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TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED Alexander Fantalkin Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Khirbet Qeiyafa: An Unsensational Archaeological and Historical Interpretation ABSTRACT The article deals with the finds at the late Iron I settlement of Khirbet Qeiyafa, a site overlooking the Valley of Elah in the Shephelah. It points out the methodological shortcomings in both field work and interpretation of the finds. It then turns to several issues related to the finds: the identity of the inhabitants, their territorial affiliation and the possibility of identifying Khirbet Qeiyafa with sites mentioned in the Bible and in the Shoshenq I list. Download Bookmark Josef Wegner Bookmarked by Kasia Szpakowska The Tomb of Senwosret III at Abydos: Considerations on the Origins and Development of the Royal Amduat Tomb Download Bookmark Keith Hamilton Bookmarked by Peter Manuelian The Great Pit of Zawiyet el-Aryan Download Bookmark Israel Finkelstein Bookmarked by Ellen Morris The Territorial Extent and Demography of Yehud/Judea in the Perisan and Early Hellenistic Periods Download Bookmark Lorenzo Nigro Bookmarked by Ellen Morris THE EL-ATAN TOMB: AN EARLY BRONZE IVB FEMALE BURIAL IN THE HEART OF BETHLEHEM An Early Bronze IVB tomb was discovered by the MOTA-DACH on June 2009 in the city of Bethlehem, nearby the Milk Grotto. Its architectural features, burials and associated funerary equipment are here considered and compared with those of other Early Bronze IV cemeteries and necropoleis of Southern Levant to grasp the historical-archaeological meaning of this discovery. Download Bookmark Raymond Van Leeuwen Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Agriculture and Wisdom: The Case of the "Gezer Calendar." Uncorrected Page Proofs for a Forthcoming Festschrift The so-called "Gezer Calendar" is lapidary exemplar of ancient agricultural wisdom in condensed form. The genre first appears in the "Farmer's Manual" from Sumer and continues into the Greco-Roman tradition starting with Hesiod's "Works and Days." Download Bookmark Luca Miatello Bookmarked by Rita Lucarelli BURIAL AND MORTUARY PRACTICES IN LATE PERIOD AND GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT Download Bookmark Drew Wilburn Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Material Culture and Texts of Graeco-Roman Egypt: Creating Context, Debating Meaning The archaeology of Graeco-Roman Egypt and its sister-discipline papyrology were born together from the same colonial stew of illicit and sanctioned excavations that produced massive quantities of papyri and artifacts from Egypt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the 1920's, a small number of researchers began to record findspots and stratigraphic levels for the artifacts that were added to the collections of their respective institutions and to produce cohesive syntheses of the papyri and other objects brought out of Egypt. The following decades, however, were... Download Bookmark Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Keeping and Displaying Royal Tribute Animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East | 305 Keeping and Displaying Royal Tribute Animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East The Achaemenid dynasty (559–331 B.C.) ruled the biggest empire the ancient world had ever seen. Commanding lands from India to Ethiopia and Libya to Afghanistan, the Great Kings of Persia demanded loyalty and tribute from the conquered peoples who made up their vast realm, and the walls of their ceremonial capital at Persepolis in the heart of Iran abound with images of foreign delegations carrying tribute to their monarch. Amidst the gold, silver, textiles and precious stones brought to the ruler is a rich abundance of exotic wildlife: Asiatic lions, Bactrian camels, zebu, wild asses, and... Download Bookmark Christian Knoblauch Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Bound Stabbed and Left for Dead: A Damaged Wax Figurine From Helwan, GM 229, 2011 Primary Publication and interpretation of a wax figurine from Helwan Cemetery, Egypt. Download Bookmark Academia, 251 Kearny St., Suite 520, San Francisco, CA, 94108