Download or read book The Archaeology of Malta written by Claudia Sagona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maltese archipelago is a unique barometer for understanding cultural change in the central Mediterranean. Prehistoric people helped reshape the islands' economy and when Mediterranean maritime highways were being established, the islands became a significant lure to Phoenician colonists venturing from their Levantine homeland. Punic Malta also sat at the front line of regional hostilities until it fell to Rome. Preserved in this island setting are signs of people's endurance and adaptation to each new challenge. This book is the first systematic and up-to-date survey of the islands' archaeological evidence from the initial settlers to the archipelago's inclusion into the Roman world (c.5000 BC–400 AD). Claudia Sagona draws upon old and new discoveries and her analysis covers well-known sites such as the megalithic structures, as well as less familiar locations and discoveries. She interprets the archaeological record to explain changing social and political structures, intriguing ritual practices and cultural contact through several millennia.
Download or read book Missione archeologica italiana a Malta written by Missione archeologica italiana a Malta and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Punic Antiquities of Malta and Other Ancient Artefacts Held in Ecclesiastic and Private Collections written by Claudia Sagona and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient artefacts that comprise the private collections of Malta came largely from the Phoenician and later Punic burial grounds of the archipelago. In many respects, the perception of the island's ancient population as depicted in recent historic accounts has suffered from a limited knowledge of what has been found in the islands over the last few centuries. Co-authored with Isabelle Vella Gregory and Anton Bugeja, this book forms a companion volume to Claudia Sagona's “The Archaeology of Punic Malta (2002, Peeters) and “Punic Antiquities of Malta and Other Ancient Artefacts Held in Ecclesiastic and Private Collections (2003, Peeters). More than 700 objects, many brought into the public arena for the first time, are documented in this volume. The artefacts are held in three collections: that of Joseph Attard Tabone, of the Palazzo Parisio (Naxxar) and of St George's Parish Church (Qormi). While much of the material is characteristically Phoenician and Punic, imported Cypriot, Greek, Italian and other wares demonstrate that the islands were drawn into the ancient economic and political exchanges of the Mediterranean region.
Download or read book Pottery from Roman Malta written by Maxine Anastasi and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of Maltese pottery forms from key stratified deposits spanning the 1st century BC to mid-4th century AD. Ceramic material is analysed and quantified in a bid to understand Maltese pottery production during the Roman period, and trace the type and volume of ceramic-borne goods that were circulating the central Mediterranean.
Download or read book Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta in the British Museum written by Josef Mario Briffa SJ and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient finds from the Maltese islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods.
Download or read book The Making of Christian Malta written by Anthony Luttrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Dr Luttrell's work has helped change our understanding of the history of the small islands of Malta and Gozo, providing a more coherent story of the ways in which, during the Middle Ages, a small isolated Muslim community was converted into a more prosperous outpost of Roman Christianity with a unique cultural mixture of Arabic speech and European institutions. This selection of studies places the process within the context of developments in the medieval Mediterranean world and combines archaeological and architectural investigations with work in Maltese, Sicilian and other archives, with a particular focus on ecclesiastical matters; a new introduction brings the subject up to date. This work is of relevance to scholars of Islam and Christianity, while providing insights into the nature of an unusual island community whose significance far exceeds its size.
Download or read book Ras il Wardija Sanctuary Revisited written by George Azzopardi and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses the evidence of a secluded Punic-Roman sanctuary on the coastal promontory of Ras il-Wardija on the central Mediterranean island of Gozo (near Malta).
Download or read book You Shall Have No Other Gods Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Inscriptions written by Jeffrey H Tigay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Introduction /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- The Onomastic Evidence /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Non-Onomastic Inscriptional Evidence /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Conclusions /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Appendixes /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Appendix A. Yahwistic Personal Names in Inscriptions /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Appendix B. Plausibly Pagan Theophoric Names in Israelite Inscriptions /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Appendix C. Names Not Counted as Israelite Pagan Names in this Study /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Appendix D. Israelite Personal Names with the Theophoric Element ʾēl or ʾēlî /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Appendix E. Apparently Israelite Theophoric Names in Inscriptions Excavated or Purchased Abroad and Not Explicitly Identified as Israelite /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Appendix F. Iconographic Evidence /Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Works Cited /Jeffrey H. Tigay.
Download or read book Motya Field work and excavation written by Benedikt S. J. Isserlin and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motya a Phoenician and Carthaginian City in Sicily written by Isserlin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Malta in the Hybleans the Hybleans in Malta written by Anthony Bonanno and published by Officina di Studi Medievali. This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University 2d Ed Enl written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers Presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2007 written by Jane Baun and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interconnections in the Central Mediterranean written by Anthony Bonanno and published by Officina di Studi Medievali. This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Continuity written by George Azzopardi and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stones dealt with in this study are non-figural (or aniconic) or, sometimes, semi-figural. They come from ritual contexts and, as such, act as a material representation of divine presence in their role as betyls. The Maltese islands are presented as a case study to demonstrate the phenomenon of continuity through a study of these stones.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Download or read book Cult in Context written by Caroline Malone and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods, deities, symbolism, deposition, cosmology and intentionality are all features of the study of early ritual and cult. Archaeology has great difficulties in providing satisfactory interpretation or recognition of these elusive but important parts of ancient society, and methodologies are often poorly equipped to explore the evidence. This collection of papers explores a wide range of prehistoric and early historic archaeological contexts from Britain, Europe and beyond, where monuments, architectural structures, megaliths, art, caves, ritual activity and symbolic remains offer exciting glimpses into ancient belief systems and cult behaviour. Different theoretical and practical approaches are demonstrated, offering both new directions and considered conclusions to the many problems of studying the archaeology of cult and ritual. Central to the volume is an exploration of early Malta and its intriguing Temple Culture, set in a broad perspective by the discussion and theoretical approaches presented in different geographical and chronological contexts.
