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Ariadne’s Threads MNHMH / MNEME The Construction and Significance Past and Memory in the Aegean of Clothes in the Aegean Bronze Age Bronze Age by Bernice R. Jones edited by Elisabetta Borgna, Ilaria Aegean costumes and textiles have Caloi, Filippo Maria Carinci and been among the least understood of the Robert Laffineur major artistic achievements of the Minoan In this proceedings volume, scholars focus civilization. Since ancient Aegean textiles on the important function of social memory and garments have not survived, this study for the construction of collective identities, analyzes and compiles a typology of gar- including ethnicity. Construction, re-use, ments represented in sculpture, frescoes, and manipulation of the past are identified and glyptic to glean evidence for construction, manufacturing techniques, in several contexts as ideological strategies favoring cultural continuity. and dress documented in Mycenaean Linear B, Greek and Near Eastern texts. 1044p (Peeters Publishers, April 2019, Aegaeum 43) hardcover, 9789042939035, 340p, illus (Peeters Publishers, August 2018, Aegaeum 38) paperback, 9789042939554, $207.00. Special Offer $166.00; PDF e-book, 9789042939042, $259.00 $138.00. Special Offer $111.00; PDF e-book, 9789042939561, $173.00 About Tell Tweini (Syria) The Cultic Life of Trees in the Artefacts, Ecofacts and Landscape: Prehistoric Aegean, Levant, Research Results of the Belgian Mission Egypt and Cyprus edited by Joachim Bretschneider by Caroline Jane Tully and Greta Jans This research examines 44 images of Tell Tweini represents the southernmost Minoan tree cult as depicted in sphragistic harbor of the Ugaritic Kingdom in the Late jewelry, portable objects and wall paint- Bronze Age. As one of the few sites under ings from Late Bronze Age Crete, main- excavation in the Northern Levant with a full land Greece and the Cyclades. The study archaeological sequence spanning the Early also compares the Aegean images with Bronze Age IV up to the Iron Age III period, evidence for sacred trees in the Middle and Tell Tweini (Field A) is a key site for the study of the developments in the Late Bronze Age Levant, Egypt and Cyprus. Northern Levant especially the Bronze to Iron Age transition. 332p (Peeters Publishers, September 2018, Aegaeum 42) hardcover, 9789042937161, 663p (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 281) $138.00. Special Offer $111.00; PDF e-book, 9789042937185, $173.00 hardcover, 9789042936782, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 The Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Greece. Title photo by Annita Apostolou Vini, CC BY-SA 4.0, page photo by Sharon Mollerus, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] North Tunisian Red Slip Ware From Production Sites in the Salomonson Survey (1960–1972) by Carina Hasenzagl This study addresses issues regarding the classification of African Red Slip Ware and the identification of different North Tunisian production centers by applying standardized fabric description - an archaeological method to classify pottery according to the microscopic features of the sherd. It is based on survey finds from the North Tunisian workshops of Bordj el Djerbi, Henchir el Biar, Oudna and Pheradi Maius that were visited by the Dutch archaeologist J.W. Salomonson during survey campaigns in the 1960s and 1970s. The pieces from Salomonson’s survey collection are of clear provenance and are therefore used to define the microscopic features of a production site. 150p (Peeters Publishers, July 2019, Babesch Supplementa 37) paperback, 9789042939868, $68.00. Special Offer $55.00 PDF e-book, 9789042939875, $68.00 Fragile Biography Metal Jewellery of the The Life Cycle of Ceramics and Southern Levant and its Refuse Disposal Patterns in Late Western Neighbours Antique and Early Medieval Cross-Cultural Influences in the Early Palestine Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean by Itamar Taxel by Josephine A. Verduci The study sheds light on selected mate- rial culture-related behavioral practices This volume contributes to the discus- of the people who produced, used and sion of the origin of the Sea Peoples by manipulated ceramics during late examining the role of adornment in the antique and early medieval times. The portrayal of cultural identity. Metal jewelry research presents the local picture of pottery use—life, including prime use, is assessed from 29 sites in the southern reuse, repair, recycling and disposal. The reuse, repair and recycling of pottery Levant, the Aegean, and Cyprus, resulting in the first multi-regional typology reflect a plethora of behavioral practices. of metal jewelry for the Iron Age I-IIA eastern Mediterranean. 203p, illus (Peeters Publishers, November 2018, Babesch Supplementa 35) 453p (Peeters Publishers, September 2018, Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement paperback, 9789042936904, $103.00. Special Offer $83.00 Series 53) hardcover, 9789042935365, $163.00. Special Offer $131.00 PDF e-book, 9789042936911, $129.00 PDF e-book, 9789042936942, $204.00 The Fayoum Survey Project: The Lure of the Antique The Themistou Meris Essays on Malta and Mediterranean Volume B: The Ceramological Survey Archaeology in Honour of Anthony by D. M. Bailey Bonanno Donald M. Bailey’s legacy is an exem- edited by Nicholas C. Vella, Anthony plary study of forms and materials of the J. Frendo and Horatio C. R. Vella different kinds of ceramic vessels, from This collection of twenty-four papers amphorae to cooking-pots and from coarse is presented to an outstanding scholar, kitchen ware to fine table ware. The book Anthony Bonanno, to celebrate his remark- is rounded up by two short essays, which able achievements in the study of ancient add up-to-date information on the pottery Malta. The papers reflect his broad range of found in the Themistou Meris as well as in other districts of the Fayoum. interests over a career spanning fifty years. 356p (Peeters Publishers, May 2019, Collectanea Hellenistica 9) paperback, 399p (Peeters Publishers, December 2018, Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement 9789042936287, $120.00. Special Offer $96.00 Series 54) hardcover, 9789042936171, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 PDF e-book, 9789042938847, $150.00 PDF e-book, 9789042938243, $173.00

2 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture Vol. I: Historical Characters edited by Andrea Ercolani and Paolo Xella The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture (EDPC) is the result of a wide-ranging international project and is intended to be an in-depth and up-to-date standard reference work for Phoenician studies. It is a series in the form of an encyclopaedia with the structure of a dictionary, comprising about 2,000 entries, written by circa 200 contributors from 20 different countries. The present volume, dedicated to historical characters, is a compendium of historical and historically documented individuals, arranged alphabetically and organized using criteria that are meant to be as consistent as possible. 311p (Peeters Publishers, October 2018) hardcover, 9789042936805, $150.00. Special Offer $120.00 PDF e-book, 9789042936812, $188.00 Archaic and Classical Pessinus and Its Regional Setting Western Anatolia Volume 2: Work in 2009–2013 New Perspectives in Ceramic Studies edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze edited by R. Gül Gürtekin Demir, Hüseyin Cevizoğlu, Yasemin Polat, This is the second of two volumes presenting the results of the Melbourne archaeologi- and Gürcan Polat cal project at Pessinus in Central Anatolia. The proceedings of the second Keramos The chapters focus on the achievements conference presented in this volume focus on of the 2009-2013 Pessinus field seasons: the ceramic conventions of western Anatolia an overview, the pre-Hellenistic remains, in the Archaic and Classical periods. The the fortifications, a survey of Pessinus and conference aimed to discuss a wide range its periphery, geophysics, pottery, coins, of topics including workshops, chronology and dating, cultural interactions, ‘wool basket’ stelai, church architectural stones, new inscriptions and new trade, movement of ceramics and the spread of ideas, characterization and doorstones, concluding with a detailed report on the 2013 season. contextualizing pottery, classification and archaeometric analysis. 738p (Peeters Publishers, March 2019, Colloquia Antiqua 22) hardcover, 408p (Peeters Publishers, January 2018, Colloquia Antiqua 19) hardcover, 9789042936669, $157.00. Special Offer $126.00 9789042934603, $120.00. Special Offer $96.00 PDF e-book, 9789042938526, $197.00 Archéologie, patrimoine Pessinus and Its Regional Setting et archives Volume 1 Les fouilles anciennes à Ras Shamra edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze et à Minet el-Beida II This is the first of two volumes presenting edited by Valérie Matoïan the results of the Melbourne archaeological This volume brings together studies project at Pessinus in Central Anatolia. The dealing with the scientific exploration of opening chapters discuss the cult of Cybele, the archives of the ancient excavations of the Great Mother Goddess of Anatolia, Midas, the Ras Shamra Archaeological Mission. the semi-mythical king of Phrygia and Several studies deal with the history of re- Pessinus, the relationship between them, search in Ras Shamra and Minet el-Beida. Midas as seen from Assyrian sources, etc. Others analyze Ugaritic texts, objects, inscriptions in hieroglyphic Luwian or Three others examine two Anatolian archaeological sites that have yielded Egyptian hieroglyphics, and local productions or imports. French text. comparative material. 304p (Peeters Publishers, June 2019, Ras Shamra - Ougarit 26) paperback, 579p (Peeters Publishers, January 2018, Colloquia Antiqua 21) hardcover, 9789042939943, $99.00. Special Offer $80.00 9789042935082, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 PDF e-book, 9789042939950, $124.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 3 Aarhus University Press — Mohr Siebeck

Urban Network Evolutions Towards a High-Definition Archaeology edited by Rubina Raja and Soren M. Sindbaek Urban Networks Evolutions reviews the new approaches to urban evolution as archaeology endeavors to characterize both the scale and pace of historical events and processes. The book compares the archaeology of urbanism from medieval Northern Europe to the Ancient Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean World. The 40 contributors demonstrate how new techniques for refining archaeological dates, contexts, and the provenance ascribed to material culture afford a new high-definition approach to the study of global and interregional dynamics. 309p (Aarhus University Press, August 2018) paperback, 9788771846232, $56.00. Special Offer $45.00 PDF e-book, 9788771846386, $45.00 Ephesos as a Religious Center What Did the Sarcophagus under the Principate of Symmachus Look Like? edited by Allen Black, Christine M. Late Antique Pagan Sarcophagi Thomas and Trevor W. Thompson by Niels Hannestad The city of Ephesos and its environs offered This book concerns the chronology of a rich panoply of religious options, domestic Roman mythological sarcophagi. The and public. Structures, statutes, coins, traditional chronology assumes a peak in inscriptions, and texts testify to the remark- production during the reign of Gallienus able diversity of religious ideas and practices (AD 259-268) that fades away in the reign in Ephesos. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and of Constantine. At that time, it is believed Jewish religious traditions found loyal that the production of pagan sarcophagi adherents among residents and visitors. The contributions in this volume had ended and had been replaced by the manufacture of Christian sarcopha- demonstrate that ancient Ephesos was a vibrant and competitive religious gi. This raises a very simple question, however: How were pagans buried? environment. 160p (Aarhus University Press, September 2019) paperback, 9788771847437, 280p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum $32.00. Special Offer $26.00 Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161525155, $189.00. Special Offer $152.00

Proceedings of the Danish From Roman to Institute at Athens Early Christian Cyprus Volume 9 Studies in Religion and Archaeology edited by Nicolai Mariegaard edited by Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos and Kristina Winther Jacobsen Bakirtzis and Anne-Marie Luijendijk Contents include: Christian Tuxen Falbe: Cyprus was a crossroads in the ancient east- Danish Consul-General and Antiquarian ern Mediterranean, a key location between in Greece, 1833-5; Carl Nielsen’s Idea east and west, in which Judaism, Greco-Ro- of Ancient Greek Music; Representa- man religions, and Christianity intersected. tions of Greco-Roman Antiquity in Star By drawing on literary, archaeological, and Trek, 1966-9; Contemporary Hellenic art historical evidence from the first century Polytheism in Modern Greece; The Classical in Contemporary Sculpture; The CE to the medieval period, the volume elucidates the diversity of Christianity Nine Lives of Adam Friedel; Greece in Danish Public Life and Politics. Reports in late antique Cyprus, while also portraying relations between Christians, on Danish Fieldwork in Greece. Jews, and members of Greco-Roman religions. 195p (Aarhus University Press, June 2019) paperback, 9788771848182, 340p (Mohr Siebeck, December 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum $45.00. Special Offer $36.00; PDF e-book, 9788771848656, $36.00 Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161568732, $196.00. Special Offer $157.00

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Documenting Ancient Rhodes The Archaeological Excavations and Rhodian Antiquities in the 19th to early 20th Century edited by Stine Schierup and Sanne Hoffmann The papers included in this volume throw new light on the early exploration history of Rhodes, from the earliest docu- mented discoveries to the more systematic work done by British, French, Danish and Italian archaeologists. What are the sources for these early activities and how do they contribute to and challenge our understanding of the ancient sites and the archaeological material they yielded? How may archaeological finds that came to European museums in this period be re-contextualised? And, finally, what are the challenges for more recent excavation and restoration work? 336p (Aarhus University Press, June 2019, Gösta Enbom Monographs 6) hardcover, 9788771249873, $56.00. Special Offer $45.00 PDF e-book, 9788771848687, $45.00 Ascending and Descending Material Koinai in the the Acropolis Greek Early Iron Age Movement in Athenian Religion and Archaic Period edited by Wiebke Friese, edited by Søren Handberg Søren Handberg and Troels and Anastasia Gadolou Myrup Kristensen The ancient Greek word koine was used to describe the new common language This volume provides new perspectives dialect that became widespread in the on religious mobilities within Attica ancient Greek world after the conquests from the Late Bronze Age to the second of Alexander the Great. Modern scholars century AD. Attica is a particularly fruit- have increasingly used the word to ful region, as it provides rich evidence conceptualize regional homogeneities in the material culture of the ancient across a range of material and textual sources for a variety of different mobile Mediterranean. In this volume, twenty scholars from various disciplines situations—both inside the city of Athens itself and to sanctuaries in its present case studies that focus on how to perceive the social and cultural hinterland, as well to as more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi. mechanisms that led to the spread and consumption of material culture in 277p (Aarhus University Press, January 2019, Monographs of the Danish Institute the Greek early Iron Age. at Athens 23) hardcover, 9788771844672, $48.00. Special Offer $39.00 368p (Aarhus University Press, February 2018, Monographs of the Danish Institute PDF e-book, 9788771848625, $39.00 at Athens 22) hardcover, 9788771843286, $64.00. Special Offer $52.00 We and They PDF e-book, 9788771845693, $52.00 Decolonizing Biblical and Graeco-Roman Antiquities The Ancient Harbours of Piraeus edited by Jonathan Cahana Volume II. Zea Harbour: The Group 1 and 2 Shipsheds and Slipways and Karmen MacKendrick – Architecture, Topography and Finds It is certainly true that the past is a foreign by Bjørn Lovén and Ioannis Sapountzis country. However, history has repeatedly Expanding on the publication of the shipsheds and slipways found in the demonstrated that colonialism never northern half of Group 1 (Area 1) on the eastern side of Zea Harbour in contributed to mutual understanding Volume I (2011), Volume II presents further results of the archaeological and constructive exchange of ideas, and investigations conducted by the Zea Harbour Project (ZHP) in 2004-2010 and that such is the dialogue we should strive 2012 of ancient shipsheds and slipways in Zea Harbour (Pashalimani), both forthwith our contemporaries as well as with our ancestors. identified and possible, making them the best documented structures in 200p (Aarhus University Press, October 2019, Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Athens’ naval bases and in the wider Mediterranean. Antiquity 14) hardcover, 9788771844436, $40.00. Special Offer $32.00 252p (Aarhus University Press, July 2019, Monographs of the Danish Institute at PDF e-book, 9788771849370, $32.00 Athens 15.3) hardcover, 9788771848021, $72.00. Special Offer $58.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 5 Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag

Organizing an Urban Way of Life Die Ostraka vom Kerameikos in the Steppe by Stefan Brenne Water, Agriculture, Townscape and The Athenians of the 5th century BC were Economy in the Early Islamic Town able to banish a fellow citizen once a year of Kharab Sayyar for ten years in this strongly ritualized by Michael Würz voting act. The vote was taken with pot- tery sherds (ostraka), which were mainly This volume is looking to explore infra- inscribed and placed into the ostracophoria structure, townscape and morphology of by the participants themselves. Until 1966, the settlement in a peripheral steppe area 1658 such ostraka were known. Then a de- during early Islamic times. The work is posit of about 9000 ostraka came to light in based on more than ten years of archaeo- the Kerameikos area. They are presented here for the first time, together with logical fieldwork and explores the archaeology, geography, hydrology and the older, partly already published finds from the Kerameikos. German text. history to reconstruct environment the town needed to exist. 1396p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, February 2019, Kerameikos 20) hardcover, 448p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, April 2019, Ausgrabungen Kharab Sayyar 3) 9783954903276, $330.00. Special Offer $264.00 hardcover, 9783954902743, $222.00. Special Offer $178.00 Handbuch der Die Kammergräber von Tarent Provinzialrömischen Untersuchungen zur Grabarchitektur Archäologie und Ausstattung vom 4. bis zum 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. I. Quellen, Methoden, Ziele by Birte Ruhardt by Wolfgang Czysz This book compiles the Tarantine chamber The archaeology of the Roman provinces tombs for the first time in a comprehensive has achieved impressive successes in the catalog, which includes plans of the burial excavation sector in a short period of time chambers and the necropolis, a descrip- and has allowed our knowledge to grow to tion of each burial context, and photo- such an extent that the theoretical mastery graphic documentation of the finds. With of the results can hardly keep pace. It has more than 150 chamber tombs discovered so far, the archaeological record been noted that the discipline neglects its scientific foundations, by reflecting presented here forms the largest group of South Italian chamber tombs ever too little on its concepts and the significance and scope of its findings; this systematically evaluated. German text. volume seeks to fill the gap. German text. 356p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, August 2019, Italiká 6) hardcover, 244p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, April 2019, Münchner Beiträge zur Provinzial- 9783954902057, $297.00. Special Offer $238.00 römischen Archäologie. Ergänzungsbände 1) hardcover, 9783954903559, $45.00. Special Offer $36.00 Archäologischer Anzeiger Madrider Mitteilungen 59 (2018) 2. Halbband 2018 Contents include: Der Muschelhaufen von Cabeço de Amoreira in Muge, edited by Friederike Fless and Philipp von Rummel Portugal; Ivory, Elites, and Lineages in Copper Age Iberia; The Use of Gold at Contents: Neoptolemos. Zu einer Reliefbasis aus Athen – ein Denkmal der the Rock-cut Tomb Necropolis of Casal do Pardo; Funde der El Argar-Kultur aus Kulturpolitik des Lykurg; Contributo allo studio dell’ordine dorico di età der Provinz Granada; Rötel im El Argar-zeitlichen Bestattungsritual von Fuente ellenistica in Sicilia; Die sogenannte Palästraterrasse (PT) in Kaunos. Zu den Alamo; Cruz del Negro Type Urn Burials in Southern Portugal and their Signifi- Untersuchungen der Jahre 2004–2006; Pergamon – Bericht über die Arbeiten cance; Tagomago 2, un pecio del siglo IV A. C. en la costa NE de Ibiza; Étude de in der Kampagne 2017; Anstückungen an kaiserzeitlichen Idealskulpturen. Zu deux protomes de félin en bronze. English, Spanish, French, and German text. drei aus der Baetica stammenden Statuen des Mars. German and Italian text. 468p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, July 2019) hardcover, 9783954903818, 220p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, June 2019) hardcover, 9783954903856, $165.00. Special Offer $132.00 $60.00. Special Offer $48.00

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Death and Burial in the Near East The Sculptor’s Workshop from Roman to Islamic Times by Julie van Voorhis Research in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan Carved marble was a major part of the and Egypt economy of Roman cities. The Sculptor’s edited by Christoph Eger Workshop at Aphrodisias is a uniquely and Michael Mackensen well-preserved facility of this kind supplied by a nearby local quarry. The workshop was This book is based on a German-Arab collo- located behind the Council House in the quium held in Amman in September 2013, center of town, and contained remarkable where current excavation and research remains from a high-end sculpture busi- results on death and burial from Jordan, ness. ThIS monograph offers a complete Syria, Lebanon and Egypt were presented. publication of the archaeology of the workshop itself and of the finds—in- It also reports on the processing of old excavations and summary studies on cluding a set of stone-carving tools, a large quantity of sculpture in various local or regional burial customs. Among the more prominent places presented states of completion, well-preserved statues, and several practice pieces. here are Palmyra, Beirut, Petra, Gerasa, and Alexandria. 192p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, November 2018, Aphrodisias 10) hardcover, 264p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, July 2018, Münchner Beiträge zur Provinzialrömischen 9783954902682, $104.00. Special Offer $84.00 Archäologie 7) hardcover, 9783954903177, $222.00. Special Offer $178.00 Atene e il sacco di Silla Columnar Sarcophagi Evidenze archeologiche e from Aphrodisias topografiche fra l’86 e il 27 a.C. by Esen Ogus by Caterina Parigi Aphrodisias in Caria (modern Turkey) has This work investigates the building history a remarkable body of relief-decorated of Athens between the siege and ransack- marble sarcophagi of the Roman Imperial ing by Sulla in 86 BC and the establishment period. This monograph presents the sar- of the province of Achaia in AD 27. With the cophagi decorated with columnar arcades help of a thorough analysis of the literary, in which a variety of human, divine, and epigraphic and archaeological sources, an mythological figures are presented. It sets incident that had already been well known the sarcophagi in their local archaeologi- from an historical and economic perspective was freshly examined from an cal, epigraphic, and regional contexts, and focuses on questions of chronol- archaeological and topographical viewpoint. Italian text. ogy, social class, family life, burial hierarchy, and production and re-use. 240p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, May 2019, Kölner Schriften zur Archäologie 2) 208p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, June 2018, Aphrodisias 9) hardcover, hardcover, 9783954903665, $147.00. Special Offer $118.00 9783954902699, $119.00. Special Offer $96.00 Olympia in frühbyzantinischer Zeit Ostias vergessene Spätantike Siedlung – Landwirtschaftliches Gerät – Grabfunde – Spolienmauer Eine urbanistische Deutung zur Bewältigung von Zerfall by Thomas Völling by Axel Gering Based on the thorough documentation of the excavations in Olympia from Late Antiquity is still a great unknown—especially on the level of the their beginnings up to the present day, and in connection with a systematic archaeological legacy of individual city cultures. Based on the experience of review of the material in magazines and the results of the research project 25 years of building research at the site, an attempt is made here to write the initiated by the editor on the late history of Olympia, this volume presents biography of a Late Antique city. At the center is Ostia, which during High Im- a decidedly changed picture of the development of the site from the second perial times was a service provider to the capital, Rome, and itself the central half of the 3rd century to the early 7th century AD. German text. trading metropolis of the western Mediterranean. German text. 176p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, April 2019, Olympische Forschungen 34) 420p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, January 2019, Palilia 31) paperback, hardcover, 9783954903634, $117.00. Special Offer $94.00 9783954902101, $45.00. Special Offer $36.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 7 Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag

Antoninus Pius Der vergessene Kaiser by Günter Aumann Antoninus Pius was the emperor who reigned the longest in the three centuries between Emperor Augustus and Constantine the Great. But he is almost unknown outside the academic world. After all, his reign did offer neither intrigues at the imperial court nor conspiracies in the senate, neither volcanic eruptions nor great battles at the borders of the empire. This book shows convincingly that it is nevertheless worthwhile to look at the rule of this dutiful emperor, who was completely free of thirst for glory and vanity, and thus offers a pleasant contrast to today’s rampant self-staging. Quotes from ancient authors and the biographies of Antoninus’ contemporaries help us to come as close as possible to the emperor and his time. German text. 160p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, March 2019) paperback, 9783954903931, $30.00. Special Offer $24.00

Ancient Engraved Gems in the San Vitale in Ravenna National Museum in Krakow and Octogonal Churches by Pawel Golyźniak in Late Antiquity This is a catalogue raisonée of a rich collec- by Mark J. Johnson tion of ancient engraved gems housed in This book represents the first complete the National Museum in Krakow. It offers study of the octagonal churches of Late a thorough insight into ancient glyptic art Antiquity (ca. 300–600 CE). Starting with through the considerable range of almost the origins of the type found in small 780 objects—cameos, intaglios, scarabs funerary chapels of the 4th century, the and finger rings of various styles, work- book examines the physical and literary manship and cultural circles: Egyptian, evidence for 35 churches of the type, which Near Eastern, Minoan, Greek, Etruscan, Italic, Roman, Sassanian and early saw its culmination in the construction of the church of San Vitale in Ravenna. Christian, dated from the second millennium BC to the seventh century AD. 280p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, March 2018, Spätantike – Frühes Christentum 432p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, January 2018) hardcover, 9783954902439, – Byzanz 44) hardcover, 9783954902897, $147.00. Special Offer $118.00 $222.00. Special Offer $178.00 Urbaner Ballungsraum im Ursprung und Frühzeit römischen Nordafrika des Heraion von Samos Zum Einfluss von mikroregionalen Teil 1: Topographie, Architektur Wirtschafts- und Sozialstrukturen und Geschichte auf den Städtebau in der Africa by Hans Walter, Angelika Clemente Proconsularis and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier by Paul Scheding The present volume describes the topogra- “The number of cities as great as formerly phy, architecture, and history of the early the number of huts” wrote the author Heraion on Samos from the Minoan thalas- Tertullian around the year 200 AD. His socracy to the Mycenaean expansion, the homeland, the province of Africa Pro- Ionian migration, and the great upswing of consularis, was at that time one of the most densely populated areas of the the sanctuary in the 7th century BC. It places the site within the geographical Roman Empire. In this region, known as the “granary of Rome”, its prosperity framework of simultaneous developments on the islands of the southeastern and the concentration of settlements created an urban cultural landscape of Aegean and westernmost Asia Minor. German text. its own, which manifested itself in multi-faceted cityscapes. German text. 356p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, September 2019, Samos 21.1) hardcover, 297p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, September 2019, Studien zur Antiken Stadt 9783954903993, $117.00. Special Offer $94.00 16) hardcover, 9783954903139, $147.00. Special Offer $118.00

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At the Intersection of Texts Khirbet Qumrân and Material Finds and Aïn Feshkha IV A Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, Qumran Cave 11Q: Archaeology and Ritual Purity Among the Jews and New Scroll Fragments of Roman Galilee edited by Jean-Baptiste Humbert by Stuart S. Miller and Marcello Fidanzio Stuart Miller contends that “stepped pools,” This volume presents the final report on which we now know were in use well the 1956, 1988 and 2017 excavations at beyond the Destruction of the Temple, and, Cave 11Q. Next to discussing the physical as indicated by the large collection on the characteristics and stratigraphy of the western acropolis of Sepphoris and else- cave and offering a full analysis of non- where, into the Middle and Late Roman/Byzantine eras, must be understood textual finds, the volume for the first time presents many tiny manuscript in light of biblical and popular perspectives on ritual purity. fragments found in storerooms during recent work. 423p (V&R Academic, March 2019, Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements 288p (V&R Academic, September 2019, Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus. 16) hardcover, 9783525564783, $188.00. Special Offer $151.00 Series Archaeologica 8) hardcover, 9783525564691, $438.00. Special Offer $351.00

Cliff Shelters and Hiding Khirbet Qumrân and Aïn Feshkha III A Complexes in the Galilee Excavations by Fr. Roland de Vaux during the Early Roman Period edited by Jean-Baptiste Humbert by Yinon Shivti’el For 60 years Qumran research has been focused on epigraphy, exegesis, and the historical sources of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This volume presents an up-to- The author documents all the Galilean sites date archaeological reconsideration: a shorter and more precise chronology; containing the traces of underground cavities the concept of an Essene community is challenged; and the cemetery itself is hewn out and readied by Jews as hiding plac- connected with a Jewish diaspora scattered around the Dead Sea. es during the Early Roman period. The book 560p (V&R Academic, October 2019, Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus. Series is illustrated with plans and photographs of Archaeologica 5.A) hardcover, 9783525570906, $438.00. Special Offer $351.00 both types of underground chambers and discusses their connection with the desperate Das erinnerte Heiligtum times faced by the Jews throughout the entire Early Roman period. Tradition und Geschichte 240p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, May 2019, Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus. der Kultstätte in Schilo Series Archaeologica 6) hardcover, 9783525540671, $375.00. Special Offer $300.00 by Ann-Kathrin Knittel The Saint-Etienne Compound Hypogea, Jerusalem This study correlates the archaeological and exegetical perspectives on Shiloh. The author Geological, Architectural and Archaeological Characteristics: presents the development and elaboration A Comparative Study and Dating of Shiloh’s image within the Old Testament by Riccardo Lufrani and the connective function of the sanctuary Riccardo Lufrani carried out a detailed survey of the two burial caves, provid- for the construction of the history of Israel. It ing new and more detailed photographic, topographic, archaeological and shows that the Jewish tradition, after which geological documentation. The systematic comparison of the significant Shiloh was the most important predecessor sanctuary to the Temple at Jerusa- architectural features with a consistent sample of 22 tombs in the region sug- lem, was initiated by the design of the individual texts. German text. gest dating the hewing of the two hypogea to the Early Hellenistic period. 274p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, June 2019, Forschungen zur Religion 308p (V&R Academic, January 2019, Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus. Series und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 273) hardcover, 9783525571354, Archaeologica 7) hardcover, 9783525573112, $375.00. Special Offer $300.00 $94.00. Special Offer $76.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 9 University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition — Schnell & Steiner Dietrich Reimer Verlag — Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum

Movement and Mobility Between Egypt and the Southern Levant in the 2nd Millennium BCE edited by Susan L. Cohen and Matthew J. Adams The second millennium BCE in the ancient Near East saw increased interactions and interconnections between Egypt and the regions of the southern Levant. Mobility and movement between and among these regions were key factors in the exchange of ideas, technologies, and values and, therefore, were essential components of the evolution of both societies. The archaeological record provides a wealth of material for reconstructing expressions of cultures, identities, status, and economic ways of life based on questions of mobility. The manuscripts in this volume explore these interconnections. 105p (University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, March 2019, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 21) paperback, 9781072075790, $49.50. Special Offer $40.00

Armi votive in Magna Grecia Glanz der Antike edited by Fausto Longo Hochkulturen des Mittelmeerraums and Raimon Fabregat in den Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen The study of sanctuaries and sacred con- by Claudia Braun texts in Greater Greece and southern Italy The Palatine electors already collected antiqui- has undergone profound changes in recent ties—in particular, Carl Theodor (1724–1799) years. The discoveries of weapons in some showed great interest in Italy’s ancient heri- sanctuaries and in museum magazines, tage, and the collection has been continuously together with monographic studies of expanded since then. Today, the collection of certain weapon types, today allow a antiquities of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums systematic investigation of weapons in vo- in Mannheim contains objects from Italy, tive contexts, with a focus on comparing ritual practices in different cultures. Greece and Asia Minor, Syria and Iran, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan, English and Italian text. dating from the 5th millennium BC to the 8th century AD. German text. 344p (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, January 2019, Römisch- 240p (Schnell & Steiner, February 2019, Publikationen der Reiss-Engelhorn- Germanisches Zentralmuseum – Tagungen 36) paperback, 9783795434373, Museen 80) paperback, 9783795433604, $19.00. Special Offer $16.00 $54.00. Special Offer $44.00

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Die byzantinischen Archäologischen Instituts, Goldschmiedearbeiten im Römische Abteilung Römisch-Germanischen Band 124, 2018 Zentralmuseum The journal considers itself the platform edited by Falko Daim for the presentation and discussion of material culture from prehistoric times to Volume 42 of the series “Kataloge Vor- und the early Middle Ages, with a traditional Frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer” presents focus on classical antiquity. English, Ital- the Byzantine gold jewelry held in the ian, and German text. collections of the Römisch-Germanisches 496p (Schnell & Steiner, December 2018) Zentralmuseum in Mainz. German text. hardcover, 9783795434106, $95.00. Special Offer $76.00 450p, col illus (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, September 2019, Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum / Kataloge Vor- und Frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer 42) hardcover, 9783795423513, $113.00. Special Offer $91.00

10 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Site of the Battle of the Aegates Islands at the End of the First Punic War Fieldwork, analyses and perspectives, 2005–2015 edited by Jeffrey G. Royal and Sebastiano Tusa The final battle of the First Punic war between the Romans and Carthaginians, the Battle of the Aegates Islands, took place in 241 BC. Under the Egadi Islands Survey Project led by the Soprintendenza del Mare, Sicily, intensive survey resulted in unique discoveries from an ancient battlefield. Finds of bronze warship rams, armor, amphoras, inscriptions, and evidence of shipwreck sites confirm the discovery of this ancient naval battle landscape. These artifacts provide new lines of inquiry into the formation of battle landscapes, the dimensions of warships and their rams, types of personal armor, cultural change during the 3rd century BC, and the economics of fleet construction during the First Punic War. 280p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, December 2019, Bibliotheca Archaeologica 60) hardcover, 9788891318329, $275.00. Special Offer $220.00 Enigma dei vasi murrini / Patrimonio arqueológico español Enigma of Murrhine Ware en Roma como instrumentos de Leggende, storia, letteratura, memoria histórica indagine archeogemmologica. / Le Mostre Internazionali Legends, History, Literature, an di Archeologia Archaeogeomological Investigation by Trinidad Tortosa by Enrico Butini This book collects the results of a Spanish- In this essay, the author takes a step Italian collaboration related to the Span- forward in the study and understanding ish involvement in the Mostra Internazio- of the mysterious murrhine ware. The nale di Archeologia organized in 1911 enigma of murrhine ware is that surround- at the Baths of Diocletian, and the 1937 ing the material with which these legendary vessels were made of, as well as Mostra Augustea della Romanità promoted by Benito Mussolini in Rome. It whether they actually ever existed. The author takes advantage of new and identifies the archaeological material that Spain selected for both exhibitions, surprising results, analysing archaeological materials that have never been analyzing the politic and scientific contexts in which both exhibitions were studied from a gemological point of view, which throws new light on the mounted through archive documents and press reports. Spanish text. solution to the enigma of murrhine ware. English and Italian text. 670p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, October 2019, Bibliotheca Archaeologica 61) 144p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, April 2019, Bibliotheca Archaeologica 59) hardcover, 9788891318510, $313.00. Special Offer $251.00 paperback, 9788891318206, $113.00. Special Offer $91.00

Il Campidoglio dalle Origini Piazza Armerina: alla Fine dell’Antichita Villa del Casale La Carta Archeologica 1e 2. Scavi e studi nel decennio 2004–2014 I Temi di Ricerca edited by Patrizio Pensabene by Paola Mazzei This volume offers an account of the exca- This volume traces the history and archi- vations and studies undertaken between tecture of the Capitoline Hill in Rome and 2004 and 2014 in the Villa del Casale in its buildings from its origins to the end of Piazza Armerina under the auspices of Late Antiquity. Italian text. the University “Sapienza” of Rome. For 930p, illus (L’Erma di Bretschneider, the first time a reconstructed plan of the October 2019, Bullettino della whole complex is published. Italian text. Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Supplementi 24) hardcover, 782p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, September 2019, Bibliotheca Archaeologica 62) 9788891312235, $938.00. Special Offer $751.00 paperback, 9788891318701, $744.00. 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This area has of scholarly disciplines, the book provides recently re-emerged to prominence due to a comprehensive overview of its subject, highlighting the many perspectives important archaeological discoveries such as the princely tombs at Braida di from which it can be studied, and bringing this long neglected object group Vaglio and Baragiano, and the chieftains’ houses at Torre di Satriano. on the wider horizons of classical research. 252p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, June 2019, Studia Archaeologica 230) 400p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, February 2019, Studia Archaeologica 229) paperback, 9788891317711, $200.00. Special Offer $160.00 paperback, 9788891312976, $288.00. Special Offer $231.00 Archaeology on Shifting Ground Wall Painting in Pompeii Rodolfo Lanciani and Rome Plaster, Stucco, Paint 1871–1914 by Agneta Freccero by Susan M. Dixon Contents include: Section I. Topics This biography of the archaeologist and relevant to this study: Methodol- scholar Rodolfo Lanciani (1845–1929) ogy; Context and documentation; offers a framework to assess his pro- Laboratory examinations; Wall nouncements on the ancient Roman past. Painting and the Four Pompeian It examines his highly diverse scholarly Styles; Painters and workshops; production: both academic and popular. His Methodological and practical fascinations, interpretations, and presenta- problems. Section II. Plaster investi- tions of ancient Rome are positioned within a broad context of historical and gation: Part 1: Insula I 9 and Forum; Part 2: The early period and relative chro- cultural events in late 19th-century Rome, the recently established capital of nology; Part 3: A comparative study. Section III. Discussion and Conclusions. the new Italian state. 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Italian text. via etrusca nella piana dell’ Auser/Serchio. Italian text. 520p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, June 2019, Archeologia Classica. Supplementi e 320p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, April 2019) paperback, 9788891318305, Monografie 133) paperback, 9788891317810, $419.00. Special Offer $336.00 $313.00. Special Offer $251.00

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The first part sculptures, frescoes, amphorae, reliefs, presents a history of writing- its surface support materials, instruments, and gems, incunabula, and paintings retrace stories that intertwine, from the types of scripts; the essential elements of paleography; and a history of the Bronze Age to modern times. Italian text. book. Whereas the second part of the manual takes on the analyses between 272p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, October 2019, Cataloghi Mostre) paperback, the most prominent documents (epigraphs, papyri, manuscripts) which con- 9788856907087, $45.00. Special Offer $36.00 vey the history of Rome from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity. Italian text. 192p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, December 2019, Manuali L’ERMA 4) paperback, 9788891309907, $144.00. Special Offer $116.00 Giacomo Boni Storia memoria archeonomia Exornata Aedes by Myriam Pilutti Namer La Curia del Foro Vecchio Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) was one of the di Leptis Magna most famous archaeologists in post-unifi- by Monica Livadiotti and Giorgio Rocco cation and pre-fascist Italy. His innovative Anyone who knows Leptis Magna approaches to archaeology—for him, remembers the immense field of ruins archaeonomy— and his political choices that currently constitutes the Curia, with outline the traits of a personality with fragments scattered everywhere around alternating fortunes, complex and perhaps it—fragments that only a hard and never thoroughly accepted and objectively close examination, supported by a solid understood. Through a largely unpublished documentation, the book traces knowledge of ancient architecture, materi- the career and life of this archaeologist in its historical context. Italian text. als used, masonry techniques, and specific architectural styles can attribute 146p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, September 2019, Saggi di Storia Antica 42) to specific buildings. In this volume, the history of research on the Curia is hardcover, 9788891318572, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 followed by a topographical outline of the monument. Italian text. 468p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, January 2019, Monografie di Archeologia Libica L’Anfiteatro di Leptis Magna 46) paperback, 9788891317438, $438.00. Special Offer $351.00 by Maria Ricciardi Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum History and description of the archaeological excavations of the amphitheater Sweden and Norway, 1 at Leptis Magna, Libya. Italian text. by Ingela M. B. Wiman Contents: Introduzione; I. Storia degli studi e delle indagini archeologiche; II. Le nuove indagini; III. La descrizione del monumento: 1. L’ arena, 2. Accessi e Contents: Oslo, Kunstindustrimuseum; Göteborg, Stadsmuseum; Lund, percorsi al livello dell’ arena, 3. Gli ambienti sussidiari esterni, 4. La cavea. Cultural History Museum; Mora, Zorn Collection; Stockholm, Museum of 400p, illus (L’Erma di Bretschneider, March 2018, Monografie di Archeologia Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities; Private Collections. Libica 43) paperback, 9788891309822, $473.00. Special Offer $379.00 140p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, May 2018) hardcover, 9788891312365, $180.00. Special Offer $144.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 13 Visual Histories of the Funerary Portraiture in Classical World Greater Roman Syria Essays in Honour of R.R.R. Smith edited by Michael Blömer edited by Catherine M. Draycott, and Rubina Raja Rubina Raja, Katherine Welch This volume provides a unique survey of and William T. Wootton locally produced funerary representa- This volume, produced on the occasion tions from across regions of ancient of R.R.R. Smith’s 65th birthday, draws Syria. By drawing on material from an together essays from a distinguished area encompassing modern Lebanon, group of researchers who have been in- Jordan, Syria, and Turkey, as well as spired by Smith’s work and its value for Egypt and Achaia, the contributions in reconstructing ancient social and cultural history. The papers consider various this book make it possible for the first time to take a wider perspective on the aspects of art and architecture in the classical world, engaging directly with importance of funerary portraiture within Greater Roman Syria. R.R.R. Smith’s own research. 280p, 280 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, November 2019, Studies in Classical 549p (Brepols Publishers, January 2019, Studies in Classical Archaeology 4) Archaeology 6) paperback, 9782503576336, $130.00. 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Early Athens New Light on Canaanite- Settlements and Cemeteries in the Phoenician Pottery Submycenaean, Geometric and by Dalit Regev Archaic Periods This book follows a continuous line of by Eirini M. Dimitriadou development from Canaanite pottery to This volume is one of the most impor- the Phoenician pottery corpus. Phoeni- tant works on ancient Athens in the last cian pottery typically is considered to fifty years. The focus is on the early city, have first emerged in the Iron Age, and from the end of the Bronze Age—ca. most research is limited to the first half 1200 BCE—to the Archaic period, when of the first millennium BCE. The current Athens became the largest city of the analysis, however, shows the Canaanite Classical period, only to be destroyed by the Persians in 480/479 BCE. From a predecessors as well as the ongoing continuity of Phoenician forms and systematic study of all the excavation reports and surveys in central Athens, techniques during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. There are two areas of the author has synthesized a detailed diachronic overview of the city from the focus, both of which will be illustrated from materials drawn primarily from Submycenaean period through the Archaic. It is a treasure trove of informa- the Levant. The first is Phoenician container products, especially amphorae tion for archaeologists who work in this period. Of great value are the detailed and bottles, although other coarse ware forms are included. The second is maps included, which present features of ancient settlements and cemeter- red-slip pottery, which was a constant feature of the Phoenician assemblage. ies, the repositories of the human physical record. Over eighty additional These were mainly open vessels that did not contain other products and were large-scale, interactive maps are available online to complement the book. valued for their ritual attributes. 608p, illus (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, March 2019, 256p, 27 col & b/w illus (Equinox Publishing, January 2020, Worlds of the Monumenta Archaeologica 42) hardcover, 9781938770159, $139.00. Ancient Near East and Mediterranean) hardcover, 9781781798225, $110.00. Special Offer $112.00; PDF e-book, 9781938770883, $111.00 Special Offer $88.00

The Geography of Urbanism Recovering Women’s Rituals in Roman Asia Minor in the Ancient Near East by Rinse Willet by Julye Bidmead This volume investigates how Roman Using combined methodologies of feminist urbanism manifested itself in Asia Minor ideological criticism, ritual studies, and a during the first three centuries CE, particu- reexamination of archaeological remains larly with regards to its spatial patterning this book offers reconstructions of women’s over the landscape and the administrative, rituals and rites of passage in ancient Israel, economic, and cultural functions cities ful- Canaan, and Mesopotamia during the first filled, and how cities developed in terms of millennium BCE. size and monumentality. It also addresses Contents: Part I: Introduction to Women in to what extent this was a result of political and socio-cultural and economic the Near East; Methodology; Evidence: Textual Sources and Archaeological Re- context and to what extent ‘structural determinants’, such as the physical mains. Part II: Reconstucting Women’s Rituals: Mesopotamia– Birth; Puberty; topography, agricultural potential and climate influenced the observed Marriage; Fertility; Death; Other rites involving women’s bodies; Women in patterns. As Asia Minor was already dotted by cities long before the Romans male rites of passage; Summary;. Israel and Canaan: Birth; Puberty; Marriage; got a hold on this area during the second century BCE, this work compares Fertility; Death; Other rites involving women’s bodies; Women; in male rites of urbanism of the first three centuries CE with the patterns of cities during the passage; Summary. Part III: Summary and Conclusions. first millennium BCE (Classical and Hellenistic period particularly) and the 320p, 20 b/w illus (Equinox Publishing, September 2019, Worlds of the Ancient Byzantine and Ottoman patterns, creating a long term perspective. Near East and Mediterranean) hardcover, 9781781790755, $100.00. 430p (Equinox Publishing, January 2020) hardcover, 9781781798430, $125.00. Special Offer $80.00 Special Offer $100.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 17 Change, Continuity, and Connectivity North-Eastern Mediterranean at the Turn of the Bronze Age and in the Early Iron Age edited by Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò and Marek Wecowski The end of the Bronze Age and beginning of the Iron Age was the period of a historical turning point for the relationship of the Aegean and the Levant. The volume presents updated studies on both regions and questions of bilateral relationships regard- ing archaeological, historical and linguistic aspects. These studies shed light on the pivotal periods of both regions: when Greek poleis were formed, with the culture related to it, and when the political and social situation in the Levant took its form, influencing the entire first millennium BCE. 468p (Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2018, Philippika 118) hardcover, 9783447109697, $121.00. Special Offer $97.00

Studien zur ionischen The Sanctuary of Artemis Soteira in the Kerameikos Architektur auf der Peloponnes of Athens Von den Anfängen in archaischer by Constanze Graml Zeit bis zum Ende der hellenistischen Epoche By conducting an in-depth analysis of the sanctuary’s entangled excavation and research history, together with a new investigation of the actual ar- by Nina Straub chaeological findings, Constanze Graml re-dates the district to the Hellenistic Nina Straub comprehensively investigates period and reassigns it to the goddess Artemis Soteira. Based on these results, the phenomenon of the gradual spread of the sanctuary’s embedding and role in the cult topography of Athens and Ionic architecture on the Doric-influenced Attica can finally be seen in new light. Peloponnese. On an extensive material basis, 350p (Harrassowitz Verlag, March 2020, Philippika 136) hardcover, Ionic architecture is analyzed from its first 9783447112864, $200.00. Special Offer $160.00 appearance in Archaic times to the end of the Hellenistic period. In addition, the author outlines a local and regional development history for the Peloponnese Tell el-Fara’în-Buto VI and shows to what extent Ionic-Peloponnesian architecture follows models Recherches sur les ateliers romains from the Ionic-dominated regions of the Greek world. German text. de Bouto: Prospections et sondages 396p (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2019, Philippika 130) hardcover, (2001–2006) 9783447112499, $173.00. Special Offer $139.00 by Pascale Ballet, Fréderic Béguin, Guy Lecuyot and Anne Schmitt Abū Mīnā IV Buto, in the western Egyptian Delta, is Das Ostraka-Haus und die Weinpresse mainly known for its pre- and protohistoric by Peter Grossmann occupations. In order to investigate the The Ostraca House in Abu Mena is a Graeco-Roman and Byzantine settlement, medium-sized multi-story building, which partly revealed by the Egypt Exploration was badly destroyed by fire after the Arab Society (EES), a program was launched in 2001. In the north east of the site, conquest of Egypt (at around 639/42). the EES had excavated a pottery workshop yielding a black polished ware, Despite being used by neighboring inhab- influenced by Mediterranean black glazed wares. Using topographical and itants as landfill, it led archeologists to the geophysical surveys, the excavations in the northern part of the city un- discovery of nearly 2000 Greek ostraca. In earthed two main kinds of workshops and productions from the Early Roman this volume Peter Grossmann examines period. French text. the origins of these ostraca. German text. 350p, 99 illus, 58 pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2019, Archäologische 74p (Harrassowitz Verlag, March 2019, Archäologische Veröffentlichungen des Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 110) hardcover, Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 69) hardcover, 9783447110631, $95.00. 9783447110242, $214.00. Special Offer $172.00 Special Offer $76.00

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An Archaeology of Excavations in the Plain Egyptian Monasticism of Antioch III Settlement, Economy and Daily Life Stratigraphy, Pottery, at the White Monastery Federation and Small Finds from by Louise Blanke Chatal Höyük in the Amuq Plain The White Monastery in Upper Egypt by Marina Pucci and its two federated communities are These volumes present the final among the largest, most prosperous and report of the four archaeological longest-lived loci of Coptic Christianity. campaigns carried out by the Oriental Founded in the fourth century and best Institute at the site of Chatal Höyük known for its zealous and prolific third in the Amuq (currently Hatay, Turkey) abbot, Shenoute of Atripe, these monasteries have survived from their foun- under the directorship of Ian McEwan and Robert Braidwood, more than dation in the golden age of Egyptian Christianity until today. This new study eighty years after their field operations. In this extended publication of small is an attempt to write the biography of the White Monastery federation, to finds and pottery, many previously unpublished materials are made available reconstruct its longue durée—through archaeological and textual sources— to both general readers and scholars for the first time. The material culture and to assess its place within the world of Late Antiquity. discussed and analyzed here offers the chance to trace changes and continu- 244p, 81 b/w illus, 7 tbls, 11 col pls (Yale Egyptology, August 2019, Yale ity in the site’s domestic activities, to point out shifts in cultural contacts over Egyptological Publications 2) hardcover, 9781950343003, $40.00. a long period of time, and to monitor the construction of a new community Special Offer $32.00 identity. PDF e-book, 9781950343102, $32.00 2 vols, 984p, 125 illus, 7 tbls, 198 pls (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, May 2019, Oriental Institute Museum Publications 143) hardcover, Hippos (Sussita) 9781614910466, $99.95. Special Offer $80.00 of the Decapolis The First Twelve Seasons Excavations at the of Excavations (2000-2011): Cappadocia Gate Volume I by Geoffrey Summers edited by Arthur Segal, Michael The city on the Kerkenes Dağ in the high Eisenberg, Jolanta Młynarczyk, plateau of central Turkey was a new Mariusz Burdajewcz, and Mark Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Schuler Founded in the later seventh century BC, the city was put to the torch in the Antiochia Hippos or by its Aramaic mid sixth century and then abandoned. name, Sussita, is a familiar polis estab- Between 1999 and 2011 what we have lished by the Seleucids in the first half of the 2nd century BCE. It is situated called the Cappadocia Gate, one of the atop the crest of Sussita Mountain, overlooking the Sea of Galilee from the seven city gates that pierce the 7 km of strong stone defenses, was excavated east. This is the first of two volumes that summarizes our knowledge of one in its entirety. This volume documents as fully as possible the results of those of the lesser known cities of the Decapolis. The summary follows a series of excavations. The location of the gate and its architecture are discussed and ten monographies that were published following the excavation seasons. The illustrated, with a chapter devoted to its partial restoration. present summary concentrates on the full and final description of the various 175p, illus (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, January 2019, excavation areas, epigraphy, and finds. The Hippos-Sussita project is among Oriental Institute Museum Publications 142) hardcover, 9781614910336, the largest archaeological enterprises of the Classical periods in the region. $85.00. Special Offer $68.00 323p (Ugarit-Verlag, December 2019) hardcover, 9789657547038, $163.00. Special Offer $131.00

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Landscape Archaeology Egypt and the Mediterranean World edited by Yann Tristant and Mathieu Ghilardi Geoarchaeological methodologies have emerged as a major component in any archaeological approaches to better under- standing both the dynamics of the establishment of ancient environments and the variety of settlement patterns adopted by human societies. Thirteen contributions are grouped into four parts entitled “Geoarchaeology and reconstitution of the ancient landscape”; “Geographic Information Systems (GIS)”; “Historical Geography”; and “Geoarchaeology Case Studies”. The authors give an overview of the complex relationships between landscape dynamics and the logics of human occupation through the results of recent studies carried out in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Greece and Portugal. English and French text. 296p, 78 illus (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, January 2018, Bibliothèque d’étude 169) hardcover, 9782724707083, $87.00. Special Offer $70.00 Ancient Jaffa from the Persian Rishon le-Zion to the Byzantine Period Volume I: The Middle Bronze Age II Kaplan Excavations (1955–1981) Cemeteries by Orit Tsuf Volume I/1: The Excavations – The work represents an important first step Volume I/2: Finds and Conclusions toward the full publication of Jacob Ka- by Yosi Levy and Raz Kletter plan’s and Haya Ritter-Kaplan’s excavations The Rishon le-Zion Middle Bronze Age in Jaffa and its necropolis at Abu Kabir. cemeteries were discovered at the begin- Part I is devoted to the excavations; Part ning of 1991. Volume 1 is devoted to the II focuses on the excavated objects. At the description of ca. 200 graves excavated core of the study stands the fully illustrated within 6 different areas. All graves are pottery collection of ca. 1200 ceramic objects and fragments dating from Iron illustrated by photos and detailed plans. Volume 2 focuses on the excavated Age to Byzantine Period. Further chapters are devoted to glass vessels, stone objects, i.e. pottery, weapons, metal belts and other metal finds, beads and vessels and metal finds. organic material. Of special interest is the large collection of ca. 150 Egyptian 640p, illus (Zaphon, September 2018, Ägypten und Altes Testament 89) scarabs, now published and illustrated in their entirety. hardcover, 9783963270307, $224.00. Special Offer $180.00 2 vols, 750p, illus (Zaphon, September 2018, Ägypten und Altes Testament 88) hardcover, 9783963270260, $252.00. Special Offer $202.00 Final Reports of the Syrian- German Excavations at Tell Tel Anafa II, iii el-’Abd Decorative Wall Plaster, Objects of Personal Adornment and Glass Volume III: Small Objects Counters, Tools for Textile Manufacture and Miscellaneous Bone, and Environmental Studies Terracotta and Stone Figurines, Pre-Persian Pottery, Attic Pottery, edited by Uwe Finkbeiner and Medieval Pottery Tell el-’Abd (Northern Syria) has been edited by Andrea M. Berlin and Sharon C. Herbert investigated in 1992–1994 by Altorien- Tel Anafa II, III comprises the last installment of final reports on the objects talisches Seminar of Tübingen Univer- excavated at the site between 1968 and 1986 by the University of Missouri sity, confirming the earlier Syrian results and the University of Michigan. The volume presents studies of several and—more significantly—supplemented categories of finds from the excavations. them with levels from the first half of the 3rd millennium BC. This volume is 366p, 182 col & 280 b/w illus, 18 col pls (Kelsey Museum Publications, January dedicated to the small objects and the results of environmental studies. 2018, Kelsey Museum Fieldwork) hardcover, 9780990662389, $90.00. 364p, illus (Zaphon, April 2019, marru 5.2) hardcover, 9783963270406, Special Offer $72.00 $147.00. Special Offer $118.00

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Komana Small Finds edited by D. Burcu Erciyas and Meryem Acara Eser This volume collects papers on small finds recovered during the excavations at Komana between 2009 and 2018. Komana is a sanctuary site during the Hellenistic period, a place of worship for the kings as well as people from all over the country. It ex- isted through the Roman and then the Byzantine period, was mentioned in the early Turkish written sources and reached the Turkish Republican period as a small rural village. The site is and was in a rural setting, surrounded by agricultural land along Yesilirmak and its economy depended on agriculture throughout its history. There are clear imports from the Aegean among the scarce finds from the Hellenistic period just like the wealthy finds from the Byzantine and Danishmend/Seljuk periods indicating contacts with Corinth, Byzantium, Cilicia, Iran, Egypt. 383p (Ege Yayınları, June 2019, Yerleşim Arkeoloji Serisi / Settlement Archaeology Series 7) paperback, 9786059680936, $74.00. Special Offer $60.00 The Chalcolithic at Crossroads Mersin-Yumuktepe Konya Plain from Prehistory Level XVI Reconsidered to the Byzantine Period edited by Giulio Palumbi edited by Çiğdem Maner and Isabella Caneva Contents include: The Konya Plain in The final publication of Level XVI at Mersin- Supra-Regional Context; Importance of Yumuktepe is the terminal step of a long- Geology in the Settlements in the Konya term project. The aim of this publication is to Region during the Prehistoric and Historical integrate the data obtained by J. Garstang Periods; Connected Communities and and published in 1953 in Prehistoric Mersin, Constructed Identities; Tracing the Konya with those produced during the excavations Plain’s Earliest Connections; Silver, Markets carried out from 1993 to 2004, for a comprehensive reconstruction of one of the and Long-Distance Trade in the Konya Region, 2400-1700 BCE; Networks, most notorious levels of occupation at Yumuktepe. Crossroads and Interconnections in the Eregli Plain During the Bronze and 192p (Ege Yayınları, December 2019) paperback, 9786057673008, $44.00. Iron Ages; East of Konya: Settlements, Routes and Environment in Southern Special Offer $36.00 Cappadocia and the Political Landscape of South Central Anatolia. 275p, col & b/w illus (Ege Yayınları, May 2019) paperback, 9786059680882, Tall Bazi I: Die römerzeitliche $59.00. Special Offer $48.00 Bebauung von Tall Bazi im The Cistercian Monastery syrischen Euphrattal of Zaraka, Greece Ein befestigtes einheimisches edited by Sheila Campbell Heiligtum im Vorfeld der römischen Provinz Syria During the Frankish Crusader period, Cistercian monks built and developed by Katharina Schloder the monastery of Zaraka in Greece for Tall Bazi is known mainly for its Bronze approximately forty years and were Age occupation. But the Tall also yielded followed first by squatters, then by a remains of later architecture from the 2nd seventeenth-century cemetery. The century AD. This volume presents and ana- goal of this study has been to identify lyzes the finds and findings. Their evaluation considers the function of Tall Bazi where the monks came from, how against the background of the political and cultural situation. German text. they lived, and why they left so suddenly. 352p, 71 illus, 5 maps, 100 tbls (PeWe-Verlag, July 2019, Münchener 280p (Medieval Institute Publications, July 2018, Monastic Life 2) hardcover, Abhandlungen zum Alten Orient 5) hardcover, 9783935012379, $85.00. 9781580442442, $89.00. Special Offer $72.00 Special Offer $68.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 21 Lockwood Press — Dietrich Reimer Verlag — Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner

Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean edited by Sandra Blakely and Billie Jean Collins This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology, and history to explore case studies and theoretical mod- els of converging religions. The twenty-four essays offered in this volume, which derive from Hittite, Cilician, Lydian, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman cultural settings, focus on encounters at the boundaries of cultures, landscapes, chronologies, social class and status, the imaginary, and the materially operative. Broad patterns ultimately emerge that reach across these boundaries, and suggest the state of the question on the study of convergence, and the potential fruitfulness for comparative and interdisciplin- ary studies as models continue to evolve. 584p (Lockwood Press, October 2019, Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religions 2) paperback, 9781948488167, $59.95. Special Offer $48.00; PDF e-book, 9781948488174, $48.00

Die antike Siedlungstopographie The Art of Painting Triphyliens in Ancient Greece edited by Joachim Heiden by Dimitris Plantzos The ancient landscape of Triphylia is situ- This richly illustrated overview of ated on the west coast of the Peloponnese. Greek painting combines a fresh In this area of about 600 sq km, there are scholarly approach to visual arts numerous settlements and extra-mural with the most complete survey to sanctuaries, which are often mentioned date of the painted monuments of in ancient literature. From 400 BC onward, classical antiquity. It covers a wide the numerous poleis joined together chronological and geographical to form an alliance of cities in order to span, from the Bronze Age murals distance themselves from Elis, their overpowering and expanding neighbor to of Knossos, Santorini and Mycenae to the opulent villas of the Roman Empire, the north. The aim of the research project published here was to collect and from Anatolia and Egypt in the East to Campania and Etruria in the West. bring together all existing sources on this region. German text. 360p, 334 col illus (Lockwood Press, May 2018) paperback, 9781948488051, 270p (Dietrich Reimer Verlag, May 2020, Athenaia 11) paperback, $69.95. Special Offer $56.00 9783786128120, $74.00. Special Offer $60.00

The History of Phoenicia Sur la Route des Musées by Josette Elayi au Liban The history of the Phoenicians, explorers and Guide Pratique merchants, is little known. What a paradox by Hana Samadi Naaman for this ingenious people, who invented the alphabet, to have left so few written traces of This book’s objective is to highlight both their existence. Their literature, recorded on private and public heritage efforts; to papyrus, has disappeared. And yet this civi- encourage discovery; to arouse curiosity; lization fired the imagination of its contem- to learn the history of Lebanon through its poraries—the Jews in particular—inspiring archaeological sites, its currency, its trades, terror among the Romans and Greeks, who its agrarian tools, its diverse and varied ar- depicted them as a cruel people who practiced human sacrifice. Their ships tistic expressions; to admire the ingenuity criss-crossed the Mediterranean. Buried beneath the modern cities of Lebanon, of the first printing in Arabic letters; and to reflect on the relics of the saints and a few of Syria and Israel, Josette Elayi has resuscitated ancient Phoenicia. for intercession or inner peace. French text. 324p, illus (Lockwood Press, May 2018) paperback, 9781937040819, $39.95. 252p (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, December 2019) paperback, Special Offer $32.00; PDF e-book, 9781937040826, $32.00 9782705340087, $31.00. Special Offer $25.00

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The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987–2015 edited by Steven E. Sidebotham and Jennifer E. Gates-Foster This publication 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. It integrates the discoveries, presenting a coherent analysis of the extensive surveys and the materials documented by each. Emphasis is placed on the physical setting of each site, its material remains, and relevant textual evidence, such as inscriptions, ostraka and related historical texts. A single chapter in gazetteer form is devoted to the sites themselves. 480p, 349 b/w illus, 18 tbls (American Schools of Oriental Research, March 2019, Archaeological Reports 26) hardcover, 9780897571098, $84.95. Special Offer $68.00 Basileis und Goden Collecting and Collectors Gesellschaftliche Organisation und From Antiquity to Modernity Entwicklung im früharchaischen edited by Alexandra Carpino, Tiziana Griechenland und der isländischen D’Angelo, Maya Muratov and David Freistaatzeit Saunders by Peter Zeller Studies focus on a number of collecting Scientific access to early Archaic Greece narratives that demonstrate how the art and (ca. 750–650 BC) is still limited to a large material culture of Etruscan culture made its extent by the lack of a written tradition and way to the United States, explore the signifi- even the fundamental social structures of cance that collecting antique gems acquired settlement communities are still discussed across time and space, and draw attention to controversially. Through a systematic comparison with the Icelandic Free discoveries that have been made through provenance research. State period (ca. 930–1262 AD), this book formulates an empirically founded 254p (Archaeological Institute of America, May 2018, Selected Papers on model of social organization and development. German text. Ancient Art and Architecture 4) paperback, 9781931909365, $24.95. 240p (Verlag Antike, December 2019, Studien zur Alten Geschichte 27) Special Offer $20.00 hardcover, 9783946317562, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 Das Xanthostal Lykiens in Die Heimat des Acheloos archaisch-klassischer Zeit Nordwestgriechische Studien. Eine archäologisch-historische Ausgewählte Schriften zu Geschichte, Bestandsaufnahme Landeskunde und Epigraphik edited by Martin Zimmermann by Peter Funke This volume publishes the research Essays on northwestern Greece by Peter results of a project in the ancient land- Funke, an outstanding expert on the ancient scape of Lycia. The contributions present history of the landscapes of Epiros, Acarna- the archaeological monuments of the nia, and Aetolia, are compiled in this volume. archaic-classical period as well as monu- Significantly expanding our knowledge ments of the Lycian language. The book about the political, cultural, and topographi- offers the first complete survey of the early settlements of this river valley and cal structures in the region, a particular focus is placed on the genesis of an examination of its linguistic history in pre-Hellenistic times. German text. settlement structures and on the epigraphic material. German text. 280p (Verlag Antike, November 2019, Die hellenistische Polis als Lebensform 7) 302p (Verlag Antike, July 2019) hardcover, 9783946317210, $100.00. hardcover, 9783946317593, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Special Offer $80.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1498–19 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 23 Distributor of Scholarly Books

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