Egypt & Near East
An Epigraphical Survey in the Kibyra-Olbasa Region conducted by A S Hall Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 127
ISBN: 9781898249108
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1998
Imprint: British Institute at Ankara
Illustrations: 23 b/w pls
Description:
The Kibyra-Olbasa region, in the uplands of south-west Anatolia, was home to a mixture of people - Kabalians, Milyans, Pisidians and others - while the city of Kibyra spoke four languages: Lydian, Solymian, Pisidian and Greek. This volume presents (with text, translations and brief commentary) some 160 ancient stones and inscriptions recorded by the late Alan Hall in 1984 and 1985 which attest to the influence of the Hellenistic and Roman kingdoms. Over one hundred are previously unpublished, others fully revised.
RRP: £35.00
Canhasan Sites I Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 101
ISBN: 9781898249092
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1998
Imprint: British Institute at Ankara
Illustrations: 9 b/w pls
Description:
The mound known as Canhasan Hueyuek 1, in the Konya Plain of south-central Turkey, has revealed a series of settlements running through the Chalcolithic period (c5500-3000 BC). This first volume detailing work carried out between 1961 and 1967, lays out the fundamental stratigraphy of the site and the major structural developments of the Chalcolithic period. Future volumes will examine the phases of discontinuity at the site (unique in the south and western Anatolian record) in more detail, with discussion of ceramic and environmental evidence.
RRP: £45.00
Old Smyrna Excavations Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 215
ISBN: 9780904887280
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1998
Imprint: British School at Athens
Series: BSA Supplementary Volume
The Ottoman House Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 133
ISBN: 9781898249122
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1998
Imprint: British Institute at Ankara
Illustrations: 194 b/w pls
Description:
Seemingly contradictory ideas of privacy and community dominate Ottoman cities. While houses are internally divided to guard female modesty behind a frontage studded with peep-holes, streets in cities like Amasya are often bridged by first-floor passageways between different houses. This book contains 17 papers by architects and archaeologists looking at how the Ottoman house was structured, how it has varied over time and space, and how surviving examples are faring in a world of breeze-block construction.
RRP: £25.00
Hama 4, Part 1 -- The Medieval Citadel & Its Architecture Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 127
ISBN: 9788789438030
Pub Date: 30 Nov 1998
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: Nationalmuseets Skrifter, Større Beretninger
Illustrations: b/w photos & plans
Description:
Two-Volume Set. This is the last volume in the series of reports from the Danish excavations on the ancient Tall of the important Syrian site and town of Hama. It presents the medieval architecture of the mound from the Arab conquest in 636 to 1401 when the citadel of Hama was destroyed by Timur Lenk.

Middle Egyptian Grammar

Sign List
Format: Paperback
Pages: 70
ISBN: 9780920168141
Pub Date: 01 Jan 1998
Imprint: Benben Publications
Series: SSEA Publication
Description:
This sign list is designed as a accompaniment to James Hoch's Middle Egyptian Grammar, a practical course for students of the Ancient Egyptian language.
Excavations at Khirbet Khatuniyeh Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9780714111445
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1997
Imprint: British Museum Press
Illustrations: with 69p of line-drawings and 24p of b/w pls
Description:
As the waters of the Saddam Dam rose in 1984-5 the British Museum battled to record an important Late Assyrian site on the east bank of the Tigris. Part of a 7th-century BC building was uncovered. Specialist reports on the ceramics, bones and shells recovered provide further clues to daily life outside the Assyrian capital cities.
RRP: £30.00

The Pottery of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

Format: Paperback
Pages: 39
ISBN: 9780920808023
Pub Date: 01 May 1997
Imprint: Benben Publications
Series: SSEA Publication
Description:
A slim but useful study of utilitarian domestic pottery from Ancient Egypt. The author presents scenes involving pots from published Egyptian tombs. The pictures, reproduced in line drawings, show ceramics used in milking, water carrying, bread-making, brewing, wine-making, cooking and consumption.

Middle Egyptian Grammar

Format: Paperback
Pages: 307
ISBN: 9780920168127
Pub Date: 01 Jan 1997
Imprint: Benben Publications
Series: SSEA Publication
Illustrations: spiral bound
Description:
This is a practical, modern introductory grammar for classroom and self-instruction. Unlike Alan Gardiner's monumental Egyptian Grammar , this is not intended as a reference work, and it is designed to be as user-friendly as possible by, for example, presenting simplified forms of genuine texts rather than diving straight into the originals. It is suggested the the 16 lessons be spread over about 30 weeks study.
The Excavations at Tell Al Rimah Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 276
ISBN: 9780856687006
Pub Date: 01 Jan 1997
Imprint: British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Series: Iraq Archaeological Reports
Illustrations: copious pls, figs, tabs
Description:
Introductory report and a detailed illustrated catalogue of the pottery finds from this second millennium BC Assyrian site, in modern northern Iraq.
RRP: £48.00
Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum 2 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780714111391
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1996
Imprint: British Museum Press
Description:
Second in a series publishing the entire Babylonian and Sumerian cuneiform holdings of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities. Over 8000 examples acquired by the British Museum in the years 1892-8 are described including major archives of the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods.
RRP: £45.00
Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud 4 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9780903472159
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1996
Imprint: British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Illustrations: with 144 pls of Cuneiform Copies and 13 pls b/w photos
Description:
The library of Nimrud, probably established in 798 BC, was a prestigious royal foundation whose scribes had contacts all over the East, particularly with Nineveh. The 259 cuneiform tablets and fragments which constituted the library mainly described magical and medical rituals, prayers and instructions for training scribes. All the epigraphic finds from Sir Max Mallowan's excavations of 1955-7 are described in this volume, with additional material from the Iraq Archaeological Service's excavations of 1985.
RRP: £45.00

A Piece of Shenoutiana from the Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Format: Paperback
Pages: 40
ISBN: 9780861591190
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1996
Imprint: British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Press Occasional Paper
Illustrations: 16 b/w plates
Description:
The text published here, for the first time, with translation and commentary, is a work attributed to Shenoute, the 4th-5th century abbot of the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. The work is based on the theme God never turns his face from those who truly worship him, and contains six distinctive miraculous episodes.
Studies in Ancient Coinage from Turkey Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780901405333
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1996
Imprint: British Institute at Ankara
Illustrations: 3196 half-tone illus on 70 pl
Description:
A report on seven hoards of Greek and Greek Imperial coins, four hoards of Roman Imperial coins and catalogues of six other collections of mostly provenanced coins. There is also a die-study of the extensive bronze coinage of Gordian III minted at 6 Caesarea in Cappadocia. This volume provides a companion to `Recent Turkish Hoards and Numismatic Studies'.
RRP: £45.00
Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780197270073
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Imprint: Council for British Research in the Levant
Illustrations: with halftones and line-drawings
Description:
This is the first report to be published on the Biblical kingdom of Eden, the Iron Age site of Tawilan. Particular attention is paid to the cuneiform tablet and gold jewellery hoard, the first to be discovered in Jordan. The stratigraphy, ceramics and other finds are also comprehensively analysed by Piotr Bienkowski and other specialists, and an overview of the development and nature of the site is provided.
RRP: £60.00
Excavations by K M Kenyon in Jerusalem, Volume 4 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 278
ISBN: 9780197270059
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Imprint: Council for British Research in the Levant
Illustrations: with many figs and illus
Description:
Kathleen Kenyon died in 1978 without having published final reports on her excavations in Jerusalem. These are being now published in five volumes. This volume concentrates on finds outside the walls of the Iron Age city, and particularly on the enigmatic, pottery-rich depositis in Caves I and II to the south east of the city.
RRP: £45.00