Collection: ISD International
ISD International provide sales, marketing and distribution for academic and specialist books in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, representing more than 60 publishers.
The majority of our client publishers are based in North America and include American School of Classical Studies at Athens, American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press at UCLA, Freelance Academy Press, Hebrew Union College Press, Institute for Aegean Prehistory Academic Press (INSTAP), Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture (ISAC), Lockwood Press, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS), University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, and Yale Egyptology.
UK and European publishers include ArchiTangle (Berlin), Egypt Exploration Society (London), Gerlach Press (Berlin), Kapon Editions (Athens), Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (Mainz), Mohr-Siebeck (Tübingen), Pindar Press (London), Schnell & Steiner (Regensburg), and the World Council of Churches (Geneva).
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Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries
The history of ancient Egypt through 50 artefacts discovered during excavations by the EES since its founding in 1882. Readers will travel through three millennia of Egypt’s history from the Early Dynastic to the Graeco-Roman Period uncovering the daily lives of the ancient Egyptians by investiga...
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A Thousand Miles up the Nile
A chance visit to Egypt in 1873 by Amelia B. Edwards changed the future of British Egyptology forever. Her travelogue, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, would inspire generations to take up her message to support Egyptian cultural heritage. While the way this is done has changed a lot since Amelia's ...
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Howard Carter
Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, began his career as an artist working for the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1891. By shining a spotlight on Carter’s watercolour painting of a scene from the shrine to Anubis in Hatshepsut’s temple, Carl Graves uncovers the life and legacy of one...
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Amelia B Edwards
Amelia B Edwards , author of the hugely successful and still widely-read illustrated travelogue, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, was so much more than a pioneer of Egyptology: writer, musician, artist, activist and explorer. This book offers new revelations about her life, and the founding of the E...
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Who Was Who in Egyptology (5th edn)
Who Was Who in Egyptology remains one of the most important reference works for understanding the characters that contributed to the field of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology from the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt through to the present day. The fifth edition bring entries up to 2019.
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The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia, Volume IV (2 vols)
The archives of the Mycenaean palace uncovered by Carl Blegen in 1939 contained clay tablets inscribed in Linear B script, a syllabary employed to record the Greek language. This 2-part work presents Linear B tablets 1- 616 (part 1), and 622-1589 (part 2) accompanied by colour photographs, trans...
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Temple Ritual at Abydos
The Temple of Seti I at Abydos is is one of the great monuments of the New Kingdom. Rosalie David's book, last printed more than 30 years ago, offers a guide to its magnificent reliefs and wall paintings, explaining the scenes of ritual and worship. This new edition includes watercolours by Amice...
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Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta
This comprehensive study of Bronze Age rhyta from the Aegean addresses questions of typology, function, context, and the uses of these vessels. Rhyta are among the most appealing yet enigmatic classes of artefacts from the Aegean Bronze Age, produced in a wide range of forms and media with a cons...
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Working in the Suburbs
Excavations at the ancient Egyptian archaeological site of Amarna identified a workshop for glass and faience. This book presents a record of the workshop site, offering an archaeological and architectural evaluation alongside in-depth analyses of material culture, including archaeobotany, charc...
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The Athenian Agora Museum Guide
Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora - the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and the newly ope...
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The Early Iron Age
This volume, the first of two dealing with the Early Iron Age deposits from the Athenian Agora, publishes the tombs from the end of the Bronze Age through the transition from the Middle Geometric to Late Geometric period.
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Roman Pottery
Examples of Roman period red-gloss and red-slip pottery (terra sigillata) found during excavations in the Athenian Agora form the focus of this volume. Written by the world's leading expert on Roman pottery, this huge catalogue illustrating and identifying multiple shapes and types of decoration ...
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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).
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The Wall Paintings of the West House at Mycenae
The wall paintings from the West House at Mycenae are discussed in relation to their context within the building. Their iconography and stylistic details are explored in relation to other Aegean Bronze Age wall paintings. The fragments are fully cataloged and illustrated with drawings and photos.
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume LXXXVIII
This volume presents the first fruits of the research project Hexameters Beyond the Canon: New Poetry on Papyri from Roman and Byzantine Egypt. The texts illustrate the great variety and interest of hexameter composition in this period, with categories including fable, ethical instruction, mythol...
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The Agora Bone Well
Even though Dorothy Thompson excavated the Agora Bone Well in 1938, the well and its remarkable finds have never been fully studied until now. Located outside the northwest corner of the Athenian Agora and dating to the second quarter of the 2nd century B.C.
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A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos
This is the final publication of a small open-air sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Hymettos above Athens, excavated between the World Wars by Carl Blegen and Rodney Young.
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Greek Lamps and Offering Trays
This volume continues the publication of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth. It incorporates two bodies of material: Greek lamps and offering trays.
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Late Classical Pottery from Ancient Corinth
In 1971 in the southwestern area of the Roman Forum of Corinth a round-bottomed drainage channel was discovered filled with the largest deposit of pottery of the 4th century ever found in the city, some coins, terracotta figurines, and metal and stone objects. This volume publishes the pottery an...
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Vrysaki
Central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition in the 1930s of the Vrysaki neighbourhood at the foot of the Acropolis, to facilitate the excavation of the ancient Agora. This book details the expropriations, as well as the history of the neighbourhood, providing a vivid recrea...
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Ayia Sotira
This volume is the final publication of the results of excavation of six Mycenaean chamber tombs in the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Ayia Sotira within the Nemea Valley of the Argolid region of Greece. The book is richly illustrated with maps, plans, drawings, photos, and tables of data.
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The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory
This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III).
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Knossos Tablets
The sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets completes nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from the preeminent Cretan palatial site of the late Minoan Bronze Age. The volume closes with an up-to-date overall ground plan and close-up sector plans of the Palace of Mi...
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Transport Stirrup Jars of the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world, used both to transport and to store liquid commodities in bulk. This study concentrates on the origins and distribution of the jars and thus tracing exchange routes, placing the jars within their...
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The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill
Tsoungiza is a hill dominating the Nemea Valley, northwest of the citadel of Mycenae; excavations have uncovered the remains of a Late Helladic settlement at its southern end. This two-volume set presents the results of these investigations, with an unprecedented study of a small settlement's eco...
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KE-RA-ME-JA
Ke-ra-me-ja is a woman's name that appears on a Linear B tablet from Knossos. It means "potter", and combines two major strands of Cynthia Shelmerdine's scholarly pursuits: Mycenaean ceramics and Linear B texts. The essays presented to her in this volume demonstrate that her research has had a wi...
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The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi
This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, and offers the results of site surveys and their finds.
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Inscriptions: The Dedicatory Monuments
This is the last of five volumes presenting inscriptions discovered in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1967. Published here are inscriptions on monuments commemorating events or victories, on statues or other representations erected to honor individuals and deities, and on votive offerings to...
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Kavousi I
This volume provides a comprehensive look at the topography of the area of the archaeological investigation near the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. It sets the stage for the report on the excavations and provides an introduction to the local soils and to the pottery classification us...
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Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh
Peter Brand reveals Ramesses the Great as a gifted politician, canny elder statesman, and tenacious warrior; a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age.
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Miscellaneous Finds of Terracotta
This volume presents the terracotta miscellaneous finds from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Acrocorinth. The finds comprise 21 classes, including protomes and masks, altars, plaques, models of various personal and household items, and loomweights and other textile tools.
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Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery
This volume publishes the results of the rescue excavations along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth in 1961 and 1962. It examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, Roman colony, and Christian town.
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Chalasmenos I
This is the first volume on the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Chalasmenos, located near Ierapetra in eastern Crete. The site was excavated (1992-2014), initially as part of a Greek-American project under the direction of Metaxia Tsipopoulou and the late William Coulson.
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Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
This volume, based on material from a field survey of Halasarna (modern Kardamaina), located on a coastal plain in the southern part of the Dodecanesian island of Kos, and a study of settlement patterns across the Aegean, provides a new corpus of data on the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods.
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The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna IV
The present volume outlines the architectural sequence of the EH III period at the site of the Fourth Settlement at Lerna with descriptions of the major building types and other features, such as hearths, ovens, and bothroi.
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Keos XI: Wall Paintings and Social Context
The iconography of Late Bronze Age wall paintings is presented in their social context within the Cycladic island of Kea and the wider Aegean world. Town, land, and seascapes illustrate the community of this harbor. This book is lavishly illustrated with many color drawings, visualizations, and p...
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Livari Skiadi
This book is the first of a two-volume final report on the excavation of the Minoan cemetery and associated finds at Livari Skiadi in the southeastern end of Crete. This volume deals with the excavation of the site and its architecture, pottery and other finds, dating to the Prepalatial, Neopalat...
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A Dictionary of Cuneiform Luvian
Luvian was a language spoken in second millennium B.C. ancient Anatolia, now Turkey,. It is preserved in documents written in cuneiform script important for our knowledge of religion and culture during the Hittite Empire. The dictionary includes definitions as well as a grammatical introduction, ...
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Ayioryitika
Ayioryitika, a large settlement in Arcadia in central Greece, is particularly important for its beautifully decorated Middle Neolithic pottery and for its figurines of human figures and animals. Excavated in 1928 by Carl Blegen, the research was never published.This volume provides the fragmentar...
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The City of Gaza in the Roman Period
This book is a comprehensive discussion examining the production and significance of the coinage struck by the city of Gaza under Roman rule from the conquest of this region by Pompey (64/3 BCE) to the end of the municipal minting in the second quarter of the third century (241/2 CE), based on th...
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A Corpus of Samarian Coinage from the Persian Period, Volumes I & II
This two-volume monograph focuses on the Samarian minting authority during the Persian period. This coinage represents one of the earliest and most varied official coinages produced in the southern Levant, likely being issued from the late fifth century BCE until after the Greco-Macedonian conquest.
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Mochlos IIB
Excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete yielded a pottery assemblage from 31 tombs and 11 houses, which are cataloged, discussed, and illustrated together with petrographic analyses. A series of scientific excavation reports (Mochlos vols. IIA-IIC) documen...
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Mochlos IA
Mochlos is a Minoan town in northeast Crete. Three volumes present the results of the excavations in the Neopalatial levels of the Artisans' Quarter, and at the farmhouse at Chalinomouri: Mochlos IA presents the process of excavation and the architecture; volume IB presents the pottery; and volum...
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Kavousi IIB
This is the second of three planned volumes in the final report on the cleaning and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Vronda near Kavousi in eastern Crete. It describes the excavation, stratigraphy, and architecture of the buildings on the slopes of the Vronda ridge.
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The Monuments of the Eastern Hill (two-volume set)
In this volume, the key Athenian monuments that form the Theatral Complex, including the Theatral Circle, the Fieldstone Building, the marble Doric hexastyle Dedication of Philip III and Alexander IV, the elegant Ionic Porch, and the remains of dozens of bronze statues, are presented in their arc...
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The Wadi Shatt el-Rigal
This volume presents the 1983 findings at Wadi Shatt el-Rigal, part of the Gebel el-Silsila site. It details over 800 inscriptions and rock-drawings from the late Eleventh Dynasty, including the well-known reliefs of Mentuhotep II and III.
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The Art of Antiquity
The archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolours and drawings (well over 400) by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century.
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STEGA
This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium on the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in Ierapetra in May 2005.
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