Hebrew union college annual volume 64

A master of secrets in the chamber of darkness

Robert Kriech Ritner revolutionized our views of ancient Egyptian religion and helped launch a renaissance in the study of magic in the ancient world. This volume presents twenty-seven essays in his honour, covering the latest groundbreaking research in Egyptology and beyond.

Tell hamoukar, volume 1. urbanism and cultural landscapes in northeastern syria

Tell Hamoukar is one of the largest Bronze Age sites in northern Mesopotamia. Presents the results of three seasons of field survey and remote-sensing analysis at the site and region. This area is one of the best-preserved ancient landscapes of movement in the world. Appendices describe the 60 si...

The shaft graves and other late helladic i and ii remains

This volume presents funerary and domestic remains from the Late Helladic (LH) period at the settlement of Lerna, an important prehistoric site on the Gulf of Argos excavated by the ASCSA in the 1950s.

Will a frenchman fight?

This book describes a campaign of the Hundred Years War in 1380-1. The campaign itself was a great chevauchée, or raid, by the English through France and though it had its practical goals, it was also a striking illustration of the place of chivalric self-image in shaping warfare. Colour illustra...

Resilience and reorganisation of social systems during the weichselian lateglacial in north-west europe

At the end of the Pleistocene, hunters and gatherers in North-West Europe had to adapt themselves and their social systems to abrupt climate and significant environmental changes. This adaptation process is reconstructed in detail in this book, with reference to 25 archaeological sites, and to hi...

The quarrel of apophis and seqenenrec

The anubieion at saqqara iv

This volume continues the ceramic history of Saqqara's Anubis temple, excavated from 1977 to 1979. Covering the Late Dynastic Period, it details burials from the mid-sixth century, the Anubis temple's construction, and ceramics like embalmers' bowls and offering vessels, supplemented by finds fro...

A survey of the scientific manuscripts in the egyptian national library

The Egyptian National Library (Dab al-Kutub al-Misraya) contains a vast treasury of medieval manuscripts still largely untapped by modern scholarship. Among these are some 2,500 manuscripts relating to the exact sciences, mathematics, and astonomy, which constitute the largest single collection o...

Hellenistic pottery: the fine wares

Using deposits recently excavated from the Panayia Field, this volume substantially revises the absolute chronology of Corinthian Hellenistic pottery as established by G. Roger Edwards in Corinth VII.3 (1975).

Weseretkau 'mighty of kas'

The volume is a collection of papers submitted by Cathleen A. Keller's friends, students and colleagues as a way to honour her memory and her love of ancient Egypt. The various papers cover the topics of Egyptian Art and the study of the village of Deir el-Medina.

Alpha (1)

Alpha is an annual repository for leading-edge research in the New Testament and related texts, and the historical development which the texts imply.

Poems and carols (oxford, bodleian library ms douce 302)

The Audelay manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in "Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Pistel of Swete Susan."

Nimrud

Muzahim Hussein's 1989 discovery of tombs of Neo-Assyrian queens in the palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud (Kalhu/Calah) was electrifying news for archaeology. Although much is known of the Assyrian kings (8th/9th century B.C.), very little was known about the queens, with the exception of semi-my...

Gara

This book is the first text dedicated to Gara Oasis, one of the smallest oases in Egypt. It presents a general overview of the history, archaeology, and the landscape of the oasis. Gara Oasis is an important transit hub connecting the Nile Delta with the western cultures of Egypt and Libya.

Three middle english charlemagne romances

An excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. This is a valuable introduction to Charlemagne romances and is accessible to beginners in Middle English because of contextualizing introductions and glosses for eac...

Guide to the archaeological museum of thessalonike (english language edition)

The Museum, one of the most important in Greece, houses masterpieces of Greek art associated with the history of Ancient Macedonia, from the 2nd millennium BC to the 4th century BC and the reigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. The Guide presents the rich, varied finds from important Macedo...

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.

The book of john mandeville

A contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims and Brahmins.

Charis

Scholars of Bronze Age archaeology present papers that address aspects of social, political, religious and ritual significance in wall paintings, matters of chronology, regional trade and interaction, and Cretan architecture. Scholars of the Archaic, Classical and Roman periods explore issues of ...

Late classical, hellenistic, and roman pottery

This volume presents the Late Classical through Roman pottery from the University of Chicago excavations at Isthmia (1952-1989).

The lisbon massacre of 1506 and the royal image in the shebet yehudah

Modern Jews have frequently clung to an uncritical faith in the state's protection, even when that faith bears no correspondence to reality. In this landmark study, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi presents the Lisbon Massacre as one chapter in the history of alliances between Jews and the powers that have...

Udjahorresnet and his world

The 6th-century Egyptian politician Udjahorresnet held high political positions in the former Egyptian kingship realm. He became an important figure in transforming Egypt into a regional centre within the vast and culturally diverse empire of the Achaemenid Persians. This volume of essays explore...

Attic grave reliefs that represent women in the dress of isis

The author investigates the appearance of a fashion in clothing, involving a knotted mantle worn across the chest, on many Attic stelae of the Roman period. She suggests that this style can be traced to Egyptian roots, and might have been particularly associated with a cult of Isis, popular among...

Mary of nemmegen

A prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play this is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the 16th century. An analogue of the Faustus story, it is also a window on the obsession in its own time with the occult.

Aegean prehistory

Aegean prehistory has developed over the 20th century into a distinctive and vibrant area of archaeological research. Keeping abreast of these new developments has become a daunting task; this book contains detailed syntheses of research, originally published in the American Journal of Archaeolog...

Excavations in the west plaza of tikal

This volume reports excavations by Peter D. Harrison in Tikal's West Plaza during the early 1960s. Complementing Tikal Report No. 14 by William R. Coe, it describes the West Plaza's development, providing valuable data no longer available in the field. Of interest to those studying Tikal's epicen...

Bethsaida: a city by the north shore of the sea of galilee, vol. 4

Archaeological excavation of the ancient city of Bethsaida has retrieved a wealth of information on some of the most intriguing topics from 10th century BCEto 4th century CE. This volume includes reports on archaeological and geological findings from 1997 to 2006 and the cultural and historical c...