Andrea Seri, The House of Prisoners Online

Seri, Andrea
The House of Prisoners
ISBN: 978-1-61451-109-0
e-ISBN: 978-1-61451-097-0
ISSN: 2161-4155
Boston : De Gruyter, 2013.
Studies in ancient Near Eastern records, vol. 2 

This book deals with the house of prisoners (bit asiri ) at the city of Uruk during the revolt against king Samsu-iluna of Babylon, Hammurabi’s son. The political history of this brief period (ca. 1741–1739 BC) is not widely known and until now there has been no comprehensive treatment of the bit asiri. This book includes autograph copies, transliterations, and translations of 42 unpublished cuneiform tablets from various collections, collations, and detailed tables and catalogues. The analysis comprises some 410 documents dated or attributable to king Rim-Anum, one of the insurgents who attained relative independence as the ruler of Uruk. The study of this corpus reveals details about diplomatic dealings between the central power and rebel rulers, about the functioning of the house of prisoners of war, and about the individuals who participated in different echelons of the local administration. This monograph investigates what kind of organization “the house of prisoners” was, how it worked, how it interacted with other institutions, the composition of its labor force, and state management of captive and enslaved individuals.

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Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society Archaeology Special Interest Group Newsletter

The Archaeology SIG aims to encourage the exchange of research and methodology between remote sensing scientists and archaeologists, especially those concerned with methods of site prospection and novel applications.

Meetings concentrate on a mixture of case studies and developing methodology and include ground-based methods, photogrammetry, LIDAR, laser scanning, and geophysical prospection, as well as aerial photography and thermal imaging.

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Early Warnings: AIA Archive to be Publicly Accessible for the First Time in 135 Years

Archaeological Archive to be Publicly Accessible for the First Time in 135 Years

PRESS RELEASE      August 14, 2013

Contact: Elizabeth Christian
Archaeological Institute of America
656 Beacon Street
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Tel: 617.353.9361
E-mail: echristian@aia.bu.edu

RE:  Archaeological Archive to be Publicly Accessible for First Time in 135 Years
The Archaeological Institute of America, North America’s largest and oldest non-profit organization devoted to archaeology, will make the extensive archival materials of its 135-year history available online, thanks to a grant from the Leon Levy Foundation.  The project will include the complete inventorying of the AIA Archive, digitization and translation of all documents, and deposition of the entire digital Archive at the AIA’s host institution Boston University, where it will be universally available via open access.

AIA President Elizabeth Bartman applauded the grant: “The Leon Levy Foundation’s generous support will facilitate not only an understanding of our institutional past but also of what was, at the time of the AIA’s founding in 1879, a new discipline of study.  At its heart, a study of the AIA is an exploration of intellectual history.”

The vast AIA Archive includes such materials as founding documents (including those related to the AIA’s Congressional charter); presidential correspondence; minutes of board meetings; formal and legal reports; AIA publications (the early Papers, the American Journal of Archaeology, and Art and Archaeology, later renamed Archaeology); as well as materials from annual meetings, lectures, and site preservation efforts. In addition, papers record the AIA’s early archaeological work in Assos (Turkey), Crete, Croton (Italy), Cyrene (Libya), and Tarsus (Turkey), and document the AIA’s role in the foundation of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American School of Classical Studies in Rome (later the American Academy), and the School of American Archaeology.
Systematizing and digitizing the AIA Archive fulfills a long-desired goal of making it broadly available to archaeologists, scholars, and the general public.  Susan Heuck Allen, AIA member and author of several books that are based on primary research in the Archive, notes that the Leon Levy Foundation gift will offer scholars the opportunity “to dig into the Institute’s own stratigraphy to understand the development of our discipline and the context of the United States and its excavations.”

The Leon Levy Foundation is a leader in providing funding to catalogue and make accessible important cultural archives; it has long supported the excavation of the ancient seaport of Ashkelon and the publication of archaeological fieldwork. It recently granted lead support to a new collaboration between the British Museum and the Penn Museum that will produce a dynamic online resource to the archaeology of the ancient kingdom of Ur. Work on the Archive is expected to begin immediately and the entire collection will be available in the fall of 2016.

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About the Leon Levy Foundation
The Leon Levy Foundation, founded in 2004, is a private, not-for-profit foundation created from the estate of Leon Levy, an investor with a longstanding commitment to philanthropy. The Foundation's overarching goal is to support scholarship at the highest level, ultimately advancing knowledge and improving the lives of individuals and society at large. www.leonlevyfoundation.org.

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Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: CIL I² 2, 1–4 INDICES COMPLETED

CIL I² 2, 1–4 INDICES COMPLETED

2013-08-15 17:44 by Manfred Schmidt (comments: 0) 

CIL I² 2, 1–4 Indices: Hans Krummrey (Berlin) has now completed an index of the find spots of all Latin inscriptions from Republican times as well as a compilation of the original depositories and of the persons mentioned in this index: Inscriptiones Latinae antiquissimae ad C. Caesaris mortem – Quibus locis tituli reperti asservati sint testibus adiectis. 

With detailed prefaces in Latin, German and English these indices will be of great value for all those who deal with inscriptions from the Republican period. 

See http://cil.bbaw.de/dateien/indices.html

Just Announced: The J. Paul Getty Trust Open Content Program

The J. Paul Getty Trust Open Content Program

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