Römisches Zaumzeug aus Pompeji, Herculaneum und Stabiae : Metallizäume, Trensen und Kandaren /
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Few regions possess so many and mainly complete Roman bridles as do the Vesuvian sites. Singular find conditions permit both comprehensive antiquarian-historian analyses of their production, functionality, and everyday use and new approaches to their typology and chronology. The 103 catalogued specimens belong to four types of bronze headstalls, namely metallic noseband, bitless metal bridle ('hackamore'), multipartite metallic bridle ('metallic halter'), and muzzle as well as two types of bits, namely snaffle bit with circular cheekpieces and curb bit. All of them occurred in more or less numerous variants of local or provincial origin. Special attention is paid to the reconstruction of application methods and combinations of types as well as the replica of a snaffle bit with circular cheekpieces.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784910358 (PDF ebook) :
Stone tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt : ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from the prehistory to late antiquity /
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This text focuses on ground stone tools, stone vessels, and devices carved into rock across the Near East and Egypt from prehistory to the later periods. The aim is to explore all aspects of these tools and stimulate a debate about new methodologies to approach this material.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (x, 360 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690613 (ebook) :
Hellenistic Alexandria : Celebrating 24 Centuries : papers presented at the conference held on December 13-15 2017 at Acropolis Museum, Athens /
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Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating 24 Centuries' presents the proceedings of a conference held at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, on December 13-15, 2017, and includes high-level dialogues and philosophical discussions between international experts on Hellenistic Alexandria. The goal was to celebrate the 24 centuries which have elapsed since its foundation and the beginning of the Library and the Museum of Alexandria. The conference was divided into two parts, to include in the first part archaeology, history, philosophy, literature, art, culture and legal issues and in the second part science, medicine, technology and environment. A total of 28 original and peer-reviewed articles point to the importance of the brilliantly-original ideas that emerged during the Hellenistic age and the curious modernity of the whole atmosphere of the time. The range of presented topics covers a variety of new data on the foundation of Alexandria to comparison between Ptolemaic Alexandria and Ptolemaic Greece through philosophy, culture and drama to the forgotten revolution of science, medicine and the prevailing climatological and geophysical conditions throughout the Hellenistic Period.
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xx, 296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789690668
Travellers in Ottoman lands : the botanical legacy /
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"This collection of around twenty papers has its origins in a two-day seminar organised by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction with the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (RBGE), with additional support from Cornucopia magazine and the Turkish Consulate General, Edinbugh. This multi-disciplinary event formed part of the Ottoman Horizons festival held in Edinburgh in 2017 ..."--Back cover. :
xxi, 379 pages, 2 color maps : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784919153
1784919152
Ancient Egyptian book of the moon : coffin texts spells 154-160 /
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"The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon proposes that Coffin Texts spells 154-160, recorded at around the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, form the oldest composition about the moon in ancient Egypt and, for that matter, in the entire world. The detailed analysis of these spells, based on a new translation, reveals that they provide a chronologically ordered account of the phenomena of a lunar month. It is argued that through a wide variety of mythological allusions, the separate texts--following an introduction which explains the origins of the month (spell 154)--describe the successive stages of the monthly cycle: the period of invisibility (spell 155), waxing (spell 156), events around the full moon (spell 157), waning (spell 158), the arrival of the last crescent at the eastern horizon (spell 159), and again the conjunction of the sun and the moon when a solar eclipse occurs (spell 160). After highlighting the possible lunar connotations of each spell, further chapters in the book investigate the origins of the composition, its different manuscripts preserved on coffins coming from Hermopolis and Asyut, and the survival of the spells in the later mortuary collection known as the Book of Going Forth by Day."--
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ii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index. :
1789691982
9781789691986
The family of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy from Thebes (TT 414) revisited : the case study of Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu (G108 + G137) /
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This text identifies a key figure in the family that reused the Saite tomb of Ankh-Hor (TT 414) in the Asasif: Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu. Examining the funerary assemblage revealed not only details of Late Dynastic and Ptolemaic burial customs in Thebes but also additional information on the priesthood of Khonsu and of the sacred baboons in this era.
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"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License"--Title page verso. :
1 online resource (viii, 109 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781803271637 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
The Delta Survey workshop : proceedings from conferences held in Alexandria (2017) and Mansoura (2019) /
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This volume comprises the proceedings of two conferences organised by the Delta Survey Project held in Alexandria in 2017 and Mansoura in 2019. The papers contain the results of the latest fieldwork from the Nile Delta and Sinai.
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"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License"--Title page verso. :
1 online resource (vi, 254, 58 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803272900 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Australasian Egyptology Conference 4 : papers from the fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference, Monsh University, Melbourne, 16-18 September 2016 : dedicated to Gillian E. Bowen...
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This text presents papers from the fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference held at Monash University in 2016 and dedicated to Gillian E. Bowen, who retired from Monash that year. The contributions include several on Egypt's Western Desert where Monash has been engaged in fieldwork for many years in the the Dakhleh Oasis.
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Also issued in print: 2023.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (xiv, 122 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274324 (PDF ebook) :
Towns in the dark? : urban transformations from late Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England /
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What became of towns following the official end of 'Roman Britain' at the beginning of the 5th century AD? Did towns fail? Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and leaders? Developed new archaeologies are starting to offer alternative pictures to the traditional images of urban decay and loss revealing diverse modes of material expression, of usage of space, and of structural change. The focus of this book is to draw together still scattered data to chart and interpret the changing nature of life in towns from the late Roman period through to the mid-Anglo-Saxon period. The research centres on towns that have received sufficient archaeological intervention so that meaningful patterns can be traced.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784910051 (PDF ebook) :
The evolution of Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes : from Danubian longhouses to the stone rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland /
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At the heart of this book is a comparative study of the stone rows of Dartmoor and northern Scotland, a rare, putatively Bronze Age megalithic typology that has mystified archaeologists for over a century. It is argued that these are 'symbols' of Neolithic long mounds, a circumstance that accounts for the interregional similarities; other aspects of their semantic structures are also analysed using rigorous semiotic theory. The research presented here takes an evolutionary approach, drawing on biological theory to explain the active role of these monuments in social evolution and to investigate the processes at work in the development of prehistoric landscapes.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784910013 (PDF ebook) :
Body, cosmos and eternity : new research trends in the iconography and symbolism of ancient Egyptian coffins /
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The studies presented in this volume display an excellent overview on the new trends of research on coffin studies, with diverse contributions concerned either with symbolism or social significance of coffins, museums' collections or archaeological finds. These studies superbly showcase the richness of coffins as documental sources for the study of Egyptian religion, economy and society.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784910037 (PDF ebook) :
The prehistoric burial sites of Northern Ireland /
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Much has been written about the history of Northern Ireland, but less well-known is its wealth of prehistoric sites, particularly burial sites, from which most of our knowledge of the early inhabitants of this country has been obtained. This work brings together information on all the known sites in Northern Ireland that are in some way associated with burial.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784910075 (PDF ebook) :
Word becomes image : openwork vessels as a reflection of late antique transformation /
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This study presents a diachronic investigation providing a rich case study as well as an approach tracing the contours of a category of Roman material culture defined by the Roman period technique of openwork carving. As the first comprehensive assemblage of openwork vessels from Classical to late Antiquity, this work offers primary evidence documenting a key example of the fundamental shift from naturalism to abstraction in which inscriptions are transformed and word becomes image. A glass blower herself, Hallie Meredith poses questions about process, tactility and reception providing a clear picture of the original contexts of production and reception demonstrated by the Roman technique of openwork carving.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784911300 (PDF ebook) :
The 1927-1938 Italian archaeological expedition to Transjordan in Renato Bartoccini's archives /
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This volume presents the results of the Italian excavations and surveys carried out in Transjordan between 1927 and 1938.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784911195 (PDF ebook) :
Le décor architectural Artuqide en pierre de Mardin placé dan son contexte régional : contribution à l'histoire du décor géométrique et végétal du Proche-Orient des XIIe-XVe siècle...
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This volume studies the architecture of the city of Mardin in South-east Anatolia produced under the patronage of the Artuqids, whose influence held sway from c. 1101-1409.
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Previously issued in print: 2015. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour). :
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9781784911232 (ebook) :
The late prehistory of Malta : essays on Borġ in-Nadur and other sites /
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Borġ in-Nadur, on the south-east coast of Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains that span several thousand years. In the course of the Late Neolithic, the steep-sided ridge was occupied by a large megalithic temple complex that was re-occupied in the succeeding Bronze Age. In the course of the second millennium BC, it was heavily fortified by a massive wall to protect a settlement of huts. Excavations were carried out here in 1881 and again in 1959. This volume brings together a number of contributions that report on those excavations, providing an exhaustive account of the stratigraphy, the pottery, the lithic assemblages, the bones and the molluscs.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784911287 (PDF ebook) :
'Middle Saxon' settlement and society /
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Duncan Wright explores the experiences of rural communities who lived between the seventh and ninth centuries in central and eastern England. Combining archaeology with documentary, place-name and topographic evidence, he shows how the settlements in which people lived provide a unique insight into social, economic and political conditions in 'Middle Saxon' England.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784911263 (PDF ebook) :
The Danubian lands between the Black, Aegean and Adriatic Seas : (7th century BC-10th century AD) /
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The themes of this volume are concerned with archaeological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, geographical and other investigations across the vast area (and different regions) through which the Argonauts travelled in seeking to return from Colchis: from the eastern shore of the Black Sea and the mouth of the Danube to the Adriatic. The contributions investigate an extended time period, from Greek colonisation to the end of Antiquity, and different cultural influences involving peoples and states, Greek cities, native peoples, Roman rule and events in Late Roman times. Each particular study contributes to the ground research, helping to create a complete picture of the theoretical level of cultural and political development and interaction of different cultures.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784911935 (PDF ebook) :
Glass beads from early medieval Ireland : classification, dating, social performance /
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This is a comprehensive study of glass beads from early medieval Ireland, presenting the national classification, typology, dating, symbology and social performance of glass beads.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784911973 (PDF ebook) :
Parcours d'Orient : recueil de textes offert à Christine Kepinski /
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This volume contains 23 articles written by 26 authors in order to express the extent of their respect and friendship for Christine Kepinski. The topics addressed in their papers reflect the scientific work of Christine Kepinski, who always promoted interdisciplinary approaches and developed multi-scale analisis from the object itself to regional study.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784914592 (ebook) :