‎Archaeology‎

‎Southeastern Registrars Association; Deborah Rose Van Horn; Corinne Midgett and Heather Culligan‎

‎Basic Condition Reporting: A Handbook, 5th Edition‎

‎, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022 Original publishers paper-covered boards, 220 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm. English. ISBN 9781538150603.‎

‎Whether you call yourself a Registrar, Curator, Curator of Collections, Collections Manager or any number of other titles you are most likely doing condition reports. A good condition report is an accurate and informative account of an object?s state of preservation at a particular moment in time. Condition reports can have multiple functions such as recording the state of an object prior to an exhibition or loan, after exhibition or loan, to assist in collections planning, or as a tool for the treatment of an object. Most of these functions can be conducted by a registrar, curator, collections manager, or volunteer.‎

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‎Alessandro Sebastiani, Carolina Megale (eds)‎

‎Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria. Research and Field Papers‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 296 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:95 b/w, 21 col., 3 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503591391.‎

‎Summary This volume, the first in a new series dedicated to the archaeological and historical landscapes of central Mediterranean Italy, aims to offer a fresh and dynamic new approach to our understanding of central-southern maritime Tuscany during the Roman period. Drawing on research that was initially presented at the first International Mediterranean Tuscan Conference (MediTo) held in Paganico (Grosseto, Italy) in June 2018, and supported by invited papers from other experts in the field, this collection of essays offers the most up-to-date research into Roman and Late Antique landscapes within Tuscany and its broader Mediterranean context, as well as the political, economic, and social networks that developed in this area during the Classical Period. Ultimately, what emerges from this in-depth study of river valleys, urban centres, and coastal settlements is an understanding of a dynamic Roman territory of cities and villages, villas and sanctuaries, minor sites, and manufacturing districts in which the local population fought to establish and maintain connections with the wider Mediterranean. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Introduction - ALESSANDRO SEBASTIANI AND CAROLINA MEGALE The Tuscan Coast in the Classical Period: Research Prospects - FRANCO CAMBI Nunc Villae Grandes, Oppida Parva Prius: Private Agency and Public Utility in the Tuscan Maremma - ELIZABETH FENTRESS Santa Marta: A Roman Nodal Point in the Middle Ombrone Valley (Southern Tuscany, Italy) - STEFANO CAMPANA AND EMANUELE VACCARO Between Topography, Archaeology, and History: Considerations for a Diachronic Synthesis on the Villa at Aiano (San Gimignano) between the Fourth and the Seventh Centuries ad - MARCO CAVALIERI Rusellae and its Territory: From the Etruscan to the Roman City - MARIA GRAZIA CELUZZA, MATTEO MILLETTI, AND ANDREA ZIFFERERO The Etruscan Harbours of Vetulonia and the Extent of the Prile Lagoon: First Results of a New Research Project - CAMILLA COLOMBI The Northern Etrurian Coast: The Vada Volaterrana during the Roman Period: New Data to Reconstruct the Ancient Landscape - STEFANO GENOVESI Archaeological Excavations in Vignale (LI): A Lens for Framing the Landscape in Roman Times - ELISABETTA GIORGI Etruscan-Roman Populonia: Recent Research on the Sacred Area of the Acropolis - CYNTHIA MASCIONE The Fortress of Poggio del Molino and Piracy: A Contribution to the Definition of the Late Republican Landscape of Populonia - CAROLINA MEGALE Luna: The Area of Porta Marina between the Republican and the Imperial Periods - SIMONETTA MENCHELLI, PAOLO SANGRISO, ALBERTO CAFARO, STEFANO GENOVESI, SILVIA MARINI, AND ROCCO MARCHESCHI New Excavations in the Etruscan-Roman City of Vetulonia: The Domus dei Dolia - SIMONA RAFANELLI The Universit di Firenze at Cosa (2016-2018) - ILARIA ROMEO AND DARIO PANARITI Cosa Excavations: New Interpretative Frameworks - RUSSELL T. SCOTT, ANDREA U. DE GIORGI, RICHARD POSAMENTIR, AND CHRISTINA CHA The Late Etruscan and Republican Settlement at Podere Cannicci: (Civitella Paganico - Grosseto) - ALESSANDRO SEBASTIANI The Missing link: A Nucleated Rural Centre at Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano - Grosseto) - ASTRID VAN OYEN, GIJS W. TOL, AND RHODORA G. VENNARUCCI Beyond Religion? Placing the Gods in the Reconstruction of the Landscape and Economies of Southern Tuscany - EDOARDO VANNI Rural Settlements and Natural Resources in Early Medieval Southern Tuscany: Past and Future Research Prospects - GIOVANNA BIANCHI‎

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‎Romedio Schmitz-Esser‎

‎Corpse in the Middle Ages: Embalming, Cremating, and the Cultural Construction of the Dead Body‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2021 Hardback, vi + 780 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9781909400870.‎

‎Summary To what extent are the dead truly dead? In medieval society, corpses were assigned special functions and meanings in several different ways. They were still present in the daily life of the family of the deceased, and could even play active roles in the life of the community. Taking the materiality of death as a point of departure, this book comprehensively examines the conservation, burial and destruction of the corpse in its specific historical context. A complex and ambivalent treatment of the dead body emerges, one which necessarily confronts established modern perspectives on death. New scientific methods have enabled archaeologists to understand the remains of the dead as valuable source material. This book contextualizes the resulting insights for the first time in an interdisciplinary framework, considering their place in the broader picture drawn by the written sources of this period, ranging from canon law and hagiography to medieval literature and historiography. It soon becomes obvious that the dead body is more than a physical object, since its existence only becomes relevant in the cultural setting it is perceived in. In analogy to the findings for the living body in gender studies, the corpse too, can best be understood as constructed. Ultimately, the dead body is shaped by society, i.e. the living. This book examines the mechanisms by which this cultural construction of the body took place in medieval Europe. The result is a fascinating story that leads deep into medieval theories and social practices, into the discourses of the time and the daily life experiences during this epoch. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION FOREWORD INTRODUCTION The Constructed Corpse: Methodology, Structure, and Goals Burial between Norm and Practice St Augustine and the "Constructed" Sanctity The Staged Corpse No Fear of the Dead Body Parts and the Gaze Upon the Dead Body A Topic between Popular Hype and Historical Lack of Interest: The State of Research CHAPTER I: THE BURIED CORPSE The Corpse and the Resurrection The Soul, the Corpse, and the Beyond The Eternal and the Eternally Disturbed Grave Drowning and the Element of Baptism Cremating the Dead: Between Concern and Banning The Proper Burial in the Middle Ages The Quest for the Phantom: The "Standard" Burial in the Christian Middle Ages Symbolism of Light and the Position of the Dead in the Grave Solitary Burial and Group Affiliation of the Corpse The Corpse is Coming to the Living: The Cult of the Martyrs and the Burial with Saints The Development of the Church Graveyard Interment in the Time of Crisis War Dead and Their Graves Death as a Result of Epidemics, the Black Death, and Burial The Corpse Portrayed Summary CHAPTER II: THE HOLY CORPSE Real Presence and the Cult of Relics The Holy Corpse as a Self-Determined Being Transfer of Relics and Fragmenting of the Corpse Desired Relics, Corpse Desecration, and the Dead as a Valuable Treasure The Corpse as Proof of Sanctity "Corpus Incorruptum," Mumification, and Created Sanctity The Aromatically Smelling Corpse Innocent Liquids: The Leichen l Medieval Complementary Logic: The Corpses of the "Valde Boni" and the "Valde Mali" Summary CHAPTER III: EMBALMING AND THE PRESERVATION OF CORPSES Ancient Embalming in the Middle Ages Ancient Mummies and the Christian Occident "Aromatibus conditum"-The Biblical Model and Early Christian Embalming Embalming in the Time of the Merovingians Sanctity and (Repeated) Embalming Change of the Embalming Technique in the Time of the Carolingians Rotting and the Ideal of a Fast Burial Ritual of Burial and the Transport of the Corpse A New Method: Opening of the Corpse to Remove the Entrails and the Badly Smelling Corpse of Charles the Bald Embalming in the High Middle Ages Transfer of Corpses since the High Middle Ages Embalming in the Tenth Century Embalming in the Time of the Salian and the Hohenstaufen Dynasties Robert Guiscard, Sven Gabelbart, and Embalming in the Kingdom of England Embalming in the Kingdom of France The Desert and the King of Jerusalem Popes and Saints Roland, Henry the Lion, and the Deer Hide: Embalming Practice in the Literary Discourse Corpse Transport and Social Prestige: Changes in the Process of Embalming in the Course of the High Middle Ages Kitchen, Cooking, and the Treatment of the Corpse Cooking the Corpse-a "mos Teutonicus"? Boiling of Corpses in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries The Bull "Detestandae feritatis" by Pope Boniface VIII from 1299 and the End of Boiling Corpses The White Bone: The Sanctity of the Boiled Body Individuals Charged with Taking Care of the Corpse and Corpse Washing Dissection of the Corpse and the Professionalization of Embalming Ar-Razi and Medicine in the High Middle Ages Henry of Mondeville, Guy de Chauliac, and the Process of Embalming in Late Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Innovations in High and Late Medieval Embalming Processes and the Anthropological and Archeological Data Opening of the Three Corporal Cavities The Application of Mercury Wax and Linen Galen and the Cold, Humid Corpse: Drying of the Corpse as a Technique in Embalming Aerial Drying of the Corpse Hygiene or the Preservation of the Corpse: Gypsum, Lime, and Hops Booming of Embalming: From the Eighteenth Century to Today Embalming, Preservation of the Body, and the Cult of Relics Summary CHAPTER IV: AUTHORITY AND THE CORPSE Visiting a Corpse-the Visit by a Corpse The Ruler's Corpse as a Sign of Victory The Specialists of Death and Their Ruler Clientele: The Location of the Grave and the Row of Corpses as a Means for Legitimization Conversion, Legitimacy, and the Beloved Bones of the Ancestors Summary CHAPTER V: THE COMMUNITY OF THE DEAD AND THE CORPSE IN THE "ORDO" Hierarchy of the Funeral Sites The Unclean Corpse and the Church as a Burial Site Old Age, Gender, and Kinship: The Hierarchy of the Burial Sites in Medieval Cemeteries Grave Donations Between Here and the Afterlife Clothing Provides Status to the Dead: Insignia of Social Class and the Identification of Corpses Pedum, Paten, Chalice, and Ring: The Burial of Priests and Bishops Crown, Scepter, Orb, and Royal Vestments: The Burial of Emperors and Kings Does God Forget the Names of the Dead? Tables with Inscriptions as Burial Objects and Inscriptions on the Sarcophagus Monastic Habit and Valuable Thread: Monks, Noblemen, Simple People, and Their Clothing for the Beyond Objects Useful for the Corpse Relics, Torture Instruments, and Hosts: Supporters for the Dead Written Documents, Indulgence Letters, and Seals as Documents of Faith Dead Pilgrims Plants and Herbs, Holy Water, Incense, and Coal: Funerary Objects Between Practice and Symbolism Shoes for the Day of Judgment Summary CHAPTER VI: THE CORPSE AND THE LAW The Corpse as the Interim Occupant of an Office The Corpse as Both Subject and Object of the Law The Corpse at Court Strikes with the Sword, Bleeding Corpses, and the Beginning of Forensics in the Middle Ages The Cemetery as a Place of Trial Marking Borders, Church Authority, and the Value of the Corpse The Funeral of the Corpse as an Economic Factor The Corpse and Marking of Borders Summary CHAPTER VII: THE LIVING CORPSE The Sleeping Dead and Its Physically Continued Life Signs of Life: Speaking, Bleeding, and Continued Growth of Nails and Hair Funeral Ritual to Prevent the Appearance of Revenants Placing Weights on the Corpse and the Separation and Breaking of the Legs Decapitation Impalement, Nailing Down, and Interment at a Crossroad Vampires in the Middle Ages? The Cremation of Revenants Obol and Payment of the Dead: Funerary Objects as a One-Way Ticket to the Afterlife? The Corpse Besieged by Demons The Active Corpse Summary CHAPTER VIII: THE DESTRUCTION AND DESECRATION OF CORPSES Deviation from the Funerary Ritual as Punishment and Exclusion Denial of Burial in Sacred Ground On Children Under the Church's Eaves and Pilgrimage Sites: The Unbaptized Dead and Children According to Archaeological Data Suicide and the Corpses of Suicide Victims Excommunicated Corpses and Death Under the Interdict The Example of Emperor Henry IV A Few Years of Eternity, or Was There a Permanent Exclusion of Those Who Had Been Excommunicated The Last of the Hohenstaufen and Their Excommunication: Conrad IV, Manfred of Sicily, and Conradin the Younger The High Medieval Debate on the Punishment of Corpses Exhumation as a Weapon in the Fight Against the Cathars The Growing Concern with the Moral Integrity of the Dead: Individuals Responsible for Church Desecration, Those Who Rejected Confession, and Those Dead Who Had Died without Their Guilt Having Been Forgiven and Atoned In the Case of Doubt Against the Dead: The Liturgists' Fear of the Unknown and the Foreign Death with the Lance in Hand: The Burial of Those Who Had Died in a Tournament The Burial of the Executed Being a Warrior and a Christian: The Exclusion from Burial in Light of Discourse Theory Corpse Desecration The Case of Pope Formosus Corpse Desecration as a Punishment The Ruler's Corpse and the Use of Scalps: Corpse Desecration as a Sign of Physical Superiority Burning and Physical Annihilation The Symbolism of Fire Death by Fire in the Early Middle Ages: Arsonists, Sodomites, Poisoners, Magicians, and Unusual Women The Burning of Heretics and Witches in the High and Late Middle Ages The Destruction of Corpses in the Early Modern Time The Humble Corpse Burial in Simple Clothing The Corpse Placed on Ash Paradise and the Naked Earth: The Burial Site as a Sign of Christian Humility The Penitent Approaching the Day of Judgment: Pippin the Short and Prone Burial Humility of the Medieval Corpse Summary CHAPTER IX: THE CORPSE AS MEDICINE AND MIRACLE CURE The Corpse as Royal Blessing? The Corpse as a Medium to Create Miracles and Magic Charges Against Heretics, Witches, and Jews: Ritual Murder and Mirroring the Eucharist The Corpses of Executed People as Medicine "Mumia vera"-Mummies as a Medical Drug Building Sacrifice and the Corpse as a Weapon Summary CHAPTER X: HEART, HEAD, AND HAND-THE BODY PARTS OF CORPSES FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ANATOMICAL PERSPECTIVE The Practice of Multiple Burials in the High and Late Middle Ages Heart Head Hand Summary EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY List of Abbreviations Sources Research Literature INDICES Index of Bible passages Index of Names Index of Places‎

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‎Anastasia Drandaki‎

‎Late Antique Metalware. The Production of Copper-Alloy Vessels between the 4th and 8th Centuries. The Benaki Museum Collection and Related Material‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 410 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:250 col., 5 tables b/w., Languages: English, Greek, French. ISBN 9782503569413.‎

‎Summary The book examines the fourth- to eighth-century copper alloy wares in the Benaki Museum, using them as the basis on which a wider debate about the production, circulation and use of copper vessels in Late Antiquity can be built. It is an attempt at a holistic approach to this rich but as yet little studied material. Apart from the necessary typology and dating, the study also includes systematic discussion of questions regarding the alloys used in the manufacture of the copperwares and the techniques employed in their production and decoration. The study of primary sources provided evidence about the late Roman and Medieval Greek terminology associated with each group of objects, as well as interesting information about the distribution of various types of vessels, the context in which they were used and the value their owners placed on them, while also containing useful references to the coppersmiths themselves. Most of the Benaki copperwares were acquired on the Egyptian market and can be connected with the rich local production in the Late Roman and Early Islamic period. Yet the study of these artefacts showed that they have striking similarities with a wide range of archaeological material discovered over an extremely large geographical area, from the Eastern Mediterranean to Italy, Germany, Spain and the UK. The geographical spread of copper alloy wares that follow a parallel development in different parts of the empire and also appear almost contemporaneously in Western European burials reignites the debate on the production centres and subsequent modes of distribution of these artefacts. In turn these issues touch on the long-standing debate on the so-called 'Coptic bronzes' and the actual role of Egypt in the overall production of and trade in these articles in Late Antiquity. TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Forewords Introduction Part ?. Types of vessels 1. Small bowls 2. Three-footed bowls 3. Footed bowls 4. Bowls with horizontal handles 5. Bowls with long spouts 6. Bowls with moveable handles 7. Bottles and Ewers 8. Ladles 9. Spoons - forks - strainers 10. Buckets 11. Amphoriskoi 12. Flasks 13. Lighting devices 14. Censers Part ?. 15. Technical results 16. Workshops 17. Forms and decoration Conclusions Sommaire Appendix: Catalogue of the copper alloy vessels in the Benaki Museum Byzantine Collection Map Abbreviations - Bibliography Index‎

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‎Miljenko Jurkovic, Ivan Josipovic (eds)‎

‎Aspice Hunc Opus Mirum. Festschrift on the occasion of Nikola Jaksic's 70th birthday‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 638 pages, Size:200 x 280 mm, Illustrations:200 b/w, 245 col., Languages: English, French, Italian. ISBN 9789538250101.‎

‎Summary All of the contributions in this book are original scientific papers and all of them are dealing with problems not yet resolved in disciplines of history, arthistory and archaeology of mostly Late Antique and Medieval periods, but later ones as well. All of the papers also deal with problematics that are connected to the territory of today's Croatia or its neighbouring regions in European context, which is why they are especially relevant for the Croatian national scientific community and its development. Therefore, the scientific impact of this book will be huge bearing in mind that all the authors did it for celebrating professor Jak?i?'s character and deeds. TABLE OF CONTENTS Ivan Josipovi? - Miljenko Jurkovi?, Predgovor / Foreword Ivan Josipovi?, Profesoru Nikoli Jak?i?u u ?ast - biografska bilje?ka uz njegov sedamdeseti ro?endan / In Honour of Prof. Nikola Jak?i? - a Biographical Note on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday Meri Zornija, Bibliography of Professor Nikola Jak?i? Josip Belamari?, The Middle Ages Nikole Jak?i?a Romano Me?trovi?, Doprinos profesora Nikole Jak?i?a demokratizaciji grada Zadra OD RIMA DO ROMANIKE - DU ROMAIN AU ROMAN - FROM ROMAN TO ROMANESQUE Miljenko Jurkovi?, "The Art of the Court" in the Long Middle Ages - a String of Renaissances Dino Milinovi?, Politically Controlled Images: Interpreting Late Roman Silver "Picture Plates" Giuseppe Cuscito, Ancora sul primo cristianesimo in Dalmazia tra fonti letterarie e riscontri archeologico-monumentali Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Contesto e sequenze stratigrafiche della basilica padovana di Santa Giustina Morana ?au?evi?-Bully - S bastien Bully, Le peigne pal ochr tien de Mirine (Omi?alj, le de Krk)?eljko Pekovi?, The Late Antique Imperial Palace in Pola?e on the Island of Mljet Enrico Cirelli, Rulers and Patronage in Late Antique Ravenna Clementina Rizzardi, Da Pola a Ravenna: l'opera del vescovo Massimiano tra politica, religione e arte (VI secolo) Paola Novara, La munificenza episcopale al tramonto dell'Esarcato. Il segnacolo di Giovanni V nella basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe (a. 731) Danijel D?ino, The Secret Life of Salona in 7th and 8th Century Peter ?tih, On the Raetian-Alemannic Connections with Istria, Dalmatia and Carantania in the Carolingian Age - Two Examples Ivan Basi?, Amalarius of Metz at the Court of Leo V: A Note on Imperial Ceremonial Pascale Chevalier, Les paroles de pierre - mots et monogrammes - de quelques chancels pal ochr tiens Michelle Beghelli, Un atelier di scultori altomedievali: la 'prima bottega di Ventimiglia' e la sua area di attivit , gli arredi lapidei della cattedrale e la loro ricostruzione Meri Zornija, Dalla penna allo scalpello: analisi di archetipi per la morfologia delle lettere sull'epigrafe dei cibori di Cattaro Jean-Pierre Caillet, Les basiliques coupole de Dalmatie (Xe-XIe s.) : leur juste place dans la diffusion d'un type architectural de Byzance l'Occident Neven Budak, Queen Helen and King Michael: The Beginning of a New Dynasty? Ivan Josipovi? - Lucija Kraljevi?, The Case of Zadar Proconsul Gregorius'. Ciborium - Spolia as a Template for a New Monument Magdalena Skoblar, Beast from the East: The Griffin's Journey to Dalmatian Eleventh-Century Sculpture Stefano Riccioni, La manticora e la sfinge. Echi d'Oriente nei depositi della Ca' d'Oro Emanuela Elba, The Dalmatian Manuscripts in Beneventan Script and the Notion of "Adriatic Periphery". Notes for a New Research Setting Giulia Orofino, Un messale e il suo sistema illustrativo. Contributo per la miniatura "Bari type" Trpimir Vedri?, Sancto Grisogono quo gaudet Iadra patrono: The Dedicatory Inscription of St Chrysogonus and the Tradition of Martyr's translatio St phane Gioanni, Sainte Anastasie et la libert de Zadar : remarques sur le privil ge de libert du pape Innocent III au chapitre de Sainte-Anastasie (1198) KASNI SREDNJI VIJEK - LE BAS MOYEN GE - THE LATE MIDDLE AGES Antun Neki?, In Defense of Their See: The Bishops of Zagreb (1272-1301) Mladen An?i?, The Murder of Queen Elizabeth - a Case Study of the Late Medieval Political Propaganda Giovanna Valenzano, Giotto - inventore di iconografie: ancora sul ciclo degli Scrovegni Ana Mi?kovi?, Medieval Reliquaries and Their Role in Christian Processions Manlio Leo Mezzacasa, Little-Known Metalwork in Trecento Venice and the Veneto Ante Milo?evi?, Calices et patenae funerales and the Medieval Church of St John at Bribir Luca Mor, Su un maestro dal fare garbato. Una Madonna del Trecento e un raggruppamento di sculture lignee nelle Alpi orientali Silvija Bani?, The Veglia Altar Frontal: Notes on Its Acquisition and Subsequent Conservation Danijel Cikovi?, ...dalla parte di sotto dell'istessa Palla vi l'Arma Frangipani...: la pala d'argento della cattedrale di Veglia Marijan Bradanovi?, Tra Venezia e Zara - contributi del Quarnero alla scultura del Trecento per il professor Nikola Jak?i? Ivan Matej?i?, Due contributi sulla scultura lignea per il prof. Jak?i? Igor Fiskovi?, Una nota sui portali di Bonino di Giacomo in Dalmazia Federica Toniolo, Libri di e per Religiose: Ferrara XV secolo Xavier Barral i Altet, R flexions sur la notion et l'existence d'un Art du Royaume de Majorque aux XIIIe et XIVe si cles : r alit m di vale ou construction politique du XXe si cle ? NAKON RENESANSE - APR S LA RENAISSANCE - AFTER THE RENAISSANCE Susy Marcon, Giulio Clovio e il tema della Resurrezione Bojan Goja, Le opere degli argentieri milanesi Tommaso Panizza e Francesco Ceppi wnella tesoreria della cattedrale di Zara Radoslav Tomi?, Le Bocche di Cattaro nei dipinti di Johann H gelm ller Josip Belamari?, Jean Baptiste Van Moer (1819-1884), Images of Diocletian's Palace‎

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‎Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja (eds)‎

‎Metal Finds and Coins. Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project II‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, xii + 182 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:47 b/w, 19 col., 9 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588872.‎

‎Summary The Decapolis city of Jerash has long attracted attention from both travellers and scholars, due both to the longevity of the site, and the remarkable finds uncovered during successive phases of excavation that have taken place from 1902 onwards. Between 2011 and 2016, a Danish-German team, led by the universities of Aarhus and M nster, focused their attention on the Northwest Quarter of Jerash - the highest point within the walled city - and this volume is the second in a series of books presenting the team's final results. This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the coins and metal remains found in Jerash during the excavations. The contributions gathered here cover the small metal finds from the Northwest Quarter, as well as examining Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic coins. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1. Preface and Introduction - ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA Metal Finds 2. Die Metallkleinfunde aus dem Nordwestquartier von Gerasa/Jerash - CHRISTOPH EGER Coins 3. Greek and Roman Coins from the Jerash Northwest Quarter Excavations - ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA 4. The Coins of the Jerash Northwest Quarter Project and the Umayyad Money Circulation in Jund al-Urdunn - INGRID SCHULZE AND WOLFGANG SCHULZE‎

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‎Christos Stavrakos (ed)‎

‎Epirus Revisited. New Perceptions of its History and Material Culture. From the Thematic Session "Epirus Revisited" of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 246 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:94 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503592619.‎

‎Summary The opening of the borders of Albania in the 1990s stimulated an increased interest in its cultural heritage and led to extensive research, as well as archaeological investigations. These, however, have mainly concentrated within Albania's present-day borders and have lacked broader contextualization. Very recent excavations in Greece, which resulted from the construction of the new Ionia Odos highway, have, however brought to light unexpected and interesting material that changes our image of the monumental topography and the settlements in Epirus. New studies concerning Epirus and its broader connections during the early and later Ottoman periods provide a broader impression of the region and its relationships with the large economic centres of the West, as well as with the spiritual-religious and political centres of the Balkans. TABLE OF CONTENTS Brendan Osswald, The State of Epirus as Political Laboratory Christos Stavrakos, The Albanian Family of Spata in Late Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Epirus: The Epigraphic Evidence Katerina Chamilaki, The Excavation of a Late Antique Building Complex, at Drymos, Aetoloakarnania. Ioannis Chouliaras, Excavation of an Early Byzantine Basilica in Drymos of Vonitsa (Akarnania). Halls "A" and "D". Bj rn Fors n and Brikena Shkodra-Rrugia, The Early Christian Landscape of Dyrrachium: The First Miles along the Via Egnatia. Galina Fingarova, The Church of Saint Mary in Apollonia: An Expression of Byzantine Imperial Claims Lorenzo Riccardi, Incomplete and Partly Lost: On the Mosaic and Sculptural Decoration of the Paregoretissa Church in Arta. Katerina Kontopanagou, The Christian Monuments of Epirus in the 17th and 18th c.: Creating the Artistic, Social and Economic Profile Efstratia Sygkellou, A Tour Around the Abrakian Gulf Through the Eyes of the European Travellers (17th - 19th Century) Demetrios Georgakopoulos, The Despots of Ioannina and Albanians According to the Author of the Chronicle of Ioannina (1367-1399)‎

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‎Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja (eds)‎

‎Environmental Studies, Remote Sensing, and Modelling. Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project I‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xiv + 247 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:80 b/w, 4 col., 19 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588865.‎

‎Summary The Decapolis city of Jerash has long attracted attention from travellers and scholars, due both to the longevity of the site and the remarkable finds uncovered during successive phases of excavation that have taken place from 1902 onwards. Between 2011 and 2016, a Danish-German team, led by the universities of Aarhus and M nster, focused their attention on the Northwest Quarter of Jerash - the highest point within the walled city - and this volume is the first in a series of books presenting the team's final results. Covering different themes and categories of finds, this volume focuses on the geophysical survey and other remote-sensing work undertaken in and around the Northwest Quarter, and also presents an in-depth discussion of the environmental studies performed at the site. This includes the geoscientific analysis carried out in various contexts, as well as radiocarbon dating, studies of both human and animal bones, and conclusions drawn from the archaeobotanical research. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1. A New Perspective on Gerasa/Jerash through the Findings of the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project: The Final Publications of the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project (2011-2016) - ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA Environmental Studies 2. The Geology of the Northwest Quarter of Ancient Jerash within its Regional Context - GENEVIEVE HOLDRIDGE 3. Soils, Sediments, and Urban History of the Ancient City Jerash - GENEVIEVE HOLDRIDGE, S REN?M. KRISTIANSEN, ACHIM LICHTENBERGER, RUBINA RAJA, AND IAN?A. SIMPSON 4. Olives, Vines, Pulses, and Cereals: Evidence of the Plant Food Economy from the Northwest Quarter of Jerash - METTE MARIE HALD 5. The Faunal Remains from the Northwest Quarter in Jerash - PERNILLE BANGSGAARD 6. Human Remains from the Northwest Quarter in Jerash - MARIE LOUISE S. J RKOV 7. Dating the Undatable: Pre-Treatment and Radiocarbon Dating of Human Bones with Extremely Low Collagen Preservation from Jerash - BENTE PHILIPPSEN AND JESPER OLSEN Remote Sensing and Modelling 8. Mapping Jerash by Remote Sensing - S REN?M. KRISTIANSEN AND DAVID STOTT 9. Geophysical Data and Archaeological Evidence: A?Comparative Interpretation - RUDOLF KNIE , ACHIM LICHTENBERGER, DANA PILZ, AND RUBINA RAJA 10. Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Modelling - BENTE PHILIPPSEN AND JESPER OLSEN‎

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‎Marlis Arnhold‎

‎Transformationen stadtr mischer Heiligt mer w hrend der sp ten Republik und Kaiserzeit‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xxxii + 384 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:167 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language: German. ISBN 9782503588353.‎

‎Summary Was geschah in der Stadt Rom mit den republikanischen Tempelbauten w hrend der Kaiserzeit? Wie wurden diese (noch) genutzt? Welchen baulichen Ver nderungen unterlagen sie? Neue Akteure, ver nderte Machtverh ltnisse, eine ganze Stadt im Wandel, zunehmend begrenzter Raum, wegfallende Sichtachsen, letztendlich aber auch neue Kulte sowie neue Formen von Kultbauten und -praktiken bestimmen den Rahmen, vor dem auch das Fortbestehen der bereits in republikanischer Zeit vorhandenen Heiligt mer betrachtet werden muss. Dabei zeichnet sich ein Bild ihrer Nutzungsweisen und Funktionen, das kaum heterogener sein k nnte, sich bei n herer Betrachtung jedoch sinnvoll zu einem Ganzen verbindet. Gepr gt von Pragmatismus und dem Repr sentationswillen verschiedener Akteure spiegelt sich im unterschiedlichen Umgang mit den Heiligt mern die r umliche und funktionale Segmentierung der kaiserzeitlichen Stadt eindrucksvoll wider. Dabei steht weit mehr als die Rekonstruktion der bisher h ufig vernachl ssigten kaiserzeitlichen Phasen ausgew hlter Heiligt mer im Vordergrund. Es sind die Einbettung der Architekturen und R ume dieser St tten in das urbane Umfeld, die Konzeption st dtischen Raumes und insbesondere auch die Frage, welche Rolle den ?alten' Kulten in einer ?neuen' Stadt beigemessen wurde, die das Augenmerk dieses Buches bilden. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbildungsverzeichnis Abk rzungsverzeichnis Einleitung Teil 1. Einzelbeispiele 1. Die sog. Area Sacra des Largo Argentina 2 Der sog. Tempel der Via delle Botteghe Oscure 3 Der Portunus-Tempel im Forum Boarium 4 Die sog. Area Sacra von Sant'Omobono im Forum Boarium 5 Die drei Podiumtempel des Forum Holitorium 6 Die Porticus Octaviae und Porticus Philippi am Nordrand des Circus Flaminius 7 Die Heiligt mer des Apollo und der Bellona in circo 8 Die sog. Area Sacra dei Templi Repubblicani in Ostia Teil 2. Transformationen 1 Architekturen 2 R umlicher Wandel von Heiligt mern 3 Nutzungen und Funktionen 4 Kultfragen Schluss Literaturverzeichnis English Summary‎

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‎Ruben Davtyan‎

‎Between Near East and Eurasian Nomads. Representation of Local Elites in the Lori Berd Necropolis during the First Half of the First Millennium BC‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, xxvi + 358 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:333 b/w, 77 col., 3 tables b/w., 8 tables col., 6 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503608037.‎

‎Summary The site of Lori Berd, located in northern Armenia, is home to an extraordinary necropolis that once housed the dead of the local elite during a period that spanned from 2200 to 400 BC. Influenced both by Urartian conquests from the south and by invasions from the Eurasian nomadic tribes from the north, the people of this region buried their dead with prestigious artefacts, complex customs, and a particular reverence shown during the later stages of the Early and Middle Iron Ages (1000-550 BC). This volume offers a detailed account of the archaeological significance of the site, providing detailed accounts of thirty-one tombs, the majority of which have never before been comprehensively published, and seeking to set Lori Berd in its broader historical and material context. Through this approach, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of the Iron Age in the South Caucasus, unravelling the interconnected themes of wealth, power, and cultural expressions. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction The Aims of this Work The Contemporary Research Framework The Actuality of the Question Methods Chapter 2. The Necropolis of Lori Berd Research History State of Research Description of Early and Middle Iron Age tombs Evaluation of the Tombs Chapter 3. Vessels Types of Pottery Metal Vessels Chapter 4. Weaponry and Tools Swords Daggers Scabbards Knives Spears Axes Maceheads Arrowheads Bidents Flesh Hook Arm Guards Ferrules Chisels Helmet Phaleras Quiver pin Reflections on Weapons Chapter 5. Jewellery and Art Objects Idols Bone Plaques Seals Beads Pendants Rings Clothing and its Fittings Silver Torc Temple Ornaments Band Diadems Assessment of Results of Geochemical Analysis of Gold and Silver Samples Chapter 6. Varia Tripod Fittings Sceptres Toiletry Items Chapter 7. Horse Sacrifices and Horse-Related Objects Historical Sources Zooarchaeological Investigations on Horses Horse Bits Belts Horse Torcs Horse Bridle Fasteners Horse Adornments Foot Bandages Visualization of Horse-Related Objects on Selected Horses Horse Warriors and the Notion of Gender Chapter 8. Assessment of Results of Wet Chemistry Analysis of Samples from Copper Objects Samples and Analysis Chemical Composition and Element Ratios Lead Isotope Analysis Chapter 9. Social Change and the Representation of Elites at Lori Berd Lori Berd Tombs Grouping Evidence of Social Inequality among the Tombs Chronology of Tombs Main Aspects of Representation in the Lori Berd Tombs Chapter 10. Lori Berd in its Regional Context The Nature of Foreign Influences in Lori Berd Lori Berd and Urartu South Caucasus as Imperial Periphery of the Urartian State Chapter 11. Main Results Appendix Works Cited Index‎

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‎Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja (eds)‎

‎Hellenistic and Roman Gerasa. The Archaeology and History of a Decapolis City‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xviii + 390 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:196 b/w, 21 col., 31 tables b/w., Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503585048.‎

‎Summary The Graeco-Roman Decapolis city of Gerasa was a flourishing centre of population from the Late Hellenistic up to the Early Islamic period. It was also home to a vibrant ceramics industry. Kilns found throughout the city, with a concentration in the Hippodrome, suggest that Gerasa was in fact a mass-production centre in the Decapolis region over a number of centuries, manufacturing a vast array of material to suit the changing needs of daily life. Drawing on finds yielded during excavations by the Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project and other archaeological projects, as well as the research undertaken within the Ceramics in Context project, this volume evaluates the pottery from Gerasa produced in the Late Hellenistic and Roman periods. Typology, development over time, and variations in the Gerasene pottery are explored, and rare examples of imported material are analysed in order to shed light both on the inner workings of the city, and on the networks that extended beyond Gerasa's walls. The contributions gathered here examine the archaeology and history of Gerasa and assess ceramic remains alongside other finds from both the city and neighbouring urban centres. In doing so, they seek to contextualize this material in a broader cultural and historical context, and to improve our understanding of consumption, trading, and networks in the wider Decapolis area. TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1. Invisible Pasts, Urban Fates and the Central Role of Ceramics: Gerasa in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods - ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA 2. Late Hellenistic and Roman Antiochia on the Chrysorrhoas, also Called Gerasa: A Reappreciation of the Urban Development in the Light of the Findings of the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project (2011-2017) - ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA 3. Ceramics in Cities in Context: An Overview of Published Roman Imperial to Umayyad Pottery in the Southern Levant - PHILIP BES, TOM BRUGHMANS, ACHIM LICHTENBERGER, RUBINA RAJA, AND IZA ROMANOWSKA 4. Les productions c ramiques locales de Jerash au d but de la p riode romaine (Ier si cle avant J.-C. - IIe si cle apr s J.-C.) : influences et diffusion - ANNE-MICHELE RASSON-SEIGNE ET JACQUES SEIGNE 5. La c ramique import e Jerash pendant l' poque romaine (fin Ier si cle avant J.-C. - fin IIIe si cle apr s J.-C.) : l'apport des fouilles du sanctuaire de Zeus - ANNE-MICHELE RASSON-SEIGNE ET JACQUES SEIGNE 6. Les timbres amphoriques trouv s Jerash - STEPHANE DUPLESSIS ET FRANCESCA DI NAPOLI, AVANT-PROPOS DE JACQUES SEIGNE 7. Late Antique Ceramic Imports in Gerasa: New Light on the Macellum Finds (with a Special Reference to the Neighbouring Region) - ALEXANDRA USCATESCU 8. Roman-Period Roof Tiles from the Northwest Quarter of Jerash - PHILIP EBELING 9. Pottery from Sanctuaries in the Hinterland of Gadara/Umm Qays (Jordan) - LISA BERGER 10. Pottery from Abila and Gadara - NORA M. VOSS 11. Quantifying Ceramic Trends at Umm el-Jimal - ELIZABETH A. OSINGA 12. Roman City Coins of Gerasa: Contextualizing Currency and Circulation from the Hellenistic to the Late Roman Period - ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA Indices‎

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‎Corinne Castel, Jan-Waalke Meyer, Philippe Quenet (eds)‎

‎Circular Cities of Early Bronze Age Syria‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xxvi + 398 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:133 b/w, 36 col., 16 tables b/w., Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503551838.‎

‎Summary This volume corresponds to the acts of a conference that closes the international interdisciplinary research project Badiyah, directed by Corinne Castel and Jan-Waalke Meyer (Directors of the Tell Al-Rawda and Tell Chuera archaeological missions). Both sites illustrate the importance of the 3rd millennium BCE 'circular cities' discovered in today's Syria. These pre-planned cities were fortified and organized following a concentric and radial urban pattern. They represent a particular form of the endogenous process of urbanization that appeared in this region when the first cities and territorial states emerged. The main results obtained from these two sites are compared to other Syrian 'circular cities' of the Early Bronze Age. Twenty-nine contributions enable us to reassess the process of urbanization in the Near East and to question the Southern Mesopotamian model as the unique cradle of urban civilization. TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE AVANT-PROPOS Introduction Syrian Circular Cities of the Third Millennium BC: A Syrian Urban Model - CORINNE CASTEL Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Circular Cities in Early Bronze Age Syria: A Reappraisal - PHILIPPE QUENET The Birth of the Circular Cities - JAN-WAALKE MEYER SECTION I - THEMATIC TOPICS Origins of the Model The Origin and Early Development of Tell Chu?ra and Neighbouring Settlements - RALPH HEMPELMANN Retracing Settlements, Pots, and People: Frankfurt University's Southeast Anatolia Project (SOAP) - CHRISTIAN FALB & MUSTAFA KIBARO?LU Circular Cities: Fortifications and Official Areas The Fortification of Circular Cities: The Examples of Tell Chu?ra and Tell Al-Rawda - TOBIAS?B.?H. HELMS & PHILIPPE QUENET Creating the Urban Landscape. The Emergence of Monumentality in Third Millennium Chu?ra - OLESIA KROMBERG The Early Bronze Age Palace at Chu?ra and the Decline of the Settlement - ALEXANDER TAMM Circular Cities: Material Culture A Comparison of Early Bronze Age Ceramic Assemblages from Circular Cities in Inner Syria and the Western Jezirah: Some Preliminary Considerations - TAOS BABOUR & GEORGES MOUAMAR Djemdet Nasr or Early Bronze Age?III? Dating the Find Locations of Tell Chu?ra Seal Impressions - ANNE-BIRTE BINDER Peri-Urban Constructions and Environmental Studies The Circular Cities of Northern Syria in their Environmental Context - STEFAN LORENZ SMITH & TONY JAMES WILKINSON? Soils and Land Use Potential Around Tell Chu?ra in the Third Millennium BC - HEINRICH THIEMEYER Central Places in the Wadi ?amar Survey Area. Aspects of Urban Planning in the Regions of the Badiyah Project in the Third Millennium BC - VERONIKA KUDLEK Strat gies de subsistance et conomie v g tale dans les villes circulaires de la Shamiyah au Bronze ancien. Tell Al-Rawda et Tell Sh'airat dans les marges arides de Syrie - LINDA HERVEUX Potentiels agro-pastoraux et am nagements agricoles p riurbains de la micror gion d'Al-Rawda - OLIVIER BARGE & MARIE-LAURE CHAMBRADE Animal Economy at the End of the Third Millennium bc in the Syrian Badiyah: A Comparative Study of Tell Chu?ra and Tell Al-Rawda - EMMANUELLE VILA A Cataclysm in the Steppe? Environmental History of Al-Rawda, an Ephemeral City in the Syrian Arid Margins at the End of the Third Millennium - JACQUES E LIE BROCHIER Society and Textual Sources The Ebla Palace G Texts and the Circular Cities of Third Millennium Eastern Syria: Some Remarks - MARIA GIOVANNA BIGA The Ebla Palace G Texts and the Circular Cities of Third Millennium Southern Syria: Some Remarks - AMALIA CATAGNOTI Square Temples and Circular Cities: Sites of Attraction, 'Traditions of Identity' and Third Millennium Urbanisation in Northern Syria - ANNE PORTER SECTION II - REGIONAL TOPICS Anatolia The Spatial Organisation, Development and Sociology of Radial Pattern Settlements in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - B RENG RE PERELLO Jezirah Mari, une ville circulaire ordinaire? - PASCAL BUTTERLIN Notes sur l'architecture et l'urbanisme du Royaume de Nagar (3): similarit s entre Tell Brak et Tell Beydar l' poque Early Jezirah IIIb - MARC LEBEAU Tell Khazna I - A Concentric Planned Settlement in The Khabur Steppe - AMIROV SHAMARDAN N. Tell Tcholema Foqani: A New Circular City 'Kranzh gel' in the Region of Upper Jezirah - CHEIKHMOUS ALI A Season's Work at Khirbet Malhat, North-Eastern Syria - PHILIPPE QUENET & AHMAD SULTAN Bishri La contribution du Jebel Bishri la th matique des villes circulaires du troisi me mill naire av. J.-C. - AHMAD SULTAN A Planned new Major City on the Margins of the Syrian Steppe: Early Bronze Age Tell Sh?a?rat - GEORGES MOUAMAR Southern Mesopotamia Town-Planning in Third Millennium Mesopotamia: A View from the Alluvial Plain - R GIS VALLET INDEX OF SITES‎

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‎Fikri Kulakoglu, C cile Michel, G zel zt rk (eds)‎

‎Integrative Approaches to the Archaeology and History of K ltepe-Kanes. K ltepe, 4-7 August 2017. KIM 3 (K ltepe International Meetings 3)‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xx + 258 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:173 b/w, 12 col., 20 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503585598.‎

‎Summary The 3rd K ltepe International Meeting aimed at exploring multidisciplinary approaches to the archaeology and history of complex urban sites using K ltepe-Kanesh as a case study. As a result, the conference proceedings involve a wide variety of disciplines: archaeology, ceramics, paleobotany, paleoecology, palynology, archaeometallurgy, geo- and archaeo-magnetism, art history, philology, history, computer science, and last but not least, videogame design. Indeed, the aim of the K ltepe International Meetings (KIM) is to facilitate the dialogue between these different disciplines and to combine their data in order to build an accurate view of K ltepe and its environment. The 3rd KIM more than fulfilled this goal, demonstrating once again how K ltepe functions as an international experimental laboratory in which disciplines and sub-disciplines can be tested, improved, and developed. All the contributions presented here provide a good overview of the ongoing multidisciplinary studies being carried out at K ltepe and Central Anatolia. TABLE OF CONTENTS Fikri KULAKO?LU & C cile MICHEL, Preface: To Mogens Larsen on his Eightieth Birthday C cile MICHEL, Integrative Approaches to the Archaeology and the History of K ltepe/Kane? Fikri KULAKO?LU, Ryoichi KONTANI, Akinori UESUGI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Kazuya SHIMOGAMA & Masao SEMMOTO, Preliminary Report of Excavations in the Northern Sector of K ltepe 2015-2017 Fikri KULAKO?LU, Serdar OKUR, G zel ZT RK, G khan YILDIZ & Dilek KE E, Preliminary Report on the 2014-2016 Seasons Rescue Excavations at Early Bronze Age Cemetery in Kayseri I?nler Dag?I Pinar ERTEPINAR, Cor LANGEREIS, Andy BIGGIN, Lennart V. DE GROOT & Fikri KULAKO?LU, Archaeomagnetism at K ltepe: Untangling the Order of Fire Events in Antiquity Andrew FAIRBAIRN, Did the Old Assyrian Trade Stimulate Changes in Farming Practices in Central Anatolia? etin ?ENKUL, Fikri KULAKO?LU, Aziz REN & Warren EASTWOOD, Paleo-Ecological Conditions of K ltepe and its Vicinity Based on Palynological Data Gonca DARDENIZ & Tayfun YILDIRIM, Resulo?lu ( orum, Turkey) Updated: Preliminary Results of pXRF Analysis of Metal Artefacts from the Early Bronze Age Cemetery Abdullah HACAR, Early Bronze Age Pottery from a Mining Settlement (G ltepe) South-West of K ltepe Emine KOC?AK & Latif O?ZEN, Re-Restoring a Bone Panel from K ltepe-Kanesh C cile MICHEL, Making Clay Envelopes in the Old Assyrian Period Melissa RICETTI, Preliminary Results on the Seal Impressions from the 1990 Excavation Season at K ltepe/Kani? (kt 90/k) Selim FERRUH ADALI, Iron Age K ltepe and its Region in Light of Tabal's History Elif SURER, Ceren ?NCI T RKBEN & H. ?EBNEM D ZG N, A Multifaceted Gaming Platform for Interactive Learning of Archaeology and Culture of K ltepe: Preliminary Results on the Gaming Prototype‎

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‎Despina Chatzivasiliou (ed)‎

‎La fronti re absente. tudes r unies en l'honneur de Fran ois de Polignac‎

‎, Brepols - Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 2024 Hardback, 392 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:17 b/w, 2 maps b/w, Language: French. ISBN 9782503610900.‎

‎Summary l'occasion des soixante-dix ans de Fran ois de Polignac, nous sommes r unis autour de ce projet d' dition pour d velopper des sujets de recherche inspir s de ses publications et de son enseignement l' cole pratique des hautes tudes. Ce volume prend la forme non pas de m langes mais d'essais sur des th matiques autour de l'Antiquit grecque, de la structuration de l'espace et des constructions identitaires, combinant des sources arch ologiques et textuelles, et propose une r flexion dans le temps et l'espace. Nous voulons ainsi montrer, par des cas d' tude, comment Fran ois de Polignac a su aborder les civilisations antiques par une vision aussi pr cise que large, en int grant les donn es sur la longue dur e et en vitant d'adopter un mod le interpr tatif uniforme dans le processus de la r daction historique. L'aspect comparatiste s'est r v l important entre des r gions et des poques diff rentes, du monde gr co-romain jusqu' la M sopotamie et la Chine. Une partie des textes est consacr e au commentaire de ses travaux dans le but d'expliquer comment ceux-ci nous inspirent et ouvrent des perspectives d'autres r flexions et recherches. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Andr Miquel (Coll ge de France,?), Avant-propos 2. Despina Chatzivasiliou (Coll ge de France), Itin raires crois s : en guise d'introduction Premi re partie. Topographie 3. Valentine Benoliel (EPHE-PSL), La n cropole du Phal re l' poque archa que 4. Jean-S bastien Gros (Archaiodata), Le d me d'Aphidnai, l ments de topographie religieuse 5. Despina Chatzivasiliou (Coll ge de France) et Adrian Robu (Universit Paris VIII Vincennes - Saint-Denis), D'Ath nes M gare : r cits mythologiques et pratiques cultuelles en miroir sur les rives du golfe Saronique Deuxi me partie. Topologie 6. Luigi Lafasciano ( phorie des antiquit s du Pir e), Offrandes immat rielles, changes symboliques et performance rituelle dans les cultes th rapeutiques grecs l' poque classique 7. Lucio Maria Valletta (EPHE-PSL), Zeus et Pos idon en Laconie. R seaux spatiaux et configurations du divin 8. Kenan Eren (Universit des Beaux-Arts Mimar Sinan, Istanbul), Entre locale et globale : une tude topologique sur la diversit des sanctuaires ioniens l' poque archa que Troisi me partie. Identit s et comparaisons 9. Ludovic Sot (Lyc e Marie-Curie de Sceaux), Les strat gies identitaires de l' criture en contexte sacr l' poque archa que 10. Ilaria Calini (EPHE-PSL), Selon l'ordre du temps : " ges d'or", col res divines et devenir historique dans les r cits grecs et m sopotamiens 11. Yiting Pan (Universit de Chongqing), Shen, theos et l'immortalit : la notion du divin dans les sources antiques chinoises et grecques 12. Francesca Mancino (Institut catholique de Paris), L'espace de la performance et la c l bration de la po sis dans l'Hymne hom rique Herm s Voyages maritimes 13. Emanuele Greco (Universit de Naples L'Orientale), Phal re, la Sir ne, Diotimos : une histoire napolitaine de l' poque de P ricl s 14. Joan Breton Connelly (New York University, Department of Classics), Insularities 15. Notice biographique de Fran ois de Polignac‎

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‎Dominic Moreau, Raul Gonzalez Salinero (eds)‎

‎Academica Libertas Essais en l'honneur du professeur Javier Arce - Ensayos en honor del profesor Javier Arce‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 383 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Languages: French, Spanish, English. ISBN 9782503584492.‎

‎Summary Successively Research Professor at the Instituto Espa ol de Arqueolog a of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient ficas, director of the Escuela Espa ola de Historia y Arqueolog a en Roma, Visiting Professor of Roman archaeology at the Universit Marc Bloch of Strasbourg, then Full Professor in the same field at the Universit Charles-de-Gaulle de Lille, Javier Arce has had a truly international career. This openness to the world, which is a fundamental feature of his professional career - as evidenced by the number of living languages he speaks - he has cultivated since his doctoral studies. His studies have taken him not only into many academic and research institutions in Rome (where he knows everyone and everyone knows him), but also into several other high places of historical knowledge, especially a number of British universities. Archaeologist, historian, philologist, Javier Arce is a "total" Romanist, in the sense that his field of competence is nothing less than the entire Roman period, hence the scope of the topics treated in the three chapters of this volume (Classical Antiquity - Hispania - Late Antiquity). Although he admires Greek and Roman Antiquity, he has mainly developed his research in the field of Late Antiquity, for which he is now known worldwide. He is at times a specialist in imperial history and archaeology of the 4th and 5th centuries, both in the West and in the East, with a more pronounced taste for the figures of Constantius II, Julian and Theodosius I, for the imperial ceremonial and for the residences of the emperors; and again a specialist of Late Roman and Visigothic Spain, therefore of the transition to the Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula, until the Arab invasion. His peregrinations, which have taken him to North America, including the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, as well as to occupy the presidency of the International Association of Classical Archaeology, have, however, never completely diverted him from his native Spain, to which is dedicated here a complete chapter, because it has occupied such a central place in his career. We have just once to hear him speaking of M rida or to note the number of publications that he devoted to it to become aware of this. It is to thank him for sharing with so many people his passion for Antiquity, but also to celebrate his emeritus status, that his students, colleagues and friends offer him this Festschrift. Successivement professeur de recherche l'Instituto Espa ol de Arqueolog a du Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient ficas, directeur de l'Escuela Espa ola de Historia y Arqueolog a en Roma, professeur associ d'arch ologie romaine l'Universit Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, puis professeur ordinaire dans la m me mati re l'Universit Charles-de-Gaulle de Lille, Javier Arce a eu une carri re v ritablement internationale. Cette ouverture sur le monde, qui est un trait caract ristique fondamental de son cursus professionnel - dont t moigne le nombre de langues vivantes qu'il parle -, il l'a cultiv e depuis ses tudes doctorales, qui l'ont men non seulement dans plusieurs institutions acad miques et de recherche de Rome (o il conna t tout le monde et tout le monde le conna t), mais aussi en plusieurs autres hauts-lieux du savoir historique, particuli rement dans certaines universit s britanniques. Arch ologue, historien, philologue, Javier Arce est un romaniste total , en ce sens que son domaine de comp tence n'est rien de moins que l'int gralit de la p riode romaine, d'o l' tendue des sujets trait s dans les trois chapitres du pr sent volume (Antiquit classique - Hispania - Antiquit tardive). S'il voue une v ritable admiration la haute Antiquit grecque et romaine, il a toutefois surtout d velopp ses travaux de recherche dans le domaine de l'Antiquit tardive, ce pour quoi il est aujourd'hui mondialement connu. Il est tant t sp cialiste d'histoire et d'arch ologie imp riales des IVe et Ve si cles, en Occident comme en Orient, avec un go t plus prononc pour les figures de Constance II, Julien et Th odose Ier, pour le c r moniel imp rial et pour les r sidences des empereurs ; tant t sp cialiste de l'Espagne tardo-romaine et wisigothique, donc de la transition vers le Moyen ge dans la p ninsule ib rique, jusqu' l'invasion arabe. Ses p r grinations, qui l'ont men jusqu'en Am rique du Nord, notamment l'Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton, et jusqu' occuper la pr sidence de l'Association internationale d'arch ologie classique, ne l'ont cependant jamais totalement d tourn de son Espagne natale, laquelle est d di ici un chapitre complet, tant celle-ci a occup une place centrale dans sa carri re. Il suffit de l'entendre une seule fois parler de M rida ou de constater le nombre de publications qu'il lui a consacr es pour le comprendre. C'est pour le remercier d'avoir communiqu tant de gens sa passion de l'Antiquit , mais aussi pour c l brer son m ritat, que ses l ves, coll gues et amis lui offrent ces m langes. TABLE OF CONTENTS D. Moreau, Avant-propos J.-Y. Marc, Pr face R. Gonz lez Salinero, Los estudios de Javier Arce sobre la Hispania romana y tardoantigua: Innovaci n o cambio de direcci n? D. Moreau, Bibliographie de Javier Arce (1971-2019) I - Aevum classicum (sine Hispania) J. Bonnin, 2000-2015: 15 ans de recherches sur la gnomonique antique R. Jacob, Un portrait d'Agripinne l'ancienne recompos au mus e de l'Acropole H. von Hesberg, Der Kopf in Alba - Zeuge einer G ttergalerie augusteischer Zeit P. Pensabene, Peristili, pseudoperistili e prospetti architettonici nelle case di et imperiale ad Alessandria e in altri siti Egiziani S. Blin, Thermes et verg sie Mandeure II - Hispanica A. Saecula I-III G. Mora, Bernard de Montfaucon, Manuel Marti y la representaci n de las antig edades de Espa a J. C. Saquete, Agripa Menenio M'. Valerio M ximo en M rida. Tradiciones y virtudes romanas en el confin occidental del Imperio P. Le Roux, Celtib re et Romain M. P. Garc a-Bellido, H rcules entre Africa e Hispania en los ureos de Adriano (RIC II 59) M. Urteaga, El programa constructivo de las termas romanas de Oiasso (Irun, Gipuzkoa) J. Edmondson, La administraci n de la provincia de Lusitania en el siglo III D.C.: Nuevas aportaciones B. Saecula IV-VIII L. Brassous, La carte provinciale de la Dioecesis Hispaniarum S. Panzram, Tarraco tardorromana sigue siendo Tarraco? A prop sito de continuidad o discontinuidad de una capital de provincia G. Bravo, Bagaudas y federados: Coaligados o rivales? W. Trillmich, Genio y figura de santa Eulalia en la imaginaci n de Prudencio G. Ripoll, El Thesaurus Visigodo. Notas al margen III - Antiquitas posterior (sine Hispania) A. Res profanae W. Van Andringa, Urbs nova. La ville du ive si cle en Gaule A. Cameron, The Date and Purpose of Claudian's In Rufinum M. Roux, Les ?irr ductibles? du cursus honorum et des dignitates les plus prestigieuses dans la Gaule du Ve si cle P. Pav n, Teodora, victima de un bigamo infame, estuprador y estafador (Cj 9.9.18) S. Lebecq, ?Hommes du bout du monde? ou passeurs vers d'autres mondes?? Regards antiques et proto-m di vaux sur les Morins et autres gens du Nord G. P. Brogiolo, Dai castelli dei Venetici a Venezia (VI-X secolo) tra fonti scritte e archeologia J. Nelson, Charlemagne's Fossatum magnum: Another Look B. Res sacrae R. Teja, Jesus Mago? La magia como argumento apologetico en la polemica entre cristianos y judios E. Chrysos, Libertas religionis in Late Antiquity: A Critical Overview A. Chavarr a Arnau, Cuanto costaba construir una iglesia tardoantigua? F. Baratte, Quelques r flexions propos de la grande basilique de Th veste (T bessa, Alg rie) W. Liebeschuetz, Theodoret, Ecclesiastical Historian I. Wood, Sidonius and the Burgundians M. Gaillard, L'entr e des morts dans la ville, en gaule et ses marges (ve-viiie si cles)?: r alit s et limites du ph nom ne‎

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‎Noemi Borrelli, Giulia Scazzosi (eds)‎

‎After the Harvest. Storage Practices and Food Processing in Bronze Age Mesopotamia‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xii + 146 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:53 b/w, 14 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503583785.‎

‎Summary The reliance on grain and grain products is a key feature of many past societies, and this is particularly true of the Ancient Near East. The necessity of storing and processing foodstuffs encompassed political and social boundaries: food shaped identities and it was not by chance that, for the Mesopotamian mindset, civilization started with the consumption of bread and beer. At any managerial level, storage practices and food processing reflect the economic organization of a society, its control mechanisms, and its interdependent social structures. This volume includes eight papers by scholars of the Ancient Near East, who draw on a wide range of sources and methodologies, from (bio-)archaeological evidence to cuneiform texts, in order to explore what actually happened after the harvest in the shared horizon of Bronze Age Mesopotamia. The different case-studies gathered together here examine the impact of continuity - and crucially, of change - in the technical, economic, and social solutions that were adopted by people in response to the common needs of everyday life. This volume represents a dialogue between different perspectives and disciplines that simultaneously opens up new paths of research, at the same time as seeking to narrow the gaps in our understanding of this subject. TABLE OF CONTENTS Noemi Borrelli & Giulia Scazzosi, After the Harvest: An Introduction Klaus Wagensonner, Food: Its Gathering, Storing, and Consumption According to the Early Textual Record Alexander Pru , Grain Storage and Grain Distribution at Tell Beydar Armando Bramanti, Before the Harvest? Land-grain Accounts in Early Dynastic Umma Noemi Borrelli, Institutional Grain Storage and Control Network in the Ur III Province of ?irsu/Laga? Tate Paulette, Archaeological Perspectives on Beer in Mesopotamia: Brewing Ingredients Melania Zingarello, Beer-making and Drinking Between Life and Death: A Fresh Look at the 'Four-Part Sets' Arkadiusz So?tysiak, Bioarchaeology of Food Production in Ancient Mesopotamia Giulia Scazzosi, 'Eat the Bread, Enkidu': The Role of Bakeries in Late Third to Early Second Millennium BC Mesopotamia‎

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‎Annette Haug, Stephanie Merten (eds)‎

‎Urban Practices. Repopulating the Ancient City‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xii + 172 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:73 b/w, 1 col., 1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503584614.‎

‎Summary Cities in the ancient world, much like in the modern era, were not simply a locus for population and a hub for social, cultural, and economic activity, but were themselves the products of urban practices. This volume draws together two often disparate fields - urban space and human practice - to explore the actors and actions that underpinned ancient cities and to offer unique insights into the lives of those who dwelt there. Placing particular emphasis on social practice theory, the contributions gathered together in this book seek to analyse the development of the city, especially public urban spaces, from the archaic period up to Roman Imperial times. A key focus is on infrastructure, public spaces used for politics (particularly the Forum Romanum), and the role of sanctuaries and the way in which they were shaped by cult activity. Through this unique approach, this volume is able, for the first time, to bring the inhabitants of ancient cities to the fore, and in doing so, to offer key insights into the development of spatial routines, the interaction of these routines with the material setting of a city, and the way in which cities themselves played an important role in shaping the people and practices within them. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction - ANNETTE HAUG De-centralised Decision-Making Processes in Third-Millennium Syro-Mesopotamian City-Planning: The Example of Tell Chuera - HENRIKE BACKHAUS AND TOBIAS HELMS City and Shore: Natural Change and Human Action - STEFAN FEUSER Streetscapes and Traffic at Selinous from the Archaic City to the Punic-Hellenistic Settlement - NICOLA CHIARENZA Performing Commerce: Everyday Work and Urban Life in Roman Italy - MIKO FLOHR The Production of Diplomatic Space in Ancient Rome - HANNAH CORNWELL The forum Romanum as an Active Action Context - DUNIA FILIPPI Places of Gods and Men: Socio-Political Interactions and Ritual Practice in the Etruscan Sacred Landscape (Eighth to Fifth Centuries BC) - ROBINSON PETER KR MER The Appropriation of Space in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia - SARAH HERZOG Hellenistic Built Space and Human Action: The Asclepieion of Cos - ASJA M LLER Indices‎

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‎Marl ne Albert Llorca, Pierre Rouillard‎

‎Many Faces of the Lady of Elche. Essays on the Reception of an Iberian Sculpture‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 155 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:5 b/w, 36 col., 1 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503610306.‎

‎Summary On 4 August 1897, farm workers in Elche - the site of ancient Ilici - discovered an Iberian sculpture of a woman that dated from the fifth- fourth centuries BCE. French archaeologist Pierre Paris dubbed this figure 'the Lady of Elche', and promptly purchased the sculpture on behalf of the Louvre Museum. There, she drew the attention of European scholars who were intrigued by her stylistic features, finally concluding that she bore witness to the existence of a specifically Iberian art. Since her discovery, the Lady of Elche has been a source of fascination not only for scholars, but also for artists, and she has become an icon of regional and national identity across Spain. This volume, co-written by an archaeologist and an anthropologist and translated here into English for the first time, seeks to explore the importance of the Lady of Elche, both for students of the past, and for the peoples of Iberia. The authors here explore not only what we know - and still do not know - about her creation, but also engage with key questions about what she represents for the men and women of our time who have questioned, manipulated, admired, loved, and often reinvented the singular beauty of this iconic figure. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction A Unique Work A Remarkable History Actors and their Agendas Chapter 2. The Lady and the Discovery of Iberian Art Ilici in the Iberian World A Newly Defined Art From la Alcudia's Soil to the Louvre: How the Discovery Came about An Exceptional Piece Chapter 3. A Century of Discussions about the Lady The First Attempts at Identification: The Moorish Queen, Apollo The Lady and the Archaeologists Iberian or Mediterranean, Goddess or Queen? Chapter 4. Through Artists' Eyes: The Lady from Orientalism to Primitivism and Art Nouveau Painters' Interpretations: Oriental or Hellenizing Iberians and 'Primitives' Ignacio Pinazo Martinez, Art Nouveau Sculptor Chapter 5. Women in Stone, Women in Flesh and Blood The Iberians and Valencian Identity The Lady as Archetypal Valencian Woman The Venus of Arles and the Lady of Elche Female Beauty A 'Living Lady' in Elche Chapter 6. The Lady between Elche and Madrid Ramon Folqu s's Account of the Discovery of the Statue Reasons for Rewriting the Account An Account that Became the 'Official Account' The Lady and the Virgin: Holiness Transferred After Francoism: The Rise of Heritage Manuel and 'His' Lady From Nationalism to Localism Chapter 7. Conclusion Works Cited‎

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‎Julio Escalona Monge, Orri V steinsson, Stuart Brookes (eds)‎

‎Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xviii + 430 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:14 b/w, 39 maps, 6 graphs, Language: English. ISBN 9782503581682.‎

‎Summary How were early medieval people connected to each other and to the wider world? In this collection, archaeologists and historians working in very different areas of early medieval Europe explore diverse evidence - from landscape and burial archaeology to charters and chronicles - to discuss the relationships that constituted neighbourhoods and the roles these played in the processes of state formation that can be observed in the peripheries of the Frankish world. What these case-studies teach us, the contributors argue, is that polities are formed not through the exclusive operation of either top-down or bottom-up agencies, but from the interplay between them. By exploring the ways in which local knowledge, social ties, and understandings of landscape interacted with higher-level authorities and institutions, we can gain real insights into the nature of early medieval power and people's experiences of it. Marking the culmination of a collective effort that has spanned over a decade and three funded projects, this volume brings together case-studies from Spain, Italy, England, northern Frankia, Norway, and Iceland to offer a comparative view of polities and neighbourhoods in early medieval Europe. Drawing on new research, and offering new perspectives driven by an interdisciplinary approach, this volume is of relevance to a range of disciplines including archaeology, history, onomastics, geography, and anthropology. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - JULIO ESCALONA, ORRI V STEINSSON, AND STUART BROOKES Polities, Neighbourhoods, and Things In-Between - JULIO ESCALONA, ORRI V STEINSSON, AND STUART BROOKES Understanding the Identities and Workings of Local Societies in Early Medieval England, AD 800-1100 - GRENVILLE ASTILL Peasant Communities and Landscape Change in Northwest Iberia - MARGARITA FERN NDEZ MIER Early Medieval Burials and Settlements: Some Reflections on Northern Italian Archaeological Evidence - ALEXANDRA CHAVARR A Ancestors and Landscape: Early Medieval Burial Sites in the Central-Western Regions of the Iberian Peninsula - I AKI MART N VISO The Thing and the King: The Formation of the Norwegian Medieval Kingdom - FRODE IVERSEN Meeting Places, Markets, and Churches in the Countryside between Madrid and Toledo, Central Spain, c. AD 500-900 - ALFONSO VIGIL-ESCALERA State Formation and World View: Commonwealth Iceland as a Part of the Norwegian Realm - ORRI V STEINSSON 'Est haec effera gens': Landscapes of Negotiation on the Former Island of Walcheren, the Netherlands - LETTY TEN HARKEL Territoriality and Social Stratification: The Relationship between Neighbourhood and Polity in Anglo-Saxon England - STUART BROOKES AND ANDREW REYNOLDS Regions and Micro-Regions of Scribal Practice - WENDY DAVIES The Use of the Term Villa in Early Medieval Le n: A Review of the Economic Base of the Astur-Leonese Monarchy, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries - LVARO CARVAJAL CASTRO Dense Local Knowledge: Grounding Local to Supra-local Relationships in Tenth-Century Castile - JULIO ESCALONA Local Places and Local People in Anglo-Saxon Wessex - ALEX LANGLANDS Conclusion - JULIO ESCALONA, ORRI V STEINSSON, AND STUART BROOKES Index‎

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‎Jon Frey, Rubina Raja (eds)‎

‎Trends in Archive Archaeology. Current Research on Archival Material from Fieldwork and its Implications for Archaeological Practice‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, xii + 166 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:71 b/w, 35 col., 2 maps b/w, 2 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503611747.‎

‎Summary Archive archaeology has, in recent years, become increasingly acknowledged as an important component of archaeological research. However, the vast amounts of empirical data contained in such archives - among them fieldwork diaries, working notebooks, finds sheets, and photographs - together with a sense that the field is often skewed towards 'one's own data', have made it difficult to develop a clear methodological approach that fits all eventualities. The result is that archive archaeology is still not always recognized for what it can bring to the discipline of archaeology, as a field of study that focuses on the contexts within which humanity developed. This volume draws together contributions from scholars who work with archives in a variety of capacities: as fieldwork directors of decades-long excavations; as archivists interested in the history of collections; as specialists focusing on certain object groups or regions; and as researchers broadly interested in what archival material brings to the table in terms of new knowledge about archaeological situations. In showcasing contributions of work in progress, the chapters published here bring to the fore knowledge about archives that has long been overlooked, and examine how archival archaeology should be shaped in the future so that it can become more firmly integrated within archaeological practice. TABLE OF CONTENTS Trends in Archive Archaeology: An Introduction Jon M. Frey and Rubina Raja What's In a Name? The Role of Digital Gazetteers for Post-Colonial Legacy Archaeology Anne Hunnell Chen Digitization as Interpretation: Cautions for Archival Archaeology from Artifact Photography Elizabeth Knott Archives and Curatorial Work at the Davis Museum Nicole Berlin Photocorinthia: The Contingency of Archaeological Photography in the Corinth Excavation Archives Peter Anthony Thompson Archive Archaeology and Critical Disciplinary Histories: A Case Study on the Origins of the University of Cincinnati Expedition to the Troad (1932-1938) Jacob M. Engstrom Old Digs, Unfinished Business, Digitization, and New Data. The Committee for the Investigation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes (CIAO) Andrea De Giorgi, Stephen Batiuk, A. Asa Eger, Julia Gearhart, Kirstin Ohrt, and Alan Stahl The Archival Archaeology of Archaeologists: The West Cemetery at Isthmia, 1967-1990 Ulrike Krotscheck and Jon M. Frey Futures for Archive Archaeology: Struggles, Successes, and Methodologies Emilia Oddo‎

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‎Carlo Beltrame‎

‎Mercurio. A Brig of the Regno Italico Sunk During the Battle of Grado (1812)‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xxxvi + 358 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:357 b/w, 9 col., 25 tables b/w., 9 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503581033.‎

‎Summary The Italian brig Mercurio was escorting the French 80-gun vessel Rivoli from Venice on its very first expedition, in 1812, when it was sunk by an English ship during the Battle of Grado. Since the wreck was identified, the Mercurio has been the site of several underwater excavations, beginning in 2001 and continuing from 2004 to 2011 by a team from the Universit Ca' Foscari of Venice, together with the local Soprintendenza. Their work revealed a number of extraordinary finds and provided a unique insight into life - and death - on a brig during the period of the Napoleonic wars. This volume offers a discussion and catalogue of the finds yielded by the Mercurio, including photogrammetry-plans of the bow and stern, together with an analysis of ship-building technique, detail of the equipment and arms used, and, uniquely, close detail of finds connected to the crew themselves. This is one of the few sites from the Mediterranean where human remains have been preserved, and through the work of anthropologists, it has even been possible to try and identify one of the men named on the crew list. Discovery of buttons, footwear, precious items, and even foodstuffs also serve to shed light on the daily life of the crew. This volume thus draws together a wealth of archaeological and historical information to tell the hitherto untold story of the Mercurio. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction - CARLO BELTRAME Part I: Historical Context and the Battle of Grado 1. Napoleon's Italian Navy - PIERO CROCIANI 2. The Event in its Context - CARLO BELTRAME 3. The Mercurio According to the Historical Data - CARLO BELTRAME Part II: The Discovery, the Site, and the Methodology of Investigation 1. The Discovery of the Shipwreck and its Identification - CARLO BELTRAME 2. The Environmental Characteristics of the Site and its Aspect at the Moment of the Discovery -CARLO BELTRAME 3. Conditions of Preservation of the Objects - CARLO BELTRAME 4. The Dynamics of the Sinking and the Formation Processes - CARLO BELTRAME 5. Methods and Techniques of Investigation - CARLO BELTRAME Part III: The Ship 1. The Hull - CARLO BELTRAME 2. Equipment - CARLO BELTRAME 3 Furniture and Lighting -CARLO?BELTRAME AND STEFANIA MANFIO 4. Armament -CARLO BELTRAME 5. Projectiles -CARLO BELTRAME 6. Galley - STEFANIA MANFIO 7. Sanitary and Medical Arrangements - STEFANIA MANFIO Part IV: The Crew 1. Osteological Analysis of the Crew - FRANCESCA BERTOLDI, FIORELLA BESTETTI, ROBERTO CAMERIERE, AND CARLOTTA SISALLI 2. Crew, Uniforms, and Weapons -SOPHIA DONADEL 3. Gunflints - PAOLO BIAGI AND ELISABETTA STARNINI 4. Personal Possessions - CARLO BELTRAME 5. Coins - TOMASO LUCCHELLI Conclusions - CARLO BELTRAME References Appendices Appendix A: Conservation of the Waterlogged Wood - TIZIANA LANAVE Appendix B: The Conservation of the Leather - NECULINA CONDRACHE AND SOPHIA DONADEL Appendix C: The Restoration and Conservation of some Metallic Finds - GIUSEPPE MORETTI Appendix D: Transcriptions of Documents - Documents from Tracy, 2000 Catalogue‎

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‎Barbara Couturaud‎

‎incrustations en coquille de Mari‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xxii + 374 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:115 b/w, 53 tables b/w., Language: French. ISBN 9782503579641.‎

‎Summary Le IIIe mill naire au Proche-Orient voit l'essor d'une riche production d'objets orn s d'images. Cette production mat rielle est propre une p riode durant laquelle la soci t cr e des objets et des images susceptibles de sugg rer et de v hiculer les principes m mes qui la d finissent. Elles mettent en sc ne des individus travers la figuration de th mes r currents, principalement centr s sur la victoire militaire et les c r monies sociales et religieuses. Une des formes de cette production visuelle est incarn e par les panneaux figuratifs incrust s de pi ces en coquille marine et organis s en registres. Pour la plupart, ces panneaux n'ont pas t pr serv s et seules subsistent les incrustations, majoritairement sous la forme de fragments. Cet ouvrage porte sur les incrustations retrouv es Mari, dat es du deuxi me tiers du IIIe mill naire. ce jour, Mari est la cit qui a fourni le plus grand nombre de fragments et sa production doit tre envisag e comme faisant partie int grante de la culture mat rielle et visuelle du Proche-Orient cette poque. Cette tude propose une analyse arch ologique des incrustations et de leur contexte de d couverte ainsi qu'une analyse iconographique, permettant d'aborder la nature et la fonction de ces objets, ainsi que les modalit s de repr sentation sur ce type de support cette poque.‎

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‎Aleksander Pluskowski (ed)‎

‎Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Terra Sacra II‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xx + 246 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:73 b/w, 9 col., 22 tables b/w., 20 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503551333.‎

‎Summary In the thirteenth century, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the pagan tribal groups of the Eastern Baltic, whose territories were conquered and reorganized into Christian states run by the Teutonic Order, bishops, and their cathedral chapters. Castles were built, towns established, and colonists encouraged to settle under the leadership of the new Christian theocracy. But the changes introduced alongside Christianity not only transformed the culture of eastern Baltic societies, but also had a profound and - for the Baltic tribes, who saw many aspects of the natural world as sacred - deeply significant impact on the local environment. This seminal period in the environmental history of north-eastern Europe has been the focus of the ERC-funded research programme, 'The Ecology of Crusading', which explored the physical and conceptual ecological transformations associated with warfare, colonization, and religious conversion. This second Terra Sacra volume draws together a series of case-studies on Livonia and Prussia that provide a unique snapshot of recent research into environmental change during the Baltic Crusades and also explore long-term trends in landscape organization and environmental exploitation. The volume covers six key themes: building-construction in the conquered territories; food supply to the houses of the Teutonic Order; life in the multi-cultural towns of the eastern Baltic; transforming the physical landscape; transforming the spiritual landscape; and the Baltic Ordensland in its regional context. It forms a companion to Environment, Colonization, and the Baltic Crusader States: Terra Sacra I. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements Glossary List of Illustrations Introduction: Multi-Scalar Impacts of Crusading on the Environments of the Eastern Baltic -ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI The Environmental Setting of the Earliest Teutonic Order Stronghold in Elbl?g - JOANNA FONFEREK Timber and its Use from the Late Iron Age to the End of the Medieval Period in Latvia - M?RIS ZUNDE Resources for Castle Building in Medieval Prussia and Livonia - K.?M.?J. HAYWARD with a contribution by STUART BLACK Animal Exploitation in Karksi and Viljandi (Estonia) in the Late Iron Age and Medieval Period - EVE RANNAM E AND LEMBI L UGAS Written Evidence Concerning the Resources of the Teutonic Order in Livonia: The Cases of Karkus and Fellin - JUHAN KREEM Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Evidence for Animal Husbandry and Environmental Change in the Medieval Kulmerland - CHARLOTTE SCULL, GUNDULA M LDNER, AND DANIEL MAKOWIECKI The Plant Element in the Diet of the Inhabitants of Danzig (Gda?sk), Elbing (Elbl?g), and Marienburg (Malbork) During the Rule of the Teutonic Order: Historical and Archaeobotanical Perspectives - MONIKA BADURA AND BEATA MO?EJKO A Foul Perspective: Analysis of Invertebrate Remains in a mid-Fourteenth-Century Latrine from Riga, Latvia - GARY?A. KING Parasites and Baltic Crusading in Medieval Riga: Insights into Disease, Diet, and Hygiene - HUI-YUAN YEH AND PIERS?D. MITCHELL Evidence of Human Impact and Vegetation Change during the Late Iron Age and the Medieval Livonian Period at Some Sites along the Lower Course of the River Daugava - LAIMDOTA KALNI?A, AIJA CERI?A, KRISTAPS KIZIKS, KARINA STANKEVI?A, AGNESE PUJ?TE, AND ANDA DRU?KA Palaeoecological Evidence of Crusades and Subsequent Impact on the Livonian Landscape - NORMUNDS STIVRI??, SIIM VESKI, AND TRIIN REITALU Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Livonia: Lands of the Teutonic Order in Southern Estonia - HEIKI VALK Surkapurn and Kreken: The Phenomena of Name and Place and the Organization of Sacred Space in Prussia Using Archaeology and Other Sources - SEWERYN SZCZEPA?SKI Continuity and Discontinuity in the Sacral Landscape of Lithuania - VYKINTAS VAITKEVI?IUS Reorganizing the Livonian Landscape: Some Issues and Research Perspectives - KASPARS K?AVI?? Exploiting Animals in the Medieval North-Western Russian Frontier - MARK MALTBY The Teutonic Order's Role in the Development of a Medieval Eastern Baltic Cod Fishery: Evidence from Fish Bone Isotopes - DAVID ORTON, EVE RANNAM E, LEMBI L UGAS, DANIEL MAKOWIECKI, SHEILA HAMILTON-DYER, ALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI, TAMSIN O'CONNELL, AND JAMES BARRETT‎

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‎Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja (eds)‎

‎Byzantine and Umayyad Jerash Reconsidered. Transitions, Transformations, Continuities‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xvi + 293 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:147 b/w, 8 col., 24 tables b/w., Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503580241.‎

‎Summary While the city of Gerasa - modern-day Jerash - is perhaps best known for the impressive remains left by its Roman inhabitants, the Byzantine and Umayyad periods (fifth-eighth centuries AD) were also eras during which the city blossomed and its population boomed. Pottery production in this period also peaked: excavations over the last hundred years have revealed a vast quantity of ceramic finds, creating a challenge for archaeologists to cope with the sheer quantity of material as they seek to define and refine the typology of local ceramics. This volume presents an in-depth examination of finds from Jerash dating to the Byzantine and Umayyad periods. Through this analysis, it seeks to provide a better understanding of local pottery production and the role it played in the development of the city. The chapters included here explore techniques of production, identify key locations for ceramic work, and examine these developments as part of broader socio-economic patterns within the region. The contributions also analyse other artefacts from the city, including coinage and fine wares, as part of this wider discussion. The volume thus offers a unique academic contribution aimed at bringing to the forefront issues of continuity and change in Jerash in the dynamic period between the fifth and eighth centuries CE. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Conundrum of Chronologies of the Byzantine and Umayyad Periods in Jerash -ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA Revisiting Jerash Late Antique Fine Wares: A?Material and Visual Cultural Approach - ALEXANDRA USCATESCU Archaeological Evidence for Craft Activities in the Area of the Sanctuary of Artemis at Gerasa between the Byzantine and Umayyad Periods - DANIELA BALDONI La c ramique de trois ensembles clos des vie/viiie si cles Gerasa - ANNE-MICHELE RASSON-SEIGNE ET JACQUES SEIGNE The Late Antique Jarash Project: Preliminary Results of the Pottery Data - RAFFAELLA PAPPALARDO Ceramic Petrography of Locally Produced Byzantine/Umayyad Pottery from Jerash - STEPHEN MERKEL Umayyad Numismatics in Bil?d al-Sh?m with Particular Reference to Jund al-Urdunn - INGRID AND WOLFGANG SCHULZE Defining Borders: The Umayyad-Abbasid Transition and the Earthquake of ad 749 in Jerash - ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA‎

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‎Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, Christos Stavrakos (eds)‎

‎Studies in Byzantine Sigillography. Volume 13‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xiv + 208 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:100 b/w, Languages: English, French, German. ISBN 9782503583730.‎

‎Summary This volume contains primarily papers of the 11th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography held in Istanbul (May 2014) and of the last Congress of Byzantine Studies in Belgrade (August 2016). There are papers about the seals as historical source and archaeological finding presenting their role in the Byzantine prosopography, administration, historical geography and art history. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Abbreviations New Finds and Seal Collections Gert Boersema, A Dutch Collection of Late Antique and Early Christian Lead Seals Vera Bulgurlu, The Byzantine Lead Seals in the Bal?kesir Kuva-yi Milliye Museum Collection Jean-Claude Cheynet, Sceaux du xie si cle trouv s en Palestine Prosopography Ioannes?G. Leontiades, The Seal of Theodoros Styppeiotes Protonobellisimos and Megas Sakellarios (1150s). A?Contribution to Prosopography of the Comnenian Period Werner Seibt, The Theodorokanoi. Members of the Byzantine Military Aristocracy with an Armeno-Iberian Origin Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, Leon Gabras Kaisar. Ein Beitrag Zur Prosopographie Der Fr hen Palaiologenzeit Administration, Historical Geography, Profession Andreas Gkoutzioukostas, The Theme of Drougoubiteia Werner Seibt, ?????o??? ??? ??????. Residierte Der Bischof von Atel in Chazaria (Am Unterem Don)? Christos Stavrakos - Christos Tsatsoulis, A Rare Lead Seal of a Goldsmith (????????????) from the Unpublished Collection of Zafeiris Syrras (London) Piety John Cotsonis, An Image of Saint Nicholas with the "Tongues of Fire" on a Byzantine Lead Seal Ioanna Koltsida-Makre, The Collection of Byzantine Bread Stamps in the Loulis Museum (Aghiou Georgiou Mills), Piraeus, Greece Indexes Index of Proper Names and Terms Index of Iconography Index of Metrical Inscriptions‎

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