Collection: Lockwood Press
Distributed by ISD International, Lockwood Press publishes high-quality monographs, upper-level and supplemental classroom texts, reference works and academic trade titles on the languages, archaeology, history, religions and cultures of the Near Eastern and east Mediterranean worlds from earliest antiquity to the Middle Ages, alongside a wide range of scholarly books on old- and new-world archaeology.
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The palace of nestor at pylos in western messenia, volume iv (2 vols)
In 1939, on the first day of excavation at the archaeological site that he called The Palace of Nestor, Carl W. Blegen uncovered a Mycenaean palace. Its archives contained clay tablets inscribed in the so-called Linear B script, a syllabary employed to record the Greek language. These documents h...
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The sumerian texts from ancient iraq
Unique study of 145 tablets, from an unknown site near Nippur in Southern Iraq. The tablets are the documents of a high official named Aradmu, and detail routine agricultural operations, including receipts and grain loans. The tablets were repatriated to Iraq in late 2010.
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The demotic and hieratic papyri in the suzuki collection of tokai university, japan
This book contains approximately fifty late Egyptian texts, published for the first time; Representing a range of document types and of demotic handwriting. Includes a a rare word list and a new mythological narrative, one late hieratic text concerned with temple land, and some Greek fragments f...
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Coping with obscurity
The papers presented at Brown University's Workshop on Earlier Egyptian Grammar in 2013 discussed the grammatical value of written evidence preserved in texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2350-1650 BC). They present orthographic, lexical, morphological and syntactic approaches, and are a n...
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Palamedes volume 8
Palamedes seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists and epigraphists-all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations-can meet ...
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The temple of ramesses ii in abydos, volume 1 wall scenes (parts 1 and 2)
Volume 1 "Wall Scenes" consists of of two books, with a total of over 400 illustrations and Preface. Volume 2, "Pillars, Miscellany, and Inscriptions", contains additional elements of the temple, as well as translations of the inscriptions found in the temple.
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No good deed goes unpunished
Peter Lacovara has worked as a curator, archaeologist, teacher, and ceramicist; this book comprises a series of articles dealing with ceramic studies, urbanism and urban archaeology, funerary archaeology, artefact studies, and the history of Egyptology, and will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts...
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Mediterranean wines of place
In Mediterranean Wines of Place, Al Leonard pairs his love of the Mediterranean World with wines crafted from the grapes that have been so much a part of its history. This guide to Mediterranean wines introduces more than sixty heirloom grapes and their wines. Colour illustrations throughout.
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Ancient egyptian biographies
The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: anthropological and contrastive perspectives; original Old Kingdom settings; text format and language; social dimensions; religious experience. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these text...
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A journey through the beyond
A Journey through the Beyond offers the first comprehensive overview of the evolution over time of a foundational concept of the Egyptian afterlife beliefs: the Duat, or netherworld.
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Naga ed-deir in the first intermediate period
The ancient cemeteries at Naga ed-Dêr date from the Predynastic period to the Middle Kingdom. They run for about six kms from Sheikh Farag to Mesheikh and form parts of the single large cemetery of the Thinite nome UE 8.
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Palamedes volume 9/10 (2014/2015)
Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic or intellectual manifestations can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.
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The history of phoenicia
The Phoenicians, celebrated navigators who invented the alphabet, have no published work telling their long, turbulent and sometimes mythical history. Josette Elayi, a French academic specialising in Phoenicia, covers its rich history from origins to the conquest by Alexander the Great which ende...
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The restoration of sunnism
A study of the early history of Islamic law schools (s. madrasa, pl. madāris) and their professors in late Fāṭimid and Aiyūbid Egypt (495-647/1101-1249). It describes the origin and spread of these institutions, their teachers, and their role in the religious life of Egypt.
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volume 8 (2016)
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and throug...
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volume 5 (2013)
The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies by Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies aims to bring together individuals interested in Coptic Studies by promoting meetings and conferences as wel...
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Between philology and archaeology
This volume celebrates the scientific and academic career of Massimiliano Marazzi, professor of Aegean and Anatolian History and Philology at the University of Naples. The essays, contributed by colleagues and friends, honour his scholarly contributions in the domain of Anatolian and ancient Ne...
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Palamedes
Palamedes seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists and epigraphists-all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations-can meet ...
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A sanctuary in the hora of illyrian apollonia
In the years 2004-2006 excavations were conducted in the plain west of the walls of the ancient Greek colony of Apollonia, southwest of the modern village of Pojan, Albania. The site lies within a complex of farm buildings known locally as Bonjakët. This volume represents the publication of the r...
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Landscape archaeology of the western nile delta
Different ideas of what constitutes an archaeological site have developed over two centuries of scholarship and heritage law in Egypt, with sites often (unconsciously) conceived as lands with museum-quality pieces and striking monumental, mortuary, and/or epigraphic remains.
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Palamedes volume 12 (2017/18)
Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.
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Palamedes volume 7
Palamedes seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists and epigraphists-all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations-can meet ...
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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.
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Palamedes volume 13
Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.
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Carl w. blegen
Carl Blegen is the most famous American archaeologist ever to work in Greece. Here is presented his biography, detailing his multifaceted life as an instrumental element in creating the field of Aegean prehistory and his role in the social and intellectual community of Athens.
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Wonderful things
Just in time for the centennial of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, this volume is dedicated to the leading expert on the "boy king" brings together scholars from all over the world to celebrate the career of C. Nicholas Reeves, whose biography and bibliography are included. The topics covere...
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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 55 (2019)
The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems and archaeology of the Egyptian people; it welcomes submissions on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization, in English, French or German.
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies volume 13
The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies.
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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 61 (2025)
The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems, and archaeology of the Egyptian people. The journal welcomes article submissions on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization, in English, Fr...
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Receptions of the ancient near east in popular culture and beyond
A celebration of the ways in which popular culture have consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities: archaeologists, philologists, historians and art historians reflect on how ideas and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been reimagined within our shared cultur...
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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 53 (2017)
Volume 53 of Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), published by Lockwood Press. C. 30 b&W illustrations.
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies volume 10
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is an organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparation of sc...
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Purifying a house from blood
Purifying a House from Blood provides an updated philological edition of the Hittite ritual for the ancient gods (CTH 446) with transliteration, transcription, and English translation.
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Current research at kueltepe/kanesh
The material remains and the more than 23,500 cuneiform tablets unearthed at the site of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh) shed light on social, political, and economic aspects of the Middle Bronze age (ca. 2000–1700 years BC) in central Anatolia, but also in Upper Mesopotamia.
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Social life under the abbasids
This book remains an invaluable resource for the study of the material culture of Abbasid life in the ninth and tenth centuries. Material is arranged thematically - costume, food, housing, hunting, indoor and outdoor games, and festivities and festivals.
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His good name
This book focuses on the topic of identity and self-presentation in ancient Egyptian society, approaching this through studies of gender, literature, material culture, mythology, names and officialdom.
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Sargonic and pre-sargonic cuneiform texts in the yale babylonian collection
This volume publishes hand copies of 292 cuneiform texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection dating to the Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic periods. It continues publication of the Pre-Ur III texts begun by George Hackman and Ferris Stephens in the series Babylonian lnscriptions in the Collection of J. B....
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The classical legacy of gilbert highet
Gilbert Highet (1906-1978) was one of Columbia University's greatest teachers and in his day the most celebrated classical scholar in America.
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Studies in medieval islamic intellectual traditions
Focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, from the ninth to the fifteenth century CE, through a close study of manuscript materials. Chapters are arranged under five rubrics: Mu'tazilism, Zaydism in Iran and in Yemen, Twelver Shi'ism, Mysticism...
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A qur'anic apocalypse
Michael Cuypers applies the principles of Semitic rhetoric - a method of textual analysis developed in the field of biblical studies – to the thirty-three small suras (81 to 114) of the Qur'an, making it possible to grasp the internal coherence of the suras, and the semantic links between them.
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies volume 9 (2017)
Latest volume of The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies(JCSCS) is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studie.
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Religious convergence in the ancient mediterranean
This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging religions. The twenty-four essays derive from Hittite, Cilician, Lydian, Phoenician, Greek and Roman cultural settings.
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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 51 (2015)
The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems and archaeology of the Egyptian people; it welcomes article submissions on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization, in English, French or Ge...
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Illuminating osiris
Collected essays in honour of Mark J. Smith, Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford, focussing on his research interests including Egyptian religion, language and texts, incl. demotic. Exceptional list of international contributors, majority European. 25 colour, c.100 b&w illustratio...
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Arabic belles lettres
Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary history, and writerly culture.
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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 58
The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems, and archaeology of the Egyptian people. It aims to foster a broader knowledge about Egypt among the general public. The journal welcomes article sub...
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Concluding the neolithic
The second half of the seventh millennium BC saw the previously affluent and dynamic Neolithic way of life end. The significant social and economic transformations of local communities, as shown in new patterns of architecture and burial practices, and in pottery manufacture. Sets the changes in ...
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Snake identification in the ancient egyptian brooklyn medical papyrus
This book is about snakebite and snake identification in ancient Egypt. The authors--in a remarkable collaboration between the fields of Egyptology, medicine, herpetology, biology and ecology--offer a new examination of the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, better-known as the Snakebite Papyrus, the firs...
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