The Alexander romance by Ps.-Callisthenes : a historical commentary /
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The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes of Krzysztof Nawotka is a guide to a third century AD fictional biography of Alexander the Great, the anonymous Historia Alexandri Magni . It is a historical commentary which identifies all names and places in this piece of Greek literature approached as a source for the history of Alexander the Great, from kings, like Nectanebo II of Egypt and Darius III of Persia, to fictional characters. It discusses real and imaginary geography of the Alexander Romance . While dealing with all aspects of Ps.-Callisthenes relevant to Greek history and to Macedonia, its pays particular attention to aspects of ancient history and culture of Babylonia and Egypt and to the multi-layered foundation story of Alexandria.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004335226 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Newsletter, Number 66 (July 1968)
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The tourists who wend their way through the narrow streets of Esna in order to visit the temple situated in the city's busiest section, never dream that out beyond the crowded town, the desert, seemingly so empty and barren, likewise contains numerous and interesting vestiges of antiquity, mainly of the early Christian period. It was with the idea of rounding out his picture of the ancient remains in the vicinity of Esna that Serge Sauneron, of the French Institute of Archaeology in Cairo, who has long been occupied with the publication of the temple itself, decided to investigate these Christian sites, one of which had been brought to his attention by the local schoolmaster. My husband and I in our respective capacities as architect and archaeologist accompanied him and the other members of the Institute staff during the two seasons' work.
Papyri, Ostraca and Waxed Tablets in the Leiden Papyrological Institute /
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The seriesPapyrologica Lugduno-Batava is intended as a forum for the publication of texts, articles and monographs on the theme of law and society in Ancient Egypt, in particular in the Graeco-Roman period. The focus of the series lies on the Greek sources, however attention is also given to demotic texts, as well as to documents in Hieratic, Coptic and Latin. The series is a publication of the Foundation for the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden. The aim of the Foundation is the promotion of the study of Greek and Demotic papyrology in Leiden.
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1 online resource :
9789004427792
9789004093393
L'imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante : Une analyse comparée de la notion de "demon" dans la Septante et dans la Bible Hébraïque /
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This book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of divine powers in Hellenistic Judaism, thereby revealing the role of the Greek translation of the Bible in shaping ancient demonology, angelology, and pneumatology. Combining philological and semantic analyses with a historical approach and anthropological insights, the author both develops a new method for analyzing religious categories within biblical traditions and sheds new light on the importance of the Septuagint for the history of ancient Judaism. Le livre propose une analyse approfondie des démons dans la Bible Hébraïque et la Septante, à la lumière du Proche Orient Ancient et du contexte grec. Par un nouvel angle d'approche, Anna Angelini met en lumière dynamiques de continuité et de changement dans les représentations des puissances divines à l'époque hellénistique, en soulignant l'importance de la traduction grecque de la Bible pour la compréhension de la démonologie, de l'angélologie et de la pneumatologie antiques. En intégrant l'analyse philologique et sémantique avec une approche historique et des méthodes anthropologiques, l'autrice développe une nouvelle méthodologie pour analyser des catégories religieuses à l'intérieur des traditions bibliques et affirme la valeur de la Septante pour l'histoire du judaïsme antique.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004468474
9789004468467
Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity : Towards a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach /
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Documentary texts are vital to our understanding of many aspects of the ancient world, such as its administration, education, and economy. The value of these texts goes even further however: being autographs, they directly testify to ancient communication practices, a field of study which so far has remained underexplored. In this volume, specialists in the field engage with a broad range of documentary sources. They discuss not only how various modes of communication, such as language, handwriting, and lay-out, are employed in specific contexts of writing, but also how these different modes are interrelated. Building on insights from contemporary social-semiotic theory, the volume makes a case for the establishment of historical social semiotics as a discipline.
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1 online resource :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004526518
9789004526525
The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of the Levant : c. 8000-332 BCE /
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"This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that linked the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The Levant as used here is a historical geographical term referring to a large area which today comprises the modern states of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, western Syria, and Cyprus, as well as the West Bank, Gaza, and the Sinai Peninsula. Unique in its treatment of the entire region, it offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the current state of the archaeology of the Levant within its larger cultural, historical, and socio-economic contexts. The Handbook also attempts to bridge the modern scholarly and political divide between archaeologists working in this highly contested region" -- Jacket.
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Series statement from jacket. :
xxi, 885 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780199212972 :
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ABSTRACTS : 1978 ANNUAL MEETING APRIL 14, 15, and 16, 1978 : NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
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Herodotus' Autopsy Of The Pyramids / O. Kimball Armayor -- Ramesses XI At Hierakonopolis / Klaus Baer -- Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum (C.A.A.) / Robert S. Bianchi -- The Sculpture Of Sesostris I / Bernard V. Bothmer -- The Singer With The Glorious Harp Of Amen, Amenemheb Mehu / Edward Brovarski -- The Invasion Of Piankhy (Piye) Into Lower Egypt / Duane L. Christensen -- The Development Of The Back Pillar In The Late Period / Herman de Meulenaere -- Hecataeus Of Abdera's Account Of The Egyptians' Expulsion Of Foreigners: Did It Derive From An Egyptian Source? / Frances Henderson Diamond -- A Statuette From The Field Museum Of Natural History, Chicago / Earl L. Ertman -- The 1977-78 Season At The Korn El Ahmar (Hierakonopolis) / Walter Fairservis -- Sinuhe: The Ancient Egyptian Genre Of Narrative Verse / John L. Foster --On The Meaning Of The Name Akhenaten / Florence Friedman -- The Egyptian Second Canon And Archaic Greek Sculpture / Eleanor Guralnick -- Age Of The Pharaohs At Death From The Perspective Of Developmental Rate In Modern Nubia / James E. Harris -- Slate Figure Of Anubis From The Reign Of Menkaure / Lynn Holmquist Holden -- Survey Work In The Wadi Tumilat, 1977 / John S. Holladay, Jr. -- The Demotic Legal Code Of Hermopolis West / George R. Hughes -- The Functions Of Departments Of Egyptian Antiquities / T. G. H. James -- The 1977-78 Season At Queseir / Janet Johnson and Donald S. Whitcomb -- The Scatophagous Egyptian / Gerald E. Kadish The Painter Hormin And The Style Of Th. T. 359 / Cathleen Keller -- The Tomb As Pavillion Of The Soul / Arielle P. Kozloff -- The Naukratis Project: 1977-78 / Albert Leonard, Jr. -- The Personnel Of The Funerary Stelae Of The Middle Kingdom / Ronald Jacques Leprohon -- A Dynasty 21 Royal Bust In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art / Yitzhak Margowsky -- Procopius Or Eutychius (Sa'Td Ibn Batriq) On The Construction Of The Monastery At Mt. Sinai: Which Is The More Reliable Source? / Philip Mayerson -- A Suggestion On The Origin Of Late Egyptian I(W)N3 / Edmund S. Meltzer -- Henri De Morgan's Excavations With Special Consideration To Two Important Predynastic Graves / Winifred Needier -- "Under The Chair"; A Problem Of Egyptian Perspective / Del Nord -- Abydos: Recent Discoveries / David O'Connor -- Report On The 3rd Season Of The East Karnak Excavations / Donald B. Redford -- The Origin Of Aha (Also Called Bes) / James F. Romano -- The Reassembly Of The Temple Of Dendur In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art / Arthur Rosenblatt -- Egyptian Royal Sculpture Of The Seventh Century B.C.:
Some Remarks And A Proposed Addition / Edna R. Russmann -- Physical Deterioration Of The Royal Tombs In The Valley Of The Kings / John B. Rutherford -- The Winged Reshep / Allan R. Schulman -- Orthography and "Archaism" In Official Writings Of The Late Period / Elizabeth Sherman -- A Lost Kingdom In Nubia At The Dawn Of History And The Problem Of Kushite Origins / Bruce Williams -- A Reinterpretation Of The Blade-Like Objects Found Upon Tabletops In Egyptian Offering Scenes / Charles E. Worsham -- An Index Of Demotic Literature (I.D.L.) / Karl-Theodor Zauzich -- Some Problems In The Literary Analysis Of Medieval Arabic Adab Works / Fedwa Malti Douglas -- Al-Maqrizi’s Prophecy In The Middle Ages: The History Of Famines In Egypt / Sami A. Hanna -- An Egyptian Drawing: A Study Of Early Fatimid Sources / Eva Hoffman -- New Evidence For The Possible Provenance And Fate Of A Major Medieval Monumental Bronze Sculpture / Marilyn Jenkins -- Towards A History Of Astronomy In Medieval Egypt / David A. King -- Early Lead Glazed Wares In Egypt: Evidence From Fustat / George T. Scanlon -- Medieval Textiles Of Bahnasa / Dorothy Shepherd -- Glass From Islamic Egypt In The Kelsey Museum / Priscilla P. Soucek -- The Past Reflected: The Poet As Historian In Three Occasional Poems By Abu Tammam / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- Further Comments On Medieval Egyptian Costume Modern Category / Yedida K. Stillman -- Leadership And Leadership Formation In Modern Egypt: A Comparative Study Of A Rural And Urban Community / P. Benedict € L. Cantori -- The Egyptian Wafd And Arab Nationalism: 1919-1939 / Ralph M. Coury -- The Socio-Economic Roots Of Nationalism: 2 cases: Egypt « Syria / Peter Gran -- Egyptian Engineers: The Reproduction Of A Bourgeoise / Clement Moore Henry -- Syrians In Egypt, 1875-1914? Exiles Or Members Of The Egyptian Society? / Thomas Philipp -- Egyptian Feminism Today / Kathleen Howard Merriam -- The Demands Of The Feminist Union / Michelle Raccagni -- Evidences Of Social S Political Change In Male/Female Roles In Modern Egypt; Amel—Village Bride, City Worker / Connie L. Shoemaker -- The Rise Of An Haute Bourgeoisie In Egypt, 1920-1950 / Robert Tignor.
Newsletter, 15 June 1955
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The Cairo season is coining to an end, at least as far as the Center is concerned. In a few days this office will be closed until September and I shall move to Alexandria to work at the Graeco-Roman Museum there for a month or so. The past eight and a half months seem to have gone by very quickly, but in retrospect they were rich and rewarding and full of pleasant interruptions which made the routine of research, office work, and field trips a rather varied experience. For one thing, we now have a group of Members, admittedly few in number, here in Cairo who are genuinely interested in the antiquity and art of the Nile Valley and there is hope that some day, in the not too distant future insha'allah, a permanent institution will serve American historians and archaeologists in this part of the Near East. There also was the never-ending stream of casual visitors who came from far away to ask advice as to the best way in which to get around in Egypt or to tell about their experiences. Among them we had a young American student from the Free University of Berlin who, without knowing any Arabic, traveled up and down the country for several weeks without encountering any difficulties or having trouble in finding a place to sleep. There were the Sunday excursions when peaceful temple ruins were swarming with children, and there were the quiet happy afternoons when this ,writer walked the length and breadth of northern Mitrahine with John Dimick in order to learn something about the topography of ancient Memphis from one who knew his levels and map coordinates. The group of Fulbright grantees is breaking up, and some of them have left already, and a few of our friends in the U.S. Information Service are being transferred or are going on home leave.
The archaeology of the Holy Land : from the destruction of Solomon's Temple to the Muslim conquest /
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"In the heart of the ancient Near East (modern Middle East) and at a crossroads between once mighty powers such as Assyria to the east and Egypt to the south is a tiny piece of land -- roughly the size of New Jersey -- that is as contested as it is sacred. One cannot even name this territory without sparking controversy. Originally called Canaan after its early inhabitants (the Canaanites), it has since been known by various names. To Jews this is Eretz-Israel (the Land of Israel), the Promised Land described by the Hebrew Bible as flowing with milk and honey. To Christians it is the Holy Land where Jesus Christ -- the messiah or anointed one -- was born, preached, and offered himself as the ultimate sacrifice. Under the Greeks and Romans, it was the province of Judea, a name which hearkened back to the biblical kingdom of Judah. After the Bar-Kokhba revolt ended in 135 C.E., Hadrian renamed the province Syria-Palestina, reviving the memory of the long-vanished kingdom of Philistia. Under early Islamic rule the military district (jund) of Filastin was part of the province of Greater Syria (Arabic Bilad al-Sham). In this book, the term Palestine is used to denote the area encompassing the modern state of Israel, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, and the Palestinian territories"--
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xiv, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780521124133 :
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The Nile mosaic of Palestrina : early evidence of Egyptian religion in Italy /
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The famous Nile Mosaic of Palestrina, ancient Praeneste in central Italy, dating to c. 100 B.C., is one of the earliest large mosaics which have been preserved from the classical world. It presents a unique, comprehensive picture of Egypt and Nubia. The interpretation of the mosaic is disputed, suggestions ranging from an exotic decoration to a topographical picture or a religious allegory. The present study demonstrates that the mosaic depicts rituals connected with Isis and Osiris and the yearly Nile flood. The presence of these Egyptian religious scenes at Praeneste can be explained by the assimilation of isis and Fortuna, the tutelary goddess of Praeneste, and by the interpretation of the mosaic as a symbol of divine providence.
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1 online resource (viii, 409 pages, [78] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-398) and index. :
9789004283831 :
0927-7633 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Pesher and hypomnema : a comparison of two commentary collections from the Hellenistic-Roman period /
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In Pesher and Hypomnema Pieter B. Hartog compares ancient Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Bible with papyrus commentaries on the Iliad . Hartog shows that members of the movement which produced and preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls adopted classical commentary writing and adapted it to their own needs. The connection between the Qumran Pesharim and Hypomnemata on the Iliad resulted from exchanges of scholarly knowledge across Hellenistic-Roman Egypt and Palestine. Analysing the effects of these knowledge exchanges, Pesher and Hypomnema demonstrates that members of the Qumran movement were thoroughly embedded within their Hellenistic and Roman environment.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004354203 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Greek Epigraphy and Religion : Papers in Memory of Sara B. Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy /
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In Greek Epigraphy and Religion Emily Mackil and Nikolaos Papazarkadas bring together a series of papers first presented at a special session of the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Berkeley 2016). That session was dedicated to the memory of Sara B. Aleshire, one of the leading Greek epigraphists of the twentieth century. The volume at hand includes a combination of previously unpublished inscriptions, overlooked epigraphical documents, and well known inscribed texts that are reexamined with fresh eyes and approaches. The relevant documents cover a wide geographical range, including Athens and Attica, the Peloponnese, Epirus, Thessaly, the Aegean islands, and Egypt. This collection ultimately explores the insights provided by epigraphical texts into the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Greeks, but also revisits critically some entrenched doctrines in the field of Greek religion.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004442542
9789004442535
Boats, ships and shipyards : proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Venice 2000 /
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"ISBSA 9."
"Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità e del Vicino Oriente." :
xiv, 362 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
1842170937