Egypt & Near East
The People and the Peoples Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9780957522817
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2019
Imprint: Journal of Jewish Studies
Series: Journal of Jewish Studies Supplement Series
Illustrations: 15
Description:
The conflict of the early Church with Judaism found expression in a particular genre of liturgical literature, Syriac dialogue poetry of the late antique period. In this book Sebastian Brock provides the Syriac texts of four anonymous dialogue poems, from between the fifth and eight centuries CE, together with fully annotated English translations. Their protagonists are, respectively, Synagogue and Church, Sion and Church, Jesus and the Synagogue, Jesus and the Pharisees.
The Syriac Dot Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9781463241001
Pub Date: 20 Aug 2019
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The dot is used for everything in Syriac from tense to gender, number, and pronunciation, and unsurprisingly represents one of the biggest obstacles to learning the language. Using inscriptions, early grammars, and experiments with modern scribes, Dr. Kiraz peels back the evolution of the dot layer by layer to explain each of its uses in detail and to show how it adopted the wide range of uses it has today.
Inhabiting the Promised Land Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781789253306
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
For many people it is clear: the actions and beliefs of Ancient Israel are described in the Bible. The stories about its peoples and kings, struggles and wars, deities and shrines, are supposed to have been told and retold throughout the ages and recorded in ancient archives. At a certain moment in time these stories have been assembled in the Bible which becomes history.
RRP: £30.00
Figurine Makers of Prehistoric Cyprus Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9781789250190
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The Chalcolithic period in Cyprus has been known since Porphyrios Dikaios’ excavations at Erimi in the 1930s and through the appearance in the antiquities market of illicitly acquired anthropomorphic cruciform figures, often manufactured from picrolite, a soft blue-green stone. The excavations of the settlement and cemetery at Souskiou Laona reported on in this volume paint a very different picture of life on the island during the late 4th and early 3rd millennia BC. Burial practices at other known sites are generally single inhumations in intramural pit graves, only rarely equipped with artefacts.
RRP: £48.00
The Egyptian Collection at Norwich Castle Museum Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 504
ISBN: 9781789251968
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: over 400 black and white images and 70 colour plat
Description:
The Egyptian Collection at Norwich Castle Museum represents the first full publication of this important collection which contains several outstanding objects. Part 1 begins with an outline of the acquisition history of the Egyptian collection and its display within Norwich Castle in 1894, when it was converted from a prison to a museum. The collection was largely acquired between the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth centuries.
Triumphant Warrior Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781612007632
Pub Date: 11 Jul 2019
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 40–50 images
Description:
Inherent in “A Navy Flyer’s Creed” is the power of inspiration: “My country built the best airplane in the world and entrusted it to me. They trained me to fly it. I will use it to the absolute limit of my power.
RRP: £25.00
The Southern Levant during the first centuries of Roman rule (64 BCE–135 CE) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781789252385
Pub Date: 31 May 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
Starting from the issues of globalisation and recent studies about the mechanisms of absorption of cultures into the Roman Empire, this book focuses on the Near East, an area that has received much less attention than the Western part of the Roman empire in the context of the Romanisation debate. Cimadomo seeks to develop new understandings of imperialism and colonialism, highlighting the numerous and multiple cultural elements that existed in the eastern provinces and raising many questions, such as the bilingualism of ancient societies, the relationship between different cultures and the difficulty of using modern terminologies to explain ancient phenomena. The first focus lies on the area of Galilee and collecting all the evidence for reconstructing the history of the region.
RRP: £50.00
Fashioned Selves Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789252545
Pub Date: 15 May 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The study of dress in antiquity has expanded in the last 20 years, evolving from investigations of costume and ethnicity in ancient art and texts and analyses of terms relating to textiles and their production, to broader studies of the social roles of dressed bodies in ancient contexts, texts, and images. This volume emerges from Approaches to Dress and the Body sessions at the Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research in 2016 and 2017, as well as sessions relating to ancient dress and personal adornment at the Annual Meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America in 2018. Following the broad notion of dress first presented in Eicher and Roach-Higgins in 1992 as the “assemblage of modifications of the body and/or supplements to the body,” the contributions to this volume study varied materials, including physical markings on the body, durable goods related to dressed bodies in archaeological contexts, dress as represented in the visual arts as well as in texts, most bringing overlapping bodies of evidence into play.
Valor in Vietnam 1963–1977 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781612007144
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2019
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 27 black and white photos, 1 map
Description:
Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the lives of those living through that time, and in those absorbed by its historical significance. The Vietnam War lives on famously and infamously, dependent on political points of view, but those who have “been there, done that” have a highly personalized window on the time they spent in Vietnam creating that history. Valor in Vietnam focuses on nineteen stories of Vietnam, stories of celebrated characters in the veteran community, compelling war narratives, vignettes of battles, and the emotional impact on the combatants.
Beni Hassan Volume V Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 45
ISBN: 9780856688423
Pub Date: 23 Apr 2019
Imprint: Australian Centre for Egyptology
Series: ACE Reports
Illustrations: 128 colour plates and 14 b&w folded plates
Description:
Khnumhotep I was the first governer of the Oryx nome during Egypt’s formative Twelfth Dynasty. Appointed by Amenemhat I, his tomb at Beni Hassan is one of the most significant for its insights on a pivotal period in Egyptian history. For the first time since Newberry's publication in 1893, a record of the tomb and its preserved scenes and inscriptions is provided in colour photographs and detailed line drawings.
Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789250077
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Asia Minor is considered to have been a fairly prosperous region in Late Antiquity. It was rarely disturbed by external invasions and remained largely untouched by the continuous Roman-Persian conflict until very late in the period, was apparently well connected to the flourishing Mediterranean economy and, as the region closest to Constantinople, is assumed to have played an important part in the provisioning of the imperial capital and the imperial armies. When exactly this prosperity came to an end – the late sixth century, the early, middle or even later seventh century – remains a matter of debate.
Tracing Technoscapes Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9789088906879
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 36fc/119bw
Description:
The book provides insights into the various technical approaches and underlying bodies of knowledge in the different wall painting traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age and sheds light on how these may have been interwoven.
Beni Hassan Volume lV Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 51
ISBN: 9780856688676
Pub Date: 11 Dec 2018
Imprint: Australian Centre for Egyptology
Series: ACE Reports
Illustrations: 100 colour plates and 32 b&w folded plates
Description:
Baqet III was the ‘great overlord’ of the Oryx province, located in the most fertile region of Egypt. The well-preserved wall scenes in his chapel record activities undertaken in the desert, on land and river, in workshops as well as those of wars and entertainments. Dated to the end of the Eleventh Dynasty, the tomb documents one of the critical times in Egyptian history.
Ancient Egyptian Coffins Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781785709180
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This collection of papers by leading international experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to study and record in detail its collection. Papers address a series of topics including: the development of coffins in antiquity, including iconographic and text-based studies, providing new insights into ancient Egyptian belief systems at different periods and regional differences in coffin presentation; the post-antiquity history of coffins, including their acquisition and subsequent treatment in museums around the world; developments in technical examination and methods of studying coffins, especially the use of multispectral imaging to provide non-invasive analysis of materials, and what this tells us about construction and decorative techniques at different periods and in response to the availability of different materials and increasing evidence of the re-use of materials and complete re-working of coffins for new owners, leading us to question fundamental attitudes to the purpose of coffins as a containers of human remains and the practices of craftsmen in the funerary industry. The papers stem from a conference held at the Museum to accompany a major new exhibition.
Tombs Trowels and Treasures Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780856688577
Pub Date: 14 Nov 2018
Imprint: Australian Centre for Egyptology
Series: ACE Studies
Illustrations: 690 photographs
Description:
To celebrate 40 years of Egyptology at Macquarie University, Tombs, Trowels and Treasures provides an overview of the fieldwork undertaken in Egypt from the early days until the present and records our engagement in teaching, research and community outreach. Part One presents the fieldwork projects conducted by Macquarie in over 20 sites and 80 tombs. The projects are arranged by site in the chronological order in which the work was undertaken.
Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Cover Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Cover
Format: 
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088905551
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 20fc/40bw
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088905544
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 20fc/40bw
Description:
Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas — communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands. Seagoing ships under sail were operating between the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Anatolia by the mid-third millennium BC and within the Aegean by the end of that millennium. By the Late Bronze Age (after ca.