Créée en 1942 par le CNRS, Gallia est la revue de référence de l’archéologie nationale. Son champ chronologique couvre la Protohistoire, depuis le premier âge du Fer, l’Antiquité et l’Antiquité tardive jusqu’à la fin des royaumes mérovingiens. Son champ géographique est celui de l’ancien espace « gaulois », correspondant aux provinces romaines des Trois Gaules, de la Narbonnaise et des Germanies, ainsi que les territoires immédiatement limitrophes qui participent à leur destinée. En ce sens, Gallia accueille des articles, en français ou en anglais, sur des sites ou des découvertes majeures en France, mais aussi dans les pays voisins si leur intérêt concerne la Gaule en général.

La revue est soutenue par le ministère de la Culture et le CNRS.

Created in 1942 by the National Center for Scientific Research, Gallia is the leading journal in the field of French archaeology. The journal publishes in-depth articles about ancient Gaul, from the Early Iron Age, Antiquity to the end of the Merovingian kingdoms. The geographical field encompasses the former Gallic space: the Roman provinces of the Tres Gallia (Three Gauls), the Narbonensis, the Germanies, as well as immediately bordering territories which participate in their fate. The journal welcomes articles, written in English or French, on sites or major discoveries in France but also in the nearby countries.

The Journal is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and the National Center for Scientific Research.

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• Jean-Pierre Brun, Jean Guilaine, Vincent Guichard et Michel Gras
  Hommages à Christian Goudineau (1939-2018)[Texte intégral]
• Michel Reddé
  Vingt années de recherches à Oedenburg (Biesheim et Kunheim, Haut-Rhin) : un bilan[Texte intégral]
  Twenty years of research in Oedenburg (Biesheim and Kunheim, Haut-Rhin): an overview
• Xavier Deru et Christine Louvion avec la collaboration de Geoff Dannell, Éric Goemaere et Philippe Lanos
  Les techniques de construction du second forum de Bavay (Nord) : utilisation, origine et datation des matériaux en terre cuite[Texte intégral]
  The construction techniques of the second forum of Bavay (North): use, origin and dating of the fired earth materials
• Denis Lebeaupin
  L’oppidum du Marduel (Saint-Bonnet-du-Gard) du Bronze final IIIb à l’époque romaine : synthèse des recherches sur un habitat occupé dans la longue durée[Texte intégral]
  The Marduel oppidum (Saint-Bonnet-du-Gard) from the Final Bronze Age IIIb to the Roman period: summary of research on this long duration habitat
• Raphaël Golosetti
  La stips des Alpes à la Méditerranée : interpréter la présence des monnaies dans les sanctuaires d’époque romaine[Texte intégral]
  The occurrence of stips from the Alps to the Mediterranean: interpreting the presence of coins in Roman period sanctuaries
• Marion Berranger, Philippe Dillmann, Philippe Fluzin, Enrique Vega, Stéphanie Leroy, Michel Aubert et Emmanuelle Delqué-Količ
  Du produit d’échange à l’objet symbole : de nouvelles données sur les demi-produits de type currency-bar du Val de Saône et de l’Arc jurassien[Texte intégral]
  From exchange products to symbolic objects: new data on currency-bar type semi-finished products from Val de Saône and the Jura Arc
• David Labarre
  Beutin (Pas-de-Calais) : une installation thermale domestique en pays morin[Texte intégral]
  Beutin (Pas-de-Calais): a domestic thermal bath installation in the Morin region

• 76-1 | 2019
  Monumentum fecit : Monuments funéraires de Gaule romaine
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• 74-1 | 2017
  Agglomérations, vici et castra du Nord de la Gaule entre Antiquité tardive et début du haut Moyen Âge
• 73-2 | 2016
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• 73-1 | 2016
  Stations routières en Gaule romaine
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• 72-1 | 2015
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The Standing Committee on Archaeology is a multidisciplinary group of scholars appointed to promote the teaching of archaeology at Harvard and advance knowledge of archaeological activity, research, fieldwork, and techniques in the many and varied fields where archaeology is employed as an approach to past cultures and histories around the world. Archaeology can be seen as the study of past human societies through the recovery, analysis, and interpretation of material remains. Those who practice archaeology employ a wide range of methods, techniques, and theoretical orientations drawn from across the spectrum of academic disciplines to further their specific intellectual goals. Likewise, scholars of many disciplines who do not consider themselves to be practicing archaeologists nevertheless use the results of archaeological work in their teaching and research. Our members and students work with and in a wide range of the museums and departments on Harvard's campus.

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• James E. Hoch
• 2014
• Book
• Published by: Princeton University Press
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library
• summary

  Semitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian empire extended into Syria-Palestine. In his book, James Hoch provides a comprehensive account of these words--their likely origins, their contexts, and their implications for the study of Egyptian and Semitic linguistics and Late-Bronze and Iron-Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike previous word catalogs, this work consists of concise word studies and contains a wealth of linguistic, lexical, and cultural information.
  Hoch considers some five hundred Semitic words found in Egyptian texts from about 1500 to 650 b.c.e. Building on previous scholarship, he proposes new etymologies and translations and discusses phonological, morphological, and semantic factors that figure in the use of these words. The Egyptian evidence is essential to an understanding of the phonology of Northwest Semitic, and Hoch presents a major reconstruction of the phonemic systems. Of equal importance is his account of the particular semantic use of Semitic vocabulary, in contexts sometimes quite different from those of the Hebrew scriptures and Ugaritic myths and legends. With its new critical assessment of many hotly debated issues of Semitic and Egyptian philology, this book will be consulted for its lexical and linguistic conclusions and will serve as the basis for future work in both fields.
  Originally published in 1994.
  The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
   

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FRANCE

Augustodunum (modern Autun, France)

Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France)

Arausio (modern Orange, France)

Arelate (modern Arles, France)

Forum Julii (modern Fréjus, France)

Vasio Vocontiorum (modern Vaison-la-Romaine)

Vienna (modern Vienne, France)

GREECE

Aegae (modern Vergina, Greece)

Aegeira (modern Egira, Greece)

Argos (modern Argos, Greece)

Cassiope (modern Kamarina, Greece)

Corinth (modern Kórinthos, Greece)

Corinth Odeum (modern Kórinthos, Greece)

Delphi (modern Delfi, Greece)

Delos (Modern Delos, Greece)

Dionysus (modern Athens, Greece)

Dium (modern Malathriá, Greece)

Dodona (modern Dodoni, Greece)

Elis (modern Ilida, Greece)

Epidaururs (modern Epidauros, Greece)

Eretria (modern Eretria, Greece)

Gythium (modern Githio, Greece)

Herodes Atticus

Isthmia (modern Isthmia, Greece)

Mantinea (modern Mantinea, Greece)

Megalopolis (modern Megalopoli, Greece)

Messene (modern Mavromati, Greece)

Milos, Cyclades, South Aegean

Mytilene, Lesbos, North Aegean

Nicopolis (modern Preveza, Greece)

Odeum of Herodes Atticus (modern Athens

Orchomenus (modern Orhomenos, Greece)

Orchomenos, Boeotia, Sterea Hellas

Oropos, the Amphiareion , East Attica

Patrai (Patras), Patra, Achaia, Greece

Philippi (modern Krenides, Greece)

Sicyon (modern Kiato, Greece)

Sparta (modern Sparti, Greece)

Stobi (modern Pustogradske, Greece)

Thessalonica (modern Thessaloniki, Greece)

Thera (modern Thira, Greece

Thoricus (modern Thorikos)

ITALY

Akragas (modern Agrigento,Italy

Arretium (modern Arezzo, Italy)

Brixia (modern Brescia)

Faesulae (modern Fiesole, Italy)

Falerii Novi (modern Fabrica di Roma)

Ferentium (modern Ferento Viterbo, VT, Italy)

Heraclea Minoa

Iaitas

Interamnia Praetuttiorum (modern Teramo, Italy)

Iguvium (modern Gubbio, Italy)

Luna (modern Luni, Italy)

Mevania (modern Bevagna)

Marcellus (modern Rome, Italy)

Morgantina (modern Serra Orlando, Sicily)

Ocriculum (modern Otricoli, TR, Italy)

Ostia (modern Ostia Antica, Italy)

Pompeii Odeum (modern Pompeii, Italy)

Pompeii (modern Pompeii, Italy)

Segesta (modern Calatafimi-Segesta, Italy)

Soluntum, modern Solunto

Spoletium (modern Spoleto, Italy)

Syracusae (modern Siracusa, Italy)

Tauromenium (modern Taormina,Italy)

Tergeste (modern Trieste, Italy)

Tyndaris (modern Tindari, Sicily, Italy

Volaterrae (modern Volterra, Italy)

NORTH AFRICA

Alexandria

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

Acinipo (modern Ronda la Vieja, Spain)

Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida, Spain)

Baelo (modern Tarifa, Spain)

Bilbilis (modern Calatayud, Spain)

Clunia (modern Peñalba de Castro, Spain)

Carthago Nova (modern Cartagena, Spain)

Italica (modern Santiponce, Spain)

Malaca (modern Málaga, Spain)

Metellinum (modern Medellin, Spain)

Olisipo (modern Lisbon, Portugal)

Segobriga (modern Saelices, Spain)

Tarraco (modern Tarragonia)

Urso (modern Osuna, Spain)

TURKEY

Antiphellus (modern Kas, Turkey)

Arycanda (modern Arif, Turkey)

Aspendos (modern Belkiz, Turkey)

Aphrodisias (modern Geyre, Turkey)

Ephesus (modern Selçuk, Turkey)

Ephesus Odeum (modern Selçuk, Turkey)

Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey)

Hierapolis (modern Pamukkale, Turkey)

Letoon (modern Bozoluk, Turkey)

Miletus (modern Balat, Turkey)

Myra (modern Demre, Turkey)

Patara (modern Kelemis, Turkey

Pergamum (modern Bergama, Turkey)

Pergamum Roman Theatre (Bergama, Turkey)

Perge (modern Aksu, Turkey)

Phaselis (modern Tekirova, Turkey)

Pinara (modern Minare Köyü, Turkey)

Priene (modern Güllübahçe Turkey)

Side (modern Eski Antalya, Turkey)

Simena (modern Kale, Turkey

Telmessus (modern Fethiye, Turkey)

Termessus (modern Güllük, Turkey)

Tlos (modern Düver, Turkey)

Troia (Troy) Odeum (modern Hisarlik, Turkey)

Xanthus (modern Kõnõk, Turkey)

Semna – Estudos de Egiptologia – With annually published e-books, this series brings together research presented at Museu Nacional’s SEMNA, currently the biggest Egyptological event in the country. SEMNA joins researchers and students from Brazil and elsewhere in a setting of academic discussion and collaboration. For more information about SEMNA, visit the event’s page here.

1) Semna – Estudos de Egiptologia I (2014), eds. Antonio Brancaglion Jr., Thais Rocha da Silva, Rennan de Souza Lemos e Raizza Teixeira dos Santos, Foreword: Dr. Chris Naunton, Seshat/Editora Klínē.\

Contents

Trabalhos apresentados na I SEMNA não incluídos neste volume
Equipe organizadora da I SEMNA
Lista de autores
Apresentação, os organizadores
Prefácio/Foreword, Chris Naunton (Egypt Exploration Society, Londres)
Auxiliares para o renascimento: estátuas funerárias de Osíris e Ptah-Sokar-Osíris da coleção do Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Simone Bielesch
Para falar aos deuses: estudo das estatuetas votivas da coleção egípcia do Museu Nacional, Cintia Prates Facuri (Museu Nacional, UFRJ)
Tecnologias tridimensionais aplicadas em pesquisas arqueológicas de múmias egípcias, Simonte Belmonte (INT), Jorge Lopes (PUC-Rio/INT) e Antonio Brancaglion Jr (Museu Nacional, UFRJ)
Amarna: pintando uma nova paisagem, Rennan de Souza Lemos (Museu Nacional, UFRJ)
As representações da família real amarniana e a consolidação de uma nova visão de mundo durante o reinado de Akhenaton (1353-1335 a. C.), Gisela Chapot (UFF)
Hierarquia e mobilidade social no antigo Egito do Reino Novo, Nely Feitoza Arrais (UNILASALLE-RJ)
Implicações econômicas dos templos egípcios e a constituição de poderes locais: um estudo sobre o Reino Antigo, Maria Thereza David João (USP)
Sobre a importância da teoria social na egiptologia econômica, Fábio Frizzo (UFF)
Identidade, gênero e poder no Egito Romano, Marcia Severina Vasques (UFRN)
“E me traga essa carta de volta”. As cartas aos deuses e os estudos de gênero no Egito Ptolomaico. Contribuições da antropologia, Thais Rocha da Silva (USP/Museu Nacional, UFRJ)
As estelas funerárias com o morto reclinado em uma cama funerária: etnia, identidade emaranhamento cultural no Baixo Egito durante o Período Romano, Pedro Luiz Diniz von Seehausen (Museu Nacional, UFRJ)
Adriano e o Egito: a construção de um modelo egipcianizante para a Villa Adriana, Evelyne Azevedo (Museu Nacional, UFRJ)
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2) Semna– Estudos de Egiptologia II (2015), eds. Antonio Brancaglion Jr., Rennan de Souza Lemos e Raizza Teixeira dos Santos, Seshat/Editora Klínē.

Contents

Des hommes et des dieux : une approche anthropologique de la religion Egyptienne, Christiane Zivie-Coche
Homens e deuses: uma abordagem antropológica da religião egípcia, Chistiane Zivie-Coche (tradução: C. A. Gama-Rolland)
Agindo como deuses: um olhar sobre a família real nos relevos amarnianos (1353-1335 a. C.), Gisela Chapot
A divindade Serápis: cultura, religião e sincretismo na Alexandria greco-romana, Joana Campos Clímaco
Expressões materiais da devoção pessoal no Egito antigo, Cintia Prates Facuri
Egipcianização e resistência na Núbia da XVIII Dinastia, Fábio Frizzo
Narrativas da restauração: referências sobre a Reforma Amarniana nos governos sucessores, Vanessa Fronza
A representação real nos shabtis do Novo Império, Cintia A. Gama-Rolland
Amenemope, o coração e a filosofia, ou a cardiografia (do pensamento), Renato Noguera
“Uma inundação no céu para os estrangeiros”” o projeto de expansão da religião de Amarna na Núbia, Regina Coeli Pinheiro da Silva e Rennan de Souza Lemos
A Janela das Aparições e as concepções post-mortem na necrópole de Akhetaton, André Effgen
O que queremos que as mulheres nos escrevam? As cartas demóticas e os estudos de gênero entre a iconografia e a papirologia, Thais Rocha da Silva
La vida y la muerte en la conformación de redes sociales en la necrópolis tebana, Egipto, Liliana Manzi y Maria Victoria Nicora
A Cleópatra de Mankiewicz (1963): imperialismo, eurocentrismo e etnicidade na representação cinematográfica da Antiguidade, Renata Soares de Souza
Um espelho de Kemet: experiência e espaço no Livro dos Mortos, Keidy Narelly Costa Matias
A imagem divina de Menkeret na tumba de Tutankhamun, Raizza Teixeira dos Santos
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3) Semna – Estudos de Egiptologia III (2016), eds. Antonio Brancaglion Jr. e Cintia Gama-Rolland., Seshat/Editora Klínē.

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Contents

Acerca de la Htmj.t como espacio caótico en el “orden” de la Duat, Mariano Bonanno
Arte e simbolismo: uma análise da iconografia das filhas de Akhenaton durante o período amarniano, Gisela Chapot
Proyecto político thumósida en la fraseología real: el caso del protocolo de Thutmose III en los obeliscos de Kanak, Elisa Neira Cordeiro
A Base Nacional Curricular Comun (BNCC) e os descaminhos do ensino da antiguidade egípcia no Brasil, Fábio Frizzo
Une discussion à propos de la découverte des chaouabtis royaux du Nouvel Empire, Cintia A. Gama-Rolland
The price of gold and loyalty: parallels and disparities in the roles of royal women of the Late Bronze Age, Luiza Osorio Guimarães da Silva
La fundación de Akhetatón: ¿ruptura o corolario?, Maria Laura Iamarino
Repatriação de bens culturais egípcios, Karine Lima da Costa
Territorio, apropiación y poder en la Dinastía XII, Gabriela Lovecky
Lo explícito, lo insinuado y lo oculto en el paisaje tebano, Liliana Manzi
La especificidad del retrato: un estudio comparativo, Liliana Manzi
Elementos disruptores no conto “O Reio Kéops e os Magos”, Patricia Zulli

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Since 1988 Ancient Egypt Research Associates has systematically collected sediment samples for flotation in order to recover macrobotanical remains from project excavations in Old Kingdom settlements on the low desert to the southeast of the Giza Plateau, Egypt. The goal has been to contribute information on ancient plant use to the project research. This dataset contains all samples studied between 1988–2018. Site conditions at Heit el-Ghurab fluctuate between wet and dry (and have done so for millennia), and therefore only charred plant remains are preserved. Despite the drier conditions of the Khentkawes Town, only charred remains are preserved there as well.
The remains come primarily from two different settlement sites—the Khentkawes Town and Heit el-Ghurab. Within the Heit el-Ghurab settlement there are three distinctly different neighborhoods—the Western Town (large dwellings), the Eastern Town (small village-like dwellings), and the Galleries (a walled area possibly designated for communal accommodation for work and expedition crews). The Khentkawes Town was initially constructed to house priests attached to the funerary cult, but later was probably re-purposed. Information about archaeological features varies for different areas of excavation due to evolving standards of site recording over 30 years.

Dr. Wilma Wetterstrom initiated botanical work at the site. In 1995 the project expanded and Dr. Mary Anne Murray took over. In 2007 Claire Malleson joined as assistant, and in 2012 took over as lead botanist. Trainees have included Mennat-Allah El Dorry, Rebab el-Gendy and Essam Ahmed Soliman.

The Giza Botanical Database project was designed to make this data publicly available for the first time. The work conducted between July 2017–June 2018 focused on data “cleaning.” It included the following:

• Human errors in the database were corrected via a cross-check with the AERA site database (for example, obvious misread/miswritten and mistyped feature or bag numbers, such as "0" instead of "6,""1" instead of "7").
• Area codes that had been updated in post-excavation work were corrected based on cross-checks with AERA site database and AERA GIS. This document provides a summary description of areas as well bibliographic references.
• Feature information was updated using the AERA database and the AERA GIS.
• The format of the unique ID for samples (the Master_Sample_Number) was made consistent throughout.
• All botanical identifications were corrected based on updated information. For example, where we had grouped similar unknown items (for example “Trifolieae type A/B/C or D”) when we first encountered them, we later successfully identified these items, but had not necessarily updated the database. In these instances the database was corrected to show the correct identification).
• Botanical terms were updated to reflect accepted international changes in nomenclature/taxonomy (for example, Graminae became Poaceae, Leguminoseae became Fabaceae). It was decided to retain the older names in the records due to the fact that not all student / trainee archaeobotanists are aware of, or familiar with these changes. Some archaeobotanists prefer to retain the older terminologies.
• Field notebooks were cross-checked with the database; corrections were made, and any missing samples were added.
• In addition, the archive (all field notes of flotation and identifications) was updated and stored as hard copies in Boston and Giza, and as digital copies on the AERA server and a dedicated external hard drive.

Download: Giza Botany Feature Summaries Excel File

This Excel workbook file summarizes counts of specimens by plant taxa for features in different areas of excavation in a paleobotanist friendly layout.

Suggested Citation

Claire Malleson, Rebekah Miracle. "Giza Botanical Database". (2018) Claire Malleson, Rebekah Miracle (Eds.) . Released: 2018-10-22. Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/projects/10aa84ad-c5de-4e79-89ce-d83b75ed72b5> DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7JH3J99

AERAGRAM is the official newsletter of Ancient Egypt Research Associates.

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Volume 19

Fall 2018NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
• Kromer in Context: Bio of an Ancient Dump
• Return to the Menkaure Valley Temple
• AERA Field School at Khentkawes Town
• Giza Botanical Database Online

Spring 2018
• Kromer 2018: Basket by Basket
• Where in the World Is the Great Pyramid?
• Spinning and Weaving at the Pyramids
• From the Lab: Mechanics of an Influx
• Learning Animal Bone: AERA-ARCE Field School

Volume 18

Spring 2017
• Who Built the Sphinx?
• Finding Petrie’s Marks on the Giza Plateau
• In Search of Khufu
• A Roof Over Their Heads
• How Egyptians Quarried Their Building Blocks

Fall 2017
• Voices of Memphis
• Kafr, Village of the Pyramid Sheikhs at Giza
• Bone Smashing
• David Goodman: Back to the Point of Beginning
• Sphinx Archive Project: It’s a Wrap

Volume 17

Spring/Fall 2016 (members only)
• Exploring a High Official’s Office-Residence
• MSCD Memphis Project: The Final Year
• In Search of the Human Hand that Built the Great Pyramid
• Mit Rahinia Museum Catalog in the Works
• AERA to Publish Archive of the Great Sphinx

Volume 16

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• Discovery 2015: House of a High Official
• What Was the Original Size of the Great Pyramid?
• The Gallery Complex Gives Up Its Secrets
• Hidden Details Come to Light with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
• Jon Jerde: The Space In Between

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• Memphis Site & Community Development: Ambitious Plans, Big Challenges
• Results from the Survey of the Great Pyramid
• A Second Official’s House Discovered
• Remembering Kamal Waheed
• US Ambassador to Egypt Tours the Lost City Site

Volume 15

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• On the Waterfront: Canals and Harbors in the Time of Giza Pyramid-Building
• Did Egyptians Use the Sun to Align the Pyramids?
• A Change of Address: Funerary Workshop Priests Move to New Quarters
• A Return to Area AA: Informal Seals and Sealings of the Heit el-Ghurab
• Construction Hub to Cult Center: Re-purposing, Old Kingdom Style

Volume 14

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• The Lost Port City of the Pyramids: Heit el-Ghurab reveals a new role as part of a major port of the Nile
• How the Pyramid Builders Found True North
• The First Photos Taken from the Great Pyramid Summit
• Weeds & Seeds: On the Trail of Ancient Egyptian Agriculture

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• “PEAKIT” Punches Up 3D Laser Scanning, Adds Accurate Surface Relief
• The Lost City is Named One of the Top 10 Field Discoveries
• An Ancient Egyptian Insect Repellent
• A Small Clay Label, a Bundle of Linen, and an Ancient Economic Network
• Securing AERA’s Legacy: Data Curation

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• Memphis, A City Unseen
• Field School Grads Take The Lead
• North by Northwest: The Strange Case of Giza’s Misalignments
• GPMP Full Circle
 

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• New Angles on the Great Pyramids
• Fifth Dynasty Renaissance at Giza
• The Silo Building Complex
• Living on a Slope in the Town of Queen Khentkawes
• Egypt’s Oldest Olive

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• The OK Corral
• The Luxor Study Field School
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In contemporary religion Jews, Christians, and Muslims lift their hands in prayer. Although its significance differs between traditions, the basic hand-raising gesture has a common origin in the ancient Near East, dating back to the third millennium BCE. Hand-raising was an interpersonal greeting in ancient Near Eastern society (Frechette 2012; →library). When a social inferior approached a person of higher social rank, the inferior greeted the superior with up-raised hands to establish a rapport and to gain a favorable hearing. When the ancient Mesopotamians raised their hands as they addressed their high gods in prayer—a gesture ubiquitously depicted in ancient Mesopotamian art (e.g.→here)—they were adapting this social custom to their religious activities. The same is true for the hand-raising gesture in other Near Eastern cultures; see, for example, the biblical adaptation of the gesture in 1 Kings 8:22 and 1 Timothy 2:8. The salutatory gesture of hand-raising (in Sumerian, šu-il₂-la(₂)) became so characteristic of supplication that the Mesopotamians named an entire genre of prayer after it, the shuila-prayer. The genre dates back to the second millennium BCE, though nearly all of the tablets preserving these prayers come from first millennium BCE Mesopotamian sites.

Shuilas are liturgical ritual-prayers that were directed to the high deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon such as Marduk, Shamash, and Ishtar, among others. A ritual official (i.e., an exorcist) recited these prayers to assist a troubled client, often a Babylonian or Assyrian king. The exorcist would read the prayer aloud and the (presumably illiterate) client would repeat the words after him.

The wording and ritual instructions of the shuila-prayers provide an important resource for insight into officially sanctioned religious practices and concepts. The prayers consist of several standard components arranged in a common form, though components are sometimes lacking and their order can differ somewhat from prayer to prayer. Every prayer invariably begins with a hymnic introduction that lauds the addressee’s divine attributes and position within the pantheon. After the hymnic introduction, the prayers may provide a generic identification formula (literally, “so-and-so, son of so-and-so,” etc.) into which the supplicant would substitute his/her name. The prayers then move on to voice complaints that typically relate to the supplicant’s health, social alienation, and feelings of divine abandonment. Petitions seeking remediation and reconciliation for the supplicant may then follow the complaints or be interspersed among them. The prayers conclude with a promise to praise the deity for hearing and responding to the supplicant.

The actual wording of the prayers draws from a common stock of formulaic phrases and motifs (Mayer 1976; →library). The texts implore the god(s) to look kindly upon the supplicant, quell the anger of the supplicant’s personal gods (responsible for health, security, and social standing), and restore wholeness to the supplicant’s life. The prayers present confessions of sin, claims of bewitchment, descriptions of bodily pain and disease, and even questions of divine beneficence. The prayers also describe ritual actions the supplicant would presumably enact during the recitation (e.g., bowing, seizing the hem of a deity’s garment, raising hands, etc.). In exchange for the deity’s favor the petitioner promises to praise the deity.

Ritual instructions, if any, were provided in a separate section after the wording of the prayer. The instructions may include the preparation of ritual paraphernalia, the offering of food stuffs, specific requirements of bodily comportment, and the number of times the supplicant should recite the prayer.

Although a shuila-prayer could be performed as a self-contained rite, many of the prayers were incorporated into larger ritual ceremonies used for the king. In fact, some prayers were used in more than one such ceremony, though the precise wording of the prayer might vary according to ritual context. For example, the shuila-prayer to the moon god, designated Sîn 1 in our catalog, is known from ten different tablets. Among these textual witnesses are instructions for the prayer’s use in a dream ritual, a ritual to ward off the evil of a lunar eclipse, and a royal lustration. The prayer’s wording varies according to the ritual in which it is embedded. The analysis of the ritual uses and re-uses of the shuila-prayers is still in its beginning stages.

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This site brings together a number of resources that are available for the study of epigraphic texts. The site was designed for my own courses at the University of Groningen and at the Netherlands Institute at Athens The site will be based on two earlier documents that I have compiled, The Absolute Beginners’ Guide to Greek and Latin Epigraphy and Electronic Epigraphy, which found some readers over the web. The focus is on Greek inscriptions, but Latin texts are not excluded!

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The main editorial goal of the Journal of World-Systems Research is to develop and disseminate scholarly research on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems. We especially want to include works that proceed from several different theoretical stances and disciplines. These include, but are not limited to, civilizationists, evolutionary approaches, international political economy, comparative, historical and cultural analysis. We seek the work of political scientists, historians, sociologists, ethnographers, archaeologists, economists and geographers.

We especially encourage works that take theory seriously by confronting problems of conceptualization and making definitions of concepts explicit, by formulating hypotheses, constructing axiomatic theories and causal models. Theoretical research programs that combine theory construction with comparative research are badly needed to take the world-systems approach beyond the stage of a perspective.

We also want to encourage the application of comparative, quantititave and network-analytic methods to world-systems research, though we will certainly also publish pieces that do not use these methods. Any empirical study that is deemed relevant to world-systems analysis may be published even if it uses a very different conceptual framework.

And finally we also want to publish discussions of future trajectories and options for the modern world-system and considerations of what can be done to create a more humane, peaceful and just world society.

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The papyrus of Irtyuru was originally made sometime around the second century BC, perhaps in the region near Memphis in Egypt. Because the papyrus was removed from its original tomb context, it is difficult to be more precise. In 1919 James Henry Breasted saw the papyrus for sale in the shop of an antiquities dealer in Cairo named Nicolas Tano. At the time, the scroll was still rolled up and flexible enough to be unrolled. It was over 33 feet long (1029 cm) and a foot high (30 cm)! When shown the first scenes of the papyrus, Breasted was stunned by its elegant appearance. He acquired funds from Elizabeth Milbank Anderson to purchase the papyrus for the Oriental Institute and designated it "Papyrus Milbank" in her honor. This exhibit will allow you to "unroll" this papyrus in order to explore its fascinating contents.

Dura-Europos in Eastern Syria is a classic abandoned ancient city. Excavations (1920-1937, renewed 1986-2011), revealed spectacular remains. These comprised elaborately decorated buildings, including a painted synagogue and a very early Christian church, and astonishingly well-preserved artefacts. The city seemed suddenly frozen in time, leading to Dura often being called 'the Pompeii of the Syrian desert’.

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The Hedera Reader is a reading and vocabulary environment for Latin, Greek, and Russian texts intended for use by teachers, students, and independent learners alike.

This site, the PBE I Online edition,  presents the research output of the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire project, 641-867 (PBE I) which was carried out primarily at King's College London from the 1989 to 2001. It covered a period when the administrative structure and governing elite of Byzantium were undergoing crucial changes, and when the Mediterranean world of Late Antiquity was assuming the forms of the Middle Ages.

Click on the Data tab (above) to access the PBE I contents.

PBI I was originally published by Ashgate as a CD in 2001, and the Online edition you are now looking at contains, other than these few opening pages, the same materials presented almost exactly as they were then on that CD.  However, behind the visual display, the current site uses several more modern web technologies to make the material operate better on modern browsers.

A further project, the Prosopography of the Byzantine World, begun after the completion of PBE I, worked with sources from 1025 to 1150.  It is online at http://www.pbw.kcl.ac.uk.

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While interdisciplinary research into the relational paradigm has produced an impressive body of work across the social and political sciences and also, increasingly, among historians, there is as yet no international medium of publication devoted to the study of networks in their historical contexts. This has put scholars with an interest in historical network research—both historians and historical sociologists—at a great disadvantage, and has meant that they have long been accustomed to publishing research papers in non-historical journals. The situation for historians interested in network research is further complicated by academic and cultural idiosyncrasies, since much of the groundbreaking and recent research into historical networks in the English-speaking world has been carried out by historical sociologists, rather than social historians, and has thus remained mostly outside the sphere of traditional academic history departments. This has naturally also influenced the means of publication for research in this area; preferred journals such as Social Networks and the American Journal of Sociology focus heavily on methodological and theoretical aspects. In short, there are no international publications devoted to the study of networks (social and otherwise) from a specifically historical perspective.

This is the gap that the Journal of Historical Network Research is keen to fill. Its aim is to publish outstanding and original contributions which apply the theories and methodologies of social network analysis to historical research, to help advance the epistemological and theoretical understanding of social network analysis in the historical, social and political sciences, and to promote empirical research on historical social interactions. The journal aims to promote the interplay between different areas of historical research (in the broadest sense), social and political sciences, and different research traditions and disciplines, while strengthening the dialogue between network research and “traditional” historical research. The journal will serve as a meeting place for the traditional hermeneutics of historical research and its concomitant emphasis on contextualisation and historical source criticism (as present in traditional academic historical journals) on the one hand, and the theory-heavy and/or sometimes overly technical discussion of methodological and technological issues (which predominates in publications focused on “pure” or sociological network research) on the other. All contents are made available free of charge to readers and authors following Open Access principles.

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Special Issue (#4) - The Ties That Bind. Ancient Politics and Network Analysis. Guest ed. by W. Broekaert, E. Köstner & C. Rollinger

2020-05-05

The new issue (#4) and first guest-edited theme issue of JHNR has just been released! 

Current Issue

Vol 4 (2020): The Ties that Bind. Ancient Politics and Network Research

Wim Broekaert, Elena Köstner, Christian Rollinger (eds.)

During the last decade, the field of ancient history and classics has witnessed a slow but steady increase of publications applying to Greco-Roman history the concepts of social network analysis (SNA). While initially mainly introducing the concept of networks and connectivity in a metaphorical sense, recent research increasingly turned to the more quantitative aspects of network analysis. It is therefore quite remarkable that few attempts have been made to apply the tools of formal network analysis to a research topic ideally suited for this particular approach, viz. Greco-Roman politics. Literary sources, inscriptions and papyri offer a wealth of information on municipal and imperial elites, careers, selection procedures, and most importantly, the ties of family, marriage, friendship, patronage, and bribery that connected them. As the case studies in this special, guest-edited issue of The Journal of Historical Network Research show, SNA promises to offer new perspectives on a research field mainly dominated by more traditional prosopographical studies and at the same time provide a powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing social and political connections in ancient societies.

Published: 2020-05-05

Full Issue

Introduction

Introducing the 'Ties that Bind'

Wim Broekaert, Elena Köstner, Christian Rollinger

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Prolegomena. Problems and Perspectives of Historical Network Research and Ancient History

Christian Rollinger

1-35

Athens as a Small World

Diane Harris Cline

36-56

Quintus Cicero and Roman Rule. Networks between Centre and Periphery

Christian Vogel

57-89

Informal Political Communication and Network Theory in the Late Roman Republic

Cristina Rosillo-López

90-113

Family or Faction? The Political, Social and Familial Networks Discerned from Cicero's Letters during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey

Gregory Gilles

114-155

The Pompeian Connection. A Social Network Approach to Elites and Sub-Elites in the Bay of Naples

Wim Broekaert

156-224

Genesis and Collapse of a Network. The Rise and Fall of Lucius Aelius Seianus

Elena Köstner

225-251

Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger

Fabian Germerodt

252-270

Network Management in Ostrogothic Italy. Theoderic the Great and the Refusal of Sectarian Conflict

Christian Nitschke

271-297

The Ties that Do Not Bind. Group formation, polarization and conflict within networks of political elites in the medieval Roman Empire

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

298-324

An Epilogue. Social Network Analysis and Greco-Roman Politics

Giovanni R. Ruffini

325-339

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Vol 3 (2019)

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Vol 2 (2018)

Inaugural Issue

Vol 1 (2017)

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Recorded: March 11, 2020
Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series

by Daniel Potts (New York University)

Feudalism and its Characteristics in Ancient Iran

The fifth and final lecture examines feudalism and vassalage as identified by various scholars in the Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sasanian evidence. It considers the identification of leading individuals and families through the display of quasiheraldic tamgas and, in particular, the problematic interpretation of those associated with Ardavān, Ardašīr I, Šābūhr I, and several earlier Arsacid rulers, and it examines one particular case, illustrating the history of early modern Western engagement with Sasanian antiquities. It concludes by considering cognation and agnation in Sasanian succession, as part of the debate surrounding feudalism in ancient Iran.

About the Speaker

Daniel Potts is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History in the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. He received his AB (1975) and PhD (1980) in Anthropology from Harvard University, specializing in Near Eastern archaeology. He taught previously at the Freie Universität Berlin (1981-86), the University of Copenhagen (1980-81, 1986-1991) and the University of Sydney (1991-2012), where he held the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology. His main areas of interest are greater Iran, Mesopotamia, and the Persian Gulf, and as a field archaeologist he has conducted numerous excavations, among others in Iran and Turkey. He is a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute and ISMEO (Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente), and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.