Ancient Egypt edited by David P Silverman. A clearly written and vividly illustrated EGYPT guide to the main themes of the ancient Egyptian world, including reli- gion, art and architecture, the lives of the pharaohs and the lower classes, and Egyptian language. Highly suitable for all readers with a general inter- Ancient Egypt est in Egypt. 256p, many illus (Piatkus 1997) Hb £25.00 Egypt: Splendours of an Ancient Civilization Egypt by Alberto Siliotti. This is a stunning large-format book that introduces by Vivian Davies and Renée Friedman. This exciting and accessible book the general reader to 5,000 years of Egyptian history through colour makes it clear that new discoveries are continually emerging from a land photographs and reconstructions of the ancient sites, artworks and monu- where one might have assumed that the treasure trove of archaeological ments of the pharaohs. Each location covered by the book, including finds had long been exhausted. Plentiful illustrations accompany a text Giza, Saqqara, Luxor, and the Valley of the Kings, is illustrated by a site that illuminates old questions and addresses issues such as: Is the Egyptian plan and photographs of principal structures and objects from the sites. hieroglyphic system older even than the Mesopotamian script? Did Egyp- Themes, such as gods, hieroglyphics and archaeological discovery, are also tian pharaohs order the robbing of their ancestors’ tombs? How is scien- clearly explained and illustrated. 290p, over 300 illus, 272 in col (Thames and tific research on ancient mummies contributing to modern medicine? 222p, Hudson 1994, Pb 2002) Hb £32.00, Pb £19.95 many col and b/w illus (BMP 1998, rep 1998, Pb 1999) Pb £15.99 Egypt from the Air Egypt and the Egyptians text by Max Rodenbeck, photographs by Guido Alberto Rossi. This by D J Brewer and Emily Teeter. This concise introduction to the culture beautiful book takes the reader on a colourful tour of Egypt, beginning of ancient Egypt incorporates new research to give an exciting, modern with 19th-century representations of monuments, towns and landscapes insight into the lives of ordinary Egyptians, far removed from the dra- and followed by large photographs of the monuments today. Succeeding matic lives of their well-recorded rulers. Includes the chronology and sections present images of medieval and modern Cairo, the Nile, the geography of Egypt, politics, religion, society, art and literature, and the desert and the sea, all from the air and accompanied by short histories and technological achievements of craftsmen and inventors. The final chapter descriptions. Spectacular. 208p, many col pls (Thames and Hudson 1991, rep surveys the transformation of Egypt into a Roman colony. Readable and 1993, 2000) Hb £28.00 up-to-date, with many diagrams, maps and suggestions for further reading. Eternal Egypt 218p, 23 b/w pls (Cambridge UP 1999) Hb £45.00, Pb £15.95 by Pierre Montet. The overall aim of this study of Ancient Egypt is to The Egyptians portray the development and relevance of aspects of life in Egypt. by Cyril Aldred, revised by Aidan Dodson. A newly revised and updated Religion, art, politics, subsistence and other issues are discussed in detail. edition of Cyril Aldred’s classic book. The text retains its original lucidity, Problems of dynastic succession, histories of individual pharaohs and while new discoveries and ideas have been included, the dating revised, Egyptian conventions are all discussed. A readable and entertaining new photographs added and the bibliography expanded. 224p, 139 illus introduction, this books is a welcome diversion from other accounts that (Thames & Hudson 1961, 3rd edn 1998) Pb £9.95 utilise the framework provided by dynastic succession to discuss only ancient Egyptian history. 338p, 58 b/w figs (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1964, The Egyptians Phoenix Pb edn 2000) Pb £16.99 edited by Sergio Donadoni. Did you know that Egyptian peasants could Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs not afford burial, their bodies instead being abandoned on the desert fringe? This collection of eleven essays includes studies of ancient Egyp- edited by Klaus Schulz and Matthias Seidel. A huge and lavishly illustrated tians and their trade – slaves, craftsmen, priests, bureaucrats, the pharaoh, book with an authoritative text presenting the art and architecture of peasants and women, and many others. Each chapter incorporates a huge ancient Egypt, its pharaohs, society, and religion. Includes a glossary of amount of historical detail which is both informative and interesting. terms, lists of gods, historic sites, museum collections, rulers, chronology Taken as a whole, the book creates a wider picture of Egyptian culture, and bibliography. In terms of value for money, this book can not be state and society and the role of these people within this structure. 361p beaten. 537p, b/w and col pls (Könemann 1998) Hb £19.99 (Chicago UP 1997) Hb £43.50, Pb £14.50 The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt The Egyptians edited by Ian Shaw. A single volume, up-to-date history of Egypt which by Barbara Watterson. This book is unique in two ways. Firstly, it traces the presents the development of Egypt’s different civilisations from the early history of Egypt all the way from the Palaeolithic to 1996. Secondly, it Stone Age through to the Romans. The chapters are arranged by period places Egypt in its African context, showing how the geography and cli- and cover many different subjects, including architecture, religion, funerary mate have influenced Egyptian history, and how contacts with lands fur- beliefs, ethnicity and much more. With many chronological tables, further ther south have been as important as with the Mediterranean. An expert reading, sources and a comprehensive index. 512p, 39 col pls, many b/w overview of the long-term trends in Egyptian history. 346p, 28 b/w pls (The illus, maps (Oxford UP 2000, Pb 2002) Hb £30.00, Pb £15.00 Peoples of Africa, Blackwell 1997, Pb 1998) Hb £55.00, Pb £17.99 The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt by Bill Manley. Want to trace the probable routes of armies in the 10th by Barbara Watterson. Neither comprehensive, nor a reference book, but nomes Dynasty Wars of Reunification? Need to identify the administrative as a readable and accessible outline to the study of ancient Egypt, this little of the New Kingdom? The answers are contained in the well-presented book cannot be beaten. Fitting neatly into a pocket, it provides a reign-by- maps of this handbook. With over sixty full-colour maps, and concise reign history of Egypt from the prehistoric period to the conquest of descriptions of the chronological periods and main events in Egyptian Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The chapters deal with culture, religion, history, this is an invaluable geographical companion to the study of an- art and literature, as well as social conditions and political developments. 143p, maps, 70 col & b/w pls (Penguin 1996) Pb £9.99 cient Egypt. An excellent starting point. 108p (Sutton 1998) Pb £5.99 The Civilization of Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization by Paul Johnson. An updated edition of Johnson’s broad sweep through by Barry Kemp. Histories of Egypt drawing on literary and pictorial sources Egyptian history. Beginning with the origins of the Egyptian civilisation have often portrayed the country as culturally conservative whereas ar- and the initial unification of the state, religion and culture, Johnson chaeological evidence, which is the main source for this book, reveals an focuses on a number of general themes which illustrate social, political entirely different picture, highlighting processes of quite rapid change, as and economic changes throughout three thousand years of history. Subjects administrative structures strove to keep pace with a growing, and often include hieroglyphs and writing, death and religious beliefs, the power of rebellious, population. Barry Kemp is a prominent fieldworker and much 256p, many b/w and the pharaoh, art and much more. Lavishly illustrated. of the book collates his theories on the site of Amarna, capital city of the col pls (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1978, 1999, Seven Dials/Cassell Pb 2000) Pb heretic pharaoh Akhenaten (1352-1336 BC), and a city occupied for only £14.99 25-30 years. ‘Kemp’s study is perhaps the most provocative, thoughtful, The Experience of Ancient Egypt and outstanding synthesis on ancient Egypt available in the English by Rosalie David. A comprehensive study of Egypt, from its classical language…this book will stand for decades as an essential introduction to roots, through the decipherment of hieroglyphics to the most up-to-date all interested specifically in ancient Egypt, as well as those interested in archaeological and scientific techniques applied to the study of Egyptology. general archaeology and ancient history’ – Choice. 368p, 103 figs (Routledge 232p, 14 figs, 25 b/w pls (Routledge 1999) Hb £40.00 1992, rep 1998) Pb £18.99 1 EGYPT

The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West Encyclopedias and Dictionaries by Erik Hornung, translated by David Lorton. Western culture regularly Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt adopts and appropriates themes and motifs from ancient Egyptian art, by Morris L Bierbrier. This concise and cross-referenced dictionary of religious practices, and literature. Hornung here looks at the history of significant events, people and places from Ancient Egypt is aimed at the one aspect of this process, the idea of ancient Egypt as the source of Egyptologist and the curious alike. The entries draw on all aspects of esoteric lore and traces the influence of the esoteric image of Egypt on Egyptian society including architecture, art and religion, placing the European intellectual history from antiquity to the present, from Gnostic subjects in their historical context. The dictionary is supplemented by writings and Romantic poetry to Freemasonry and Mormonism, Egyptian catalogues of dynasties and key events and a full list of museum collections. deities, monuments, rituals, and ideas re-emerge in new guises. 229p, 37 303p (Scarecrow 1999) Hb £56.50 b/w figs (Cornell UP 2001) Hb £19.95 Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries by Donald B Redford. A comprehensive, authoritative reference source by Nicholas Reeves. This beautifully presented volume presents Egypt’s that features 600 original articles written by leading scholars, this three- greatest archaeological and artistic treasures through a year-by-year volume set goes far beyond the records of archaeology to make available chronology of discoveries. Fascinating descriptions and histories of a what we know about the full social, political, religious, cultural and artistic wide range of objects, places, monuments, texts, priests, pharaohs and legacy of this 5,000 year old civilisation. Of special interest is the egyptologists are accompanied by spectacular colour photographs of the Encyclopedia’s coverage of themes and issues that are particularly items and their discovery, with reconstruction drawings, tomb inventories, controversial such as new discoveries about Greco-Roman Egypt, and new plans and time charts. Beginning with the discovery of the Rosetta stone developments in literature, religion, linguistics and other fields. Because by French scholars in 1799, the volume concludes with the recent recording of its scope, depth, and its design for the widest possible access, the Oxford of underwater Alexandria and excavation of the golden mummies in Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt serves a remarkable variety of readers; students, Egypt’s Western Desert in 1999. 256p, 598 col and b/w pls and illus (Thames teachers, and scholars, as well as general readers. 3 vols: 1632p, 150 figs, 8p and Hudson 2000) Hb £24.95 col illus (Oxford UP 2000) Hb £285.00 Travellers in Egypt Who’s Who in Ancient Egypt edited by Paul and Janet Starkey. Taken from a 1995 conference in Durham by Michael Rice. From Aakheperkare-senb, an XVIIIth Dynasty scribe, to these five papers are fundamentally concerned with the question ‘Did Zenon, an administrator of the Ptolemaic period, both the famous and the European travellers form a cultural image of modern Egypt as they wanted relatively unknown are listed in this sourcebook to the people of ancient it to be rather than it was in reality?’ The greater part of the volume deals Egypt. From pharaohs to gardeners and grave robbers, Michael Rice intro- with the 19th century ‘Grand Tour’. Full of fascinating human and geo- duces each figure in turn with a brief biography of their life and achieve- graphical detail. 318p (I B Tauris 1998, Pb 2001) Pb £14.95 ments, dates and further references. Includes sections on ‘Encountering Egypt Lost and Found the Ancient Egyptians’, kingship and religion, a chronology, glossary and by Alberto Siliotti. This book tells the story of the rediscovery of Egypt maps. 257p, b/w maps (Routledge 1999, Pb 2001) Hb £25.00, Pb £8.99 and its priceless art treasures by European travellers over the last 500 Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt years. 368p, col illus (Thames & Hudson 1998) Hb £32.00 by Margaret R Bunson. First published in 1991, this is a revised edition of Scholars, Scoundrels, and the Sphinx: A Photographic and Bunson’s substantial A-Z which aims to provide a general readership with Archaeological Adventure Up the Nile an overall flavour of Egyptian history and culture. The cross-referenced by Elaine Altman Evans. An account of the discovery of Egypt and the entries include brief discussions of less familiar people, structures and recording of its ancient monuments and culture through a variety of texts and more extensive investigations of prominent themes, personali- visual images. Sketches, adverts, postcards, photographs of landscapes, ties and places. These include, for example, art and architecture, mortuary people, monuments, buildings and objects, provide a wonderful archive of rituals, dress, language, Ramesses II. 462p, b/w illus, maps (Facts on File discovery and scholarship in the 19th and early 20th century. Accompany- 1991, rev edn 2002) Hb £58.50 ing an exhibition held at the Frank H McClung Museum, University of British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt Tennesse, Elaine Altman Evans adds a narrative to the eighty images on by Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson. This well-illustrated and user-friendly display. 122p, 80 b/w pls (Frank H McClung Museum, University of Tennesse book provides clear definitions and commentary on many Egyptological 2000) Pb £15.50 terms, ideas, events and people. More wide-ranging than Bunson’s dictio- The Napoleonic Survey of Egypt: The Monuments and nary, though there is little to chose between them. 328p, 170 col, 250 b/w Customs of Egypt illus, 70 b/w figs (BMP 1995, Pb 1997, new edn 2002) Pb £14.99 edited by Terence M Russell. Description de l’Egypte was the result of a Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt survey commissioned by Napoleon after his conquest of Egypt in 1798. edited by Kathryn Bard. After a series of 13 historical overviews, this It included 900 folio engravings of Egypt’s architecture, monuments, book launches into over 300 alphabetically arranged entries covering arti- antiquities and landscapes which, at the time, ‘opened the eyes of Europe facts, biographies, buildings, geographical features, sites, society and ar- to the splendours of the monuments and customs of Egypt and gave chaeological techniques, with over 120 illustrations. The contributors list inception to the science of Egyptology’. This is the first publication in is a ‘who’s who’ of eminent Egyptologists, with entries from Alexandria to English to discuss the survey, its origins, aims, scope and structure. It also wine making, and from Karnak to the Sea Peoples. reproduces many of the engravings from the survey along with explanatory A serious reference book with relatively few illus- text, and will be a major source of reference and interest for all trations considering the size of the book. 968p, Egyptologists. 2 vols: 603p, hundreds of b/w pls (Ashgate 2001) Hb £95.00 120 b/w pls (Routledge 1999) Hb £160.00 Napoleon’s Proconsul In Egypt : The Life and Times of Bernardino Drovetti Discovery and Exploration by Ronald T Ridley. Bernardino Drovetti was the French consul in Egypt for most of the early 19th century. After an important career in the Napo- Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums and Egyptian leonic army, he came to Egypt in 1803 where he was to play a leading role National Identity from Napoleon to World War I in many fields: diplomacy, politics, archaeology and exploration, amassing by Donald Malcolm Reid. The most well-known 19th- and 20th-century no fewer than three collections of antiquities. This is his story. 384p, 34 b/ Egyptologists were western Europeans but, as Reid argues, Egyptian w pls (Rubicon 1998) Pb £20.00 archaeologists such as Rifaa al-Tahtawi and Ahmad Kamal played a Egyptian Diaries significant role while Egyptology itself helped shape the national identity by Jean-François Champollion. Subtitled ‘How one man solved the of modern Egypt. Reid’s study, parts of which have been previously mysteries of the Nile’, this book contains the letters and diaries of published, considers the ways in which Egyptian nationalists and European Champollion, whose work deciphering the Rosetta Stone paved the way imperialists manipulated Egyptian archaeology and its ancient, hellenistic, for a huge upsurge in interest in the world of the ancient Egyptians. Coptic and Islamic past for their own ends. Reid considers particular Armed with the knowledge recently obtained by the Napoleonic survey archaeologists and collections, the spread of Egyptomania around the of Egypt and Champollion’s new understanding of hieroglyphics, this world, the origin of museums and the rise of the tourist industry. Illustrated book tells of his expedition to Egypt between May 1828 and March throughout. 409p, 46 b/w figs, 14 tbs (California UP 2002) Hb £24.95 1830, in his own words. 284p (Gibson Square 2001) Pb £10.99 2 EGYPT

The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Read the Hieroglyphs The Tutankhamun Deception: The True Story of the by Lesley Adkins and Roy Adkins. This is the story of Jean-François Mummy’s Curse Champollion who was obsessed with unravelling the meaning of Egyptian by Gerald O’Farrell. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by hieroglyphs which, he believed, held the secrets of the world’s creation. Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, and the curse placed on those who This lively narrative records the competition between Champollion and entered it, is one of the greatest stories in archaeology. But how far does it his English rival Thomas Young which was resolved in the 1820s. The reflect the truth? Gerald O’Farrell argues that this was ‘one of the most biography is combined with an analysis of the hieroglyphic system. 335p, daring hoaxes in history, devised by two Englishmen of repute’ as a cover 30 b/w pls (Harper Collins 2000) Pb £7.99 for stealing much of Tut’s treasure. He argues that having discovered the Bilderwelten und Weltbilder der Pharaonen tomb years earlier, many of the objects were looted, the tomb re-sealed edited by Edda Bresciani et al. Rosellini was the head of the Tuscan delega- and re-entered before the world’s media a few years later. More sinister tion in Champollion’s famous expedition to Egypt of 1828-9. This com- accusations discuss the suspicious deaths of many of those associated with memorative volume reproduces 78 of the hundreds of watercolours painted the discovery and argues that their knowledge of the contents of some by Rosellini, in an exceptionally elegant folio format, with accompanying missing papyri holds the key to this part of the story. Manipulating both essays. 224p, 138 col and 95 b/w pls (Von Zabern 1995) Hb £35.50 the media and leading public figures, he examines how they got away with it,... until now!. 234p, 25 b/w illus, 3 maps (Pan 2002) Pb £7.99 Belzoni’s Travels: Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia Tutankhamun: The Exodus Conspiracy. The Truth behind by Giovanni Belzoni, edited by Alberto Siliotti. The first unabridged Archaeology’s Greatest Mystery edition of Belzoni’s travel journal, originally published in 1820. Belzoni by Andrew Collins and Chris Ogilvie-Herald. The story of Howard Carter played an important role in the creation of the Egyptological collections and Lord Carnarvon’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun has intrigued in the British Museum and is renowned for removing the colossal bust of and concerned Egyptologists for many years. With countless rumours of Ramesses II from the Ramasseum at Thebes. An introduction by Alberto illicit behaviour, of curses, conversations said to have taken place, various Siliotti places Belzoni’s work and travels in their historical context. This condemning letters, claims and counter-claims by individuals associated large-format book contains many contemporary illustrations. 336p, 100 with Carter and Carnarvon, suspicious events and circumstantial evidence, col and more than 300 b/w illus (BMP 2001) Hb £40.00 this is not a straightforward story. Collins and Ogilvie-Herald review the evidence for the discovery of the tomb, accepting some parts of the Edward William Lane: Description of Egypt ‘official’ story, whilst refuting and disproving others. In particular, they by Edward William Lane, edited by Jason Thompson. This substantial focus on papyri which are claimed to have been found in the tomb but book publishes for the first time, the descriptions, notes and illustrations which subsequently disappeared. Said to have contained important evidence made by Lane as a young man during his lengthy expeditions of Egypt linking the pharaohs with the biblical Exodus, challenging the traditional and Nubia between 1825 and 1828. Dressed as a member of Egypt’s identity of Moses, the conquest of Canaan and the origins of the Jewish ruling Turkish elite and fluent in Arabic, Lane produced an important religion, this is controversial stuff. Much more than a piece of ‘detective record of Egyptian and Nubian daily life as well as invaluable descriptions history’, this book is a detailed and probing account of the discovery of of numerous ancient monuments, some of which were being destroyed Tutankhamun’s tomb and the conspiracy that surrounded it. 338p, 49 b/w before his eyes. 588p, 160 b/w illus (AUCP 2000) Hb £41.95 pls, 24 b/w figs (Virgin Books 2002) Hb £20.00 Egypt: Caught in time Amelia Edwards: Traveller, Novelist and Egyptologist by Colin Osman. This unusual collection of photographs shows the by Joan Rees. This, the first biography of Amelia Edwards, sets out her monuments and people of Egypt before the rush of mass tourism and work as the founder of the Egypt Exploration Society and writer of A modernisation. The photographs date back to 1852 and depict both Thousand Miles up the Nile in the context of her previous career as novelist ruins, some now gone altogether, and the daily life of Egypt, captured in and journalist. It traces her development from a multi-gifted child to an pictures of officials, water-sellers, shopkeepers, town and country scenes, adventurous and unconventional woman and finally to her life as a dedi- courtyard interiors and mosques. A beautiful and atmospheric book. cated and reclusive worker in the cause of exploring and safeguarding the 151p, 171 b/w pls (Garnet 1997) Hb £19.95 antiquities of Egypt. 128p (Rubicon 1998) Pb £11.95 Henry Salt: Artist, Traveller, Diplomat, Egyptologist µ The Lost Tomb: The Greatest Discovery by Deborah Manley and Peta Rée. Henry Salt (1780-1872) was renowned at the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun as an ‘artist, traveller, diplomat, Egyptologist’. Taking up his post as by Kent Weeks. ‘Since it first made world headlines in 1995, tomb KV5, in British Consul-General in Egypt in 1816 he was urged to seek out the Valley of the Kings, has been described as ‘the greatest archaeological antiquities for the British Museum collection. Although now regarded as discovery of the century’. Here, for the first time, Kent Weeks shares his disgraceful, his actions were set against a cultural background that actively experience of finding the tomb, being the first to enter it in 3000 years, and encouraged the removal of attractive and interesting antiquities from discovering that it was the burial place for as many as thirty of Ramesses less ‘civilised’ lands. But this book is not a comment on political, or II’s sons. Reads like a good novel, evoking the intrigue and splendour of cultural correctness, it is a biography of a great man – a man who undertook ancient Egypt. 330p, col & b/w pls (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1998, Phoenix Pb excavations at Thebes and Abu Simbel, and who studied many of Egypt’s 1999) Pb £8.99 most famous monuments, including the Pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx. 314p, 18 b/w pls (Libri 2001) Hb £29.95, Pb £18.99 From the Pyramids to Tutankhamun: Memoirs of an Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun Egyptologist by T G H James. By the time Howard Carter discovered the tomb of by I E S Edwards. Eiddon Edwards was a major figure in Egyptology and Tutankhamun in 1922 he had already spent nearly thirty years in Egypt. in the work of the British Museum. His book Pyramids of Egypt was This book, now available in a revised paperback, places his greatest reprinted time and again, a fact that reflects the importance and popularity discovery in the context of his entire career and his personal life, which of his work. This autobiography describes his early life and childhood, his was marred by unhappiness and dissatisfaction despite his celebrity status. developing interest and schooling in Egyptology, and his career at the 443p, 16p of pls (Kegan Paul 1992, Taurus Park rev Pb 2001) Pb £12.95 British Museum, though interrupted during the war years. Among his ma- jor achievements whilst working for the BM were organising the Tutankhamen: The Politics of Discovery Tutankhamun exhibition in Britain in 1972 and the salvage of the temples by Howard Carter. A reprint of an extraordinary of Philae. His travels throughout Egypt and the rest of Africa, his experi- document prepared by Howard Carter ences in the Near East during the war, the expeditions he joined as part of in 1924, after his work in Egypt had the Egyptian Exploration Society and the encounters he had with influen- been effectively halted by the Egyp- tial archaeologists and political figures, are all recounted. His writing style tian government. Originally published is refreshingly informal and his great attention to detail, often recounting in a limited edition, this provides a conversations word-for-word, make this a highly engaging read. 349p, b/w remarkable insight into the tensions pls (Oxbow 2000) Hb £30.00 surrounding Carter and Carnarvon’s discoveries, bringing to light many Also by the same author: personal and political controversies. Edwards’ classic work ‘The Pyramids of Egypt’, first published in 1947 and 149p, b/w pls (Libri 1998) Pb subsequently revised and updated, is still available (Penguin 1961, 1985, £17.95 1991, rev edn 1993) Pb £11.99 3 EGYPTIAN HISTORY EGYPTIAN HISTORY Egyptology Current Research in Egyptology 2000 History of Ancient Egypt: An Introduction edited by Angela McDonald and Christina Riggs. Seventeen papers, from by Erik Hornung. One of the great strengths of Hornung’s newly trans- a symposium held at Oxford in 2000, present new and on-going research lated history is his expertise in burial customs and ritual. Revised through- on many aspects of Egyptian society, art, culture and history. Subjects out for this English version, this account of the history of ancient Egypt include: royal sculpture, women’s public health, dental health, transporting includes an updated bibliography, a glossary and a chronological table. quarried stone, tomb construction, Byzantine Egypt and much more. 224p, 50 b/w pls (Edinburgh UP 1999) Hb £39.50, Pb £9.99 143p, b/w figs and pls (BAR Archaeopress S909, 2000) Pb £30.00 Egypt’s Legacy Anthropology and Egyptology: A Developing Dialogue by Michael Rice. This chronological history of Egypt adopts an unusual edited by Judith Lustig. This collection of essays, based on an American Jungian analytical approach. Rice argues that many of the characteristic Anthropological Association Invited Session, illustrates various innovative Egyptian institutions, such as kingship, religion and the nation-state, were ways of combining anthropology and Egyptology. Recent studies by powerful and complex manifestations of archetypes that pervade western Matthew Adams, Brenda Baker, Judith Lustig and others address Middle civilisation and are part of our inherited consciousness. 256p, 21 b/w pls and New Kingdom internal social organisation and relations with (Routledge 1997) Hb £47.50 neighbouring states. A wealth of data and extensive references provide Ancient Egypt. Art, Architecture and History an in-depth model for analysing wall-scenes, texts and sites. 180p (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 8, Sheffield AP 1997) Hb £45.00 by Francesco Tiradritti. A concise introductory guide to ancient Egypt. Each double page concentrates on a particular period in history, a par- ticular site, art object or theme, for example, Thutmose III and his reign, The Desert and the Nile female statuary of the Middle Kingdom, 4th Dynasty pyramids. Includes The Nile and Its Masters: Past, Present, Future a chronological chart, lots of colour photos, maps and an index of names. 143p, many col pls, 2 maps (1999, BMP Engl edn 2002) Pb £9.99 by Jean Kerisel. Kreisel, a civil engineer and keen archaeologist, initially assesses the development of civilisation along the Nile during the Pharaonic Ancient Egypt: A Social History periodand ancient construction projects that took account of its annual by B G Trigger, B J Kemp et al. A reprint of a classic revisionist study of flooding. He then moves swiftly along to the modern period and the Egyptian history which redresses the monument-based bias of earlier work. construction of the Suez Canal and the High Aswan Dam, and threats to It comprises four essays that trace the process of political, social and the Nile’s ecosystem. 177p, b/w figs and pls (Balkema 2001) Hb £28.50 economic change from the rise of civilisation to Alexander the Great’s Siwa: The Oasis conquest. 450p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 1983, Pb rep 1996) Pb £22.95 by Alain Blottière. The oasis of Siwa is perhaps most famous for being A History of Ancient Egypt the place where Alexander the Great came to consult the oracle of by Nicholas Grimal. A reign-by-reign account of the history of Egypt Ammon and received confirmation of his divine origins. Blottière presents from c.120,000 BC to the time of Alexander the Great. This book draws a personal journey through the past and recent history of Siwa arguing deeply on a range of sources: archaeology, scientific and linguistic research that there is an urgent need to protect the area from development. 170p, and contemporary sources. The continual reprinting of the English edition 3 maps (Harpocrates Engl edn 2000) Pb £9.99 attests to its popularity and usefulness. 518p, 24 b/w pls, 23 b/w figs, tbs Geb: Geobotanical Bibliography of Egypt and Adjacent (Blackwell 1992, Pb 1994, rep 1995-1999) Hb £55.00, Pb £17.99 Countries for the Egyptologist The Pre-History of Egypt by Victoria Asensi Amorós. A bibliography of over 1000 studies related by Béatrix Midant-Reynes. It is rare to find a study on the Palaeolithic and to the modern vegetation and environment of Egypt and other regions Neolithic of Egypt, and especially one with such a depth of knowledge of the Near East, Mediterranean and North Africa, designed for use by and wide-ranging interest as this. Now translated into English, Béatrix Egyptologists. The brief introduction (provided in English, French and Midant-Reynes explores the earliest evidence for humans in the Nile Val- Spanish) outlines the main characteristics of the flora and vegetation of ley, early settlement patterns and the beginnings of cultural diversity. The each region. 246p (Triade Exploration 2000) Pb £40.00 process of Neolithicisation occupies much of the book, c. 12,000 to the Life on the Desert Edge: Seven Thousand Years of Settlement fifth millennium BC. 328p, 22 b/w illus, 5 maps, 4 figs (Blackwell 2000) Hb £55.00, Pb £16.99 in the Northern Dongola Reach, Sudan by Derek A Welsby, with contributions by Carol Andrews, Caroline The Predynastic Period in Egypt Cartwright et al. A two-volume report on the Sudan Archaeological by Juan José Castillos. This volume aims to provide a ‘glimpse’ or overview Research Society’s multi-disciplinary and multi-period project in Sudan. of the archaeological evidence for the earliest settlements of Egypt. Castillos The project surveyed an 80km stretch of land on the east side of the Nile argues that the origins of Early Dynastic civilisation can be detected in the from 1993 to 1996, and conducted one season of excavation in 1997. early cultures of the Nile, including the Badrarian and the Amratian, and The first volume reports on methodology and presents preliminary results suggests that many important discoveries have yet to be made. 109p En- of the geomorphological investigation of the Holocene alluvial sequence glish text, 113p Spanish text, b/w figs (MAAT 2002) Pb £12.00 of the Nile and includes a gazetteer of sites. The second volume includes Early Dynastic Egypt specialist reports on pottery, lithics, human and animal remains etc. and by Toby A H Wilkinson. Wilkinson discusses the place of the early includes a short synthetic discussion of the results of the project. 2 vols: Dynasties in economics, politics, administration and religion, and the 622p, 118 tbs, 313 figs, 6 col pls, 95 b/w pls (BAR S980 2001) Pb £105.00 dramatic finds of the last century that have added to our knowledge of Wüste this formative period in Egypt’s history. This is the most comprehensive edited by Ulrich Joger and Uwe Moldrzyk. Based on an exhibition held at treatment of Early Dynastic Egypt in a single volume to date, presented the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt during the summer of 2002, thematically, and highly illustrated. 413p, 55 b/w figs & pls (Routledge these seventeen papers draw our attention to the world’s deserts; to their 1999, Pb 2001) Hb £60.00, Pb £14.99 unique ecology and environment, their archaeological heritage and past The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt, 1100-650BC and present excavators, the methods developed to excavate in such by K A Kitchen. Reprinted with a new supplement discussing more recent conditions, the nomadic peoples, their religious beliefs and rock art. discoveries, this invaluable account of a complex period in Egyptian his- Each paper is fully illustrated in colour. 173p, many col illus (Wissenschaftliche tory is almost a classic. The main focus is on the establishment of a firm Buchgesellschaft 2002) Hb £19.50 chronology, which Kitchen bases on a wide range of evidence. 608p, 10 The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorer’s Handbook maps (Aris & Phillips 1972, rev 2nd edn 1996) Pb £30.00 by Cassandra Vivian. Informative chapters introduce the natural world Twilight of Ancient Egypt of the desert and its peoples, the caravan routes that cross it, and some by Karol Mysliwiec. A good introduction to Egyptian history and of its historic vistas, and then takes you oasis-by-oasis through the history archaeology of the first millennium BC, from the fall of the New kingdom and geography, meeting people and the crafts which are their way of life. to the conquest of Alexander the Great and containing material from There are directions for following a selection of tours through each oasis recent excavations. 232p, 16 col pls, b/w figs (1993, von Zabern 1998, and the time and sort of vehicle you will require. 423p, b/w plans, maps Cornell UP Engl edn 2000) Pb £16.95 and illus (AUCP 2000) Pb £26.95 4 EGYPTIAN HISTORY

Shire Egyptology Guides Egyptian Warfare and Weapons by Ian Shaw. Descriptions of arms and armour, frontiers and fortresses Egyptian Mummies and the careers and campaigns of pharaohs such as Tuthmosis III and by Barbara Adams. Explains and illustrates the development of human Ramesses the Great. 72p, 52 b/w pls (Shire Egyptology 16, 1991) Pb £4.99 and animal mummification from the Early Dynastic to the Roman period. Graeco-Roman Egypt 64p, 49 b/w pls and figs (Shire Egyptology 1, 1984, rep 1988-98) Pb £4.99 by Simon P Ellis. Portrays everyday life in Egyptian society from 332 BC Egyptian Gods and Myths to AD 395: finance, family, friends, settlements, technological advances by Angela P Thomas. A short introduction to the complex belief systems etc. 56 p, 40 b/w pls (Shire Egyptology 17, 1992) Pb £4.99 of Egypt with sections on animal and cosmic deities, myths and legends, Egyptian Faience and Glass the deification of people and the afterlife. Includes a glossary. 64p, 48 b/ by Paul T Nicholson. Examines the history and technology of making w figs (Shire Egyptology 2, 1986, rep 2001) Pb £4.99 faience and glass from Predynastic times to the end of pharaonic Egypt. Egyptian Textiles 80p, 50 b/w (Shire Egyptology 18, 1993) Pb £4.99 by Rosalind Hall. A useful discussion of woven fabrics, the dyeing Egyptian Boats and Ships process, spinning and weaving, sewing and darning, laundry and imperial by Steve Vinson. An examination of the physical environment of the wardrobes. 72p, 52 b/w figs (Shire Egyptologyy 4, 1986, rep 1990, rep 2001) Nile Valley, and the remains of Early Dynastic boats and Middle Kingdom Pb £4.99 ship boats. With many examples. 56p (Shire Egyptology 20, 1994) Pb £4.99 Egyptian Pottery Egyptian Woodworking and Furniture by Colin A Hope. An informative guide to pottery use and production by Geoffrey Killen. Discusses the sources of wood, techniques and tools, in Egypt from c.3000 to 332 BC. Hope discusses the different types and the work of carpenters, examining pieces now housed in museums. produced, their functions, decoration and historical development. 64p, 64p, 65 b/w pls (Shire Egyptology 21, 1994) Pb £4.99 76 b/w figs and pls (Shire Egyptology 5, 1987, rep 2001) Pb £4.99 Egyptian Models and Scenes Egyptian Towns and Cities by Angela M J Tooley. A discussion of Egyptian models, where they are by Eric P Uphill. Uphill discusses the reasons for urban growth and found, who owned them, what purpose they served, where in the tomb describes the various types of centres: provincial centres, workmen’s they were placed and how they relate to tomb scenes. 72p, 67 b/w pls (Shire villages, royal residences, military and frontier towns, religious centres. Egyptology 22, 1995) Pb £4.99 72p, 36 b/w pls and figs (Shire Egyptology 8, 1988, rep 2001) Pb £4.99 Egyptian Shabtis Egyptian Food and Drink by Harry M Stewart. A well-illustrated guide to the shabtis which substituted by Hillary Wilson. Wilson places special emphasis on bread, beer, cereals, for their owners during the irksome chores of the afterlife. Stewart looks meat, fish and fowl, the Egyptian kitchen and methods of preparing and at their manufacture, function, iconography, inscriptions and containers. preserving food. 64p, 66 b/w figs (Shire Egyptology 9, 1988, rep 2001) Pb £4.99 64p, 52 b/w illus (Shire Egyptology 23, 1995) Pb £4.99 Akhenaten’s Egypt Egyptian Temples by Mark Smith. An accessible well-illustrated introduction to Akhenaten’s by Steven Snape. Different chapters explain the nature of Egyptian gods life and times, encompassing the impact of his religious and administrative and why they needed temples, what went on within the buildings, and reforms on Egyptian society. Using archaeological and iconographic how priests, acting on behalf of the king, served the god on a daily basis sources, Smith also looks at Akhenaten’s relationships with his wife, and in regular festivals. 64p, 66 b/w pls (Shire Egyptology 24, 1997) Pb £4.99 Nefertiti, and his daughters. 768p, 60 b/w figs (Shire Egyptology 10, 1988, rep 1996) Pb £4.99 Protodynastic Egypt by Barbara Adams and Krysztof M Cialowicz. The major sites, material Egyptian Rock-cut Tombs culture, iconography, writing, foreign contacts and the early kings of the by Aidan Dodson. This book traces the development of the rock-cut First Dynasty are discussed and illustrated. 72p, 46 b/w figs (Shire Egyptology tomb. Includes the New Kingdom royal tombs at Thebes and Amarna and 25, 1997) Pb £4.99 groups of private tombs from the Old Kingdom onwards. 64p, 62 b/w pls (Shire Egyptology 14, 1991) Pb £4.99 Egyptian Statues by Gay Robbins. This guide focuses on the variety of statues of Egyptian Egyptian Medicine deities, kings and other authoritarian figures erected in tombs and temples by Carole Reeves. Mummified bodies, medical papyri and numerous over a three thousand year period. Gay Robins considers the materials paintings and reliefs provide ample evidence for this introduction to used, techniques of production, the different types and styles, the subjects, disease and its treatment in Ancient Egypt. 72p with figs and pls. (Shire inscriptions and their historical and social context. 64p, 51 b/w figs and pls Egyptology 15, 1992, rep 2001) Pb £4.99 (Shire Egyptology 26, 2001) Pb £4.99

Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara Volume 1: NEW EGYPTOLOGY TITLES The Archaeology of Nabta Playa by Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild. This large volume deals with the FROM PEARTREE Holocene stratigraphy and archaeology of Nabta Playa in the eastern Sahara – ‘perhaps the largest of the deflational basins found in the region PUBLISHING and one especially rich in archaeological remains documenting past human The Columns of Egypt presence’. 708p (Kluwer 2001) Hb £100.00 by J Peter Phillips. Egypt’s monumental buildings and soaring temple Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara Volume 2: columns cannot fail to impress. This is the first ever detailed look at The Pottery of Nabta Playa the evolution of the design and style of columns, as well as their by Kit Nelson. A report on the ceramic evidence from the site of Nabta symbolic meaning, over a 3000-year period. 368p, 633 b/w illus Playa in the eastern Sahara. The site is important in defining the cultural (Peartree November 2002) Hb £27.95, Pb £22.95 sequence and chronology for the area, the earliest examples of which reaches back 6000 years. The methodology for analysing and interpreting Fighting Pharaohs: Weapons and Warfare in Ancient the evidence is outlined. 120p (Kluwer 2002) Hb £53.00 Egypt by Robert B Partridge. This book looks in some detail at the recur- Some Geographical Notes on Ancient Egypt ring image of a pharaoh smiting the enemies of Egypt. Bob Partridge by Alessandra Nibbi. A selection of papers published over the last twenty examines the types of weapons used, the training of the troops, the years by Oxford Egyptologist Alessandra Nibbi. The essays are largely tactics for battles and sieges and the military campaigns themselves. concerned with the physical and geographical aspects of ancient Egypt; The study draws on evidence from over 3000 years of Egyptian the identification of places, the meaning of words, plant types, and Egyp- history. 350p, 402 b/w illus (Peartree November 2002) Hb £27.95, Pb tian concepts of geography. 423p (Discussions in Egyptology 3, 1997) Pb £22.95 £40.00 5 EGYPTIAN HISTORY

Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS by Dominic Montserrat. Montserrat’s interesting study seeks to explain the revival in interest in Akhenaten who has been lauded as the originator Monarchs of the Nile of monotheism and has been adopted as a revolutionary and innovator by Aidan Dodson. A revised edition of Adrian Dodson’s concise and by various groups, including European fascists, Afrocentrists, homosexual highly readable collection of royal biographies. Beginning with the reign activists and moralists. Montserrat’s focus is very much on the cultural of Horus Djer in c.2975 BC and ending with Nektanebo II’s flight from fantasies that surround Akhenaten but he also endeavours to discover Egypt in 342 BC, Dodson introduces the reader to renowned, recently the historical figure. The book includes a discussion of the archaeology rediscovered or forgotten kings and Pharaohs. Includes chronological tables. of the city of Amarna and the agendas of its excavators and visitors. 238p, 73 b/w illus (Rubicon 1995, AUCP rev edn 2000) Pb £16.95 219p, 21 figs, 20 pls (Routledge 2000) Hb £30.00 The Private Lives of the Pharaohs Amarna: Ancient Egypt, the Age of Revolution by Joyce Tyldesley. This fascinating investigation, which accompanies a by Barbara Watterson. The story of Amarna is a tangle of myth and fact, television series, uses the results of modern scientific analytical techniques speculation and reality. The author unravels this, describing and explaining to uncover new personal details about Egypt’s most famous pharaohs. the story of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Akhet-Aten, their city and culture. Tyldesley focuses on three mysteries: the identity of the builders of the 176p, 30 illus, 16 in col (Tempus 1999, Pb 2002) Pb £17.99 Great Pyramids, including questions of how and why they did it, reasons The Amarna Age: Egypt why the 18th dynasty died out, and the identity of a mummified female by Frederick J Giles. Giles examines fragmentary sources for the political temple singer. The scientific material, including DNA research and facial history of the late 18th Dynasty and particularly for the co-regency of reconstruction, is presented in an extremely readable manner and brings Amenhotep and his son Akhenaten, and of Akhenaten and his son-in-law characters such as Tutankhamun and Akhenaten to life. 169p, 16 col and Smenkhkare. Evidence includes royal burials, especially KV 55, art, religious b/w pls (Channel 4 2000, Pb 2002) Hb £16.99, Pb £9.99 and political history for the 14th century BC. 285p, 9 col pls, 14 b/w figs, 3 Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen tbs (ACE Studies 6, Aris and Phillips 2001) Pb £45.00 by Jürgen von Beckerath. First published in 1984, this is a revised edition Nefertiti: Egypt’s Sun Queen of Beckerath’s substantial and well presented hieroglyphic catalogue of by Joyce Tyldesley. Beyond the exquisite painted bust in the Berlin Museum, Egyptian rulers and their names, arranged chronologically from the we know little about Neertiti. Wife of Akhenaten, adored by her family, Predynastic period through to the Egyptian names and titles for Roman blessed by the sun god, and worshiped by her people, Nefertiti suddenly Caesars. 314p (1984, Von Zabern rev edn 1999) Hb £34.50 and completely vanished from the historical record. Tyldesley draws on Les Noms du Pharaon commes êtres autonomes au Nouvel archaeological, textual, and artistic evidence in a detailed discussion of Empire Nefertiti’s life and times at the ephemeral and heretical Amarna court. by Cathie Spieser. This volume, comprising text, catalogue and images, 256p, 16 b/w pls (Viking 1998, Penguin Pb 1999) Pb £7.99 gathers together the iconographic and written sources for the representation Pharaohs of the Sun. Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen of the plethora of names for the Egyptian pharaohs. Over three hundred by Rita E Freed, Yvonne J Markowitz and Sue H D’Auria. An exploration examples are examined individually, including many inscriptions and of the mysteries of the Amarna culture of the 14th century. This catalogue, hieroglyphic reliefs, to define the divine and magical value of royal names. taken from the millennium exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in 398p, 318 b/w figs (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2000) Hb £64.00 Boston, includes sculpture, architectural elements, ceramics, jewellery, Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh clothing, tools and furniture from this period of transition. 316p, 452 illus (Thames & Hudson 1999) Hb £36.00 by Joyce Tyldesley. A rare insight into the controversial rule of Hatchepsut who preferred to be known as ‘King’, rather than ‘Queen’. Tyldesley The Murder of Tutankhamen: A 3000-year-old murder mystery examines the nature of her power and explores the attempts to destroy her by Bob Brier. Brier claims to have solved the riddle of the young pharaoh’s legacy after her death. 270p, b/w pls (Penguin 1998) Hb £24.00, Pb £9.99 death. With the assistance of medical-forensic and Egyptological specialists, Amenhotep III: Perspectives on his Reign he reconstructs Tutankhamen’s last days and turns his suspicious gaze on Aye, the commoner and Chief Adviser who succeeded him. 264p, num b/ edited by David O’Connor and Eric H Cline. The roots of the political w pls (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1998, Phoenix Pb 1999) Pb £7.99 and religious upheavals which took place in the reign of Akhenaten, the heretic Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh, can largely be found in the reign of Ramesses: Egypt’s Greatest Pharaoh his father and predecessor, Amenhotep III. Aside from adding to the debate by Joyce Tyldesley. An accessible biography that makes use of all available about his reign, this book also provides a good deal of information not evidence to examine both the legend of the god pharaoh Ramesses and the usually available to the more general reader. 393p, b/w pls, figs and illus remarkable man behind it. Tyldesley considers the achievements of (Michigan UP 1998, Pb 2001) Hb £46.00, Pb £18.00 Ramesses’ 66-year reign as a ruler, administrator and warrior, and also examines his private life. The book concludes with an overview of the Akhenaten and the Religion of Light immediate years following his death in 1213 BC and the cult that grew up by Erik Hornung, translated by David Lorton. A concise and readable around him, which continues to exert influence on archaeologists today. account of Akhenaten and the cult he founded. Includes discussion of the 225p, b/w figs, 25 b/w pls (Viking 2000, Penguin Pb 2001) Pb £7.99 origins of the new religion, the principles upon which it was based, changes in beliefs of the afterlife, the new Egyptian capital at Akhenaten and both Pharaoh Triumphant: Life and Times of Ramesses II recent and 19th century approaches to research on this king. 160p, 15 b/w by Kenneth Kitchen. During the 67 years of Ramesses II’s reign (1279- pls, 7 figs, map (Cornell UP 1999, Pb 2001) Pb £9.99 1213 BC), Egyptian power and influence was at its height and a number of spectacular building projects were undertaken culminating in the famous Akhenaten: Egypt’s False Prophet Temple of Abu Simbel. This widely-praised history discusses the pharaoh by Nicholas Reeves. Akhenaten’s distorted appearance, his wife Nefertiti, himself, but also extends its coverage to government, politics, religion and his adoption of a new single god and his creation of a new capital in the daily life. 272p (Aris & Phillips 1982, rep 1990) Pb £20.00 desert have all spawned often outlandish theories about his ambition, beliefs and personal habits. This fascinating, well-illustrated study makes Ramesses II, Greatest of the Pharaohs full use of archaeological and documentary sources to search for the truth by Bernadette Menu. Menu explores Ramesses’ achievements, the spec- about Akhenaten, his family, his political and religious revolution, Amarna tacular monuments he built, information provided by documents, records, and the systematic eradication of the pharaoh by his successors. Reeve also art and sculpture. A concise pocket history with many colour photographs. considers archaeological puzzles such as the identity of the body in Tomb 159p, many col pls (Thames & Hudson, New Horizons Series 1999) Pb £6.95 KV55. 208p, 23 col and 118 b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2001) Hb £18.95 House of Eternity: The Tomb of Nefertari Akhenaten: King of Egypt by John K McDonald. A colourful book, illustrating some of the most by Cyril Aldred. Aldred’s study of this perplexing character, now reprinted stunning Pharaonic treasures which belonged to Rameses II’s favourite in paperback, is brought up to date with a reassessment of the new evidence consort. Contextual information is added on the Valley of the Queens, the on such themes as the Karnak talatat; the reign of Amenophis III and the workmen’s village at Deir el-Medina, and the royal tombs. The text con- question of a Co-Regency; Nefertiti and the Amarna queens; Tomb 55 in cludes with look at the Getty Conservation Institute’s programme of the Valley of the Kings; the Amarna Letters. 320p, 107 b/w illus (Thames & meticulous management and monitoring of the tomb’s fragile paintings. Hudson 1988, Pb 1991, 1996) Pb £16.95 116p, 101 illus (89 in col) (Thames & Hudson 1996) Pb £14.95 6 EGYPTIAN DAILY LIFE

The Black Pharaohs: Egypt’s Nubian Rulers by Robert G Morkot. A comprehensive investigation of the Kushite DAILY LIFE kingdom, present day northern Sudan, which briefly controlled Egypt during the 8th century BC and influenced Egyptian affairs for hundreds of Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt years. Morkot examines ancient and antiquarian perceptions of the exotic by Lionel Casson. The structure of New Kingdom tombs mirrored that of lands of Nubia and Ethiopia and attempts to tie the towns of Kush to private dwellings while a rich record of the routines of daily life was archaeological remains. A large part of the book concentrates on the role portrayed in tomb decoration. This evidence forms the basis for Casson’s of the Nubians during Egypt’s conflicts with Libya and the Assyrians. accessible discussion of work, play and spirituality during the New Kingdom 342p, 116 b/w figs and pls (Rubicon 2000) Hb £29.95, Pb £19.95 period (c.1550-1075 BC). The study, first published as Daily Life in Ancient Die Hieroglyphischen Ahnenreihen der Ptolemäischen Könige Egypt in 1975, is now revised and expanded. 163p, 10 b/w figs (Johns Hopkins by Martina Minas. Minas focuses on the relationship between the Greek- UP rev edn 2001) Hb £40.50, Pb £13.50 Macedonian aristocracy and the native Egyptian population. Minas analyses Reflections of Osiris: Lives from Ancient Egypt hieroglyphic inscriptions, making comparisons with Greek and Demotic by John Ray. Here the history of Egypt is told through semi-biographical papyri documents, to examine the official legislation within this multi- accounts of twelve figures, many of which were linked to Saqqara. Drawing cultural context. This first systematic assessment of the potential of on documentary and archaeological evidence, Ray explores the world in Ptolemaic hieroglyphic inscriptions specifically concentrates on the which these characters lived through the history of their lives and deeds, inscriptions of dynastic succession and of named priests. German text. including Imhotep, Queen Hatshepsut, Horemheb and Nectanebo. With a 259p plus 27p of b/w pls (Von Zabern 2000) Hb £42.00 temporal range from the third millennium BC to the second century BC, Cleopatra Ray uses the god Osiris as a recurring theme to link the various chapters by Michael Grant. Grant’s readable and lively history of Cleopatra’s life and ‘lives’. Concise but well written, this book provides snapshots into the and death, first published in 1972, untangles the many myths and scandals past. 176p, 2 maps (Profile 2001, Pb 2002) Pb £7.99 that surrounded Cleopatra, to reveal an extremely capable ruler, scholar Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids and thinker. He does not challenge the traditional view of Cleopatra as a by Guillemette Andreu. Between 2700 BC and 1750 BC Egyptians’ daily temptress but he presents her as a Greek figure in a Roman world who was lives were shaped by a hierarchical society of unrivalled complexity. This determined to use any means, including love affairs, to revive the fortunes social history of the Old and New Kingdoms focuses not on the glittering the Ptolemaic kingdom. The book includes the Roman perspective of pharaohs, but their humble subjects. Life in the country, fishing and hunt- Cleopatra and an assessment of what she in turn thought of them. 301p, ing, family life, arts and crafts, people of believers…each section provides 60 b/w pls, maps (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1972, Phoenix Pb 2000) Pb £12.99 a delightful window into the different activities of ancient Egyptians. Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth 171p (Cornell UP 1997) Pb £11.50 edited by Susan Walker and Peter Higgs. This stunning collection of essays The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt and images accompanies an exhibition held at the British Museum in 2001. by Rosalie David. This book pieces together the everyday lives of the This exhibition and book reflects on the many different images of Cleopatra skilled labourers of Kahun, a town specially built for pyramid workers. and the inconsistencies in the ways in which she was portrayed for a variety Much of the ground-plan was recovered by Flinders Petrie, and the material of different audiences: contemporary Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, in he uncovered is now housed in the Manchester Museum. The material and the Renaissance and early modern periods. Eleven essays are divided into the site has been restudied and this discussion of the evidence provides four main subjects areas (The Ptolemies and Alexandria; Cleopatra, Lady new insights into the subject. 264p (Routledge 1996, Pb 1998) Pb £17.99 of the Two Lands; Cleopatra and the Power of Rome; Egypt in Rome/ The Myth of Cleopatra) each section being followed by a catalogue of Egypt’s Golden Empire: The Dramatic Story of Life in the objects. The latter contains descriptions and colour photographs of almost New Kingdom 400 objects including sculpture, coins, relief sculpture, gems and rings, by Joyce Tyldesley. Based on a television series of the same name, this wallpaintings and mosaics, that reflect the ‘doyenne’ of Egypt and the absorbing social history, written with Tyldesley’s usual flair and immediacy, world in which she lived and ruled. 384p, many col pls (BMP 2001) Hb balances discussions of the private and public lives of the Pharaohs with £40.00, Pb £24.99 those of their subjects. Chapters examining principal New Kingdom Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth Pharaohs, from Ahmose to Ramesses III, alternate with discussions of different sectors of Egyptian society, such as women, soldiers, priests, by Michael Chauveau. An English translation, by David Lorton, of farmers, villagers and undertakers. The study is well supported with Chauveau’s concise history which aims to reduce Cleopatra’s life to facts archaeological evidence and extracts from contemporary sources. 304p, 16 and thereby challenge the complaisancy of scholars surrounding her col pls (Headline 2001, Review Pb 2002) Pb £7.99 personality and reputation. Chauveau reassesses Egyptian and Roman literary sources and uses numismatic and other evidence to retell events Life of the Ancient Egyptians with the focus on Cleopatra herself rather than on her relations with her by Eugen Strouhal. The coverage of this detailed survey is vast, including illustrious contemporaries. 104p, 7 b/w illus (1998, Cornell UP Engl edn children’s games, marriage, medicine, working life, the sacred and secular 2002) Hb £14.95 administration, the position of women, and the business of mummifica- Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra tion. 279p, col & b/w pls (1992, this edn Liverpool UP 1997) Pb £19.95 by Michel Chauveau, translated by David Lorton. A full and authoritative Village Life in Ancient Egypt history of Cleopatra and life in Egypt during her reign at the end of the by A G McDowell. The thoughts and activities of the inhabitants of Deir Ptolemaic Dynasty. Based on literary sources, numismatics and inscriptions, el Medina, their social and religious life, education, literature and law, and Michel Chauveau’s account provides comment on city and rural life, religion their work are interwoven with illustrations and translated extracts from and funeral, language, writing, administration, social and cultural life. Now over 200 texts. 279p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 1999, Pb 2001) Pb £15.99 translated into English, this book provides a good introduction to Cleopatra. Pharaoh’s Workers: The Villagers of Deir el Medina 226p, 44 b/w illus (Cornell UP 2000) Hb £26.00, Pb £11.95 edited by Leonard H Lesko. Excavations at Deir el Medina have revealed Cleopatras a rich store of artefacts shedding new light on the daily lives of ordinary by John Whitehorne. There was more than one Cleopatra in the Ancient labourers. Six essays discuss different aspects of the material. 196p, pls World, and this book looks at the lives and careers of those other Cleopatras (Cornell UP 1994) Hb £25.00, Pb £14.95 – from early Greek mythology to the Macedonian queens and princesses Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt and the many Cleopatras of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt – as well as by Lynn Meskell. Drawing on archaeological, iconographic and documentary the famous Cleopatra VII, re-appraising current views about her suicide, as evidence, this is a scholarly, illustrated reconstruction of well as the life of her daughter by Mark Anthony, Cleopatra. 243p, 21 illus the lives of men and women during the (Routledge 1994, Pb 2001) Hb £60.00, Pb £14.99 New Kingdom. Meskell considers the role Cleopatra of communities, love and sex and the ways by Pat Southern. A study of the Queen of Egypt, her relationship with in which Egyptians understood the Rome, her ambitions, influence over others, and her dramatic death; this structure of their lives and their fate after book provides a concise reasessment of her impact on world history. 160p, death. 238p, b/w figs, maps (Princeton UP 2002) 30 illus (Tempus 1999, Pb 2000) Pb £12.99 Hb £19.95 7 EGYPTIAN DAILY LIFE

Kulturhandbuch Ägyptens: Wortschatz der Pharaonen in Threat-Formulae in Ancient Egypt: A Study of the History, Sachgruppen Structure and Use of Threats and Curses in Ancient Egypt by Rainer Hannig and Petra Vomberg. A well-presented dictionary of by Scott Morschauser. This study is divided into three topics: firstly, the Egyptian hieroglyphs (translated into German) presents the vocabularly form and structure of the threat-formula in ancient Egypt; secondly, the according to themes associated with the culture of ancient Egypt. These history of the threat-formula, and its use as a legal device; thirdly, the include: personal names, flora and fauna, the weather, cities and the possibility of whether the Egyptians had any terms or expressions for what countryside, anatomy, trade, virtues and vices, music, sexuality, sports, we have called the ‘threat-formula’. 268p (Halgo, Inc 1991) Pb £35.00 religion, art and architecture, mathematics, medicine, warfare and writing. Judgement of the Pharaoh: Crime and Punishment in Ancient 1029p (Von Zabern 1999) Hb £55.00 Egypt Archaeologies of Social Life by Joyce Tyldesley. This accessible and meticulously researched study by Lynn Meskell. Lynn Meskell takes a ‘third wave feminist approach’ to presents the dark side of ancient Egypt. Accompanied by numerous extracts the everyday life of ancient Egyptians, focusing primarily on social relations, from contemporary sources, Tyldesley examines the full range of crimes identity and the self, age, sex, class and ethnic distinctions. She takes as her that plagued Egypt, from grave robbing and necrophilia to the ‘murder’ of case study the village of Deir el Medina (c.1500-1100 BC) and the Tutankhamun, and state punishments. The book is divided into three community of royal workmen, architects and household servants, which parts: administration of the law, crimes against the state and civil or private inhabited it. 260p, b/w figs and pls (Blackwell 1999) Pb £17.99 offenses. 199p, 4p of b/w pls (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2000) Hb £20.00 Getting Old in Ancient Egypt Three Studies on Egyptian Feasts and their Chronological by Rosalind M Janssen and Jac J Janssen. ‘You should not mock an old man Implications or an old woman when they are decrepit. Beware lest they (take action) by Anthony Spalinger. Three studies discuss the interrelated problems of against you before you get old’. So runs an inscription in the Petrie Museum. chronology and Egyptian religious observance. Contents: New evidence This study covers aspects such as the aged in art, mummies and medicine, on Egyptian feasts; The Canopus stela; Wp Rnpt in the Esna Festival the real and ideal lifetime, care of the elderly and old age pensions. 192p Calendar. 68p, 4 b/w figs (Halgo 1992) Pb £26.00 (Rubicon 1996) Pb £14.95 Food fit for Pharaohs: An Ancient Egyptian Cookbook Vivre en Égypte au temps de Pharaon: Le message de la by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson. The great fertility of the Nile valley peinture égyptienne provided the ancient Egyptians with a delicious and wholesome diet ranging by Aude Gros De Beler. A fully illustrated journey through the art of from staples such as bread and beer to herbs and spices like dill, mint and Pharaonic Egypt that portray different aspects of everyday life. Themes cumin. Using these ingredients the author has created 35 recipes based on include: family, home; desert and countryside; art and artists; leisure; dishes the pharaohs and their people may have eaten. 64p, 20 col pls, 25 b/ transport; art; the sciences; men and authority; arms and the military; the w pls (BMP 1999) Hb £8.99 pharaohs. French text. 221p, many col pls (Errance 2001) Hb £22.50 Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt Medicine by Zahi Hawass. The history of Pharaonic Egypt was recorded by a literate and male elite but this well-illustrated volume presents that history through Catalogue of Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum Vol VII. the images of its women. Hawass presents stereotypical feminine Magical and Medical Papyri of the New Kingdom representations of queens, including Nefertiti and Nefertari, followed by by Christian Leitz. Five separate manuscripts that include incantations Queen Hatshepshut who declared herself King and was often represented against serpents, the Harris Magical Papyrus, the London Medical Papyrus in male costume. Hawass also examines images of ordinary women engaged and a book of aphrodisiacs. 224p, 144 b/w pls (BMP 2000) Hb £95.00 in everyday activities,and in religious and secular ritual 207p, 150 col illus Ancient Egyptian Medicine (Abrams 2000) Hb £32.00 by John F Nunn. The main source of Nunn’s painstaking study is ‘medical Die Ägypterinnen: Eine Kulturgeschichte papyri’, with further data from human remains and mummies, statues, by Christian Jacq. A new German edition of Jacq’s accessible study of the tomb-paintings and coffins. His exploration of Egyptian concepts of role of women in the culture of ancient Egypt. Drawing on a wide range anatomy, physiology and pathology, and their cures for various illnesses, of sources, Jacq initially focuses on women in power, such as Isis, Nerfetari, provides a wealth of information which is accessible to both researcher Nefertiti, Hatschepsut and Cleopatra. Other sections discuss images and and non-specialist. 240p, 80 b/w illus (BMP 1996) Pb £14.99 descriptions of women as lovers, wives and mothers, as workers and as Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin priests and spiritualists. 336p, b/w figs (1996, Artemis and Winkler German by Wolfhart Westendorf. An abridged and updated version of Hildegard edn 1998, Patmos Pb 2002) Pb £10.95 von Deines’ Grundrisz der Medizin der alten Ägypter, published 25 years ago. Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance, Aromatherapy and Cosmetics in This version traces Egyptian medicine from the 2nd millennium to the Ancient Egypt Roman period, based on papyri texts, ostraca, and archaeology. Chapters by Lise Manniche, photographs by Werner Forman. Many of the herbs and cover sources, patients, diseases, the physician, Coptic and Greek medicine. spices that are commonly used today as fragrances were also used by the 2 vols: 850p (Handbook of Oriental Studies 36, Brill 1998) Hb £120.00 ancient Egyptians: cinnamon, henna, iris, dill, juniper, mint, pine kernels. An Ancient Egyptian Herbal Manniche explores the raw materials, the plants, spices, flowers, oils, gums by Lise Manniche. A selection of 94 recipes and prescriptions for many and resins, and their different uses: in rituals as incense, for medicine, plants and herbs used in medicine, cooking, and perfumery with ancient scents associated with love, funerary gifts and perfumes purely for luxury. and modern Egyptian names, Coptic and Greek. Based primarily on an- Includes photographs of many exquisite objects from various private cient Egyptian and Coptic written sources. An introduction discusses gar- collections and museums. 160p, many col pls (Opus 1999) Hb £24.95 dens, and the use of plants in garlands, perfumery, and in the kitchen. Schminkpaletten 176p, figs (BMP 1989, new edn 1998) Pb £9.99 by Christina Regner. The focus of this book is the flat stone palettes used Die Heilpflanzen der Ägypter to grind minerals and mix them with grease, oil and/or resin to make eye by Renate Germer. A well-presented guide to Egyptian medicinal plants make-up, which was used by women, men and boys. Regner describes the and herbs and associated medical folklore. Germer also considers the wider palettes used from prehistoric times to the dynastic era, their size, find significance of plants within Egyptian culture, such as the lotus which was sites, chronology and the materials from which they were made. 114p, 46 regarded as a symbol of regeneration. The study is supported by iconographic figs (Harrassowitz 1996) Pb £28.00 and textual evidence as well as botanical remains found preserved with Wit and Humour in Ancient Egypt mummies. 175p, 73 b/w figs (Artemis and Winkler 2002) Hb £14.50 by Patrick F Houlihan. Not everyone is aware of the fact but the ancient The Divine Origin of the Craft of the Herbalist Egyptians did possess a sense of humour. Houlihan’s well-illustrated by E A Wallis Budge. A facsimile reprint of Wallis Budge’s history of study looks for examples of Egyptian wit and humour in their literature herbalism written in the late 1920s. He examines the earliest evidence for and art to determine what it was that made ancient Egyptians smile. the curative use of herbs and especially the role of the gods and knowledge These include instances of verbal humour, comical temple decorations of the healing properties of certain plants and substances. Based on textual and depictions of animals, caricatures or humorous sexual situations on sources in Greek, Latin, Syriac and Arabic, from Egypt, the Near East, papyri and ostraca. 170p, 146 b/w illus (Rubicon 2001) Hb £21.95, Pb £15.95 Ethiopia, and Abyssinia. 96p, 14 b/w illus (Kegan Paul 2002) Hb £65.00 8 EGYPTIAN DAILY LIFE

The Egyptian Calendar: A Work for Eternity Plants and Animals by Anne-Sophie von Bomhard. A detailed and analytical study of the Codex of Ancient Egyptian Plant Remains structure of the Egyptian calendar,which was based on an in-depth by Christian de Vartavan and Victoria Asensi Amoros. The authors present astronomical knowledge but evolved around mythology. Von Bomhard a codex of more than 4,600 identifications of Egyptian plant remains, describes the division of the year and the way in which the year was bringing together material from more than 350 archaeobotanical reports. perceived as part of a perfect cycle that would be complete in 1460 years. The entries, which cover the Palaeolithic to Islamic and Ottoman periods, This is a complex treatise, supplemented with numerous calendars from are listed alphabetically, preceded by a short French and English monuments, inscriptions and papyri, as well as astronomical and introduction. 401p (Triade Exploration 1997) Hb £70.00 mathematical diagrams. 105p, 91 col and b/w illus (Periplus 1999) Hb £48.00 Hidden Fields of Tutankhamun by Christian de Vartavan. A scholarly and detailed analysis of the plant Agriculture in Egypt: From Pharaonic to Modern Times material recovered from Tutankhamun’s tomb, rediscovered by the author edited by Alan K Bowman and Eugene Rogan. The papers in this volume in Kew’s Royal Botanical Garden.The fragments from the Pharaoh’s wreath draw on the abundant documentary and archaeological evidence to analyse and other vegetal matter found in the tomb were contaminated with seeds and compare the patterns of agricultural exploitation across the historical from many other crops and weeds. Based on a total of 145 different periods (including Ptolemaic, Roman and Ottoman times). Among impor- species, de Vartavan is able to reconstruct an ancient Egyptian field. 222p, tant themes discussed are: the changing composition of agrarian elites, 1 col pl and 60 b/w pls, b/w figs (Triade Exploration 1999) Pb £85.00 relationships between state, landholders and peasants, the impact of com- mercialization on the rural economy, technology, irrigation and water con- The Garden in Ancient Egypt trol, and changes in crop patterns and production. 456p, 14 figs, maps by Alix Wilkinson. Wilkinson focuses on garden design, as evidenced by (Proceedings of the British Academy 96, Oxford UP 1999) Hb £45.00 archaeological remains, written documentation on stone and papyrus, and visualization in models and paintings. It covers the entire history of Ancient Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology Egypt, from Predynastic times to the 30th Dynasty. 230p, 20 col pls, 90 figs edited by Paul T Nicholson and Ian Shaw. This detailed and technical (Rubicon 1998) Pb £18.95 book covers all aspects of craftsmanship in ancient Egypt, from the construction of the pyramids and the carving of statues to mummifica- Domestic Plants and Animals: Ancient Egyptian Origins tion, boat-building, jewellery-making, brewing, carpentry, hairstyling, tai- by D J Brewer, D B Redford and S Redford. This volume explores the loring and basket weaving. Drawing on archaeological, experimental, eth- development and extent of Egyptian agriculture and the various domestic nographic and laboratory work, the twenty-five chapters, by well-regarded species used. Illustrated with wall paintings and reliefs that give abundant scholars, present up-to-date and accessible information on a wide array of evidence of the ways in which the Egyptians used plants and animals in techniques. 500p, 393 figs, 26 tbs (Cambridge UP 2000) Hb £110.00 daily life. 160p, 94 figs, 6 tbs (Aris & Phillips 1994) Hb £35.00, Pb £30.00 Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry Das Tier im Alten Ägypten by Dieter Arnold. From the step pyramids at Saqqara to the obelisks of by Philippe Germond. Richly illustrated throughout, this is a colourful Tuthmosis III, the monuments of the pharaohs presented completely new exploration of the role of animals in Egyptian art and society. Germond challenges to Egyptian stone masons. This book discusses every aspect of demonstrates that animals were central to Egyptian religion and daily life, building technology, from planning, through quarrying and shaping to the reflecting the close relationship between the Egyptians and the natural final erection of the monuments. Arnold also examines how tombs were world around them. Using evidence from wall-paintings, reliefs, papyri, sealed and how damage and break-ins were dealt with. Richly illustrated sculpture, faience and hieroglyphs, sections examine the role of domesticated with photos and field drawings, ancient representations of building activities, animals, dangerous wild animals, the pantheon of gods and the magical and illustrations of tools and objects in museum collections. 336p, 139 b/ properties of animals. 223p, 279 col illus (Hirmer 2001) Hb £55.00 w pls (Oxford UP 1997) Pb £24.00 Mammals of Ancient Egypt Egyptian furniture making in the age of the Pharaohs by Dale J Osborn and J Osbornová. This encyclopedic and authoritative by Dan Svarth. The suite of furniture found in Tutankhamun’s tomb was book focuses on the mammals depicted by the Egyptians and the many typical of the many caches of furniture that have been preserved by roles they played: as gods, magical beings, medicine, food, for sport or Egypt’s dry climate. Although the contexts range from 12th to 20th Dy- simply as pets. Summaries are given of the present and past distributions nasty, the styles of furniture remain very much the same. The author, a 224p, of each species and there are extensive notes on their natural history. modern furniture maker who has studied and reproduced at model scale with many b/w pls (Aris & Phillips 1998) Pb £35.00 the furniture in the National Museum in Cairo, discusses the tools, mate- . Fish and Fishing in Ancient Egypt by D J Brewer and R F Friedman rials and techniques used by the ancient craftspeople, complemented by 128p, 14 col and 85 b/w pls (Aris & Phillips 1989) Hb £35.00, Pb £28.00 black and white and colour photographs as well as useful diagrams. Text in The Birds of Ancient Egypt by P F Houlihan with S M Goodman. Danish and English. 152p, b/w and col pls (Aarhus UP 1998) Hb £29.95 224p, 198 b/w pls (Aris & Phillips 1986) Hb £45.00, Pb £30.00 The Official Gift in Ancient Egypt The Cat in Ancient Egypt by Edward Bleiberg. Economic anthropology is used here to gain a fuller by N and B Langton. A catalogue of the authors’ collection of cat and understanding of the long-standing practice of the official exchanging of other Egyptian figures, including whole cat figures, heads, inscriptions, gifts between individuals of unequal status (inw-exchange). To overcome cat-shaped mummy cases, scarabs, amulets and jewellery. It includes a the problem of patchy and biased sources, the author first proposes a brief discussion of the worship of the cat and the goddess Bastet. A poor model to study this social obligation. This identifies reciprocity and redis- standard of illustrations. 92p, 19 b/w pls (Kegan Paul 2002) Hb £95.00 tribution at work, instead of the profit-making goal usually assumed to have been active. A curious insight into the cultural values of ancient Economy and Technology Egypt. 173p (Univ of Oklahoma 1996) Hb £22.50 Two Treasurers of the Late Middle Kingdom Transport in Ancient Egypt by Wolfram Grajetzki. Grajetzki explores a number of both published by Robert B Partridge. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that Egypt and unpublished sources to uncover the lives and work of two treasurers was ‘the gift of the Nile’. From papyrus rafts to the later construction of of the mid-13th Dynasty and the people around them. Evidence taken huge boats used for trade and transportation of heavy materials. Some from stelae reveals a picture of administration and different levels of ships and chariots have miraculously survived in the dry climate and the responsibility and authority among the officials of this period. 103p, 8 b/ author draws upon these examples, as well as contemporary illustrations, w pls, b/w figs (Archaeopress BAR S1007, 2001) Pb £25.00 to illuminate all aspects of transport over three thousand years ago. 160p, The World According to Basketry 122 b/w pls (Rubicon 1996) Pb £14.95 by Willemina Wendrich. A historical and technical analysis of the Handbook of Ancient Water Technology production and use of the basket in ancient Egypt with comparisons made edited by Orjan Wikander. A new book studying water use and water to contemporary basket makers in central and southern Egypt. The study technology from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic Ocean, covering the Neolithic focuses in particular on two sites, Tell el-’Amarna (c.1350 BC) and Qasr period to c.AD600. Eleven authors deal with the archaeological and writ- Ibrim in Nubia (3rd century BC to 6th century AD). An accompanying 60 ten evidence on subjects such as irrigation and drainage, water supply, minute video illustrates some of the findings of the book. 492p, num b/w water in recreation, large hydraulic works, water legislation and adminis- illus, video (CNWS, Leiden University 1999) Pb £36.50 tration. 608p, 100 illus (Brill 1999) Hb £119.00 9 RELIGION AND MAGIC

Imhotep RELIGION by Jamieson B Hurry. The magician-physician Imhotep served King Zoser (who reigned 2630-2611 BC) and, unsusually for a mortal, had been elevated to full deity status as god of medicine by the Ptolemaic period. AND MAGIC This is a reprint of Hurry’s 1926 account of the historical figure, his deification and ancient Egyptian medicine. 118p, 17 b/w illus (Oxford UP Religion and Society in Ancient Egypt 1926, rep 2000) Hb £12.99 by John Baines. This book locates Egyptian religion within its social con- Ägyptische Hymnen und Gebete text and discusses theoretical questions that arise from the evidence. The by Jan Assmann. German translations, with notes, of over 240 ancient topics covered include religious institutions and their place in a complex Egyptian hymns and prayers. These are preceded by an extensive discussion civilisation; the temple; interaction between the living and the dead; magic of the provenance of the texts, most of which are from temples and and divination. 280p (Athlone January 2003) Hb £55.00 tombs, their historical and religious context, their type and function as Ancient Egyptian Religion well as their literary characteristics. Includes a discussion of the Amarna by Henri Frankfort. An unabridged reprint of a study that unravels some period. This is a second, expanded edition. 569p (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht of the mysteries of the various myths, doctrines and religious practices of 2nd edn 1999) Pb £68.50 the ancient Egyptians. Frankfort argues that religious practices involved Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Curses and Blessings an underlying unity that pervaded and shaped all aspects of Egyptian life. by Katarina Nordh. The focus of this dissertation is the place of curse and 208p (Columbia UP 1948, Dover rep 2000) Pb £8.50 blessing formulae in Egyptian thought. Nordh explores the concepts relat- Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt ing to curse and blessing, the form, function and content of the formulae by Rosalie David. Drawing on all manner of sources, both archaeological and the concepts about communication which they reveal. 232p (Almqvist and literary, this is a well-written and accessible investigation of the role & Wiksell 1996) Pb £26.00 of religion in the evolution of ancient Egypt’s civilisation between c.5000 Les Prophéties de l’Egypte Ancienne BC and AD 500. After an initial look at the significance of the Nile in the by André Fermat and Michel Lapidus. The prophecies of Egypt were shaping of Egypt’s religion, Rosalie David examines the beliefs that de- recorded in the speeches of sages who had the ability to see into the future. fined each Dynastic Period in turn. These include the sun cult of the Old The prophecies of three sages are presented in this book, in both hiero- Kingdom, Osiris of the Middle Kingdom and the heresies and conflicts of glyphic form and in French translation. 250p (La Maison de Vie 1999) Pb the New Kingdom. Finally, the book looks at the influence of Greco- £21.50 Roman religions. Throughout the study, David explains her terms and supports her case with extracts from contemporary texts as well as exami- Liber Aegyptius: The Book of Egyptian Magic nations of the iconography and layout of paintings and monuments. In- by Mélusine Draco. Based on translations of a wealth of Egyptian magical cludes a full glossary. 488p, 51 b/w pls, 24 b/w figs, (Penguin 2002) Pb £9.99 and religious texts, Draco presents an introduction to the magical mysteries of the Nile which, she claims, still influence western traditions of magic Die Religion der Ägypter and mysticism. The author combines controversial and earlier ‘atmospheric’ by Adolf Erman. First published in 1934, this new edition of Erman’s interpretations of hidden chambers, astronomical theories and secret texts detailed and scholarly investigation of the development of Egyptian with recent archaeological evidence to produce short descriptions of gods, religion over a period of 4,000 years is introduced by Jan Assmann. objects, places, curses, rituals and texts. 240p (Ignotius 1998) Pb £9.95 Drawing on hieroglyphic evidence, Erman compares organised religion and theology in the Old and New Kingdoms and examines the origin of Amulets and Magic the pantheon of gods, temples, magic and the influence of eastern, Greek by E A Wallis Budge. Amulets and talismans have always been used, by and Roman cultures. 483p, b/w figs (1934, de Gruyter 2001) Hb £30.00 both ancient and modern cultures, as a means of protection against evil Reallexikon der ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte and for therapeutic powers. Wallis Budge’s study, first published in the 1930s, translates and interprets original Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, by Hans Bonnet. An A-Z of Egyptian religion, featuring gods, temples, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic and Muslim texts concerning ring amulets, towns, pharaohs, hieroglyphs, finds, animals, burial rituals, monuments, gemstones, Kabbalist names and signs, planet stones, mystical numbers, symbols, astrology, priests, texts and much more. Many entries are lengthy lucky and unlucky days and symbols such as the cross, evil eye and swastika. and all are referenced. 883p, b/w figs (de Gruyter 2000) Hb £42.50 543p, 22 b/w pls, 300 b/w figs (Kegan Paul 2001) Hb £95.00 The Cult of Ra: Sun-Worship in Ancient Egypt by Stephen Quirke. Aimed at the general reader, this is a well-illustrated Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt and informative investigation of the archaeological, epigraphic and by Sherif El-Sabban. The temple calendars of ancient Egypt contained iconographic evidence for the cult of Ra. Beginning with the first Bronze the dates of religious festivals and the supplies needed for these and other Age depictions of Ra, Quirke examines the development of the mythology, religious cults. The author places these calendars in their social and reli- the measurement of time, solar hymns and rituals, associated architecture, gious context, exploring Egyptian attitudes to worship and the gods from and the cult’s fullest expression during the reign of Akhenaten. 184p, 97 the Archaic period to Greco-Roman times. 240p, pls (Liverpool UP 2000) b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2001) Hb £18.95 Hb £49.95 My Heart My Mother: Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt Der Himmel über Esna: Eine Fallstudie zur Religiösen by Alison Roberts. Roberts looks at many different aspects of Egyptian Astronomie in Agypten religion from the role of Hathor-Sekhmet, the serpent eye goddess, in the by Alexandra von Lieven. An exploration of later Egyptian cosmology cult of Osiris, to the reliefs in the temple at Abydos, and more general and religious astronomy based on an examination of the hieroglyphs and discussions of temple life, ancestor ritual, death, rebirth and regeneration. artworks of the Romano-Egyptian temple of Esna. Von Lieven’s thesis 272p, 170 b/w illus (Northgate 2000) Pb £16.99 presents 32 texts, with a German translation and commentary, followed by a discussion of the symbolism behind some of the temple’s paintings Hathor Rising: The serpent power of Ancient Egypt which depict the heavens above Esna. Includes a glossary of vocabulary by Alison Roberts. This exploration into the cult of Hathor during the and gods. 248p, b/w figs, tbs (AA 64, Harrassowitz 2000) Pb £45.50 New Kingdom, uses texts, archaeology and iconography to expose the Serpent goddess. The author emphasises particularly how female officials Egyptian Religion: The Last Thousand Years used Hathor worship as an expression of their political power, focusing on edited by Willy Clarysse, Antoon Schoors and Harco Willems. 96 papers the cult’s apotheosis under Hatshepsut, the innovative female pharaoh. on Egyptian religion in the Greco-Roman period, dedicated to the memory 186p, 182 b/w illus (Northgate 1995) Pb £13.99 of Jan Quaegebeur. Includes essays on: Anubis, gods of Memphis, Apis The Priests of Ancient Egypt and other sacred animals, the temple of Khonsou at Karnak, the wives of Horus and the Philinna papyrus, dating the papyri Joseph Smith I, X, XI. 2 by Serge Sauneron and translated by David Lorton. A highly readable vols, 1523p (Peeters 1998) Hb £185.00 account of the priests, beliefs and organised religion of ancient Egypt. Sauneron presents the religious and physical landscape of ancient Egypt Le Culte du Souverain dans l’Égypte Ptolémaïque au IIIe through its temples and tombs accompanied by numerous extracts from siècle avant notre ère Egyptian and classical texts. This study fulfils Sauneron’s principal aim to edited by Henri Melaerts. The proceedings of an international conference make Egyptology accessible to a wider audience. 215p, b/w figs (Seuil held in Brussels on May 10th, 1995, with papers discussing the ruler cult 1957, English edn 1998, Cornell UP 2000) Hb £24.50 among the Egyptian pharaohs. 108p (Peeters 1998) Pb £25.50 10 GODS AND MYTHS/TOMBS, GRAVES AND SHRINES GODS AND MYTHS TOMBS, GRAVES Egyptian Gods and Myths AND SHRINES by Angela P Thomas. A short introduction to the complex belief systems of the ancient Egyptians. Thomas discusses animal and cosmic deities, Giza Mastabas VII: The Senedjemib Complex Part I myths and legends, the deification of individuals, life, death and the afterlife. by Edward Brovarski, edited by Peter der Manuelian and William Kelly Includes a glossary of the major gods and goddesses. 64p, 48 b/w figs (Shire Simpson. Located at the northwest corner of the Great Pyramid, the 1986, rep 1989, 1992, 2001) Pb £4.99 Senedjemib Complex contains the well-known tombs of the Senedjemib The Gods of Ancient Egypt Inti (G2370) and his son Senedjemib Mehi (G2378), who served the kings by Pascal Vernus and Erich Lessing. An exploration of the role of religion Isesi and Unis respectively as viziers and overseers of royal works. in ancient Egyptian culture and daily life. This is a large-format book with Excavations in 1912-13 revealed that their tombs (plus G2374, the tomb a brief text punctuated by many fine photographs by Erich Lessing, which of Khnumenti, G2374) formed part of a great complex of family tombs conveys the fundamentals of Egyptian religion. There are suggestions for erected around a paved court, and that four generations of the Senedjemib further reading, a glossary, maps and a chronology. 202p, col pls (Tauris family served as viziers of Egypt and royal architects over a hundred year Parke 1998) Hb £39.50 period in the later old Kingdom. The tombs document changes in tomb µ Gods of Ancient Egypt architecture and decoration from the end of the fifth dynasty to the end of the sixth. Also includes two lengthy autobiographical inscriptions.326p, by Barbara Watterson. This study of Egyptian gods and goddesses comprises 2 col illus, many b/w illus (Giza Mastabas 7, 2002) Hb £150.00 a gazetteer of the major deities, with details of relevant mythology and the characteristics of their sanctuaries and holy places. Illustrated with colour The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara photographs and written in an engaging style. 249p, 90 illus (Batsford 1984, Vol 1: The Tombs of Nedjet-em-pet, Ka-aper and others. Sutton 1996, Pb 1999) Hb £25.00, Pb £14.99 by N Kanawati and A Hassan. A detailed look at the tombs of A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Nedjet-em-pet, Ka-aper, Ibi, Geref/Itji and their families and dependants. This volume records the finds cleared from the present excavation to the by George Hart. A reprint of this concise illustrated A to Z of Egyptian north of Teti’s pyramid (Sixth Dynasty) in 1994/5. The overall aims of the deities and their physical attributes and characteristics. 229p, b/w figs project remain the production of a detailed map of tomb locations, to (Routledge 1986, 8th rep 1999) Pb £12.99 explore important sections of the cemetery left still uninvestigated, and to Pocket Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses complete the reports of mastabas never before fully published. 76p, 65 b/ by George Hart. With a different god presented on each page, this slim w pls (ACE 8, 1996) Pb £40.00 guide provides a colourful introduction to Egyptian religion. Short Vol 2: The Tomb of Ankhmahor descriptions are accompanied by illustrations of paintings, sculptures by N Kanawati and A Hassan. 74p, 73 b/w pls (ACE 9, 1997) Pb £49.00 and artefacts. 48p, col illus (BMP 2001) Hb £6.99 Vol 3: The Tombs of Neferseshemre and Seankhuiptah Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt by N Kanawati and M Abder-Raziq. 74p, 76 b/w pls, 2 col pls (ACE 11, by Robert A Armour. Armour’s enjoyable and clearly presented guide to 1998) Pb £40.00 the gods and myths of Egypt, first published in 1986, has now been revised Vol 4: Minor Burials and Other Material with numerous photographs and figure drawings depicting each god in its by N Kanawati et al. Reports on the simple graves of lower class Memphites, characteristic form. Drawing together religious texts, inscriptions and interred with a humble range of funerary goods. The publication includes paintings, Armour retells Egypt’s most significant myths in accessible and small finds and pottery, mostly of New Kingdom date, and a report on the lively prose. 207p, b/w illus, figs (AUCP 1986, 2nd edn 2001) Pb £15.95 skeletal material. c.100p (ACE 12, 2000) Pb £40.00 Vol 5. The Tomb of Hesi The Search for God in Ancient Egypt by N Kanawati and M Abder-Raziq. In addition to the text, the publica- by Jan Assmann. An English translation of Assmann’s views on ancient tion includes a complete record of architectural features and the scenes Egyptian religion, theology and piety. It includes in–depth discussions of and inscriptions in photographs and facsimile drawings. c.100p (ACE 13, complex theological and religious concepts within Egyptian belief systems, 2000) Pb £40.00 polytheism, myth, the universe and so on. 275p 6 b/w figs (Cornell UP Engl Vol 6. The Tomb of Nikauisesi edn 2001) Hb £30.50, Pb £14.50 by N Kanawati. The tomb of Nikauisesi, belonging to the transitional Egyptian Divinities: The All Who are the One period between Dynasties 5 and 6, was discovered in 1979 but has remained by Moustafa Gadalla. This brief examination of Egyptian religion argues unpublished until now. This volume contains a complete record of the that the ancient Egyptians believed in only one god and that each divinity architecture, scenes, inscriptions, objects and human remains found in was created to represent or symbolise different aspects of that one deity. the tomb. 76p, 73 b/w pls (ACE 14, 2000) Pb £45.00 Gadalla examines the role and symbolism of each god or goddess in turn, Vol 7. The Tombs of Shepsipuptah, Mereri, Hefi and Others highlighting their place within Egyptian theology. Each divinity is illus- by N Kanawati. This previously unpublished group of tombs were cleared trated. 127p, b/w figs (Tehuti Research Foundation 2001) Pb £7.99 by the Egyptian Antiquities Authority in the early 1980s. The tombs provide Gods, Priests and Men: Studies in the Religion of Pharonic Egypt interesting information on Teti’s reign. 76p, 42 pls, col and b/w illus (ACE 17, 2002) Pb £45.00 edited by Alan B Lloyd. A collection of the most important papers on Egyptian religion by Aylward Manley Blackman (1883-1956). His work Tombs at Giza, Volume 1: Kaiemankh (G4561) and focused particularly on religious practices, and these 24 essays examine Seshemnefer I (G4940) aspects of belief, rituals of the cult of the dead, the cult of the temple and by N Kanawati. A report on two tombs: Kaiemankh, who held the offices methods of communication between the Gods and men. Also includes an of Superintendent of the Treasury and Superintendent of Priests, and updated bibliography. 320p, pls (Kegan Paul 1998) Hb £150.00 Seshemnefer I, the Royal Chamberlain, Priest of Heket, Judge and Le Zodiaque d’Osiris Administrator. In this volume Kanawati includes historical details on the occupants of the tombs and their date, as well as discussions of the by S Cauville. This introduction to the intriguing zodiac set in stone at Dendara offers a tantalising glimpse into the mysteries of Osiris. From the inscriptions and architectural features, with descriptions and illustrations 68p, 51 pls (2 general principles of astronomy and astrology to a close assessment of the of the decorative schemes and pictorial scenes within them. in col) (ACE 16, 2001) Pb £45.00 image itself, this enlightened survey brings an air of magic to Egyptology. 81p, col pls and figs (Peeters 1997) Pb £16.00 From Farmers to Pharaohs: Mortuary evidence Thoth: The Hermes of Egypt for the rise of complex society in Egypt by Patrick Boylan. Friend and legal adviser to Osiris’ son and heir Horus, by Kathyrn A Bard. By examining the mortuary evidence Thoth was one of the five principal deities. This is a thorough examination from the two Predynastic cemeteries at Armant and of references to Thoth in ancient Egyptian literature and ritual, and in Nagada in Upper Egypt, this book analyses the rise of Greco-Roman texts of the Ptolemaic period. The study refers particularly complex society in the region, and reveals a movement to the early Pyramid texts and the Book of the Dead. 215p (Oxford UP towards increasing social differentiation in Egyptian 1922, rep 1998) Hb £12.99 society. 144p, 18 text-figs (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 2, Sheffield AP 1994) Hb £37.50 11 TOMBS, GRAVES AND SHRINES

Umm El-Qaab 1: Das prädynastische Konigsgrab U-j und seine The Complete Valley of the Kings frühen Zeugnisse by Nicholas Reeves and Richard H Wilkinson. A tour through the history by Günter Dreyer. A large publication of the recently discovered predynastic and archaeology of the Valley of the Kings. This book describes the topog- royal grave U-j in Umm El-Qaab, the oldest known graveyard in the Nile raphy of the site, the construction and history of the monuments and early Valley, and its early written testimonies. Contains an analysis of the history investigations by travellers and antiquarians. The major excavations are and development of the grave architecture and its finds, a catalogue and discussed in terms of the key personalities involved, the tombs dug and analysis of the ceramics and small finds, and a final summarising chapter important finds uncovered and it includes some of the most up-to-date with a reconstruction of the chronology of dynasties and their names. research. A very full and well-illustrated introduction. 224p, 200 b/w and 195p, 109 b/w illus, 47 pls (Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 86, Von Zabern col illus (Thames & Hudson 1996) Hb £19.95 1999) Hb £75.00 Atlas of the Valley of the Kings Umm El-Qaab II: Importkeramik aus dem Friedhof U in edited by Kent R Weeks. A detailed atlas of the Valley of the Kings Abydos (Umm El-Qaab) und die Beziehungen Ägyptens zu including 44 tombs surveyed by the Theban Mapping Project. This atlas, Vorderasien im 4. Jahrtausend v. Chr. also published as a CD-Rom, is in both English and Arabic making it by Ulrich Hartung. A comprehensive report, based on a dissertation, of accessible to a wide audience. The accurate plans, sections and detailed the imported ceramics discovered during excavations of Cemetery U in records of the tombs are an important archive on a series of monuments Abydos, Egypt. The illustrated catalogue is preceded by an extensive that are constantly under threat from the impact of tourism and modern discussion of the provenance and typology of the vessels and is followed environmental conditions. 72 b/w maps (AUCP 2000) Hb £125.00 by a discussion of relations between Egypt and the Near East during the Explorers and Artists in the Valley of the Kings 4th millennium BC. The volume concludes with six contributions which by Catharine H Roehrig. This book tells the story of some of the men who focus on specific finds or analyses. These include three English essays that travelled to western Thebes between c.1740 and 1860, and especially the discuss the organic remains from Palestinian-type wine flagons, Neutron etchings, sketches and watercolours that they made to record the many Activation analysis of the same jars and the petrography of the Canaanite monuments and landscapes that they saw. Fully illustrated throughout this pottery. 481p, b/w pls and illus (Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 92, Von is the story of the rediscovery of Egypt through the lives and travels of Zabern 2001) Hb £78.50 key figures such as Belzoni, Dominique Vivant Denon, Emile Prisse Excavations in the Locality 6 Cemetery at Hierakonpolis 1979- D’Avennes and William Henry Bartlett. 96p, many col pls (AUCP 2001) Hb 1985 £20.50 by Barbara Adams. Hierakonpolis, located less than 100km south of Luxor, KV5: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Tomb of has been excavated at various times since the end of the 19th century with the Sons of Rameses II in the Valley of the Kings much work carried out by Michael Hoffman in the 1980s. This report edited by Kent R Weeks. Tomb KV5 of the Theban acropolis turned out builds on Hoffman’s work and forms the background to renewed to be one of the most important and one of the largest tombs ever found investigations at the site by Adams and others. It presents material from 12 in Egypt. With its complex of 150 corridors, numerous chambers and tombs which are part of the large cemetery, including descriptions of the levels, it is unique. This volume comprises the first technical report on tomb form and type, and artifacts found within them, as well as plant, KV5 including many illustrations, plans and diagrams. Many of the human and faunal remains. These finds are then compared with material individual chambers and corridors are discussed in detail followed by a from other parts of the Hierakonpolis site. 316p, 30 b/w figs, 45 b/w pls incl discussion of wall decoration, inscribed objects, pottery, fauna and 4 in col (Egyptian Studies Association Publication No. 4, BAR S903, 2000) Pb conservation of the material. Appendices include details on mineralogical £45.00 analyses, hydraulics, geotechnical studies and the state of the KV 5 tomb. The Tombs of Amenhotep, Khnummose and Amenmose at c.210p, 117 figs and pls (AUCP 2000) Hb £26.95 Thebes The Tomb of Amenhab No 44 at Qurnah by Nigel Strudwick, assisted by Helen M Strudwick. Based on fieldwork by by Hassan el-Saady. A detailed record of one of the many unpublished Cambridge University from 1984-1990, this splendid book publishes three tomb-chapels from western Thebes, belonging to Amenhab. The paintings 18th Dynasty tombs located around a single courtyard on the Theban West include some unusual scenes, such as the cult of the great ramheaded Bank. It provides a full historical sketch of each, finds catalogue, discussion Standards of Amon, and the rite of smashing pots at funerals, very rarely of the human remains, pottery, animal bones and botanical reports. 2 Vols: shown in Egyptian art. The text describes the contents of the tomb, with 203p, 8 col, 35 b/w pls; slipcase with 36 plans and illus (Griffith Institute Monograph English translations of all the decipherable hieroglyphic texts. 136p, 57 1996) Hb £200.00 illus (Aris & Phillips 1997) Pb £42.00 After the Pyramids: The Valley of the Kings and Beyond Die thebanische Nekropole: Zum Wandel des Grabgedankens by Adrian Dodson. A chronological overview of the funerary monuments von der XVIII bis zur XX Dynastie of Egypt, beginning with the last pyramids and ending with the tombs of by Friedrike Kampp. Since 1983 German excavations in the pharaonic the Ptolemaic Periods in the Nile Delta. The architecture and decoration burial grounds of Thebes have revealed hundreds of new monuments of the tombs, along with their contents, are discussed in detail, including from all periods. This massive two-volume work describes the rock tombs the results of more recent excavation in the Valley of the Kings. The of the New Kingdom period. Although many of these have been plun- discussion is accompanied by numerous photographs of the tombs, their dered, the architecture and inscriptions survive. Largely a catalogue of artwork and plans of the funerary complexes which show the development surviving remains with references to all the known literature on the graves. of both architectural styles and religious beliefs. 206p, 133 b/w illus (Rubicon Fold-out plans of each grave location and detailed diagrams. Text in Ger- 2000) Hb £22.95, Pb £16.95 man. Vol 1: 490p, 382 figs; Vol 2: 284p, 313 figs, 7 fold-out plans (Theben 13, Valley of the Kings: Exploring the Tombs of the Pharaohs Von Zabern 1996) Hb £187.00 by John Romer. First published in 1981, this is a fascinating account of Life and Death in Ancient Egypt the archaeological rediscovery of the Valley of the Kings. Drawing on a by Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes, translated by David Warburton. An English wide range of contemporary documents, illustrations and plans, many of translation of Hodel-Hoenes’ beautifully illustrated study of the private which are included here, John Romer examines the adventures and tombs of New Kingdom Thebes. The tombs of eleven civil servants are excavations of travellers and archaeologists over the last 200 years, with included, with detailed descriptions of the layout, artwork and inscriptions, emphasis on the great discoveries of the early 20th century. This study each of which is accompanied by colour photographs. The revised also examines the tombs themselves – the builders, pharaohs, iconography introductory chapter considers the importance of the tombs as a group and history. 373p, 16p of col pls, b/w figs (1981, Phoenix Pb 2001) Pb and discusses the beliefs of their occupants. 329p, 215 col pls (1991, Cornell £14.99 UP English rev edn 2000) Hb £34.50 The Valley of the Kings and the Theban Tombs Tomb KV39 in the Valley of the Kings by Alberto Siliotti. An illustrated pocket guide to eleven of the principal by John Rose. John Rose’s search for the tomb of Amenhotep led him to tombs of the Valleys of the Kings and the Queens plus four Tombs of direct a series of excavations at Tomb KV39 in the Valley of the Kings. the Nobles and two tombs at Deir el-Medina. The brief description of This report on the excavations includes details on the tomb itself, the finds each tomb is accompanied by photographs and a plan which indicate and specialist reports on the human remains, pottery, mummy cloth, mud features of particular interest. 48p, over 160 col illus and maps (Egypt Pocket seals, chemical analyses, geology and restoration. 158p, 226 b/w pls, 18 b/ Guide, AUCP 2000) Pb £8.50 w figs (WASP 2000) Hb £50.00 12 TOMBS, GRAVES AND SHRINES

Das Grab des Hui und des Kel: Theben Nr 54 The Tomb of Simut (Kyky): Theban Tomb 409 at Qurnah by Daniel Polz. A report on the architecture and decoration of tomb 54 in by Maged Negm. This book provides the first full record of Theban Tomb Thebes, built during the reign of Amenophis III, for Hui and his wife, both 409: that of Simut called Kyky, the Chief Counter of Cattle of Amun probably foreigners. A hundred years later the chamber was appropriated during the reign of Ramesses II. The decoration of the tomb is interesting and re-used by an official, Kel, and his family. Though detailed, the report for its subject matter, variety of detail and artistic presentation, and in is not overly technical, and the tomb-decoration is well-illustrated through particular for its funerary and religious scenes and texts. Based on new the plates. 200p, illus, 18 col pls, 25 b/w pls (Von Zabern 1997) Hb £76.00 photographs and a thorough reappraisal of the texts. 120p (Aris & Phillips Das Grab Nr 55 im Königsgräbertal 1997) Pb £38.00 by Wolfgang Helck. A concise archaeological report on the excavation of A Tomb from the Reign of Tutankhamun at Awlad Azzaz KV 55 in the Valley of the kings by the German Archaeological Institute. (Akhmim) Helck considers the location of the tomb, situated between those of by Boyo G Ockinga. Inscriptions have dated this large tomb, situated to Tutankhamun and Ramesses II, the occupier Semenchkare, the structure the west of the Red Monastery at Sohag, to the reign of Tutankhamun. It and lay-out of the tomb, the sarcophagus, inscriptions and the is believed to have been intended for two ‘Overseers of Nurses’. This book archaeological history of KV 55. German text. 67p, b/w figs (DAI Abteilung reports on the archaeological and epigraphic investigations that have led to kairo Sonderschrift 29, Von Zabern 2001) Hb £27.00 these conclusions and discusses the monument’s historical context – the The Tomb of Thoutmôsis IV turbulent years following the death of Tutankhamun. 144p, 74 pls, 31 pls, edited by Theodore M Davis. First published in 1904, this is Davis’ full 43 illus (ACE 10, 1998) Pb £40.00 report on Howard Carter’s discovery of Tuthmosis IV’s rich tomb which The Tombs of El-Hagarsa had not been disturbed for 3,000 years. Much of the volume comprises Vol 1: by N Kanawati. Detailed report on the tombs of Kai-em-Nefert, Carter and Newberry’s illustrated catalogue of the large number of Nefert-Her, Sobek-Nefer, Khewi, An-Ankhi, Iufu, Mery at El-Hagarsa on artefacts that were found. Includes a historical essay on the pharaoh and the west bank of the Nile. 68p, 46 b/w pls (ACE 4/Aris & Phillips 1993) a paper on the mummy, removed from the tomb in c.1000 BC and Pb £40.00 discovered in 1898. 195p, 28 b/w pls, b/w illus (Constable 1904, Duckworth Vol 2: by N Kanawati (ACE 1995) Pb £40.00 2002) Pb £19.99 Vol 3: by N Kanawati (ACE 1995) Pb £40.00 The Tomb of Siphtah with The Tomb of Queen Tîyi Las tumbas reales egipcias del Tercer Período Intermedio by Theodore M Davis. Davis’ excavation (1905-1908) of the tomb of (dinastías XXI-XXV): Tradición y cambios the king ‘Siphtah’ uncovered the greatest hoard of 19th Dynasty jewellery by José Lull. This study looks at continuity and change in burial practices ever found along with a collection of mummified pets, including a dog, and funerary traditions in the Third Intermediate Period, the 21st to 25th a duck and several monkeys. The original volume, which provides a full Dynasties. Focusing primarily on the royal cemetery of Tanis, Lull studies record of the discoveries, is here reissued along with Davis’ account of in detail the architecture of the tombs, methods of burial, their chronol- his rediscovery of Tomb 55 which contained a mummy then identified as ogy, the burial traditions and ritual that followed burial, and the texts and Queen Tîye and now believed to be an male Amarna-period pharaoh, iconography that were featured on the walls of the tombs. Spanish text possibly even Akhenaten himself. 72p, b/w pls and 80p, 35 b/w pls (1908, with 12 page English summary. 326p, b/w pls and figs, tbs (Archaeopress BAR 1910, Duckworth 2001) Pb £19.99 S1045, 2002) Pb £42.00 The Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou with the Funeral Papyrus of Iouiya The Tut’ankhamun Tomb Series edited by Theodore M Davis. Iouiya and Touiyou were the parents-in-law of King Amenophis III (XVIIIth Dynasty). This book describes the exca- I A Handlist of Howard Carter’s Catalogue of Objects vation of the tomb, the coffins, mummies and the grave goods accompa- by H Murray and M Nuttall. 30p (Griffith Institute 1963) £12.00 nying them. 192p, 78 b/w pls (Duckworth 2000) Pb £19.99 II Hieratic Inscriptions Tutankhamun: Eternal Splendour of Boy Pharaoh by J Cerny. 60p (Griffith Institute 1965) £12.00 by T G H James, photographs by Araldo de Luca. This large book contains III Composite Bows many colour photographs by Araldo De Luca who was granted by W McLeod. 68p (Griffith Institute 1970) £12.00 unprecedented access to the objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, the IV Self Bows and other Archery Tackle majority of which are not on public display. T.G.H. James provides an by W McLeod. 85p (Griffith Institute 1982) £20.00 authoritative account of the research carried out by Lord Carnarvon and V The Human Remains Howard Carter which led to the discovery of the tomb, an overview of by F Filce Leek. 104p (Griffith Institute 1972) £12.00 the reign of Tutankhamun and a description of the tomb and the objects VI Musical Instruments found within it. The photographs are stunning in their beauty and attention by L Manniche. 48p (Griffith Institute 1976) £12.00 to detail and form one of the best visual archives to the tomb of VII Game Boxes and Accessories Tutankhamun published to date. 319p, many col pls (Tauris Parke 2000) Hb by W J Tait. 63p (Griffith Institute 1982) £20.00 £39.50 VIII Chariots and Related Equipment The Tombs of Harmhabi and Toutânkhamanou by M A Littauer and J H Crouwel. 118p (Griffith Institute 1985) £45.00 by Theodore M Davis. A reissue of Davis’ account of his last great IX Model Boats discovery in the Valley of the Kings. In 1908 Davis discovered the richly by D Jones. 126p, 38 pls (Griffith Institute 1990) £42.00 decorated tomb and ornate sarcophagus of Horemheb [Harmhabi], Price for the set: £125.00 Tutankhamun’s general and the founder of the 19th Dynasty. The other Corpus der Hieroglyphischen Inschriften aus dem Grab des tomb described here was mistakenly interpreted as that of Tutankhamun Tutanchamun. himself. 135p, 91 b/w pls, b/w illus (1912, Duckworth 2001) Pb £19.99 by H Beinlich and M Saleh. 298p (Griffith Institute 1989) Hb £45.00 The Tomb of Tut.ankh.amen: The Annexe and Treasury The Sarcophagus in the Tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter. Originally published in 1933, this third volume in by M Eaton-Krauss. 32p, 20 pls, 4 figs (Griffith Institute 1993) Hb £25.00 Howard Carter’s trilogy of books describes the discovery and investiga- tion of the annexe and treasury, two store rooms containing a wealth of The Small Golden Shrine from funerary gifts for the king. 256p, 80 b/w pls (Duckworth 2000) Pb £16.99 the Tomb of Tutankhamun by M Eaton-Krauss and E Graefe. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.amen Vol 2: The Burial Chamber 43p, 29 pls (Griffith Institute 1985) Hb by Howard Carter. This is a reprint of Howard Carter’s report on the £22.00 second and third seasons of excavations at the tomb of Tutankhamun, originally published in 1927. It details ‘the opening of the four protective Stone Vessels, Pottery, and shrines; the discovery within Tutankhamun’s quartz-sandstone Sealings from the Tomb of sarcophagus; the extraction of the king’s three anthropoid coffins.. and Tutankhamun the final examination of the pharaoh’s splendidly bejewelled mummy’. edited by J Baines. 266p (Griffith In- 367p, 88 b/w pls (Cassell 1927, rep Duckworth 2001) Pb £16.99 stitute 1994) Hb £60.00 13 DEATH AND MUMMIES

Instruments d’embaumement de l’Egypte DEATH by Francis Janot. An exploration of the everyday lives and work of Egyptian embalmers based on textual and archaeological evidence. Janot looks at the work of these professionals, the instruments and techniques that they AND MUMMIES used. Includes gruesome photos of experimental work carried out using replica instruments. 285p, 86 b/w pls, b/w figs (Bibliotheque d’étude 125, The Mummy Congress Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 2000) Pb £25.00 by Heather Pringle. The recent Third World Congress on Mummy Studies held in the peculiarly arid town of Arica, Chile, a ‘mummy expert’s Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt Mecca’, is the starting point for this extremely entertaining tour through by John Garstang. A reprint of Garstang’s 1907 account of his excavations the exciting discoveries and controversies that abound in mummy studies. of the necropolis of Beni Hassan during 1902-04. The small rock tombs, Heather Pringle, a journalist with a scientific interest in the ancient mostly dating from the 3rd and 4th Dynasties, contained well-preserved world, discusses the background for the papers presented at the Congress burials of court officials, with elaborate furniture still in its original and reveals the prejudices and eccentricities of some of the experts. position. The report includes a discussion of the clothing, personal Pringle highlights the value of mummy studies for modern medical ornaments and the craftwork and considers the wider implications of the knowledge while reflecting on recent controversies, notably the theory discoveries. 250p, 231 b/w illus (Kegan Paul 2002) Hb £125.00 that Egyptian mummies used cocaine and the squabbles concerning the The Tomb and Beyond: Burial Customs of Egyptian Officials authenticity of mummies in China. 368p, 16 col pls (Fourth Estate 2001, by Naguib Kanawati. This general study of Egyptian burial customs and Pb 2002) Pb £7.99 belief systems is aimed at a non-specialist readership. Drawing on literary, Horemkenesi: May He Live Forever! architectural and artistic evidence Kanawati explores the relationships edited by David Dawson, Sue Giles and Michael Ponsford. In the 11th between the living and the dead. 134p, 148 b/w figs, 65 b/w and col pls century BC a 50-year-old priest called Horemkenesi was buried at Deir el- (Aris and Phillips 2001) Pb £28.00 Bahri. Three thousand years later Mummy Ha 7836 was systematically Social Aspects of Funerary Culture in the Egyptian Old and unwrapped by a team at Bristol Museum. The story of how an official at Middle Kingdoms the necropolis in Thebes came to the UK and how his life and death were edited by Harco Willems. These seven papers, taken from a symposium reconstructed through painstaking scientific research is told in this, the held in Berlin in 1998, outline recent research on rituals, changes in burial final report on the ‘Bristol Mummy Project’. Sections examine the prov- positioning, concepts of evil and sinfulness, interpretations of mortuary enance of the Museum’s mummy collection, the decoration and construc- liturgy, studies of particular cemeteries and the social environment of tion of the coffin, the preparation of the body, skeletal, dental and DNA funerary culture in society. English and German text. 372p, b/w figs analysis of the remains, a craniometric study, the beetles found within the (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 103, Peeters 2001) Hb £52.50 bandages, the chemical composition of the resins and archaeobotanical ‘Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt’ evidence from the body cavity. Finally, the head is reconstructed. 216p, 24 by Barbara Borg. This highly-illustrated publication on Egyptian mummy col pls, b/w pls and figs (Bristol Museums and Art Gallery 2002) Hb £35.00 portraits focuses on the attire and demeanour of the subjects as reflections The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity of their wealth and status. A history of the discoveries is also presented, by Salima Ikram and Aidan Dodson. Ikram and Dodson provide us with beginning with the first finds by Pietro Della Valle. A good number of the accounts of great discoveries, examinations of burial rites and tomb portraits are featured in full colour. German text. 107p, 95 col pls (Von development, and a record of changes in burial practices, complete with Zabern 1998) Hb £32.00 gruesome photographs. Working outwards, the authors discuss the Tod und Jenseits im Alten Ägypten evolution of methods for treating the body, wrapping it, adorning it and by Jan Assmann. A meticulously researched examination of death and sheltering it. In so doing, they give a comprehensive account of the the afterlife in ancient Egypt. Assmann draws on Pyramid Texts and development of mummy masks, coffins, sarcophagi and canopic equipment. other works to investigate the social and cultural context of Egyptian The whole book is beautifully presented with timelines, guides for further beliefs surrounding the gods, death, the treatment of the physical body, reading and maps. 352p, 37 col and 448 b/w pls (Thames & Hudson 1998) Hb and the fate of the person’s ka. The second part focuses on the texts £29.95 themselves. 624p, 64 b/w figs (Beck 2001) Hb £29.50 Egyptian Mummies Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt by Carol Andrews. An illustrated account of why and how the Egyptians by John H Taylor. From embalming, mummification, coffins and sarcophagi, preserved the bodies of their rulers (and animals), as well as the elaborate to magic, ritual, amulets and papyri, this well-illustrated book provides an tombs which surrounded them, and the artefacts that decorated them. A introduction to ancient Egyptian attitudes to death and burial. 240p, 160 familiar topic, but still clear, well-written and informative for the curious. col & 25 b/w illus (BMP 2000) Pb £14.99 72p, many col & b/w pls (BMP 2nd edn 1998) Pb £8.99 Egyptian Mummies: People from the Past The Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt and Nubia by Delia Pemberton. An introduction to the lives and remains of ancient compiled by Jerome C Rose. Several years ago, the idea of a bibliography Egyptians, very much aimed at a younger readership. Pemperton takes the of material relating to the study of ancient Egyptian biological remains was concieved, in part as a way of encouraging better communication reader though the history of Egypt, illustrated throughout with large colour photographs. 47p, many col illus (BMP 2000) Hb £8.99 between the archaeological and scientific disciplines; this is the first to have been prepared. It covers the skeletal and dental analyses from ancient The Royal Mummies Egypt and Nubia. Indexed by categories. 115p (BMP 1996) Pb £7.50 by G Elliot Smith. This classic text reports on the mummies of kings, Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt queens and lesser nobles found at Deir el-Bahri and in the tomb of edited by W Vivian Davies and Roxie Walker. The proceedings of an Amenophis. It includes discussions of the mummies of Ahmose, Tuthmosis international colloquium held at the British Museum in 1990, which con- III, Amenophis III, Akhenaten and many more besides. 224p, 103 b/w pls, 20 figs (Duckworth 2000) Pb £19.99 sidered the contribution of biological anthropology to the study of an- cient Egypt. Twenty papers by leading scholars deal with general methods Faces of Pharaohs: Royal Mummies and Coffins from Ancient and approaches, whilst others present the results of specific projects: health, Egypt disease, dentistry, DNA, archaeobotanical evidence. 196p, figs, 18 pls (BMP by Robert B Partridge. At the end of the last century, two tombs were 1993) Hb £35.00 discovered at Luxor containing over 40 mummies, including the mummies Studies in Ancient Egyptian of Thutmose III, Amenhotep II, Amenhotep III, Seti I, Ramesses II and Anatomical Terminology III, and Merneptah. Each mummy and coffin is detailed with a brief description of the tombs. Diseases, ailments and mummification tech- by J H Walker. This is a study and re-inter- pretation of the ancient Egyptian anatomi- niques are covered. 256p, 212 b/w pls (Rubicon 1996) Pb £16.95 cal terms with chapters concentrating on those Royal Mummies in the Egyptian Museum concerned with the head and limbs, the torso, by Salima Ikram and Aidan Dodson. A summary of all the royal mummies chest, abdomen and pelvis. A lexicon and glos- housed at the Egyptain Museum in Cairo, based on some amazing photo- sary of ancient Egyptian anatomical terms are graphs of the remains. 58p, many b/w pls (AUCP 1997) Pb £12.00 included. 369p (ACE 4, 1997) Pb £34.50 14 EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS

Temples of the Last Pharaohs by Dieter Arnold. The architecture of the Late Egyptian period is EGYPTIAN characterised by a mix of tradition and new influences and building types. Dieter Arnold discusses all known examples of temples from this period, their architectural features, stylistic development, and building methods, MONUMENTS aided by numerous photographs of extant remains and reconstructions. Monuments of Ancient Egypt 373p, 270 b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 1999) Hb £41.00 by Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch. By visiting the sites when they Temples of Ancient Egypt were deserted, the author has been able to put together a edited by Byron E Shafer. Sweeping aside traditional divisions between collection of some 129 stunning colour photographs. A brief ‘mortuary’ and ‘divine’ temples, these five papers examine how a particular background history accompanies each site. 167p, 129 col pls, 3 class of sacred space developed from the Old Kingdom to the Roman b/w illus (BMP 2001) Hb £24.99 period. 335p (1997, Tauris 1998) Hb £28.00 The Shape of the Great Pyramid The Temples of Karnak by Roger Herz-Fischler. An examination of the many theories by R A Schwaller de Lubicz. In this well-illustrated book Lubicz discusses that surround the geometric and mathematical factors that determined the the context in which the temples originated, contemporary belief systems, shape of the Great Pyramid. Herz-Fischler is mostly interested in the perceptions of the pharaohs, writing, paintings and myths, the architec- sociological and philosophical context of the theories but diagrams and ture of the temples, their orientation and inscriptions. 728p, 139 b/w pls equations feature heavily in the text. Most of the specialised material, & illus (Thames & Hudson 1999) Hb £60.00 however, is confined to the appendices. 294p, b/w figs (Laurier UP 2000) Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples Pb £22.95 by Alberto Siliotti. A handy colour guide to Nubia and its temples which The Complete Pyramids begins with a sweeping history of the region between the proto-dynastic by Mark Lehner. This book claims comprehensiveness in being the first period and the UNESCO Nubian Rescue Campaign of the 1960s. This fully illustrated survey of all Egypt’s pyramids. There is information on the precedes a tour of the sites, temple by temple, including Kalabsha, New legends, the activities of archaeologists, the surrounding towns, the priests Sebua, New Amada and the temples of Abu Simbel itself. 48p, over 150 and most of all the construction and craftsmanship of the structures col illus and maps (Egypt Pocket Guide, AUCP 2000) Pb £8.50 themselves. Includes many useful explanatory and reconstruction illustra- Dendara IV: Traduction tions. 256p, 473 b/w, 83 col illus (Thames & Hudson 1997) Hb £24.95 by S Cauville. The fourth volume in the series of translated texts from Das Sphinx-Bild im Wandel der Zeiten the Temple of Hathor at Dendara includes an introduction to the rooms, by Wiebke Rösche-von der Hyde. This two-volume set provides a thorough a translation, corrections to the edition by Emile Chassinat, a list of analysis of the ambiguous symbolism of the sphinx from its origins in earlier translations, an index of phraseology and a series of photographs. Egypt through antiquity to the present day. The study shows how use of 927p, 242 b/w pls (Peeters 2001) Hb £98.50 the sphinx reflects a wider interest in Egyptology. The second volume Dendara V: Les fêtes d’Hathor contains a catalogue of over 2000 artistic representations of the sphinx. by S Cauville. This volume focuses on the public holidays dedicated to 750p, 26 b/w pls (VML 1999) Hb £72.00 Hathor. Based on three main calendrical sources, inscriptions and cult Die unsterblichen Obelisken Äyptens statues, the study looks at the holidays’ religious aspects (the nature and by Labib Habachi, revised by Carola Vogel. First published in 1982, this is role of the deity) and the structure of proceedings (including processions an updated edition of Habachi’s beautifully illustrated guide to the structure and visits to chapels), both in general and with specific references to and symbolism of ancient Egyptian obelisks, now with three new papers. Hathor. French text. 141p, 45 b/w pls (Peeters 2002) Hb £56.50 Following a discussion of the technology and skills used in the construction Previous volumes are still available, please ask for details of the obelisks and their role in sun worship, Habachi presents specific Die Texte in den unteren Krypten des Hathortemples in Dendera examples from Memphis, Thebes, for example, before focusing on obelisks by Wolfgang Waitkus. Containing secret temple rooms with hidden en- in other cities around the ancient and modern world. 120p, many col pls and trances to underground tombs, these chamber systems were a component illus, b/w illus (Von Zabern 2000) Hb £28.00 of nearly every large temple complex during the Greco-Roman period. The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art The largest is the Hathor Temple in Dendera, containing crypts riddled Historical Analysis with important information about the function and meaning of the temple by Peter J Brand. This substantial study records in great detail Seti I’s rooms. This text is a description of three of these subterranean complexes impressive building and restoration programme and compares his work which were regarded by the Egyptians as part of the underworld. 295p, 6 with that of Ramesses I and II. Brand suggests a chronology for Seti’s reign b/w figs (Von Zabern 1997) Hb £60.50 and works through an analysis of characteristics in the iconography of his Der Chnumtempel Nektanebos’ II architecure and art. The volume includes a comprehensive catalogue of by Walter Niederberger. This monograph reports on the results of the Seti’s original monuments and restorations. 446p plus 148 b/w pls and 8 excavation at the Chnum Temple of the 30th dynasty in Elephantine. A plans (Brill 2000) Hb £89.00 general introduction is provided containing the historical and religious Pharaoh’s Gateway to Eternity background of the temple building in the Late Period. A reconstruction by E P Uphill. A thorough examination of the Hawara funerary complex of the Temple house and inner administrative district is also suggested. of Amenemhat III, which Herodotus called the Egyptian labyrinth. A The monograph provides an overview of the history of temple architec- large proportion of the study contains an inventory of all published ture from the final days of the New Kingdom to the end of the Roman architectural elements and sculpture, consisting of basic detailed description period. 363p, 12 figs, 140 pls (Elephantine XX, Von Zabern 1999) Hb £76.00 and bibliographic references. This is followed by a discussion of the pyramids of the Twelfth Dynasty. Photographs of the site today are followed by Architectural Sculpture plans which suggest a possible reconstruction. 103p plus 29 b/w pls and 27 b/w figs (Kegan Paul International 2000) Hb £150.00 Die Wanddarstellungen im Grab des Mehu in Saqqara by Hartwig Altenmüller. Although discovered in the 1940s, this 1st Dy- Temples of the Gods and Pharaohs nasty (3100-2890 BC) mastaba grave has never been properly published. This massive volume focuses on the architecture, reliefs, inscriptions and The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt wall-paintings which include a large number of tableaux depicting every- by Richard Wilkinson. Egyptian temples had a variety of functions and day life. 287p, 96 b/w, 9 col pls, 1 plan (Von Zabern 1998) Hb £125.00 social meanings, from being houses for the gods, focal points of worship, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches 1 funerary monuments for pharaohs and other important individuals, often by Regina Hölzl. A catalogue of Egyptian inscriptions and reliefs held in also doubling up as fortresses, administrative centres, expressions of pro- Vienna’s art history museum, principally dating to the 5th and 6th paganda and status. This ‘complete’ guide to the temples of Egypt covers Dynasties. The publication of loose leaves comprises photographs, line all these aspects, accompanied by a host of building plans, colourful drawings of inscriptions and commentary cards that discuss the style, reconstructions and photographs of excavated buildings and artefacts. meaning and intent of the stonework. German text. Booklet, 91 cards, 30 c.260p, many col pls and illus (Thames & Hudson 2000) Pb £24.95 b/w pls, 57 figs (Ägyptischer Altertümer 18, Von Zabern 1999) Pb £42.00 15 EGYPTIAN ART AND ARTEFACTS

The Gateway of Ramesses IX in the Temple of Amun at Karnak by Amin A M A Amer. Part of the greatest temple in Egypt, this publica- ART AND ARTEFACTS tion describes a little-known major work of one of the last kings of the Egyptian empire. With text and illustrations of the inscriptions and archi- Collections tecture. 43p, 18 pls (Aris & Phillips 1999) Pb £24.00 La grande salle hypostyle de Karnak. Les architraves Cairo Museum: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art by Vincent Rondot. The first comprehensive publication of these archi- edited by Francesco Tiradritti. A unique volume covering more than 5,000 years of Egyptian history, from the first state established along the Nile trave inscriptions, which date back to the reigns of Sethos I and Ramesses Valley to the period of Roman rule. This extensively illustrated book II. Of the two volumes the first contains plates of the inscriptions in facsimile, the second translations, notes and commentary. Vol 1: 280p, Vol includes a selection of objects from a collection of more than 150,000 2: 65p of pls (Recherches sur les Civilisations 1997) Pb £45.00 held in the Egyptian Museum at Cairo, newly photographed. The accom- panying text surveys the early development of the collection and its his- Die Dekoration des Chnumtempels auf Elephantine durch tory to the present day and it outlines the developments and achievements Nektanebos II of Egyptian civilisation. From the famous treasures to the less well-known by Hanna Jenni. This volume of excavations on the island above the objects, this is a wonderful book for the Egyptologist and interested reader Aswan dam focuses on the sculpture and paintings that adorned some of alike. 416p, numerous col pls (Thames & Hudson 1999) Hb £45.00 the temples. German text. 159p, 125 b/w pls (Elephantine XVII, Von Zabern Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British 1998) Hb £125.00 Museum Die Feldzugsdarstellungen des Neuen Reiches: Eine Bildanalyse by Edna R Russmann. This book accompanies an exhibition of Egyptian by Susanna Constanze Heinz. A detailed analysis of the Egyptian New objects on loan from the collections of the British Museum which toured Kingdom bas-reliefs which deal with warfare. Written from an art-historical eight American cities in 2001. A historical overview and a discussion of perspective, the thesis examines the iconograpy and composition of reliefs aspects of Egyptian art are followed by a history of the forming of the from a variety of temples located in Abu Simbel, Karnak, Abydos, Amarna British Museum collections by T.G.H. James. The majority of the book and Luxor. Heinz pays particular attention to the presentation of groups comprises a catalogue of 144 objects arranged chronologically, including comprising the king, warriors, officials, captives, animals and booty. The free-standing sculpture, relief sculpture, papyri, ostraca, jewellery, cosmetic study includes an illustrated catalogue of reliefs arranged in chronological objects and funerary equipment. 288p, more than 200 col pls (BMP/American order by Pharaoh. 327p, many b/w illus, tbs (OAW 2001) Pb £105.00 Federation of Arts 2001) Pb £24.99 µ Thebes In Egypt : A Guide to the Tombs and Temples of Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collections in the Ancient Luxor Ashmolean Museum by Nigel and Helen Strudwick. After reviewing the topography of the site, by Joan Crowfoot Payne. The Ashmolean’s collection of Predynastic the Strudwicks recount the history of Thebes from the city’s rise in the late Egyptian objects is widely regarded as the most representative of its kind Old Kingdom to the peak of its power in the New Kingdom and to its anywhere in the world. This is the first catalogue of the collection, and in gradual decline in the Greco-Roman period. They discuss the role played addition to the basic documentation and illustration of over 2000 objects, by the gods, the great temples of Karnak and Luxor, the temples and it includes a commentary and up-to-date review of their chronological tombs of kings, queens, princes, and ordinary individuals. Includes an and cultural importance. Reprinted with corrections. 301p, 87 figs & 6 assessment of Greek, Roman, Coptic, and Islamic influences on the area as pls (Oxford UP 1993, Griffith Institute 2000) Hb £65.00 it exists today and an overview of the archaeological research undertaken Ancient Egypt up to the 1990s. 208p, 30 col and 50 b/w pls (BMP 1999) Pb £12.99 by P R S Moorey. A revised edition of Moorey’s guide to the Ashmolean Les voies processionnelles de Thèbes Museum Egyptian collections, first updated in 1988. This attractive, slim by A Cabrol. A detailed and in-depth study of processional routes to volume combines informative text and a useful bibliography with a good Thebes. Based on physical evidence, Cabrol studies the elements that selection of photographs, many of which are in colour. An attractive mark out the routes including statues, sphinxes, vegetation, fences and introduction to the history, achievements and everyday activities of ancient walls, as well as key sites, monuments and tombs, and platforms where Egypt from the predynastic period onwards. 64p, 39 b/w figs, 16 col pls special rituals were carried out. For each of the sites or pieces of evidence (Ashmolean Museum 1970, rev 1988, rev edn 2000) Pb £7.95 discussed, Cabrol gives details on their ‘type’, date, material, dimensions, Egyptian Treasures in Europe Vol 1: 1000 Highlights state of preservation, situation and descriptive details, as well as general A virtual tour of the Egyptian collections of many of Europe’s museums. references and bibliography. 850p, b/w figs (Peeters 2001) Hb £120.00 This CD-ROM allows you to browse the museum, or select particular L’Egypte Restituée 3: temples, sites object types, periods or sites; you can also access information on chronology et pyramides de Basse et de Moyenne Égypte and historical details on particular objects and rulers. Informative rather by Sydney Aufrère and Jean-Claude Golvin. This third book brings to than fun. CD-ROM (CCER/U-CCER Utrecht University 2000) £40.00 completion a series that uses colour reconstruction pictures to bring the Egyptian Art at Eton College: Selections from the Myers Collection monuments of Egypt to life, with commentary by leading French by Stephen Spurr, Nicholas Reeves and Stephen Quirke. The core of Egyptologists, bringing a new appreciation of the original appearance of Eton College’s fine collection of Egyptian objects was collected by old complex monuments and cities. The volumes have proceeded down the Etonian Major W J Myres during his posting in Cairo during the late 19th Nile towards the sea and this last one covers sites around Memphis, Fayoum, century. This attractive catalogue illustrates and discusses 100 objects Middle Egypt and the Delta. French text. 363p with plans, maps, col and b/ from a special exhibition which travelled to the Metropolitan Museum w pls (Errance 1997) Hb £35.00 of Art in Autumn 2000. The stunning objects include ceramics, model Also available: Vol 1: Sites et temples de Haute Egypte 212p (1991) figures, faience items, cosmetic implements, scarabs, shawabti, chalices, Hb £34.95; Vol 2: Sites et temples des déserts 274p (1994) Hb £34.95 jewellery and Romano-Egyptian portraits. 64p, many col illus (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Eton College 1999) Pb £13.95 The New Kingdom Royal City by Peter Lacovara. Exploring the broad context of settlement systems in Ancient Egypt at the Louvre ancient Egypt, this book goes beyond most previous studies of Egyptian by Guillemettre Andreu, Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya and Christiane urbanism which have tended to focus exclusively on the site of Tell Ziegler. The authors, all Egyptologists and curators at the Louvre, present el-Amarna as representative of some of the most significant works in the collection. They retrace the pharaonic town planning. This sur- major periods of Egyptian history and provide a full and lively account of vey of existing data on a number of the customs of ancient Egypt. 259p, 130 col pls (IB Tauris 1999) Hb £35.00 New Kingdom sites reveals a highly Catalogue of Egyptian Art diversified and unique pattern of habi- by Lawrence M Berman. A complete catalogue of Egyptian objects held tation in the Nile valley. Lacovara looks by the Cleveland Museum of Art. Includes a detailed history of the collec- particularly at Deir el-Ballas, a site which tion, followed by the catalogue of more than 500 objects (sculpture, may have served as a prototype for the vessels, jewellery, scarabs, seals, cosmetic objects, inlays, furniture, imple- urbanism of the New Kingdom. 282p, ments and funerary equipment) dating from the pre-Dynastic to Roman 89 illus (Kegan Paul 1997) Hb £95.00 period. 584p, 46 col pls, b/w pls (Cleveland Museum of Art 1999) Hb £55.00 16 EGYPTIAN ART AND ARTEFACTS

The Collector’s Eye: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from the Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids Thalassic Collection edited by D Arnold. The art of the Old Kingdom often sits in the shadow edited by Peter Lacovara and Betsy Teasley Trope. This catalogue celebrates of the New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty. Accompanying a major exhibi- the first public exhibition of one of the largest private US collections of tion in Paris, New York and Toronto, 1999- 2000, this book provides an Egyptian artefacts, held at the Michael C Carlos Museum at Emory illustrated guide to the art, architecture, statuary, reliefs, minor artistic University (2001–2002). The 120 objects span every period from the pieces, history and excavations of the Old Kingdom. Fifteen essays pro- Predynastic to the Roman conquest of Egypt, and have been chosen for vide structure to this work and preempt the extensive catalogue. 536p, col artistic reasons rather than historical context. They are all beautifully and b/w pls (Metropolitan Museum of Art 1999) Hb £60.00 illustrated in full colour, with discussions of each piece and useful When the Pyramids were Built introductory essays. 170p, over 150 col pls (University of Washington 2001) by Dorothea Arnold. The Old Kingdom witnessed a great artistic floruit £27.95 in sculpture, wall-painting, wood and stone carving, metal-working and The Quest for Immortality: Hidden Treasures of Egypt monument-building. This book accompanies an exhibiton held at the edited by Erik Hornung and Betsy M Bryan. This colour catalogue, from Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Réunion des Musées Nationaux an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington during the de Paris and the Royal Ontario Museum of Toronto, although it also summer of 2002, mostly presents objects drawn from the collection of the stands on its own as a wonderfully illustrated book on Egyptian art from Cairo Museum. These are complemented by four essays that discuss the the 3rd to 6th Dynasty. The text provides a historical and social overview religious beliefs of ancient Egypt with emphasis on the artistic achievements of the period and places the illustrated pieces in context. 144p, 127 col pls of the reign of Thutmose III and the New Kingdom in general. 240p, many (Metropolitan Museum of Art 1999) Hb £24.95 col pls (Prestel 2002) Hb £39.95 Egyptian Art Grabschätze aus Altägypten by Eleni Vassilika, with contributions by Janine Bourriau. This well-illus- by Thomas Psota. This fully illustrated catalogue of 19 ancient Egyptian trated volume brings together a selection of ancient Egyptian works of art objects selected from the collection of Bern Museum focuses on funerary from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. They include objects from treasures which served as ‘gifts for the journey to the other world’. Most of the Hierakonpolis Temple Deposit (c 3500 BC), Early Dynastic stone the objects, including papyri, a wooden boat, figurines, masks, personal vessels, an Egyptian lady’s items, (1391-1295 BC), a relief of the heretic items, amulets, sarcophagi and mummy cases, are illustrated in colour, King Akhenaten (1353-1337 BC), the coffin lid of Ramesses III, (1184- with a full facing description. German text. 64p, 47 col illus (Glanzlichter 7, 1153 BC) and a coptic casket of the late 4th century AD. Also includes Bernsiches Historisches/Chronos 2001) Pb £10.50 many shabtis, models, and reliefs, all set in their social and artistic contexts. Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig: Ägyptische 147p, 64 col pls (Cambridge UP 1995) Hb £37.50, Pb £13.95 Abteilung Atlas of Egyptian Art by André Wiese. A well illustrated catalogue of the Egyptian Department by E Prisse d’Avennes. This volume has a dual value; it is a collection of of the Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig in Germany, which delicate portrayals of ancient Egyptian art, architectural features and sculp- follows an exhibition and the construction of a new underground Egyptian ture, while also providing an insight into the work of Prisse d’Avennes, a gallery. A total of 161 objects are presented, in full colour with lengthy 19th-century Egyptologist who was ahead of his time in realising the need descriptions, including architectural fragments, domestic items, mummy to record such vulnerable monuments – in a period when the camera had masks, sculptures, papyri, jewellery and figurines. 255p, 240 col and 16 b/w not fully developed, painting and sketches were the only way of doing this. illus, 80 b/w figs (Von Zabern 2001) Hb £36.50 24p text, 159 col pls (Columbia UP/AUCP 1997) Pb £35.95 Catalogue of the Monuments of Ancient Egypt Reading Egyptian Art. A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient by Oleg Berlev and Svetlana Hodjash. An extensive catalogue of all known Egyptian Painting and Sculpture Egyptian antiquities in collections of the former USSR. The objects them- by Richard H Wilkinson. A directory of Egyptian motifs, signs and sym- selves are given brief two line entries, mostly with an illustration in the bols as well as a sourcebook for religious beliefs and ideas. The hieroglyph- plates section. Chapters covering inscribed objects and other texts contain ics are arranged thematically and include: bull, cat, lion, falcon, ibis, scarab much more extensive commentary. 328p text, 207 b/w pls (Vandenhoeck and beetle, gold, cartouche, board game. Fully illustrated. 224p, b/w figs, pls Ruprecht/Fribourg UP 1998) Hb £73.50 (Thames & Hudson 1992, 1994, Pb rep 1998) Pb £9.95 The Scarab: A Reflection of Ancient Egypt Art by Daphna Ben-Tor. Amulets in the form of scarabs are found all over the The Royal Gold of Ancient Egypt Mediterranean. This book discusses what we can learn from these beautiful by Hans Wolfgang Müller and Eberhard Theim. The ambitious claim of objects about the bureaucratic hierarchy, cult practice and international this lavishly illustrated book is that it presents the widest range of ancient relations of ancient Egypt. Illustrated with scarabs from the large collec- Egyptian gold objects and jewels ever assembled in one volume; it is tion of the Israel Museum. English text. 84p, col & b/w pls (Israel Museum certainly a treat for the eye. Large colour photographs, accompanied by 1993) Pb £9.50 concise and informative passages of text, provide a social and religious Egyptian and Egyptianizing Scarabs history of Egypt, from prehistory to the Ptolemaic Period, through its by Andrée Feghali Gorton. In this study the author presents a simple typol- unrivalled collections of gold artefacts, which were believed to have ogy that will provide a guide to classifying scarabs. The study is selective, spiritual and magical properties. Reliefs and papyri illustrate goldmining being based largely on groups of finds from the major Punic sites. It offers and goldworking techniques. This book is also a guide to the great some provisional answers to the many questions that beset studies of east archaeological discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries. 256p, 506 col and west, of Greek and non-Greek in the 8th–6th centuries BC, and sets and b/w pls (1998, Tauris English edn 1999) Hb £35.00 the scene for further detailed study. 192p (OUCA 1996) Hb £25.00 Egyptian Art Amarna Studies and Other Selected Papers by Jaromir Malek. A wide-ranging and fully illustrated account of Egyp- by Kate Bosse-Griffiths. A selection of 24 papers by Kate Bosse-Griffiths, tian art from its origin in prehistoric times through the supreme achieve- first published between 1955 and 1996, divided into two sections: material ments of the pharaohs to the Roman period. Placing the works of art in relating to Amarna and material from other eras. 244p, b/w illus (Orbis their historical, geographical and spiritual context, Malek seeks to create a Biblicus et Orientalis 182, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2001) Hb £46.50 more complete and realistic view of this fascinating culture. He also deals Fecundity Figures with the history of Egyptology and the influence of Egypt on modern art. by John Baines. Fecundity figures, personifications of non-sexual fertility, 448p, 200 col pls, 50 b/w pls (Phaidon 1999) Pb £14.95 played a significant role in ancient Egyptian religious art. This detailed The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt and comprehensive investigation of Egyptian iconography during the by W Stevenson Smith, revised by William Kelly Simpson. A second edi- Old and New Kingdoms aims to classify the types of male and female tion of the concise Pelican History of Art volume with over 400 illustra- figures represented, and so understand the intentions behind such tions of monuments and works of art. The book also contains an examina- personifications, whilst also placing the artwork within its cultural, religious tion of the portraits of the kings and queens who built the pyramids at and artistic context. In addition, the study includes a theoretical discussion Giza and Saqqara. 288p, 344 b/w illus, 75 col pls (Yale UP rev edn 1999) Hb of the form and function of personifications. 446p, 199 b/w illus, figs, tbs £50.00, Pb £25.00 (Aris and Phillips 1985, Griffith Institute rep 2001) Hb £45.00 17 EGYPTIAN ART AND ARTEFACTS

De l’infériorité à la perturbation The Royal Women of Amarna by Arlette David. The pictorial sign of a sparrow in Egyptian hieroglyphics by Dorothea Arnold, Lyn Green and James is usually called the ‘bad bird’ but the extent of its use and its meaning Allen. A catalogue of a 1996 exhibition have not been well defined. This study looks at examples of its use from at the Metropolitan Museum of Art its earliest origins to the beginning of the First Intermediate Period and which surveyed the depiction of the fe- investigates how this sign came to be associated with inferiority (in size, male form during the Amarna period age, status, wealth and function). French text. 144p, tbs (Göttinger (c.1353-1336 BC). This period saw a Orientforschungen IV. Reihe Ägypten 38, Harrasowitz 2000) Pb £34.95 brief flowering of expressive, intimate im- Colour and Painting in Ancient Egypt ages; many well-preserved pieces exist, in- edited by W V Davies. Taken from an international colloquium held at cluding portraits of Queen Nefertiti and her the British Museum in 1996, these 23 papers discuss recent developments six daughters. Through beautiful new photo- in the study of pictorial colour in ancient Egypt. Presenting new data, graphs, the book traces the evolution of the el- fresh interpretations and ideas the contributors cover many different egant image of Nefertiti during the reign of aspects of the subject: pigment production and the use of colour, painting Akhenaten, as well as the representations of her children and other royal materials and techniques of application, symbolism in the art, artisan women. 144p, 56 col illus, 40 b/w illus (Abrams 1996) Hb £35.00 organisation, recording and publication of analyses and research studies. Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven The case studies cited include tombs from Thebes, Memphis, Amarna, edited by Anne K Capel and Glenn E Markoe. An exhibition with the Hierakonpolis and Abydos. 192p, 8 b/w pls, 56 col pls, b/w figs (BMP 2001) same title, held in Cincinatti Art Museum in 1996, showed hundreds of Pb £35.00 masterpieces of Egyptian art dating from 3000 to 300 BC. The illustra- Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharaohs tions and accompanying text explore the full spectrum of women’s lives by Cyril Aldred. First published in 1980, this is a reprint of Aldred’s and pursuits, including essays on women’s work, the status and role of authoritative and illustrated survey of almost 3000 years of Egyptian women in Egyptian culture and the legal status of women. The catalogue art, with particular emphasis on paintings and sculptures. 252p, 179 b/w covers a wide range of art pieces from bronze statuettes to stone utensils. illus, 20 col illus (Thames and Hudson 1980, rep 1996) Pb £7.95 235p, 117 col pls, b/w illus (Hudson Hills 1996) Hb £45.00 Chief of Seers Statuen der 30. Dynastie und der Ptolemäisch-Römischen Epoche edited by Elizabeth Goring, Nicholas Reeves and John Ruffle. Egyptian by Eva Rogge. A corpus of Egyptian statuary, dating from the 4th century studies in memory of Cyril Aldred, who was for a long-time keeper of BC to the Roman age, in Vienna’s art history museum. The catalogue of archaeology at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Twenty-eight es- loose leaves comprises over 200 photographs and 93 pages of detailed says look at aspects of Egyptian art and archaeology. 313p, 60 b/w pls commentray. The statues include sphinxes, stylised or realistic head portraits (Kegan Paul 1997) Hb £150.00 and inscribed monuments. German text. Booklet, 128 cards, 237 b/w pls (Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum, Ägyptischer Altertümer 11, Von Zabern Sculpture and Portraits 1999) Pb £35.00 Egyptian Royal Sculpture of the Late Period Wooden Statues of the Old Kingdom by Jack A Josephson. This careful, analytical study examines sculptural by Julia Harvey. An updated version of the author’s thesis, this large portrayals of pharaohs of the 30th Dynasty and the early Ptolemies. It volume includes a typological study of wooden statues from the Old traces the evolution of style from the emulation of Saite models in the 4th Kingdom period. The large illustrated catalogue is divided into four parts century BC into one displaying Hellenistic influence by the 3rd century based on various chronological issues: group A include those statues that BC. A large number of uninscribed statues are also attributed to specific can be dated by external criteria, group B are dated by association with kings. 54p, 14 b/w pls (Von Zabern 1997) Hb £40.50 features in A, group C are dated according to group B and group D Ptolemaic Royal Sculpture from Egypt includes other examples. Comparisons are made between various features of the statues including coiffure, dress, arms, standing versus striding by Sally-Ann Ashton. Subtitled ‘The interaction between Greek and Egyptian traditions’, this thesis aims to establish a chronology for stance, their location in tombs and their geographical distribution. 666p, many b/w pls, b/w figs (Brill/Styx 2001) Hb £110.00 developments in the portrayal of the Ptolemaic royal family. Sally-Ann Ashton catalogues 70 examples of Ptolemaic royal portraiture, gathered The Louvre Sphinx and Royal Sculpture from the Reign of from museum collections around the world, and considers the function Amenemhat II and audience of the different types of portrait that she identifies. 121p, 70 by Biri Fay. Until recently there was controversy about the date of the b/w illus, tbs (BAR S923, 2001) Pb £25.00 Louvre’s massive sphinx, with proposed dates ranging from the Old King- Mumienportrats: Chronologie und kultureller Kontext dom to the Ramesside period. This book unequivocally demonstrated by Barbara Borg. This volume examines in detail the painted mummy that, for epigraphic and stylistic reasons, the sphinx firmly belongs in the caskets and the separate portrait plates that sometimes accompanied them. reign of King Amenemhat II, the least known member of the 12th Dy- The twelve main chapters consider: drawing techniques and analysis of the nasty. The author discusses other previously undated works of art and materials used; dating; the relationship of provincial influences and urban places them also in the period 1877 to 1843 BC. Over half of this book is Roman portraits; the ethnic and social status of those represented; where composed of beautiful black and white photographs of the Louvre sphinx, finds were made, and their condition; whether the portraits were of living earlier sphinxes for comparison, and other 12th Dynasty artifacts. English models; the functions of the separate portrait plate. German text. 262p, text. 102p, 95 b/w pls (Von Zabern 1996) Hb £84.50 87 col, 84 b/w pls (Von Zabern 1997) Hb £75.50 Ägypten 2000 v. Chr. The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt edited by Dietrich Wildung. This volume includes 91 large black and white by Euphrosyne Doxiadis. The remarkable portraits of Fayum reveal a photographs of sculptures which were intended to portray the faces of mixed population of Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Surians, Libyans, Nubians real people. They also demonstrate the influence of kings and powerful and Jews. This book presents almost 200 portraits which men and women on the art of ancient portraiture. The plates are are now scattered around the world. The portraits are accompanied by a detailed catalogue and introductory chapters discuss beautifully presented in full colour, accompanied by wider themes, such as the influence of kingship, fate, power and self- informative analyses of the style or artistic merit of the reflection on art. The parallel development of individualism in literature painting. 248p, many col and b/w pls (Thames and Hudson is also demonstrated. 191p, 91 b/w pls (Hirmer 2000) Hb £28.50 1995, Pb edn 2000) Pb £24.95 Götter bewohnten Ägypten Fayum Portraits by Madeline Page Gasser. A catalogue of forty Egyptian bronze figures, by Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter. 57 colour plates show- all depicting Egyptian deities, which were found in Israel and Palestine ing the haunting faces of the Fayum portaits. The intro- and are now held in the collection of Universität Freiburg Schweiz. Fully duction stresses links between the portraits and Byzantine referenced entries discuss the history and provenance of each item, as imagery, and points to likenesses, for example the statu- well as its iconography and interpretation, followed by colour and black esque elongation of the figures, in the work of later art- and white photographs. 177p, 8 col and 38 b/w pls (OBO, Vandenhoeck and ists such as El Greco and Modigliani. 80p, col pls (Thames Ruprecht 2001) Pb £28.50 & Hudson 1998) Hb £12.95 18 EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TEXTS

A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE, by Raymond O Faulkner. This is a handy, one volume dictionary of 5,400 carefully selected words likely to be encountered by both students and advanced scholars in the course of their regular work. Each entry consists LITERATURE AND of the most common hieroglyphic form of the word, accompanied by its transliteration, translation, references to texts where it occurs, its less usual hieroglyphic variants, and phrases in which it is used. The entire book is TEXTS hand-transcribed by Faulkner in his clear and elegant hieroglyphic hand. 349p (Griffith Institute 1962, rep 1996) Hb £17.50 Demotic Grammar in the Ptolemaic Sacerdotal Decrees Language by R S Simpson. Demotic is the term used for a very abbreviated version La Langue des Ramsès: Grammaire du Néo-Égyptien of Egyptian script originally introduced for administrative purposes in the by Francois Neveu. The result of ten years work, this study aid is designed seventh century BC and used until the fifth century AD. The book presents to help those who want to read the texts of the New Empire in the original a detailed analysis of demotic grammar based on a careful study of the language. The literature of the 17th to 24th dynasties, their private letters, Canopus decree of 238 BC, and the Raphia and Philae decrees (presented administrative texts, judicial and other official documents, are used as here with full transcriptions and translations), written in both Greek and subject material. French text. 336p (Khéops 1996, 2nd edn 1998) Pb £34.50 Egyptian. 304p (Griffith Institute 1996) Hb £40.00 Old Hieratic Paleography Die Sprache der Pharaonen: by Hans Goedicke. This large format publication (A3) allows detailed Grosses Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch comparison of hieratic texts from different locations and documents. 24p, by Rainer Hannig. This is a compact Egyptian/German dictionary. It is 72p of tbs (Halgo 1988) Pb £50.00 impressively detailed, including both Middle and Late Egyptian terms and Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction with useful lists of names of deities, kings and toponyms. 1412p (Hannig by Friedrich Junge, translated by David Warburton. Primarily intended as Lexica I, Von Zabern 1995) Hb £42.00 a practical instruction manual, this English translation clearly guides the Remembering Osiris student through the peculiarities of Late New Kingdom grammar. Junge by Tom Hare. Subtitled ‘Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyp- assumes some knowledge of Middle Egyptian and sections highlight devel- tian Representational Systems’. Hare takes a fresh look at Egyptian texts opments in the evolution of the ancient Egyptian language. 391p (1999, and visual arts, Osiris being one of the central myths of ancient Egypt. Griffith Institute Engl edn 2001) Pb £20.00 This innovative study looks at the ways in which language, the body and Writing Late Egyptian Hieratic numeracy are dealt with and represented in Egyptian culture. 322p, 57 b/ by Sheldon Lee Gosline. Stated as a ‘primer’, this book teaches the modern w illus (Stanford UP 1999) Hb £46.95, Pb £17.50 student how to write and understand the hieratic scripts of the Middle and Late Egyptian periods. Drawing parallels with the Chinese language, Gosline Siut-Theben argues that the language should be studied in terms of the associations by Jochem Kahl. Why did the Egyptians use texts and art forms which between symbols, rather than traditional approaches to learning grammar. dated back many hundreds of years? How did they do this? As a means of With 38 lessons and quizzes at the end. 125p (Eisenbrauns 1999) Hb £22.95 capturing family relationships in numbers, Kahl looks at the ways in which the system was transmitted and the significance of the Siutian tradition. Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty German text. 416p (Brill 1999) Hb £76.00 by B Cumming and B G Davies. The basic Egyptian historical texts are translated into English for the benefit of students of the language and Hieroglyphics those who are interested in the history of the area. The translations are cross-referenced to Helck’s hieroglyphic texts, with emendations. I (Aris Hieroglyphs for Travellers & Phillips 1982); II (1984); III (1984); IV (1992); V (1994); VI (1994): all by Thomas F Mudloff and Ronald E Fellows. The aim of this fun, spiral- Pb £8.50 each bound field guide to Egyptian hieroglyphs is to help the tourist and the Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction enthusiast recognise the cartouches and symbols for some of the most by Antonio Loprieno. In this study Loprieno traces the development of famous pharaohs and funerary formulae. Full of interesting and practical language from Old Egyptian to Coptic through a modern linguistic ap- tips to deciphering the Egyptian language, grammar and culture, the au- proach; he discusses the Hieratic and Demotic varieties of the hiero- thors present short extracts of texts or titles site by site, from the Pyramids glyphic system, studies the phonology of classic Egyptian and Coptic and and the Sphynx, through Thebes to Aswan and Abu Simbel. 113p, b/w figs examines the semantic and pragmatic constraints on syntax. Finally Loprieno (Fellows 1999) Pb £14.95 looks at the genetic connections of Egyptian with Semitic languages such The Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt as Akkadian, Arabic and Hebrew. 320p (Cambridge UP 1995) Pb £16.95 by Aidan Dodson. A colourful introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphs that Egyptian Grammar demonstrates the enormous diversity of texts that have survived from a period that lasted 3,500 years. Colour photographs and short passages of by Alan H Gardiner. Although the first edition of this study appeared over text guide the beginner through the origins of the Egyptian language, the seventy years ago, Gardiner’s Egyptian Grammar remains the most compre- alphabet and grammar, the derivatives, types of inscriptions, their mystery hensive presentation of Middle Egyptian available, and is still an essential and decipherment. The book concludes with the hieroglyphic names of reference tool for all advanced work in the language. The latest, third, the pharaohs, a chronology and a brief list of major Egyptian collections edition appeared in 1957 and is now in its tenth reprinting. After each new across the world. 144p, many col illus (New Holland 2001, Pb due in May element of grammar the learner is given a set of practice exercises, and the 2003) Hb £16.99 book also contains useful resources such as a list of hieroglyphic signs, and information about the development of the language. 682p (Griffith Institute Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs 1957, rep 1994) Hb £25.00 by Bridget McDermott. This well-illustrated and clearly presented book A Concise Grammar of Middle Egyptian aims to provide the beginner with a practical guide to understanding and ‘decoding’ Egyptian hieroglyphs. Following an initial discussion of reading by Boyo G Ockinga. Although Middle Egyptian is associated with the and writing in Egypt, Bridget McDermott presents a series Middle Kingdom Period (c.2140-1650 BC), its use by scribal schools meant of thematic chapters, each incorporating inscriptions and that monumental inscriptions and religious texts were still composed in it basic grammar. Subjects include religion, names and right down to the Greco-Roman period. This book is designed as a teach- titles, the body and death, relationships, trades and ing grammar and aims to provide the beginner with the essentials of the skills, warfare, foreign countries, the calendar and language in as compact a form as possible. Divided into four main parts: time, and the cosmos. This is an enjoyable book that Script and Grammar, Sign List, Grammar Exercises and Reading Exer- uses hieroglyphs to guide the reader through many cises/Vocabulary. While this is a beginner’s text, and by no means as com- aspects of ancient Egyptian daily life and beliefs. It prehensive as Gardiner’s massive Egyptian Grammar, it is a user-friendly also includes a sign index and a selection of reference book compiled by a practising teacher with a great deal of class translations for reference. 176p, many col illus (Duncan experience. 177p (Von Zabern 1998) Pb £32.50 Baird 2001) Pb £9.99 19 EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TEXTS

Cracking Codes. The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment by Richard Parkinson. A publication accompanying a major exhibition in Ancient Egyptian Literature 1999 at the British Museum celebrating the bicentenary of the stone’s Studies about Kamose and Ahmose discovery. Includes a selective catalogue of the exhibits and examines by Hans Goedicke. These studies are based on the careful examination of issues of script and writing, relationships between hieroglyphics and art, three texts (stelae and inscriptions) which paint a very different picture literacy and decipherment. 208p, 75 b/w figs and pls, 31 col pls (BMP 1999) of how the Theban chiefs overthrew their overlord who resided at Avaris Pb £16.99 from earlier notions about this crucial period in Egyptian history. 200p The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of (Halgo 1995) Pb £26.95 Hieroglyphics The Archive of Teos and Thabis from Early Ptolemaic by Robert Solé and Dominique Valbelle. Written very much for a general Thebes readership, this book tells the story of the decipherment of the Rosetta by Mark Depauw. This volume reports on three documents acquired in Stone, discovered in Egypt in 1799. The authors present an account of 1972 by the Egyptian department of the Royal Museums of Art and how the code was cracked but say little of the major impact this had on our History in Brussels. The papyri document the sale contracts of a house in understanding of Egyptian scripts – perhaps not the best book on this Thebes and date to 327/326 and 311BC. Other papyri comprise receipts subject around at the moment, but eminently readable. The original was for taxes paid on property and funerals, and a business letter. A general published in French as La Pierre de Rosette (1999). 184p, 12 b/w figs and pls, survey of the archive, with comparison to other archives, is followed by 1 map (Profile 2001, Pb 2002) Hb £15.00, Pb £7.99 a description, transliteration and translation of each document. 255p, 29 b/w pls (Monographies Reine Élisabeth, Brepols 2000) Pb £55.50 The Story of Decipherment From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology by Maurice Pope. This is a discussion of contributions to the art of deci- translated by John L Foster. All major genres of Egyptian literature are pherment made by theorists, such as Leibnitz, and by brilliant practitioners represented in this anthology of poems, all translated into elegant English from Champollion to Ventris. Maurice Pope examines the intellectual verse and providing an intimate glimpse into the lives of ancient Egyptians. developments that led to their outstanding achievements, and describes The 41 pieces include hymns, such as Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Sun, yarns, the process of decipherment, providing their quotations, drawings, tables Ramesside love songs, laments, ‘schoolboy’ texts and instructions, visions and diagrams. 232p, 126 illus (Thames & Hudson rev edn 1999) Pb £12.95 and religious thoughts. Includes a glossary. 272p (Texas UP 2001) Hb £31.95 Kulturhandbuch Ägyptens: Studies in the Hekanakhte Papers Wortschatz der Pharaonen in Sachgruppen by Hans Goedicke. Translations and discussions of the letters written by by Rainer Hannig and Petra Vomberg. Did you know that the ancient an estate owner that are some of the most outstanding documents of Egyptians had 140 different words for bread? Following on from his Egyp- ancient Egypt, providing an unparalleled insight into the texture of daily tian/German dictionary, Rainer Hanig has prepared this invaluable list of life. 131p, 15p of facsimile of text (Halgo 1984) Pb £25.95 hieroglyphs with German translation, all grouped by subject area. There Egyptian Historical Inscriptions of the Nineteenth Dynasty are vocabulary lists for every aspect of Egyptian life, from flowers to by Benedict G Davies. A series of major inscriptions from the 19th materials, from human anatomy to music, from sport to religion, from Dynasty (c.1300-1185 BC) accompanied by an English translation. The games to weapons…351 subjects grouped under 63 classes in all. Like the inscriptions chosen are based around four main subject areas: war and dictionary, the words listed cover the entire period from 2800-950 BC. diplomacy; mining and quarrying; religion; legal and adminstrative texts. 1029p (Hannig Lexica II,Von Zabern 1999) Hb £55.00 363p (Aegyptiaca 2, Aströms 1998) Hb £45.00 Middle Egyptian. An introduction to the language and culture Egyptian Historical Inscriptions of the Twentieth Dynasty of hieroglyphs by A J Peden. A volume of translations and parallel page transliterations by James P Allen. A thorough and up-to-date introduction to the ancient of a range of Egyptian texts. The texts are all from the 20th Dynasty and Egyptian writing system and language for the scholar, student and are arranged by subject: wars and diplomacy; mining and quarrying; religion; non-specialist alike. Designed primarily as a textbook, it contains 26 lessons, royal administrative, historical and legal texts. The introduction provides exercises, a list of hieroglyphic signs, a dictionary and 25 essays on impor- the historical background to the period and discusses the types of sources tant aspects of Egyptian history, society, religion and literature. 528p (Cam- used: royal and state temple texts, papyri and ostraca and graffiti. 286p bridge UP 1999) Pb £19.95 (Aegyptiaca 3, Aströms 1994) Hb £39.00 ABC of Egyptian Hieroglyphs The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt: Scope and Roles of Informal by Jaromir Malek. Just for fun, but still one of our bestsellers! One of the Writings (c.3100-332 BC) world’s leading Egyptologists designed this book for inquisitive visitors to by A J Peden. A meticulous examination of Egyptian and Nubian graffiti the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, who persistently wanted to know how texts, which date between Dynasties I and XXXI and encompass hieratic to read the museum’s inscriptions. Although you won’t get fluent in Egyp- and hieroglyphic writings inscribed on tombs, monuments and rock- tian using this book, you will be introduced to some of the most common surfaces. Arranged chronologically, this survey highlights the importance hieroglyphs through a whole sequence of case-studies, from the False door of graffiti for our understanding of the everyday life and beliefs of of Nemtywer to the Shrine of King Taharka. Low-tech though this book ordinary ancient Egyptians, especially in Thebes and the town of Deir-el is, it presents basic hieroglyphics without being patronizing and with infec- Medina. 359p, 11 maps (Probleme der Ägyptologie 17, Brill 2001) Hb tious enthusiasm. 48p (Ashmolean 1994) Pb £4.95 £52.50 How to read Egyptian Hieroglyphs Poetry of Ancient Egypt by Mark Collier and Bill Manley. This step-by-step guide takes the student by K A Kitchen. This volume includes a wide range of poetry from on a tour of the often puzzling hieroglyphic script of Ancient Egypt and ancient Egypt, covering over 3,000 years, from earliest times to the how to decipher them. With practical exercises along the way, the reader is Roman period. Includes hymns, songs and love-lyrics. Transcribed and encouraged to test their growing knowledge and reading skills. 179p, b/w translated, with accompanying notes and an introduction and conclusion pls and illus (BMP 1998) Hb £9.99 on the rise and development of Egyptian poetry. 483p (Aegyptiaca 1, Paul Aströms 1999) Hb £42.00 An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom by Dilwyn Jones. This monumental two-volume work by Dilwyn Jones updates Murray’s Index of Old Kingdom Titles published in 1908. In addition to Old Kingdom titles and phrases, there are a large number from the Archaic Period and several from the First Intermediate Period. The clearly presented entries, arranged alphabetically, provide the most common orthnography with a transliteration and translation, with a date and textual references. An invaluable reference tool. 2 vols: 1045p (BAR S866, 2000) Pb £110.00 20 EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TEXTS

Dokumentarische Papyri des 2 Jh. v. Chr. aus dem The Amarna Letters Herakleopolites (P. Heid. VIII) edited by William L Moran. Discovered in 1887, the Amarna tablets con- edited by Demoritos Kaltsas. Kaltsas’ thesis presents Greek texts 412 to tain the correspondence between the royal court and rulers of neighbouring 421 from the Heidelberger Papyri collection, comprising six political states in the mid-14th century BC. This new translation provides a vivid decrees, two administrative documents and two private papers concerning account of the diplomatic exchange of Egypt’s neighbours and vassal pawnbroking and burglary. All ten papers probably date from the first states. 393p (Johns Hopkins UP 1992, Pb 2002) Hb £45.00, Pb £17.00 half of the 2nd century BC. Each text is accompanied by an extensive The Carlsberg Papyri 2: Hieratische Papyri aus Tebtunis 1 discussion of its contents, language and the Ptolemaic context. 355p, 11 by Jürgen Osing. This two volume publication features five hieratic papyri b/w pls (HHAWPHK 10, Winter 2001) Hb £65.50 of the Roman period containing lexical lists and manuals for the Egyptian Ramesside Inscriptions. Translated and Annotated materia sacra, including two parallels of the Geographical Papyri from Translations Volume III: Ramesses II, his Contemporaries Tebtunis. Four of them are known to have been part of a temple library at by K A Kitchen. This important reference work, which accompanies Tebtunis. Palaeographical evidence indicates that the fifth comes from Kitchen’s hieroglyphic Ramesside Inscriptions III (KRI), presents full English Fayum, perhaps also from Tebtunis. Two vols. 256, 72p (Museum Tusculanum translations of documents relating to, or written by, Ramesses II’s subjects. 1998) Hb £238.00 The official and personal records provide invaluable information about the lives and beliefs of people from all levels of society, including viziers, Religious and Mortuary Texts treasurers, stewards, court functionaries, secretaries, the army, priests, servants and the workmen of Deir el-Medina. The previous two volumes The Papyrus of Hor: Catalogue of the Books of the Dead in translate the documents of Ramesses I and his contemporaries and the the British Museum Volume II royal inscriptions of Ramesses II. 587p, maps (Blackwell 2000) Hb £130.00 by Malcolm Mosher. Six Books of the Dead are known from the city of Other volumes available: Akhmim and this second volume in the series presents two of them. Volume II: Royal Inscriptions Hb £130.00 Written during the late 1st century, the Papyrus of Hor (EA 10479) is Volume II’s companion volume : Notes and Comments Hb £125.00 one of the last Books of the Dead to have been produced in Egypt and its 38 spells and 33 vignettes provide a good insight into the thoughts and Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt: The Palermo Stone and its beliefs of the priestly class working in the temple of the god Min. Mosher associated fragments explores the tradition of the Book of the Dead from Akhmim and by Toby A H Wilkinson. The Palermo Stone is part of a series of comments on transcriptions of the spells. He also presents a photo inscriptions forming the royal annals, which are of prime importance for facsimile of a parallel manuscript from Akhmim, the MacGregor papyrus the history of Egypt’s first five Dynasties. This is the first edition of all owned by a woman called Tarepet. 108p, 6 figs, 2 tbs, 4 col pls, 30 b/w pls seven surviving fragments, divided between Palermo, Cairo and London, (BMP 2001) Hb £60.00 containing a transliteration, translation and commentary of the fragments. The introduction discusses the royal annals as a group and the scholarship Das Buch vom Ba that surrounds them. The book includes an index of the inscriptions and by Horst Beinlich. A reproduction, with German translation and illustrations of the stones themselves. 287p plus 12 b/w figs (Kegan Paul commentary, of ‘The Book of Ba’, the Book of the Dead from Berlin 2000) Hb £150.00 papyri roll 10477. The introduction discusses the papyri’s structure, the hieroglyphic scheme and the comparable ‘Book of Ba’ in the MacGregor Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt: A Dark Side to collection. Colour photographs of the papyri conclude the volume. 77p, Perfection 10 b/w and 4 col pls, b/w figs (Studien zum Altägyptischen Totenbuch 4, by R B Parkinson. An in–depth study of the legacy of Egyptian poetry Harrassowitz 2000) Pb £50.00 from the period 1940–1640 BC. As well as looking at the texts themselves, Parkinson explores the broader context of the role of literature during The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts this period, whether for entertainment or propaganda purposes, and the by R O Faulkner. The ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, dating from the social and ideological background to literary style, themes, metrics, later half of the 3rd millennium BC, are the oldest corpus of religious authorship, audience and performance. 393p (Continuum 2002) Hb £75.00 literature surviving from ancient Egypt. Their purpose was to ensure the welfare of the dead king in the hereafter, and they shed much light on Fingierte Welten in der ägyptischen Literatur des 2 contemporary beliefs, while embedded in them are fragments of temple jahrtausends v chr ritual, traces of stellar cult and glimpses of daily life. In this edition, by Gerald Moers. Moers’ dissertation discusses in some detail the Faulkner offers as full a translation as possible of the pyramid texts draw- relationship between reality and fiction in Egyptian literature from the ing on inscriptions from a number of different pyramids and includes the second millennium BC. Moers examines the origins of Egyptian fiction original hieroglyphic text, mostly copied from inscriptions found on the and its forms before considering its textual characteristics, such as pyramids of Queens Neit and Apouit. 418p (Oxford UP 1969, rep 1998) symbolism and irony, its audience and its function. The study includes a Hb £24.99 theoretical examination of intertextuality and concludes with a discussion of allegorical figures, such as the crocodile, and the religious rituals The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts embedded in the texts. German text. 338p (PDA 19, Brill 2001) Hb by R O Faulkner. The Coffin Texts are religious utterances written inside £46.50 the wooden coffins of wealthy and/or important Egyptians. They date An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Literature from the Middle Kingdom and fill the gap between the Pyramid Texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead. Faulkner provides an authoritative by E A Wallis Budge. Originally published in 1914, this unabridged reprint translation, accompanied by concise textual notes, and makes accessible to makes a classic work widely available again. Specifically compiled for the the non-specialist a rich source of information on early Egyptian beliefs. layman, this is a fascinating selection of writings that introduces the gen- eral reader to Egyptian literature created during all major periods of liter- Vol 1: Spells 1-354 304p (Aris & Phillips 1973) Pb £20.00; ary activity under the Pharaohs. E A Wallis Budge’s own literal translations Vol 2: Spells 355-787 320p (Aris & Phillips 1978) Pb £20.00; and commentary make this an enduring classic. 272p (Dover 1997) Pb Vol 3: Spells 788-1185 & index 216p (Aris & Phillips 1978) Pb £20.00 £9.95 * Complete 3 Volume Set: Now £48.00 * Ancient Egyptian Literature The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead by Miriam Lichtheim. This three volume sourcebook of Egyptian litera- by R O Faulkner. Completing the trilogy, this edition presents the collec- ture in up-to-date translations opens an invaluable window into Egyptian tion of religious and magical texts known to the ancient Egyptians as The life for anybody who does not read the original language. The set offers an Chapters of Coming-forth by Day, aimed at securing for the deceased a satis- interesting perspective on the changing uses and styles of literacy from the factory afterlife, and giving him the power to leave his tomb when neces- Old Kingdom to the Roman Period. The texts chosen range from monu- sary. Copies of the Book of the Dead written on papyrus scrolls were placed mental inscriptions to prose tales, and from spells to royal decrees. in the tombs of important Egyptians, each roll containing a selection of Vol 1: The Old and Middle Kingdoms. 245p (California UP 1975) Pb chapters. The translated text is pieced together from a selection of these £12.95 scrolls, dating from 1500 BC to 250 BC. This edition contains illustrations Vol 2: The New Kingdom. 239p (California UP 1976) Pb £12.95 of some of the best-preserved examples. 192p, 60 col and 85 b/w pls (BMP Vol 3: The Late Period. 228p (California UP 1980) Pb £12.95 1997) Pb £12.99

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The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife Legends of Ancient Egypt by Erik Hornung. The Egyptians held complex views and beliefs of the by M A Murray. Eleven specially chosen stories about various deities, afterlife, recorded in texts which were later found in royal tombs. Hornung lesser gods and legends, aimed at both the general reader and the more discusses the contents of these texts, ranging from the collection of spells serious student. Includes legends of Osiris, Isis, and Ra. 96p (John Murray in the Book of the Dead, to detailed accounts of the afterlife in the Books of 1920, Dover rep 2000) Pb £5.95 the Netherworld. Now translated into English. 188p, b/w figs & pls (Cornell The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant UP 1999) Hb £38.50, Pb £15.95 by R B Parkinson. This is one of the great texts from the golden age of The Egyptian Heaven and Hell Egyptian literature in the Middle Kingdom. Although the tale has been by E A Wallis Budge. Originally published in three volumes, and contain- much studied and quoted, there has never been a full parallel edition of ing the complete hieroglyphic texts of the Book Am-Tuat and the Book of the manuscripts. This volume, though not a translation, provides a stan- Gates, with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations, this dard text to serve as a basis for further research. Parkinson has collated the work is invaluable for an appreciation of beliefs about death and the transcriptions with the original papyri in Berlin and London, and proposes afterlife. These books highlight the formation of elements in Egyptian a number of new and improved readings. The introduction describes the religion, and primitive gods otherwise unknown. 232p, illus throughout (Con- manuscripts and discusses their date and provenance. 144 p (Griffith Insti- stable 1996, Dover 1997) Pb £20.00 tute 1991) Pb £12.00 The Liturgy of Opening of the Mouth for Breathing The Tale of Sinuhe and other Ancient Egyptian Poetry by M Smith. This is an ancient Egyptian mortuary text preserved in four by R B Parkinson. This book brings together the translated products of manuscripts, located in Berlin, Strasbourg, Paris and Oxford. All are writ- the golden age of ancient Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle King- ten in Demotic script and date to the early part of the 1st century AD. The dom of c.1940-1640 BC. The Tale of Sinuhe is acclaimed as a masterpiece purpose of this liturgy was threefold: to revivify the deceased person for of Egyptian poetry, and tells of a courtier’s adventures after he flees whom it was recited, to provide them with offerings in the form of cloth- Egypt, his failure to find a meaningful life abroad, and his eventual return ing and sustenance, to reintegrate them within the cosmos, ensuring their to the security of his homeland. Other works include stories of fantastic freedom of movement and acceptance among the company of gods. The wonders from the court of the pharaoh liturgy is edited with an introduction, transliteration and translation, com- behind the Great Pyramid, a lyrical dia- mentary, bibliography, glossary and photographs of all four versions. The logue between a man and his soul on the Strasbourg MS contains additional textual material, of uncertain relation nature of death and the problem of suf- to the liturgy proper, which is treated as an appendix. 176p, 12 b/w pls fering, and teachings about virtue and wis- (Griffith Institute 1994) Hb £80.00 dom, one of which is bitterly spoken from A Ptolemaic Lexikon. A Lexicographical Study of the the grave by the assassinated Amenemhat I, founder of the Middle Kingdom. These Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu are new translations drawing on recent by P Wilson. The texts discussed in this book were inscribed on the walls advances in Egyptology. A general intro- of the Temple of Horus in Upper Egypt during the Ptolemaic period. The duction discusses the historical context, lexicon studies more than 4,000 words used in the text and traces their the nature of poetry, and the role of lit- usage in the Egyptian language. Each entry explores the changing usage of erature in ancient Egyptian culture. 317p various words, whether they were archaic survivals or were poetically or (OUP 1999) Pb £7.99 religiously enhanced. A unique and highly useful tool, the first of its kind in English, studying the individual words and their context, use and com- Egyptian Legends and Stories position. 1300p (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 78, Peeters 1997) Hb £105.00 by M V Seton-Williams. Ancient Egypt had a rich tradition of stories and proverbs, recorded by scribes. This book raises these stories from the dust, Die hieratischen Texte des P. Berlin 3049 and presents obscure ancient texts in a readable form. The selections date by Svenja A Gülden. A transcription, with German translation and full from the Old Kingdom to medieval times, the majority being based on commentary, of the Hieratic hymns to Amun-Re on Papyrus 3049 in religious themes. There are many surprising new texts here, but some of Berlin. The thesis includes an extensive discussion of the papyrus itself, the themes seem familiar: the creation myth of Memphis theology is simi- written during the reign of Thutmosis III, and its historical and religious lar to the bible while ‘The Capture of Joppa’ is an older version of ‘Ali context. 89p, 17 b/w pls, b/w figs (Klein Ägyptische Texte 13, Harrowitz 2001) Baba’. 144p (Rubicon 1998) Pb £11.95 Pb £25.50 The Story of Petese Son of Petetum and Ancient Records of Egypt by James Henry Breasted. Originally published in 1906-1907, this is the Prophet of Atum at Heliopolis, and 35 other Stories first complete collection, in paperback, of historical source documents edited by Kim Ryholt. A complete edition of the three known versions of available at the turn of the 20th century, translated by James Henry the Egyptian narrative written in Demotic, copied from the 4th century Breasted. BC through to the 2nd century AD, employing the literary device of the Vol. 1 includes an introduction to the sources and their chronology and main story: a prophet commits an act of blasphemy, for which he is pun- each translated document includes information on content, historical ished by the gods. In the remaining 35 days of his life 35 good and 35 bad significance, location and condition. This volume includes the earliest stories are presented to him. 116p, 12 b/w pls (Museum Tusculanum 1999) documents, through to the 17th Dynasty. 344p (Illinois UP 2001) Pb £15.00 Hb £36.00 Vol. 2: Documents of the 18th Dynasty. 428p (Illinois UP 2002) Pb £15.00 The Story of King Kheops and the Magicians Vol. 3: Documents of the 19th Dynasty. 279p (Illinois UP 2002) Pb £14.75 by A M Blackman. A transcription, not a translation, of Papyrus Westcar Vol. 4: Documents from the 20th to 26th Dynasties. 520p (Illinois UP (Berlin Papyrus 3033). The first full transcription text to be published in 2002) Pb £16.25 many years. Includes comments on hieroglyphics, unclear symbols and the Vol. 5 supplementary bibliographies and indices. 224p (Illinois UP 2002) Pb condition of the papyrus. 17p, 12 b/w pls of the original papyrus (J V Books £11.00 1988) Pb £18.00 The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor Tales, Legends and Stories by John L Foster and Lyla Pinch Brock. This sailor’s yarn tells the story of On the Primaeval Ocean: The Carlsberg Papyri 5 a sole survivor of a shipwreck who encounters a talking serpent and jour- by Mark Smith. On the Primaeval Ocean provides an edited text of a series neys to the enchanted Island of the Ka. It survives in a single of ancient Egyptian fragments written in Demotic script in the first half papyrus copy written in the 20th cen- of the 2nd century AD, on the subject of the origins and nature of the tury BC, and now kept in the Her- cosmos. It focuses on fragments in the Carsten Niebuhr Institute at the mitage in St. Petersburg. University of Copenhagen and presents each fragment in the original, Originally written in hieratic, with translation, textual notes and commentary. The fragments are placed it appears here in hiero- in order and discussed in terms of the wider context of the creation of glyphic form alongside the universe and the issue of life and death. 260p, 14 b/w pls (CNI the verse translation. Publications 26, Museum Tusculanum and the Carlsberg Papyri 2002) Hb 40p, col pls (AUCP 1998) £50.00 Pb £13.95 22 EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TEXTS

Grundlagen des Koptischen Satzbaus II American Society of Papyrologists by H J Polotsky. 272p (ASP 29, 1990) Hb £27.95 Essays and Texts in Honor of J David Thomas Un Codex Fiscal Hermopolite (P. Sorb. II 69) edited by Traianos Gagos and Roger S Bagnall. A collection of nine by Jean Gascou. 289p, 33 b/w pls (ASP 32, 1994) Hb £52.95 essays focused on military and administrative institutions in the ancient world, and supplemented by a presentation of thirty texts in Greek and Ptocheia or Odysseus in Disguise at Troy Latin written on papyrus and wooden fragments, some previously edited and commentary by Maryline G Parca. 130p, 3 b/w pls (ASP 31, unpublished. The essays and textual editions are contributed by a host of 1991) Hb £38.95 distinguished international scholars in honour of Professor J David Papyri in Memory of P J Sijpesteijn Thomas seventieth birthday. Professor Thomas (formerly at the University edited by A J B Sirks and K A Worp. c.350p (ASP 40, 2003) Hb £34.95 of Durham) has edited a large number of ancient texts over the last 50 A Yale Papyrus (P Yale III 137) in the Beinecke Rare Book and years, and his work has been important to our understanding of subjects as diverse as the military strength on Hadrians Wall and the chain of Manuscript Library III command in the Egyptian civil service. 290p (American Society of by Paul Schubert. 123p, 8 b/w pls (ASP 41, 2001) Hb £24.95 Papyrologists, American Studies in Papyrology 42, 2001) Hb £45.00 Checklist of Editions of Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca and Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt Tablets (Fifth Edition) by Raffaella Cribiore. Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, by John Oates, Roger S Bagnall, William H Willis and Klaas A Worp. 94p work books and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the (5th edn, Suppl of the Bulletin of ASP 7, 2001) Pb £14.95 processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the The Ptolemaic Basilikos Grammateus skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned. 316p, b/w pls (American by John F Oates. 115p (Suppl of the Bulletin of ASP 8, 1995) Pb £20.95 Society of Papyrologists 36, 1996) Hb £34.95 The Production and Use of Vegetable Oils in Ptolemaic Egypt The Herakleopolite Nome by D Brent Sandy. 136p (Suppl of the Bulletin of ASP 6, 1989) Hb £16.95 by Maria Rosaria Falivene. Falivene presents an A-Z listing of names in the Herakleopolite nome, a district of Middle Egypt, largely based on Currency and Inflation in Fourth Century Egypt Greek papyri dating from the third century BC to the eighth century AD. by Roger S Bagnall. 81p (Suppl of the Bulletin of ASP 5, 1985) Pb £12.95 The importance of the Herakleopolite villages is discussed along with the likely provenance of the documents upon which this study is based. 324p Yale Egyptological Seminar (ASP 1998) Hb £41.95 µEssays on Egyptian Grammar Columbia Papyri VIII by edited by William Kelly Simpson. Four technical papers on Egyptian by Roger S Bagnall, Timothy T Renner and Klaas A Worp. 238p, 57 b/w pls grammar: Tense in Classical Egyptian (James P Allen); The semantic structure (ASP 28, 1990) Hb £31.95 of jw-ei ‘come’ and sm-bok ‘go’; (Leo Depuydt); ‘His Majesty’ in Hammamati Columbia Papyri IX: The Vestis Militaris Codex 191 (H J Polotsky); Determining initiality of clauses in Middle Egyptian edited by Jennifer A Sheridan. This present work is based around a papyrus (David P Silverman). 41p (Yale Egyptological Studies 1, 1986) Pb £9.95 codex containing two documents: vestis militaris and a private account Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian listing expenses and assets for a household. Includes a transcription, trans- Creation Accounts lation and commentary on these two documents. 174p, 12 b/w pls (ASP 39, by James P Allen. Thousands of texts discuss Egyptian cosmology and 1998) Hb £31.95 cosmogony. James Allen has selected sixteen to translate and discuss in Columbia Papyri X order to shed light on one of the questions that clearly preoccupied ancient edited by Roger S Bagnall and Dirk D Obbink. An up-dated collection of intellectuals; the origins of the world. 114p, 2 b/w pls (Yale Egyptological Columbia papyri, with commentary. 234p, 50 b/w pls (ASP 34, 1996) Hb Studies 2, 1988) Pb £28.00 £34.95 Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt Columbia Papyri XI edited by William Kelly Simpson. Seven important essays on the study of by Timothy M Teeter. An edited group of previously unpublished papyri ancient Egyptian religion. Contents: The cosmology of the pyramid texts connected with the early Christian church. 303p, 11 b/w pls (ASP 38, (James P Allen); Textual criticism in the coffin texts (David P Silverman); 1998) Hb £24.95 State and religion in the New Kingdom (Jan Assmann); The natural philosophy of Akhenaten (James P Allen); Horus or the crocodiles: a juncture Life in Egypt under Roman Rule of religion and magic in late Dynastic Egypt (Robert K Ritner); Psychology by Naphtali Lewis. A reprint of ‘Life in Roman Egypt’ (Oxford UP 1996) and society in the ancient Egyptian cult of the dead (Alan B Lloyd); Death discussing the economy and society of Roman Egypt, c.30 BC to AD 285, and initiation in the funerary religion of ancient Egypt. 159p (Yale Egyptological largely through papyri. A well written introduction to the subject and the Studies 3, 1989) Pb £38.00 nature of the evidence. 240p, 8 b/w pls (OUP 1986, ASP 1999) Pb £18.95 µFuture at Issue: Tense, Mood and Aspect in Middle Egyptian Michigan Papyri XVI: A Greek Love Charm from Egypt by Pascal Vernus. A technical study of Middle Egyptian grammar aimed at edited and commentary by David G Martinez. 161p, 1 b/w pl (ASP 30, enhancing our understanding of tense, mood and aspect; a difficult area of 1991) Hb £31.95 research because, as the author notes, ‘we have no Michigan Papyri XVII: The Michigan Medical Codex informants, since the discovered mummies have so by Louise C Youtie. 87p, b/w pls (ASP 35, 1996) Hb £27.95 far stubbornly refused to speak and are not expected Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library II to change their minds in the future’. 288p, 2 b/w pls (Yale Egyptological Studies 4, 1990) Pb £28.00 by Susan Stephens. 167p, b/w pls (ASP 24, 1985) Hb £48.95 Also available: On Government and Law in Roman Egypt Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt by Naphtali Lewis. A collection of articles by the author dealing with 2. The Late Nubian Settlement at Arminna issues of Roman law and Roman society, principally focusing on Egypt. West by Bruce G Trigger. 92p, 36 b/w pls and 56 figs (1967) Hb £38.00 383p (ASP 33, 1995) Hb £34.95 µ3. The Classic Christian Townsite at Arminna West by Kent R Weeks. Register of Oxyrhynchites 30 BC-AD 96 103p, 13 b/w pls, 52 figs (1967) Hb £38.00 by B W Jones and J E G Whitehorne. 292p (ASP 1983) Hb £24.95 4. The Meroitic Funerary Inscriptions from Arminna West by Saite and Persian Demotic Cattle Documents: A study in legal Bruce G Trigger. 71p, 7 b/w pls, 14 b/w figs (1970) Hb £38.00 forms and principles in Ancient Egypt 5. The Terrace of the Great God at Abydos: The Offering Chapels of Dynasties 12 and 13 by William Kelly Simpson. 38p, 84 b/w pls by Eugene Cruz-Uribe. 126p, b/w pls (ASP 26, 1985) Hb £17.95 (1974) Hb £38.00 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress of µ 6. Inscribed Material from the Pennsylvania-Yale Excavations at Papyrology (New York, 24-31 July 1980) Abydos edited by William Kelly Simpson. 110p, 31 b/w pls and 171 figs edited by R S Bagnall, G M Browne et al. 706p (ASP 23, 1981) Hb £49.95 (1995) Hb £58.00 23 THE DAKHLEH OASIS PROJECT

Greek Papyri from Kellis I edited by K A Worp, in collaboration with J E G Whitehorne and R W THE DAKHLEH Daniel. This first volume describing papyri found at Kellis contains 90 Greek documents of the 4th century AD. They include private letters, official documents, leases, records of sale and other contracts, loans of OASIS PROJECT money, a horoscope, magical formularies and amulets. Each document is transcribed with a translation, commentary and notes and illustrated with Archaeological work around the Dakhleh Oasis (Western Desert) has recovered a a photograph. 365p with 90 pls (Oxbow Monograph 54/Dakhleh Oasis Project number of texts, important for our understanding of Greco-Roman Egyptian society. Monograph 3, 1995) Hb £45.00 Written on wooden boards, papyri and fragments of pottery, they are shedding new The Kellis Agricultural Account Book light on religious, administrative and literary life on the fringes of Egypt, some 400 edited by Roger S Bagnall. This codex of wooden tablets, found side-by- miles southwest of Cairo. side with the Isocrates codex, contains the most extensive and well-pre- Dakhleh Oasis Project: Preliminary Reports on the 1994-1995 served set of accounts for an agricultural entity to survive from the 4th to 1998-1999 Field Seasons century AD. The accounts probably date from the 360s and document the edited by Colin A Hope and Gillian E Bowen. This volume is the second daily life of an agricultural estate over a period of five years, recording produced by the Dakleh Oasis Project devoted to reporting the preliminary information about crops, prices, tenants and religious institutions. Full results of its field work. The volume is divided into two parts: the first part transcription, with a facing translation and a line-by-line commentary on includes reports on the study of various prehistoric and historic sites; the the text, and indices. There is a discussion of the interpretation and signifi- second part is devoted to the work on the settlement of Ismant el-Kharab, cance of the accounts; also of the site and the find context of the codices. ancient Kellis, and two of its cemeteries. The latter papers include a 252p with figs and 20 pls (Oxbow Monograph 92/Dakhleh Oasis Project Mono- description of the excavations, a discussion of the architectural evolution graph 7, 1997) Hb £45.00 of the Main Temple Complex and the significance of the Large East Church, an attempt to reconstruct the Temple of Tutu using 3D computer The Kellis Isocrates Codex modelling, and a study of the main wall paintings found in the Main edited by K A Worp and A Rijksbaron. This codex contains three orations Temple Complex. Several papers also present the results of research carried by the Attic orator Isocrates, namely; Ad Demonium, Ad Nicoclem, and out on specific categories of artefacts and materials, such as the textiles, Nicocles – and provides the oldest complete versions of these texts. The basketry and leather goods, ceramics, metals and metallurgy, oils, terracotta codex was discovered lying in the sand on the floor of a house excavated in figurines, and the flora and fauna of ancient Kellis. Contributors: Anthony Kellis, and consisted of nine wooden boards tied together with string, J Mills, Mary M A McDonald, Tatyana N Smekalova, Jennifer L Thompson, inscribed in Greek on both sides of each board. It was probably the copy Roger S Bagnall, Klaas A Worp, John Tait, Michelle Berry, Laurence Blondaux, of a local schoolmaster as the general quality of the handwriting and the Gillian E Bowen, Carla Marchini, Charles S Churcher, Christine E Coombs, spelling errors make it unlikely that it was owned by a scholar. This volume Andrea L Woodhead, Jeffrey S Church, Jaroslaw Dobrowolski, Amanda Dunsmore, contains a full critical edition of the texts with comments on their trans- Mark A J Eccleston, Iain Gardner, Peter Grossmann, Kevin Hickson, Colin A mission and use, and an essay on the structure of the codex by J L Sharpe. Hope, Olaf E Kaper, Caroline C McGregor, J Eldon Molto, Ryan L Parr, 293p, 35 pls (Oxbow Monograph 88/Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 5, 1997) Andrew Ross, Annie Schweitzer, Anna Stevens, Ursula Thanheiser, Helen Hb £45.00 Whitehouse. 360p, many b/w figs, tbs, pls (Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 10, Coptic Documentary Texts from Kellis 1 Oxbow Books 2002) Hb £60.00 edited by Iain Gardner, Anthony Alcock, and Wolf-Peter Funk. This vol- Reports from the Survey of Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of ume is devoted to the publication of forty five Coptic documents written Egypt 1977-1987 on papyri and boards, found in the ruins of houses at Kellis, the Roman edited by C S Churcher and A J Mills. Contents: Geography, predecessor of the village of Ismant el-Kharab in the Dakhleh Oasis. The Geoarchaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis Region (M R Kleindienst, C S Churcher, documents date from the fourth century AD and relate to the domestic life M M A McDonald & H P Schwarcz); A Notes on the Late Cretaceous of the people over at least two generations. Most of the documents are Vertebrate Fauna of Dakhleh Oasis (C S Churcher); Soil Fungi from East- personal letters, and many of them have a Manichaean content reflecting ern Dakhleh Oasis (J C Krung & K Shah Khan); Flora, Vegetation and the beliefs of the writers; there are also several business accounts. The Paleobotany (J C Ritchie); Pleistocene Neolithic Cultural Units and Adap- documents are transcribed and translated with commentary and there is an tations (Mary M A McDonald); Holocene Faunas (C S Churcher); Notes on introduction setting them in context, and discussing the people who wrote the Recent Fauna (Alan F Hollett & C S Churcher); Pharonic Egyptian in them. A second volume of similar documents is in preparation. 420p, 46 the Dakhleh Oasis (A J Mills); Pathologically Slender Human Long Bones pls (Dakhleh Oasis Project, Oxbow 1999) Hb £60.00 (Peter G Sheldrick); Conservation, Preservation and Presentation of Monu- ments and Objects (Adam K Zielinski); Ismant el-Kharab, Survey at a The Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Romano-Byzantine Town (James E Knudstad & Rosa A Frey). 288p, 141 figs Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings and pls (Oxbow/Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 2, 1999) Hb £45.00 from the Griffith Institute ... Dakhleh Oasis Project: Preliminary reports on the 1992-1993 I The Theban Necropolis (i) Private Tombs. 520p (2nd edn 1960, rep and 1993-1994 field seasons 1994) Hb £40.00; (ii) Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries. 456p edited by Colin A Hope and Anthony Mills. Contents: Preliminary Report (2nd edn 1964) Hb £45.00 on the 1992-3 and 1993-4 Seasons (A J Mills); Interim Report on the 1992 II Theban Temples 622p (2nd edn 1994) Hb £45.00 Season (M McDonald & K Walker); Interim Report on the 1993 Season (M III Memphis (i) Abu Rawash to Abusir. 392p (2nd edn 1984 rep 1994) McDonald); ‘Ein Birbiyeh’ (A J Mills); Deir el-Haggar (A J Mills); Excava- Hb £45.00; (ii) Fascicle 1 (1978) Pb £20.00; (ii) Fascicle 2 (1979) Pb tions at Ismant el-Kharab (ancient Kellis): Settlement and cemeteries: £25.00; (ii) Fascicle 3 (1981) Pb £35.00 Excavations in the cemeteries of Ismant el-Kharab (M Birrell); Coinage: IV Lower and Middle Egypt microfiche only £8.00 Preliminary Report (G E Bowden); Progress on the Coptic texts from Ismant V Upper Egypt: sites microfiche only £8.00 el-Kharab (I Gardner); Interim Report on the West Tombs (C A Hope & J VI Upper Egypt: Chief temples (excluding Thebes). 283p (1939 rep McKenzie); Epigraphy at Ismant el-Kharab (O E Kaper); Glass from the 1991) Hb £30.00 1993 excavations at Ismant el-Kharab (C Marchini); Brief report on the VII Nubia, Deserts and Outside Egypt 488p (1951, rep 1995) Hb study of ceramics (S F Patten); Plant remains from Ismant el-Kharab (U £40.00 Thanheiser); A painted panel of Isis (H Whitehouse). 152p (Oxbow/Dakhleh VIII Objects of Provenance not known by Jaromir Malek. (Only Oasis Project Report 1999) Pb £20.00 available as a 3-volume set Kellis Literary Texts 1 Part 1. Royal Statues. Private Statues (Predynastic to Dynasty XVII). edited by Iain Gardner. This volume publishes a first selection of 536p Hb Manichaean and other religious texts found at Kellis (Dakhleh Oasis) with Part 2. Private Statues (Dynasty XVIII to the Roman Period). Deities. descriptions, notes, transcriptions, translations and photographs. There 768p Hb are sixteen Coptic texts, four Syriac and four Greek. 240p with 46 pls Indices to Vol VIII, Parts 1 & 2. 144p Pb (Oxbow Monograph 69/Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 4, 1997) Hb £35.00 *** 3 volume set £145.00 ***

24 EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT

An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT by Fred Wendorf et al. Reports of a reconnaisance survey conducted by the Southern Methodist University during 1996, in which 75 sites were recorded (Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age settlements) in central Sinai, Ancient Egypt and then excavated, including a circular village with round houses, com- pound village camps, a game trap and open-air sanctuaries with square Palaeolithic Living Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt enclosures. The findings of both survey and excavation are revealed in edited by P M Vermeersch. More than 24 years of research by the Belgian detail. 340p, b/w figs (The American Research Center in Egypt and Colorado UP Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project of Leuven University is summarised in 1999) Hb £50.00 this volume. The project investigated 29 sites dating from c.400,000 years ago to c.6,000 BP. Numerous plans and drawings accompany the Frühe Keramik und Kleinfunde aus El-Târif data. 330p, illus (Egyptian Prehistory Monographs Vol 2, Leuven University edited by Boleslaw Ginter. Two studies by members of the Polish team 2000) Hb £37.99 working at the Old Kingdom site of Tarif, on the western shore of the Nile opposite Thebes. 99p, 16 b/w pls (DAI Kairo Abteilung Bd 40, Von Zabern Tell el–Dab’a I 1998) Hb £44.00 by Labib Habachi. This volume looks at Habachi’s explorations in the East Delta and at the adjacent villages of Tell el–Dab’a and Qantir. He Tell el-Faraîn: Buto I presents interpretations of his findings and links with the long lost capitals by Thomas von der Way. Large preliminary excavation report of a settle- of the Hyksos and Ramessides (Avaris and Piramesse). His interpretations ment in the Nile Delta. The report describes investigations of the struc- are followed by a discussion of the evidence and a catalogue of finds (in ture of the town and the finds, mainly pottery, and closely analyses the German). English and German text. 262p, 57 b/w and col pls, b/w figs, 4 evidence. 352p, 74p of figs, 28 b/w pls (Von Zabern/Deutsches Arch. Institut loose plans (OAW 2001) Pb £92.50 1997) Hb £88.00 Tell el-Dab’a IX Tell el-Faraîn: Buto III by Ernst Czerny. This volume is principally concerned with the large pot- by E Christiana Köhler. This is a study of ceramics of the prehistoric tery assemblage which provides a valuable insight into the town’s status Naqada culture and early Old Kingdom period discovered in the region of and the everyday standard of living. This, combined with an analysis of the Buto, a site south of Tanis in the Delta and the capital of the Lower town plan of small and regularly spaced dwellings, contributes to our Kingdom in Predynastic times. Detailed analysis of materials, forms and understanding of the original colonisation of the East Delta. It also helps decoration is supplemented by discussion of find-contexts, manufacturing to explain the methods of early Egyptian town planning and the limited methods and the origins of imported objects discovered. This site has expectations of the inhabitants. Includes illustrations of both high status provided controversial evidence for regular contact with the emerging and functional vessels and a full catalogue of form and fabric types. Ger- civilizations of Mesopotamia at this formative period. 147p, 65p figs (DAI man text. 323p, 23 b/w and 7 col pls, many b/w figs (OAW 1999) Pb £143.00 Abteilung Kairo Bd 94, Von Zabern 1998) Hb £73.00 Tell el-Dab’a X: The Palace District of Avaris. The Pottery of Road Archaeology in the Middle Nile: Volume 1 the Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (Areas H/III and by M D S Mallinson, L M V Smith, S Ikram, C Le Quesne and P Sheenan. H/VI) Part 1: Locus 66 A report on fieldwork undertaken during 1993, to investigate the archaeo- by Perla Fuscaldo. Following a summary of the 1989 excavations at ‘Ezbet logical sites threatened by the construction of the Geili-Atbara road to the Helmi, 1 km west of Tell el-Daba, Fuscaldo catalogues a rare assemblage north of Khartoum. It presented an opportunity to carry out a thorough of hundreds of vessels from the site. The vessels were found scattered survey of the area. Includes several sites from the Pharaonic – Meroitic along a street to the north of a monumental complex, dating from the Late period (2000 BC- AD 600), including some probable Meroitic cemeteries. Hyskos Period. Fuscaldo argues that the vessels were smashed to mark the 207p, 29 b/w pls, many figs (Sudan Archaeological Research Society 1996) Hb conquest of Avaris by Ahmose. The illustrated catalogue is followed by a £50.00 ceramic corpus of the early 18th Dynasty and statistical analysis of the Excavations at Tell el-Balamun 1995-1998 Late Hyskos vessels. The volume contains a seperate folder of 7 large site by A J Spencer. Tell el-Balamun in the Nile Delta is the most northerly city plans. 135p, 3 b/w pls, 59 b/w figs, tbs, folder of 7 plans (Untersuchungen der of ancient Egypt. This volume details the British Museum’s excavations at Zweigstelle Kairo, OAW 2000) Pb £53.00 the Temple of Amun: its architectural and archaeological sequence, as well Tell el-Dab’a XIII: Typologie und Chronologie der Mergel C- as exposed deposits of temple complexes of the New Kingdom. Includes Ton Keramik a catalogue of stone, faience, glass and pottery. The first volume is now out by Bettina Bader. This latest volume in the publication of results from the of print. 97p, 4 col and 105 b/w pls (BMP 1999) Pb £60.00 excavation of the settlement of Tell el-Dab’a on the East Delta in Egypt Die Keramik des Grabungsplatzes Q I. Forschungen in der focuses on the ceramics that resulted from domestic trade during the Ramses-Stadt; Die Grabungen des Pelizaeus-Museums Hildesheim Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediary Period. Bader discusses the in Quantir-Pi- Ramesse. Teil 1: Corpus of Fabrics, Wares and Shapes fabric of the ceramics, all made from marl clay soil, and presents an illus- by David A Aston. An immense publication of the ceramics of burial trated typology of dishes, bowls, vases, inscribed and moulded pieces and place Q 1 in the city Qantir-Pi-Ramesse, with a discussion of the stratig- fragments. The conclusion discusses the manufacture, use and trade of raphy, techniques of recording and description of the pottery, an intro- vessels during the 12th and 13th Dynasties and compares the ceramics duction to Ancient Egyptian painted pottery and a huge corpus of sherds with those found on other sites. 250p, 5 col and 7 b/w pls, many b/w illus with drawings. 742p, 1 col pl, 83 illus, 2820 cat. pls, 10 b/w pls (FoRa 1, Von (OAW 2001) Pb £36.50 Zabern 1998) Hb £120.00 Maghar Dendera 2 (Huate Egypte), un site d’occupation badarien Pottery from the Late New Kingdom to the Early Ptolemaic by Stan Hendrickx, Béatrix Midant-Reynes and Wim van Neer. The final Period report of excavations at the site of Mehgar Dendera 2 in Upper Egypt, a seasonal campsite dating to c.4100BC. This volume includes details on by David A Aston. For many years Egyptian scholars, especially pottery the lithic assemblage, pottery, excavated features such as hearths and specialists, have awaited a stratified ceramic sequence spanning the first storage pits and allows speculation as to the nature and longevity of the millennium BC. The excavations at Elephantine, in the Northwest area of settlement. French text, English summary. (Egyptian Prehistory Monographs the Ptolemaic Khnum Temple, have revealed such a sequence, from the 3, Leuven UP 2001) Pb £24.50 Ptolemaic period to the Late New Kingdom. With plans and illustrations of ceramics. 363p, b/w figs, 18 b/w pls (Elephantine XIX, Von Zabern 1999) Zwischen Tigris und Nil: Hb £81.00 100 Jahre Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in State Formation in Egypt: Chronology and Society Vorderasien un Ägypten by Toby Wilkinson. Drawing on pottery from seven Predynastic to Early edited by Gernot Wihelm. Beautifully illustrated volume to mark the Dynastic mortuary sites in the Nile valley, the author applies new archaeo- centenary of excavations of the German Oriental Society in the Near logical techniques to the wealth of previously excavated material. The aim East and Egypt. It offers an overview of 100 years of excavations and of the work is to refine the chronology of this formative period, and then shows to what extent these expeditions have defined present views of to investigate some of the social and economic changes that took place, ancient oriental cultures. Concise and well written. 144p, 144 col & 88 b/ especially in terms of mortuary inequality and elaboration. 122p, 134p of w pls (Von Zabern 1998) Hb £30.00 figs (BAR S651, 1996) Pb £32.00 25 EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT

Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and GRECO-ROMAN EGYPT Roman Egypt by Raffaella Cribiore. Education is a steep hill that students have to A History of the Ptolemaic Empire climb. Cribiore introduces her book with this metaphorical image of the by Günther Hölbl. This wide-ranging study of Egyptian history between education hill, taken from the 2nd century satirist Lucian, then proceeds 323 BC and AD 30 shows how Alexander the Great and his Greek to trace the educational journey of a student in ancient Egypt, where successors established themselves as the rightful heirs of Egypt’s god Greek was the main language for administrative, official and educational pharaohs. Using archaeological, epigraphic and papyrological evidence, purposes during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The first part looks Hölbl discusses the policies and ideologies of the first Ptolemies who at the evidence for schools and the general learning environment, the role established a powerful empire in the Eastern Mediterranean. The final of teachers and parents in education, the instruments of learning, such as part of the study records the loss of empire, domestic unrest and the books, writing materials and implements, and the position of women in heavy shadow of Rome. Includes genealogical tables and a useful education. The second part describes the standard progression from chronology of major events. 379p, b/w figs (1994, Routledge English edn elementary to advanced education, from the time when students were 2001) Hb £50.00, Pb £19.99 drilled on the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, to when they began to concentrate on increasing detail on a cannonical list of authors Egypt after the Pharaohs 332 BC - AD 642 and on the ‘technical’ side of grammar, to the time when a select few by Alan K Bowman. The ten thousand years between Alexander the Great’s students received rhetorical instruction to strengthen their verbal skills. invasion in 332 BC and the Arab conquest in AD642 was a period of Cribiore has drawn upon a rich collection of education materials enormous change in the history of Egypt. Drawing upon the vast collec- fortuitously preserved on papyrus, ostraca (sherds of pots or slices of tion of extant papyrus texts and the archaeological evidence, Bowman limestone) and tablets, to create this significant contribution to the history links together the Egyptian, Greek and Roman strands of the story, pre- of Greco-Roman education. 270p, 24 b/w figs (Princeton UP 2001) Hb senting a masterly survey of the history and culture of Egypt in this £27.95 thousand year period. 272p, 35 col & 110 b/w illus (BMP rep 1996) Pb £14.99 Ägypten in hellenisticher Zeit, 332-30 v. Chr. by Werner Huss. A detailed and comprehensive synthesis of Egyptian Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt history which, while focusing on political history, looks at the ways in edited by Jane Rowlandson. This book makes available to students and which ancient Egyptian and Greek culture fused during these three other non-specialists a varied collection of over three hundred translated centuries. The author draws on a wide range of evidence, including texts and more than fifty illustrations relating to women’s lives in Greek archaeological, documentary, epigraphic and numismatic sources, to and Roman Egypt. These are accompanied by an introductory chapter and examine the shifting political position of Egypt in the eastern full explanatory notes. 428p, 59 b/w pls (Cambridge UP 1999) Hb £47.50, Mediterranean before examine the achievements, reforms and failings of Pb £17.95 each Ptolemy in turn. This heavily annotated study is not aimed at the Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt general reader. 885p (Beck 2001) Hb £59.00 by Dominic Montserrat. Billed as an ‘analysis of the emotional and expe- Das Goldland der Pharaonen: Die Entdeckung von Berenike riential aspects of sexual life’, this is the first comprehensive study of sex Pancrisia in ancient Egypt, utilising the innumerable private documents written edited by Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni and Jean Vercoutter. The during the Greco-Roman period, many of them here translated into En- mythical city of Berenike Pancrisia, said by Pliny the Elder in his Natural glish for the first time. 238p, 25 b/w pls, 14 figs (Kegan Paul 1996, new edn History to have been built out of gold, was for many years sought in vain 2000) Hb £75.00 on the coast of the Red Sea. In 1989 an Italian expedition to Wadi Allaqi The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to discovered a city founded in the third century BC, which was believed to Alexander be Berenike Pancrisia. In places this book reads more like a travelogue than by Phiroze Vasunia. In this study Vasunia explores the representation of an archaeological report, where assessments of finds are interspersed with Egypt and Egyptians within Greek writings of the 5th and 4th centuries observations on the flora, fauna and people of the area. Informative and BC. Based on very little first or second hand experience of Egypt, the entertaining. 192p, many col pls and figs (Von Zabern 1998) Hb £53.00 literature is firmly based within the attitudes and preconceptions of the Berenike Greeks and their ‘cultural imagination’. Vasunia looks especially at issues A series of reports on excavations at the Ptolemaic-Roman port on the of identity, otherness and cultural anxiety with reference to a number of Red Sea coast of Egypt, edited by Steven Sidebotham and Willemina Z sources including Aeschylus’ Suppliants, Book 2 of Herodotus and Wendrich. Euripides’ Helen. 346p (University of California 2001) Hb £29.95 ‘98. Report on the fifth season of excavations at the Red Sea port of Les Empereurs du Nil Berenike. Includes separate chapters on the excavated material: pottery, edited by Harco Willems and Willy Clarysse. This large and attractively coins, texts, metal, textiles, glass, jewellery, basketry and matting, wood presented volume explores the traditions and changes in the government, and charcoal and archaeobotanical material. 443p, b/w pls, figs, tbs (CNWS culture, society and religion of Greco-Roman Egypt. The first part of 2000) Pb £38.50 the book presents the interaction of Rome with Egypt, the country’s ‘97. The fourth report of excavations at this important Ptolemaic-Roman economy and trade, the government and army and the everyday life of port on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, including a series of separate reports Roman Egyptians. The second part examines Egypt’s religion during this on various aspects of the excavations and surveys of the hinterland. 490p period of transition which combined old beliefs with new foreign cults (CNWS 1999) Pb £34.00 and saw the emergence of Christianity. Half of the volume comprises a ‘96. Report of the 1996 excavations concentrated on the area north of the beautifully illustrated catalogue of sculptures, reliefs, paintings, coins, Serapis temple: the excavation of the buildings, the finds – pottery, coins, papyri, ceramics, glass and many more objects which demonstrate Egypt’s Greek and Latin texts, metal finds, textiles, basketry and matting, amphora rich culture during this fascinating time. 345p, many col and b/w pls (Peeters stoppers, glass, botanical remains, wood and charcoal, faunal remains, 2000) Pb £34.50 human remains. The authors offer site interpretations based on this evi- Archaische Griechische Tempel und Altägypten dence and discuss the continued survey of the Egyptian desert. 477p, b/w edited by Manfred Bietak. Ten papers (two in English) from a colloquium figs, tbs, 2 fold-out site plans (CNWS 1998) Pb £36.50 held at the Institute of Egyptology in Vienna in 1997 discuss the emergence ‘95. A preliminary report of the second season of investigations. The of Archaic Greek temple architecture and its relation to the New Kingdom principal objectives were to examine the port itself and the nature of the of Egypt. The majority of the papers focus on the design, construction, international trade passing through the port. The project found that trade decoration and religious significance of particular buildings to demonstrate was mainly centred on the Nile Valley, the Mediterranean, India, and cot- influential contacts with Egypt. Contributors discuss, for example, the ton and pottery from Nubia, and that most of monumental architecture of Samos, the construction techniques of the the incoming goods were food stuffs. The Archaic temple at Isthmia, the Temple of Hera at Olympia and the project successfully demonstrated Temple of Artemis at Corfu. Other papers compare the religious that it is now possible to estimate architecture of Ephesus with Egypt and discuss the wooden features of ancient sea levels. 483p with figs and Egyptian temples. 115p, b/w illus (Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie XXI, two loose plans (CNWS 1996) Pb OAW 2001) Pb £45.00 £41.50 26 EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT

Mons Claudianus: Survey and Excavation 1987-1993 Volume Alexandria: Die erste Königsstadt der hellenistischen Welt 1: Topography and Quarries by Günter Grimm and Michael Pfrommer. A beautiful collection of by D P S Peacock and V A Maxfield. A detailed description of the topog- Alexandrian mosaics, sculpture, pottery and other artefacts. The text pro- raphy of the fort and other Roman settlements. The report includes analy- vides a commentary on the rise, decline and renaissance of the city begin- sis of the quarries, quarrying marks, the tool marks and a number of ning with the fortunes and art of the island of Pharos before the advent of unfinished artefacts. There is discussion of transportation, petrological Alexander. 168p, many pls and illus (Von Zabern 1998) Hb £32.50 characteristics of the quarried products, and their appearance elsewhere in Alexandria in Late Antiquity the Roman world. 356p, figs (IFAO 1997) Pb £40.00 by Christopher Haas. Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Mons Claudianus: Ostraca Graeca et Latina II Alexandria’s neighbourhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, the material cul- by Jean Bingen, Adam Bülow-Jacobsen, Walter Cockle, Hélène Cuvigny, ture that attested to Alexandrian social and intellectual life, in order to François Kayser and Wilfried Van Rengen. A catalogue of the ostraca demonstrate how those spheres interacted with the physical milieu of the found at the fort of Umm Hussein during French excavations at Mons busy city. He finds that the struggles of diverse groups for social domi- Claudianus on the west bank of the Red Sea. The archaeological context nance and cultural hegemony often resulted in violence and bloodshed, of the finds is described. The chapters then treat the inscriptions by theme: thus shattering the claims of recent scholars about the city as a model for Death and disease (Hélène Cuvigny); The correspondence of Dioscorus and peaceful coexistence. 440p, 38 illus (Johns Hopkins UP 1997) Hb £37.50 others (Adam Bülow-Jacobsen); The correspondence of Petenephotes (Adam Alexandria, Third Century BC: The knowledge of the world Bülow-Jacobsen); Lettres privées provenant de Raïma (Jean Bingen); Tableaux in a single city de service (Hélène Cuvigny); List of Vigiles (Adam Bülow-Jacobsen); edited by Christian Jacob and François de Polignac. ‘Alexandria in the Correspondance militaire (Wilfried Van Rengen); Listes de soldats (François first decades of the third century BC was the greatest city of the Kayser); School Exercises: Verse and Prose (Walter Cockle). Fully illustrated Mediterranean. It was a royal city, residence of the Ptolemaic dynasty... with Greek index. 312p with 62p b/w pls (IFAO 32, 1997) Pb £55.00 and it was also a cosmopolitan city bringing together adventurers, men of Ancient Naukratis: Excavations at a Greek Emporium in Egypt, letters and science, merchants and travellers’. Fifteen contributors discuss Part 1: The Excavations at kom Ge’if different aspects of the history of Alexandria, its people and culture, by Albert Leonard Jr. The first volume of the Naukratis publication re- tracing its rise to become one of the most important cities of the ancient ports on ecofactual as well as artefactual evidence. Important new light is world. 241p, 1 map (Harpocrates Engl edn 2000) Pb £12.99 shed on this important hub at the edge of the Nile delta, which has been Alexandria: Past, Present and Future the object of over one hundred years of archaeological research. 415p by Jean-Yves Empereur. A concise history of Alexandria with well- (ASOR 1999) Hb £95.00 illustrated chapters that look at the city during the development of Ancient Naukratis II, 1: The Survey at Naukratis Christianity, the Arab and Ottoman city, the cosmopolitan city of the by William D E Coulson. As early as the reign of Psammetichus I (664- 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and present day Alexandria. 160p, many col 610 BC) Naukratis, on the Western Nile Delta, was established as the only pls (Thames and Hudson 2001) Pb £6.95 licensed Greek trading centre in Egypt, though later eclipsed by Alexan- Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of dria. This book describes new archaeological work at the site, last seriously the Dead excavated by Flinders Petrie in 1884-5. 195p, 21 b/w pls (Oxbow Mono 60, by Marjorie Venit. Alexandria’s cosmoplitan nature meant that its art and 1996) Hb £30.00 architecture were influenced by a variety of other cultures including Greek, Ancient Naukratis: Excavations at a Greek Emporium in Italian, Libyan, Persian, Indian, Arabian and Thracian. This study of Egypt, Part II : Excavations at Kom Hadis monumental tombs not only provides a corpus of material, especially by Albert Leonard Jr. According to the Greek historian Herodotus the those that contain painted and sculptural figurative decoration, but it sees ancient city of Naukratis was the first and only city in Egypt in which the them as a ‘visual testament to its social history’. Venit looks at issues of Greek merchants were allowed to settle. This volume details the diversity, community, theatre, wealth and love in the development of excavations to the north-east of the modern village in an area known to mortuary architecture and the ceremony of death, and links these to the both Sir Flinders Petrie and local farmers as Kom Hadis. 245p, 28 b/w pls nature of society in the city during the 500 years after its establishment (ASOR 55, 2000) Hb £63.00 (c.331BC). 267p, 10 col pls, 160 b/w figs (Cambridge UP 2002) Hb £60.00 Alexandria Roman Egypt The Library in Alexandria and Bible in Greek Qasr Ibrim. The Hinterland Survey by Nina Collins. This accessible study argues that the Pentateuch was by Pamela J Rose. This volume presents the results of a survey, 1986- translated in 281 BC for Ptolemy II by a team of translators working for 1992, in the territory immediately adjacent to the fortress of Qasr Ibrim in Demetrius of Phalerum, the librarian of the great Library of Alexandria. Lower Nubia. The survey demonstrates the presence of a Meroitic popu- Collins presents the evidence for this date, the opposition of the Jews, lation in the area of Ibrim from at least the early 1st century BC. The the motivation behind the work and the repercussions of the translation. volume is illustrated with maps, and plans, photographs and line drawings She also examines Demetrius of Phalerum who, she argues, was not only of the many structures and artefacts located during the course of the the employee of Ptolemy II but was also the first librarian of the survey. 300p, illus (Egypt Exploration Society 1996) Hb £50.00 Alexandria Library created by Ptolemy I. This is an informative history Excavations at El-Ashmunein V: Pottery, Lamps and Glass of of both the Bible and the early history of Alexandria, and its Library, the Late Roman and Early Arab Periods under the first two Ptolemies. 214p (Brill 2000) Hb £45.00 by D M Bailey. From 1980 to 1990 the British Museum Expedition to The Library of Alexandria Middle Egypt conducted excavations at the ancient site of Hermopolis edited by Roy MacLeod. The library of Alexandria was one of the greatest Magna. This volume catalogues the pottery, lamps and glass which come cultural establishments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of mostly from the main Thoth Temple area and date from Late Roman, Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian texts and scrolls. A collection of dis- Umayyad and Abbasid periods. 320p, 136 b/w pls (BMP 1998) Hb £145.00 tinguished authors explore and rediscover this tragically destroyed collec- µVols 2-4 are also available tion. 256p (IB Tauris 1999) Hb £44.50 Perspectives on Panopolis: An Egyptian Town from Alexandria: the Submerged Royal Quarters Surveys and Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest Excavations 1992-97 edited by A Egberts, B P Muhs and J van der Vliet. Seventeen papers, edited by Frank Goddio. Mapping the remains of the submerged royal from a symposium held in Leiden in 1998, examine the history, culture, quarters of Alexandria is a huge undertaking. The first part of this book religion, politics and linguistics of a Roman town through almost one describes some of the sophisticated survey techniques now being used. thousand years. The papers also highlight the opposition between Greek Ancient accounts describing the Great Harbour and Palaces of Alexandria and Roman influences and cultures. The varied subjects include: papyri are discussed along with other documentary evidence, sculptural and ar- evidence for the political administration of the Roman town, a Ptolemaic chitectural pieces recovered during the work of the project. An important statue of a priest, Greek inscriptions, indigenous religious traditions book recording one of the most significant and enigmatic sites in the during the Greco-Roman period, 4th-century AD gnosticism and Mediterranean. 274p, many b/w and col pls and figs (Periplus 1998) Hb £120.00 hermetism. 273p, b/w figs, tbs (Brill 2002) Hb £76.50 27 EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT/COPTIC EGYPT

Rome and the Ptolemies of Egypt: The Development of their Political Relations 273-80 BC COPTIC EGYPT by Anssi Lampela. Lampela traces the changing political relationship be- tween two of the Mediterranean’s great powers from the initiation of Christianity in the Land of the Pharoahs: The Coptic diplomatic contact to the death of Rome’s puppet ruler, Alexander II. This detailed historical account shows how Rome intervened repeatedly to Orthodox Church buttress the power of the Ptolemies and then abandoned the regime in its by Jill Kamil. A detailed yet accessible evaluation of the importance of declining years. 301p (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 111, Finnish Christianity to the national identity of Egypt and the parallel importance Academy of Sciences 1998) Pb £26.00 of Egyptian Coptic Christianity in the evolution of Christianity as a whole. Kamil argues for the continuity of history and demonstrates the At Empire’s Edge: Exploring Rome’s Egyptian Frontier role of pharaonic Egypt in the development of Coptic Christianity, nota- by Robert B Jackson. The remote deserts of Egypt are littered with the bly in the female figures of Isis and the Virgin Mary, both of whom were remains of Roman forts, trading stations, towers, temples, statues, roads, central to Egyptian religion. The study also considers the characteristics of wells, quarries and other features that have been neglected over the years Coptic Christianity, particularly the devotion to the monastic vows, the in favour of more ancient and monumental ruins. During the 1980s and influence of Egyptian hermits, Gnostic texts, persecution by Rome, the 1990s Jackson travelled extensively in both the western and eastern separation from Western Christianity, Coptic art and theology, the estab- deserts, as well as Nubia, recording and photographing archaeological lishment of dogma at councils and the impact of Islam. The study is sites. This recommended study combines a travelogue, a gazetteer of illustrated throughout and includes brief biographies of prominent figures sites, some of which are familiar, including Philae and Siwa, with a and a glossary. 311p, b/w illus (Routledge 2002) Hb £35.00 historical and archaeological discussion of what life was like at the limits of Roman influence. 350p, many b/w illus (Yale UP 2002) Hb £26.00 Egypt in Late Antiquity by Robert Bagnall. Bagnall focuses on Egyptian society from the accession Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt of Diocletian in AD 284 to the middle of 5th century AD. ‘The most by Walter Scheidel. Based on an analysis of the rich archive of surviving expansive study of Egyptian society in transition yet produced, volumi- census returns and tax lists found in Fayum and elsewhere in Roman nously documented and self-critical in its use of papyrological evidence’ – Egypt, Scheidel examines fluctuating patterns in mortality and the Alan K Bowman. 388p, 11 b/w pls (Princeton UP 1993, Pb 1996) Pb £17.95 incidence of endemic disease in the ancient world. This detailed and specialised demographic case study draws some interesting conclusions Meinarti II: The Early and Classic Christian Phases about life expectancy and causes of death and finds parallels in medieval by William Y Adams. This second of five projected volumes on the Egypt. 286p, many figs, tbs (MnS 228, Brill 2001) Hb £58.50 1963-64 excavation of the Nubian site of Meinarti focuses on occupation from the mid-6th century AD to the late 12th century. In addition to the Altägypten im Römischen Reich domestic and industrial structural and architectural evidence, Adams by Günther Hölbl. After the victory of the Roman army against Antony examines murals, inscriptions, pottery and other finds. 120p, 40 b/w pls, and Cleopatra in 31 BC, the new Roman emperors were installed as b/w illus, tbs, fold-out plans (Sudan Archaeological Research Society 6, BAR pharaohs to ensure social and religious continuity. The Romans also S966, 2001) Pb £50.00 continued the Egyptian policy of temple-building and upheld some of Still available: the ancient Egyptian rituals and ceremonies for a further 300 years. This Vol I: The Late Meroitic, Ballaña and Transitional Occupation (Sudan book is a history of the Roman legacy in Egypt, with photographs of Archaeological Research Society 5, Archaeopress BAR S895, 2000) Pb £32.00 their buildings, architectural and relief scultpure, and artefacts. 122p, 35 b/w figs and 136 col pls (Von Zabern 2000) Hb £29.00 Coptic Egypt: The Christians of the Nile by Christian Cannuyer. Christianity has had a long history in Egypt, The Roman Imperial Quarries: Survey and Excavation at Mons according to legend dating back to the founding of the first Christian Porphyrites 1994–1998. Volume 1: Topography and Quarries church in the 1st century AD. This concise history discusses and describes by Valerie Maxfield and David Peacock. The Roman quarryfield and the background to the Copts in Egypt and their legacy from the earliest settlement of Mons Porphyrites lies on the eastern flank of the mountain times through to the modern era: buildings and monuments, textiles, range running the length of Egypt’s eastern desert zone. This study reports mosaics, manuscripts, frescoes and book-bindings. Includes a twenty page on a project investigating the region through surface survey – Volume 2 section on documentary evidence. 144p, col pls and illus (New Horizon will publish the results of the excavation and the inscriptions and ostraca. series, Thames and Hudson English edn 2001) Pb £6.95 The report outlines the evidence for the Central Complex, the quarry villages, the quarries themselves and the local infrastructure, and presents Early Egyptian Christianity the pottery evidence and geological and mineralogical data. 339p, many by C Wilfred Griggs. A thorough examination of the history and unique b/w figs and pls (Egypt Exploration Society 2001) Hb £66.00 character of Egyptian Christianity from its earliest recorded origins to the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when the Egyptian Coptic Church The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt became a national religion. Subjects include the emergence of othodoxy by Richard Alston. Focusing on the period between the 1st century BC and heresy, the imposition of Catholicism ecclesiasticism in Alexandria and the 6th century AD, Alston’s detailed study draws on a wealth of and elsewhere and the Schism from Catholicism in the 4th century. 276p papyrological and documentary evidence to look at the impact of Roman (Brill 1993, Pb 2000) Pb £30.00 and then Christian influences on the architecture and design of Egypt’s urban centres. Rather than present his material chronologically, Alston Ägypten and Nubien in spätantiker and christlicher Zeit looks in turn at different spaces within the city, such as the house, the edited by Stephen Emmel, Martin Krause, Siegfried G Richter and Sofia street and the neighbourhood, with the aim of providing a theoretical Schaten. This comprehensive two-volume work publishes the proceedings methodology for making sense of ancient cities whilst demonstrating the of the international conference on Coptic studies held in Münster in rich variety of Egypt. The study is supported throughout with helpful 1996. With over fifty essays in each volume, the book makes available diagrams, plans and tables. 479p, b/w figs (Routledge 2002) Hb £65.00 recent archaeological and historical findings on all aspects of Late Antique Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance and Christian Egypt and Nubia. The majority of the papers are in German or English with others in French and Italian. 2 vols: 1132p, b/w illus by David Frankfurter. This exploration of cultural resilience examines the (Reichert 1999) Hb £84.00 complex fate of classical Egyptian religion between 100 and 600 AD, from the arrival of Christianity to its emergence as the dominant religion. Using The Memory of the Eyes archaeological and papyrological evidence, and drawing extensively on by Georgia Frank. Early Christian pilgrimages in the east commonly anthropological studies of folk religion, the author argues that Pharaonic included visits to the holy people who famously lived in the deserts of religion survived away from political centers for much longer than previ- Egypt and Palestine. Frank examines in detail two pilgrim texts: The ously supposed. 314p (Princeton UP 1998, Pb 2000) Hb £45.00, Pb £12.95 History of the Monks in Egypt (c 400) and Palladius’ The Lausiac History (c Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt 420) and compares them to other accounts of physical or spiritual travel. by Jane Rowlandson. Using the extraordinarily rich social database Sight becomes the principal sense through which holiness is conveyed. provided by the thousands of papyri found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, the This thoughtful book combines a history of spiritual asceticism and author examines how the urban landowning class derived its wealth from pilgrimage with an appraisal of early Christian narratives and story telling. the rural hinterland and how it conducted relations with its tenants. 300p, The study concludes with a comprehensive bibliography of primary and 3 maps, 7 figs (Oxford Classical Monographs 1996) Hb £60.00 secondary sources. 219p (University of California 2000) Hb £27.95 28 COPTIC EGYPT

Nag’ el-Scheima: Eine befestigte christliche Siedlung und Thirteen Coptic Acrostic Hymns from MS 5574 of the andered christliche Denkmaler in Sayala-Nubien, Teil II Pierpont Morgan Library edited by Manfred Bietak and Mario Schwarz. The second part of the by K H Kuhn and H J Tait. The hymns come from the Monastery of the report into the excavation of the Christian fortified site of Nag’ el- Archangel St Michael in the Fayyum. This edition has an introduction, the Scheima, located on the Nile 100 km above Aswan, which was occupied Coptic text with facing English translation and succinct notes. 176p (Aris during the 9th and 10th centuries. This volume interprets the results of & Phillips 1996) Hb £30.00 the 1960s’ excavation from the perspective of recent research and suggests A Coptic Grammar with Chrestomathy and Glossary: Sahidic new chronologies for the settlement and its structures based on analyses Dialect of ceramics, other finds, including textiles, and the environmental by Bentley Layton. A reference tool for students of the classical dialect evidence. The book also places the site within its Christian and historical of Sahidic which was used in literary texts between the 4th and 8th context. 569p, 168 b/w pls, b/w figs, tbs (DPH 255, ÖAW 1998) Pb £92.00 centuries and was the standard language for orthodox ecclesiastical and Der Weg des Weinens: Die Tradition des Penthos in den monastic Christianity. Layton avoids all jargon and non-standard legal, Apophthegmata Patrum scientific or magical texts, in order to provide a carefully explained grammar by Barbara Müller. Originally a thesis, this is a detailed study of the role that is easy to use. 539p (Porta Linguarum Orientalium 20, Harrassowitz of crying and mourning in the teaching and practice of Egyptian hermits 2000) Pb £56.00 in the Nitrian desert during the 4th century. Crying and mourning were Coptic and Greek Texts Relating to the Hermopolite believed to be the most direct means of discovering God and themselves. Monastery of Apa Apollo Müller also examines the background to this form of worship in Egypt by S J Clackson. An analysis of 66 Coptic and Greek texts, most of and in New Testament and Septuagint texts. 284p (Forschungen zur Kirchen- which were written by or to monks from the Apa Apollo Monastery und Dogmengeschichte 77, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2000) Hb £68.00 between the 6th and 9th centuries. Many of the texts are legal and fiscal Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie 6 documents and therefore provide an invaluable source for the economic edited by Renate Pillinger and Reinhardt Harreither. Seven contributions activities and administration of both the monastery and the Coptic on recent developments in the archaeology of early Christian settlements Egyptian Church as a whole. The volume also includes a detailed discussion and structures in Egypt, the Near East and Europe. Subjects include: of the texts’ palaeographic and orthographic features. Each text is presented evidence for the early Church in Egypt from small sources; an early with an English translation and commentary. 187p, plus 48 b/w pls, tbs Christian church in Sandanski; newly discovered frescoes in the Grotto (Griffith Institute 2000) Hb £60.00 of St Paul in Ephesus; an investigation of a Coptic letter; the tombs of A Piece of Shenoutiana from the Department of Egyptian the church of Ala Miliaria and the vandalic invasion; a chariot scene Antiquities from the Commodilla Catacombs and portraits of leading Austrian figures by Heike Behlmer and Anthony Alcock. Discussion and translation of the in the field of Christian archaeology. Concludes with a 1999 bibliography 14 page papyrus manuscript EA 71005 (with Edition, Bibliography and of Austrian publications on Late Antiquity and early Christian archaeology. Index), which was formerly part of John Lee’s Coptic collection. 40p, 16 96p, col and b/w illus (OAW 2000) Pb £20.00 b/w pls (OP 119, BMP 1996) Pb £20.00 Other volumes are available – Please ask for details The Elephantine Papyri in English Cyril of Alexandria by Bezalel Porten. 175 documents, spanning more than 3,000 years, from by Norman Russell. Gibbon dammed Cyril of Alexandria (c 378-444 AD) the ancient mounds on the island of Elephantine are translated into En- as the bully of the Council of Ephesus and the murderer of the female glish here for the first time. A massive collection of papyri and ostraca, philosopher Hypatia. Cecil’s determined campaigns against anyone who written in many scripts and tongues - including hieratic, demotic, Aramaic, opposed him made him unpopular during his lifetime and his death was Greek, Latin, Coptic and Arabic. Each entry, arranged thematically, in- greeted by widespread relief across the East Roman world. Nevertheless, cludes information on date, size, parties, objects, content and significance, Cyril was one of the most important men of the 5th century and he as well as general comments and cross-references. An important source, influenced Church doctrine for two centuries. The first half of the study previously scattered among various museums and institutions, brought assesses Cyril’s life, his writings and his fights against the Arians and together here for the first time. 621p, 11 b/w pls (Brill 1996) Hb £160.00 Nestorians, whom he saw as enemies within the Church. The second section Ägypten in spätantikchristlicher Zeit presents English translations of Cyril’s key commentaries and tomes, by Martin Krause. This introduction draws attention to the entire Coptic completed with copious culture rather than merely to the Coptic language. It takes into account the notes and a full bibliography. continuity of Egyptian ideas and customs in the ‘Late Egypt’ period. Russell’s Cyril of Alexandria Various contributions examine this cultural landscape which was so impor- is a vehement defender of tant for the shaping of early Christianity. 396p (Reichert 1998) Hb £46.00 the Church, an insightful commentator on biblical Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power texts and a edited by Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith. A collection of magical texts formidable thinker. from ancient Egypt concerned with ritual power, healing, protective and 272p (Routledge sexual spells, curses and special recipes. Dating mostly from the early Chris- 2000) Hb £50.00, tian world, the first to twelfth centuries, these texts are placed in their Pb £15.99 historical context in an exploration of the role of healing, prayer, miracles and magic in early Christian life. With English translations of the Greek Coptic Language and Literature and Coptic texts. 409p (Princeton UP 1999) Pb £13.95 The Apocryphon of John and Other Coptic Translations An Elementary Coptic Grammar of the Sahidic Dialect by Howard N Bream. Egyptian Gnostics of the early centuries of the by C C Walters. Coptic is the language of the Ancient Egyptians written in Christian era created doctrines that were profoundly different from Greek letters (with some additions) and though it is no longer spoken it is Christian beliefs today. Even in their time the Church declared their still the liturgical language of the Coptic Christians of Egypt. It is thus of doctrines heretical and burned their books. But a few copies, carefully great interest to those learning ancient Egyptian as well as those who want hidden away in the Egyptian desert, were preserved and discovered in to study one of the earliest Christian traditions. 96p (Aris & Phillips 1983, modern times. These texts have previously only been available in difficult rep 1999) Pb £12.00 translations. Howard Bream has Koptische Ostraka made the clearest translations to by Anneliese Biedenkopf-Ziehner. This two-volume work, which has the date of several of these appearance of a thesis, publishes the Coptic ostraca from the collections documents and his commentary of the British and Ashmolean Museums. Each fragment is illustrated, on The Apocryphon of John photographed and translated (into German), and is preceded by a probably resembles the lost discussion of the methodology for translating and understanding the explanation given to the texts. The work includes a discussion of the everday life of the Theban Gnostic initiates. 250p population and indices of sources, titles, names and words. 2 vols: 654p, (Halgo, Inc 1987) Pb 70 b/w pls, many text figs (Harrassowitz 2000) Hb £72.50 £14.00 29 EGYPT AND ITS NEIGHBOURS

Domination and Resistance: Egyptian Military Activity in the EGYPT AND ITS Southern Levant by Michael G Hasel. A scholarly discussion of the Egyptians’ military dealings in the southern Levant from 1300 to 1185 BC. The first section NEIGHBOURS examines the documentary evidence, analyzing the military-specific termi- nology, and extracting the Egyptian perception of events. The second part investigates the archaeological evidence for Egyptian occupation of forty The Social Context of Technological Change in Egypt and sites from regions including Transjordan, Cisjordan, Syria and Israel. 372p, the Near East, 1650-1550 BC 15 figs, 2 tbs (Brill 1998) Hb £97.00 edited by Andrew Shortland. These fourteen papers, arising from a conference held in Oxford in September 2000, take the approach that The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley technology plays a vital role in ancient socio-economic systems. Contributors from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age cover the Near East and associated areas, including Greece, Crete, Cyprus, by Eric H Cline. The Mount of Megiddo, otherwise known as Armaged- Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia and Egypt, from the end of the Middle don, has witnessed 4000 years of almost constant warfare, beginning with Bronze Age to the Late Bronze Age (1650-1150 BC), a period when many the first recorded battle in history, between Thutmose III and the Canaanites technological innovations appear for the first time. Contributors: P R S in 1479 BC. In this well-written history, Cline examines over 30 battles Moorey, A Sherratt, S Sherratt, E Robson, I Shaw, J Phillips, R Sparks, J Bourriau, between Egyptians, Israelites, Philistines, Greeks, Roman, Byzantines, Mus- L Smith, M Serpico, A Shortland, P Nicholson, C Jackson, T Politis, Z Stos-Gale, lims, Crusaders, Mongols, Palestinians, French, British, Australians, Arabs T Rehren, E Pusch, A Herold, S Paynter, M Tite, P Haarer. 288p, b/w illus, 4 and Israelis, culminating in the 1973 conflict between Israelis and Syrians col pls (Oxbow Books 2001) Pb £28.00 at the Ramat David airfield. Cline investigates the reasons why different Egypt and the Near East: Politics in the Bronze Age cultures so persistently clash in the Jezreel Valley, leading to its popular identification as the stage for the final battle between good and evil. 239p, by David Warburton. Warburton’s broad historical synthesis of the b/w illus maps (University of Michigan 2000, Pb 2002) Hb £21.00, Pb expansion of Egyptian power in early Antiquity, and its impact on other £13.00Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginings of International Relations polities in the Aegean and East Mediterranean, deals largely with the edited by Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook. This detailed analysis political and economic implications of events. A third of the book of Egypt’s imperial and foreign policy is based on the cuneiform tablets comprises a history of events which are then interpreted and commented which were discovered in the ruins of Amarna in 1887. The documents, upon in detail in relation to the growth of, and shifts in, power, beaurocracy mainly consisting of letters from foreign kings, are an invaluable source and administration, state systems, international markets, trade and war. for the politics and intensive diplomatic contacts of Akhenaten’s court The text is in depth but very readable and accompanied by a large 118p and for the intrigue and treachery of the kings of Canaan and Israel. This bibliography. 361p, 23 maps (Civilisations de Proche-Orient Serie IV, Histoire collection of 18 papers examines the many different aspects of the – Essais 1, Recherches et Publications 2001) Pb £65.00 documents’ contents, including international trade, officials and marriage Royal Gifts in the Late Bronze Age Fourteenth to Thirteenth links, as well as considering the difficulties of understanding political Centuries BC processes which are so alien to our own. 307p (Johns Hopkins UP 2000, Pb transcriptions and translations by Zipora Cochavi-Rainey. A selection of forthcoming Winter 2002) Hb £37.00, Pb £16.50 texts recording gifts between rulers of the ancient Near East in the Late Pi(ankh)y in Egypt: A Study of the Pi(ankh)y Stela Bronze Age serving as an aid to philologists and those studying Egyptian by Hans Goedicke. Pi(ankh)y was a mysterious Nubian ruler who emerged artefacts. The transcriptions and translations record gift exchanges from triumphant in Egypt during the Ramesside Period, and then disappeared Amenhotep IV to Babylonia, from Tushratta King of Mitanni, from the again. This is a study of a long inscription that he left about his campaign King of Ugarit to the King of the Hittites, from Ramesses II and his in Egypt which helps not only to understand military and political family, and others sent during the XVIIIth Dynasty. 245p, 31 b/w pls, 8 col developments at a fascinating time, but also to illuminate a curious pls (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 1999) Hb £34.50 personality. 227p (Halgo 1998) Pb £30.00 Quellenkritische Untersuchungen zu den ägypytischen The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art Kapitulations-verträgen der Jahre 640-646 by László Török. In c.728 BC the King of Kush launched a military by Alexander Daniel Beihammer. This slim study analyses in detail the campaign against a politically disintegrated part of Egypt. The political contracts made between Egyptian, Byzantine and Arabic powers during unification of Egypt that resulted from his victory forms the focus of the Arabic conquest of Egypt between 640 and 646 BC. The first half this study. Török explores the process of acculturation that took place examines groups of sources and their historical context while the second through studying Kushite texts, iconography and the urban environment half considers their content and their place in the Arabic tradition. 71p and, in particular, the relationship between ‘the society and the temples (OAW 2000) Pb £13.50 as places of popular worship, archives of historical memory, and centres Ägypten und Levante XI of cultural identity’. 525p, 44 b/w illus, 30 b/w pls, 9 tbs (PdÄ 18, Brill edited by Manfred Bietak. Thirteen essays make up this volume which 2002) Hb £100.00 presents preliminary reports on excavations at Tell el-Daba and Ezbet Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-7 Helmi. Contributors discuss the sites themselves, the palace districts of by David W Phillipson. This two-volume work provides a detailed account the Hyksos period (Tell el-Daba) and the early 18th Dynasty (Ezbet of five seasons’ archaeological research at Aksum, which Dr Phillipson Helmi), as well as the finds, especially pottery, anthropological and faunal directed on behalf of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, supported remains. German text. 315p, many b/w figs and pls (OAW 2001) Pb £42.50 by a major research grant from the Society of Antiquaries. Aksum was, Canaanites, Chronologies and Connections. The Relationship during the first seven centuries AD, the capital of a major state, centred of Middle Bronze Age IIA Canaan to Middle Kingdom Egypt on the highlands of northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, which exercised a powerful by Susan L Cohen. Middle Bronze Age Canaan is a complex and ill-under- influence on international trade. Christianity was adopted in the 4th stood period in Near Eastern history. This study draws on archaeological century and Aksum played a vitally important role in the rise of Ethiopian and textual material in exploring the political and economic development civilisation. The research here described was designed to provide a of Canaan from the early 2nd millennium BC onwards, and its interna- comprehensive view of ancient Aksum, including aspects which had tional contacts with the rest of the Mediterranean, most notably with received little attention. Dr Phillipson and his colleagues describe Middle Kingdom Egypt. Much of the report comprises a corpus of MBIIA royal tombs and commoner graves, domestic economy sites in Canaan and an analysis of settlement patterns. 168p, 27 b/w illus and international trade, monumental (Studies in the Arch. and History of the Levant, Eisenbrauns 2002) Hb £28.50 architecture and farming settlements, finely carved ivory and flaked stone tools. A Perspectives on the Battle of Kadesh secure chronological framework is edited by Hans Goedicke. New discussions on the famous battle between provided and the whole picture is set Ramesses II and the Hittite King Muwatallish at Kadesh. Includes chapters in its Ethiopian, African and on the reliefs of the Battle of Kadesh and remarks on the Kadesh inscriptions international context. 2 vols: 538p, 431 of Ramesses II (A Spalinger), a reassessment of the battle (H Goedicke), and illus (BIEA Memoir 17/Society of observations on the speech of Ramesses II in the literary record of the Antiquaries of London Research Committee Battle of Kadesh (S Morschauser). 206p (Halgo 1985) Pb £21.50 Report 65, 2001) Hb £95.00 30 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Leaving No Stones Unturned. Essays on the Ancient Near THE ANCIENT East and Egypt in Honor of Donald P Hansen edited by Erica Ehrenberg. Twenty four essays by colleagues and former students form a Festschrift for Donald P Hansen. Hansen has excavated in NEAR EAST Iraq, Turkey and Iran, Yemen and Syria, and has provided guidance and experience in both the field and the lecture room. Covering the subjects Early Civilizations of the Old World that interested Hansen, the papers are wide–ranging and diverse, and sub- by Charles Keith Maisels. From the Neolithic period to the emergence of jects include: Digging with Donald; Late Cypriot ceramic exports; Letters the state, Maisels examines the development of societies in an area tradi- from al-Hiba; A Greek Vase from Lake Galilee; the elite in Early Dynastic tionally termed the Old World. More particularly he looks at social struc- Babylonia; Greco-Roman Alexandria. 323p, b/w pls and figs (Eisenbrauns ture and cultural interaction, geographical factors, cross-cultural interac- 2002) Hb £39.50 tion, the rise of urbanism and economic growth. Broad in its scope this An ASOR Mosaic: A Centennial History of the American book provides an accessible introduction to the earliest civilisations in Schools of Oriental Research, 1900-2000 Egypt, the Near East, Eastern Mediterranean and the Far East. 479p, many edited by Joe D Seger, with contributions by Jeffrey A Blakely, Nancy b/w figs and pls (Routledge 1999, Pb 2001) Hb £50.00, Pb £18.99 Lapp, Eric M Meyers, Joe D Seger, and Stuart Swiny. The American Schools The Emergence of Civilization of Oriental Research (ASOR) was founded in 1900. Its goals were to by Charles Keith Maisels. This paperback edition of Maisels’ examination encourage archaeological and related research into the history, geography, of the emergence of civilisation and state formation in the Near East, languages, literatures and religions of societies of the ancient Near East. integrates archaeology, ecology and textual history with a new anthropo- In 2000 the organisation celebrated one hundred years of success in aiding logical perspective. He explains the social structure of the world’s first the recovery of the history of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean civilisation, and arrives at conclusions about processes of social evolution worlds, and in exposing the ancient landscapes in which some of the in general. 395p, figs (Routledge 1990, 1993) Pb £20.99 earliest civilisations were shaped. This volume records the story of ASOR’s µ growth and development through the twentieth century, along with histo- Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World: A Tribute to ries of the three affiliated overseas research centres that it helped to Cyrus H. Gordon create; AIAR in Israel, ACOR in Jordan and CAARI in Cyprus. The vol- edited by Meir Lubetski, Claire Gottlieb and Sharon Keller. From Ebla to ume is laid out along the lines of a school yearbook, well-illustrated with Egypt, from Mesopotamia to Caphtor, the contributions to this volume photographs of the personalities (and institutions) whose dedication to reflect wide-ranging scholarship and interests in Near Eastern archaeology the organisation’s mission have helped shape its course. 376p, many b/w figs and history. The 34 essays by Cyrus H. Gordon’s former pupils reflect his and pls (ASOR 2001) Hb £60.00 research interests in archaeology, Biblical studies, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Ara- bic, Egypto-Semitic, the cuneiform world, and medieval studies. Includes Archaeology, History and Culture in Palestine and the Near a complete bibliography of Gordon’s works. 576p (JSOT Suppl 273, Sheffield East: Essays in Memory of Albert E Glock AP 1998) Hb £60.00 edited by Tomis Kapitan. Albert Glock, Director of Birzeit University’s Institute of Archaeology, was one of the first archaeologists to promote Civilisations of the Ancient Near East and foster research into the archaeological record of Palestinian Arabs. edited by Jack M Sasson. A coherent, multi-perspective survey of the This volume commemorates his contribution to archaeology and educa- world’s oldest and richest cultures, organised around eleven categories tion in Palestine and the Near East and includes studies by his colleagues covering the 3rd millennium BC through to 330 BC: The Environment, and articles by Glock himself that were previously unpublished. Papers Population, Social Institutions, History and Culture (Vol 1); Economy discuss: oral history, ethnoarchaeology, cultural traditions, ceramic studies, and Trade, Technology and Artistic Production, Religion and Science, site abandonment and site formation processes, Early Bronze Age seals, Languages, Writing and Literature, Visual and Performing Arts (Vol 2). mortuary customs, the future of archaeology in the Near East, and much 189 essays illustrate the continued fascination of the West with the rich more besides. 372p (ASOR Book 4, 1999) Pb £35.00 diversity of the East. 2 vols: 3024p, 46 maps, 612 illus (Charles Scribner 1995, Hendrickson new edn 2001) Hb £139.50 The Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern The Near East: Archaeology in the Cradle of Civilization Cultures by Oscar White Muscarella. A catalogue of forged artefacts purported to by Charles Keith Maisels. 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Maisels then proceeds to look at the development of In his introduction, Muscarella discusses how these objects are introduced civilisation in the Near East through environmental, organisational, de- into the antiquities market, how they are circulated and the assortment of mographic and technical cause and effects, and explains how cities such as people involved (antiquity dealers, collectors, museum curators, forgers) Uruk and Nur, Nippur and Kush, rose out of the arid salt plains between and the skulduggery involved in this illicit trade. 540p, 300p of b/w figs and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. 241p, figs and pls (Routledge 1993) Hb pls (Styx 2000) Hb £100.00 £57.50, Pb £18.99 Ancient Near East: The Origins of Civilization Dictionaries and Encyclopedias by Annie Caubet and Patrick Pouyssegur. Mesopotamia is credited with the invention of writing and agriculture, and so is seen as ‘the cradle of Dictionary of the Ancient Near East civilisation’. The dazzling quality of the art of the Sumerian, Akkadian, edited by Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard. More than five hundered Hittite, Assyrian and Persian empires speaks to the present about the entries are included in this encyclopedia of the Near East from earliest culture and belief systems of these peoples. This book covers the origins times to 539 BC and the fall of Babylon. Each entry forms a description of the cities and empires concerned, their view of the gods and the evolu- and explanation of ideas, information on sites and important figures and tion of writing, including a special feature on the epic of Gilgamesh. 207p, personalities, with a short bibliography and illustrations. 352p, 285 b/w many col illus (Terrail 1998) Pb £14.99 illus, 65 figs (BMP 2000) Hb £29.99 The Study of the Ancient Near East in the 21st Century Oxford Encyclopaedia of Archaeology in the Near East edited by Jerrold S Cooper and Glenn M Schwartz. Taken from a confer- edited by Eric M Meyers. 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The encyclopedia ranges from North underwater archaeology; archaeometallurgy; ancient Babylonian and Egyp- Africa to Iraq, from Anatolia to the Arabian tian literature; ancient propaganda and historical criticism; society and peninsula and from prehistory to the rise of ethnicity in Judah in the 8-7th centuries BC and in Egypt. 432p, figs Islam. 5 vols: 2608p, 644 b/w illus, maps (Oxford (Eisenbrauns 1996) Hb £42.50 UP 1997) Hb £440.00

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Horses, Chariots and Indo-Europeans: Foundations and Society and Economy Methods of Chariotry Research from the Viewpoint of Life in the Ancient Near East Comparative Indo-European Linguistics by Daniel C Snell. An eminently readable and absorbing account of social by Peter Raulwing. An overview of the current debate on the origin and and economic life in the Ancient Near East – Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, spread of horse-drawn chariots with a brief review of the archaeological, Palestine and Anatolia – from 3,100 to 332BC. The author has produced archaeozoological, religious, anthropological and technological evidence an extensively researched, sensitive treatment of a vast subject which is a and a more detailed survey of linguistics. Raulwing outlines the different pleasure to read. 270p, 10 b/w figs (Yale 1997) Hb £25.00, Pb £12.95 types of linguistic evidence, with many examples, and a general history of The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East developments and innovations in chariot design and use. He argues that by Marten Stol and Sven P Vleeming. Papers from a 1995 conference in chariots originated in the Near East in the early 2nd millennium BC and Leiden discussing aspects of the history of the care of the elderly in that there was no ‘horse’ or ‘wheeled transport’ in Proto-Indo-European ancient Near East, the third millenium BC, in the Old Babylonian period, language. 210p, 27 b/w pls and figs (Archaeolingua 2000) Pb £24.50 Old Assyrian and ancient Anatolia, the Neo-Baylonian period and Egypt to the end of the New Kingdom. 280p (Brill 1998) Hb £54.00 Language, Literature and Culture Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East Languages and Cultures in Contact at the Crossroads of edited by Michael Hudson and Baruch A Levine. This collection of papers Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Realm attempts to throw light on the origins of private ownership with a view to edited by K van Lerberghe and G Voet. Thirty-three papers from the 42nd its importance in the present. There is also broader discussion of the social Recontre Assyriologique Internationale conference held in Leuven in 1995 on cosmology of early urban centres as ‘ritual centres’, the physical layout of the subject of contacts and exchanges between the cultures of the Near Near Eastern cities as revealed through archaeology, and the potential of East, in particular those of Mesopotamia and Syria. The papers, in English cuneiform records for revealing Assyrian systems of land use and tenure. and German, draw on archaeological, linguistic and literary evidence and 495p (Peabody Museum Bulletin 7, 1999) Pb £29.95 cover issues of administration, cultural exchange, interaction and accul- Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World turation. 532p, b/w figs and pls (Peeters 2001) Hb £82.50 edited by Michael Hudson and Baruch A Levine. The papers in this vol- Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Near East ume describe the increasingly autonomous private control of land, handi- edited by Guy Bunnens. An interesting collection of papers from a 1994 craft workshops and credit from the Bronze Age through classical antiq- conference in Melbourne on cultural influence and exchange from Cyprus uity. Includes discussions of the archaeological evidence for commerce, to Syria. Includes discussions on the rise of social complexity in Early public and private enterprise, private land ownership and its relation to Bronze Age Anatolia, relationships between Anatolia and Cyprus in the ‘God’ and the ‘state’, the emergence of ‘public’ and ‘private’ domains in 3rd millennium BC, Egyptian and Mesopotamian contributions to the Early Mesopotamia, in Ugarit, Phoenicia, and Palestine, Biblical refer- origins of the alphabet, Emar: a Syrian city between Anatolia, Assyria and ences to land ownership, public property and private wealth during the Babylonia, Syro-Anatolian influence on Neo-Assyrian town planning, and Roman Republic. 308p (Peabody Museum Bulletin 5, 1996) Pb £18.95 cultural interaction in North Syria in the Roman and Byzantine periods. Security for Debt in Ancient Near Eastern Law 155p, many b/w illus (Abr-Nahrain Suppl Series 5, Peeters 1996) Pb £34.50 edited by Raymond Westbrook and Richard Jasnow. Twelve papers from a Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in meeting of the Society for the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Law held in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece Baltimore in 1999, looking at the early legal systems of the Ancient Near by Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt and Jean-Pierre Vernant. The East and how they dealt with the repayment of debts, or rather, the failure advent of writing had an enormous impact on all aspects of life. In this to repay them. The chapters are arranged in chronological order, present- study, three French scholars assess the emergence of writing, rationality ing and analysing the sources for loans and debt from different cultures and and reasoning, thought and religion, with each of the authors taking a 360p (Culture and regions in Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Anatolia. different area in turn: Mesopotamia; Iran, Israel and Greece; Greece. An History of the Ancient Near East 9, Brill 2001) Hb £59.50 interesting subject, translated here into English from French. 192p (Univer- Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East sity of Chicago 2000) Hb £16.00 by Daniel C Snell. A multi-faceted study of attitudes towards flight and Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East 500-300BC freedom among Jews, Greeks, Christians and Muslims. Snell studies the by Olaf Pedersen. An invaluable presentation of the main finds of ar- various words and terms used for freedom found in documentary texts and chives and libraries of the Near East, with speculation on their uses. The inscriptions, proving that the Greek understanding of freedom has paral- author discusses the contents of many different sites, including Elephan- lels elsewhere. Evidence for Mesopotamian freedom comes from a number tine, Lachish, Jerusalem, Idalion, el-’Amarna, Nuzi, Alalakh, Ta’nak, Ugarit, of specific sources including records of state-sponsored labour and royal Assur, Tell Rimah, Tell Sabi Abyad, Babylon, Nippur, Ur, Kabnak, Assur, inscriptions which record legal aspects of freedom and views on those who Nineveh, Babylon, Sippar, Nippur, Ur, Uruk, Susa, Persepolis. There are 199p (Brill 2001) Hb £35.00 take flight. indices to personal names, professions, modern equivalents of professions, The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millennium BC: ancient city names, modern site names. 289p (CDL 1998) Hb £35.00 Regional Development and Cultural Interchange between East Images as Media: Sources for the Cultural History of the Near and West East and the Eastern Mediterranean (1st millennium BCE) edited by Inge Nielsen. The first millennium BC saw two great powers edited by Christoph Uehlinger. Seventeen essays taken from an interna- embracing the East-West divide: the Achaemenid and Hellenistic empires. tional symposium held at the University of Fribourg in 1997, held in These papers examine how their powerful new kings created palatial insti- honour of Othmar Keel and in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the tutions suitable to reign subjugated lands with old monarchic traditions. Swiss Society of Ancient Near Eastern Studies. The papers discuss issues They examine the relationship between the conquered and conqueror, the of iconography in the first millennium BC in the cultures of Egypt, Assyria, development of monarchic roles and the cultural exchange between East Babylonia and the Achaemenid empire, Greece and Cyprus. Images are and West, using archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence. 320p, illus discussed in terms of their use and significance as instruments of media, (Mono. of the Danish Institute at Athens 4, Aarhus UP 2001) Pb £19.95 for example images on seals and scarabs. Dominant images are described Selected Writings on Chariots, other Early Vehicles, Riding and compared across various cultures and crafts. Contributors include: and Harness Erik Hornung, Irene J Winter, Eric Gubel, John Boardman and Robert by Mary Aiken Littauer and Joost H Crouwel, edited by Peter Raulwing. A Wenning. English and German papers. 408p, 60 b/w pls (Fribourg UP/ selection of articles by M B Littauer and J H Crouwel, written between Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2000) Hb £86.50 1963 and 1996 and primarily concerned with wheeled vehicles and trans- Hammurabi’s Laws: Text, Translation and Glossary portation in the ancient world. They discuss the construction of vehicles, by M E J Richardson. A new translation and transcription of Hammurabi’s particularly chariots, the use of draught animals and various forms of Laws, with an introduction, a huge glossary and listing of proper names, transportation in the Near East, Egypt, Cyprus and Bronze Age Greece, numerals, units of measurement, roots and stems, verbal forms, and an through the physical remains of vehicles and bridles, artistic representa- English-Akkadian and Akkadian-English index. An indispensible refer- tions and literary references. 609p, many b/w figs, 234 b/w pls (Culture and ence tool for students of Hebrew and Arabic. 423p (Sheffield AP 2000) Hb History of the Ancient Near East 6, Brill 2002) Hb £62.50 £65.00, Pb £22.95 32 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Religion, Magic and Myth Plants and Animals Ancient Magic and Ritual Power A History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East edited by Marvin W Meyer. These 22 essays are based on papers given at an edited by Billie Jean Collins. Animals have been many things to man through- international conference held at the University of Kansas in 1992, on the out history and in this study of the complex relationships between man subject of Ancient Magic and Ritual Power. All of the authors address the and the animal world in the ancient Near East, animals are placed within ‘scholarly discomfort’ with which we view traditional ways of defining and their natural setting, within an artistic, cultural and literary setting and on describing ancient magic, and, in considering largely textual material refer- the dinner table. This collection of seventeen essays explores man’s per- ring to Judaism and Early Christianity, from ancient Egypt, the Near East, ceptions and attitudes towards animals as reflected in their lives and cul- the Greek and Roman worlds and Late Antiquity, we are presented with a ture, looking at issues such as domestication, animal sacrifice, animal wor- medley of alternative terms, ideas, concepts, definitions and descriptions. ship, the symbolic properties of animals, dietary contributions, traction A useful collection of essays. 476p, 8 b/w pls (Brill 2001) Pb £38.50 and transport, and so on. 620p, many b/w figs, tbs (HdO 64, Brill 2002) Hb Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World £92.50 edited by Paul Mirecki and Marvin Meyer. Twenty-four scholarly and Archaeozoology of the Near East IV A & B specialised papers, from a second ‘ancient magic’ conference held in edited by M Mashkour, A M Choyke, H Buitenhuis and F Poplin. Thirty- Claremont, California, in 1998, examine the interplay between magic and seven papers form the Proceedings of the Fourth International Sympo- ritual power across a broad chronologial and geographical area. Divided sium on the Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas into sections on the ancient Near East, Judaism, Greek and Roman antiq- held in Paris in 1998. The papers, in English and French, address a variety uity, early Christian and Islamic Egypt, contributors examine recently dis- of issues from Late Pleistocene hunting strategies in Iraq and Iran, to the covered magical texts, the development of magical theory, Mesopotamian Early Neolithic of the Jordan Valley, to the colonisation of Cyprus by and Hittite ritual, the Talmud, classical texts and the continuation of animals. Other papers look at particular sites or animals including the Egyptian magical beliefs into the Coptic and Islamic eras. Many of the domestication of various species in southwestern Asia, the Secondary papers are based on a close textual analysis of ancient texts. 468p (RGRW Products Revolution, and faunal assemblages from a number of different 141, Brill 2002) Hb £116.00 sites. 2 vols: A 256p; B 233p, b/w figs and pls, tbs (ARC Publicatie 32, 2000) Magic and Diviniation in Ancient Palestine and Syria Pb £29.95 by Ann Jeffers. Old Testament references to magic and divination display Archaeozoology of the Near East III a vast specialist vocabulary. This book investigates magic in the context of edited by H Buitenhuis, L Bartosiewicz and A L Choyke. Proceedings of the Northwest Semitic/Syrian cosmology. All traces of evidence in the the third international symposium on the archaeology of southwestern Old Testament are recorded with much philological investigation and Asia and adjacent areas. Includes contributions from E Tchernov, S Bökönyi, supplemented by limited archaeological data. Hard-going chunks of tex- R Rabinovich, E Vila, N Benecke, A T Clason, W van Neer and M tual analysis but worth persevering. 276p (Brill 1996) Hb £75.50 Uerpmann. 287p (ARC Publication 18, 1999) Pb £22.50 Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East Also available: Vol I £32.00; Vol II £35.00 edited by Kazuko Watanabe. Fourteen papers from the Second Collo- Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel quium on the Ancient Near East, held at the Middle Eastern Culture by Oded Borowski. The animals in this book are discussed according to Centre in Japan. Contents include: Depiction of Priests and Priestesses (D their species and function in Biblical times. Their importance in terms of Collon); Architectural Innovation of the Temple Style: Sumerian to food, conveyance, trade and ritual is emphasised, with additional evidence Babylonian (Y Okada); The Temples and the Temple Personnel of Ur III from Egypt and Mesopotamia. An unusual and illuminating work, which Girsu/Lagash (K Maekawa); Evolution of Early Sumerian Kingship (P also covers the generally less-discussed aspects of ancient agriculture. 296p, Steinkeller); The Government of an Ancient Mesopotamian city (M Van de num b/w pls & illus (AltaMira 1998) Pb £17.95 Mieroop); Kings and Cults in Ancient Ugarit (D T Tsumara); Zur Kultmusik beim Trankopfer in Festen hattisch hethitischer Kultschicht (D Yoshida); Challenge to Absolute Monarchy in the 9th and 8th Centuries BC (A K Exploring the Near East Grayson); Assyria and the West in the 9th and 8th centuries BC (Y Ikeda); Yesterday and Today: The Holy Land - Lithographs and Assyrian Eunuchs and their Predecessors (K Deller). 336p, 135 illus (C Diaries by David Roberts, R.A. Winter 1998) Hb £40.50 by Fabio Bourbon, translated by Antony Shugaar, photographs by Antonio Desire, Discord and Death: Approaches to Near Eastern Myth Attini. David Roberts, one of the most acclaimed artists of his time, by Neal Walls. The three essays presented in this volume reveal the sym- embarked on a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land in 1838. The publication bolic complexity and poetic visions of ancient Near Eastern mythology. of lithographs of the 123 sketches he made during his trip by Francis Neal Walls explores the interrelated themes of erotic desire, divine con- Graham Moon between 1842 and 1849, ensured that his fame should be flict, and death’s realm in selected ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian preserved forever. This book presents the original plates from the first mythological narratives using contemporary methods of literary analysis. edition of publication, arranged in strict chronological order and accom- Topics include the construction of desire in the Gilgamesh epic, a psycho- panied by commentary, photographs of the modern setting of Roberts’ analytic approach to ‘The Contendings of Horus and Seth’, and gender sketches, and short excerpts from Roberts’ journal. A stunning book of and the exercise of power in the stormy romance of Nergal and Ereshkigal. travel and experience in the Holy Land. 271p, 120 col pls (Swan Hill 1997) 220p (ASOR Books Vol 8 2001) Hb £49.95, Pb £22.95 Hb £35.00 Studien zur Religion und Kultur Kleinasiens und des ägäischen The Life of Max Mallowan: Archaeology and Agatha Christie Bereiches by Henrietta McCall. Max Mallowan (1904-78) is perhaps most well- edited by Cengiz Iznik. A collection of 32 international studies, forming a known today as the husband of Agatha Christie who, during a long and Festschrift for Baki Ögün, which examine the religion and culture of the happy marriage, actively supported Max in his excavations of Nineveh, Near East and Aegean and combine general thematic discussions with Tell Bruk, Nimrud and other important sites in the Near East. This biogra- specific archaeological or art case studies. Encompassing a broad chrono- phy, which coincided with an exhibition at the British Museum, follows logical period, the articles discuss, for example, sacred places, sculptures, Max’s career from his mixed successes at Oxford University and his training mythology, reliefs inscriptions, money, tombs, sarcophagi and temples dat- at Ur under the eye of Leonard Woolley through to his appointment as a ing between the 13th century BC and the Roman era. The majority of the trustee of the British Museum in 1973. Scattered throughout the highly contributions are in German with others in English, French and Turkish. readable narrative are extracts from the personal letters of Max and Agatha. 334p, b/w illus (Asia Minor Studien 39, Habelt 2000) Hb £45.50 208p, 8 b/w pls (BMP 2001) Hb £18.99 Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Agatha Christie and Archaeology Approaches edited by Charlotte Trümpler. An interesting study of the life and works by Ziony Zevit. A ‘far-reaching, interdisciplinary investigation into the of Agatha Christie. Drawing on extracts from her novels, diaries and using religion of ancient Israel’. Based on textual evidence, archaeology and photographs from archaeological excavations in the Near East, Trümpler is history, Zevit challenges suppositions about religion in Iron Age Israel able to recreate a picture of her travels and her relationship with her (1200–586BC) and presents new insights and ideas about the subject. husband Max Mallowan. 476p, 250 col illus, 150 b/w illus (BMP 2001) Pb 800p (Continuum 2001) Hb £90.00 £19.99 33 LEVANT

The Archaeology of Jordan LEVANT edited by Brian MacDonald, Russell Adams and Piotr Bienkowski. This impressive volume contains 28 specialised and well-illustrated papers which The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land aim to reflect the current state of research into Jordanian archaeology. An edited by Thomas E Levy. A comprehensive reference book to the societ- overview of the landscape and environment of Jordan is followed by 16 ies of the Holy Land from the earliest prehistoric hominids up to 1914, chronological surveys that discuss the region’s occupation from the written from a strictly archaeological perspective by leading excavators Palaeolithic to the Ottoman period. The remaining thematic contributions working in Israel and Jordan. 32 authors contribute to a series of specialist examine, for example, water supply, climatic change, pastoralism, chipped chapters with a social emphasis, each accompanied by maps and plates of stone, pottery, writing and texts, archaeology and the Bible, mosaics and type artefacts for the different periods. 624p, b/w figs, illus (Leicester UP Crusader castles. 704p, many b/w illus (Levantine Archaeology 1, Sheffield AP 1995, Pb 1998) Pb £29.99 2001) Hb £75.00 Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land Jordanien edited by Avraham Negev and Shimon Gibson. Over 800 entries, many of by Joachim Willeitner. The main body of this book consists of breath-taking which are illustrated, have been updated, expanded or added anew to this colour photographs of Jordan’s architecture from prehistoric to islamic revised edition of Negev and Gibson’s concise but comprehensive guide to times. The accompanying texts give an overview of Jordan’s history and its the archaeological discoveries of Israel, Palestine and Jordan. The results different cultures as well as of its politics and landscape. German text. of recent excavations are included alongside summaries of more familiar 222p, col & b/w pls (Hirmer 1996) Hb £38.50 long-term projects at sites such as Beth Shean and Megiddo. Over 100 The Archaeology of Jordan and beyond scholars have contributed to this useful A-Z which aims to serve as a edited by Lawrence E Stager, Joseph Greene and Michael D Coogan. A companion to biblical scholars, travellers and tourists alike. 560p, many b/ collection of forty-five essays in honour of James A Sauer, a highly re- w illus (Continuum 1972, rep 1986, 1990, rev edn 2001) Hb £35.00 garded expert in Syro-Palestinian pottery and once director of the Ameri- Canaanites can Center of Oriental Research who died in 1999. Tributes and memoirs by Jonathan N Tubb. An approachable and solid examination of the an- are followed by essays on a broad range of subjects including ceramic and cient populations of Israel, Transjordan, Lebanon and coastal Syria. Tubb metallurgical studies in Jordan, Palestine and other parts of the Near East, emphasises the continuities within Canaanite history and their enduring archaeology and architectural remains, warfare and defence in the Near assertion of identity, but he also looks at the role of the Canaanites in the East, figurines and other small finds, chronology, landscapes and settle- context of developments elsewhere, including the imposition of Egyptian ments, with a temporal range from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. imperial rule, the rise of historical Israel, and the extent and influence of Contributors include Alison Betts, Zahi Hawass, Albert Leonard, Eric the Canaanites’ participation in the trade networks of the Eastern Medi- Meyers, Gary O Rollefson, William G Dever, Philip C Hammond. 529p, terranean. Archaeological data is usefully integrated throughout the narra- many b/w figs and pls (Eisenbrauns 2000) Hb £65.00 tive. 160p, 160 b/w figs, 8 col pls (BMP 1998, Pb 2002) Pb £17.99 Damaskus - Aleppo: 5000 Jahre Stadtentwicklung in Syrien The Origin of Early Israel - Current Debate: Biblical, edited by Beate Bollmann. This substantial volume chronicles the develop- Historical and Archaeological Perspectives ment of urban settlements in Syria, focusing on the cities of Damascus edited by Shmuel Ahituv and Eliezer D Oren. Proceedings of the 1997 and Aleppo. Over seventy papers provide a comprehensive and detailed Irene Levi-Sala Seminar, containing the Keynote Lectures – The Rise of survey of the cities, beginning with a historical background to the region, Early Israel (I Finkelstein); Search for Early Israel: Historical Perspective (K from prehistory to the present day. Subsequent sections consider the growth W Whitelam); Egyptians and Hebrews, from Ra’amses to Jericho (K A of Damascus and Aleppo, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman Kitchen) and the Panel Discussions – Origins of Ancient Israel: Documen- periods; the architecture, defensive structures and temples; the public and tary Evidence (S Ahituv); Can We Safely Ignore The Bible? (H G M Williamson); government buildings; houses; the cultural background; the preservation A Response from the ‘Plains of Moab’ (K Prag); Comments on the Papers of historic architecture in modern town planning. 535p, many b/w illus (Von of Kitchen, Whitelam and Finkelstein (P Bienkowski); Response to Israel Zabern 2000) Pb £21.00 Finkelstein (J Tubb); Exodus and the Dorian Invasion of Greece (S Hood). Monuments of Syria 176p, 6 figs (Ben-Gurion of the Negev 1998) Hb £19.95 by Ross Burns. A conveniently sized guidebook for visitors to Syria who The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting want to know a little of the history of its monuments, and the architec- the Present tural and artistic influences affecting their design and development. It also edited by Neil Asher Silberman and David Small. An overview of the includes a gazetteer of sites along with photographs, itineraries, maps, a current state of archaeology in Israel with reviews of on-going excavations glossary of terms, a chronology of the major historical events and a bibli- and new analytical approaches based on papers given at a conference in ography. 302p, 24 col pls, b/w pls and figs (I B Tauris 1992, 1994, 1999) Pb Pennsylvania in 1994. Papers examine aspects of the relationship between £14.99 politics, archaeology and nationalism; recent discoveries at Tel Miqne-Ekron an Iron age Philistine 1 settlement in Canaan; discoveries at Hazor, Tel Palaeolithic Dor and Tel Beth Shean; the effects of archaeology on the study of Jewish history; the archaeology of Jewish ritual baths; ethnicity; theoretical ap- Paléoenvironnement et Societes Humaines au Moyen-Orient proaches. 350p (Sheffield AP 1997) Hb £56.00 de 20,000 BP a 6,000 BP From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel edited by Paul Sanlaville and Geneviéve Dollfus. Between 20,000 and by Frank Moore Cross. A collection of twelve previously published papers 6,000 years ago changes in the climate of the Middle and Near East played by Frank Moore Cross, updated and expanded, on the relationship be- an important role in the development of agriculture. Using new tech- tween the social traditions of early Israel and the composition of the niques in environmental reconstruction, the contributors to this volume Bible. Divided into six sections, the articles examine the epic traditions of discuss the impact of this natural change on cultural systems stretching early Israel; priestly lore and its Near Eastern background; studies in the from Anatolia to Egypt. Papers in English and French. 200p (CNRS 1998) structure of human verse; the return to Zion; Qumran and the history of Pb £41.95 the Biblical text; typology and historical method. 262p (Johns Hopkins UP Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic 1998, Pb 2000) Hb £37.00, Pb £14.00 edited by William Davies and Ruth Charles. This volume discusses the life, Israel und Palästina background and published works of Dorothy Garrod, as well as exploring by Jörg Bremer. A stunning guide to the history, archaeology and religion the fields of research which interested her. The topics’ span and continu- of the Holy Land. Bremer initially provides an overview of Palestine’s ing relevance are testament to Dorothy Garrod’s remarkable character and history and assesses the impact of the many cultures that have invaded it great achievements, including the British Upper Palaeolithic, Palaeolithic or adopted it as a centre for their faith, including Jews, Assyrians, Romans, finds from Gibraltar, and the Levant. Contributors: A C Renfrew, W Davies, Christians, Islamics, Crusaders and Mamluks. Much of the book com- R Charles, A J Roberts, R M Jacobi, S Swainston, R Charles, P G Bahn, C B prises large colour photographs of the sites, monuments, relics, landscapes, Stringer, R N E Barton, A P Currant, J C Finlayson, P Goldberg, R Macphail, towns and people of Israel, from the Golan Heights in the north, via P B Pettitt, J K Kozlowski, A Belfer-Cohen, O Bar-Yosef, A Ronen, A Tsatskin, Jericho and the Dead Sea, to the Negev Desert in the south. German text. S A Laukhin, L Copeland, D Olzewski, G A Wahida, B Boyd, F Valla, S 236p, many col pls, b/w illus, map (Hirmer 2000) Hb £35.50 Plunket. 282p, with b/w figs and pls (Oxbow 1999) Hb £40.00 34 LEVANT

The Harra and the Hamad: Excavations and Surveys in The City in Ancient Israel Eastern Jordan Vol 1 by Volkmar Fritz. This study traces not only the location, size, architec- edited by A V G Betts. This book is the first of a series of reports on ture, building materials and water provision of Israelite cities, but also fieldwork carried out in eastern Jordan, 1979-1991. It presents evidence their economics and the social organization of their inhabitants, their for the Epipalaeolithic period focused on the site of Dhuweila, a hunting everyday life, administration and culture. Tracing the history of urban life camp used in the 7th and 6th millennia BC, and surrounding camps making in the southern Levant from c.3000 BC to the end of the biblical period, use of desert ‘kites’, their chipped and ground stone industries, animal Fritz also covers the beginings of urbanization, the Canaanite city, the remains, botanical remains and rock art. Also includes an edited summary early Iron Age settlements, cities in the period of the monarchy, and of work by Uzbek and Russian scholars on hunting traps and animal capital cities and reisdences. 197p with 60 figs & illus (Sheffield AP 1995) Pb migration patterns on the Ustiurt plateau in Uzbekistan. 240p (Sheffield £14.95 Archaeological Monographs 9, 1998) Hb £50.00 Tel Te’o: A Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age Site L’obsidienne au Proche et Moyen Orient in the Hula Valley edited by M-C Cauvin, A Gourgaud, B Gratuze, N Arnaud, G Poupeau, by Emanuel Eisenberg, Avi Gopher and Raphael Greenberg. A report on J-L Poidevin and C Chataigner. Sixteen papers discuss the significance of the excavation of the site of Tel Te’o in the Hula Valley of Israel which early trade and exchange in obsidian in the Near and Middle East, new provided important evidence for the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early advances in methodology and in the identification of sources that make Bronze Age sequence of the region. The methodology and stratigraphy of such research possible. Includes papers on geology, methods of the excavation is outlined, the material culture evidence discussed as well characterisation, dating, provenance studies of obsidian artefacts, and as more analytical studies of the environmental data, pottery, human and studies of the nature and distribution of artefacts. 388p, b/w figs animal remains. Evidence from Tel Te’o improves our knowledge of the (Archaeopress BAR S738, 1998) Pb £55.00 development of the Yarmukian and Golan culture in the area and the evolution of the environment and human settlement in the Hula Valley. Neolithic 227p, b/w pls and figs, tbs (IAA 13, 2001) Pb £28.50 Early Urbanizations in the Levant. A Regional Narrative Beyond Tools. Redefining the PPN lithic assemblages of the by Raphael Greenberg. A revised and expanded version of the author’s Levant doctoral dissertation, this study builds on Greenberg’s fieldwork in the edited by Isabella Caneva, Cristina Lemorini, Daniela Zampetti and Paolo Hula Valley in Northern Israel and the prominent sites of Tel Dan and Tel Biagi. A collection of 33 papers that form the Proceedings of the Third Hazor. Settlement in the Hula valley has been sensitive to change during Workshop on PPN Chipped Lithic Industries in the Levant held in Venice the 4th to 2nd millennium BC and the archaeological evidence provides in 1998. The workshop provided a forum for the discussion of ideas and evidence for episodes of growth and decline in terms of settlement and placed emphasis on the technological rather than typological aspects of material culture. General interpretations of the archaeological evidence lithic assemblages with sections exploring technology and documentation, are then used to explore the wider issues of urbanisation in the Levant. functional interpretation of tools and contexts, and classification and 141p, 4 tbs, b/w figs (Leicester UP 2002) Hb £75.00 chronology. 455p, b/w figs, tbs (Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 9, Ex Oriente 2001) Pb £52.50 Animals in the Steppe: A zooarchaeological analysis of Later Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria Settlement Dynamics and Regional Diversity in Ancient Upper by Chiara Cavallo. A study which aims to assess the importance of animals Galilee: Archaeological Survey of Upper Galilee to the Late Neolithic community of Sabi Abyad in northern Syria and the by Rafael Frankel, Nimrod Getzov, Mordechai Aviam and Avi Degani. A broader significance of the evidence from this site for our understanding report presenting data form two surveys, the first carried out by the Survey of the Halafian Culture of the later 6th millennium BC. Based on her of Western Galilee beginning in 1975, and the second a more extensive doctoral research, Chiara Cavallo presents a detailed study of the faunal survey of Upper Galilee covering known sites in the area and undertaken remains from the site, including ovicaprids, bovids, suids, equids, gazelle from 1986 to 1990. The list of sites identified, dating from the Pre- and other smaller species, as well as discussing the background to the Pottery Neolithic through to the Ottoman period, includes details on their settlement, the palaeoenvironmental and zooarchaeological evidence. 142p, name, location and position, approximate size, character, period(s) b/w figs and pls, tbs (BAR S891, 2000) Pb £37.00 represetned and a bibliography. An outline of the pottery sequence based on material recovered from the surveys, as well as other finds, precedes a Published Pottery of Palestine historical overview of the region. 175p, 38 col pls, b/w figs, tbs (IAA 14, by Larry G Herr, with Warren C Trenchard. This printed version of a 2001) Pb £28.50 bibliography of published drawings and photographs of Palestinian pot- An Early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley I: The tery is likely to be of use only to scholars and students researching pottery from the Neolithic to Ottoman periods in Palestine. Though rather archaic Archaeology of Netiv Hagdud in the era of the World Wide Web, further information about the original edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and Avi Gopher. The transition from hunting database can be found at “[email protected]”. 309p (ASOR 1996) Pb and gathering to farming has been an important field of study in many £25.00 areas of the world, and especially in the Near East. This report outlines the three seasons of excavations at the site of Netiv Hagdud in the Jordan Lithics after the Stone Age: A Handbook of Stone Tools from Valley and the recovery of evidence relating to Neolithic occupation, as the Levant well as a review of PPN sites in the Jordan Valley as a whole. This first part by Stephen A Rosen. Lithic technology did not die out at the end of the outlines the history of the project and its results, the environmental evi- Stone Age – in the Levant, Egypt and the Near East stone tools regularly dence and specialist archaeological reports (lithics, plant remains, bone appear in much later contexts. This book is the first to analyse the corpus tools, use-wear, obsidian sourcing, marine shells, burials). 266p, b/w figs, of material in any depth. Rosen provides a comprehensive typology and pls, tbs (American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 43, 1997) Pb £34.95 description of post-Neolithic tools, including subtypes, functions, distri- Volume II: The Fauna of the Netiv Hagdud by Eitan Tchernov. 105p, bution and chronology. More general themes are also discussed, most im- b/w figs, tbs (American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 44, 1994) Pb £15.50 portantly the complex relationship between lithic and metal technology. The Cave of the Warrior: A Fourth Millenium Burial in the 184p, 95 figs, 18 tbs (AltaMira 1997) Hb £35.00, Pb £20.95 Judean Desert edited by Tamar Schick. The ‘Cave of the Warrior’ was discovered during Bronze Age an extensive survey of rock shelters and caves in lower Wadi el-Makkukh in the Jericho region in 1993. Organic remains, including plant fibres, Modeling Time and Transition in Prehistory: The Jordan wood, reed and leather, were recovered, associated with a human burial Valley Chalcolithic (5500–3500 BC) dating to the early 4th millennium BC. The finds included mats, textiles, a by Mark Blackham. A detailed study of the development of the Chalcolithic basket, wooden bowl, a bow, arrows, a pair of leather sandals, a flint knife sequence in the Jordan valley and southern Levant. Blackham introduces and a fragmentary blade. All the objects had been stained with red ochre, and explains the Unitary Association Method of Relative Dating and ad- possibly during mortuary rites. These finds have offered a unique opportu- vocates bringing together all dating sources, particularly relative and radio- nity to study the technology of this period. 137p, b/w and col pls (IAA carbon, for constructing chronological sequences. 176p, 54 b/w figs, 37 tbs Reports No. 5, 1998) Pb £29.50 (Archaeopress BAR 1027, 2002) Pb £32.00 35 LEVANT

Das Chalkolithikum in der südlichen Levante Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern by Susanne Kerner. A detailed analysis of the archaeological and artefactual Levant evidence for Chalcolithic settlement in the Levant. Focusing on over 40 edited by Graham Philip and Douglas Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites, Kerner proposes a chronology of Baird. The 23 papers in this book are occupation and industrial activity from the early 6th to mid-4th millen- largely derived from a workshop on the nium BC. Kerner traces the increasingly specialised production of ce- subject of Early Bronze Age pottery in ramic, metal and stone objects to provide a broad picture of the organisation the Levant held at Durham in 1995. The of society across the southern Levant. Summary in Arabic and English. papers reflect various approaches to 218p, 25 b/w figs, tbs (OA8, VML 2001) Hb £46.00 studying the role of ceramics in archae- Tell Kosak Shamali Vol I: The Archaeological Investigations ology and the different terminologies and on the Upper Euphrates, Syria classification systems employed. The papers present material from recent edited by Yoshihiro Nishiaki and Toshio Matsutani. This first volume in a work in the Levant and the use of ceramics in reconstructing and explain- series of works on Tell Kosak Shamali focuses on the Chalcolithic deposits ing cultural, economic and social processes. 427p, b/w figs and pls (Sheffield at the site, or the Ubaid period. Located on the east bank of the Euphrates AP 2000) Hb £60.00 the site held an important strategic position and one which had a diverse Shifting Urban Landscapes During the Early Bronze Age in set of resources available. Investigated since the 1980s and most recently the Land of Israel by the University of Tokyo, this volume reports on the results of the by Nimrod Getzov, Yithak Paz and Ram Gophna. A short essay on settle- excavations, detailing the geographical and cultural setting of the site, the ment and demographic changes in EBA Israel based on survey data and architecture and stratigraphy, the C14 dates, the nature of the finds and studies of regional pottery. The authors outline these changes through the history of the site in the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic. settlement distribution maps and reveal shifts in settlement location, sta- Evidence from Kosak Shamali provides important insights into the transi- bility and size, as well as trying to account for the social and political tion from Neolithic agrarian societies to more complex, increasingly urban processes that may have led to these changes in the physical environment. societies of the Chalcolithic. 233p, b/w figs and pls (Oxbow Books in associa- 80p, 15 b/w figs (Ramot 2001) Pb £17.50 tion with The Museum of The Univ of Tokyo 2001) Hb £35.00 Tel Ira. A Stronghold in the Biblical Negev The Chalcolthic Culture of the Golan by E Ayalon et al. The final report of excavations at the hilltop site of Tel by Claire Epstein. Only relatively recently has the far-reaching conse- Ira. Occupied from the Early Bronze Age until the construction of a quences of the finds at this Chalcolithic site in Palestine been fully under- monastic complex in the Byzantine period, this report outlines the ce- stood. The excavation and survey at the site since 1973, and subsequent ramic, epigraphic, numismatic, mosaic and stone finds, as well as the envi- post-excavation analysis, has provided new and unique insights into the ronmental, faunal and human remains. 521p, 406 figs & pls (Monograph of Chalcolithic culture of this area. Here the fieldwork is described and the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv No. 15, 1999) Hb £50.00 discussed, and the recovered artefacts - ceramics, worked stone and flint, The Canaanite Cultic Milieu: The Zooarchaeological evidence organic remains – are collated and analysed. Well illustrated. 352p, b/w figs & pls, 7 col pls (IAA 1998) Hb £48.00 from Tel Haror, Israel by Joel D Klenck. Based on archaeological evidence, especially faunal re- Ausgrabungen und Surveys im Vorderen Orient I mains, from the temple complex, an equid burial and a well at Tel Haror, edited by Ricardo Eichmann. This volume, the first in a new series, pre- Klenck presents an interpretation of Canaanite husbandry practices, diet, sents eight lengthy papers which provide preliminary or summary reports butchery methods and ritual sacrifices. Dating to 1800/1750 to 1550 BC, on recent German archaeological fieldwork and surveys in the Near East. the material from the site is also compared with textual and ethnographic Contents: a report on the urbanisation of Mesopotamia during the 3rd accounts. 263p, b/w figs and tbs (BAR S1029, 2002) Pb £35.00 millennium BC based on the excavation of Tall Chuera in Syria; the exca- vation of Akkar–Ebene in North Lebanon; archaeological evidence for Excavations at Tell Brak the settlement of Akko in Israel; the excavation of Tell el-Hamme in Vol 1: The Mitanni and Old Babylonian periods by David Oates, Joan Jordan; excavation of a Jordanian landscape at Ba’ja; an English prelimi- Oates and Helen McDonald. The first of three volumes on the 1976-1993 nary report on the excavation and survey of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze excavations at Tell Brak in northeast Syria, identified as ancient Nagar/ Age sites near ‘Aqaba in Jordan; a technical English paper on new C14 Nawar. In this volume the 2nd millennium BC material is published in full, dates for prehistoric settlements in southern Jordan. 339p, many b/w illus including a detailed account of the monumental Palace and Temple of (OA 5, VML 2002) Hb £46.50 Mitanni date (Late Bronze Age) and the sequence of domestic occupation dating from c.1700-1200 BC. Includes unique evidence for craft activities Les Maisons dans la Syrie antique du IIIe millenaire aux from palace workrooms and official cuneiform tablets. 296p, 178 b/w pls, debuts de l’Islam many text-figs (McDonald Institute Monograph 1998) Hb £45.00 edited by Corinne Castel, Michel Al-Maqdissi and François Villeneuve. Vol 2: Nagar in the 3rd Millennium BC edited by David Oates, Joan Twenty-nine contributors from an international colloquium at Damas, Oates and Helen McDonald. Substantial reports provide detailed histori- focus our attention on the small domestic dwellings of ancient Syria. cal, geomorphological, ceramic, faunal, botanical, microstratigraphic and Essays tackle subjects such as the role of the house as a product of tech- other data on the 3rd millennium BC material form Tell Brak. 643p, many nology and of society, as a place of habitation and as a place of symbolic b/w figs (McDonald Institute Monograph/BSAI 2001) Hb £95.00 importance. An enlightening attempt to raise the profile of a much ne- Vol 3: publishes material from the Uruk and Ubaid periods (McDonald glected realm of archaeology. 332p, figs, 2 maps, 1 in French, 1 in Arabic Institute forthcoming 2003) (Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient 1997) Hb £34.50 Handbook of Ugaritic Studies The Early Glyptic of Tell Brak: Cylinder Seals of Third edited by Wilfred G E Watson and Nicolas Wyatt. A wide-ranging survey Millennium Syria of recent evidence and past research on the ancient city of Ugarit. Schol- by Donald M Matthews. Syrian seals are an important source for the 3rd ars chosen for their specialist knowledge deal with particular aspects of the millennium BC. A large number of seals, along with their provenance are site over 16 chapters. These ‘specialisms’ include the decipherment of catalogued here, deriving from a range of sites in Syria, as well as compara- cuneiform and documents in other languages, culture, economy, social life, tive material. Interpretations derived from these are explored here, ending religion, history and iconography. 850p, many illus (Handbook of Oriental with a summary of regional development and inferences on Near Eastern Studies, Part 1 Ancient Near East, 39, Brill 1999) Hb £140.00 civilisation. 311p, 59 b/w pls (OBO 15, 1997) Hb £72.00 The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol. Patrimonialism Emar IV: Les sceaux in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East by Dominique Beyer. A large volume publishing hundreds of seals from by J David Schloen. The Patrimonial Household Model was first devised excavations at Meskéné, ancient Emar, between 1972-76 and in 1978. A by Max Weber to characterise societies where the entire social order was wealth of archive material, notably cuneiform tablets and seals, dating based around household relationships and personal links between people from the end of the 14th to the beginning of the 12th century, ascribe to rather than a typical bureaucracy. Schloen draws heavily on Weber’s model, a complex system of glyptic iconography. This volume looks at the differ- as well as archaeological and documentary evidence, in his discussion of ent materials, the different types and discusses the iconography including social action and patriarchal households in the Late Bronze Age kingdom divine figures, royal people, officials, scenes, heroes, animals and symbolic of Ugarit. 414p, 25 b/w figs, 5 b/w pls, 17 tbs (Studies in the Archaeology and elements. 490p, 107 b/w figs, 50 b/w pls, 11 tbs (OBO 20, 2001) Hb £105.00 History of the Levant 2, Eisenbrauns 2001) Hb £40.00 36 LEVANT

A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language A Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Tomb at Sahem, Jordan by Daniel Sivan. Translated and revised from the Hebrew version, this by Peter M Fischer. This tomb, discovered in 1992, book details the various documents in Ugaritic, a North-West Semitic was found to contain more than 200 items of fired language, found on clay tablets and dating between the 14th and 12th clay, stone and metal, including objects of bronze, centuries BC. The documents provide insights into the organisation of silver and gold, including scarabs, daggers, jewellery Ugarit, and its history and culture. 330p (Brill 2001) Hb £59.50 and stone/clay figurines, of both local and for- Ritual in Narrative: The Dynamics of Feasting, Mourning and eign origin. Fischer’s study focuses on these burial goods and the wealthy society from which they Retaliation Rites in the Ugaritic Tale of Aqhat came. 181p, b/w pls and figs (Harrassowitz 1997) Pb by David P Wright. Ugaritic ritual texts are varied and, by nature, prob- £51.50 lematic but another source for ritual understanding is found in the narra- tive writings of Ugarit – namely, its myths and legends. Ritual texts in Time at Emar: The Cultic Calendar and the myths were not simply textual inserts but an integral part of the narrative. Rituals from the Diviner’s House This study is devoted to the examination of the way that ritual functions by Daniel E Fleming. During excavations at the ancient town of Emar in within the context of these stories. 242p (Eisenbraums 2001) Hb £29.00 Syria, a number of Akkadian cuneiform tablets were discovered which The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion included ritual texts related to religious rites practised locally. Fleming by Edward Lipinski. A detailed and comprehensive synthesis of ancient presents a translation of these texts along with more general discussions of Aramaean history beginning with the states and tribes of the end of the the rites observed and the correlation between the texts, the seasons and 2nd millennium BC to the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Lipinski studies other calendrical systems. 352p (Eisenbrauns 2000) Hb £36.50 archaeological and geographical evidence as well as the vast amount of The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Central Transjordan textual material including inscriptions, cuneiform and hieroglyphs. Indi- The Baq’ah Valley Project, 1977–1981 vidual chapters focus on particular states and/or tribes with more the- by Patrick E McGovern. This volume reports on the extensive geophysical matic sections on society, economy, laws and religion. 694p, 16 maps, c.50 and archaeological survey of the Umm ad-Dananir region and on the b/w and col figs (OLA 100, Peeters 2000) Hb £88.50 excavation of several sites and of burial cave groups. Substantial part of The World of the Aramaeans: Studies in Honour of Paul the report given to a full description and discussion of the significance of Eugène Dion these finds. The survey reviews the evidence for significant cultural and A collection of essays about the Aramaeans and their historical context. technological changes during the late Bronze Age and Iron Age periods. 363p, figs, 80 pls (University Museum, Pennsylvania, 1986) Hb £37.00 Vol 1 edited by P M Michéle Daviau and John W Wevers. The first volume deals with the Aramaeans in the Bible. 324p (Continuum 2001) Hb £55.00 Maritime Tel Michal and Apollonia: Results of the Underwater Vol 2 edited by P M Michéle Daviau and John W Wevers. The second Survey 1989-1996 volume looks at history and archaeology. 312p (Continuum 2001) Hb £55.00 by Eva Grossmann. A report on the underwater survey of Tel Michal and Vol 3 edited by P M Michéle Daviau and John W Wevers. A study of Apollonia located on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, within the Sharon aspects of language and literature. 324p (Continuum 2001) Hb £55.00 Plain. The ports date from the Bronze Age to the Persian period and from the Byzantine to the Crusader period, respectively. No evidence for a Les fouilles de Tell el-Ghassil de 1972 à 1974 harbour was found at Tel Michal but two were surveyed at Apollonia at the by Claude Doumet-Serhal. Tell el-Ghassil lies to the south-east of Baalbeck, foot of the Crusader fortress, one for international trade and the other for first populated c.5000 BC. Here, the author aims to establish a strati- local use. A large number of finds were also found off Apollonia including graphic sequence of the deepest levels found on the site, to complete a a statuette of Minerva, anchors, metal and marble objects, amphorae and previous typology of Middle and Late Bronze Age ceramic finds for the other vessels. 131p, 95 b/w figs (BAR S915, 2001) Pb £27.00 more recent levels and to produce a chronology. On a broader scale, he examines the finds in a context encompassing Lebanon, Syria and Pales- tine, and reconciles some of the problems and debates on dating. 304p, Iron Age num figs and tbs, 75 b/w pls (Beyrouth 1996) Pb £28.50 Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant edited by Amihai Mazar. These 13 essays, taken from papers given at a by Shelley Wachsmann. The first attempt to cover all aspects of Bronze colloquium held at University College London in 1996, focus specifically Age ships and seafaring in a single monograph. During this period, Medi- on the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan. The papers deal with spatial archae- terranean peoples began to look further afield for trade and exchange, ology and settlement patterns (A Ofer, A Zertal, G Lehmann, S Gibson), with encouraged by sturdier vessels and increased seafaring knowledge. By ex- religion and iconography (A Biran, Z Herzog, R Kletter, K Prag, T Ornan, N amining the ships and practices of these peoples in turn, Wachsmann Franklin), and on specific sites: Jerusalem (M Steiner), Beth Shean (A Mazar) allows us to gain a fascinating insight into the possibility of idiosyncracy in and Busayra and Judah (P Bienkowski & L Sedman). 337p, b/w figs and pls shipbuilding. 417p, many b/w pls & illus (Texas A&M UP 1998) Hb £55.00 (Sheffield AP 2001) Hb £60.00 Jerusalem 1 Agriculture in Iron Age Israel by G Auld and M Steiner. Tracing the development of the city of Jerusa- by Oded Borowski. Taking advantage of the increasing investigation and lem from the Bronze Age to 200 BCE, the book culminates in a tour analysis of archaeological field date relating to agriculture and food pro- around the perimeter of the ancient city. More a guide for the imagination duction, Borowski integrates the latest results with the related textual than the feet. 100p, 39 figs (Lutterworth 1996) Pb £15.00 evidence both from the Bible and from outside it. The four major areas Tell Rijim, Iraq: The Middle Bronze Age Layers investigated are the land, field work and grain production, cultigens and cultivars, and factors in soil fertility and crop yield. A standard reference by Rafal Kolinski. Excavations at the site of Tell Rijim on the west bank both for those wanting to understand biblical texts relating to agriculture of the Tigris began in the 1980s as part of the Eski Mosul Dam Salvage and those interested in the scientific/archaeological analysis of ancient Project Excavations. This report publishes the archaeological evidence agriculture. Thorough indices provide easy access to the information pre- from Middle Bronze Age layers, alongside a general discussion of the local sented in the book. ‘An interesting and well-documented glimpse into the topography, a history of the settlement in the area, subsistence and agricul- methods and practices of farming in Iron Age Israel’ – J M Hadley, VT38 ture. The bulk of the report is taken up by discussion of the Middle (1988). 237p (Eisenbrauns 1987, rep ASOR 2002) Pb £25.95 Bronze Age architecture, pottery evidence and small finds. 198p, b/w illus (BAR S837, 2000) Pb £30.00 Essays on Syria in the Iron Age Ancient Ammon edited by Guy Bunnens. A collection of 22 essays addressing the neglect of the Iron Age in studies of Syrian history. They include general studies edited by Burton MacDonald and Randall W Younker. The ancient Am- defining and outlining the chronological limits of the period, those focus- monites occupied the north-central Trans-Jordanien plateau from the 2nd ing on language and texts, material culture, regional studies and archaeo- to the mid 1st millennium BC and are best known for their struggles with logical sites. Together they form an excellent survey of the major cultural the Biblical Israelites. This book brings together evidence and research on and historical developments of the period, of the main issues being raised these people and their homeland of Ammon. Ten papers discuss their by those studying it and of current problems attempting to be resolved kingdoms, sites, ceramics, domestic and monumental architecture, burial through archaeological investigations. 557p, b/w figs and pls (Ancient Near customs, religion, texts and language, and the history of archaeological Eastern Studies Supplement 7, Peeters 2000) Pb £95.00 research in Ammon. 247p, b/w pls (Brill 1999) Hb £60.50 37 LEVANT

Dor – Ruler of the Seas Excavations by Kathleen M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967, by Ephraim Stern. The site of Tel Dor on the Carmel coast of Israel was Vol III: The Settlement in the Bronze and Iron Ages occupied for an extensive period, with remains from the Canaanite, Sikil, by M L Steiner. This is the final report on part of Kathleen Kenyon’s Israelite and Phoenician civilisations. This book reports on 19 seasons of excavations at Jerusalem, including much of the post-excavation analysis excavations and subsequent advances in knowledge generated by the finds. that was carried out after her death. Steiner presents the evidence from The site’s continuing use as a harbour and the large amount of imported Kenyon’s Areas A, H and P and a general interpretation of the Bronze and artefacts unearthed also reveals Dor’s extensive relations with other Iron Ages as well as an occupational history of Jerusalem. 158p, b/w figs and civilisations that flourished around the Mediterranean basin. 400p, 289 pls (Sheffield AP 2001) Hb £65.00 illus, 12 col pls (Israel Exploration Society 1994, rev edn 2000) Hb £35.50 µSome of the other volumes are still available – please ask for details A Phoenician-Punic Grammar Jewish Quarter Excavations In the Old City of Jerusalem, Vol 1 by Charles R Krahmalkov. This well structured grammar aims to provide edited by Hillel Geva. This substantial volume comprises the first part of ‘good general coverage’ of Phoenician and Punic morphology and syntax the final report on excavations conducted by Nahman Avigad, 1969-1982, based on the author’s extensive research into Phoenician language and in the Old City of Jerusalem. In includes the architectural and strati- literature. The introduction discusses the history, dialects and Latin and graphic evidence from three sites, A, W and X-2, which revealed sections Punic alphabets of this Canaanite language which flourished between from the northern wall of Jerusalem’s first line of defences during the First 1200 BC and AD 400. 309p (Handbook of Oriental Studies: The Near and and Second Temple periods. This volume also publishes royal seal impres- Middle East 54, Brill 2001) Hb £45.50 sions from storage jar handles and imported Greek stamped amphora Sinai: Excavations and Studies handles. The small finds will be published in the second volume. 283p, by Ze’ev Meshel. A collection of reports from archaeological excavations many b/w illus, 6 fold-out plans (Israel Exploration Society 2000) Hb £55.00 and surveys carried out since the Sinai desert was opened up to Israeli Excavations at City of David Vol 6: Inscriptions researchers in 1967. The excavations include Nabatean sites and fortresses, edited by Donald T Ariel, Baruch Brandl, Jane M Cahill, Joseph Naveh an Iron Age fortress and an 8th-century BCE Israelite settlement. There is and Yair Shoham. The fifth volume in the series of final reports on exca- also a landscape survey of the hills of Northwestern Sinai. The smaller vations at the City of David in Jerusalem (sixth in the series overall). This second section contains studies of ‘Desert Kites’, triangular hunting en- volume reports on the Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions, inscribed pot- closures, in the Sinai and Southern Negev, Sinai rock inscriptions and past tery, bullae, seal impressions, rosette-stamped and incised handles from the and present desert nomads. 161p, b/w illus (BAR S876, 2000) Pb £30.00 site. 194p, b/w pls and figs (Qedem 41, Monographs of the Institute of Archaeol- Tell Taannek 1963-1968 IV/2: The Iron Age Cultic Structure ogy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2000) Hb £50.00 by Frank S Frick. The latest excavation report from the ancient site of Tell Excavations at the City of David 1978-85, Vol 5: Extramural Taannek examines an Iron Age Cultic Structure and its contents. Frick Areas considers the relationship between cultic and ‘secular’ activity, particularly edited by Donald T Ariel. The fourth volume in the final reports on exca- with regard to the ways in which cult served a regulatory function within vations at the City of David in Jerusalem (fifth in the series as a whole). society. He also examines the question of ‘popular’ religious practice in This report presents a stratigraphic report for Areas B and D1, a report on ancient Israel, making reference to biblical passages concerning cultic ac- ceramics from the same areas and general observations on the extramural tivity. The book includes a catalogue of artefacts, grouped by material, and quarters of the site. 169p, b/w pls and figs, maps (Qedem 40, Monographs of the 5 appendices with sections drawings and tables describing the type and Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2000) Hb £34.50 location of all registered artefacts. 352p, many b/w figs and tbs (Palestinian Institute of Archaeology, Birzeit University and ASOR 2000) Pb £24.50 Archaeology of the Land of the Bible Volume II: The Shechem III: The Stratigraphy and Architecture of Shechem/ Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian Periods (732–332 BCE) Balatah by Ephraim Stern. A detailed study of the history and material culture of the Bible lands over 400 years, divided into three chronological sections by Edward F Campbell and G R H Wright. This volume discusses the that focus on the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian periods. Stern looks in stratigraphy and architectural remains of the tell of ancient (biblical) turn at different ruling powers and their administrations, army, architec- Shechem on the eastern outskirts of the modern municipality of Nablus, ture and city planning, religion, burial, inscriptions, pottery and other Palestine. First identified as an ancient ruin and identified as ancient Shechem crafts, and at the influence of various groups such as the Phoenicians, in 1903, the site was excavated by an Austro-German team between 1913 Philistines, the Greeks and Egyptians. A well-written authoritative study and 1934, and by the Drew-McCormick Archaeological Expedition, later of how the stories of the Bible relate to the physical evidence recovered named the Joint Expedition, between 1956 and 1973. 2 vols: Vol 1 (Text) through excavation and survey. The first volume (by A Mazar) is now out 374p; Vol 2 (illus) 272p (ASOR Archaeological Reports 6, 2002) Hb £125.00 of print. 665p, 191 b/w figs, pls, 6 maps, 1 tb (Doubleday 2001) Hb £35.00 Also available: Shechem II by Edward F Campbell (Scholars 1991) Hb Volume I: 10,000-586 BCE by Amihai Mazar. 572p, figs, maps (Doubleday £50.00 1990) Hb £29.50 Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals by Nahman Avigad, revised and completed by Benjamin Sass. West Semitic Hellenistic and Roman seals dating from the 9th to the 5th centuries BC are an important source for the study of the onomasticon, script, language and religion of West The Nabataean Terracotta Figurines Semitic peoples. This book republishes a corpus of 1934 seals, with 100 by Lamia Salem El-Khouri. An illustrated catalogue and discussion of 336 additional unpublished seals. Part one contains a complete documentary, terracotta anthromorphic and zoomorphic figurines from Petra, mostly photographic and bibliographical catalogue; part two presents an analyti- hollow moulded, which reflect the Nabataean’s cultural interaction with cal discussion of all the names appearing on the seals which include He- Egypt, Parthia and the Hellenistic world. El-Khouri’s dissertation includes brew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Ammonite, Moabite and Endomite examples. a typology and a discussion of the continuity in style and subject between 640p, many b/w illus (Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities/Israel Explora- the 1st century BC and the 6th century AD. The study also considers the tion Society/Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem 1997) Hb £70.00 manufacture of the figurines and their cultural and religious significance given that the majority of the figurines were found in houses. 207p, many Excavations at Jerusalem b/w illus (BAR Archaeopress S1034, 2002) Pb £30.00 The Religion of the Nabataeans Ancient Jerusalem Revealed: Expanded Edition 2000 by John F Healey. The religious beliefs of the Nabataean Kingdom, which edited by Hillel Geva. This new edition contains all of the articles pub- flourished around Petra during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, are still lished in the 1994 volume in addition to the preliminary results of three surrounded by mystery, overshadowed by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. recently completed excavations. All 43 articles previously appeared in Drawing as much as possible on primary sources, especially Nabataean Hebrew in the journal Qadmoniot and have since been translated, revised Aramaic inscriptions and archaeology, Healey examines the principle fea- and expanded. The articles cover all periods of the city’s history from the tures of Nabataean religion – religious architecture, sacred places, festivals First Temple period onwards and include reports on excavations, architec- and priests, its gods and goddesses, cult of kings and relations with Greco- tural surveys and overviews of archaeological activities in Jerusalem be- Roman cults and Near Eastern religions. Healey also explores the presen- tween 1967 and 1999. 368p, 1 col pl, many b/w illus (Israel Exploration Society tation of Nabataean religion by contemporary foreign authors and com- 2000) Hb £40.50 mentators. 242p, 15 b/w pls (RGRW 136, Brill 2001) Hb £52.50 38 LEVANT

Petra Tel Anafa by Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo and Eugenia Equini Schneider. Although Volume 1 parts I & II by Sharon C Herbert et al. The first part of the entitled ‘Petra’, this book forms a summary introduction to the Nabatean final report on ten years of excavation at the Hellenistic and Roman Arabs, as well as to the Hellenistic capital city of Petra. Discussing Nabatean settlement in Northern Israel. This first volume contains an introduction history, culture, language, religion, politics, economy, art and architecture, to the site and its region, a detailed analysis of the stratigraphy, geology and accompanied by lots of wonderful colour photographs, this is a good guide occupation history, including studies of the coins, stamped amphora handles, to Petra and all that surrounds it. 197p, many col pls (Electa 1997, Engl edn and faunal remains. Though never a major city, Tel Anafa is exceptionally Chicago UP 2002) Hb £31.50 rich in Hellenistic material and will become the ‘type site’ for the Levant in Petra: A Traveller’s Guide this period. 2 vols: Part 1 (text) 322p; Part 2 (pls and figs) 153p (JRA Suppl. by Rosalyn Maqsood. Petra is assuredly the top venue for tourists in Jor- 10:1, 1994) Hb £95.50 dan. This wonderful guide offers a candid, entertaining accompaniment to Volume 2, part I: The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery edited by Sharon any visit, with a descriptive tour of the major and less well-known monu- C Herbert. This volume presents the Hellenistic and Roman pottery from ments of the city and an informative but not overpowering amount of the site. The quantity of pottery dealt with here is enormous, a result of a background information. The text is interspersed with extracts from the policy of complete recovery. Includes reports on plain wares, fine wares diaries of early travellers and plenty of notes on the daily lives of Petra’s and a substantial collection of imported material. 432p, 45 figs, 149 pls inhabitants, from the days of the Roman Empire to our own times. With (JRA/Kelsey Museum 1997) Hb £74.50 photos and maps, diagrams and plans of suggested itineraries, this guide Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine will be very useful to both the casual tourist and those hoping to explore by Jack Pastor. This book charts the landownership of the Jews in Pales- slightly further. 236p, col illus and pls (Garnet 1994, 3rd edn 2002) Pb £12.95 tine throughout the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods (to the revolt Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans of Bar Kokhba), and examines issues and crises related to the theme. by Jane Taylor. The spectacular remains of Petra are testament to the Aspects covered take in debt, famine, taxation, unemployment, and the cultural and architectural richness of the Nabataeans and yet, Jane Taylor structure of the Jewish aristocracy. Using a variety of sources, including argues, the civilisation is today undeservedly neglected. This beautifully New Testament and classical authors, Pastor looks at the many ramifica- illustrated survey of Petra and other sites in the deserts of Egypt, Israel, tions of landownership in a specific setting. 281p (Routledge 1997) Hb £55.00 Jordan and Syria, recounts the history of the Nabotaeans from their no- madic origins, through the heyday of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC until State and Society in Roman Galilee AD 132-212 their annexation by the Romans and the Byzantine era. 224p, many col pls by Martin Goodman. A largely unrevised second edition of Martin (Tauris 2001) Hb £30.00 Goodman’s thesis, first published in 1983, which uses Rabbinic texts and Petra: The Rose-Red City archaeological evidence to examine Jewish government and society in Ga- by Christian Augé and Jean-Marie Dentzer. A pocket-sized guide to the lilee during one of the region’s most testing periods. The heavily annotated hidden city of Petra. Colour photographs and informative text combine to text, not aimed at the general reader, is preceded by new notes and a reveal the history of Petra’s rediscovery, its geology, archaeology and its preface which outline recent research developments. 305p (Frank Cass 2000) Hb £37.50, Pb £18.50 Nabataean builders. Chapters discuss the advantages and disadvantages of its unusual position, including defences, water management and its gar- Ramat Hanadiv Excavations: Final Report of the 1984-1998 dens, as well as Greco-Roman, European and Eastern influences on the Seasons city’s architecture and art. This handy volume concludes with extracts by Yizhar Hirschfeld. This substantial volume by Yizhar Hirschfeld and 21 from 18th- and 19th-century documents, a discussion of preservation contributors, records the results of almost 15 years of excavation at the issues and a chronology. 128p, many col and b/w pls (Gallimard important multi-period site of Ramat Handiv on the Mediterranean coast 1999, Thames and Hudson New Horizons series 2000) Pb to the south of Haifa. The first of the three sites revealed a Roman/ £6.95 Byzantine farm on the site of a large early Roman estate which, in turn, lay Petra: Ez Zantur II above remains from a temple dating to the Persian period. An extensive by Stephan G Schmid and Bernhard Kolb. This sub- fortified early Roman complex with a perfectly preserved water system was stantial volume provides the second report on the joint uncovered at the second site while the third site revealed over thirty stone Swiss and Lichtenstein excavations of Petra. Divided early Bronze Age tumuli. Each of the sites is discussed in turn accompa- into two distinct parts, the former discusses the fine ce- nied by reports on the artefacts, environmental evidence and human re- ramics of the Nabataeans. An illustrated catalogue of mains. 768p, 16 col pls, many b/w illus (Israel Exploration Society 2000) Hb vessels is preceded by an in-depth analysis of the innova- £85.00 tive design and manufacture of the ceramics, their chro- Die Baupolitick Herodes’ des Grossen: Die Bedeutung der nology, function and archaeological context. The second Architektur für die Herrschaftslegitimation eines römischen part discusses the site’s Late Antique buildings dating from Klientelkönigs the 4th to 6th centuries AD. These include city walls, canals, by Sarah Japp. Sarah Japp’s study of the buildings erected by Herod the domestic houses and public buildings. The first volume is Great of Judaea (c.60-4 BC) examines the building program from a politi- also available. 311p, 4 col pls, many b/w pls and illus, plans, cal perspective. She shows that both Herod’s method of rule, and the microfiche (Terra Archaeologica IV, Von Zabern 2000) Hb £62.00 subordination of Judaea to Roman authority were both deeply unpopular Gadara – Gerasa und die Dekapolis amongst his Jewish subjects. In response Herod designed buildings which edited by Adolf Hoffmann and Susanne Kerner. This colourful guide to would tangibly demonstrate his power as well as appease both Romans and the architectural and cultural splendours of Jerash and the other cities of Jews. Sarah Japp examines the inspiration for the varied and ornate styles the Hellenistic Dekapolis comprises eleven papers which draw on a variety of religious and secular architecture used during this period, notably in the of sources, including recent archaeological evidence. Contributors con- non-Jewish environment of Caesarea, and shows how these were received sider, for example, the infrastructure and necropolis of Jerash, the temple by his subjects. 184p, 85 b/w pls, 1 map (VML 2000) Hb £48.50 of Artemis, the cities of Pella and Skythopolis, the citadel of Ammon, the Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima topography of Gadara and the fate of the Dekapolis as the Roman Empire by Clayton Miles Lehmann and Ken Holum. Caesarea Maritima, a port declined. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs of the cities, town on the Levantine coast, was founded by King Herod the Great their buildings, artworks and artefacts. 150p, 146 col & 7 b/w illus, 45 b/w sometime shortly after 22 BC and flourished as a major urban centre figs (Bildbände, Von Zabern 2002) Hb £25.00 during the first six centuries CE. The 411 inscriptions included in this Die Paläste der Hasmonäer und Herodes I des Grossen volume represent the finds 25 years of investigation at the site and bear by Ehud Netzer. Two dynasties moulded the history and culture of the crucial testimony to the civil and military organisation, urban construc- Holy Land in the 2nd-1st century BC: the priest-dynasts of the Hasmoneans tion, religion and funerary practices of an important Roman and Byzan- and the following dynasty of the Idomumeneans, from whom Herodes the tine provincial centre. In addition, the language of the Greek and Latin Great originated. The transitional era from Hellenism to the early Roman inscriptions provides important insights into the evolution of those lan- epoch is mirrored in the prestigious architecture, for example the new guages as well as information on the demographic, ethnic and social make- temple in Jerusalem and many magnificent palaces – these form the subject up of the population of Caesarea Maritima in the Roman and Late An- of this book. 136p, 113 col pls, 59 b/w pls (Von Zabern 1999) Hb £28.00 tique Periods. 301p, 159 pls (ASOR 2000) Hb £90.00 39 LEVANT

µ Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity: Conflict or Confluence? The Roman and Byzantine Near East 2: Some Recent by Lee I Levine. The effects of the interaction between the cultures of Archaeological Research Judaism and Hellenism ranged from a Jewish interest in Greek philosophy edited by J H Humphrey. Articles include: Marbles from the Sanctuary of to the full-scale destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by the Romans. Pan at Caesarea Philippi (Banias) (E Friedland); Jews and the Roman games Levine searches for evidence of this relationship in the architecture, ves- in Palestine (Z Weiss); Dedicatory inscription to Trajan at the ‘metropolis’ sels, mosaics, funerary monuments and inscriptions of Israel and Egypt. of Petra (S Tracy); Basilica and an altar to Dionysos at Nysa-Scythopolis (L This is a balanced and clear approach to a popular theme. The 1998 edition Di Segni, G Foerster & Y Tsafrir); Greek, Roman and native cultures in the is currently available at a reduced price while stocks last. 227p, 29 b/w figs Roman Near East (D Kennedy); Ethnography, archaeology and art (G Fowden); (University of Washington 1998, Hendrickson rep 1999) Pb £12.99 Synagogue at Capernaum (Z U Ma oz); Epigraphic documentation on build- Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews ing in the provinces of Palestina and Arabia, 4th-7th c. (B Isaac); Redating by Victor Tcherikover. First published in 1959, this is a seminal study of the forts at Ein Boqeq, Upper Zohar, and other sites in SE Judaea (J the political and social history of Judaism. Tcherikover’s main subjects Magness); Rome and the Jafnids: writing the history of a 6th century tribal comprise the Hellenistic towns of Palestine, the Maccabean revolt and the dynasty (M Whittow). 224p (JRA Suppl. Series 31, 1999) Hb £54.50 problems facing Jews in Roman Egypt. His examination of the reasons for Vol 1 is also available: (JRA Suppl. series 14, 1995) Hb £65.00 the persecution of Judaism and the animosity of ordinary Jews to Helle- Rome in the East nism remains valid today despite the controversy surrounding some of his by Warwick Ball. A provocative study which views the story of Rome conclusions. A new foreword discusses Tcherikover’s analysis in the light through the lens of Rome’s fascination with the East. From the legendary of recent research and suggests titles for further reading. 563p (Jewish foundation of Rome by the Trojan Aeneas, to the eventual creation of a Publication Society of America 1959, Hendrickson new edn 1999) Pb £12.99 new Rome at Constantinople, and the takeover of western Europe by The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua The Stylite Barbarians, Ball aims to show that the story of Rome is a story of the east translated and introduced by Frank R Trombley and John W Watt. A new rather than the west. 240p (Routledge 1998, Pb 2000) Hb £65.00, Pb £19.99 translation and commentary of the ‘Historical Narrative of the Period of Below the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Distress which occurred in Edessa, Amid and all Mesopotamia’. The his- by Shimon Gibson and D M Jacobsen. One of the splendours of the tory provides a richly detailed first-hand account of life in an East Roman Augustan age, the great temple at Jerusalem, occupied an area four times city between AD 494 and 506, a period which saw war with Persia, a larger than the Acropolis. Even before this period the site had already seen plague of locusts, famine and disease. The text is supported by a lengthy much building activity. Here the authors have created a sourcebook on the introduction and a comprehensive bibliography. 176p, 5 maps (Translated cisterns, subterranean chambers and conduits of the Haram al-Sharif. Texts for Historians 32, Liverpool UP 2000) Pb £11.95 Public and archival sources have been gathered together and original plans Jericho: The Jewish Cemetery of the Second Temple Period and drawings were re-examined, in order to enable other scholars to make by Rachel Hachlili and Ann E Killebrew. The final report on rescue work use of this rich resource. 301p, 130 figs (BAR S637, 1996) Pb £40.00 carried out between 1975 and 1979 on an area of threatened Hellenistic Roman Roads in Judaea 2: the Jaffa-Jerusalem roads and Roman tombs which lay along the Judaean hills to the west of modern by Moshe Fischer, Benjamin Isaac and Israel Roll. In Roman and Byzantine Jericho. This volume contains reports on the architecture of the tombs, times pilgrims, Roman soldiers and merchants would have landed on the inscriptions, grave markers, wall paintings and the finds, including wooden west coast and headed to Jerusalem. From 1983 to 1989 the most likely coffin remains. Other chapters discuss the significant contribution of this routes were surveyed by land and from the air, and a gazetteer of sites and previously unkown cemetery for our understanding of Jewish burial cus- milestones was created. This study considers such evidence alongside liter- toms, as well as the culture as a whole, during the Second Temple Period. ary references from all periods in tracing the possible routes used. 434p, 202, 4 col pls, many b/w illus (IAA Reports 7, 1999) Pb £29.95 maps and illus (BAR S628, 1996) Pb £49.00 Späthellenistich–römisch Keramik und Kleinfunde aus einem The Architecture of Oboda: Final Report Schachtbrunnen am Staatsmarkt in Ephesos by Avraham Negev. An assessment of research and excavations at the site by Recep Meriç. A descriptive report and catalogue of the late Hellenistic of Oboda in Israel. This final report covers the sacred compounds and and Roman ceramics and small finds recovered during the excavation of a temples and Late Roman and Byzantine use of the site and occupation of well in Ephesus’ ‘State Market’. The terra sigillata and coins indicated that the town. A miscellaneous final section deals with decoration, spolia, nu- the well was used as a dump between the late 1st century BC and the end mismatics and small finds. 234p, 27 figs, 299 pls (Institute of Archaeology of the 1st century AD, and later re-used in the 6th century. The small finds Monograph 36, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1998) Hb £44.50 included lamps, glass vessels and mosaic glass and terracotta figures. 158p, 113 b/w pls, b/w figs (Forschungen in Ephesos IX/3, OAW 2002) Pb £49.50 Late Antiquity Kaiserzeitliche Tempel in Kleinasien unter besonderer Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus Berücksichtigung der hellenistichen Vorläufer by Alan Millard. Millard reconstructs the level of writing in the Near East by Daniela Pohl. Pohl’s dissertation on temple-building in the Near East during the early 1st century to suggest that there was a greater dependence focuses on Roman temples that were constructed to emulate or respect by ordinary people on the written word than has been thought. As a result, their Hellenistic predecessors. The study discusses different types of temple, he argues that the Gospels, written 40 years after Jesus’ death, may well regional variations, characteristic groundplans and rooms and distinctive have been based on original notes kept by his followers and not on an oral decorative features, both architectural and artistic. Includes a catalogue of tradition of debate, alteration and invention. Includes a discussion of temples across the Near East. 287p, 49 b/w illus, 6 b/w pls (Asia Minor early Christian manuscripts, the languages of Palestine and the identity of Studien 43, Habelt 2002) Hb £45.00 readers and writers. 288p, 42 b/w illus (New York UP 2000) Hb £27.50 The Near East under Roman Rule: Selected Papers Image and Reality: Jerusalem in Maps and Views by Benjamin Isaac. A collection of thirty papers by Benjamin Isaac focus- by Rehav Rubin. An attractive study of the different ways in which Jerusa- ing on historical problems of Judaea, particular rulers and specific docu- lem was represented in maps produced between the 6th and 19th century. ments, from the Seleucid period to the late Roman Empire, as well as Rubin’s selection of maps illustrates the contrasting traditions and ap- studies on other aspects of the eastern Empire, principally inscriptions and proaches of cartographers and shows how art, craft and science were the Roman army. 500p, 11 b/w (Brill 1998) Hb £115.00 routinely blended together to create maps which placed the city within a From Function to Monument: An Architectural History of the landscape that was both geographically and spatially defined. Includes a Cities of Roman Palestine, Syria and Arabia mix of artistic sketches and accurate surveys. 181p, 109 col and b/w pls and illus (Hebrew University/Magnes 1999) Hb £35.50 by Arthur Segal. An inspiring new look at the monumental buildings of the Roman cities of the east: colonnaded streets, gates and triumphal arches; Die Toten Städte agora, markets, ornamental plazas: nymogaea. Segal analyses the way in by Christine Strube. Parts of the landscape of Northern Syria are scat- which cities channelled their energies into the building of monumental tered with ‘dead cities’: settlements which were established in late antiq- structures to display their civic pride, their newly won economic affluence uity but were deserted by the 8th century AD. Strube takes a chronological and their loyalty to Rome and the emperor. Finding inspiration in Rome, stroll through the ruins, pointing out dominant features of progressive they competed with each other in the creation of public buildings to adorn styles and considering how these elements were linked to different usage: the urban landscape. 192p, 107 illus (Oxbow Mono 66, 1997) Pb £24.00 religious, public or domestic. 92p, 152 illus (Von Zabern 1996) Hb £20.50 40 THE BIBLICAL WORLD

The Invention of Ancient Israel by Keith W Whitelam. What began as a history of ancient Palestine soon THE BIBLICAL transformed into an exploration of the difficulties of writing such a his- tory. Inspired by the obstructions posed by the traditional concerns of scholars seeking to recreate biblical, Jewish Israel, Whitelam explores the WORLD theological and political assumptions which have shaped research into ancient Israel, arguing against traditional approaches. 281p (Routledge 1996, The Biblical World Pb 1997) Hb £60.00, Pb £16.99 edited by John Barton. ‘The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the History of Biblical Israel: Major Problems and Minor Issues contents, historical setting and social context of the Bible’. It successfully by Abraham Malamat. A collection of 26 essays by Abraham Malamat combines a general overview of Biblical material with more specific dis- published between the early 1950s and the present day, along with two cussions of particular genres of biblical literature – from myth and proph- previously unpublished essays. The essays draw primarily on the archaeo- ecy to poetry and proverbs – and considers the different versions and logical record as their source and together they represent the major phases interpretations of the Bible that have emerged. Discussions of the histori- of the history of Biblical Israel from its beginnings to the destruction of cal background are complemented by evidence from archaeology and other the First Temple of Jerusalem in 586 BC. 476p (Brill 2001) Hb £62.50 social and cultural aspects sich as language, law, administration, everyday life and the arts. Major figures of the Bible, including Abraham, Jesus and Bread, Wine, Walls and Scrolls Paul, are studied in detail, as are the main religious concepts it contains. by Magen Broshi. A collection of 23 essays by Magen Broshi, former Volume 2 concludes with a survey of how the Bible is studied and is seen Curator of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Archaeological Museum in now, focusing in particular on institutions, Biblical figures, religious ideas Jerusalem and keen archaeologist. The essays, without introduction, look and the Bible today. A good reference source with a wide appeal. 2 vols: at various aspects of the material and spiritual life of those living in 1120p, 65 b/w pls and 16 figs (Routledge 2002) Hb £130.00 Palestine in the Biblical and later periods including demography, diet, Archaeology and the Bible wine, the history of the city of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls and reli- gion. 312p (Sheffield AP 2001) Hb £65.00 by John Laughlin. Archaeological discoveries that seem to support or add validity to the Bible are always the focus of much attention. John Laughlin’s Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings book faces the daunting task of assessing this relationship in a general and by John Rogerson. This is ‘The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of readable way. Archaeology and the Bible contains an overview of the develop- Ancient Israel’. Packed full of information, the book introduces a series ment of Near Eastern archaeology, discusses how fieldwork is carried out, of biographical portraits of a number of important historical figures and what it seeks to prove, and provides the archaeological and historical associated events. Each entry includes illustrations, quotations, chrono- background on which the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, is founded logical and historical information in a clear and easily accessed format. (from c.8500 to c.500BC). A good introduction to the subject, whilst also From Samson and Delilah, to David and Solomon, the fall of Israel to the providing pointers for further reading and more detailed research. 196p, b/ Assyrians, Persian and Greek rule and Roman domination. 208p, 260 illus w (Routledge 1999) Hb £45.00, Pb £12.99 incl 100 in col (Thames & Hudson 1999) Hb £19.95 An Introduction to Biblical Archaeology Rewriting the Bible by Volkmar Fritz. ‘A guide for scholars and students covering the physical by Amy Dockser Marcus. Trying to reconcile the stories of people, places and human geogaphy of the Holy Land and the history of its exploration, and events given in the Bible with other historical and archaeological excavation techniques, and the archaeological attested history of Palestine evidence is a task fraught with problems in every sense. Although the Bible from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic-Roman period.’ 223p (Journal for Study is full of facts, descriptions and dates, the chronology has many problems of the Old Testament Suppl. series, Continuum 1994) Hb £45.00, Pb £13.95 and inconsistencies occur even within stories of the same events. This Studies in Historical Geography and Biblical Historiography book tries to shed some light on the ancient history of Israel, tying to- gether the Biblical and archaeological evidence recovered from the author’s edited by Gershon Galil and Moshe Weinfeld. A collection of twenty-two fieldwork and research. Eminently readable. 284p (Little, Brown & Com- studies presented to Professor Zecharia Kallai, divided into three subject pany 2000) £18.99 areas: historical geography, biblical history and historiography, and texts and textual studies. Includes articles by Shmuel Ahituv, Aaron Demsky, M Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land through the Five Books Heltzer, Joshua Schwartz, E L Greenstein, Yitzhak Avishur, Ada Yardeni. of Moses 281p, 16 b/w pls and figs (Brill 2000) Hb £58.00 by B Feiler. Is the Bible just an abstraction or a real living entity? Part What did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know adventure story, part archaeological detective work, part spiritual explora- It? tion, this is the account of Bruce Feiler’s perilous 10,000 mile journey across the Middle East in search of the roots of the Bible. The book traces by William G Dever. Is the Hebrew Bible pious fiction and part of late Biblical events from the landing of Noah’s ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey Jewish propaganda, or is it a faithful and true account of historical events to the site of the legendary burning bush overlooking the promised land, and facts? Dever attempts to find some middle ground between the former gathers the latest archaeological research about each site, follows passages ‘revisionist’ theories and those who prefer a literal reading of the Bible. of the Bible in their actual settings and explores how geography affects the Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this book reviews archaeology’s con- larger narrative of the Old Testament. 451p (William Morrow/Piatkus 2001) tribution to the debate, outlining how and why archaeology can contribute Hb £19.99, Pb £16.99 greatly to not only a better understanding of the Hebrew Bible, but also in providing additional evidence for the nature of a real Iron Age Israel. Noah’s Flood – The Genesis Story in Western Thought 313p, b/w figs, pls (Eerdmans 2001) Hb £17.99 by Norman Cohn. A well written, intriguing and substantially supported Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period analysis of the Flood story, from its origins in Mesopotamia through to its central role in 18th-century debate between science and religion. Cohn edited by Jacob Neusner, with William Scott Green. A dictionary of terms explores ancient ideas about the plan of the ark, the place of departure relating to the period in which the Old and New Testaments were written and arrival, later interpretations of Noah and the allegorical meanings down, from c.450 BC to AD c.600. The book defines words from Hebrew, ascribed to the story. Accompanied by superb illustrations. 154p, 37 pls Aramaic, Greek and Latin sources and covers all forms of Judaism, drawn (Yale UP 1996, Pb 1999) Hb £19.95, Pb £10.50 from both written and oral traditions. Biblical and religious terms, rituals, people and events are explained in concise but thorough descriptions which Noah’s Flood. The New Scientific Discoveries about the also highlight the importance of that subject to a modern understanding Event that Changed History of the Bible and Judaism. 693p (Hendrickson 1999) Hb £39.95 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman. Stories of major floods are preserved History and Historical Writing in Ancient Israel in the Bible and in the epic of Gilgamesh. But did they actually occur? This by Tomoo Ishida. A collection of previously published essays on Biblical book details archaeological, genetic, linguistic and scientific evidence in history, historiography and traditions. The 12 papers cover Ishida’s re- attempting to answer this question. Archaeologists and oceanographers search interests into the historical traditions of the Hebrew Bible includ- provide evidence that the sea once broke through the Strait of Gibraltar ing the subjects of the original inhabitants of the Promised Land, dynastic and flooded what was a fresh water Mediterranean basin. The repercus- change, royal succession including Solomon’ ssuccession to David’s throne sions of such an event are discussed. 319p, b/w figs and maps (Simon & and inscriptions. 219p (Brill 1999) Hb £48.00 Schuster 1998) Pb £8.99 41 THE BIBLICAL WORLD

The Genesis of Israel and Egypt Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel by E J Sweeney. This ‘Enquiry into the origins of Egyptian and Hebrew by Beth Alpert Nakhai. By applying current anthropological and sociologi- history’ suggests a revised chronology which would link Egypt with the cal theory to ancient materials excavated over the past eighty years in Old Testament. Sweeney argues that certain events in Egypt and Israel, Syria-Palestine, Nakhai offers a new way of looking at the archaeological which have been placed years apart by archaeologists, were, in fact, con- data. This study summarises and analyses the archaeological remains from temporary. This book presents the evidence, though in a concise form: all known Middle Bronze Age through Iron Age temples, sanctuaries, and artistic representations of common myths, inscriptions, hieroglyphs, docu- open-air shrines to reveal the ways in which social, economic, and political ments and pottery typologies. 94p, b/w figs (Janus 1997) Pb £6.95 relationships determined, and were shaped by, forms of religious Tutankhamun: The Exodus Conspiracy organisation. 276p, 4 b/w maps (ASOR Books Volume 7 2001) Pb £22.95 by Andrew Collins and Chris Ogilvie-Herald. With countless rumours of Battles of the Bible illicit behaviour, of curses, and deceptions, Howard Carter and Lord by Chaim Herzog and Mordechai Gichon. An analysis of battles in Israel Carnarvon’s investigations at the tomb of Tutankhamun, this is not a which are described in the Bible, using modern military analysis. Full em- straightforward story of discovery. Collins and Ogilvie-Herald review the phasis is given to a close reading of the Biblical accounts, which often evidence for the discovery of the tomb, accepting some parts of the reveal very detailed topographical information. 320p, 53 b/w pls, 45 figs, ‘offical’ story, whilst refuting and disproving others. In particular they 38 maps (Greenhill Books 1997, 2nd edn Pb 2002) Hb £19.99, Pb £12.95 focus on papyri which are claimed to have been found in the tomb, but King David: A Biography which subsequently disappeared. Said to have contained important evi- by Steven L McKenzie. King David has been traditionally pictured as a dence linking the pharaohs with the biblical Exodus, challenging the tradi- heroic leader and powerful icon in biblical history, Renaissance art and tional identity of Moses, the conquest of Canaan and the origins of the literature. This biography portrays a very different man. McKenzie’s David Jewish religion, this is controversial stuff. Much more than a piece of usurped the throne and ruled ruthlessly in an atmosphere of terror. Writ- ‘detective history’ this book is a detailed and probing account of the ten from a strict historical approach, McKenzie uses the Bible as his pri- disocvery of Tutankhamun’s tomb and the conspiracy that surrounded it. mary source. with additional archaeological and epigraphic evidence about 338p, 49 b/w pls, 24 figs (Virgin Books 2002) Hb £20.00 the activities of Middle Eastern kings. to examine why David king became Exodus: the Egyptian Evidence such a popular figure. 232p, 10 b/w figs (Oxford UP 2000) Hb £17.99 edited by Ernest S Frerichs and Leonard H Lesko. Six papers from a con- Power and Place: Temple and Identity in Book of Revelation ference held at Brown University in 1992 concerned with the Egyptian by Gregory Stevenson. ‘No physical structure in antiquity held more sig- evidence for the Exodus, something often overlooked in Israelite-centred nificance as a place of access to deity than a temple’. Stevenson’s study approaches. Contents: The Exodus: Egyptian analogies (A Malamat); explores Jewish thought and tradition and the inter-mingling of Greco- Merenptah’s Canaanite campaign and Israel’s origins (F J Yurco); Observa- Roman and Jewish culture based on an analysis of symbolism in the Book tions on the Sojourn of the Bene-Israel (D B Redford); Is there any archaeo- of Revelation. Written in the latter half of the first century, the Book of logical evidence for the Exodus (W G Dever); Exodus and archaeological Revelation was written for Christians living in the culturally diverse area reality (J Weinstein); Summary and conclusions (W A Ward). 112p, b/w figs of western Asia Minor. Since Early Christianity in the ancient Mediterra- and pls (Eisenbrauns 1997) Hb £18.50 nean was devoid of temple buildings, Stevenson questions why temples The Lost Tribes of Israel: The History of a Myth appear in Revelation, what they symbolise and whether this is representa- by Tudor Parfitt. The fate of the ‘Lost Tribes of Israel’ has occupied the tive of ideas of symbolism in the contemporary world. 368p (Beihefte zur minds of scholars fror many years, with claims of descendancy still being Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 107, de Gruyter 2001) Hb £75.50 held by many groups across the world. Tudor Parfitt not only explores The Holy Land, Holy Lands and Christian History these modern-day claims, based on his travels throughout Africa, India and edited by R N Swanson. Twenty-five papers from the 1998 and 1999 the United States, but goes back to the beginning and explores the origins meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society examine the part played by of the tribes and what happened to them. Said to be descended from one the Holy Land in the history, theology and culture of Christianity. Begin- of the twelve sons of Jacob, with Israel being divided among them, ten of ning in the 4th century, the papers show how increasing prosperity and a the tribes established an indipendent kingdom in the north, later being greater reliance on holy places led to the creation of a large number of ethnically cleansed by the Assyrians. This book investigates their fate, the churches and monasteries. Contributors trace the fortune of such places myths that grew up around them and the influence of this myth on more through the Arab Conquest and the Crusades to the present day. 397p, b/ recent colonialism. 277p (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2002) Hb £18.99 w figs (Studies in Church History 36, Boydell and Brewer 2000) Hb £40.00 The Israelites Taboo or Not Taboo: Sexuality and Family in the Hebrew Bible by B S J Isserlin. Our image of ancient Israel cannot escape the influence by Ilona N Rashkow. It is perhaps surprising to discover that the Bible does of biblical tales, but how far is the story we read in the Bible reflected in not offer a single positive family role model. This highly readable and the archaeological record? In this detailed survey of six centuries of mate- scholarly study subjects all types of Biblical family relationships to modern rial and historical evidence, the author looks at social structure, towns and psychoanalytical literary analysis. Approaching the Bible as if it were pure villages, agriculture, trade and industry, warfare, language, religion and art, literature, Rashkow uncovers families racked by parent-child and sibling in an attempt to discover the truth about the Israelites. 304p, 85 b/w pls, rivalry taken to extremes of violence, incest and repressed wives and 74 figs (Thames & Hudson 1998) Hb £28.00 mothers. 195p (Augsburg Fortress 2000) Pb £18.50 King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel Dinah’s Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew by Marvin A Sweeney. Josiah of Judah (c.640-609 BC) played a vital role Bible to Late Antiquity in the development of organised Judean religion and in the history of the by Helena Zlotnick. The Hebrew Bible contains numerous references to composition of the Bible. Sweeney examines the evidence for Josiah’s and stories about the actions of women although these tales are always religious reforms, triggered by the discovery of some form of the Book of told by a third party. In this study of gender and Judaism, Zlotnick ex- Deuteronomy during his reign, and reconstructs Josiah’s enigmatic reign plores how Jewish women became associated with the forbidden, how based on a meticulous reading of biblical literature. 350p (Oxford UP foreign females were said to have greater freedom of action and word, and 2001) Hb £54.00 what the ideology of Jewish femaleness symbolised. Through discussing Zadok’s Heirs: The Role and Development of the High episodes from the Bible and other texts, we are confronted with female Priesthood in Ancient Israel characters that illustrate forms of acceptable behaviour, desirability and by Deborah W Rooke. A detailed analysis of the high priest’s role from female identity. These are discussed within a Mediterranean context, in- local chief priest in the pre-monarchic period to becoming the focus of cluding parallels from Greek and Roman sources, and address the real and religious and civil power at the time of the second Temple, following the perceived difference between Jews and Israelites. 248p (University of Penn- collapse of the line of sacred monarchs. Rooke initially examines the sylvania 2002) Hb £38.50, Pb £14.00 Priestly writings of the Old Testament which define the model of high The Man Jesus: Fact and Legend priesthood. Succeeding chapters discuss how the office adapted and evolved by Michael McCrum. McCrum attempts to provide as full a biography as during the Exile, the Persian period, Alexander’s conquest of Palestine, possible about Jesus based on Christian and non-Christian historical sources, culminating with Roman occupation and the destruction of the Temple. and succinctly presents the few ‘facts’ that can be extracted from the The analysis is supported by short extracts of Hebrew and Greek with traditional story of Jesus’ life, from his birth, to his exile in Egypt, his English translations. 386p (Oxford UP 2000) Hb £60.00 arrest and execution. 145p (Janus 1999) Pb £8.95 42 THE BIBLICAL WORLD

Galilee through the Centuries The Dead Sea Scrolls Fifty Years After Their Discovery, 1947-1997 edited by Eric M Meyers. A collection of informative papers from the edited by Lawrence H Schiffman, Emanuel Tov and James C VanderKam. Second International Conference on Galilee in Antiquity held at Duke The proceedings from the 1997 Jerusalem Congress, includes almost 100 University and at North Carolina Museum of Art in 1997. The 22 papers contributions which evaluate and update research on the literary, linguis- are arranged in chronological order and are primarily based on a reconsid- tic, biblical and historical aspects of specific Qumran texts and of the ering of the evidence from past excavations and from more recent work, Dead Sea Scrolls as a whole. The articles reflect the wide variety of literary especially at Sepphoris. The study begins with an examination of the first genres, languages, doctrines and concepts that are represented in the Scrolls rural communities in the region, focusing on the village of Tell ‘Ein Zippori and include the results of recent technological and scientific examinations. which was settled around the 10th century BC, but the book’s focus is on 970p (Israel Exploration Society 2000) Hb £97.50 the Roman and early medieval and Byzantine period. Many of the papers The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible consider the relationship between Jews and Christians in the post-Roman by Eugene Ulrich. A series of essays by Ulrich focusing on different aspects period and the advent of Islam and focus on the tension between archaeo- of the history of this Biblical text. The 14 chapters look at the Hebrew, logical and literary evidence and the interaction of Judaism and Christian- Greek and Old Latin texts, dealing with specific detail as well as the larger ity. 429p, b/w figs (Eisenbrauns 1999) Hb £32.95 picture. 309p (Wm B Eerdmans/Brill 1999) Pb £19.50 On the Way to Nineveh: Studies in Honour of George M Landes A Day at Qumran: The Dead Sea Sect and Its Scrolls edited by Stephen L Cook and S C Winter. A tribute to Dr George M edited by Adolfo Roitaman. Interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls has tended to Landes on the occasion of his retirement as professor of Hebrew Bible focus on the spiritual lives of the Essene community at Qumran. This Studies at Union Seminary and as Secretary of the American Schools of study reconstructs the everyday life of this desert sect, investigating the Oriental Research. Contributions aim to address the role of philology and concept of time, the use of shelter, prayer, livelihood, purity, the commu- archaeology in biblical studies, and include: Ruth Revisited (Edward F nal meal, study and writing and Evenings and the Sabbath. 77p, col and b/ Campbell, Jr); Holy War Ideology and the Rapid Shift of Mood in Psalm 3 w illus (with a 66p Hebrew section) (Israel Museum 1997) Pb £17.50 (Ee Kon Kim); No Small Thing: The “Overturning” of Nineveh in the Third Chapter of Jonah (Johanna W H van Wijk-Bos) and The Problem of Human Historical Perspectives: From the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba Sacrifice in War: An Analysis of Judges 11 (Naomi Steinberg). 353p (ASOR in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls 1999) Pb £35.00 edited by David Goodblatt, Avital Pinnick and Daniel R Schwartz. Twelve The Bible in the British Museum papers, from the Fourth Orion International Symposium held in Jerusalem by T C Mitchell. Sixty objects illustrating aspects of the ‘Near Eastern in 1999, focus on Jewish history from the perspective of the Dead Sea character of the Bible’ are discussed and illustrated. Most relate to the Old Scrolls. The papers examine specific historical events, including contrast- Testament, and are discussed and explained within the context of the ing accounts of the destruction of the Temple, the representation of the people and stories in the bible. 112p, 65 illus with maps and charts (BMP Jewish community in the Scrolls and scientific analyses of DNA preserved 1988, rep 2000) Pb £9.99 in the Scroll leather, the stitching and associated pottery. 201p (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah XXXVII, Brill 2001) Hb £42.50 The Messiah Before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Dead Sea Scrolls Sea Scrolls The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Israel Knohl. Did Jesus regard himself as the Messiah? Knohl argues by Philip R Davies, George J Brooke and Phillip R Callaway. Discovered that he did, largely because of another messianic leader who had lived a in 1947 in the Judaean Desert, the Dead Sea Scrolls have stimulated a huge generation earlier, described in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is this evidence that amount of discussion and debate concerning the origins of Judaism and occupies the main part of the book, and Knohl claims that this is the early Christianity. Although they have been published in ‘dribs and drabs’ missing link in our understanding of the way in which Christianity emerged over the years, this is the first, fully illustrated, lucid and informative from Judaism and provides insights into the history of Jewish Messianism. survey of the entire series of scrolls found to date. Outlining the historical 145p, 12 b/w figs (University of California 2000, Pb 2002) Pb £9.95 and religious background of the scrolls, the authors address the major The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins questions of the authorship, origins, religious symbolism and meaning of by Joseph A Fitzmyer. A collection of twelve studies that examine what this corpus of more than 800 documents. Clear, well-written and authori- the Scrolls reveal about the Qumran community, the interpretation of tative. 216p, 216 illus (84 in col) (Thames and Hudson 2002) Hb £24.95 significant biblical themes and the rise of early Christianity. The first two An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls papers explore the reliability of the Scrolls as a source of Palestinian early by Geza Vermes. First published in 1977, revised in 1994 and in 2000, this Christianity and subsequent essays analyse in detail specific Qumran texts remains one of the best introductions to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Geza and question modern readings and interpretations. The articles include Vermes outlines the position of current opinions and research on the extracts in Hebrew with English translation. A thorough assessment which scrolls, the authenticity and dating of them, the nature of the Qumran aims to make current research on the Dead Sea Scrolls available to a Library and the identification, history and religion of the community to general readership. 290p (Eerdmans 2000) Pb £16.99 which the texts refer. 256p (Augsburg Fortress 2000) Pb £18.00 On Scrolls, Artefacts and Intellectual Property Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls edited by H Lim, Hector L MacQueen and Calum M Carmichael. Thirteen by Jonathan Campbell. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has had a papers, some of which were papers given at a symposium held in Edinburgh major impact on our understanding of the Bible, of Judaism and the rise in 1999, on the subject of copyright law as it relates to archaeologists, of Christianity. This book provides a good introduction for students and editors and curators. Do these people ‘own’ the texts they discover? Are the general reader to the discovery of the manuscripts, the Essene commu- they legally entitled to transcribe, translate and edit these texts as they see nity linked to the Qumran scrolls, and the debate surrounding their inter- fit? These papers discuss the main principles of property and copyright pretation and significance. This second edition contains a new chapter on laws and many take the Dead Sea Scrolls as a case study. 269p (Journal for the the identity of the Essene community, an updated text, footnotes and Study of Pseudepigrapha Suppl Series 38, Sheffield AP 2001) Hb £50.00 bibliography. 224p, 6 b/w pls, 4 maps, 1 fig (Fontana 1996, Blackwell 2nd edn The Copper Scroll 2002) Hb 50.00, Pb £12.99 translated by Al Wolters. A summary of the contents of Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls perhaps the most unusual of the Dead Sea Scrolls, pub- by Lawrence Schiffman and James VanderKam. ‘Unparalleled in scope and lished to mark the fortieth anniversary of the completion detail’, the ultimate, comprehensive reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls. of the scroll’s opening in Manchester. 55p, 4 col pls (Sheffield This A-Z encyclopedia centers on the Qumran scrolls, but also includes all AP 1998) Pb £5.95 the other Judean desert texts found between the 4th century BC and 7th Diggers At the Well century AD. The entries present up-to-date evidence collected over the edited by T Muraoka and J F Elwolde. Twenty papers taken past 50 years or so and scholarship on the scrolls which discuss their from the Proceedings of a Third Symposium on the Hebrew of the discovery, context, content and their contribution to biblical scholarship. Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira held at the Ben-Gurion Univer- The entries are well written and contain much cross-referencing, further sity in Beer-Sheva in 1999. The papers present current re- reading; a topical index and outline of contents. 2 Vols: 1132p (Oxford UP search on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the nature of the Qumran 2000) Hb £190.00 Hebrew and Aramaic texts. 307p (Brill 2000) Hb £60.00 43 MESOPOTAMIA

Mesopotamia and the Bible. Comparative Explorations MESOPOTAMIA edited by Mark W Chavalas and K Lawson Younger, Jr. Fourteen essays based on papers given at the Philadelphia meeting of the Near East Ar- Mesopotamia Before History chaeological Society (1995), tackle themes, people and places that are by Petr Charvát. A good introduction to the pre- and proto-history of mentioned in the Bible within a Near Eastern context, rather than forming Mesopotamia which includes finds from recent archaeological investiga- a straightforward overview of Mesoptamian history. The essays advocate a tions. Charvát deals with the period c.100,000 to 2334 BC; each chapter comparative and contextual approach and draw on a wide range of literary is arranged chronologically and begins with a description of some of the sources and archaeological material. 395p (Sheffield AP 2002) Hb £55.00 major sites, followed by an interpretation of the economy, social and The Mechanics of Empire: The Northern Frontier of Assyria spiritual life, and concludes with a round-up of the major developments as a Case study in Imperial Dynamics during each period of history. 281p, 69 b/w figs, 44 b/w pls, 3 maps (Routledge by Bradley J Parker. At its height, the Assyrian Empire was the dominant 2002) Hb £60.00 force in the Near East, bringing with it a new level of political develop- Mesopotamia ment and empire-building. This study assesses the background to Assyria’s by Julian Reade. A concise, yet thorough study of early Mesopotamia power, the political, social and economic factors that led to its rise, their before c.1500 BC. The history of this area of modern-day Syria and Iraq policies of imperialism and colonialism and their attitude towards periph- and the people that inhabited it are discussed alongside some wonderful eral and frontier regions. Parker outlines the methodology of his approach photographs of objects from the British Museum collection. Reade dis- and the sources used, primarily archaeological evidence from excavations cusses the role of Mesopotamia as a leading centre for literacy, spear- and survey data from the Upper Tigris River, as well as textual material. heading innovation and change in the 3rd-2nd millennium BC, the ar- 348p, b/w figs, maps (The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project 2001) Pb £54.50 chaeological and textual evidence for early agriculture, the development The Construction of the Assyrian Empire of social and political complexity, the emergence of the city-states and by Shigeo Yamada. When Shalmaneser III came to power in 859 BC, not later empires. 96p, 96 col pls (BMP 1991, 2nd edn 2000) Pb £8.99 content to consolidate the Assyrian empire as it was, he embarked on an Ancient Mesopotamia ambitious policy of expansion. Motivated largely by economic interests, by Susan Pollock. Pollock’s account provides a general and wide-ranging his campaigns brought him booty and tribute as well as extending his look at ancient Mesopotamia, c.5000-2100BC. Explicitly anthropological power. Yamada looks at the inscriptions relating to these campaigns, fo- in its approach, the book is a response to the uneveness of investigations cusing on historical, political, economic and ideological aspects, as well as in Mesopotamian archaeology and history in general. Pollock explores the their date and structure. 449p (Brill 2000) Hb £74.50 cultural and social responses to political, economic and ideological change, Of Pots and Plans interpretations based on a study of regional settlement patterns, faunal edited by Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, John Curtis, Augusta McMahon, Harriet remains, artefact distributions, iconography, texts and burials. 259p, b/w Martin, Joan Oates and Julian Reade. These thirty-seven papers on the figs (Cambridge UP 1999) Hb £35.00, Pb £11.95 archaeology and history of Mesopotamia and Syria are presented to David The Babylonians: An Introduction Oates in honour of his 75th birthday. The papers, primarily in English, by Gwendolyn Leick. The city of Babylon has had much bad press through- look at different aspects of the art, architecture, literature, politics, reli- out its history and has always been perceived as the archetypal city repre- gion, tombs and artefacts and include such papers as: More about the senting the Mesopotamian civilisation. Recent archaeological investiga- hanging gardens (Stephanie Dalley); Reflections on Balawat (John Curtis); tions and especially the translation of cuneiform scripts, has allowed us to Seven shrines of Subartu (Roger Matthews); Third-millennium ‘Cycladic’ reassess the city and its inhabitants. This book serves as a good introduc- stone figurines in Northern Mesopotamia (P R S Moorey). 401p, many b/w tion to, and survey of, the geography, history, culture, religion and the figs and pls (Nabu 2002) Hb £48.00 people of ancient Mesopotamia. 182p, 13 b/w figs (Routledge 2003) Pb £12.99 Babylonians Society by H W F Saggs. The people of ancient Mesopotamia who settled in the Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia ‘fertile crescent’ between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the 4th by Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat. A readable synthesis of life in Mesopotamia millennium BC are said to have laid the foundations of Western civilisation. from 3100 BC to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC. A historical overview is This book describes the ebb and flow in the successive fortunes of the followed by an account ranging through culture, society, education, reli- Sumerians, Akkadians, Amorites and Babylonians. Using evidence from gion, law and government. A valuable introduction for anyone relatively pottery, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, architecture and metallurgy, Saggs new to the subject. 346p (Greenwood 1998, Pb 2002) Hb £47.95, Pb £17.99 illuminates the myths, religion, languages, trade, politics and warfare of the Babylonians and their predecessors. 192p, 83 illus & 12 col pls (Peoples Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia of the Past, BMP 1995, new edn 2000) Pb £12.99 by Jean Bottéro, translated by Antonia Nevill. A series of 15 studies taken from the French journal L’Histoire each of which tackles a particular Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbours subject within the society and culture of Ancient Mesopotamia: Origins; edited by Mitchell S Rothman. Ten in-depth essays providing overviews everyday life; myth and legend. 276p (French edn 1992, Engl edn Edinburgh and general syntheses of material for Mesopotamia from the late 5th to UP 2001) Hb £45.00, Pb £16.95 4th millennium BC. The 11 contributors present new data and fresh inter- pretations of the archaeological evidence, on subjects including chronol- Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in ogy, regional interactions, expansion, local cultures and politics. 556p, b/w Mesopotamia figs (School of American Research & James Currey 2001) Hb £45.00, Pb £16.95 by Zainab Bahrani. This historical and art-historical study of gender and The Uruk Phenomenon: The role of social ideology in the femininity is applied to ancient Assyro-Babylonian society. Beginning with expansion of the Uruk culture during the fourth millennium BC an exploration of current feminist theoretical debates, Zainab Bahrani by Paul Collins. Based on his doctoral dissertation, goes on to discuss the representation of sexuality and sexual difference Collins rejects the theory that the Uruk world grew through visual imagery and the perceptions of women as ‘the projection out of the southern Mesopotamian domination of of cultural fantasies’. The revival of Babylonian female imagery in 19th- long-distance exchange networks, and in- century visual arts is also discussed. 212p, 44 b/w pls (Routledge 2001) Hb stead looks at the importance of the de- £45.00 velopment of a common ideology, one Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean Setting which emphasised a contrast between the by M Stol. The act of childbirth and all that preceded and succeeded it are extreme order of urban agricultural life and recorded in Babylonian texts, albeit often in fragmentary form. Stol pieces the chaos of the natural world. Despite his together disparate evidence in this comprehensive study of the whole intention to highlight shared ideas and beliefs, process of childbirth from conception and embryology, to pregnancy, Collins presents the archaeological material prognostics, birth, the appearance of the baby, midwifery and nursing and in a standard format, divided into discrete worries after the baby is born. Rewritten and translated from the Dutch categories, site by site, region by region, fact edition (published 1983), Stol explores the facts and de-codes the euphe- by fact. 97p, 31 b/w figs, 4 tbs (BAR S900 misms of the production of offspring. 276p, b/w figs and pls (Styx 2000) Hb 2000) Pb £27.00 £42.50 44 MESOPOTAMIA

Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia. Specialised History Economy and the Social Uses of Goods in an Early Complex by J N Postgate. Mesopotamia’s rich archaeological and documentary Society records form the basis for this general introduction archaeology students. by Patricia Wattenmaker. Drawing on evidence from the town site of After setting the scene on the land and the archaeological evidence, the Kurban Höyük, dating to the third millennium BC, Patricia Wattenmaker book falls into three sections: institutions (towns and countryside, family, examines the relationship between increasing craft specialisation and the palace, temple); economic order (crops, livestock, water and land, domes- development of urbanism. This study also looks at the sorts of items tic economy, foreign trade); social order (craft and labour, war and peace, which involved specialised production and suggests that utility items such religion, politics, law and order). Cuneiform texts from tablets (in transla- as pottery and textiles, carried social markers which communicated ethnic, tion) and evidence from objects and excavations are illustrated through- or other, allegiances. 260p, 39 illus, 31 tbs (Smithsonian 1998) Hb £40.95 out. 367p, 141 texts, 106 figs (Routledge 1992, Pb 1994) Pb £23.99 Uruk: Die Architektur IV; Von der Seleukiden- bis zur Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Sasanidenzeit Archaeological Evidence by Arno Kose. This volume describes the architecture of the city of Uruk, by P R S Moorey. An excellent reprint of this highly informative book on starting with a description of its history from the late Achaemenid until the materials, crafts and technologies of Ancient Mesopotamia. This is the the Sasanid period and of the inscriptions. It systematically documents first systematic survey of the archaeological evidence for the crafts and buildings and other finds that help date its different phases. Contains craftmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians covering the appendices with find lists, measurements, stratigraphical units, many pho- period from c.8000-300 BC. Moorey reviews the textual evidence before tographs and maps. 661p, 276 figs, 179 pls, 96 loose inlets (Deutsch Arch Inst examining in detail the archaeological evidence for a wide range of crafts Orient-Abt. 17, Von Zabern 1998) Hb £145.00 including stonewroking, bone, ivory and shell, ceramics, glassworking, met- alworking and the building industry. An important reference work for Städtische Wohnarchitektur in Babylonien und Assyrien those studying ancient crafts and technology and the ancient Near East. by Peter A Miglus. Study of the architecture of the domestic housing in 414p, 24 figs, 8 pls (Oxford UP 1994, rep Eisenbrauns 1999) Hb £59.50 Mesopotamia from the beginning of the 2nd to mid-1st millennium BC. Special attention is given to the changes and development of the houses ‘Greeks’ and ‘Greece’ in Mesopotamian and Persian Perspectives during that period and regional differences. 355p, 113 b/w pls (Baghdader by Amélie Kuhrt. In this lecture, delivered at New College, Oxford in Forschungen 22, Von Zabern 1999) Hb £74.00 2001, Kuhrt considers the question of perceptions: the problems inherent in trying to define what the people of the ‘east’ may have thought about Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 BC Greeks at different periods in history. She focuses on the period between by Eleanor Robson. ‘Throughout the third millennium, counting and mea- the 8th and the 3rd centuries BC, when the ‘known world’ was dominated, suring systems were gradually revised in response to the demands of successively, by the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid Persian large-scale bureaucracies. This development led in the end to the sexageismal, and Hellenistic Macedonian empires, outlining the political changes in or base 60, place value system (from which the modern system of counting these empires, and the evidence for Greek social and political interactions hours, minutes and seconds is ultimately derived).’ This book, subtitled within them. The evidence is made up of allusions in formal, public royal ‘Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education’, provides a detailed proclamations, references in chronicles, king-lists, diaries and scholarly and technical study of a small group of texts (the ‘coefficient lists’) and texts and administrative documents. 32p, 6 b/w figs (The Twenty-first J. L. then uses this information to explore 3rd and 2nd millennium BC math- Myres Memorial Lecture, Leopard’s Head 2002) Pb £5.00 ematics in Mesopotamia. 334p, b/w figs and tbs (Clarendon 1999) Pb £63.00 The Halaf Period in Northern Mesopotamia Settlement and Architecture by Ismail Hijjara. A discussion of the early Chalcolithic Halaf culture originating in northern Mesopotamia. This book discusses Halaf culture The Ancient Mesopotamian City sites and examines patterns of settlement, the population, and the history by Marc Van de Mieroop. The author examines Mesopotamian urban life of the site at Arpachiyah, as well as the salient features of Halaf architec- investigating topography, the role of cities as centres of culture, their ture and pottery. 159p, 94 pls, 101 figs and 11 tbs (NABU 1997) Pb £57.50 political and social structures, economy, literature and art. He draws on Architecture and Linear Measurement during the Ubaid Period material from 3000 to 300 BC, both from Babylonia and Assyria, arguing that the Mesopotamian city can be regarded as prototype inspiring the rest in Mesopotamia of the ancient world. 300p, 18 figs (Oxford UP 1997, Pb 1999) Pb £18.99 by S A A Kubba. A comprehensive survey of Ubaid architecture, with special focus on the later material. It includes a detailed catalogue of Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies Ubaid sites and analysis of the building materials and methods used in their edited by Linda Manzanilla. Includes ten studies of the factors affecting construction, architectural and structural elements. 370p, 271 figs (BAR the emergence and development of early urban societies in 4th millennium S707, 1998) Pb £48.00 Mesopotamia and Egypt, pre-Shang China and south America. Using ar- chaeological examples to inform theoretical frameworks, they examine the Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City influence of central storage facilities, distribution networks, political, mili- by Gwendolyn Leick. By the mid-1st millennium Babylon was the world’s tary and religious control. Useful in their own right and as comparative largest and only metropolis. Leick asks why the concept of urbanism studies. 316p, figs (Plenum 1997) Hb £49.50 developed first in Mesopotamia and what form it took. She attempts to answer this question through exploring the history and development of L’espace domestique en Mésopotamie de la IIIe dynastie d’Ur ten cities and their inhabitants: Eridu, Uruk, Shuruppak, Akkad, Nippur, à l’époque paléo-babylonienne Sippar, Ashur, Nineveh and Babylon. Full of detail on life in the city state, by Laura Battini-Villard. This study aims to form a better understanding she weaves information from literary sources, myths, artistic and archaeo- of Old-Babylonian houses, both as buildings and as socio-economic and logical evidence. 360p, 42 b/w pls (Penguin 2002) Pb £8.99 anthropological spaces. A sample of 131 houses are analysed for their different construction types, their use of space and what this tells us about Religion, Myth and Thought the status, size or function of these houses and the nature of the family occupying them. 2 vols: 580p, 379 b/w figs (BAR S767, 1999) Pb £84.00 Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia Urbanism in Antiquity: From Mesopotamia to Crete by Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. A well-written guide edited by Walter E Aufrecht, Neil A Mirau and Steven W Gauley. Papers to Mesopotamian religion by one of the world’s foremost Assyriologists. from a conference held at Lethbridge, Canada, in 1996. Contents include: Bottéro studies the public and private relationships between the people Spatial perspectives on early urban development in Mesopotamia (E B and the divine, their cosmology, hymns and prayers, rituals, myths and Banning); Agricultural base of urbanism in the early Bronze II-III Levant magic. He discusses important sites, monuments, objects, (A Miller Rosen); Urbanization and northwest Semitic inscriptions (W E images and especially documentary evidence, in as- Aufrecht); Tell Jawa: a case study of Ammonite urbanism (P M Michèle sessing how the ancient Mesopotamians provided jus- Daviau); Archaeology, urbanism and the rise of the Israelite state (W G tification for the good and bad things that befell Dever); Ancient Egyptian ‘city’ (D B Redford); Palace-centered polities in them. First published as La religion babylonienne in eastern Crete (M Tsipopoulou). 291p, figs (Journal for the Study of the Old 1952, this edition has been revised and re-written. Testament Suppl Series 244, Sheffield AP 1997) Hb £50.00 246p (Univ of Chicago 2001) Hb £19.00 45 MESOPOTAMIA

Ritual and Cult at Ugarit Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia by Dennis Pardee. We know a great deal about Near Eastern religion and edited by Hermann Hunger. A large volume of tablets, transliterated by religious practices from the vast amount of textual material preserved, and Abraham Sachs and Hermann Hunger, of lunar and planetary information now translated. Including both poetry and prose, this study provide En- dating from the 8th to 1st century BC. The first part examines tablets glish translations of texts from Ugarit that deal with the relationship be- relating to the moon, especially eclipse reports, the second to the planets tween Ugaritians and their deities. Divided into two groups, the texts and the recurrence of astronomical phenomena. An appendix contains a address sacrifical cults (rituals, deities, divination and prayers) and ritual list of eclipse dates. 399p, 50 b/w pls (Lunar and Planetary Texts V, OAW activity other than sacrificial cults. 299p (Writings from the Ancient World, 2001) Hb £47.50 Society of Biblical Literature 10, Brill 2002) Hb £62.50 Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Vol 1: Biblical and Pagan by Hermann Hunger. This book examines the key role astronomy and Societies astrology played in the political and religious lives of the ancient Near by Marie-Louise Thomsen and Frederick H Cryer. This volume focuses on East, and later Greek and Roman worlds. The origins of the astral sci- evidence for witchcraft and magic in Ancient Mesopotamia (Thomsen) and ences, textual evidence, including many tablets, and the history of discov- Syria-Palestine and the Old Testament (Cryer). Throughout the book the ery, reconstruction and interpretation, are discussed. A true reference work, authors wrestle with the issue of defining ‘magic’ and how or whether it arranged both chronologically and thematically. 303p (Brill 1999) Hb £61.00 can be separated from ‘ritual’ practices. Based purely on written sources, Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography these two studies promise much but, with an eclectic mix of approaches by Wayne Horowitz. Heaven, sky, earth, water, underworld – this study and with no concluding remarks, the result is a little disappointing. 168p collates evidence from archaeological and literary texts on Mesopotamian (Athlone/Univ of Pennsylvania 2001) Hb £50.00, Pb £17.99 cosmology and ideas concerning the structure of the universe, as well as Greek Myths and Mesopotamia highlighting apparent gaps in our knowledge. Horowitz puts this evidence by Charles Penglase. This book investigates the nature and extent of into its wider context in the second half of the book as he considers the Mesopotamian influence on Greek religious mythological works of the geography of the universe as recorded in Sumerian and Akkadian texts. early archaic period, with the aim of elucidating Greek myths and the 410p, 10 b/w pls (Eisenbrauns 1998) Hb £39.95 nature of the mythology invloved. Beginning with Mesopotamian myths Untersuchungen zu den Bestattungssitten in Mesopotamien in of the goddess Inanna and her consort Dumuzi, and the heroic warrior god der ersten Hälfte des ersten Jahrtausends v. Chr. Ninurta, the author examines major Greek works in the light of central by Behzad Mofidi Nasrabadi. This publication provides an overview of Mesopotamian ideas, principally those involved in the journeys of the Mesopotamian burial rites in the 1st millennium BC, based on written and gods. 278p (Routledge 1994, Pb 1997) Pb £18.99 archaeological sources, and an insight into their religious and social con- Mesopotamian Witchcraft. Toward a history and text. 280p, 31 b/w pls (Baghdader Forschungen 23, Von Zabern 1999) Hb £48.00 understanding of Babylonian witchcraft beliefs and literature by Tzvi Abusch. The Maqlu, the longest and most important Mesopotamian Art text, was designed to counter witchcraft and comprises the script of a long ceremony where incantations were recited and rituals performed. In this Art and Empire. Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum collection of 14 previously published papers, Abusch discusses the script edited by J E Curtis and J E Reade. A re-issue of this catalogue of some of at length and places it within a literary and socio-intellectual context look- the fabulous Assyrian artefacts held by the British Museum, including ing more broadly at Mesopotamian belief systems and the Maqlu ceremony illustrations and descriptions of more than 250 objects. 224p, 215 col and and ideology. 314p (Ancient Magic and Divination V, Brill 2002) Hb £58.50 33 b/w illus (BMP 2000) Pb £20.00 Pazuzu: Archäologische und Philologische Studien zu einem The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient Altaorientalischen Dämon by Henri Frankfort. A guide to the development of Mesopotamian art by Nils P Heeßel. An archaeological and philological investigation of the from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and neo-Babylonian periods, Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu, a human figure with a monster’s head who which also covers the art of the Hittites, the Aramaeans and Phoenicians was invoked for protection against evil and disease. Originally a thesis, in Syria, and Ancient Persia. This edition includes extra notes and an much of the study comprises an illustrated catalogue of 164 figurines and updated bibliography. 483p, 446 illus (Yale UP 5th edn 1996) Pb £18.95 other objects that depict the demon. Heeßel also discusses the iconography Vorderasiatische Wagentypen im Spiegel der Terracottaplastik associated with Pazuzu, the epigraphic evidence for the cult, and artistic bis zur Altbabylonischen Zeit and religious variations across the Near East. Includes a catalogue of by Jutta Bollweg. This detailed thesis presents a typology and catalogue of inscriptions. 253p, 65 b/w pls (AMID IV, Brill 2002) Hb £78.50 ancient Near Eastern wagons, carts and chariots as represented in terracotta The Induction of the Cult Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: sculptures and friezes produced in Mesopotamia and Syria between the The Mesopotamian Mis Pi Ritual Early Dynastic and Old Babylonian periods. Much of the book comprises by Christopher Walker and Michael Dick. The Mis Pi ritual involves the an illustrated catalogue of over 100 representations. 206p, b/w pls and illus washing of the mouth of the temple statue, one of the most sacred and (OBO 167, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2000) Hb £35.50 secret rituals in Mesopotamian religious practices. This ritual is preserved Catalogue of Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: in a number of tablets which are given here in transliteration and tran- Cylinder Seals V: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods scription, plus a number of Sumerian and Babylonian incantations (in by Dominique Collon. The fifth volume in this series of Syrian, Neo- transliteration only) that accompany it. An introduction explores the back- Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Urartian seals held by the British Museum. ground to the ritual, its growth and development, and discusses the date In this volume more than 400 seals from the first half of the first millen- and sources of the texts that refer to it. 267p, 8 b/w pls (State Archives of nium BC are catalogued along with an analysis and discussion of the Assyria Lit. Texts Vol I, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project 2001) Hb £72.50 materials. 204p, 48 b/w pls (BMP 2001) Hb £90.00 Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in by David Brown. A challenging study of the British Museum Mesopotamian cuneiform texts, both by J B Segal. Incantation bowls were designed to protect the user from evil divinatory and mathematical, which pro- spirits and some even contained crude pictorial representations of de- vide insights into the existence and pre- mons. This catalogue contains photographs of 142 bowls or fragments and diction of celestial phenomena. Dating transliterations, translations and commentary on the scripts within 120 largely from the 8th and 7th centuries examples. The bowls largely date between 6th and 8th centuries AD and BC, these texts are studied in their his- come from Mesopotamia. 239p, 159 b/w pls (BMP 2000) Hb £95.00 torical context and both specific and gen- eral aspects of their contents are brought Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur to light. David Brown concludes by de- edited by Richard L Zettler and Lee Horne. Accompanying an exhibition vising a new scheme for Mesopotamian of treasures from the Royal tombs at Ur, this book outlines the back- planetary astronomy-astrology. 322p, tbs ground to Leonard Woolley’s excavations and to Early Dynastic (Styx 2000) Hb £65.50 Mesopotamia, followed by an illustrated catalogue of 157 objects from the exhibition. 195p, col pls (Univ of Pennsylvania 1998) Hb £35.00, Pb £28.00 46 MESOPOTAMIA

The “Ur-Nammu” Stela Mesopotamian dimatu of the Second Millennium BC by Jeanny Vorys Canby. A short monograph presenting the history of the by Rafal Kolinski. The meaning of dimatu, which appears in cuneiform decision to dismantle and reconstruct the “Ur-Nammu” Stela, an elaborate texts of the 2nd millennium BC, is uncertain: from a type of structure, stone monument found in many pieces by Leonard Woolley at Ur. Canby settlement, or administrative district, to a taxation unit or extended family describes the scenes on each register of the stela, discusses its artistic merit, commune. This study reassesses textual evidence from Mesopotamia, Syria, and presents an illustrated catalogue of all the fragments included in the and Elam to present a new interpretation of the meaning of dimatu. 228p, new restoration. 58p, 64 b/w pls (Univ Museum Mono 110, Univ of Pennsylva- 7 b/w figs, 12 tbs (BAR S1004, Archaeopress 2001) Pb £37.00 nia Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 2001) Hb £39.95 Legal and Administrative Texts from the Reign of Nabonidus Politics, Religion, and Cylinder Seals: A study of by Paul-Alain Beaulieu. A catalogue of previously unpublished texts be- Mesopotamian Symbolism in the Second Millennium BC longing to the reign of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus (556-539 by J Nijhowne. Drawing on hundreds of published cylinder seals from the BC). Includes legal and administrative texts and letters from Uruk, Larsa, Near East, Nijhowne investigates the relationship between seal iconogra- Nippur, Borsippa and other sites. 79p, 128 figs (Yale UP 2000) Hb £45.00 phy and the political and religious developments of the Old Babylonian Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal and Kasite periods. 126p, many b/w figs (BAR S772, 1999) Pb £37.00 by Steven M Cole and Peter Machinist. Tansliterations and translations of more than 200 letters to the Assyrian Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal Language and Literature reporting on matters concerning temples and cultic issues, in the 7th- Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History century BC. Includes a glossary, index of names and subjects. 221p (State by Marc van de Mieroop. A challenging introduction to the oldest writing Archives of Assyria 13, Helsinki UP 1998) Hb £44.95 tradition, the cuneiform texts of Mesopotamia. The author explores how Reading Sumerian Poetry these can be used for studying aspects of history, political, social, eco- by Jeremy Black. This study and literary critique focuses on the Sumerian nomic and gender issues. Includes extracts from the texts and a full com- poem Lugalbanda, the story of the hero Lugalbanda’s encounter with a mentary. 196p, 6 b/w pls (Routledge 1999) Hb £50.00, Pb £14.99 monstrous bird. 205p (Athlone 1998) Hb £50.00 Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in the Birmingham Museum Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian by J Watson. Vol 1: Neo-Sumerian Texts from Drehem. 112p, 42 pls High Priestess Enheduanna (Aris & Phillips 1986) Pb £16.50; Vol 2: Neo-Sumerian Texts mainly by Betty de Shong Meador. A translation of three devotional poems by from Umma. 272p, 135 pls (Aris & Phillips 1993) Pb £16.50; Vol 3: Enheduanna, high-priestess to the moon god ata temple in Ur in c.2300BC, Texts of the Old Akkadian, Old Babylonian and neo-Babylonian to the goddess Inanna. The texts are accompanied by an extensive com- periods. c.200p, illus (Aris & Phillips in preparation) price to be announced mentary and discussion that looks at Sumerian culture and religion and, in Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud 5: The Nimrud Letters, 1952 particular, the place of women in Near Eastern society and religion. 225p, edited by Henry W F Saggs. In 1952 Max Mallowan excavated an archive 23 b/w illus (Texas UP 2000) Hb £28.50, Pb £19.95 room at Nimrud that contained royal correspondence from the reigns of Etana Epic Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II of Assyria. This report publishes 243 texts by Jamie R Novotny. The Etana Epic is the story of an eagle, a serpent and in New Assyrian script and in New Babylonian with transliterations, trans- Etana, a king of Kis, composed at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. This lation and notes. Subjects include Assyrian military activities, royal build- volume comprises a reconstruction of the standard Babylonian recension ing projects, and relations with King Midas of Phrygia. 327p, 64 b/w pls of the epic; a modern transcription, a brief introduction, select bibliogra- (Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud V, BSAI 2001) Hb £40.00 phy, a list of manuscripts and a computer-generated text in the Neo- Other volumes available: Vol 1: The Nimrud Wine Lists by J V Kinnier- Assyrian script without translation. 62p (State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Wilson. 167p, pls (BSAI 1972) Hb £18.00; Vol 2: The Governor’s Palace Texts Vol II, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project 2001) Pb £25.50 Archive by J N Postgate. 283p, pls (BSAI 1973) Hb £18.00; Vol 3: The Tablets from Fort Shalmaneser by S Dalley and J N Postgate. 289p, pls The Standard Babylonian Epic of Anzu (BSAI 1984) Hb £30.00; Vol 4: Literary Texts from Temple of Nabû by Amar Annus. A composite edition of the Epic of Anzu, presented both by D J Wiseman and J A Black. 72p, 144 pls of Cuneiform & 13 b/w pls in cuneiform text and in transliteration, and accompanied by a glossary of (BSAI 1996) Hb £45.00 *** 5 volume set £125.00 *** words and their meanings, a glossary of names, and a sign list. An introduc- tory chapter discusses some relevant issues of Mesopotamian literature, Proto-Cuneiform Texts from Diverse Collections including the Anzu Epic in the context of Sumerian mythology, references by Robert K Englund. Proto-Cuneiform tablets have been circulating on to the epic in Assyrian royal inscriptions, various interpretations of the the antiquities market for many years. This book contains commentaries myth, and its political importance. 61p (State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform on texts collected on the antiquities market, and includes 41 plates of the Texts Vol III, The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project 2001) Pb £19.95 texts and seal impressions, and 5 plates of tablet photographs. 110p, b/w illus (Mann, 1996) Hb £33.50 The Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George. A comprehensive study of the epic of Gilgamesh, A Basic Grammar of the Ugaritic Language including a new translation of the ‘standard’ Akkadian version, as well as by Stanislav Segart. First published in 1984, this revised edition of the a discussion of earlier and often fragmentary versions of the epic in the standard study guide to Ugaritic grammar contains many additions, correc- Sumerian language. 225p, b/w figs (Penguin 1999) Pb £7.99 tions, and a revised bibliography. It assumes some linguistic skills. 224p (Univ of California 1998) Hb £40.00 Hymnen und Klagelieder in sumerischer Sprache by W H Ph Römer. Transcriptions, with German translations and com- The Power and the Writing: The Early Scribes of Mesopotamia mentaries, of hymns and dirges written in the Sumerian language. 275p by Giuseppe Visicato. A comprehensive list of all scribes noted in admin- (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 276, Ugarit-Verlag 2001) Hb £69.50 istrative documents from Mesopotamia from the Early Dynastic to Classi- cal Sargonic period (c.3000-220 BC). Rather than merely being accoun- tants and scribes, Visicato reveals their important role within the institu- Archaeological Excavations tional and bureaucratic organisation of society. Includes scribes from Nippur, Assyria 1995: Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary Symposium Ur, Girsu, Umma, Isin, Tell al-Wilaya. 298p (CDL 2000) Hb £34.50 of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Uruk: Altbabylonische Texte aus dem Planquadrat edited by S Parpola and R M Whiting. These twenty-nine papers and lec- by Antoine Cavigneaux. An analysis of over three hundred fragments of tures from a conference in Helsinki in 1995, summarise the state of re- text recovered from Uruk. They include letters, seals, literature, school and search (in the mid 1990s) on ancient Assyria and suggest directions for mathematical texts. The fragments are fully catalogued, illustrated and future studies. 389p, b/w pls and figs (The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project described. 215p, 333 figs, 7 pls (Von Zabern/DAI 1996) Hb £46.00 1997) Pb £54.50 Uruk: Late Babylonian Seal Impressions on Eanna-Tablets Excavations at Khirbet Khatuniyeh by Erica Ehrenberg. This large volume includes 219 seal impressions from by John Curtis and Anthony Green. A report on an important Late Assyrian the 6th century archive of the Eanna temple of Istar at Uruk, arranged site on the east bank of the Tigris excavated by the British Musem. Special- thematically, with a description and illustration. The iconography of the ist reports on the ceramics, bones and shells recovered provided clues to seals, sealing practice, and the historical context of the early 1st millen- daily life outside the Assyrian capital cities. 120p, 69p of illus and 24p of b/ nium, are also discussed. 138p, 28 b/w pls (Von Zabern 1999) Hb £36.50 w pls (BMP 1997) Pb £30.00 47 MESOPOTAMIA

The Archaeology of Elam La Djéziré et l’Euphrate syriens de la protohistoire à la fin du by D T Potts. The name Elam was given to southwestern Iran in second millénaire av. J.C. Mesopotamian sources from the mid-third millennium BC, although the by O Rouault and M Wäfler. A synthesis of the work of various research name is still attested in the medieval period. This book explores the chang- programmes conducting intensive research in northern Mesopotamia dur- ing identity of Elam through archaeological and written sources, produc- ing the 1990s. French text. 358p (Subartu 7, Brepols 2000) Pb £74.50 ing a most interesting account of an ill-explored region of western Asia. Well illustrated throughout. 490p, many b/w figs & pls, tbs (Cambridge UP Cultures locales du Moyen-Euphrate. Modèles et événements 1999) Hb £70.00, Pb £24.95 (IIer-Ier millénaires av. J.-C.) by M G Masetti-Rouault. An analysis of the organisation of local groups Luristan Excavation Documents III: Djub-I Gauhar and Gul inhabiting the Middle Euphrates region and Northern Mesopotamia. Evi- Khanan Murdah Iron Age III graveyards in the Aivan plain dence for an ancient urban culture, not belonging to either the semi- by E Haerinck and B Overlaet. A detailed report on two sites discovered nomadic Aramaic tribes nor the Assyrians, forms the main focus for this by the Belgian Archaeological Mission in the Aivan Plain, Iran (1965- study. 200p (Subartu 8, Brepols 2001) Pb £60.00 1979). Although many graves were looted and damaged, each cemetery is described separately, with drawings of the tombs and their contents. Alas, Tell Boueid II. A Late Neolithic Village on the Middle Khabur no summary and little interpretation of the wider context of the discover- (Syria) ies. 245p, 132 b/w & col pls (Acta Iranica/Peeters 1999) Hb £48.50 edited by O Nieuwenhuyse and A Suleiman. Now submerged by the Middle Vol II: Chamahzi Mumah. An Iron Age III Graveyard by E Haerinck Khabur dam, this report looks at the salvage excavation, carried out in and B Overlaet (Acta Iranica 33, 1998) £50.00 1997 and 1998, that revealed the existence of a Late Neolithic settlement. Archaeologists and other specialists present the data on architecture, small Tepe Gawra: The Evolution of a Small, Prehistoric Center in finds, ceramics, faunal remains, obsidian, seals, and material recovered Northern Iraq from two Chalcolithic pits. 220p (Subartu 11, Brepols 2002) Pb £65.00 by Mitchell S Rothman. A re-analysis of the excavated material from the site at Tepe Gawra, a small pre-urban site located in northern Mesopotamia. The British School of Archaeology in Iraq Rothman discusses the development of the site as a small town centre in the context of the broader economic and political changes that were trans- Tell Rubeidheh: An Uruk village in the Jebel Hamrin edited by R G forming greater Mesopotamia during late 5th and early 4th millennium Killick. 210p, 11 pls, 52 figs (BSAI 1989) Pb £35.00 BC. The volume contains a new catalogue of finds from Levels XII-VIII, Excavations at ‘Ana by A Northedge, A Bamber and M Roaf. 192p, 16 supplementing and amending previous publications, and offers a new strati- pls, 57 figs (1989) Pb £35.00 graphic reconstruction for Levels XII-VIII. 494p, 135 b/w figs, 32 tbs, 84 Settlement Development in the North Jazir, Iraq by T J Wilkinson b/w pls (Univ Museum Mono 112, Univ of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and D J Tucker. 240p, 81 figs, 12 pls, 3 foldouts (1995) Pb £35.00 and Anthropology 2002) Hb £57.50 The Excavations at Tell Al Rimah: The pottery by Carolyn Postgate, David Oates and Joan Oates. 276p, 101 pls, 48 figs (1998) £48.00 Subartu Ancient Settlement in the Zammar Region: Excavations in the Saddam Dam Salvage Project 1985-86 Vol 1 by Warwick Ball. 240p, The Archaeology of Upper Mesopotamia. An Analytical 60p of pls and illus (in preparation 2002) c.£48.00 Bibliography for the Pre-Classical Periods Abu Salabikh Excavations by S Anastasio. A bibliography of studies, surveys and excavation reports Vol 1: The West Mound Surface Clearance by J N Postgate. 111p, pls devoted to Upper Mesopotamia. 248p (Subartu 1, Brepol 1995) Pb £50.00 (1983) Pb £18.00 Administrative Documents from Tell Beydar (Seasons 1993-1995) Vol 2: Graves 1 to 99 by H Martin, J Moon and J N Postgate. 224p, figs, pls (1985) Pb £35.00 by F Ismail, W Sallaberger, P Talon, K Van Lerberghe. A report on the 147 189p, figs administrative tablets that have been discovered at Beydar dating to the Vol 3: Catalogue of Early Dynastic Pottery by J Moon. (1987) Pb £30.00 later 3rd millennium BC. Includes chapters on linguistics, historical evalu- 2 vols: 234p, ation, geography, metrology, calendars, names, terminology and translit- Vol 4: The 6G Ash-Tip and its Contents edited by A Green. pls (1993) Pb £60.00 *** 4 volume set only £120.00 *** erations. 287p (Subartu 2, Brepols 1997) Pb £50.00 Tell Beydar, Three Seasons of Excavations (1992-1994) Persia edited by M Lebeau and A Suleiman. A preliminary report on excavations at the site of Tell Beydar. Contributors comment on aspects of the geog- Persia and the West raphy, topography, stratigraphy, material culture, ceramics, architecture, by John Boardman. Many of the kingdoms of the Ancient World bor- and archaeology of the site. French, German and English text. 243p, 170 rowed much artistic inspiration from the Greeks and the East creating illus (Subartu 3, Brepols 1997) Pb £50.00 styles in art and architecture that are a mix of ideas and influences. This is About Subartu. Studies Devoted to Upper Mesopotamia especially true of the Persians. Here, John Boardman discusses in detail the by M Lebeau. A two-volume report summarising historical and archaeo- architecture, sculpture and monumental arts of the Persians; their experi- logical activities that have been carried out in Upper Mesopotamia. Vol- mentation, the influences of other empires and artistic styles and their ume 1 looks at landscape, archaeology and settlement, whilst volume 2 strive for individualism and the creation of a distinctly Persian style of focuses on culture, society and image. 2 vols: 550p (Subartu 4, Brepols 1998) their own. 255p, many b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2000) Hb £36.00 Pb £95.00 Ancient Persia The Early Prehistory of Mesopotamia 500,000 to 4,500 bc by Josef Wiesehöfer. Neither a historical survey of the origins and nature by Roger Matthews. An important study of the early history of of the Persian Empire, nor a blow-by-blow account of events, this study Mesopotamia based on an in-depth knowledge of recent archaeological looks at the society, culture, politics and administration, economic and finds. Roger Matthews traces the development of this area from the earli- religious life of the three main dynasties: Achaemenids, Arsacids (Parthians) est evidence for hominids, through the early Holocene, from hunters to and Sasanians. Based on primary sources, literary, archaeological and nu- farmers and to the onset of more developed, increasingly complex societ- mismatic evidence, it looks at the rise and fall of the Empire. 332p, 32 b/ ies. The geography, climate and ecology of the area sets the scene for this w pls, 6 b/w figs, maps (I B Tauris 1996, Pb 2001) Hb £35.00, Pb £12.95 discussion which makes constant reference to up-to-date archaeological From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire evidence. 149p, 32 b/w figs (Subartu 5, Brepols 2000) Pb £50.00 by Pierre Briant. Described as ‘voluminous and diverse’, this book dis- Tell Beydar, Environmental and Technical Studies cusses the history of the Persian Empire from its emergence in 550BC to edited by K van Lerberghe and G Voet. A report on technical analyses on Alexander the Great. This new English translation has not been updated material recovered from the site of Tell Beydar. Individual contributions since the French edition (1996), but it remains a detailed and informative focus on archaeozoology, physical anthropology, molecular archaeology, study of evidence relating to the Persian Empire, including recently dis- palaeometallurgy, chemical analyses of ceramics, composition of basalt, covered texts, archaeological evidence, iconographic and numismatic evi- pottery technology, animal husbandry, conservation of copper alloys, dac- dence. This book assumes some familiarity with historical and linguistic tyloscopy and sealings, numismatics, survey and environmental investiga- sources. 1196p, 7 maps, 65 b/w figs (Eisenbrauns English edn 2002) Hb tions. 232p (Subartu 6, Brepols 2001) Pb £55.00 £49.50

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ANATOLIA Neolithic On the Surface: Catalhöyük 1993-95 Recent Developments in Hittite Archaeology and History edited by Ian Hodder. After its discovery and early excavations in the edited by K Aslihan Yener and Harry A Hoffner. A collection of 18 essays 1960s, the site of Catalhöyük has remained dormant for 30 years. This in memory of Hans G Güterbock that cover a wide range of subjects volume describes the first phase of renewed archaeological research at the within Hittite archaeology and history. Subjects include: Late Bronze Age site. It reports on the work that has taken place on the surface of the east Anatolia, religion, rituals, sacred places, seals and sealings, textual material, and west mounds and surrounding regions and the material from the 1960s tombs and memorials, palaces, inscriptions, sites and the function of the excavations, which has been re-examined. The result is that new perspec- Hittite beard. 212p, b/w figs and pls (Eisenbrauns 2002) Hb £39.50 tives can be offered on the internal organisation and symbolism of a site The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Empire which is central to our understanding of the earliest development of complex socieities. 368p, 206 illus (McDonald Institute 1997) Hb £40.00 by C W Ceram. First published in English in 1956, this is a reprint of Ceram’s quest to unravel the secrets of the Hittites. Appearing in the early The Catalhöyük Flint and Obsidian Industry 2nd millennium BC, the Hittites became one of the dominant powers in by James Conolly. An analytical study of the knapped obsidian and flint the Near East, taking on the might of Egypt. Ceram looks especially at the objects from Catalhöyük, the largest known Neolithic site in Turkey. James discovery of cuneiform tablets in their capital Hattusa, and what they Conolly incorporates an analytical study with a wider social framework reveal about the social, political, economic and religious life of the Hittites. exploring technology and typological spatial and contextual patterning 281p, 48 b/w pls, many b/w figs (1956, Phoenix Pb 2001) Pb £12.99 over time. In studying this alongside the social context of production Ersetzen und Entsuhen: Das Mittelhethitische Ersatzritual für Conolly detects significant technological changes throughout the duration of the site and looks at the social and symbolic role of objects. 165p, b/w den Grosskönig Tuthalija (CTH *448.4) und Verwandte Texte figs, (BAR S787, 1999) Pb £40.00 by Piotr Taracha. This is the first full description and analysis of the Hittite purification rituals and their motifs and associated objects. Taracha pre- Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology: The Example at sents all known manuscripts with translations (in German) and transcrip- Catalhöyük tions from duplicate texts. There is also a lengthy commentary which edited by Ian Hodder and Team Members. In the early 1990s the Univer- studies the themes, deities and linguistic aspects of the texts, plus a lengthy sity of Cambridge reopened excavations at the Neolithic site of Catalhöyük glossary and indices. 307p (Brill 2000) Hb £50.00 in central Turkey, abandoned since the 1960s. In this volume, Ian Hodder µ From Nineveh to New York explains his vision of archaeological excavation, where careful examina- tion of context and an awareness of human bias allows researches exciting by John Malcolm Russell. The story of the collection, dispersal and re- new insights into prehistoric cognition. The aim of this volume is to acquisition of Austen Henry Layard’s collection of Assyrian Reliefs now discuss some of the reflexive or postprocessual methods that have been in the Metropolitan Museum, is told in this book along with previously introduced at Catalhöyük in the work there since 1993. These methods unpublished photographs, illustrations from rare 19th century sources, involve reflexivity, interactivity, multivocality and contextuality or and passages from the diary of Layard’s cousin. With an interesting discus- relationality. The methods themselves are described, as are the difficulties sion of the English reception of Ninevite art, and the Assyrian Revival, of introducing them. 300p, b/w pls (McDonald Institute 2000) Hb £40.00 the book continues with the events surrounding the rediscovery of the Nineveh Porch and the last of Layard’s sculptures sold at auction. 232p, 105 b/w & col figs (Yale UP 1997) Hb £30.00 Bronze Age The Writing on the Wall: Studies in the Architectural Context Troia: 3000 Jahre Geschichte im Modell of Late Assyrian Palace Inscriptions In addition to a 3D model of the evolution of the city of Troy, this CD- by John Malcolm Russell. The walls of the Assyrian palaces, as well as Rom contains a wealth of information about the history of Troy, including throne bases, doors, thresholds, were adorned with inscriptions which, the Trojan War, its combatants and Homer. It also contains information surrounded in mystery and esoteric knowledge of their creation and mean- about the archaeology of the site from the time of Schliemann onwards ing, dealt with a number of subjects concerned with Assyrian kings, their and looks at the great treasures that have been uncovered. CD-Rom achievements and exploits. John Russell emphasises the importance of (Geschichts Monumente, Theiss 2001) £12.50 reading and understanding these texts in their original context in his discus- Studia Troica 11 (2001) sion of the royal residence and administrative centers of the Assyrian by Martin Korfmann et al. The latest volume to report on recent excava- kings between Assurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) and Assurbanipal (668-631 tions and research at Troy begins with Korfmann’s preliminary report on BC). 348p, 114 b/w figs and pls (Eisenbrauns 1999) Hb £41.00 the 2000 excavation, in both German and English, followed by an exten- Ancient Anatolia: Fifty Years’ Work by the British Institute of sive German report on the excavation of ‘Pinnacle E4/5’ in the centre of Archaeology at Ankara the site. Other papers examine the domestic pottery assemblage from, and edited by Roger Matthews. Under the banner of the BIAA almost every two Roman wells in, the Lower City of Roman Ilion, a Greco-Persian corner of Turkey has been investigated, uncovered and published by Brit- sarcophagus, a lead medallion and a brief assessment of a geomagnetic ish archaeologists; this book is a wonderful reflection of its work. From survey in the Black Sea region. Four contributions in English. 441p, many the Neolithic site at Catalhöyük to the Tell at Beycesultan, all of the b/w illus (Von Zabern 2002) Hb £62.50 BIAA’s excavations are discussed by their original excavators. From the The Kingdom of the Hittites Pisidian survey to Clive Foss’ epic trek through the medieval castles of by Trevor Bryce. A comprehensive history of the late Bronze Age kingdom Anatolia, generations of scholarly wanderings are accounted for. Object of the Hittites and the role it played within the ancient Near Eastern and archival research are not neglected: J D Hawkins describes his research world. Includes discussion on the origins of the Hittites, the foundations into Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions while J D Winfield presents Byzan- of the kingdom, the reigns of various kings and struggles for succession, tine wall paintings illustrated in this book with colour plates. A wonderful external threats and enterprises, the fall of the kingdom and its aftermath. collection of work beautifully presented and at an excellent price. 378p, 488p, 6 maps (Oxford UP 1998, Pb 1999) Pb £21.99 55 col pls and b/w figs (BIAA 1998) Hb £30.00 The Hittites and their Contemporaries in Asia Minor Other titles from BIAA: by J G Macqueen. Revised and up-dated, this remains one of the foremost Anatolian Iron Ages (2) edited by A Cilingiroglu and D H French. 192p, books on the Hittites. Macqueen discusses their origins, relationships with figs (BIAA 1991) Pb £24.00 other contemporary polities, warfare, religion, art and literature and the Anatolian Iron Ages (3) edited by A Cilingiroglu and D H French. 314p, final fall of their empire. Draws on a wealth of evidence, including recent figs (BIAA 1994) Pb £30.00 excavations in Turkey. Well illustrated. 176p, 148 b/w figs and pls (Thames Anatolian Iron Ages (4) edited by A Cilingiroglu and R J Matthews. 396, & Hudson 1975, 1986, Pb 1996) Pb £9.95 figs (BIAA 1998) Pb £25.00 Tille Höyük 1: The Medieval Period by J Moore. 205p, figs (BIAA 1993) Geschichte des Hethitischen Reiches Pb £45.00 by Horst Klengel. This book reviews the whole of the influential political Tille Höyük 4: Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Transition by G D history of the Hittite Kingdom, containing chronological tables, a bibliog- Summers. 203p, figs (BIAA 1993) Pb £40.00 raphy arranged by periods, and several illustrations. 496p, 64 illus (Hand- (Tille Höyük Vols 2 and 3 are not yet published) book of Oriental Studies, Part 1: 34, Brill 1998) Hb £84.50 49 ANATOLIA

Canhasan Sites I: Canhasan 1 Toroslar’da Bir Antik Kent: Ein Antike Stadt im Taurusgebirge by David French. The mound known as Canhasan Hüyük 1, in the Konya by Jale Inan. This comprehensive analysis of the archaeological remains at Plain of south-central Turkey, has revealed a series of settlements running the city of Lyrbe-Seleuk in the Tauros mountains, Turkey, is compiled through the Chalcolithic period (c.5500-3000 BC). This first volume de- from excavation work that took place during the 1970s. Inan examines tailing work carried out between 1961 and 1967, lays out the fundamental structures, including the Agora and bath house, the cemetery, inscriptions, stratigraphy of the site and the major structural developments of the sculptures, ceramics and mosaics. Includes an illustrated catalogue of Chalcolithic period. Future volumes will examine the phases of disconti- artefacts. Turkish text, German summary. 160p, 16 col pls, many b/w illus nuity at the site (unique in the south and western Anatolian record) in (Arkeoloji Ve Sanat Yayinlari 1998) Pb £22.50 more detail, with discussion of ceramic and environmental evidence. 101p, Die archaische Nekropole von Assos 9 b/w pls (BIAA Mono 23, 1998) Hb £45.00 by Federico Utili. Study of the necropolis of Assos; Utili analyses, classi- Across the Anatolian Plateau: Readings in the Archaeology of fies and dates the finds, consisting of eastern Greek ceramics, Corinthian Ancient Turkey ware, Fayence aryballoi, miniature vessels, figurative lekythoi and Bucchero edited by David Hopkins. An intellectual journey through the cities and ceramics, jewelry and further finds. He also goes into the archaic necropolis civilisations that populated the plateau of Anatolia from the Early Bronze itself classifying the graves and urns putting them in their social context. Age to the Greco-Roman period, this collection of articles presents the Includes extensive catalogue and many drawings. 366p, 60 b/w pls, 9 maps latest in archaeological research on the Hittites, Urartians, Persians, Lydians, (Asia Minor Studien 31/Habelt 1999) Hb £39.95 Phrygians, and Greeks by some of the foremost scholars in their respective Feldforschungen auf dem Gebiet von Kyaneai - Lykische fields. Among the featured articles is a description by Peter Neve, given in Studien 4 English for the first time, of the Great Temple at Hattusa. Others review edited by Frank Kolb. This volume focuses on an archaeological survey in 215p, many b/w illus work at later sites including Aphrodisias and Sardis. the area around Kyaneai in ancient Lycia, south-west coast of modern (ASOR Annual 57 (2000), 2002) Hb £60.00 Turkey. The articles include: Der Grabtempel des Xanthippos und seines The Asvan Sites 3, The Early Bronze Age Sohnes Neikostratos (C Gerner Hansen); Neue Inschriften aus Kyaneai und by A G Sagona. The three sites discussed in this volume provide a series of Umgebung IV (R Behrwald, H Blum, C Schuler & M Zimmermann); Antike overlapping sequences that flesh out the cultural developments in Terrassenkomplexe am Nordwesthang des Kolaklar Tepesi (V Höhfeld); East-Central Anatolia during most of the 3rd millennium BC. The ce- Anthropologische und paläopathologische Untersuchungen an menschlichen ramic evidence, forming the greater part of the material remains, is gener- Skelettresten (K Groschmidt & E Groschmidt-Thierer). 299p, 42 b/w pls, 2 ously illustrated. 260p, 160 figs and 3 col pls (BIAA Mono 18, 1994) Pb £35.00 loose maps (Asia Minor Studien 29, Habelt 1998) £54.50 Beycesultan Dynastic Lycia: A Political History of the Lycians and Their The mound of Beycesultan in western Anatolia was excavated between Relations With Foreign Powers, c.545-362 BC 1954-59 under the direction of Seton Lloyd. by Antony G Keen. The first substantial study in English to focus on the Vol 1: Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age by S Lloyd and J Mellaart. history of Lycia in the Achaemenid period. A thorough examination of 296p, pls, figs (BIAA 6, 1962) Hb £28.00 the Lycian political structure is followed by a detailed chronological treat- Vol 2: Middle Bronze Age Architecture and Pottery by S Lloyd and J ment. Lycia’s strategic position between the Aegean and the eastern Medi- Mellaart. 158p, pls, figs (BIAA 8, 1965) Hb £28.00 terranean mean that Keen’s book is important for the understanding of a µVol 3 part 1: Late Bronze Age Architecture by S Lloyd. 37p, pls, figs subject of continuing interest, the interaction of the Greeks and the (BIAA 11, 1972) Hb £16.00 Persians. 268p (Brill 1998) Hb £70.00 µVol 3 part 2: Late Bronze Age and Phrygian Pottery and Middle and Late Bronze Age Small Objects by J Mellaart and Ann Murray. Das Monument des Protogenes in Kaunos 150p, pls, figs (BIAA 1995) Hb £32.00 by Cengiz Isik and Christian Marek. An excavation report on a Greek *** or buy all 4 volumes for only £60.00 *** exedra (debating chamber) discovered in a temple in the centre of the ancient city of Kaunos, south west Asia Minor. Five bronze statues found Mykenische Keramik in Anatolien inside appeared to be the work of the famous sculptor and painter Protogenes by Coskun Özgünel. Most Mycenaean finds in Anatolia date to the late who lived in the late 4th century BC. Much of the report is devoted to an Helladic period and have come to light through excavation, the vast ma- analysis of the structure of the exedra and attempts at reconstructing its jority of these finds being ceramic. Özgünel provides a comprehensive original appearance; also discussed are the statues, epigrams and whether catalogue of finds from Late Helladic I through to the sub-mycenaean the exedra was indeed the work of Protogenes. 99p, illus, 20 pls (Asia Minor period. Each section gives details on motifs and ceramic forms and lists Studien 26/Habelt 1997) Hb £29.50 sites where such vessels have been found. Includes a limited discussion of chronological issues. 180p, 24 b/w pls (Asia Minor Studien 23, Habelt 1996) Midasstadt in Phyrgien Hb £59.50 by Dietrich Berndt. A study of the Phyrgian city of Midas Kale, the legendary city of Midas, located in the Anatolian highlands. An examina- Kusakli-Sarissa: Keilschriften aus Gebäude A tion of the archaeological remains, particularly the ‘Midas façade’, inscrip- by Gernot Wilhelm. This site is characterised by the remains of a dense tions, caves and rock carvings, is accompanied by a search for the origins urban occupation from the Old Hittite Kingdom to the Late Empire. It of the cult and rituals of Midas. 80p, 83 col, 9 b/w illus, 25 b/w figs contains 45 fragments of Hittite cuneiform tablets dating from the second (Bildbände, Von Zabern 2002) Hb £24.50 half of the 13th century BC, referring to ritual practice and prophecy. 42p of text, 42p of b/w illus (VML 1998) Hb £26.50 Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor by John Ma. In an attempt to avoid a purely historical or biographical narrative of the Seleucid king Antiochos III, John Ma takes a more the- Classical and Hellenistic matic approach to a relatively short period between 226 and 188 BC. His Kizilbel: An Archaic Painted Tomb Chamber in Northern Lycia study is largely based on epigraphical material which is given and translated by Machteld J Mellink, with chapters by Robert A Bridges Jr and Franca in an appendix. 425p (Oxford UP 2000, Pb 2002) Hb £65.00, Pb £18.99 Callori di Vignale. The elaborately painted chamber tomb at Kizilbel in Studies in Ancient Coinage from Turkey Northern Lycia, Turkey, had been robbed in ancient and modern times edited by R Ashton. A report on seven hoards of Greek and Greek Impe- before the archaeological team from Bryn Mawr College began rescue rial coins, four hoards of Roman Imperial coins and catalogues of six other excavations in 1969. This volume reports on the excavation of the tumulus collections of mostly provenanced coins. Also included is a die-study of and tomb, and describes in detail the architecture of the tomb and the the extensive bronze coinage of Gordian III minted at Caesarea in paintings within it. Dated to the 6th century BC, the paintings contain Cappadocia. This volume provides a companion to ‘Recent Turkish Hoards many ‘East-Greek’ features, in the style of painting and in the costume and Numismatic Studies’. 168p, 3196 illus (70 pls) (BIAA 1996) Hb £45.00 and equipment of the human figures, while the iconography appears to Der Latmos make reference to both Greek and local Anatolian mythology. Two short by Annelies Peschlow- Bindokat. An archaeological survey of an unknown appendices discuss the restoration and conservation of the paintings, and region of western Turkey. A comprehensive suvey illustrated with many the skeletal remains. 11 b/w figs, 39 b/w pls, 32 col pls, 3 fold-out illus (Univ of fine photographs. Includes much material from the Hellenistic and Classi- Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College Ar- cal periods as well as discussion of Byzantine churches and a number of chaeological Mono 1998) Hb £35.00 fascinating monastic sites. 87p, 119 col pls (Von Zabern 1996) Hb £22.50 50 ANATOLIA

Turkei: Von der antike zum Islam The Roman Baths of Lycia: an Architectural Study by Hans Joachim Budeit and Wolfgang Günter Lerch. Even if you don’t by Andrew Farrington. This volume examines the arrival and development read German (the text is minimal anyway), buy this book for its breathtak- of a distinctively Roman building type in an area of southwest Turkey ing photographs. From Hellenistic and Roman times, to the Byzantine where the numerous cities, who were highly competitive in their public period and the age of Islam, the glorious wealth of Turkey’s architecture is building, left a remarkable wealth of ancient remains. Many new plans and illustrated here, from the theatres of Priene, Miletus and Pergamon to the photographs represent the full range of Lycian bath buildings. The build- rock-cut homes of Cappadochia, to the mosques of Bursa and Konya. ing techniques employed and how Roman bathing habits fitted into the 278p, many col pls (Hirmer 1998) Hb £58.50 sporting life of Asia Minor under the Empire are also explored. 176p, Das Löwengrab von Milet maps, 111 figs, 91 pls (BIAA Mono 20, 1995) Hb £26.00 by Elke Forbeck and Huberta Heres. A study of the Lion Tomb at Miletus, Staatliche Baupolitik und Baufürsorge in den römischen a monumental burial chamber crowned by lion sculptures. In ancient times, Provinzen des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasien Miletus was the richest and most powerful Ionian city in Asia Minor. 65p, by Engelbert Winter. The landscape of Asia Minor, particularly in the 43 illus (de Gruyter 1998) Pb £26.50 coastal regions, is scattered with the debris of amphitheatres, temples, Die Skulpturen von Stratonikeia baths, houses and other structural ruins, the vast majority of which attest by Ramazan Özgan. An extensive catalogue of the sculptures of Stratonikeia to the legacy of the Roman Empire. An overview of Rome’s attitude and in Caria and the history of their research. Many are published here for the involvement in monumental and other building projects has been lacking first time. The catalogue includes: Hellenistic sculpture, Roman imperial and Winter strives to fill this gap. His analysis of the Emperor’s role as sculpture, and grave reliefs. German text. 177p, 59 b/w pls (Asia Minor initiator, director, commissioner, financer and legislator brings a fresh Studien Bd 32, Habelt 1999) Hb £50.00 approach to the abundant material. 359p (Asia Minor Studien Bd 20/Habelt 1996) Hb £49.00 Inschriften von Milet by Albert Rehm, with Hermann Dessau. A collection of Greek and Latin Sagalassos IV: Reports on the Survey and Excavation inscriptions from the Greek city of Miletus in Asia Minor. Part 1 contains Campaigns of 1994 and 1995 a facsimile reproduction of the epigraphic parts of the Milet volumes now by Marc Waelkens and Jerome Poblome. The Pisidian town of Sagalassos, out of print, completed by appendices and translations of all the edited set amid the Taurus mountains, was occupied from the time of Alexander inscriptions (catalogue numbers 1-406) published in the Milet series. Part the Great until the Byzantine period and has a rich sculptural and architec- 2 is an edition of hitherto unpublished inscriptions in Greek and Latin tural tradition, as well as being held as an important centre for pottery from Miletus. Vol I: 231p, illus; Vol II: 167p, illus (de Gruyter 1998) Hb Vol manufacture. Since 1990 the site has been the centre of a major Belgian I: £138.00; Vol II: £120.00 expedition and this report focuses on the survey of the region surrounding the town and the results of the latest excavations. 586p, illus, maps (Acta An Epigraphical Survey in the Kibyra-Olbasa Region Arch Lovaniensia Mono 9, 1997) Pb £89.50 by N P Milner. The Kibyra-Olbasa region in south-west Anatolia was Volumes I-III also available: Vol I £50.50; Vol II £50.50; Vol III £58.50 home to a mixture of people (Kabalians, Milyans, Pisidians and others) who spoke a variety of languages. This volume presents (with text, trans- The Architectural Decoration in Roman Asia Minor. Sagalassos lations and commentary) 160 ancient stones and inscriptions recorded by by Lutgarde Vandeput. This detailed study starts by examining the loca- the late Alan Hall, which attest to the influence of the Hellenistic and tion, development and stylistic monumental evolution of Sagalassos up to Roman kingdoms. 127p, 23 b/w pls (BIAA Mono 24, 1998) Hb £35.00 the Imperial period. It goes on to explore closely the dating of Roman Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins in the Museum at Amasya buildings with architectural ornament at Sagalassos, together with the chronological development of individual decorative elements. The report (Ancient Amaseia), Turkey concludes with a summary and catalogue of the architectural elements of by S Ireland. The rich numismatic collections of Turkish provincial muse- the imperial buildings. 353p, 120 b/w pls, figs, tbs (Brepols 1997) Pb £71.00 ums are still relatively unknown and this volume presents for the first time the coinage in the museum of Amasya, a powerful kingdom in the Helle- Sagalassos V nistic and Roman periods. Over 4,500 coins held in the museum are cata- edited by M Waelkens and L Loots. A detailed report on the survey and logued, ranging in date from the 5th century BC to the 11th century AD. excavation campaigns carried out between 1996 and 1997 at the Roman Most are finds from the surrounding region, so that there are rich holdings site of Sagalassos. This volume includes studies of pre- and proto-historical from the mints of Amaseia, Amisus, Sinope and Cappadcian Caesarea; but research, urbanism and architectural studies, and sections on the on-going over 50 other mints in Asia Minor are represented and some coins come research on ceramics, the environment, anthropological and from as far afield as Egypt and Gaul. 132p, map, 61 b/w pls (BIAA Mono archaeozoological material from the site. 2 vols: 873p, b/w pls and figs (Acta 27/Royal Numismatic Society Special Pub. 33, 2000) Hb £30.00 Archaeologica Lovaniensia Mono 11/A & B, Leuven UP 2000) Pb £160.00 Sagalassos Red Slip Ware Roman by J Poblome. Mass production of Sagalassos red slip ware began in the Augustan period and lasted into the 7th century. Poblome presents an The Roman Army in the East overview of the typology of this ware, based on descriptive statistical edited by D L Kennedy. Fourteen papers which include discussions of the techniques, and defines its chronological evolution. 350p, illus (Brepols army in the East, Roman frontiers, the scope of imperial campaigns, civic 1998) Pb £69.50 coins and the economy, Roman fortifications, legions and their command- ers. 320p, 12 b/w pls, 32 illus (JRA Supp. 18, 1996) Hb £65.50 Animals at Ancient Sagalassos: Evidence of the Faunal Remains by Bea De Cupere. Sagalassos in Turkey was one of the most prosperous The Early Roman Empire in the East cities of Psidia throughout Antiquity until its abandonment in the mid- edited by Susan Alcock. A group of essays that trace the development of 7th century. This updated thesis reports on the large assemblage of faunal Roman influence in the eastern parts of the Empire. Contents include: remains collected during the 1990-1994 excavations. These remains repre- Urbanization (Greg Wolf); Roman colonies in the province of Achaia (A sent the consumption refuse of the city’s Roman and Byzantine popula- Rizakis); Syrian desert (M Gawlikowski); The Syrian countryside (G Tate); tions between the 1st and 7th centuries AD and provide valuable informa- Jewish rural settlement (Y Hirschfield); Roman relations with the Persicus tion about the city’s economy, ecology and trade, not least its reliance on sinus (D T Potts); The Imperial image (C B Rose); The Black Sea region herding and its use of secondary products. 273p, 126 b/w figs, 55 tbs (Studies (David Braund); Funerary monuments in Asia Minor (Sarah Cormack); Tomb in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology IV, Brepols 2001) Pb £45.50 architecture at Palmyra (A Schmidt-Colinet); Pilgrimage, religion and visual culture in the East (Jas Elsner). 160p, figs (Oxbow Mono 95, 1997) Pb £24.00 Mountain and Plain by Martin Harrison, edited by Wendy Young. Subtitled ‘From the Lycian Roman Edessa 114-242 C.E. Coast to the Phrygian Plateau in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine by Steven K Ross. Ancient Edessa in Turkey experienced major develop- Periods’, this book is the product of years of excavation and research by ment under the Seleucids; it came under Parthian influence at the end of Martin Harrison, especially at the Phrygian city of Amorium. It explores the 2nd century and enjoyed semi-independence until it came under the the view that Lycia’s coastal cities declined after the 5th century AD and full control of Rome under Septimius Severus. Steven Ross examines the assesses evidence for a demographic shift at this time. Richly illustrated processes of absorption into the empire employing epigraphic, numismatic with images of architecture, sculpture and inscriptions in support of his and historical material, commenting on cultural life, developments and theories. 127p, 100 b/w and col illus, maps (Michigan UP 2001) Hb £48.50 transmissions, religion, philosophy and art. 256p (Routledge 1998) Hb £50.00 51 INDEX

Ancient Anatolia 33, 49 Archaische Griechische Tempel und Berlev, Oleg 17 Canaanites, Chronologies 30 Ancient Christian Magic 29 Altägypten 26 Berman, Lawrence M 16 Canby, Jeanny Vorys 47 INDEX Ancient Egypt 1, 16 Archaische Nekropole von Assos Berndt, Dietrich 50 Caneva, Isabella 35 of authors and titles (in Ancient Egypt at the Louvre 16 50 Berriedale-Johnson, M 8 Canhasan Sites I 50 italics) Ancient Egypt. Art, Architecture Architectural Decoration in Betts, A V G 35 Cannuyer, Christian 28 and 4 Roman Asia Minor 51 Beycesultan 50 Capel, Anne K 18 Ancient Egypt: A Social History Architecture and Linear Beyer, Dominique 36 Care of the Elderly 32 ABC of Egyptian Hieroglyphs 4 Measurement 45 Beyond Tools. Redefining the PPN Carlsberg Papyri 2 21 20 Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Architecture of Oboda 40 35 Carmichael, Calum M 43 About Subartu. Studies Devoted Civilization 1 Archive of Teos and Thabis 20 Biagi, Paolo 35 Carter, Howard 3, 13 48 Ancient Egypt: The Great Archives and Libraries 32 Bible in the British Museum 43 Casson, Lionel 7 Abu Salabikh Excavations 48 Discoveries 2 Ariel, Donald T 38 Biblical World 41 Castel, Corinne 36 Abu Simbel and the Nubian Ancient Egyptian 19 Armour, Robert A 11 Biedenkopf-Ziehner, A 29 Castiglioni, Alfredo 26 Temples 15 Ancient Egyptian Book of the Arnaud, N 35 Bienkowski, Piotr 31,34 Castiglioni, Angelo 26 Abusch, Tzvi 46 Dead 21 Arnold, Dieter 9, 15 Bierbrier, Morris L 2 Castillos, Juan José 4 Across the Anatolian Plateau 50 Ancient Egyptian Books of the Arnold, Dorothea 17, 18 Bietak, Manfred 26, 29, 30 Cat in Ancient Egypt 9 Adams, Barbara 5,12 After.. 22 Art and Architecture of Ancient Bilderwelten und Weltbilder der 3 Catalhöyük Flint and Obsidian Adams, Russell 34 Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts Egypt 17 Bingen, Jean 27 49 Adams, William Y 28 21 Art and Architecture of the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in Adkins, Lesley 3 Ancient Egyptian Herbal 8 Ancient Orient 46 and Nubia 14 the Birmingham 47 Adkins, Roy 3 Ancient Egyptian Literature 21 Art and Empire 46 Biological Anthropology and the Catalogue of Egyptian Art 16 Administrative Documents from Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Asensi, Victoria Amoros 9 Study of Ancient 14 Catalogue of Hieratic Papyri 8 Tell Beydar 48 Anthology 20 Asher, Neil Silberman 34 Birds of Ancient Egypt 9 Catalogue of the Aramaic and 46 After the Pyramids 12 Ancient Egyptian Materials and Ashton, R 50 Birth in Babylonia and the Bible Catalogue of the Monuments 17 Agatha Christie and Archaeology Technology 9 Ashton, Sally-Ann 18 44 Catalogue of the Predynastic 33 Ancient Egyptian Medicine 8 ASOR Mosaic 31 Black, Jeremy 47 Egyptian 16 Agriculture in Egypt 9 Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Black Pharaohs: Egypt’s Nubian Catalogue of Western Asiatic Seals Agriculture in Iron Age Israel 37 21 Curses 10 Rulers 7 46 Ägypten 2000 v. Chr. 18 Ancient Egyptian Religion 10 Assmann, Jan 10, 11, 14 Blackham, Mark 35 Caubet, Annie 31 Ägypten and Nubien in Ancient Jerusalem Revealed 38 Assyria 1995 47 Blackman, A M 22 Cauville, S 11,15 spätantiker 28 Ancient Magic and Ritual Power Aston, David A 25 Bleiberg, Edward 9 Cauvin, M-C 35 Ägypten in hellenisticher Zeit 26 33 Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia Blottière, Alain 4 Cavallo, Chiara 35 Ägypten in spätantikchristlicher Ancient Mesopotamia 44 46 Boardman, John 48 Cave of the Warrior 35 Zeit 29 Ancient Mesopotamian City 45 Astronomical Diaries 46 Bollmann, Beate 34 Cavigneaux, Antoine 47 Ägypten und Levante XI 30 Ancient Mesopotamian Materials Asvan Sites 3, The Early Bronze Bollweg, Jutta 46 Ceram, C W 49 Ägypterinnen: Eine 45 Age 50 Bonnet, Hans 10 Ceramics and Change in the Early Kulturgeschichte 8 Ancient Naukratis 27 Atlas of Egyptian Art 17 Borg, Barbara 14, 18 Bronze Age 36 Ägyptische Hymnen und Gebete Ancient Naukratis: Excavations Atlas of the Valley of the Kings Borowski, Oded 33,37 Cerny, J 13 10 at a Greek Emporium 27 12 Bosse-Griffiths, Kate 17 Chalcolthic Culture of the Golan Ahituv, Shmuel 34 Ancient Near East 31 Aufrecht, Walter E 45 Bottéro, Jean 32, 44, 45 36 Akhenaten and the Religion of Ancient Persia 48 Aufrère, Sydney 16 Boundaries of the Ancient Near Chalkolithikum in der südlichen Light 6 Ancient Records of Egypt 22 Augé, Christian 39 Eastern World 31 Levante 36 Akhenaten: Egypt’s False Prophet Ancient Settlement in the Zammar Auld, G 37 Bourbon, Fabio 33 Champollion, Jean-François 6 48 Ausgrabungen und Surveys im Bowen, Gillian E 24 2 Akhenaten: History, Fantasy 6 Andreu, Guillemette 7, 16 Vorderen 36 Bowman, Alan K 9, 26 Chariots and Related Equipment Akhenaten: King of Egypt 6 Andrews, Carol 14 Aviam, Mordechai 35 Boylan, Patrick 11 13 Akhenaten’s Egypt 5 Animals at Ancient Sagalassos 51 Avigad, Nahman 38 Brand, Peter J 15 Charles, Ruth 34 Al-Maqdissi, Michel 36 Animals in the Steppe 35 Ayalon, E 36 Brandl, Baruch 38 Charvát, Petr 44 Alcock, Anthony 24, 29 Annus, Amar 47 Babyloninas 44 Bread, Wine, Walls and Scrolls 41 Chataigner, C 35 Alcock, Susan 51 Anthropology and Egyptology 4 Bader, Bettina 25 Bream, Howard N 29 Chauveau, M 7 Aldred, Cyril 1, 6,18 Antikenmuseum Basel und Bagnall, Robert 28 Breasted, James Henry 22 Chavalas, Mark W 44 Alexandria 27 Sammlung Ludwig 17 Bagnall, Roger S 23, 24 Bremer, Jörg 34 Checklist of Editions of Greek Alexandria in Late Antiquity Antiochos III and the Cities of Bahrani, Zainab 44 Bresciani, Edda 3 23 27 50 Bailey, D M 27 Brewer, D J 1, 9 Chief of Seers 18 Alexandria, Third Century BC: Apocryphon of John and Other Baines, J 10, 13, 17 Briant, Pierre 48 Choyke, A 33 The knowledge of the 27 Coptic 29 Baird, Douglas 36 Brier, Bob 6 Christianity in the Land of the Alexandria: Past, Present and Aramaeans: Their Ancient Ball, Warwick 40, 48 Brooke, George J 43 Pharoahs: The Copt 28 Future 27 History 37 Bamber, A 48 Broshi, Magen 41 Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua The Alexandria: the Submerged Royal Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Bar-Yosef, Ofer 35 Brovarski, Edward 11 Stylite 40 27 Holy Land 34 Bard, Kathyrn A 2, 11 Brown, David 46 Chronicle of the Old Testament Allen, James P 18, 20, 23 Archaeological Investigation of the Barton, John 41 Browne, Gerald M 23 Kings 41 Alston, Richard 28 Central Sinai 25 Bartosiewicz, L 33 Bryan, Betsy M 17 Churcher, C S 24 Altägypten im Römischen Reich Archaeologies of Social Life 5, 8 Basic Grammar of the Ugaritic 47 Bryce, Trevor 49 Cialowicz, Krysztof M 5 28 Archaeology and the Bible 41 Battini-Villard, Laura 45 Buch vom Ba 21 City in Ancient Israel 35 Altenmüller, Hartwig 15 Archaeology and the Religions of Battles of Armageddon 30 Budge, E A Wallis 9, 10, 21, City in Roman and Byzantine Amarna Age: Egypt 6 Canaan and Israel 42 Battles of the Bible 42 22 Egypt 28 Amarna Diplomacy 30 Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia Baupolitick Herodes’ des Grossen Building in Egypt 9 Civilisations of the Ancient Near Amarna Letters 21 30 39 Buitenhuis, H 33 East 31 Amarna Studies and Other Selected Archaeology, History and Culture Beaulieu, Paul-Alain 47 Bülow-Jacobsen, Adam 27 Civilization of Ancient Egypt 1 17 in Palestine and 31 Behlmer, Heike 29 Bunnens, Guy 32,37 Clackson, S J 29 Amarna: Ancient Egypt 6 Archaeology of Elam 48 Beihammer, A D 30 Bunson, Margaret 2 Clarysse, Willy 10,26 Amelia Edwards: Traveller, Archaeology of Israel 34 Beinlich, Horst 13, 21 Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt Classic Christian Townsite at Novelist 3 Archaeology of Jordan 34 Beler, Aude Gros De 8 14 Arminna West 23 Amenhotep III 6 Archaeology of Society in the Holy Below the Temple Mount 40 Burns, Ross 34 Cleopatra 7 Amer, Amin A M A 16 34 Belzoni, Giovanni 3 Cabrol, A 16 Cleopatra of Egypt 7 Amorós, Victoria Asensi 4 Archaeology of the Land of the Belzoni’s Travels: Narrative of the Cahill, Jane M 38 Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth 7 Amulets and Magic 10 Bible 38 Operations 3 Callaway, Phillip R 43 Cleopatras 7 Anastasio, S 48 Archaeology of Upper Ben-Tor, Daphna 17 Campbell, Edward F 38 Cline, Eric H 6, 30 Anatolian Iron Ages 49 Mesopotamia 48 Benjamin Isaac 40 Campbell, Jonathan 43 Cochavi-Rainey, Zipora 30 Ancestor of the West 32 Archaeozoology of the Near East Benjamin Sass 38 Canaanite Cultic Milieu 36 Cockle, Walter 27 Ancient Ammon 37 33 Berenike 26 Canaanites 34 Codex Fiscal Hermopolite 23 52 INDEX

Codex of Ancient Egyptian Plant D’Auria, Sue H 6 Egypt and the Near East 30 David Thomas 23 Funk, Wolf-Peter 24 Remains 9 Daviau, P M Michéle 37 Egypt from the Air 1 Essays on Egyptian Grammar 23 Fuscaldo, Perla 25 Cohen, Raymond 30 David, Arlette 18 Egypt in Late Antiquity 28 Essays on Syria in the Iron Age Future at Issue: Tense, Mood 23 Cohen, Susan L 30 David, Rosalie 1, 7, 10 Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra 7 37 Gadalla, Moustafa 11 Cohn, Norman 41 Davies, B G 19 Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids Etana Epic 47 Gadara – Gerasa und die Cole, Steven M 47 Davies, Benedict G 20 7 Eternal Egypt 1 Dekapolis 39 Colin Osman 3 Davies, Philip R 43 Egypt Lost and Found 2 Eternal Egypt: Masterworks 16 Gagos, Traianos 23 Collector’s Eye: Masterpieces of Davies, W V 1, 14, 18 Egypt: Caught in time 3 Evans, Elaine Altman 2 Galil, Gershon 41 Egyptian 17 Davies, William 34 Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs 1 Every Living Thing 33 Galilee through the Centuries 43 Collier, Mark 20 Davis, Theodore M 13 Egypt: Splendours of an Ancient Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt Game Boxes and Accessories 13 Collins, Andrew 3, 42 Dawson, David 14 1 7 Garden in Ancient Egypt 9 Collins, Billie Jean 33 Day at Qumran 43 Egyptian and Egyptianizing Everyday Life in Ancient Gardiner, Alan H 19 Collins, Nina 27 Dead Sea Scrolls 43 Scarabs 17 Mesopotamia 44 Gardner, Iain 24 Collins, Paul 44 Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian 43 Egyptian Art 17 Excavations at ‘Ana 48 Garstang, John 14 Collon, Dominique 46 Dead Sea Scrolls Fifty Years 43 Egyptian Art at Eton College 16 Excavations at City of David 38 Gascou, Jean 23 Colour and Painting in Ancient Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egyptian Art in the Days of the Excavations at El-Ashmunein V Gasser, Madeline Page 18 Egypt 18 Egypt 14 18 27 Gateway of Ramesses IX 16 Columbia Papyri 23 Death on the Nile 28 Egyptian Boats and Ships 5 Excavations at Khirbet Gauley, Steven W 45 Columns of Egypt 5 Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls Egyptian Calendar 9 Khatuniyeh 47 Geb: Geobotanical Bibliography 4 Complete Pyramids 15 43 Egyptian Diaries 2 Excavations at Tell Al Rimah Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy Complete Temples of Ancient Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs Egyptian Divinities 11 48 of Ancient Egypti 23 Egypt 15 19 Egyptian Faience and Glass 5 Excavations at Tell Brak 36 Genesis of Israel and Egypt 42 Complete Valley of the Kings 12 Degani, Avi 35 Egyptian Food and Drink 5 Excavations at Tell el-Balamun 25 Geoffroy-Schneiter, B 18 Complete World of the Dead Sea Dekoration des Chnumtempels auf Egyptian furniture making 9 Excavations by Kathleen M. George, Andrew 47 Scrolls 43 Elephantine durch 16 Egyptian Gods and Myths 5, 11 Kenyon in Jerusalem 38 Germer, Renate 8 Composite Bows 13 Demotic Grammar in the Egyptian Grammar 19 Excavations in the Locality 6 Germond, Philippe 9 Concise Dictionary of Middle Ptolemaic 19 Egyptian Heaven and Hell 22 Cemetery 12 Geschichte des Hethitischen Egyptian 19 Dendara I 15 Egyptian Historical Inscriptions Exodus: the Egyptian 42 Reiches 49 Concise Grammar of Middle Dendara IV: Traduction 15 20 Experience of Ancient Egypt 1 Getting Old in Ancient Egypt 8 Egyptian 19 Dentzer, Jean-Marie 39 Egyptian Historical Records 19 Explorers and Artists in the Getzov, Nimrod 35, 36 Conolly, James 49 Depauw, Mark 20 Egyptian Legends and Stories 22 Valley of 12 Geva, Hillel 38 Construction of the Assyrian Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt Egyptian Medicine 5, 30 Faces of Pharaohs: Royal Gibson, Shimon 34, 40 Empire 44 14 Egyptian Models and Scenes 5 Mummies 14 Gichon, Mordechai 42 Coogan, Michael D 34 Description of Egypt 3 Egyptian Mummies 5, 14 Farrington, Andrew 51 Gift of the Nile 26 Cook, Stephen L 43 Desire, Discord and Death 33 Egyptian Mummies: People 14 Faulkner, R O 19, 21 Giles, Frederick J 6 Cooper, Jerrold S 31 Dever, William G 41 Egyptian Pottery 5 Fay, Biri 18 Giles, Sue 14 Copper Scroll 43 Dick, Michael 46 Egyptian Religion 10 Fayum Portraits 18 Ginter, Boleslaw 25 Coptic and Greek Texts 29 Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Egyptian Rock-cut Tombs 5 Fecundity Figures 17 Giza Mastabas VII 11 Coptic Documentary Texts from Godesses 11 Egyptian Royal Sculpture 18 Feghali, Andrée Gorton 17 Goddio, Frank 27 Kellis 1 24 Dictionary of Judaism in the Egyptian Shabtis 5 Feiler, B 41 Gods and Myths of Ancient Coptic Egypt 28 Biblical 41 Egyptian Statues 5 Feldforschungen auf dem Gebiet Egypt 11 Coptic Grammar with Dictionary of the Ancient Near Egyptian Temples 5 von Kyaneai 50 Gods of Ancient Egypt 11 Chrestomathy 29 East 31 Egyptian Treasures in Europe 16 Feldzugsdarstellungen des Neuen Gods, Priests and Men 11 Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Die Toten Stradte 40 Egyptian Warfare and Weapons 5 Reiches 16 Goedicke, Hans 19, 20, 30 Seals 38 Diggers At the Well 43 Egyptian Woodworking 5 Fellows, Ronald E 19 Golvin, Jean-Claude 16 Coulson, William D E 27 Dinah’s Daughters 42 Egyptians 1 Fermat, André 10 Goodblatt, David 43 Cracking Codes 20 Divine Origin of the Craft 8 Egypt’s Golden Empire 7 Fighting Pharaohs 5 Goodman, Martin 39 Cribiore, Raffaella 23, 26 Djéziré et l’Euphrate syriens 48 Egypt’s Legacy 4 Fingierte Welten in der ägyptischen Goodman, S M 9 Cross, Frank Moore 34 Dodson, A 5, 6, 12, 14, 19 Ehrenberg, Erica 31, 47 Literatur 21 Gopher, Avi 35 Crouwel, J H 13, 32 Dokumentarische Papyri 21 Eichmann, Ricardo 36 Fischer, Moshe 40 Gophna, Ram 36 Cruz-Uribe, Eugene 23 Dollfus, Geneviéve 34 Eisenberg, Emanuel 35 Fischer, Peter M 37 Goring, Elizabeth 18 Cryer, Frederick H 46 Domestic Plants and Animals 9 El-Khouri, Lamia Salem 38 Fish and Fishing in Ancient Gosline, Sheldon Lee 19 Cult of Ra 10 Domination and Resistance 30 El-Saady, Hassan 12 Egypt 9 Götter bewohnten Ägypten 18 Culte du Souverain dans l’Égypte Donadoni, Sergio 1 El-Sabban, Sherif 10 Fitzmyer, Joseph A 43 Gottlieb, Claire 31 10 Dor - Ruler of the Seas 38 Elementary Coptic Grammar 29 Fleming, Daniel E 37 Gourgaud, A 35 Cultural Interaction in the Dorothy Garrod 34 Elephantine Papyri in English 29 Flight and Freedom in the 32 Government and Law in Roman Ancient Near East 32 Doumet-Serhal, Claude 37 Elephantine XIX 25 Food fit for Pharaohs 8 23 Cultures locales du Moyen- Doxiadis, Euphrosyne 18 Elephantine XX 15 Forbeck, Elke 51 Grab Nr 55 im Königsgräbertal Euphrate 48 Draco, Mélusine 10 Ellis, Simon P 5 Foster, John L 20, 22 13 Cumming, B 19 Dreyer, Günter 12 Elwolde, J F 43 Fouilles de Tell el-Ghassil 37 Grabschätze aus Altägypten 17 Cuneiform Texts and the Writing Dynastic Lycia 50 Emar IV 36 François Kayser 27 Graeco-Roman Egypt 5 of History 47 Early Civilizations of the Old Emergence and Change in Early Frank, Georgia 28 Graefe, E 13 Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud World 31 Urban Societies 45 Frankel, Rafael 35 Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt 20 47 Early Dynastic Egypt 4 Emergence of Civilization 31 Frankfort, Henri 10, 46 Grajetzki, Wolfram 9 Cupere, Bea de 51 Early Egyptian Christianity 28 Emmel, Stephen 28 Frankfurter, David 28 Grammar of the Ugaritic Currency and Inflation 23 Early Glyptic of Tell Brak 36 Empereur, Jean-Yves 27 Freed, Rita E 6 Language 37 Current Research in Egyptology Early Mesopotamia 45 Empereurs du Nil 26 French, David 50 Grande salle hypostyle de Karnak 2000 4 Early Neolithic Village in the Empire’s Edge 28 Frerichs, Ernest S 42 16 Curtis, J E 44, 46, 47 Jordan 35 Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 2 Frick, Frank S 38 Grant, Michael 7 Cuvigny, Hélène 27 Early Prehistory Mesopotamia 48 Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Friedman, R F 1, 9 Gratuze, B 35 Cyril of Alexandria 29 Early Roman Empire in the East Ancient Egypt 2 Fritz, Volkmar 35, 41 Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Czerny, Ernst 25 51 Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea From Cyrus to Alexander 48 39 Daily Life in Ancient Early Urbanizations in the Scrolls 43 From Epic to Canon 34 Greek Myths and Mesopotamia 46 Mesopotamia 44 Levant 35 Englund, Robert K 47 From Farmers to Pharaohs 11 Greek Papyri from Kellis I 24 Dakhleh Oasis Project 24 Eaton-Krauss, M 13 Epic of Gilgamesh 47 From Function to Monument 40 Greek, Roman and Byzantine Damaskus - Aleppo 34 Edward William Lane: Epigraphical Survey in the From Nineveh to New York 49 coins 51 Das Goldland der Pharaonen: Die Description 3 Kibyra-Olbasa Region 51 From the Pyramids to Greeks’ and ‘Greece’ in Entdeckung von Ber 26 Edwards, I E S 3 Epstein, Claire 36 Tutankhamun 3 Mesopotamian 45 Das Grab des Hui und des Kel Egberts, A 27 Erman, Adolf 10 Frühe Keramik und Kleinfunde Green, Anthony 47 13 Egypt 1 Ersetzen und Entsuhen 49 aus El-Târif 25 Green, Lyn 18 Das Löwengrab von Milet 51 Egypt and the Egyptians 1 Essays and Texts in Honor of J Fuerstein, Carol 17 Green, William Scott 41 53 INDEX

Greenberg, Raphael 35 Hoffmann, Adolf 39 Jones, B W 23 Lehmann, Clayton Miles 39 Matsutani, Toshio 36 Greene, Joseph 34 Hoffner, Harry A 49 Jones, D 13, 20 Lehner, Mark 15 Matthews, Donald M 36 Griggs, C Wilfred 28 Hölbl, Günther 26, 28 Jordanien 34 Leick, Gwendolyn 45 Matthews, Roger 48, 49 Grimal, N 4 Holocene Settlement of the Josephson, Jack A 18 Leitz, Christian 8 Maxfield, V A 27, 28 Grimm, Ghnter 27 Egyptian 5 Judaism and Hellenism in 40 Lemorini, Cristina 35 Mazar, Amihai 37 Grossmann, Eva 37 Holum, Ken 39 Judgement of the Pharaoh 8 Leonard, Albert 27 McCall, Henrietta 33 Grundlagen des Koptischen 23 Holy Land, Holy Lands 42 Junge, Friedrich 19 Lesko, Leonard H 7, 42 McCrum, Michael 42 Gülden, Svenja A 22 Hölzl, Regina 15 Kahl, Jochem 19 L’espace domestique en McDermott, Bridget 19 Günter, Wolfgang Lerch 51 Hope, Colin A 5, 24 Kaiserzeitliche Tempel in Mésopotamie 45 McDonald, Angela 4 Guzzo, M Giulia Amadasi 39 Hopkins, David 50 Kleinasien 40 Lessing, Erich 11 McDonald, Helen 36 Gymnastics of the Mind 26 Horemkenesi: May He Live Kaltsas, Demoritos 21 Letters from Priests to the Kings McDonald, John K 6 Haas, Christopher 27 Forever! 14 Kamil, Jill 28 Esarhaddon 47 McDowell, A G 7 Habachi, Labib 15, 25 Horne, Lee 46 Kampp, Friedrike 12 Levine, Baruch A 32 McGovern, Patrick E 37 Hachlili, Rachel 40 Hornung, Erik Kanawati, Naguib 11, 13, 14 Levine, Lee I 40 McKenzie, Steven L 42 Haerinck, E 48 2, 4, 6, 17, 22 Kapitan, Tomis 31 Levy, Thomas E 34 McLeod, W 13 Halaf Period in Northern Horowitz, Wayne 46 Keen, Antony G 50 Lewis, Naphtali 23 McMahon, Augusta 44 Mesopotamia 45 Horses, Chariots and Indo- Keller, Sharon 31 Liber Aegyptius 10 Meador, Betty de Shong 47 Hall, Rosalind 5 Europeans 32 Kellis Agricultural Account Book Library in Alexandria 27 Mechanics of Empire 44 Hammurabi’s Laws 32 Houlihan, Patrick F 8, 9 24 Lichtheim, Miriam 21 Meinarti II 28 Handbook of Ancient Water 9 House of Eternity 6 Kellis Isocrates Codex 24 Lie Became Great 31 Melaerts, Henri 10 Handbook of Ugaritic Studies 36 House of the Father as Fact 36 Kellis Literary Texts 1 24 Life and Death in Ancient Egypt Mellink, Machteld J 50 Handbuch der ägyptischen Household and State in Upper Kemp, B J 1, 4 12, 14 Memory of the Eyes 28 Königsnamen 6 Mesopotamia 45 Kennedy, D L 51 Life in Egypt under Roman 23 Menu, Bernadette 6 Handbuch der altagyptischen How to read Egyptian Keramik des Grabungsplatzes 25 Life in the Ancient Near East 32 Meriç, Recep 40 Medizin 8 Hieroglyphs 20 Kerisel, Jean 4 Life of Max Mallowan 33 Meroitic Funeraryv Inscriptions Handlist of Howard Carter’s 13 Howard Carter: The Path 3 Kerner, Susanne 36, 39 Life on the Desert Edge 4 from Arminna West 23 Hannig, Rainer 8, 19, 20 Hudson, Michael 32 Keys of Egypt 3 Lim, H 43 Meshel, Ze’ev 38 Hanson, Ann E 23 Human Remains 13 Killebrew, Ann E 40 L’infériorité à la perturbation 18 Meskell, Lynn 7, 8 Hare, Tom 19 Humphrey, J H 40 Killen, Geoffrey 5 Lipinski, Edward 37 Mesopotamia 44 Harra and the Hamad 35 Hunger, Hermann 46 Killick, R G 48 Lithics after the Stone Age 35 Mesopotamia and the Bible 44 Harreither, Reinhardt 29 Hurry, Jamieson B 10 King David: A Biography 42 Littauer, Mary Aiken 13, 32 Mesopotamia Before History 44 Harrison, Martin 51 Huss, Werner 26 King Josiah of Judah 42 Liturgy of Opening of the Mouth Mesopotamia: The Invention of Hart, George 11 Hymnen und Klagelieder 47 Kingdom of the Hittites 49 for 22 the 45 Hartung, Ulrich 12 Ikram, S 14, 25 Kitchen, K A 4, 6, 20, 21 Lloyd, Alan B 11 Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography Harvey, Julia 18 Image and Reality: Jerusalem 40 Kizilbel: An Archaic Painted 50 L’obsidienne au Proche et Moyen 46 Hasel, Michael G 30 Image of the Ordered World 30 Klenck, Joel D 36 35 Mesopotamian dimatu of the Hassan, A 11 Images as Media: Sources 32 Klengel, Horst 49 Loots, L 51 Second 47 Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh Imhotep 10 Knohl, Israel 43 Loprieno, Antonio 19 Mesopotamian Mathematics 45 6 Inan, Jale 50 Köhler, E Christiana 25 Lost Tomb 3 Mesopotamian Planetary Hathor Rising: The serpent power Inanna, Lady of the Largest 47 Kolb, Bernhard 39 Lost Tribes of Israel 42 Astronomy-Astrology 46 of Ancient Egypt 10 Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles Kolb, Frank 50 Louvre Sphinx and Royal Mesopotamian Witchcraft 46 Hawass, Zahi 8 20 Kolinski, Rafal 37, 47 Sculpture 18 Messiah Before Jesus 43 Healey, John F 38 Induction of the Cult Image 46 Koptische Ostraka 29 Lubetski, Meir 31 Meyer, Marvin 29,33 Heeßel, Nils P 46 Inschriften von Milet Teil 1 51 Korfmann, Martin 49 Lull, José 13 Meyers, Eric M 31, 43 Heilpflanzen der Ägypter 8 Inscribed Material from the Kose, Arno 45 Luristan Excavation Documents Michigan Papyri 23 Heinz, S Constanze 16 Pennsylvania-Yale 23 Krahmalkov, Charles R 38 III 48 Midant-Reynes, Béatrix 4, 25 Helck, Wolfgang 13 Instruments d’embaumement de Krause, Martin 28, 29 Lustig, Judith 4 Midasstadt in Phyrgien 50 Hellenistic Civilization and the l’Egypte 14 Kubba, S A A 45 Ma, John 50 Middle Egyptian 20 Jews 40 Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Kuhn, K H, 29 MacDonald, Brian 34 Miglus, Peter A 45 Hendrickx, Stan 25 Literature 21 Kuhrt, Amélie 45 MacDonald, Burton 37 Millard, Alan 31,40 Herakleopolite Nome 23 Introduction to Biblical Arch. 41 Kulturhandbuch Ägyptens 8, 20 MacDonald, John K 6 Mills, A J 24 Herbert, Sharon C 39 Introduction to the Complete Dead Kusakli-Sarissa 50 Machinist, Peter 47 Milner, N P 51 Heres, Huberta 51 Sea 43 KV5: A Preliminary Report 12 MacLeod, Roy 27 Minas, Martina 7 Herr, Larry G 35 Invention of Ancient Israel 41 Lacovara, Peter 16,17 MacQueen, Hector L 43 Mirau, Neil A 45 Herrenschmidt, Clarisse 32 Ireland, S 51 Lampela, Anssi 28 Macqueen, J G 49 Mirecki, Paul 33 Herz-Fischler, Roger 15 Isaac, Benjamin 40 Land and Economy in Ancient Maghar Dendera 2 25 Mistress of the House, Mistress of Herzog, Chaim 42 Ishida, Tomoo 41 Palestine 39 Magic and Ritual in the Ancient 18 Hidden Fields of Tutankhamun Isik, Cengiz 50 Landowners and Tenants in 33 Mitchell, T C 43 9 Ismail, F 48 Roman Egypt 28 Maisels, Charles Keith 31 Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Hieratic Inscriptions 13 Israel und Palästina 34 Lane, Edward William 3 Maisons Dans La Syrie Antique Arch. 29 Hieratischen Texte des P. Berlin22 Israelites 42 Langton, B 9 36 Model Boats 13 Hieroglyphischen Ahnenreihen 7 Isserlin, B S J 42 Languages and Cultures in Malamat, Abraham 41 Modeling Time and Transition 35 Hieroglyphs for Travellers 19 Iznik, Cengiz 33 Contact 32 Malek, Jaromir 17, 20 Moers, Gerald 21 Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt 19 Jackson, Robert B 28 Langue des Ramsès 19 Mallinson, M D S 25 Moldrzyk, Uwe 4 Higgs, Peter 7 Jacob, Christian 27 Lapidus, Michel 10 Mammals of Ancient Egypt 9 Monarchs of the Nile 6 Hijjara, Ismail 45 Jacobsen, D M 40 Late Bronze and Early Iron 37 Man Jesus: Fact and Legend 42 Mons Claudianus 27 Himmel über Esna 10 Jacq, Christian 8 Late Egyptian Grammar: An Manley, Bill 1, 20 Montet, Pierre 1 Hirschfeld, Yizhar 39 James, T G H 3, 13 Introduction 19 Manley, Deborah 3 Montserrat, Dominic 6, 26 Historical Perspectives: From the Janot, Francis 14 Late Nubian Settlement at Manniche, L 8, 13 Monument des Protogenes in Hasmoneans 43 Janssen, Jac J 8 Arminna 23 Manuelian, Peter der 11 Kaunos 50 History and Historical Writing Janssen, Rosalind M 8 Latmos 50 Manzanilla, Linda 45 Monumental Tombs of Ancient 41 Japp, Sarah 39 Laughlin, John 41 Maqsood, Rosalyn 39 Alexandria 27 History of Ancient Egypt 4 Jasnow, Richard 32 Layton, Bentley 29 Marcus, Amy Dockser 41 Monuments of Ancient Egypt 15 History of Biblical Israel 41 Jeffers, Ann 33 Le Quesne, C 25 Marek, Christian 50 Monuments of Seti I 15 History of the Animal World 33 Jenni, Hanna 16 Leaving No Stones Unturned 31 Maritime Tel Michal 37 Monuments of Syria 34 History of the Ptolemaic Empire Jericho: The Jewish Cemetery 40 Lebeau, M 48 Markoe, Glenn E 18 Moorey, P R S 16, 45 26 Jerusalem 37 Leek, F Filce 13 Markowitz, Yvonne J 6 Morkot, Robert G 7 Hittites and their Contemporaries Jewish Quarter Excavations in 38 Legal and Administrative Texts Martin, Harriet 44 Moran, William L 21 49 Joachim, Hans Budeit 51 47 Martinez, David G 23 Morschauser, Scott 8 Hodder, Ian 49 Joger, Ulrich 4 Legends of Ancient Egypt 22 Masetti-Rouault, M G 48 Mosher, Malcolm 21 Hodel-Hoenes, Sigrid 12 Johnson, Paul 1 L’Egypte Restituée 3 16 Mashkour, M 33 Mountain and Plain 51 54 INDEX

Mudloff, Thomas F 19 Paléoenvironnement et Societes Private Life in New Kingdom Rogan, Eugene 9 Schwarz, Mario 29 Muhs, B P 27 Humaines 34 Egypt 7 Rogerson, John 41 Seagoing Ships and Seamanship 37 Müller, Barbara 29 Papyri in Memory of P J Private Lives of the Pharaohs 6 Rogge, Eva 18 Search for God in Ancient 11 Müller, Hans Wolfgang 17 Sijpesteijn 23 Privatization in the Ancient 32 Roitaman, Adolfo 43 Secret Lore of Egypt 2 Mumienportrats 18 Papyrus of Hor 21 Proceedings of the Sixteenth 23 Roll, Israel 40 Secret of the Hittites 49 Mummy Congress 14 Parca, Maryline G 23 Production and Use of Vegetable Roman and Byzantine Near 40 Security for Debt in Ancient 32 Mummy in Ancient Egypt 14 Pardee, Dennis 46 23 Roman Army in the East 51 Segal, Arthur 40 Muraoka, T 43 Parfitt, Tudor 42 Prophéties de L’Egypte 10 Roman Baths of Lycia 51 Segal, J B 46 Murder of Tutankhamen 6 Parker, Bradley J 44 Proto-Cuneiform Texts 47 Roman Edessa 51 Segart, Stanislav 47 Murray, H 13 Parkinson, R 20, 21, 22 Protodynastic Egypt 5 Roman Imperial Quarries 28 Seger, Joe D 31 Murray, M A 22 Parpola, S 47 Psota, Thomas 17 Roman Roads in Judaea 2 40 Seidel, Matthias 1 Muscarella, Oscar White 31 Partridge, Robert B 5, 9, 14 Ptocheia or Odysseus 23 Rome and the Ptolemies of 28 Selected Writings on Chariots 32 Musical Instruments 13 Pastor, Jack 39 Ptolemaic Basilikos 23 Rome in the East 40 Self Bows and other Archery 13 My Heart My Mother 10 Payne, Joan Crowfoot 16 Ptolemaic Lexikon 22 Romer, John 12 Seton-Williams, M V 22 Mykenische Keramik in Paz, Yithak 36 Ptolemaic Royal Sculpture from Romer, W H Ph 47 Settlement Development in the Anatolien 50 Pazuzu: Archäologische und Egypt 18 Rondot, Vincent 16 North Jazir, Iraq 48 Mysliwiec, Karol 4 Philologische 46 Published Pottery of Palestine 35 Rooke, Deborah W 42 Settlement Dynamics and 35 Mysterious Fayum Portraits 18 Peacock, D P S 27, 28 Pyramid Builders of Ancient 7 Rosaria, Maria Falivene 23 Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Nabataean Terracotta Figurines Peden, A J 20 Pyramids of Egypt 3 Rösche-von der Hyde, Egypt 26 38 Pedersen, Olaf 32 Qasr Ibrim. The Hinterland 27 Wiebke 15 Shafer, Byron E 15 Nag’ el-Scheima 29 Pemberton, Delia 14 Quellenkritische Untersuchungen Rose, Jerome C 14 Shape of the Great Pyramid 15 Nakhai, Beth Alpert 42 Penglase, Charles 46 zu den ägypytische 30 Rose, John 12 Shaw, Ian 1, 2, 5, 9 Napoleonic Survey of Egypt 2 Penguin Historical Atlas of Quest for Immortality 17 Rose, Pamela J 27 Shechem III 38 Napoleon’s Proconsul In Egypt 2 Ancient Egypt 1 Quirke, Stephen 10, 16 Rosen, Stephen A 35 Sheenan, P 25 Napoleon’s Proconsul In Egypt 2 Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Ramat Hanadiv Excavations 39 Rosetta Stone: The Story of the 20 Sheridan, Jennifer A 23 Nasrabadi, Mofidi Behzad 46 Egypt 23 Ramesses II, Greatest of the 6 Ross, Steven K 51 Shifting Urban Landscapes 36 Naveh, Joseph 38 Persia and the West 48 Ramesses: Egypt’s Greatest 6 Rothman, Mitchell S 44, 48 Shoham, Yair 38 Near East 31 Perspectives on Panopolis 27 Ramesside Inscriptions 21 Rouault, O 48 Shortland, Andrew 30 Near East under Roman Rule 40 Perspectives on the Battle of Rashkow, Ilona N 42 Rowlandson, Jane 26, 28 Sidebotham, Steven 26 Nefertiti 6 Kadesh 30 Raulwing, Peter 32 Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt Silent Images: Women in 8 Negev, Avraham 34, 40 Petra 39 Ray, John 7 21 Siliotti, Alberto 1, 2, 12, 15 Negm, Maged 13 Petra and the Lost Kingdom 39 Reade, J E 44, 46 Royal Gifts in the Late Bronze Silverman, David P 1 Nelson, Kit 5 Petra: A Traveller’s Guide 39 Reading and Writing in the Time Age 30 Simpson, R S 19 Nemet-Nejat, Karen Rhea 44 Petra: Ez Zantur II 39 of Jesus 40 Royal Gold of Ancient Egypt 17 Simpson, W Kelly 11, 23 Netzer, Ehud 39 Petra: The Rose-Red City 39 Reading Egyptian Art 17 Royal Mummies 14 Sinai: Excavations and Studies 38 Neusner, Jacob 41 Pfrommer, Michael 27 Reading Sumerian Poetry 47 Royal Mummies in the Egyptian Sirks, A J B 23 Neveu, Francois 19 Pharaoh Triumphant 6 Reallexikon der ägyptischen 14 Siut-Theben 19 New Kingdom Royal City 16 Pharaoh’s Gateway to Eternity 15 Religionsgeschichte 10 Royal Palace Institution in 32 Sivan, Daniel 37 Nibbi, Alessandra 5 Pharaohs of the Sun 6 Recent Developments in Hittite 49 Royal Women of Amarna 18 Siwa: The Oasis 4 Nicholson, Paul 2, 5, 9 Pharaoh’s Workers 7 Redford, Donald B 2, 9 Rubin, Rehav 40 Skulpturen von Stratonikeia 51 Nielsen, Inge 32 Philip, Graham 36 Redford, S 9 Ruffle, John 18 Small, David 34 Nieuwenhuyse, O 48 Phillips, J Peter 5 Rée, Peta 3 Russell, John Malcolm 49 Small Golden Shrine from the 13 Nijhowne, Jeanna 47 Phillipson, David W 30 Rees, Joan 3 Russell, Norman 29 Smith, G Elliot 14 Nishiaki, Yoshihiro 36 Phoenician-Punic Grammar 38 Reeves, Carole 5 Russell, Terence M 2 Smith, L M V 25 Noah’s Flood 41 Piece of Shenoutiana 29 Reeves, N 2, 6, 12, 16, 18 Russmann, Edna R 16 Smith, Mark 5, 22 Noms du Pharaon commes êtres 6 Pillinger, Renate 29 Reflections of Osiris 7 Rutschowscaya, M-H 16 Smith, Richard 29 Nordh, Katarina 10 Pinch, Lyla Brock 22 Register of Oxyrhynchites 23 Ryan, William 41 Snape, Steven 5 Northedge, A 48 Pinnick, Avital 43 Regner, Christina 8 Ryholt, Kim 22 Snell, Daniel C 32 Novotny, Jamie R 47 Pitman, Walter 41 Rehm, Albert 51 Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance 8 Social Aspects of Funerary 14 Nunn, John F 8 Poblome, J 51 Reid, Donald Malcolm 2 Sagalassos IV 51 Social Context of Technological 30 Nuttall, M 13 Pocket Dictionary of Ancient Reliefs und Inschriftensteine 15 Sagalassos Red Slip Ware 51 Solé, Robert 20 Oates, David 36,48 Egyptian Gods 11 Religion and Magic in Ancient 10 Sagalassos V 51 Some Geographical Notes on Oates, Joan 36, 44, 48 Poetry and Culture in Middle Religion and Philosophy in 23 Saggs, H W F 44, 47 Ancient 5 Oates, John F 23 Kingdom 21 Religion and Society in Ancient Sagona, A G 50 Southern, Pat 7 Ockinga, Boyo G 13, 19 Poetry of Ancient Egypt 20 Egypt 10 Saite and Persian Demotic 23 Spalinger, Anthony 8 O’Connor, David 6 Pohl, Daniela 40 Religion der Ägypter 10 Saleh, M 13 Späthellenistich-römisch Keramik Of Pots and Plans 44 Poidevin, J-L 35 Religion in Ancient Mesop. 45 Sallaberger, W 48 40 O’Farrell, Gerald 3 Polignac, François de 27 Religion in Roman Egypt 28 Sandy, D Brent 23 Spencer, A J 25 Official Gift in Ancient Egypt 9 Politics, Religion, and Cylinder Religion of the Nabataeans 38 Sanlaville, Paul 34 Sphinx-Bild im Wandel der 15 Ogilvie-Herald, Chris 3, 42 Seals 47 Religions of Ancient Israel 33 Sarcophagus in the Tomb of Spieser, Cathie 6 Old Hieratic Paleography 19 Pollock, Susan 44 Remembering Osiris 19 Tutankhamun 13 Sprache der Pharaonen 19 On Scrolls, Artefacts 43 Polotsky, H J 23 Renner, Timothy T 23 Sasson, Jack M 31 Spurr, Stephen 16 On the Primaeval Ocean 22 Polz, Daniel 13 Reports from the Survey of Sauneron, Serge 10 Staatliche Baupolitik und On the Surface: Catalhöyük 49 Ponsford, Michael 14 Dakhleh 24 Scarab: A Reflection of Ancient Baufürsorge 51 On the Way to Nineveh 43 Pope, Maurice 20 Rewriting the Bible 41 Egypt 17 Städtische Wohnarchitektur in Oren, Eliezer D 34 Poplin, F 33 Rice, Michael 2, 4 Schaten, Sofia 28 Babylonien und Assyr 45 Origin of Early Israel 34 Porten, Bezalel 29 Richardson, M E J 32 Scheidel, Walter 28 Stafford-Deitsch, Jeremy 15 Osborn, Dale J 9 Postgate, Carolyn 48 Ridley, Ronald T 2 Schick, Tamar 35 Stager, Lawrence E 34 Osbornová, J 9 Postgate, J N 45 Richter, Siegfried G 28 Schiffman, Lawrence H 43 Standard Babylonian Epic of Osing, Jürgen 21 Potts, D T 48 Riggs, Christina 4 Schild, Romuald 5 Anzu 47 Overlaet, B 48 Poupeau, G 35 Rijksbaron, A 24 Schloen, J David 36 Starkey, Janet 2 Oxford Encyclopaedia of Pouyssegur, Patrick 31 Ritual and Cult at Ugarit 46 Schmid, Stephan G 39 State and Society in Roman Galilee Archaeology 31 Power and Place: Temple and Ritual in Narrative 37 Schminkpaletten 8 39 Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Identity 42 Road Archaeology in the Middle Schneider, E Equini 39 State Formation in Egypt 25 Egypt 2 Power and the Writing 47 Nile 25 Scholars, Scoundrels, and Sphinx 2 Statuen der 30.Dynastie 18 Oxford History of Ancient Egypt Pre-History of Egypt 4 Roaf, M 48 Schoors, Antoon 10 Steiner, M L 37, 38 1 Predynastic Period in Egypt 4 Robbins, Gay 5 Schubert, Paul 23 Stephens, Susan 23 Özgan, Ramazan 51 Priests and Officials 33 Roberts, Alison 10 Schulz, Klaus 1 Stern, Ephraim 38 Özgünel, Coskun 50 Priests of Ancient Egypt 10 Robson, Eleanor 45 Schwaller de Lubicz, R A 15 Stevenson, Gregory 42 Paläste der Hasmonäer und Pringle, Heather 14 Rodenbeck, Max 1 Schwartz, Daniel R 43 Stevenson, W Smith 17 Herodes I des Grossen 39 Prisse, E d’Avennes 17 Roehrig, Catharine H 12 Schwartz, Glenn M 31 Stol, M 32, 44 55 INDEX

Stone Vessels, Pottery, and 13 Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou 13 Vinson, Steve 5 World According to Basketry 9 Story of Decipherment 20 Tomb Of Simut 13 Visicato, Giuseppe 47 World of the Aramaeans 37 Story of King Kheops 22 Tomb of Siphtah 13 Vivian, Cassandra 4 Worp, K A 23, 24 Story of Petese Son of Petetum 22 Tomb of Thoutmôsis 13 Vivre en Égypte au temps de Wright, David P 37 Strouhal, Eugen 7 Tomb of Tut.ankh.amen 13 Pharaon 8 Wright, G R H 38 Strube, Christine 40 Tombs at Giza, Volume 1 11 Vleeming, Sven P 32 Writing Late Egyptian Hieratic Strudwick, Helen 16 Tombs of Amenhotep, Voet, G 32, 48 19 Strudwick, Nigel 12 Khnummose 12 Voies processionnelles de Thèbes 16 Writing on the Wall 49 Studia Troica 11 49 Tombs of El-Hagarsa 13 Vomberg, Petra 8, 20 Writing, Teachers, and Students Studien zur Religion und Kultur Tombs of Harmhabi 13 Von Bomhard, Anne-Sophie 23 Kleinasiens 33 Tooley, Angela M J 5 9 Wüste 4 Studies about Kamose and 20 Topographical Bibliography 24 Von Beckerath, Jürgen 6 Wyatt, Nicolas 36 Studies in Ancient Coinage from Török, László 30 Von der Way, Thomas 25 Yale Papyri 23 Turkey 50 Toroslar’da Bir Antik Kent 50 Von Lieven, Alexandra 10 Yale Papyrus 23 Studies in Ancient Egyptian Tov, Emanuel 43 Vorderasiatische Wagentypen im Yamada, Shigeo 44 Anatomical Terminology 14 Towards Reflexive Method in 49 Spiegel 46 Yener, K Aslihan 49 Studies in Historical Geog. 41 Transport in Ancient Egypt 9 Wachsmann, Shelley 37 Yesterday and Today: The Holy Studies in the Archaeology of 37 Travellers in Egypt 2 Waelkens, M 51 Land 33 Studies in the Hekanakhte 20 Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Wäfler, M 48 Young, Wendy 51 Study of the Ancient Near 31 Ur 46 Waitkus, Wolfgang 15 Younger, K Lawson 44 Suleiman, A 48 Trenchard, Warren C 35 Walker, Christopher 46 Younker, Randall W 37 Svarth, Dan 9 Trigger, Bruce G 4, 23 Walker, J H 14 Youtie, Louise C 23 Svetlana Hodjash 17 Troia: 3000 Jahre Geschichte im Walker, Roxie 14 Zadok’s Heirs: The Role 42 Swanson, R N 42 Modell 49 Walker, Susan 7 Zampetti, Daniela 35 Sweeney, E J 42 Trombley, Frank R 40 Walking the Bible 41 Zettler, Richard L 46 Sweeney, Marvin A 42 Trope, Betsy Teasley 17 Walls, Neal 33 Zevit, Ziony 33 Taboo or Not Taboo 42 Trümpler, Charlotte 33 Walters, C C 29 Ziegler, Christiane 16 Tait, H J 29 Tubb, Jonathan N 34 Wanddarstellungen im Grab des Zlotnick, Helena 42 Tait, W J 13 Tucker, D J 48 Mehu in Saqqara 15 Zodiaque d’Osiris 11 Tale of Sinuhe and other 22 Tumbas reales egipcias 13 Warburton, David 30 Zwischen Tigris und Nil 25 Tale of the Eloquent Peasant 22 Turkei 51 Watanabe, Kazuko 33 Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor 22 Tutankhamen: The Politics of 3 Watson, Wilfred G E 36 Talon, P 48 Tutankhamun Deception 3 Watt, John W 40 Taracha, Piotr 49 Tutankhamun: Eternal Splendour Wattenmaker, Patricia 45 Abbreviations: Taylor, Jane 39 13 Watterson, Barbara 1, 6, 11 Taylor, John H 14 Tutankhamun: The Exodus Weeks, Kent R 3, 12, 23 ACE Australian Centre for Egytology Tcherikover, Victor 40 Conspiracy 3, 42 Weg des Weinens 29 AEA Association for Environmental Archaeology Teeter, Emily 1 Twilight of Ancient Egypt 4 Weinfeld, Moshe 41 AP Academic Press Teeter, Timothy M 23 Two Treasurers of the Late Middle Welsby, Derek A 4 Tel Anafa 39 9 Wendorf, Fred 5, 25 ASP American Society of Papyrologists Tel Ira 36 Tyldesley, Joyce 6, 7, 8 Wendrich, Willemina Z 9, 26 ASOR American Schools of Oriental Research Tel Te’o: A Neolithic 35 Uehlinger, Christoph 32 Werr, Lamia Al-Gailani 44 AUCP American University in Cairo Press Tell Beydar 48 Ulrich, Eugene 43 Westbrook, Raymond 30, 32 BAR British Archaeological Series (British) Tell Boueid 48 Umm El-Qaab 12 Westendorf, Wolfhart 8 Tell el-Dab’a 25 Unsterblichen Obelisken Äyptens Western Desert of Egypt 4 BAR S British Archaeological Series (International) Tell el-Faraîn/Buto I 25 15 Wevers, John W 37 BIAA British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Tell el-Dab’a IX 25 Untersuchungen zu den What did the Biblical Writers BMP British Museum Press Tell el-Fara în: Buto III 25 Bestattungssitten 46 Know 41 Tell Kosak Shamali 36 Uphill, Eric P 5, 15 Whitehorne, J 7, 23 BSA British School at Athens Tell Rijim, Iraq 37 “Ur-Nammu” Stela 47 Whitelam, Keith W 41 BSAI British School of Archaeology in Iraq Tell Rubeidheh 48 Urbanism in Antiquity 45 Whiting, R M 48 CAA Computer Applications and Quantitative Tell Taannek 38 Urbanization and Land Who’s Who in Ancient Egypt Methods in Archaeology Temple Festival Calendars 10 Ownership 32 2, 4 Temples of Ancient Egypt 15 Uruk 47 Wiese, André 17 CBA Council for British Archaeology Temples of Karnak 15 Uruk Mesopotamia and Its 44 Wiesehöfer, Josef 48 CNWS Centre for Non-Western Studies, Leiden Temples of the Last Pharaohs 15 Uruk Phenomenon 44 Wihelm, Gernot 25 University Tepe Gawra 48 Uruk: Altbabylonische Texte 47 Wikander, Orjan 9 DAI Deutsches Archäeologisches Institut Terrace of the Great God at 23 Uruk: Die Architektur IV 45 Wildung, Dietrich 18 Teti Cemetery at Saqqara 11 Utili, Federico 50 Wilhelm, Gernot 50 EAA European Association of Archaeologists Texte in den unteren Krypten 15 Valbelle, Dominique 20 Wilkinson, Alix 9 HdO Handbook of Oriental Studies Thebanische Nekropole 12 Valley of the Kings 12 Wilkinson, Richard H 12, 15, IAA Israel Antiquities Authority Thebes In Egypt 16 Valley of the Kings and the 17 Theim, Eberhard 17 Theban 12 Wilkinson, T J 48 IFA Institute of Field Archaeologists Third Intermediate Period in Van de Mieroop, Marc 45, 47 Wilkinson, Toby A H 4, 21, JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology Egypt 4 Van der Vliet, J 27 25 OAW OAW Österreichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Thomas, Angela P 5, 11 Van Lerberghe, K 32, 48 Willeitner, Joachim 34 OBO Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis Thomsen, Marie-Louise 46 Van Rengen, Wilfried 27 Willems, Harco 10, 14, 26 Thoth: The Hermes of Egypt 11 Van Neer, Wim 25 Willis, William H 23 OLA Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta Threat-Formulae in Ancient 8 Vandeput, Lutgarde 51 Wilson, P 22 OUCA/OUSA Oxford University Committee/ Three Studies on Egyptian Feasts VanderKam, James C 43 Winter, Engelbert 51 School for Archaeology 8 Vartavan, Christian de 9 Winter, S C 43 PdÄ Probleme der Ägyptologie Tier im Alten Ägypten 9 Vassilika, Eleni 17 Wit and Humour in Ancient Tille Höyük 49 Vasunia, Phiroze 26 Egypt 8 RGRW Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Time at Emar 37 Venit, Marjorie 27 Witchcraft and Magic in Europe SAA Society for American Archaeology Tiradritti, Francesco 4, 16 Vercoutter, Jean 26 46 TAG Theoretical Archaeology Group Tod und Jenseits im Alten 14 Vermeersch, P M 25 Wolters, Al 43 Tomb and Beyond 14 Vermes, Geza 43 Women and Society in Greek and UCL University Collage London Tomb From the Reign of Vernant, Jean-Pierre 32 Roman Egypt 26 UKIC UK Institute for Conservation Tutankhamun 13 Vernus, Pascal 11,23 Women of Babylon 44 UP University Press Tomb KV39 in the Valley 12 Village Life in Ancient Egypt 7 Wooden Statues of the Old VML Verlag Marie Leidorf Tomb of Amenhab No 44 12 Villeneuve, François 36 Kingdom 18 56