34 research outputs found
Book Review : Ο Διόνυσος στην Άνδρο ή οι μεταμορφώσεις ενός μύθου
No full textΟ Διόνυσος στην Άνδρο ή οι μεταμορφώσεις ενός μύθου. Dimitris. I. Kyrtatas. Athens, Arga, 2102, 119 pages, + 17 plates. ISBN 978-960-325-965-7Book reviewed by Erica Angliker. University of Zurich/ Birkbeck University of London.
Cycladic archaeology and research: new approaches and discoveries/ edited by Erica Angliker and John Tully.
No full textPreviously issued in print: 2018.Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.Specialized.Recent excavations and new theoretical approaches are changing our view of the Cyclades. This volume aims to share these recent developments with a broader, international audience. Essays have been carefully selected as representing some of the most important recent work and include significant previously-unpublished material.1 online resource (298 pages)
Inspecto nummo...The materiality of coin imagery and inscriptions in the Roman world
No full textWhat impact did coin inscriptions and images have on the Roman public? Were coins perceived exclusively as money or as visual and textual media too? And how did people engage with them, both materially and, perhaps, even emotionally? By addressing these questions this chapter aims to contribute to the discussion on the materiality of texts in the ancient world through the lens of coinage, considering both literary and archaeological sources. In the first part, I will give an overview of the scholarly debate on the reception of coin imagery and inscriptions in the Roman world. In the second and third parts, I will examine two categories of numismatic evidence (graffitoed and defaced coins), which can shed light on how people in Rome and in the provinces altered coins either to use them as carriers of messages or to react to the messages that they conveyed
What is a Book? The ideology of materiality in ancient Greek and Roman writing technology
No full textThe Activities of the Coroplastic Studies Interest Group
No full textThe Coroplastic Studies Interest Group (CSIG) held a meeting at the 121st Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies in Washington, DC (January 3–6, 2020)
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A Comparative Approach to Methods of Inscribing Clay Tablets. Interaction and Innovation in Cyprus and Ugarit
No full textClay tablets of different types played primary roles in Near Eastern and Aegean bureaucratic systems during the Bronze Age. Cyprus stands between these two traditions, but from surviving evidence does not seem to have developed its own well-established tradition of writing on tablets. Nevertheless, small numbers of tablets written in Cypro-Minoan script are found both on Cyprus and at Ugarit.
This paper examines the methods of inscription of two sets of Cypro-Minoan clay tablets: three found at Enkomi in eastern Cyprus and four found at Ugarit in Syria. These tablets have been claimed to be strongly influenced by cuneiform, both in the typology and shape of the tablets and in some visual aspects of the signs written on them. However, more recent scholarship has rejected this ‘cuneiformisation’ as superficial resemblance.
We compare these documents with examples from the Aegean, Ugarit and elsewhere in Cyprus. We consider features including find context, size and shape of document, layout, text formatting techniques, depth and method of incision and type of implement or stylus. This holistic approach to the physical properties of the documents allows us to better understand Cypriot responses to the wider sphere of Mediterranean and Near Eastern literacy
(F.) Mavridis and (J.T.) Jensen Eds. Stable Places and Changing Perceptions: Cave Archaeology in Greece (BAR International Series 2558). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013. Pp. xxi + 333, illus. £51. 9781407311791
No full textBook Review: Greek Federal States and their Sanctuaries: Identity and Integration. Proceedings of an International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics' Held in Münster, 17.06: Funke (P.) and Haake (M.) Eds. Greek Federal States and their Sanctuaries: Identity and Integration. Proceedings of an International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics' Held in Münster, 17.06. - 19.06.2010. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. Pp. 244. €52. 9783515103077
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