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Shunet el-Zebib Documentation and Conservation
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The funerary monument of King Khasekhemwy in Abydos is also known as the Shunet el-Zebib. Little is known about King Khasekhemwy, the last king of the Second Dynasty, but his reign ended in 2686 BC, making Shunet el-Zebib among the oldest surviving mud-brick structures in the world and the best example of Egypt’s earliest tradition of royal mortuary building. Funding from the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) between 1999 and 2006 resulted in documentation and conservation of approximately 50% of the 200-meter perimeter using newly made mud bricks of the same size and originally sourced materials to re-establish structural integrity.
Follow-up funding provided under a subsequent USAID grant in 2010 enabled team members to continue with the stabilization and conservation of the enclosure, parts of which still risked collapse. The precarious situation at the Shunet el-Zebib was evidenced by its inclusion in the World Monuments Fund’s 2008 Watch List of the World’s 100 Most Endangered Sites.
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Conservation of the monument was originally funded through the American Research Center in Egypt's Egyptian Antiquities Project (ARCE-EAP) under United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Agreement No. 263-G-00-93-00089-00 (1999-2006) and subsequently funded through ARCE's Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Project (ARCE-EAC) under USAID Agreement No. 263-A-00-04-00018-00 (2010-2012).
The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania : Series D, Researches and treatises /
: Includes transliterated selections from the epic, with English translation. : x, 73 p., 5 leaves of plates : facsims. ; 24 cm. : Bibliographical footnotes. : The Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series D, Researches and treatises, vol. 5, fasc. 2
Treasures from the royal tombs of Ur /
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Chiefly a catalogue of a traveling exhibition scheduled for eight venues between Oct. 9, 1998 and May 2001. Cf. title page verso. :
xv, 195 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188). :
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9780924171543
Sumerian epics and myths /
: Reproductions of tables from Nippur belonging to the Babylonian Section of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. S.N. Kramer has grouped the portraits in their present arrangement and has contributed the introductory descriptions of the text. Cf. Foreword. : xi, 7, [1] pages, 26, 26a, 27-111 number l. ; 31 cm. : Bibliography : page xi.
Sumerian texts of varied contents /
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"This volume ... consists of facsimiles of tablets from the Nippur collection of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Samuel N. Kramer ... has ... grouped the portraits in their present arrangement and contributed the introductory descriptions of the texts."--Editorial note.
The texts include Sumerian proverbs, incantations, lamentations, hymns, and liturgies together with a few apparently legendary and historical texts. :
4 pages 1., vii-ix, 7, [1] pages, 109 number 1 ; 31 cm. :
Bibliography : page ix.
Free speech in classical antiquity /
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This book contains a collection of essays on the notion of "Free Speech" in classical antiquity. The essays examine such concepts as "freedom of speech," "self-expression," and "censorship," in ancient Greek and Roman culture from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Among the many questions addressed are: what was the precise lexicographical valence of the ancient terms we routinely translate as \'Freedom of Speech,\' e.g., Parrhesia in Greece, Licentia in Rome? What relationship do such terms have with concepts such as isêgoria , dêmokratia and eleutheria ; or libertas , res publica and imperium ? What does ancient theorizing about free speech tell us about contemporary relationships between power and speech? What are the philosophical foundations and ideological underpinnings of free speech in specific historical contexts?
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Consists of a collection of papers presented at the second Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values, held in June 2002 at the University of Pennsylvania. :
1 online resource (xii, 450 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047405689 :
0169-8958 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
External relations of early Iron Age Crete, 1100-600 B.C. /
: "Published for Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, MA, 2000 by The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2000." : x, 395 pages : maps ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-388) and index. : 0787271837 : Sara.lib