Collection: American Society of Overseas Research
Founded in 1900, ASOR is dedicated to the history and archaeology of the Near East. ASOR's mission is to initiate, encourage and support research into, and public understanding of, the history and cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean world, from the earliest times.
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Unsilencing the Archives
Western academia has begun to explore and come to terms with its part in the recent colonial past and its lingering effects in the present. This volume is devoted to exploring the agency of many unnamed or underappreciated agents of archaeology in the regions of Southwest Asia and North Africa du...
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The U-Shaped Building at Caesarea Maritima
This book is an exploration of a portion of the praetorium of the governor of Caesarea and its subsequent phases, through its excavation in the 1970s by a team led by Robert J. Bull. By examining field notes, photographs and plans, it reconstructs the original fourth-century CE construction of a ...
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Humayma Excavation Project, 2
This volume reports on a Nabataean campground, which provides unique testimony to the flexible character of Nabataean settlement design, and provides detailed information on the Nabataean necropolis, which shows parallels with those at both Petra and Hegra.
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The Roman Marble Sculptures from the Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi/Panias (Israel)
This is the first publication on a deposit of broken marble statues, discovered in 1992 during excavations of the Roman Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi , in Panias, Israel.
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The Archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria
The Caesarea Mithraeum (sanctuary or temple of the god Mithras) is only one of two excavated from eastern half of the Empire. Includes new photographs, plans and section drawings; catalogues the small finds from the vault, and technical details about the recovery of information about frescoes and...
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The Roman Aqaba Project
This first of three projected volumes of the project’s final report focuses on the regional environment and the regional survey. Analysis of the environment employs a wide range of evidence to analyse the physiography, geology, soils, seismic history, climate and natural resources.
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Views from Phlamoudhi, Cyprus
Fieldwork in the village of Phlamoudhi, Cyprus from 1970-1973 by the Columbia University Expedition to Phlamoudhi recorded the only systematically excavated evidence for Middle to Late Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement north of the Kyrenia Mountains. This book's chapters cover the two main excav...
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Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Final Reports, Volume 1
This book presents results of the excavation by the Combined Caesarea Expeditions which explored the city and harbour of ancient Caesarea, built by the Jewish king Herod the Great at the end of the first century BCE. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the transition from ...
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Khirbat Iskandar
This volume is the first in a planned series of final reports on the Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and its Environs, Jordan, begun in 1981 by Principal Investigator, Suzanne Richard of Gannon University.
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Reflections of Empire
This monograph addresses a gap in the literature of Ottoman archaeology by pulling together technical studies on pottery from the eastern frontiers of the Ottoman Empire: Cyprus, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and Jordan.
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Pyla-Koutsopetria I
Pyla-Koutsopetria I presents the results of an intensive pedestrian survey documenting the diachronic history of a 100ha microregion along the coast of Cyprus. It featured an Iron Age sanctuary, a Classical settlement, a Hellenistic fortification, a Late Roman town and a Venetian-Ottoman coastal ...
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The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports
In the northwest quarter of the site of Caesarea Maritima is Field O, the location known as "the synagogue site and Jewish Quarter." Comprehensive research has discovered previously unknown records from the 1962 excavations and produced a comparative study of the 1945/46, 1956/62, and 1982/84 exc...
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Cyprus and the Balance of Empires
Between 491 and 1191 AD, Cyprus was influenced by various political and cultural centres that vied for dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean. This collection of essays primarily focuses on the island's archaeology when it was governed by the Byzantine capital of Constantinople.
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Shechem III
This volume presents the stratigraphy and architectural remains of the tell of ancient (biblical) Shechem on the eastern outskirts of the modern municipality of Nablus, in what was at the time of excavation the independent village of Balatah.
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Shechem I
This is the first volume of the final report on the site of Tell Balatah, biblical Shechem
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The Nabataean Temple at Khirbet et-Tannur, Jordan, Volume 2
Khirbet et-Tannur is a Nabataean site dating from the second century B.C. to the fourth to sixth centuries A.D. In 1937, Nelson Glueck excavated the site on behalf of the American Schools of Oriental Research but died before completing a report. Now, in two extensively illustrated volumes, the re...
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The Nabataean Temple at Khirbet et-Tannur, Jordan, Volume 1
Khirbet et-Tannur is a Nabataean site dating from the second century B.C. to the fourth to sixth centuries A.D. In 1937, Nelson Glueck excavated the site on behalf of the American Schools of Oriental Research but died before completing a report. Now, in two extensively illustrated volumes, the re...
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The Iron Age Cultic Structures from the Excavations at Tell Taannek 1963-1968
This work, which is part of a series of excavation reports from the ancient site of Tell Taannek, examines an Iron Age cultic structure and its contents. Frick explores the question of how one might, on the basis of archaeological data, determine the likelihood that a structure had a cultic funct...
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All Things Cypriot
This volume focuses on the history and culture of Cyprus. Ranging from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to ethnoarchaeology in the recent past, it covers archaeological landscapes, material culture and regional interaction. The collection is dedicated to Stuart Swiny, former director of the Cyprus Ameri...
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The Amman Theater Statue in its Iron Age Contexts
A colossal basalt statue was uncovered through rescue excavation in downtown Amman, Jordan in 2010. Despite the statue's Roman period find context, its form and motifs show it to be an Iron Age sculpture. The statue was probably incorporated into an architectural structure on the Amman Citadel (J...
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The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, West-central Jordan
This report presents the archaeological evidence for human settlement and land use in the Tafila-Busayra region of southern Jordan from the Palaeolithic (ca. 500,000 BP) to the 20th century AD.
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Kataret es-Samra, Jordan
Presents the results of a programme of survey and excavation conducted under the directorship of the author at the site of Kataret es-Samra, strategically located at the interface of the ghor and the zor of the Eastern Jordan Valley, to the north of the confluence of the Wadi Zarqa (Biblical Jabb...
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Texts from the Late Old Babylonian Period
This volume publishes and discusses 186 cuneiform documents from the Late Old Babylonian period (1683-1595 B.C.), including 95 hand copies, mostly from Sippar texts in British Museum collections. The Late O.B. epoch marks the last of five centuries of uninterrupted textual production in lower M...
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Shechem IV
This is the final publication of the Persian and Hellenistic pottery from the American Joint Expedition to Shechem, 1956-1968.
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ASOR Annual 59
Part I presents the results from the 2001 research project combining surface surveys and limited test excavations at eight Early Bronze Age settlement sites on the Kerak Plateau. Part II is the editio princeps of two early alphabetic inscriptions discovered along the Farshut Road, Egypt.
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Tel Tanninim
Following the annexation of Samaria by Sargon II, around 700 BC, a new settlement was established just south of the urban center at Tel Dor. The site, known as Krokodeilon Polis "Crocodile City" to the Greeks, was excavated by the Tanninim Archaeological Project. This volume is a final report of ...
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Taanach II
This book uses Walter Rast's ceramic chronology in his 1978 work on the Iron Age pottery at Tell Ta'annek as the basis for the periodization of the Iron Age strata, originally excavated by Paul Lapp. It presents the Iron Age stratigraphy area by area, period by period, based on the excavators' fi...
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The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan 2005-2007
Although segments of the Ayl to Ras an-Naqab territory have been investigated for the past one hundred years, this is the first comprehensive and systematic survey of the area. Two volumes, with DVD.
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The Near East in the South West
These essays were written in honour of William G Dever, doyen of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona, where he was Professor from 1975 until his retirement in 2001.
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University of Michigan and University of Minnesota Excavations at Tel Kedesh I
This is the first volume in a projected series of final reports on the 1997-2012 University of Michigan/University of Minnesota excavations at Tel Kedesh, located in the Upper Galilee of modern Israel and the hinterland of ancient Tyre. It presents the 2nd century BCE Hellenistic archive and the ...
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The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature
Drawing from a detailed analysis of the different types of textual variants that occur in the numerous duplicates of a group of ten compositions known collectively as the Decad, this book aims to provide a much needed critical methodology for interpreting textual variation in the Sumerian literar...
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Shechem V
The Late Bronze Age sequence spanning the Late Bronze I, IIA, and IIB contains ceramics from occupational contexts and also from a cache of 850 restorable and complete vessels from a BasementChamber sealed below destruction debris. 88 b&w illustrations; 33 tables.
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The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan 2010-2012
The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey examined archaeological sites in an area of approximately 590 km between Shammakh in the north and Ayl in the south in the southern segment of the Transjordan Plateau. It has particular relevance for understanding the major sites of Petra, Udhruh and ash-...
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On the Third Dynasty of Ur
The Ur III period (2112-2004 BCE) was one of the more significant periods in the history of ancient Mesopotamia. The centralized patrimonial bureaucracy of the time is documented by almost a hundred thousand known documents, and this was when much of what we know as classical Sumerian literature ...
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Sotira Kaminoudhia
The excavations at Sotira Kaminoudhia in southern Cyprus revealed the remains of tombs and an Early Bronze Age settlement. This volume provides a final report on the excavations and includes specialist studies on various artifact groups, including: ceramics, chipped and ground stone, metals and t...
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The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima
The Caesarea Mithraeum (sanctuary or temple of the god Mithras) is only one of two excavated from eastern half of the Empire. Includes new photographs, plans and section drawings; catalogues the small finds from the vault, technical details about the recovery of information about frescoes and how...
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Humayma Excavation Project, 1
Humayma was the only significant settlement in the Hisma. Founded by a Nabataean king in the late first century B.C., the site flourished for 750 years as a Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic settlement. In 25 years of survey and excavation, the author has recovered unique architectur...
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The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports
This volume presents the numismatic results from nineteen seasons of fieldwork by the Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima (1971-1987 and 1993-1993). It provides a complete descriptive catalogue of the datable coins recovered along with a separate section illustrated with colour photographs of 9...
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City and Cemetery Volume 2
The Amathous Gate Cemetery played a key role in the spatial and social organisation of Kourion on the south coast of Cyprus, and in its transformations between the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. This second volume presents detailed descriptions and interpretations of the ecofacts and artifacts.
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An Examination of the Stratigraphy and Neolithic-Iron Age Pottery from Tel Jezreel, Area A
This volume presents the results of the Tel Jezreel Post-Excavation and Publication Project, directed by Charlotte Whiting on behalf of the Council for British Research in the Levant.
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Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries
Lavishly illustrated with extensive colour photographs, plans, and reconstruction drawings the book brings to life for the first time the home environment of the lost elite Sephardic community of Ottoman Damascus. An essential resource for those studying the architecture, history, and culture of ...
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Ethics in Archaeological Practice
This book explores urgent topics and issues in archaeology as currently practised in the classroom, the field, the museum and the public sphere. Addressed primarily to archaeologists working in western Asia, the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, the volume raises ethical issues relevant to ...
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Tell er-Rumeith
The publication presents the most complete corpus of Iron Age pottery for the area of Tell er-Rumeith and its occupation reflects the Biblical traditions of the region. Tristan Barako and the other authors have used the field notes, reports and photographs of Paul Lapp's excavations in the 1960s ...
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The Photographs of the American Palestine Exploration Society
This volume includes over 150 never previously published photographs of archaeological sites in the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel) taken in 1875 by photographer Tancrede Dumas for the American Palestine Exploration Society.
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The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley
Brings together the research of two survey projects, the Michigan-Assiut Koptos-Eastern Desert Project and the University of Delaware-Leiden University Eastern Desert Surveys, presenting a coherent analysis of the extensive surveys and the materials documented by each. Introductory chapter gives ...
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The Archaeology of Agro-Pastoralist Economies in Jordan
The 69th volume of the Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research is devoted to studies of botanical and faunal remains from three major sites in Jordan: Tall al'Umayri (Bronze to early Iron Age), Karak Castle (Middle and Late Islamic Period), and Khirbet al-Mudayna al-'Aliya (early Iron...
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Humayma Excavation Project, 3 (two volumes)
Humayma, ancient Hawar or Hawara, began life as a small Nabataean settlement in the Hisma desert of Southern Jordan, 80 km south of Petra. This third publication of the Humayma Excavation Project provides the most thorough excavation report and analysis of a Roman frontier fort yet published. Pub...
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Archaeology of Difference
To determine "the archaeology of difference" the studies in this volume draw on textual and material culture. What distinguishes an individual or a group in ancient society? How do issues of gender, ethnicity, social stratification and the view of the 'other' impact individuals, groups, and socie...
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