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Mastabas et hypogées d'Ancien Empire. Le problème de la datation
(Connaissance de l'Égypte Ancienne, 1989) Cherpion, Nadine
L'énorme documentation figurée (reliefs ou peintures) qui couvre les parois des mastabas et des hypogées, de la IIIe à la VIe dynastie, était globalement située dans l'Ancien Empire; toutes les datations proposées jusque là étaient vagues et peu fondées.Nadine Cherpion est parvenue à établir une méthode de datation précise, parfois règne par règne, basée sur l'évolution d'une soixantaine de critères figurés, en dehors de toute subjectivité
Myths & Legends of Ancient Egypt
(Allen Lane, 2010) Tyldesley, Joyce
The construction of value in the ancient world
(Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2012) Papadopoulos, John K.; Urton, Gary
Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over another
Sacred Landscape of Thebes during the Reign of Hatshepsut : Royal Construction Projects Volume 2, Topographical bibliography of the West Bank
(IKŚiO PAN, 2016) Iwaszczuk, Jadwiga; Laskowska-Kusztal, Ewa
Geology of archaeologists: a short introduction
(Archaeopress Publishing LTD., 2017) Allen, John R. L.
This short introduction aims to provide archaeologists of all backgrounds with a grounding in the principles, materials, and methods of geology. Each chapter ends with a short reading list, and many have selected case-histories in illustration of the points made. Included is a glossary of technical terms.
JOURNEYS ERASED BY TIME: The rediscovered footprints of travellers in Egypt and the Near East
(2019) Cooke, Neil
Early travellers in Egypt and the Near East made great contributions to our historical and geographical knowledge and gave us a better understanding of the different peoples, languages and religions of the region. Travellers in this volume are a mixture of rich and poor, bravely adventuring into the unknown, not knowing if would ever return home.
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES TIME MAKE? : papers from the ancient and Islamic middle
(Archaeopress Publishing LTD., 2019) Scurlock, JoAnn; Beal, Richard H.
Proceedings of a conference held at St. Mary's University in Notre Dame, Indiana (2017), this volume presents a wide-ranging exploration of Time as experienced and contemplated. Included are offerings on ancient Mesopotamian archaeology, literature and religion, Biblical texts and archaeology, Chinese literature and philosophy, and Islamic law.
Kom al-Ahmer — Kom Wasit II: Coin Finds 2012-2016: Late Roman and Early Islamic Pottery from Kom al-Ahmer
(Archaeopress, 2019) Asolati, Michele; Mondin, Cristina
and Kom Wasit, to investigate them intensively and reveal their importance. Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit are located 6 km west of the Rosetta branch of the Nile, 35 km south of Rosetta, 40 km southeast of the port of Thonis-Heracleion, and 52 km southeast of the port of Alexandria (Figures i–ii). Given their well-connected location with respect to these Mediterranean and Nile ports, it can be assumed that a significant volume of commercial traffic moved through these sites. Historical sources and Hellenistic and Roman geographers located the capital of the Metelite nome in this region, and our research has made it possible to identify the likely location of the nome capital, Metelis, at Kom al-Ahmer, at least during the Roman, Late Roman, and Early Arab periods. This short introduction discusses the results of the study of two cultural materials finds, coins and pottery that brought to light massive information that can be gathered from a Delta site.
Geophysical phenomena and the Alexandrian littoral
(Archaeopress Publishing LTD., 2019) Evelpidou, Niki
Statues in context : production, meaning and (re)uses
(Peeters, 2019) Masson-Berghoff, Aurélia
Moving beyond typological and stylistic discourses on Egyptian statuary, the papers gathered here seek to explore the architectural, cultic and production contexts of statuary, to shed light on religious or cultural practices, and the political or economic agenda behind the display or hiding of these sculptures. How and why were they originally displayed or kept invisible, transported, transformed or buried?0New discoveries, the re-contextualisation of earlier excavated statues as well as recent scientific analyses provide significant new insights into the production, meaning and (re- )uses of statues. This collection of papers encompasses the full typological and chronological range? from the Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity? and include statuary of all scales, from colossi to figurines. The studies cover statues mainly set up in temples and houses, and the later biographies of statues?
New Approaches in Demotic Studies : Acts of the 13th International Conference of Demotic Studies
(De Gruyter, 2019) International Conference for Demotic Studies; Naether, Franziska
Handbook of ancient Nubia
(De Gruyter, 2019) Raue, Dietrich
Numerous research projects have studied the Nubian cultures of the Sudan and Egypt over the last thirty years, leading to significant new insights into all areas of the local history of this civilization, and paving the way for Ancient Nubia to become a research focus in contemporary northeast African archaeologies. Beginning with the findings of the Paleolithic Age, the way to the juxtaposition of pastoral societies and larger cultural spaces in the floodplain is presented. From Bronze Age cultures, the arc is stretched to the kingdoms of Napata and Meroe to the Christian kingdoms and the Islamic Early Modern period. The wide-ranging contributions to this handbook impart the current state of international research and illuminate the present understanding of the cultural history of this fascination region, including its interconnections to the natural world
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) Taylor Westerfeld, Jennifer
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination argues that, in the absence of any genuine understanding of hieroglyphic writing, late antique Christian authors were able to take this powerful symbol of Egyptian identity and manipulate it to serve their particular theological and ideological ends
Ottoman Baroque : the architectural refashioning of eighteenth-century Istanbul
(Princeton University Press, 2019) Rüstem, Ünver
A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its relationship with the West
Fayoum Survey Project :The Themistou Meris: Volume A: The Archaeological and Papyrological Survey
(Peeters Publishers, 2019-05) Romer, C
The book is the result of an archaeological survey, and small excavations carried out between 2000 and 2016 in that part of the Fayoum; it offers descriptions of archaeological remains, many of them now under threat from land reclamation, gives information about the history and exact location of single sites, and values the excavations, which were undertaken there in the beginning of the 20th century, often with the sole aim of finding papyri, while archaeological features were neglected. The book seeks to combine the written and the archaeological evidence, offering new proposals for identifying ancient names with ancient sites, and gives a panorama of the multicultural society of the ancient Fayoum
The Fayoum Survey Project : The Themistou Meris: Volume B: The Ceramological Survey
(Peeters Publishers, 2019-05) Bailey, D.M.
This volume accompanies Volume A which presents the archaeological survey of the sites of the Themistou Meris (north-western Fayoum), by giving a thorough introduction to the pottery found during the survey. The great doyen of the pottery of the Graeco-Roman period in Egypt, the late Donald M. Bailey, did not live to see his volume in print. His legacy is an exemplary study of forms and materials of the different kinds of ceramic vessels, from amphorae to cooking-pots and from coarse kitchen ware to fine table ware. The book is rounded up by two short essays, which add up-to-date information on the pottery found in the Themistou Meris as well as in other districts of the Fayoum.
Figured Ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt: Iconography and Intent
(Archaeopress, 2020) Backhouse, Joanne
The aim of the study is to examine a particular set of images found only on ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt. These scenes show women, often with a child, sitting on a bed in a domestic environment; alternatively, they depict women with a child in a kiosk, in an outdoor setting. The purpose of this research is to examine why these images were drawn and to explore what these representations meant to their creators and viewers. The functionality of the ostraca will also be analysed, considering if they were objects in their own right or merely practice pieces for larger scale compositions.
Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece: Studies on Ancient Greek Death and Burial
(Archaeopress, 2020) Dimakis, Nikolas; Dijkstra, Tamara
This volume is born out of the international workshop for early career scholars entitled ‘Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece’ that was held at the Netherlands Institute at Athens, Greece on December 1-2, 2016. The idea for this workshop stemmed from our mutual interest in ancient Greek death practices, and in understanding how the political, economic, and social realities that characterized Greek history related to funerary ideology and informed the ways in which the Greeks dealt with their dead. Two main questions are central to this problem: 1) how were local social structure and social roles – for example those the elderly or children, men or women, locals or migrants, or the poor or the wealthy – reflected in and motivated the way people were treated in death, and 2) how did large-scale developments such as political change and processes of ‘globalization’ influence death practice on the level of the individual, the social group, the local community, and the region.
Urban Landscape of Bakchias: A Town of the Fayyum from the Ptolemaic-Roman Period to Late Antiquity
(Archaeopress, 2020) Buzi, Paola; Giorgi, Enrico
This book aims to summarise the results of field research – as well as historical, historico-religious and papyrological studies – conducted on the archaeological site of Bakchias, located in the north-eastern part of the Fayyūm region. It represents a revised and re-arranged version of the book edited by the same Authors in 2014.
The Hypocephalus: An Ancient Egyptian Funerary Amulet
(Archaeopress, 2020) Mekis, Tamas
The hypocephalus is still a topic seldom investigated in Egyptology. Between 1961 and 1998, Edith Varga studied the antecedents of the object type, discussing all practices aimed at the protection of the head up to the 4th century BC from all over Egypt.1 Through her ongoing commitment to the subject, hypocephali were ‘rediscovered’ for Egyptology. She identified no fewer than two-thirds of the examples presently known, and published these in several articles.2 The analysis and typology of these amuletic objects at the time when they appeared in the 4th century BC remained for a further research project. In my work, I aimed at continuing the research of Edith Varga, and at presenting the catalogue of hypocephali to the public.