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Top papers from your news feed from the last week Pharaonic Egypt by Ian Shaw Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, ed. P. Lane and P. Mitchell (Oxford: OUP, 2013) pp.737-50. Download Bookmark A multi-analytical approach to gold in Ancient Egypt: Studies on provenance and corrosion by Ian Shaw Tissot, I., Troalen, L.G., Manso, M., Ponting, M., Radtke, M., Reinholz, U., Barreiros, M.A., Shaw, I., Carvalho, M.L. and M.F. Guerra 2015. “A multi-analytical approach to gold in Ancient Egypt: Studies on provenance and corrosion”, Spectro Chimica Acta Part B 108: 75-82. Download Bookmark Figured ostraca from Deir el-Medina by Joanne Backhouse | Bookmarked by Kasia Szpakowska Download Bookmark Pig Husbandry in Iron Age Israel and Judah by Israel Finkelstein | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris The biblical prohibition against the consumption of pork (Lev 11:7; Deut 14:8), observed in Judaism for over two millennia, is the reason for the special attention paid to the appearance of pig bones in Iron Age strata in the southern Levant. Scholars have assumed that archaeology can shed light on the date of the emergence of this taboo, its role in the shaping of Israelite identity and its function in forming cultural boundaries with neighboring cultures. HESSE reviewed the zooarchaeological data and demonstrated that pig frequencies at sites from the Iron Age are very low, except for... Download Bookmark Aegyptiaca Rossica I Summaries by Nika Lavrentyeva | Bookmarked by Kasia Szpakowska The first issue of a new Russian academic journal on egyptology Download Bookmark Jones, Prudence J.: Cleopatra - Sourcebook by Hesham Elshazly | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Priests and priestly roles in the Isiac cults: the case of Roman Athens in A.Chaniotis (ed), Ritual Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean; agency, emotion, gender, representation, Stuttgart, (2011) 61-84 by Paraskevi Martzavou | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Canaanite jars and jar sealings from Deir al-Medina. Scattered evidence of Egypt’s economic relations with the Levant during the New Kindgom by Laurent Bavay | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Beside official inscriptions on royal and divine monuments, pottery provides a major source of informa- tion on Egypt’s foreign relations during the Late Bronze Age. in particular, the interdisciplinary study of transport amphorae has proven especially successful in reconstructing the economic system behind the import of Levantine products in Egypt. Geochemical analyses of Canaanite amphorae fabrics from Memphis and Amarna demonstrated the existence and geographical provenance of different groups within this category of imported vessels. These groups can be related to the hieratic... Download Bookmark Naukratis: Egyptian Late Period figures in terracotta and limestone (2015) by Ross Thomas | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Naukratis was a Nile Delta settlement in which many inhabitants followed the Egyptian religious and cultural practices of Lower Egypt. The over 550 Late Period Egyptian figures found at the site are a large and important group among the finds from Naukratis because they attest a clear link with native Egyptian practices at a settlement commonly misunderstood as predominantly Greek. Manufactured from both terracotta and limestone, they are of typical Lower Egyptian types, with representations of nude female, ithyphallic male and Bes figures particularly frequent. Indeed, phallic figures and... Download Bookmark (with J. Baines) 'Images, human bodies, and the ritual construction of memory in late predynastic Egypt'. In Hendrickx, S., Al, E. (Eds.). Egypt at its Origins: Studies in Memory of Barbara Adams (Leuven: Peeters, 2004) by David Wengrow | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Share your papers Upload Your Papers

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