Edited by Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis, with contributions by Rebecca Benefiel, Ayman Damarany, Fawzi Hassan Bakhiet, Jeremy Pope, Alexandros Tsakos, Bruce Beyer Williams, and Bogdan Zurawski

Year of Publication: 2019

Graffiti — unsanctioned marks in public built spaces — are increasingly recognized as worthy of study in contexts both ancient and modern. For ancient societies, graffiti are personal expressions that are otherwise rare in the archaeological and historical record.
This volume is focused around a group of ancient and medieval figural graffiti found in 2015 by an archaeological project of the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan, at the site of El-Kurru. Located in northern Sudan, El-Kurru was a royal pyramid burial ground of kings and queens of Kush from about 850 to 650 BCE. Written in conjunction with the exhibition Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile at the Kelsey Museum (on view 23 August 2019–29 March 2020), essays by an international group of seven scholars present the site of El-Kurru and its graffiti in historical context. Chapters discuss the history of Kush, ancient graffiti in a funerary temple and medieval graffiti on a pyramid at El-Kurru, and graffiti at other sites in Kush and Egypt (Musawwarat es-Sufra, Philae, and Banganarti) and beyond (Pompeii). Other chapters discuss the rock art of Sudan and methods used for the conservation and documentation of graffiti at El-Kurru. The volume concludes with an annotated catalog of graffiti from El-Kurru and a photo essay of the contemporary Nile Valley practice of “Hajj images” that commemorate Muslim pilgrimage.

Written to engage non-specialist readers, the book will be of interest to archaeologists, ancient and medieval historians, and art historians working in the Nile Valley and beyond, and to a broader community interested in these subjects.
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Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile and Beyond
Kelsey Museum Publications 16
Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2019
ISBN: 978-0-9906623-9-6
Pp. xviii + 193, color illustrations throughout
Paperback, 7" x 10"
$39.00

There’s one more week before the start of classes, and I’m trying to wrap up some small projects that have been lingering around all summer.

The first one on the list is putting together the “almost final version” of my paper for last fall’s DATAM: Digital Approaches for Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean conference at NYU’s ISAW (I wrote a little review of that conference here). The Digital Press is going to publish a small, but intriguing collection of papers from that conference with a short introduction and conclusion. 

My paper considered the various digital divides in my classrooms at the University of North Dakota. The first divide is the conventional difference between students who have access to technology and those who do not. This shapes how they engage and use technology in their everyday lives. The second-level divide involves the willingness of individuals to produce as well as consume digital media. Finally, because I really can’t help myself, I offered a critique of how prosumer culture has shaped the way that I taught in a Scale-Up style classroom. Some of this critique came from an unpublished paper that I wrote with a graduate student many years ago (you can read that unpublished paper here).  

If you’re interested in my paper, “Dissecting Digital Divides,” you can check it out here and stay tuned for the volume later this fall!! 

AIO Papers complement the English translations of Attic inscriptions available on Attic Inscriptions Online. They are designed:
a) to clarify the Greek texts underlying the translations published in AIO.
b) to equip the user of AIO with the background knowledge necessary to understand the inscriptions in historical context.
c) to advance the understanding of Attic inscriptions consistently with the objectives of AIO.
AIO Papers is a peer-reviewed series. Charges are levied only where necessary to cover costs (e.g. of translation) incurred in producing the papers.

AIO Papers 11

S. D. Lambert and J. G. Schneider - The Last Athenian Decrees Honouring Ephebes

The Athenian Council and/or Assembly regularly inscribed decrees in the Agora honouring the young men, or ephebes, who had performed national service, from the Chremonidean War (266/5 BC) through to the Augustan period. The last five of these monuments post-date the sack of Athens by Sulla in 86 BC, and a full set of the texts has not been available since 1916 (IG II²), since when the progress of scholarship has made it almost impossible for specialists, let alone non-specialist researchers and students, to obtain an overview of these important documents. This paper accompanies the publication on AIO of new Greek texts, based on autopsy, and annotated English translations, of all five monuments. For ease of future reference it includes complete Greek texts of the two most substantial sets of decrees, IG II² 1039 +, honouring the ephebes of 80/79 BC and their officers, and 1043 +, honouring the ephebes of 38/7 or 37/6 BC and their officers, with textual notes. Though most of the fragments of post-Sullan ephebic decrees are still in Athens, one (IG II² 1042 fr. b) is in the British Museum, and to accompany this paper we are also publishing a short video about this inscription on the AIO Youtube channel.

AIO Papers 10

S. D. Lambert - Short Teaching Guide to Materials Available on Attic Inscriptions Online

This paper is designed as a short guide for teachers and students to the materials available on Attic Inscriptions Online. After an overview, there are some Frequently Asked Questions, followed by brief lists of some key materials arranged by topic. We welcome suggestions for ways we might improve this guide.

AIO Papers 9

S. D. Lambert - 357/6 BC: A Significant Year in the Development of Athenian Honorific Practice

The main purpose of this short paper is to draw attention to the significance of 357/6 BC as the year that dedications by Athenian officials begin to refer to the crowning of officials by the Council and/or People (section 2). It also makes a case for lowering the accepted date at which the Athenians began honouring more than one Council prytany per year from ca. 340 BC to after 307/6 BC (section 3) and proposes consequential changes to the editions of some relevant inscriptions in IG II3 4 fasc. 1, mainly to dates (section 4). The paper concludes with a brief note on historical context (section 5).

AIO Papers 8

S. D. Lambert - Two Inscribed Documents of the Athenian Empire: The Chalkis Decree and the Tribute Reassessment Decree

This paper discusses two important inscriptions for the history of the Athenian Empire, the Chalkis decree of 446/5 (or 424/3?) BC (IG I³ 40) and the tribute reassessment decree (“Thoudippos’ decree”) of 425/4 BC (IG I³ 71). Based on English translations of the most up-to-date and authoritative Greek texts, the paper sets out to explain the inscriptions in historical context, without assuming prior knowledge of ancient Greek or of the history of Athens and the Athenian Empire. To help the reader new to the study of Athenian inscriptions, the Paper includes an introduction to inscribed Athenian decrees of the fifth century BC. This paper will be useful for researchers, teachers and learners of Greek History at University level, but is also designed to help 6th-form teachers and students in the UK with the study of these two inscriptions, which are set as source material for the “Relations between Greek states and between Greek and non-Greek states, 492-404 BC” period study under the OCR specification for A-level Ancient History (H407, for first assessment in 2019; LACTOR⁴ 1.78 and 138). Note: minor corrections were incorporated on 28 June 2017. Hard copies are available through Andromeda Books.

AIO Papers 7

S. D. Lambert with a contribution by J. D. Morgan - The Last Erechtheion Building Accounts

This paper presents up-to-date texts, informed by relevant work published since 2000, of the two extant sets of fragments of the building accounts of the Erechtheion in Ionic script as a basis for translations of these accounts published simultaneously on AIO. It reviews the date of these accounts, and presents a fresh argument by John Morgan to the effect that, if certain assumptions are made, no. 2 (IG I³ 477) is datable to 405/4 BC. That would make it probably the latest extant account. Morgan also finds in this fragment a supporting argument for the position initially aired in AIO Papers 5, p. 3, that the Council's year and the archon's year were not made systematically coterminous in 407 BC, as had previously been thought, but continued to be out of step, probably until ca. 403 BC.

This section of AIO publishes Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections (AIUK). Starting in 2018, each volume of AIUK will contain the Attic inscriptions in a different UK collection. The largest collection, in the British Museum, will be published in separate parts for each category of inscription. To accompany these new scholarly editions, more lightly annotated translations of the inscriptions will be published on the AIO main site, together with Greek texts and images.

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AIUK vol. 6 (2019): Leeds City Museum - Peter Liddel and Polly Low

AIUK 6 publishes a new edition of the inscribed fourth-century Attic funerary monument with relief in the collection of the Leeds City Museum and narrates the sequence of events by which it and a number of other antiquities were acquired by two young Yorkshiremen visiting Greece on the “Grand Tour” in 1817, and were eventually donated to the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society in 1863. An Appendix discusses another inscribed funerary monument in the collection, currently identified as Attic in most standard epigraphical reference works, but actually from the island of Rheneia by Delos.

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AIUK vol. 5 (2019): Lyme Park - Peter Liddel and Polly Low

AIUK 5 publishes new editions of the two Attic inscriptions at Lyme Park, Cheshire, both of them funerary monuments with relief sculpture dating from the fourth century BC. In addition to analysis of the monuments in their ancient context, the volume explores the engaging history of their acquisition in Athens in 1811 or 1812 by Thomas Legh and their display as part of his design for the Library of Lyme Park. AIUK 5 also discusses briefly the intriguing uninscribed piece of fourth-century Athenian sculpture depicting a seated man with comic masks, which is displayed in the same room.

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AIUK vol. 3 (2018): Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - Stephen Lambert

This, the third volume of AIUK, publishes new editions of the nine Attic inscriptions in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, seven of which are on display in the Museum’s Greek and Roman galleries. In addition to two Assembly decrees (1, 2), the collection contains the “Sandwich marble”, an important set of accounts of the sanctuary of Apollo on Delos (3). It also includes six inscribed Attic funerary monuments (4-9), and the discussions of the individual monuments are preceded by a general introduction to the major styles of private Attic funerary monument represented in the collection. The volume contains a number of new readings and fresh observations on most of the inscriptions discussed.

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AIUK vol. 2 (2018): British School at Athens - Stephen Lambert

This second volume of AIUK contains the fifteen Attic inscriptions in the collection of the British School at Athens, most of which once belonged to the nineteenth-century philhellene, historian of modern Greece and resident of Athens, George Finlay. Though modest in size, the collection offers a rich variety of insights into the life of our best documented ancient Greek city between the fifth century BC and the third century AD. It also offers representative examples of three major genres of Attic inscription: two Assembly decrees (1, 2); five dedications or statue bases (3, 4, 5, 6, 7); and seven funerary monuments (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15); in addition to a list of names, perhaps of donors, on a wall block (8). Three of the Attic funerary monuments, 9, 10 and 14, are on permanent display in the BSA entrance hall, and the remaining inscriptions are kept in the School’s museum collection.

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AIUK vol. 1 (2018): Petworth House - Stephen Lambert

This, the inaugural volume of AIUK, publishes the important hellenistic inscription in Petworth House. Dating to 108/7 BC it honours the maidens who worked on the robe (peplos) for the statue of Athena. Another small fragment of the same inscription is in the Epigraphical Museum, Athens. It is one of three similar inscriptions which date to around the same decade and seem to reflect a revival or reform of the arrangements for making the peplos, which was carried in procession and presented to the goddess at the Panathenaia festival. The names of the maidens are listed in a “roll of honour” at the bottom of the inscription. This and the lists of maidens in the other two inscriptions supply us with much of our information on the female members of elite Athenian families at this period.

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Peter Damerow (1939–2011) was a visionary scholar of rare versatility. A key figure in the foundation and early development of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, he contributed to fields as wide-ranging as pedagogy, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, Near Eastern studies, as well as the history of knowledge and science. Through his work and his dynamic personality, he shaped the careers of many scholars worldwide. He was a paragon of the engaged scientist, having great sensitivity for political and social concerns and a perceptiveness that also shaped his scholarship. The present volume attempts to capture the vivacity of his ever-curious mind. It comprises contributions by some of his closest companions, colleagues, and friends, most of which were presented at a workshop held in Peter’s honor at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in December 19–20, 2013. The contributions are organized in four parts, the first three of which cover some of the areas of Peter’s interests: the origins of writing and mathematics; the history of knowledge and science; and societal concerns and the role of information technologies for the humanities. The last part offers a glimpse at his life and also presents the scope of his scholarship with a bibliography of his writings.

Introduction
Jürgen Renn, Matthias Schemmel

Part 1: Early Writing and Abstraction

2Learning from Kushim About the Origins of Writing and Farming
Jürgen Renn

3What Is a Number? What Is a Concept? Who Has a Number Concept?
Jens Høyrup

4Towards the Deciphering of the “Blau Monuments”: Some New Readings and Perspectives
Manfred Krebernik

5The Chinese Sexagenary Cycle and the Origin of the Chinese Writing System
William G. Boltz

6‘Real Abstraction’ and the Origins of Intellectual Abstraction in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ancient Economic History as a Key to the Understanding and Evaluation of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value
Joachim Schaper

7Meat Distribution in Late Uruk Diacritical Feasts: Second-Order Bookkeeping Techniques and their Institutional Context in Late Fourth Millennium BCE Mesopotamia
J. Cale Johnson

8Pappus’ Theory in Mesopotamian Science
Markham J. Geller

9Astronomical Knowledge in The Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch: Traces of Ancient Scientific Models
Florentina Badalanova Geller

Part 2: History of Knowledge and Material Representations

10Können Entwicklungspsychologie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte voneinander lernen?
Katja Bödeker

11Piaget, Einstein, and the Concept of Time
Tilman Sauer

12Zur historischen Epistemologie des Raumes
Matthias Schemmel

13Paper Tools
Ursula Klein

14Drawing Instruments
Wolfgang Lefèvre

15Der Würfel auf der Spitze: Pieros inszenierter Blick
Diethelm Stoller

16The Emergence of the Idea of Real Number in the Context of Theoretical Music in the Renaissance
Oscar Abdounur

Part 3: Societal Challenges and Electronic Visions

17In anderen Zeiten. Die Idee des Comenius-Gartens
Henning Vierck

18The Dramatic Pace of Acculturation and the Ability of So Many Eipo to Jump From Stone Age to Computer Age in One Generation … Without Having Read Aristotle
Wulf Schiefenhövel

19A Textbook for Teaching Mathematics in Brazilian Indigenous Schools
Circe Mary Silva da Silva

20Beyond Archimedes: The History and Future of the Arboreal Software
Mark J. Schiefsky

21A Computational Research System for the History of Science
Julia Damerow, Erick Peirson, Manfred D. Laubichler

Part 4: A Glimpse of His Life

22Peter Damerow (1939–2011)
Jürgen Renn

23Es begann mit den Zahlen
Kristina Vaillant

24Peter Damerow’s Publications

Afek (Erasmus Gaß); Akklamation (Matthias Hopf); Aroer (Erasmus Gaß); Atalja (Judit Filitz); Bascha (Monika Egger); Delitzsch, Franz (Meik Gerhards); Ela (Judit Filitz); Gilead (Klaus Koenen); Hiwiter (Erasmus Gaß); Jair (Klaus Koenen); Kir (Klaus Koenen); Kirjat-Jearim (Erasmus Gaß); Kreter und Pleter (Christina Duncker); Maacha (Andrea Fischer); Machir (Klaus Koenen); Muraschu (Franziska Ede); Perisiter (Erasmus Gaß); Piraton (Klaus Koenen); Rehob (Erasmus Gaß); Reichsautorisation (Anna Maria Bortz); Ribla (Klaus Koenen); Schallum (Kristin Weingart); Schefela (Erasmus Gaß); Scheschbazar (Alexander Weidner); Secharja (Kristin Weingart); Sinim (Meik Gerhards); Sklaverei (Rainer Kessler); Steuern (Rainer Kessler); Tannin (Michaela Bauks); Tarsis (Ann-Christin Grüninger); Vaticinium ex eventu (Dominik Helms); Wohlgefallen (Johanna Erzberger)

 

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In my effort to clear my plate before the semester gets under way next week, I finished my short review of Terpstra’s Trade in the Ancient Mediterraneanfor the Ancient History Bulletin. The book was pretty good and engaged ancient trade in a thoughtful and sophisticated way. 

Terpstra argued, in a nutshell, that the parallel rise of ancient states and ancient trade represents the complex interplay between trade and community in the ancient world. States do not so much protect the property rights of merchants and property owners, but create social and political conditions where groups and individuals could create ways to protect their economic interests. He looks at diaspora communities in the Classical Greek world, the messy overlap between political and economic interests among royal administrators in the Hellenistic Egypt, and witness lists on private contracts in the Roman Empire. As I note in my review, Terpstra’s argument gets a bit shaky when he attempts to extend it to the end of the Roman Empire in the 5th to 7th centuries AD. The transformation of the Ancient Mediterranean creates new forms of social and political relationships that both adapt and disrupt long-standing economic relationships. For many parts of the Mediterranean, the emergence of new social and religious groups as well as new states changed the context for economic relationships, but as archaeological evidence from the Eastern Mediterranean increasingly shows, many economic ties between communities persisted even after their political ties dissolved. 

If you’d like to read my entire review, go here.   

Despite these quibbles, this book represented another really impressive volume from Princeton University Press. Last week, I read Kyle Harper’s 2017 book The Fate of Rome (more on that here) which is another well-produced book from Princeton. When you add to their catalogue, Josh Ober’s The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (2015) and Eric Cline’s 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (2015) Princeton has set the standard for well-produced, broadly accessible, and affordable books on the ancient world. The publisher in me admires their catalogue and the scholar in me wishes he had more time to read. 

The Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society (AIAS) was founded in 1961 by Professor Yigal Yadin, Dr Alec Lerner, Leon Shalit and Dr Richard Barnett. The aims of the society are to:

• Make recent developments in the archaeology of Israel and neighbouring countries more widely known in the UK
• Provide a series of illustrated public presentations explaining and informing on recent archaeological findings and new theories
• Regularly publish Strata, an internationally respected journal consisting of original research papers
• Provide grants for students of Middle Eastern Archaeology

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Koert van Bekkum, From Conquest to Coexistence: Ideology and Antiquarian Intent in the Historiography of Israel’s Settlement in Canaan, 2011 (Ovidiu Creangă)
Amnon Ben-Tor, Back To Masada, 2009 (Lester Grabbe)
Benjamin Sass and Joachim Marzahn, Aramaic and Figural Stamp Impressions on Bricks of the Sixth Century B.C. from Babylon, 2010 (John Healy)
Katell Berthelot and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (eds.), Aramaica Qumranica: Proceedings of the Conference on the Aramaic Texts from Qumran inAix-en-Provence 30 June–2 July 2008. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume 94, 2010 (Sandra Jacobs)
Albert I. Baumgarten, Hanan Eshel, Ranon Katzoff and Shani Tzoref (eds.),  Halakhah in Light of Epigraphy, 2011 (Aaron Koller)
R. Greenberg and A. Keinan, Israeli Archaeological Activity in the West Bank 1967–2007: A Sourcebook,2009 (Aren Maier)
David P. Wright,  Inventing God’s Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi2009 (Meir Malul)
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Hershel Shanks, Freeing the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other Adventures of an Archaeology Outsider. 2010 (Stephen Rosenberg)
Hershel Shanks, Jerusalem Forgery Conference, Special Report, 2010 (Stephen Rosenberg)
Mark J. Boda  and Jamie Novotny (eds.), From the Foundations to the Crenellations. Essays on Temple Building in the Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible, 2010 (Jonathon Stökl)
David J. Schloen (ed.), Exploring the Longue Durée: Essays in Honor of Lawrence E. Stager2009 (Lena-Sofia Tieymeyer)
Izaak J. de Hulster and Rüdiger Schmitt (eds.), Iconography and Biblical Studies: Proceedings of the Iconography Sessions at the Joint EABS/SBL Conference, 22–26 July 2007, Vienna, Austria. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 361 2009 (H.G.M. Williamson)
Yonatan Mizrachi, Archaeology in the Shadow of the Conflict: The Mound of Ancient Jerusalem (City of David) in Silwan 2010 (H.G.M. Williamson)
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The chapters contributed to the volume recognize the important and diverse contributions of mineralogy to the valorization, characterization, interpretation and conservation of cultural heritage. The book focuses on examples of materials and methodological issues rather than technical/analytical details. We have attempted to deal with the cultural heritage materials in chronological order of their technological developments, to relate them to past human activities, and to highlight unresolved problems in need of investigation.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: The role of modern mineralogy in cultural heritage studies
G. Artioli and R. Oberti
Chapter 2. Variations on the silica theme: Classification and provenance from Pliny to current supplies
E. Gliozzo
Chapter 3. Glass and other vitreous materials through history
I. Angelini, B. Gratuze and G. Artioli
Chapter 4. The Vitruvian legacy: Mortars and binders before and after the Roman world
G. Artioli, M. Secco and A. Addis
Chapter 5. Mineralogy of slags: A key approach for our understanding of ancient copper smelting processes
D. Bourgarit
Chapter 6. The struggle between thermodynamics and kinetics: Phase evolution of ancient and historical ceramics
R. B. Heimann and M. Maggetti
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I. Reiche
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G. Rapp
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M. P. Riccardi, L. Prosperi, S. C. Tarantino and M. Zema
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L. Lazzarini
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‘Ain Ghazal Excavation Reports 2: Evolution of Lithic Economies in the Levantine Neolithic: Development and Demise of Naviform Core Technology, as Seen at ‘Ain Ghazal, by L.A. Quintero

bibliotheca neolithica Asiae meridionalis et occidentalis (2010) & Yarmouk University, Monograph of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology (2010). (with 8 chapters, XIV+184 pages, 7 figs., 51 plates, 10 tables) [ISBN 978-3-98118884-4]
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Basta II. The Architecture and Stratigraphy, by H.G.K. Gebel, H.J. Nissen & Z. Zaid (with a contribution by M. Kinzel)

bibliotheca neolithica Asiae meridionalis et occidentalis (2006) & Yarmouk University, Monograph of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology 5 (2006). (XVI+306 pages, 56 figs., 72 plates, 6 tables, 6 appendices, 2 stratigraphical charts, 2 fold-up top plans as insertions) [ISBN 978-3-98075784-3]
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Basta I. The Human Ecology, ed. by H.J. Nissen, M. Muheisen & H.G.K. Gebel (with contributions by M. Thaís Crepaldi Affonso, C. Becker, H.G.K. Gebel, A. Hauptmann, B. Dahl Hermansen, U. Kamp, M. Muheisen, R. Neef, H.J. Nissen, E. Pernicka & N. Qadi)

bibliotheca neolithica Asiae meridionalis et occidentalis (2004) & Yarmouk University, Monograph of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology 4 (2004). (with 10 specialist contributions, XV+310 pages, 69 figs., 34 plates, 63 tables/diagrams/appendices) [ISBN 978-3-98075780-5]

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See AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Monograph Series in Ancient Studies

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean. Reports, appears annually, in English, presenting the full extent of archaeological, geophysical, restoration and study work carried out by expeditions from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The PCMA is present in the Near East and northeastern Africa (Egypt, Sudan, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Kuwait, formerly also in Iraq). Projects cover all periods from prehistory and protohistory through the Islamic age, emphasizing in particular broadly understood Greco-Roman culture and Early Christianity in the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean.

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The original arrangement of the Upper Courtyard of the Temple of Hatshepsut in the light of recent archaeological results, pp. 17–32

Autor: Sergio Alarcon Robledo

Dipinti in the relieving chamber above the Bark Hall of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, pp. 33–49

Autor: Mirosław Barwik

New foundation deposits in the Hathor Shrine of Tuthmosis III at Deir el-Bahari, pp. 51–69

Autor: Nathalie Beaux, Mariusz Caban, and Dawid Wieczorek

Remarkable botanical remains from a new foundation deposit in the Hathor Shrine of Tuthmosis III at Deir el-Bahari, pp. 71–81

Autor: Nathalie Beaux

Archaeozoological identification of a species from the iconography: research in the Temple of Hathsepsut in Deir el-Bahari, pp. 83–116

Autor: Kamila Braulińska

Preliminary assessment of human remains from the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, pp. 117–128

Autor: Roselyn A. Campbell

Transporting False Doors at the construction site of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, pp. 129–142

Autor: Teresa Dziedzic

The Ritual of the Hours of the Day on the inner vault of the Qrsw-coffin of Nes(pa)qashuty from Deir el-Bahari, pp. 143–182

Autor: Erhart Graefe

The Ritual of the Hours of the Night on the coffins of Heresenes and Nespaqashuty from Deir el-Bahari, pp. 183–224

Autor: Kenneth Griffin

Two relief fragments from the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in the Egypt Centre, Swansea, pp. 227–235

Autor: Kenneth Griffin

A medley of mummies from Deir el-Bahari, pp. 237–258

Autor: Salima Ikram, Carlos Prates, Sandra Sousa, and Carlos Oliveira

Clay funerary figurines from tombs MMA 1151 and MMA 1152 in Sheikh Abd el-Gurna, pp. 259–273

Autor: Marta Kaczanowicz

“The gods bestow life”. New material to the divine processions in the Vestibule of the Chapel of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, pp. 275–289

Autor: Edyta Kopp

Stamped bricks of Amenhotep I from Deir el-Bahari, pp. 291–300

Autor: Adrianna Madej

Third Intermediate Period funerary assemblages from the Chapel of Hatshepsut, pp. 301–324

Autor: Frédéric Payraudeau

Montu priestly families at Deir el-Bahari in the Third Intermediate Period, pp. 325–364

Autor: Cynthia May Sheikholeslami

Inscribed pot-stands represented in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, pp. 365–374

Autor: Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczyńska

Remarks on royal statues in the form of the god Osiris from Deir el-Bahari, pp. 375–390

Autor: Zbigniew E. Szafrański

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PAM Monograph Series to publikacje końcowe i wyniki badań dotyczące obecnych i archiwalnych badań wykopaliskowych prowadzonych przez Centrum. Seria, której współwydawcą są Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, istnieje od 2009 roku; wcześniej ukazywała się jako PAM Supplement Series.

PCMA Excavation Series to seria zainicjowana w 2011 roku, poświęcona prezentacji wyników badań wykopaliskowych Centrum. Są to zarówno końcowe publikacje wykopalisk, jak i raporty pośrednie z określonych etapów badań, zarówno czysto archeologicznych, jak i konserwatorskich czy rekonstrukcyjnych oraz wchodzących w zakres nauk pomocniczych, takich jak archeozoologia, archeobotanika, topografia, geofizyka itp.

The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota is excited to announce the launch of Dakota Datebook: North Dakota Stories from Prairie Publicedited by David Haeselin. Developed in collaboration with the University of North Dakota’s Writing, Editing, and Publishing program and in cooperation with Prairie Public Broadcasting, Dakota Datebook brings to the printed page some of the most memorably, inspiring, and humorous stories from Prairie Public’s iconic Dakota Datebook radio program. Download a digital copy for free from the Digital Press webpage or pre-order your copy from Prairie Public today!

On Saturday at 8 pm, The Digital Press and Prairie Public are hosting a launch part on board the Lewis and Clark Riverboat on the Missouri River in Bismarck. Various media personalities will be there, as will David Haeselin and some Dakota Datebook contributors. It should be a great time. To get tickets for the boat ride and to come and hang out with us go here.

For more on the boat, the book, and the party, check out Aaron Barth’s interview on Prairie Public’s Main Street on Monday.

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A few more things from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.

1. Busy Year! This will be one of the busiest years yet for The Digital Press with as many as five titles queued up to hit the website over the next 8 to 12 months. Late this fall, we’ll see the arrival of Shawn Graham’s Failing Gloriously and Other Essays. Stay tuned for a sneak preview of this. A book of essays from last fall’s Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean conference at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU and edited by Sebastian Heath should appear by year’s end as well.

In the spring, we’re looking forward to publishing Kyle Conway’s innovative edited volume, Sixty Years of Boom and Bust which juxtaposes the 1958 Williston Report with perspectives on the 21st century boom penned some 60 years later. It’s a fascinating read. There should also be volume 3 of our collaboration with the journal Epoiesen and maybe some previews from our 2020-2021 season.

2. Subscriptions? So far, The Digital Press hasn’t done much to connect personally with our readers. We’d like to change that some. I’ve been tempted to offer a subscription service of sorts through an email list that will distribute our newest publications and occasional news direct to your inbox (as the kids say). I’d run it through MailChimp or some other service that would make it easy enough to unsubscribe or to opt out. I wouldn’t share your emails with anyone (although I might be tempted to use it to plug for my other little publishing venture, North Dakota Quarterly).

3. Promoting Open Access. I’ve been thinking a good bit about the larger mission to promote open access publishing in academia. One thing that I would love to do this year is to pay more attention to open access publishing in general (whether from mainstream academic presses or from more specialized open access publishing houses). I’d love to do an “Open Access Book of the Week” that highlights some of the high quality open access work appearing these days.

I’d also like to start to build another project. It’s called Cite Open Access. It would promote citing open access scholarship across all forms of scholarly publishing. My fantasy idea involves getting various artists to design simply, legible posters that say Cite Open Access on them (and I’d urge folks to use open access fonts and it would go without saying that the posters would be free downloads). Ideally, I could get libraries, open access publishers, “fellow travelers,” and other supporters of open access scholarly work to co-sponsor various posters. I’d then distribute digital copies of these posters and encourage folks to display them prominently on their campuses. Who’s in?

4. Internet Archive. Finally, I’ve uploaded almost all the content from The Digital Press to the Internet Archive this weekend. One of the many great things about the Internet Archive is that it automatically converts our PDFs into multiple formats. The automated system isn’t perfect, but it works well enough to make our content available for text mining or ebook readers!

A database of the Celtic personal names of Roman Britain (CPNRB)

TS 9 (p. 120) which contains such Celtic names as Cunomoltus and Senovara (we are grateful to Roger Tomlin for permission to repoduce this image).

This database collects all the personal names from Roman Britain which are thought to contain Celtic elements. While personal names from Gaul have received considerable attention over the years in works such as GPN and KGP, the huge increase in the number of names (from the finds in Bath and Vindolanda, together with the publication of RIB II) now makes it imperative that the data is available in a easily searchable format. It is hoped that this database will offer a useful and flexible tool by which the information provided by personal names from Roman Britain can be integrated into the scholarship both of Roman Britain and of name-studies more generally (for a discussion based on the epigraphic data published up to and including 2005, see Mullen 2007a). If funding were available, this database might be a prototype for a much-needed database of all personal names attested from Roman Britain.

The data can be searched and sorted under a number of headings, such as name forms, gender, date, location of find, type of source, etc.; for details, see Further Information.
The database began as a collection of Celtic personal names from Roman Britain created by Paul Russell which was then updated and revised by Alex Mullen. The material has been converted into a database by Pádraic Moran. We are grateful to Jen Pollard for agreeing to host the database on the website of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic in the University of Cambridge.

This project has received generous financial support from the John Chadwick Greek and Latin Research Fund of the Classics Faculty in the University of Cambridge and from the Legonna Celtic Research Prize organized by the Council of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (won by Paul Russell in 2003). We are immensely grateful to both.
Paul Russell (web page)
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
Alex Mullen (web page)
University of Nottingham

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Res Militares is the official newsletter of the Society. It appears twice per year and it is edited by the SAMH Secretary. If you have any news, CFPs, conference or lecture announcements related to ancient warfare studies, please contact Dr. Ioannis Georganas. Publishers can send their books for review to the Book Reviews Editor, Dr. Lee Brice.

2019
res_militares_2019.1.pdf 

2018
res_militares_2018.1.pdf

2017
res_militares_2017.1.pdf

2016
res_militares_2016.1.pdf

2015
res_militares_2015.1.pdf

2014
Vol. 14.2
Vol. 14.1

2013
Vol. 13.1

2012
Vol. 12.2
Vol. 12.1

2011
Vol. 11.2
Vol. 11.1

This tool will let you create PDFs based on selected texts from the ORACC corpora. At the moment it's quite basic, it just loads the text data from the projects individual text JSON files. Some projects have cuneiform signs included, some have normalization, some only have transliteration. Right now the tool is not smart enough to tell you what's available before it generates the PDF.

This tool can be used to create PDFs of texts for classroom use, or personal study and reading. All texts are credited according to the information in the ORACC JSON file. The general workflow is as follows:

1. Select a corpus to load. This will download and unzip the corpus file from the ORACC Github repository in the background and populate a list of texts from that archive.
2. Select one or more texts to include in your PDF. It can be useful here to use your webbrowser's find feature (usually Ctrl-F or Command-F) to search for texts. When you've selected the texts you want, scroll to the bottom of the list and hit "Submit".
3. Select the options for the PDF: page size, and which lines from the text to include (cuneiform, transliteration, normalization). Press "Generate PDF" and wait for the download button to become active.

This tool was created by Willis Monroe, and I'd be grateful for any feedback. Is there a particular corpus or text that breaks the PDF output? Is there an additional needed option? Could the workflow be improved?

Send any issues/queries/improvements my way, either by e-mail, or by using Github's issue tracker.

I’m slowly working through my pile of articles that I need to read, and yesterday read William Carruthers’ “Credibility, civility, and the archaeological dig house in mid-1950’s Egypt” in the Journal of Social Archaeology 19(2) 255–276. The article is really great. 

Carruthers studied the social and political context for the the construction and outfitting of the dig house built by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at the site of Mit Rahina in Egypt. The initial efforts to arrange for the dig house were led by John Dimick, a businessman whose wife’s donations led him to become nominal director of the project. Dimick’s impolitic, impolite, and explicitly colonialist attitude toward the project’s Egyptian collaborators jeopardized the construction of the house. Carruthers unpacks the backdrop of 1950s Egypt, the rise of Nasser and a growing sense of political and cultural confidence that defined elite Egyptian society and the newly autonomous Department of Antiquities. The project was only salvaged when the more experienced archaeologist, Rudolf Anthes, who was the research lead on the project, interceded and managed to smooth over hurt feelings and coordinate the construction of the dig house for the Penn team. The intention of the Mit Rahina team to train the Egyptian archaeologists in scientific practices only added to the complex backdrop of the dig house’s construction. 

Carruthers recognized that the dig house was a liminal space between the authority of the host country and the values and practical needs of foreign project. As someone who has worked at a number of project with their own dig house, this space is a familiar one. In fact, this summer, there was a good bit of talk about upgrading the simple dig house of the Princeton Cyprus Expedition in Polis with new mattresses, screens, and maybe even wifi. In Corinth, the iconic Hill House of the American School of Classical Studies, secure behind its imposing stone wall, has long embodied and belied certain aspects of the relationship between Corinth Excavations and the village. The dig house of the Ohio State Excavations at Isthmia is a model of functionality with storage and work spaces. My formative years as an archaeologist occurred against a backdrop of constant maintenance to the buildings overseen by the late, memorable, and endlessly creative “Yannis the Workman” (and son). In all these cases, dig houses reflected spaces of negotiated expectations, expertise, and culture. Carruthers’ article offers a more historically sophisticated and refined take on the space of the dig house as one of the key spaces of negotiation for archaeology especially in a post-colonial context.

(As a curious and historical aside, the story of the “first dig house” in Polis on Cyprus is quite sordid. From J.A. R. Munro and H. A. Tubbs. “Excavations in Cyprus, 1889. Second Season’s Work. Polis tes Chrysochou-Limniti.” JHS 11 (1890): 1–99: “A half-empty house in the village of Poli, into which we effected a forcible entry in the owner’s absence, inducing the inhabitants of the courtyard sheds by bribery or eviction to seek quarters elsewhere, furnished lodging and storage room; and within two days we were settled there with all our belongings.”

One thing that piqued my interest in particular was the material culture of dig houses. While Carruthers’ article does not delve into the material culture of the Mit Rahina except in the broadest possible way. I’d be interested in understanding how dig houses changed over time from both a historical and archaeological perspective. Morgan and Eddisford offer an opening into this kind of research in their 2015 article in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology: “Dig Houses, Dwelling, and Knowledge Production in Archaeology.” 

Over the past few years, I’ve thought about the various buildings around the site and village at Polis that have formed part of Princeton’s archaeological infrastructure. One particularly ramshackle building, called the “Sheep Shed,” stands atop part of an Early Christian basilica and was used in various capacities from storage and work rooms to make-shift bunks for volunteers. The building has been stripped of its doors and windows and is in pretty poor condition, but I suspect that it preserves enough of its past lives to tell some of the story of the excavations at Polis. Whether this story would be different from the established narratives about Polis is hard to know, but the opportunity to document this building and trace signs of its various uses is tempting. The work of Carruthers and Morgan and Eddisford gives me a context for just this kind of research.