Old Dongola: Continuity and change from the Medieval period to the 21st century

Old Dongola: Continuity and change from the Medieval period to the 21st century/  دنقلا العجوز: الاستمرارية والتغيرات من فترة العصور الوسطى إلى القرن 21

Tomomi Fushiya

 

Warsaw 2021
ISBN: 978-83-953362-3-2 (print)
ISBN: 978-83-953362-4-9 (online)
Pages: 164
Soft cover

Funding: The DIALOG project, ‘ArchaeoCDN. Archaeological Centre of Scientific Excellence’, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Poland, Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project (QSAP), European Research Council (ERC).

This book is special in that it is the PCMA’s first venture into the field of collaborative archaeology. It was conceived to respond to the desire of local communities to learn more about the history of the landscape they have lived in and to the development of which they have contributed.

Old Dongola has been excavated and conserved by Polish expedition for more than 60 years. The new project—Old Dongola: Development, Heritage, Archaeology, initiated in 2019—has extended the research scope to the post-medieval Islamic period and the living heritage in the region, integrating active engagement and collaboration with local communities as well as sustainable development. Old Dongola is a continuously evolving heritage landscape, and this book, published bilingually in English and Arabic, is aimed to raise awareness of its importance among both the Sudanese and the international audience.

This brief introduction to the history of the urban site starts with the founding of the city as the capital of the medieval Nubian Kingdom of Makuria in the 6th century AD and continues through the present day, showing how the heritage landscape of today was shaped by cultural, economic, social and spiritual activities over the centuries. The Christian heritage that has been uncovered and conserved by Polish teams since 1964 is magnificent, yet the history of the city did not end with the collapse of the Makurian Kingdom. Old Dongola remained an important regional centre and the hub of Islamic teaching, and is the ancestral home of local residents living in the surrounding villages. Hence the strong ties that link the site to today’s local communities. Therefore, bringing together the results of archaeological research and the knowledge and practice of local communities has been crucial in the making of this book.

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Chapters in English:

• 1. Title pages (598 KB)
• 2. Acknowledgments (127 KB)
• 3. Introduction (473 KB)
• 4. Old Dongola today (2728 KB)
• 5.  The history of Old Dongola (2018 KB)
• 6. Investigating Old Dongola (2790 KB)
• 7. Working together for the heritage at Old Dongola (2790 KB)
• 8. Respecting the heritage place during your visit (196 KB)
• 9. Further reading and online resources (481 KB)

Chapters in Arabic:

• 1.  صفحة عنوان الكتاب (572 KB)
• 2. شكر وتقدير (48 KB)
• 3. مــقـدمــــة (343 KB)
• 4. دنقلا العجوز اليوم (2036 KB)
• 5. تاريخ دنقلا العجوز (1871 KB)
• 6. دراسة دنقلا العجوز (670 KB)
• 7. العمل معاً من أجل تراث دنقلا العجوز (1013 KB)
• 8. احترام المكان التراثي أثناء زيارتك (149 KB)
• 9. قراءات إضافية ومصادر عبر الإنترنت (493 KB)

 

 

Open Access Journal: Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization

Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization

Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization were created in 1991 as an irregular series which in the first place served as a forum for the presentation of the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology and studies provided by its researchers. The series was originated by professor Joachim Śliwa, who was also its first Editor in Chief, and since 2010 this function has been fulfilled by professor Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka. Since vol. 10 (2007) SAAC has become a regular yearly periodical. Until present fifteen volumes have been published, among them two monographic studies (vols. 3 and 11, the latter being Pontika 2006 conference proceedings edited by E. Papuci-Władyka) and three volumes dedicated to distinguished researchers from our Institute on occasion of their jubilees (vols. 8 – professor Maria Ludwika Bernhard, 14 – professor Joachim Śliwa and 15 – professor Janusz A. Ostrowski). SAAC publishes papers in the fields of archaeology, art and civilization of ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece and its colonies, Cyprus and Rome, as well as other, non-Mediterranean ancient civilizations, and also in history of archaeology, collecting of antiquities and reception of ancient culture in modern Europe. Special attention is being given to topics concerning predynastic and early-dynastic Egypt, the Greek and Roman periods in the Black Sea region, and archaeology of Cyprus, due to the excavations conducted by researchers from our Institute in these areas. Objects and artefacts from these excavations are being published in SAAC.

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Foreword to the Articles from RGT2019 Conference

Late neolithic cultural landscape in the Al-Jafr Basin, southern Jordan: a brief review in context

Preliminary remarks on the Iron Age Cypriot imports in Tell Keisan, a Phoenician city in Lower Galilee (Israel)

New research in the sacred zone of the Fabrika Hill in Nea Paphos, Cyprus

Al-Jaya Palace and the New Shawbak Town. A Medieval frontier and the return of the urbanism in the Southern Transjordan

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Monks across the desert

The view from ‘pre-Crusader’ Shawbak: towards a first contextualization through GIS visibility and spatial analyses

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Archaeological research as a benefit for the local community

Tomb architecture and distribution in the Eastern Necropolis of Nea Paphos, Cyprus

A bone disc with an inscription from Marina el-Alamein (Egypt)

A note on sasanian-buddhist object of Gyeongju National Museum

Entre rêverie et authenticité – une immersion dans l’Égypte Ancienne avec le peintre Stefan Bakałowicz

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Revue des Études Tardo-antiques suppléments

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New Fragments of Menander’s 'Epitrepontes'

New Fragments of Menander’s 'Epitrepontes'

William Furley

In this brand new and exquisite 2021 translation of the classic Greek play, Epitrepontes, or 'The Arbitration', produced around 300 BC, Menander tackles the subject of a broken marriage. Charisios has left his young wife Pamphile over a suspected infidelity and moved in with his neighbour to drown his sorrows in wine and women, specifically, a spirited harp-girl called Habrotonon. The irate father-in-law will not tolerate this waste of a good dowry and demands of his daughter that she divorce. Bravely she holds out against her father's tirades and remains loyal to her husband.

A complex and masterly dramatic sequence ensures that by the end 'all's well that ends well' - and Menander has struck a blow for equality of the sexes, for understanding over arrogance and pride. Menander's subtle and, ultimately, good-natured treatment of marital crisis and family tensions, themes which, despite the ancient dress of strict metre and theatrical convention, are strikingly modern, not to say timeless.

A large portion of the Epitrepontes was recovered from oblivion in 1905. Now, this startling collection of the new fragments, complete with papyrological readings, translation and commentary, brings together the scholarly work from separate fragments to date, including the author's own edition and interpretation and a revised text of the play in entirety included as an appendix.

The commentary aims to explain the printed text, to place Menander's language in the context of Athenian dramatic art and rhetoric, and to appreciate his subtle insights into the psychology of his characters, from the huffy father-in-law Smikrines to the 'little people' of the comedy, the slaves, each with their private agenda.

Published

June 4, 2021

Categories

• Institute of Classical Studies

Copyright (c) 2021 William Furley

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Details about this monograph

ISBN-13

9781914477409

Date of first publication

2021-06-04

doi

10.14296/420.9781914477409

 

 

 

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Open Access Monograph Series: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements

The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements include monographs, conference proceedings, newly edited texts, and the publication of international research projects, all supporting and facilitating the latest work in Classics around the world.

Themes in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy: Keeling Lectures 2011-18

Fiona Leigh (ed)

January 28, 2021

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Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope.

The volume gathers the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2016 at the Warburg Institute in London, in association with the Institute of Classical Studies. It includes both diachronic...

The Digital Classicist 2013

Stuart Dunn, Simon Mahony (eds)

December 2, 2019

This edited volume collects together peer-reviewed papers that initially emanated from presentations at Digital Classicist seminars and conference panels.

This wide-ranging volume showcases exemplary applications of digital scholarship to the ancient world and critically examines the many challenges and opportunities afforded by such research. The chapters included here demonstrate innovative approaches that drive forward the research interests of both humanists and technologists while showing that...

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November 8, 2019

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November 1, 2019

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October 25, 2019

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The formation of such identities, and the shaping of these...

Profession and Performance: Aspects of oratory in the Greco-Roman World

Christos Kremmydas, Jonathan Powell, Lene Rubinstein (eds)

October 18, 2017

This volume brings together six papers relating to oratory and orators in public fora of Classical Greece and Rome. Edwards and Bers explore aspects of oratorical delivery in the Athenian courts and Assembly, including the demands placed on orators by the physical settings. Tempest examines the conceptions of oratorical competence and incompetence, particularly in respect of performance, as they are implied in Cicero’s criticisms of the rival prosecutor in the trial of Verres. Papers by Karambelas and Powell look at evidence for the importance of advocacy in the Second...

Persuasive Language in Cicero’s Pro Milone: A Close Reading and Commentary

Lynn S. Fotheringham

October 18, 2017

This innovative approach to Cicero’s persuasive language analyses the style and structure of one of his important speeches in more details than has ever been done before.

It applies ideas from modern linguistics (sentential topic, lexical patterning, interactional discourse), and explores the possibilities and limitations of quantitative analysis, made easier by modern computing power, in the areas of syntax and vocabulary.

The result is a reading of the Pro Milone as a unified text, whether aimed at persuading the jury to acquit Milo or at persuading...

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Open Access Journal: ARIT Newsletter

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ARIT Newsletter

the Institute publishes the ARIT Newsletter annually, distributed widely in the academic community and among the Friends of ARIT. The Newsletter provides information about the ARIT’s recent activities and programs, including the news from each center, research reports from recent fellows in Turkey, lists of current fellows and donors.

ARIT Newsletter Fall 2020 October 1, 2020 ARIT Ankara and Istanbul present new online programs.  ARIT centers closed but offering limited services. ARIT fellows reports: Peoples’ parks of the early Republic Studies in Syriac identity View volume 63 here ARIT Newsletter Fall 2019 October 1, 2019 ARIT Istanbul director Dr. Antony Greenwood retires; new director Zeynep Simavi takes up the post. Visiting interns work on American Board Archives and Feriköy Cemetery projects. ARIT Ankara collaborates to offer a workshop on the joint heritage of the Pergamon-Lesbos micro-region. Remembering CAORC’s Dr. Mary Ellen Lane. ARIT fellows report: Drama in Greek festivals of Asia Minor Uyghur language and culture ... ARIT Newsletter Fall 2018 October 1, 2018 ARIT fundraising successes and ongoing needs. Istanbul Library at Bibliopera; American Board Archives development. Ankara facilitates local conference on islands of the Byzantine Mediterranean and a writing workshop for students. ARIT fellows reports: 18th Century Ottoman textiles Cheese-making in northeastern Turkey Late Roman Pottery of Arycanda View volume 61 here ARIT Newsletter Fall 2017 October 1, 2017 ARIT Istanbul relocates to ANAMED in Beyoğlu. ARIT Ankara collaborates to present programs to protect cultural heritage. Hanfmann and Mellink fellows present a symposium. ARIT fellows report: Iron and Bronze Age imperial expansion in light of botanical remains Study of economic, social, and cultural ties between the U.S. and the Ottoman Empire View volume 60 here ARIT Newsletter Archive, 1972 through 2016 Volume 59, 2016 Volume 58, 2015 Volume 57, Fall 2014 Volume 56, Spring 2014 Volume 55, Spring 2013 Volume 54, Fall 2012 Volume 53, Spring 2012 Volume 52, Fall 2011 Volume 51, Spring 2011 Volume 50, Fall 2010 Volume 49, Spring 2010 Volume 48, Fall 2009 Volume 47, Spring 2009 Volume 46, Fall 2008 Volume 45, Spring 2008 Volume 44, Fall 2007 Volume 43, Spring 2007 Volume 42, Fall 2006 Volume 41, Spring 2006 Volume 40, Fall 2005 Volume 39, Spring 2005 Volume 38, Fall 2004 Volume 37, Spring 2004 Volume 36, Fall 2003 Volume 35, Spring 2003 Volume 34, Fall 2002 Volume 33, Spring 2002 Volume 32, Fall 2001 Volume 31, Spring 2001 Volume 30, Fall 2000 Volume 29, Spring 2000 Volume 28, Fall 1999 Volume 27, Spring 1999 Volume 26, Fall 1998 Volume 25, Spring 1998 Volume 24, Fall 1997 Volume 23, Spring 1997 Volume 22, Fall 1996 Volume 21, Spring 1996 Volume 20, Fall 1995 Volume 19, Spring 1995 Volume 18, Fall 1994 Volume 17, Spring 1994 Volume 16, Fall 1993 Volume 15, Spring 1993 Volume 14, Fall 1992 Volume 13, Spring 1992 Volume 12, Fall 1990 Volume 11, Spring 1990 Volume 10, Fall 1989 Volume 8-9, 1988-1989 Volume 7, 1988 Volume 6, 1987.2 Volume 5, 1987.1 Volume 4, 1980 Volume 3, 1977 Volume 2, 1976 Volume 1, 1975

 

 

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