandersmissen:
The Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth in Belgium and the Creation
of National and Transnational Egyptological Research Infrastructures in
the 1920s–1940s
Stephanie L. Boonstra: Fundraising for Amarna: Evidence from the EES Archive
Thomas L. Gertzen: Jews excavating in Egypt? An Archaeological Endeavour of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens
Part IV: Absences and Adaptions
Katalin A. Kóthay: Hungarian Archaeological Presence
and Absence in Egypt and the Orient at the End of the Long 19th Century
and during the Interwar Period
Hana Navratilova: Bohemian Absences: The Academy of
Sciences in Prague and the Network of European Institutions Involved in
Archaeological Research in Egypt in the 1900s
Willemijn Waal: From Wish to Reality. The Foundation and Early Years of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)
Carolien H. van Zoest: Overview of Societies and Initiatives in the Netherlands in the 20th Century
Olaf Matthes: Financing Babylon. The German Oriental Society and its Funding System
Bouras, Charalambos;
Ioannidou, Maria; Jenkins, Ian
Published to mark the completion of a 35-year long study and
restoration of the magnificent buildings on the Athens Acropolis. The
individual contributors tell the story for an English reading audience
of the dedicated and detailed efforts to understand the work of previous
generations on the Acropolis and then to restore the buildings as
nearly as possible to their original architectural state. The result is a
story of engagement with the extraordinary problems associated with
these world heritage monuments and the challenges to preserve and
present them for future generations. Published in association with the
Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA).
Kom Firin, a large settlement site in the western Nile Delta, was
the subject of British Museum archaeological fieldwork between 2002 and
2011. This second and final monograph presents the results of
excavations in the Citadel, an area of Late Period occupation, and
within the northeastern corner of the Ramesside enclosure, along with
artefact and ceramic assemblages from both areas. Further chapters are
dedicated to the Ramesside enclosure, the later temple temenoi, faunal
remains from the excavations and the ancient landscape. A final chapter
considers the modern context in which this fieldwork took place and the
attitudes of inhabitants to the ancient remains.
Contributor
Bunbury, Judith
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Contributor
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Thomas, Ross
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Contributor
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Smoláriková, Kveta
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Contributor
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Bertini, Louisa
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Contributor
)
Hughes, Eleanor
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Contributor
)
Date published
2014
Institution
British Museum
Series name
British Museum Research Publications
Pagination
464
Publisher
British Museum
Place of publication
London
ISBN
9780861591923
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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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