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Book The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

Download or read book The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studia archaeologica Gerardo van Hoorn oblata  studia van Hoorn

Download or read book Studia archaeologica Gerardo van Hoorn oblata studia van Hoorn written by L. Gerevich and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1951 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase painting

Download or read book The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase painting written by Thomas Mannack and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potter and painter Myson founded the Mannerist workshop at the end of the sixth century BC. The Mannerists were his pupils and pupils of his pupils, and specialized in columnkraters, hydriai, and pelikai. The workshop was unusually long-lived and was active through the whole of the fifthcentury and the first decade of the fourth.The style of painting and the choice of some subjects are curiously old-fashioned. A number of pictures show rare themes such as the Death of Prokris, Odysseus and Nausicaa, and Orestes in Delphi. Other paintings give an unusual twist to well-known stories. The Mannerists were influenced bytheatrical productions, extant wall paintings, and the works of other vase-painters.The workshop provides important clues for the chronology of Attic vase-painting, for example drawing reflecting Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, and Aeschylos' plays Sphinx, Eumenides, and Seven against Thebes.

Book A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity

Download or read book A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity written by Mary Harlow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of social messages was no different. This volume covers nearly a thousand years of history, from Archaic Greece to the end of the Roman Empire, concentrating on what is now Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Among the key issues identified by its authors is the recognition that in any given society male and female hair tend to be opposites (when male hair is generally short, women's is long); that hair is a marker of age and stage of life (children and young people have longer, less confined hairstyles; adult hair is far more controlled); hair can be used to identify the 'other' in terms of race and ethnicity but also those who stand outside social norms such as witches and mad women. The chapters in A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity cover the following topics: religion and ritualized belief, self and society, fashion and adornment, production and practice, health and hygiene, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class and social status, and cultural representations.

Book Land and Ancestors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frans Theuws
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9789053562789
  • Pages : 852 pages

Download or read book Land and Ancestors written by Frans Theuws and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes an interdisciplinary research programme involving archaeological, anthropological and historical perspectives on different dimensions of the landscape. Although directed towards a specific region, the intensity of the archaeological fieldwork and the large scale of the excavations allow for interpretations that are important for the Northwest European Plain as a whole. Contributions include the publication of primary data of excavations published for the first time and analysis on a more abstract level. The studies include among others: Urnfield symbolism, ancestors and the land in the Lower Rhine Region (Roymans/Kortlang); Urnfield and settlement traces from the Iron Age at Mierlo-Hout (Tol); The archaeology and history of the curia of the abbey of St. Truiden at Hulsel (Theuws); Gift exchange, eternity and landed property. The foundation and endowment of the Premonstratensian priory at Postel (Bijsterveld).

Book The Parthenon Enigma

Download or read book The Parthenon Enigma written by Joan Breton Connelly and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A revolutionary new understanding of the West's most iconic building and the people who made it"--Jacket.

Book Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque  CCCA

Download or read book Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque CCCA written by M. J. Vermaseren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- CAMPANIA -- SAMNIUM -- APULIA AND CALABRIA -- LUCANIA AND BRUTTIUM -- ITALIA MERIDIONALIS -- SICILIA -- MARRUCINI, PAELIGNI, SABINI AND PICENUM -- UMBRIA -- ETRURIA -- SARDINIA -- GALLIA CISPADANA -- VENETIA AND HISTRIA -- GALLIA TRANSPADANA -- LIGURIA -- ITALIA -- GENERAL INDEX -- EPIGRAPHICAL INDEX -- NAMES OF PERSONS -- LIST OF CONSULS -- LIST OF EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES -- ADMINISTRATIVE AND MILITARY GRADES AND FUNCTIONS -- RELIGIOUS GRADES AND FUNCTIONS -- CHRONOLOGICAL LIST -- INDEX OF THE CORRESPONDING INSCRIPTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE PLATES -- PLATES I-CXI FOLDING MAP.

Book Herod and Augustus

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  • Author : David Jacobson
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2008-09-30
  • ISBN : 9047443098
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Herod and Augustus written by David Jacobson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together nineteen studies by foremost experts in the period of Herod and Augustus, and highlights recent progress in elucidating the phenomenon of Herod the Great in the context of the Roman imperial order inaugurated by Augustus. They illuminate Herod’s pre-eminent role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable energies, expressed in an extensive building programme which has left substantial remains. The literary records of Herod’s life and times, primarily by Josephus, are critically examined here in relation to the documentary and archaeological evidence.

Book Glass of the Roman World

Download or read book Glass of the Roman World written by Justine Bayley and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glass of the Roman World illustrates the arrival of new cultural systems, mechanisms of trade and an expanded economic base in the early 1st millennium AD which, in combination, allowed the further development of the existing glass industry. Glass became something which encompassed more than simply a novel and highly decorative material. Glass production grew and its consumption increased until it was assimilated into all levels of society, used for display and luxury items but equally for utilitarian containers, windows and even tools. These 18 papers by renowned international scholars include studies of glass from Europe and the Near East. The authors write on a variety of topics where their work is at the forefront of new approaches to the subject. They both extend and consolidate aspects of our understanding of how glass was produced, traded and used throughout the Empire and the wider world drawing on chronology, typology, patterns of distribution, and other methodologies, including the incorporation of new scientific methods. Though focusing on a single material the papers are firmly based in its archaeological context in the wider economy of the Roman world, and consider glass as part of a complex material culture controlled by the expansion and contraction of the Empire. The volume is presented in honor of Jenny Price, a foremost scholar of Roman glass.

Book Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion

Download or read book Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion written by K.A. Rask and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask analyzes archeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence to highlight the role of individuals as vital actors and makers of Greek religion. A range of perspectives, such as those of Archaic mariners and Late Classical weaving women, show that religion infused the daily lives of ancient Greeks. Chapters visit the many spaces where people engaged in religious activities, from household kitchens to international emporia, as well as shrines both large and small. The book also interrogates devotional activities such as making votives and engaging in lifelong relationships with divinities, arguing for the emotionally rich character of Greek lived religion. Not only do these considerations demonstrate underexplored ways for reconstructing aspects of Greek religion, but also allow us to rethink familiar subjects such as votive portraits and epiphany from new angles. Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion is of interest to students and scholars working on ancient Greek religion and archeology, as well as anyone interested in daily life and lived experience in the ancient world.

Book Architecture of Herod  the Great Builder

Download or read book Architecture of Herod the Great Builder written by Ehud Netzer and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading Israeli archaeologist surveys the architecture and urban design of Herod the Great, one of the most famous builders of the biblical world.

Book Haspels Addenda

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  • Author : Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2006-06-22
  • ISBN : 9780197263150
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Haspels Addenda written by Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A valuable reference source, providing new information on and recording references to new illustrations of the more than 1,500 Greek black-figured vases catalogued by Haspels"--Book jacket.

Book Water in the Cultic Worship of Isis and Sarapis

Download or read book Water in the Cultic Worship of Isis and Sarapis written by Robert Wild and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE -- THE NILE WATER CRYPTS -- OTHER TYPES OF FIXED NILE WATER CONTAINERS -- WHY NILE WATER? 1. EVIDENCE FROM THE CRYPTS -- WHY NILE WATER? 2. EVIDENCE FROM OUTSIDE THE CULT -- WHY NILE WATER? 3. THE OSIRIS EVIDENCE -- ABLUTION FACILITIES AND RITUALS -- EGYPTIANIZING THE CULT OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS -- SURVEY OF THE SITES -- OTHER TYPES OF CRYPTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CULT -- NOTES -- INDICES -- LIST OF PLATES -- PLATES I-XXX AND MAP.

Book Beyond Barrows

    Book Details:
  • Author : David R. Fontijn
  • Publisher : Sidestone Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9088901082
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Beyond Barrows written by David R. Fontijn and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague to discuss and review current research on this topic. This book presents the proceedings of that session. The focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but also includes an excursion to huge prehistoric mounds in the southeast of North America. One contribution presents new evidence on how the immediate environment of Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture megaliths was ordered, another one discusses the role of remarkable single and double post alignments around Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds. Zooming out, several chapters deal with the place of barrows in the broader landscape. The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of "ritual landscapes". The book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally re-used by pre-Christian Vikings. This is his last article, written briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory. This publication is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project of the University of Leiden.

Book Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World

Download or read book Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World written by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek–Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and modern stereotypes: both the Orient and the idea of a woman in power are signs, in the Western tradition, of 'otherness' – and in this sense they can easily overlap and interchange. This volume investigates how ancient women, and particularly powerful women, such as queens and empresses, have been re-imagined in Western (and not only Western) arts; highlights how this re-imagination and re-visualization is, more often than not, the product of Orientalist stereotypes – even when dealing with women who had nothing to do with Eastern regions; and compares these images with examples of Eastern gaze on the same women. Through the chapters in this volume, readers will discover the similarities and differences in the ways in which women in power were and still are described and decried by their opponents.

Book The Development of Attic Black figure

Download or read book The Development of Attic Black figure written by John Davidson Beazley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1951-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949. They were published in 1951 and soon became a of classical study of ancient Greek vases. This revised edition includes many additional illustrations.

Book Biblical and Judaic Acronyms

Download or read book Biblical and Judaic Acronyms written by and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: