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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins also pl ayed a vital role in the daily life of the living and marked their owner's taste and status. Coffin history is an ongoing process and does not end with the ancient burial. The coffins that were discovered and shipped to museums have become part of the National heritages. The Vatican Coffin Project is the first international research project to study the entire use-life of Egyptian coffins from an interdisciplinary perspective.This edited volume presents the first Leiden results of the project focusing on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of Amun that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. Six chapters, written by international specialists, present the history of the Priests of Amun, the production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins from Ancient Egypt until modern times. The book appeals to the general public interested in Egyptian culture, heritage studies, and restoration research, and will also be a stimulating read for both students and academics.ContentsChapter 1: The Vatican Coffin ProjectAlessia Amenta, Christian Greco, Ulderico Santamaria, and Lara WeissChapter 2: The 21st Dynasty: The theocracy of Amun, and the position of the Theban priestly families.Gerard P. F. BroekmanChapter 3: The Tomb of the Priests of Amun at Thebes: The history of the findRogério SousaChapter 4: The coffins in Leiden4.1. The Letters of Willem PleyteLiliane Mann4.2 Lot XI in LeidenChristian Greco and Lara WeissChapter 5: Painting techniques of the Leiden coffinsElsbeth GeldhofChapter 6: Coffin Reuse in Dynasty 21: A Case Study of the Coffins in the Rijksmuseum van OudhedenKathlyn M. Cooney 102 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present. ContentsPreface: Relaunching the Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens Series Winfred van de Put, director of the Netherlands Institute at AthensIntroductionTamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser, and David WeidgenanntPart I: Building Remembrance1. Roman Greece and the 'Mnemonic Turn'. Some Critical RemarksDimitris Grigoropoulos, Valentina Di Napoli, Vassilis Evangelidis, Francesco Camia, Dylan Rogers and Stavros Vlizos2. Strategies of Remembering in the Creation of a Colonial Society in PatrasTamara M. Dijkstra3. Contending with the Past in Roman Corinth: The Julian BasilicaCatherine de Grazia Vanderpool and Paul D. ScottonPart II: Competing with the Past4. Heritage Societies Private Associations in Roman GreeceBenedikt Eckhardt5. Performing the Past: Salamis, Naval Contests and the Athenian EphebeiaZahra Newby6. Greek Panhellenic Agones in a Roman Colony: Corinth and the Return of the Isthmian GamesLavinia del BassoPart III: Honoring Tradition 7. Heroes of Their Times. Intra-Mural Burials in the Urban Memorial Landscapes of the Roman PeloponneseJohannes Fouquet8. Public Statues as a Strategy of Remembering in Early Imperial MesseneChristopher Dickenson9. Shortages, Remembering and the Construction of Time: Aspects of Greek Honorific Culture (2nd century BC - 1st century AD)David WeidgenanntPart IV: History in Athens10. Anchoring Political Change in Post-Sullan AthensInger N.I. Kuin11. Reused Statues for Roman Friends: The Past as a Political Resource in Roman AthensMuriel Moser12. Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome: Some ConclusionsInger N.I. Kuin and Muriel MoserConclusion: Change and Remembering in Roman GreeceI.N.I. Kuin, M. Moser 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did What purpose did grave-goods actually serve Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed, once and for all, a curse placed upon them at their inception as research disciplines in the early nineteenth century Searching for answers to these questions is the aim of this book which has been written on the basis of widely spread, typical components of grave-goods. For the last two centuries, they have been interpreted incorrectly, because of being aligned with archaeologists' ideas about the spiritual world of the society in question. The book introduces a recently discovered phenomenon that accompanied mankind from his discovery of the uses of metal all the way through to the Middle Ages - that is the importance of touchstones, tools used to determine the nature and test the value of non-ferrous metals. Of the hundreds of thousands of such finds, which have most often been regarded as 'whetstones', the author has made a selection of specimens that cast light on the role of touchstones in the culture of ancient societies, especially in the burial ritual. Forming a key part of the book are the results of chemical microanalyses of metal streaks on the touchstones, a hitherto unused source of information for the skills of ancient metallurgists. Streaks of precious metal are not as important today as the common streaks of lead, tin, brass, etc.; streaks of metals composed of zinc, nickel, mercury, etc., raise new questions. Viking Age Birka serves as a fine example. It has yielded the largest known assemblage of touchstones and also boasts the largest number of such finds to have been analysed in the scanning electron microscope. However, this site has counterparts in Mesopotamia and the Near East, in the ancient Mediterranean region, in the Cimmerian and Scythian environments, in Europe of the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Migration periods, and, in particular, in the northern part of Europe during the Early Middle Ages - anywhere trade was not dominated by coins minted by local authorities. The four-millennium continuity of the essentially unified spiritual life shared by a large part of the Old World came to an end with the onset of Christianity in Europe.This book is intended for archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, ethnologists, archaeometallurgists, and for everybody who wishes to marvel at the consistent symbolic behaviour of ancient societies of the Old World from between, at the least, Mesopotamia, the Altai Mountains and Iceland, despite their cultural, ethnic and religious differences.ContentsTable of contents1. Acknowledgements2. Introduction3. General issues4. The (pre)historic background - in brief5. Prehistory in archaeology and prehistory in practice6. Not just stones7. Archaeology, myths and archaeological myths8. Longue durée symbols of elite status9. A symbol for the dead of all ages10. Analysed touchstones from the Birka burials11. Metals on touchstones from Birka and elsewhere12. Nickel appearance13. On the limits of SEM analysis14. A lesson from the deep15. Forgotten star witnesses, or Conclusion16. Appendix: The petrographic qualities of analysed stone artefacts from Birka, and their description 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800-500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these objects are found brought together in varying configurations in cremation burials generally known as chieftains' graves or princely burials. In terms of grave goods they resemble the Fürstengräber of the Hallstatt Culture of Central Europe, with famous Dutch and Belgian examples being the Chieftain's grave of Oss, the wagon-grave of Wijchen and the elite cemetery of Court-St-Etienne.Fragmenting the Chieftain presents the results of an in-depth and practice-based archaeological analysis of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves and the burial practice through which they were created. It was established that the elite burials are embedded in the local burial practices - as reflected by the use of the cremation rite, the bending and breaking of grave goods, and the pars pro toto deposition of human remains and objects, all in accordance with the dominant local urnfield burial practice. It appears that those individuals interred with wagons and related items warranted a more elaborate funerary rite, most likely because these ceremonial and cosmologically charged vehicles marked their owners out as exceptional individuals. Furthermore, in a few graves the configuration of the grave good set, the use of textiles to wrap grave goods and the dead and the reuse of burial mounds show the influence of individuals familiar with Hallstatt Culture burial customs.A comprehensive overview of the Dutch and Belgian graves can be found in the accompanying Fragmenting the Chieftain - Catalogue. Late Bronze and Early Iron Age elite burials in the Low Countries (separate publication).Contents1 Introduction2 Theoretical framework: identifying elites and their graves3 Dating elite burials4 The elite burials: presenting the dataset5 The (development of the) elite burial practice6 How grave goods were used and interpreted7 Conclusion8 Final reflections and questions for the futureSummary (English and Dutch)AcknowledgementsBibliographyCurriculum vitaeApp. A1 AbbreviationsApp.A2 Summary overview of objects in Catalogue, per find category 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Many are no larger than a fingertip. They are engraved with symbols, magic spells and images of gods, animals and emperors. These stones were used for various purposes. The earliest ones served as seals for making impressions in soft materials. Later engraved gems were worn or carried as personal ornaments - usually rings, but sometimes talismans or amulets. The exquisite engraved designs were thought to imbue the gems with special powers. For example, the gods and rituals depicted on cylinder seals from Mesopotamia were thought to protect property and to lend force to agreements marked with the seals.This edited volume discusses some of the finest and most exceptional precious and semi-precious stones from the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities - more than 5.800 engraved gems from the ancient Near East, Egypt, the classical world, renaissance and 17th-20th centuries - and other special collections throughout Europe. Meet the people behind engraved gems: gem engravers, the people that used the gems, the people that re-used them and above all the gem collectors. This is the first major publication on engraved gems in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden since 1978.ContentsTable of contents:Preface Wim Weijland, director Rijksmuseum van OudhedenIntroductionBen van den Bercken (assistant curator Engraved Gems, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)1.Roman Gems in Old Collections and in Modern ArchaeologyMartin Henig (member of the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford/honorary professor, University College London)2.Cassandra on Seals. Ring Stone Images as Self-Representation: an ExampleMarianne Kleibrink (professor emeritus Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, Groningen University)3.Some Cameos in Leiden - Roman to NeoclassicismGertrud Platz-Horster (former vice director Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)4.The Original RMO Engraved Gem Collection: Gem Identification and Applied Research TechniquesHanco Zwaan and Christine Swaving (Naturalis Biodiversity Center/Netherlands Gemmological Laboratory, Leiden)5.An Important Collection of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals.Diederik J.W. Meijer (associate professor Near Eastern Archaeology, Leiden University)6.Sasanian Seals: Owners and Re-usersRika Gyselen (research director emeritus CNRS, Iranian and Indian World)7.Invocations to Hermes and Aphrodite on Two Engraved Gems in LeidenAttilio Mastrocinque (professor of Roman history, University of Verona)8.The Importance of Gems in the Work of Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640Marcia Pointon (professor emeritus in History of Art, University of Manchester)9.Post-Classical Cameos, their Makers and UsersClaudia Wagner (senior research lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)10.Princely Splendour: Some Cameo Vessels from the Middle of the Seventeenth Century and their Patrons Jørgen Hein (senior curator of the Royal Danish Collection at Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen)11.'A Treasure, a Schoolmaster, a Pass-Time' Dactyliothecae in the 18th and 19th Centuries and their Function as Teaching Aids in Schools and UniversitiesValentin Kockel (professor emeritus for Classical Archaeology, University of Augsburg)12.Non Grylloi, Baskania Sunt. On the Significance of the So Called Grylloi/Grilli or Grylli in Greek and Roman GlypticsCarina Weiss, (independent researcher, Archaeological Institute of the University of Würzburg)13.Another Perspective on the So Called GrylloiSelkit Verberk (assistant curator Engraved Gems, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)14.Some Unpublished Scarabs from the Leiden CollectionBen van den Bercken (assistant curator Engraved Gems, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden) 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various studies on the use of methods such as LiDAR (light detection and ranging), archaeological prospection, visibility, mobility and the analysis of the spatial distribution of archaeological objects, applied in various contexts. The case studies vary widely and include the Late Pleistocene in the Northern Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Republican period in Southern Italy, the Formative period in the Andes and the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War.In 2005 a (then) pioneering postgraduate course on the applicability of digital geospatial technologies for archaeology was launched in Spain. Quite unexpectedly, the course has been alive annually for more than 10 years so far, having trained around 300 young archaeologists from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in the critical use of nowadays popular tools such as GIS, GPS, remote sensing and LiDAR for the documentation and analysis of the archaeological record.To commemorate the first 10 years of the course, a conference was organized in Mérida (Spain) in October 2015. Former students were invited to present and discuss their research in which these technologies were used intensively; this edited book is a selection of those contributions. Through a series of widely varying case-studies, both technically sophisticated and theoretically informed applications of such digital technologies are presented.All the contributors are young researchers, either young doctors or doctorate students, coming from fairly varied archaeological contexts and approaches. 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Starting in the year 1828, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, unearthed more than 2000 Greek vases on his estate near the ancient Etruscan town of Vulci. The vases were restored and found their way to archaeological collections all around the world. This volume publishes 10 papers by scholars of international repute dealing with these ceramics.The papers were presented in 2015 at a colloquium in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, which acquired 96 vases from the Bonaparte collection in 1839. Specialists in the fields of museum history, Greek vase-painting, restoration and 19th century collecting practices from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy and Russia have contributed to this volume, which offers the newest insights into the person of Lucien Bonaparte, his excavation practices, the history of restorations and the selling and buying of Greek ceramics in the 19th century.The results have helped to extend our knowledge of the collectors, traders and scholars, who were concerned with Greek vases during the 19th century. Their activities took place in a pivotal period, in which the black- and red figure ceramics, which had come to light in Italy during the previous centuries, were finally assigned to Greek craftsmanship instead of to Etruscan manufacture.The book also contains a concise photographic catalogue illustrating the highlights of the Leiden Canino collection.ContentsWim WeijlandForewordPieter ter KeursLucien Bonaparte and the Politics of CollectingAlessandra CostantiniLucien Bonaparte, the Archaeologist-PrinceAnne Viole SiebertStaying at Musignano: August Kestner and the excavations of the Principe di CaninoAnna PetrakovaCanino vases in the State Hermitage Museum: the history of purchasingRuurd Halbertsma and Jos van HeelGreek vases in The Hague and Leiden: the sale of Canino vases in 1839Vinnie NørskovThe Canino Auctions - the unidentified vasesFriederike Bubenheimer-ErhartThe appreciation of black- and red-figure vases and other pottery wares according to the Canino documentsMarie-Amélie BernardWithout adding any line of drawing - The restoration of the Canino vases: principles, reality and actorsRenske Dooijes and Marianna DüringThe Canino Collection: Historical Restorations on Greek vases in the National Museum of Antiquities in LeidenAnastasia BukinaRestorations on the Canino vases of the Hermitage museumPhotographic catalogue of highlights of the Leiden Canino collection 166 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For many past and present societies, pottery forms an integral part of material culture and everyday practice. This makes it a promising case example to address human-thing-relations on a more general level, as well as social life itself. Humans organise their lives not only by engaging with materials and things but also by oscillating between movement and stasis. In these various rhythms of mobility - from daily subsistence-based movements to long-term migrations - things like ceramic vessels are crafted, but also act as consumer goods. From their production until their deposition as waste, grave-goods, collectibles etc. pottery vessels can move with their owners or be passed on and may thus shift between spatial, temporal, social, economic and cultural contexts. This volume unites contributions addressing such phenomena from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Evolved from an interdisciplinary workshop held at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences (University of Bern) in 2015, the aim is not to promote one single epistemic approach or any elaborated empirical findings but to trigger thoughts and foster discussions. While the first part of the book contains introductory texts, the second part includes archaeological contributions that address mobility and social ties by focussing on variability in pottery production within, as well as between, settlements and regions. Taking a more object-centred perspective, they comprise attempts to think beyond established concepts of 'archaeological cultures' and chronological issues. The third part unites anthropological and archaeological texts that take more actor-centred perspectives of making, distributing and using pottery. These texts examine how humans and things are intertwined though practices and various rhythms of movement and mobility. Thereby it can be shown how cultural forms are reproduced but also transformed by humans and things, like pots, potters, pottery mongers and pottery users that are intermittently on the move.ContentsForeword - Albert HafnerPart 1. Changing perspectives, changing insights'Mobility and pottery production', what for Introductory remarks - Caroline Heitz, Regine StapferPrehistoric archaeology, anthropology and material culture studies: aspects of their origins and common roots - Albert HafnerMaterial culture and mobility: A brief history of archaeological thought - Astrid Van OyenPart 2. Object-centred perspectives: From 'cultures' and chronology to relations and mobilityThe Munzingen culture in the southern Upper Rhine Plain (3950-3600 BC) - Loïc Jammet-ReynalFrom typo-chronology to inter- and intra site variety: the 'Michelsberg' pottery of South Germany (4300-3600 BC) - Ute SeidelSocial dynamics and mobility: Discussing 'households' in Linear Pottery Culture research (6 ML BC) - Isabel HohleSpecial pottery in 'Cortaillod' settlements of Neolithic western Switzerland (3900-3500 BC) - Regine StapferCultural and chronological attribution of pottery on the move: from rigid time-space schemata towards flexible microarchaeological 'messworks' - Eda GrossPart 3. Actor-centred perspectives: Movements of making - mobilities of pots, potters, skills and ideas Movement in making: 'Women working with clay' in northern Côte d'Ivoire - Iris KöhlerForm follows fingers: Roman pottery, the producer's perspective and the mobility of ideas - Nadja MelkoPractice, social cohesion and identity in pottery production in the Balearic Islands (1500-500 BC) - Daniel Albero SantacreuMaking things, being mobile: pottery as intertwined histories of humans and materials - Caroline HeitzPots on the move become different: Emplacement and mobility of pottery, specific properties of pots and their contexts of use - Hans Peter HahnAfterword - Philipp Stockhammer 322 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.ContentsPreface: Relaunching the Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens SeriesWinfred van de Put, director of the Netherlands Institute at AthensIntroductionTamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser, and David WeidgenanntPart I: Building Remembrance1. Roman Greece and the ¿Mnemonic Turn¿. Some Critical RemarksDimitris Grigoropoulos, Valentina Di Napoli, Vassilis Evangelidis, Francesco Camia, Dylan Rogers and Stavros Vlizos2. Strategies of Remembering in the Creation of a Colonial Society in PatrasTamara M. Dijkstra3. Contending with the Past in Roman Corinth: The Julian BasilicaCatherine de Grazia Vanderpool and Paul D. ScottonPart II: Competing with the Past4. Heritage Societies Private Associations in Roman GreeceBenedikt Eckhardt5. Performing the Past: Salamis, Naval Contests and the Athenian EphebeiaZahra Newby6. Greek Panhellenic Agones in a Roman Colony: Corinth and the Return of the Isthmian GamesLavinia del BassoPart III: Honoring Tradition7. Heroes of Their Times. Intra-Mural Burials in the Urban Memorial Landscapes of the Roman PeloponneseJohannes Fouquet8. Public Statues as a Strategy of Remembering in Early Imperial MesseneChristopher Dickenson9. Shortages, Remembering and the Construction of Time: Aspects of Greek Honorific Culture (2nd century BC ¿ 1st century AD)David WeidgenanntPart IV: History in Athens10. Anchoring Political Change in Post-Sullan AthensInger N.I. Kuin11. Reused Statues for Roman Friends: The Past as a Political Resource in Roman AthensMuriel Moser12. Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome: Some ConclusionsInger N.I. Kuin and Muriel MoserConclusion: Change and Remembering in Roman GreeceI.N.I. Kuin, M. MoserBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins also pl ayed a vital role in the daily life of the living and marked their owner¿s taste and status. Coffin history is an ongoing process and does not end with the ancient burial. The coffins that were discovered and shipped to museums have become part of the National heritages. The Vatican Coffin Project is the first international research project to study the entire use-life of Egyptian coffins from an interdisciplinary perspective.This edited volume presents the first Leiden results of the project focusing on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of Amun that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. Six chapters, written by international specialists, present the history of the Priests of Amun, the production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins from Ancient Egypt until modern times. The book appeals to the general public interested in Egyptian culture, heritage studies, and restoration research, and will also be a stimulating read for both students and academics.ContentsChapter 1: The Vatican Coffin ProjectAlessia Amenta, Christian Greco, Ulderico Santamaria, and Lara WeissChapter 2: The 21st Dynasty: The theocracy of Amun, and the position of the Theban priestly families.Gerard P. F. BroekmanChapter 3: The Tomb of the Priests of Amun at Thebes: The history of the findRogério SousaChapter 4: The coffins in Leiden4.1. The Letters of Willem PleyteLiliane Mann4.2 Lot XI in LeidenChristian Greco and Lara WeissChapter 5: Painting techniques of the Leiden coffinsElsbeth GeldhofChapter 6: Coffin Reuse in Dynasty 21: A Case Study of the Coffins in the Rijksmuseum van OudhedenKathlyn M. CooneyBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 102 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did What purpose did grave-goods actually serve Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed, once and for all, a curse placed upon them at their inception as research disciplines in the early nineteenth century Searching for answers to these questions is the aim of this book which has been written on the basis of widely spread, typical components of grave-goods. For the last two centuries, they have been interpreted incorrectly, because of being aligned with archaeologists¿ ideas about the spiritual world of the society in question.The book introduces a recently discovered phenomenon that accompanied mankind from his discovery of the uses of metal all the way through to the Middle Ages ¿ that is the importance of touchstones, tools used to determine the nature and test the value of non-ferrous metals. Of the hundreds of thousands of such finds, which have most often been regarded as ¿whetstones¿, the author has made a selection of specimens that cast light on the role of touchstones in the culture of ancient societies, especially in the burial ritual.Forming a key part of the book are the results of chemical microanalyses of metal streaks on the touchstones, a hitherto unused source of information for the skills of ancient metallurgists. Streaks of precious metal are not as important today as the common streaks of lead, tin, brass, etc.; streaks of metals composed of zinc, nickel, mercury, etc., raise new questions. Viking Age Birka serves as a fine example. It has yielded the largest known assemblage of touchstones and also boasts the largest number of such finds to have been analysed in the scanning electron microscope. However, this site has counterparts in Mesopotamia and the Near East, in the ancient Mediterranean region, in the Cimmerian and Scythian environments, in Europe of the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Migration periods, and, in particular, in the northern part of Europe during the Early Middle Ages ¿ anywhere trade was not dominated by coins minted by local authorities. The four-millennium continuity of the essentially unified spiritual life shared by a large part of the Old World came to an end with the onset of Christianity in Europe.This book is intended for archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, ethnologists, archaeometallurgists, and for everybody who wishes to marvel at the consistent symbolic behaviour of ancient societies of the Old World from between, at the least, Mesopotamia, the Altai Mountains and Iceland, despite their cultural, ethnic and religious differences.ContentsTable of contents1. Acknowledgements2. Introduction3. General issues4. The (pre)historic background ¿ in brief5. Prehistory in archaeology and prehistory in practice6. Not just stones7. Archaeology, myths and archaeological myths8. Longue durée symbols of elite status9. A symbol for the dead of all ages10. Analysed touchstones from the Birka burials11. Metals on touchstones from Birka and elsewhere12. Nickel appearance13. On the limits of SEM analysis14. A lesson from the deep15. Forgotten star witnesses, or Conclusion16. Appendix: The petrographic qualities of analysed stone artefacts from Birka, and their descriptionBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800-500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these objects are found brought together in varying configurations in cremation burials generally known as chieftains' graves or princely burials. In terms of grave goods they resemble the Fürstengräber of the Hallstatt Culture of Central Europe, with famous Dutch and Belgian examples being the Chieftain's grave of Oss, the wagon-grave of Wijchen and the elite cemetery of Court-St-Etienne. The majority of the Dutch and Belgian burials were found several decades to several centuries ago and context information tends to be limited. They also tend to be published in Dutch or French or otherwise difficult to access publications. This research went back to the original reports and studied the objects found in these graves in detail. This generated new and evidence-based insights and interpretations into these exceptional burials and allowed for the reconstruction of the individual burial rituals. Fragmenting the Chieftain - Catalogue presents the first comprehensive overview of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves (in English) and the objects they contain. The results of an in-depth and practice-based archaeological analysis of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves and the burial practice through which they were created can be found in Fragmenting the Chieftain. A practice-based study of Early Iron Age Hallstatt C elite burials in the Low Countries.ContentsC1 IntroductionC2 Terminology and typology C3 Revealing restorationsC4 BaarloC5 Basse-WavreC6 Court-St-EtienneC7 Darp-BisschopsbergC8 Ede-Bennekom C9 Flobecq-Pottelberg Tombelle 78 C10 Gedinne-ChevaudosC11 Haps grave 190C12 Harchies-Maison CauchiesC13 Havré C14 Heythuizen-Bisschop C15 Hofstade-Kasteelstraat Sp. 16C16 Horst-HegelsomC17 La Plantée des DamesC18 Leesten-Meijerink grave 1C19 Limal-MorimoineC20 Lommel-Kattenbos Tombelle 20C21 Louette-St-Pierre Fosse-Aux-MortsC22 Maastricht-HeerC23 MeerloC24 MeppenC25 Neerharen-Rekem tombe 72C26 Oss-Vorstengraf C27 Oss-Zevenbergen C28 Rhenen-KoerheuvelC29 Someren-Kraayenstark C30 Someren-Philipscamping C31 Stoquoy Tombelle 5C32 Uden-Slabroek C33 Venlo C34 Weert-Boshoverheide C35 Wijchen BibliographyCA1 Hallstatt period textile finds from the NetherlandsCA2 Inventory Chieftain's grave of Oss through three restorations 282 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800¿500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these objects are found brought together in varying configurations in cremation burials generally known as chieftains¿ graves or princely burials. In terms of grave goods they resemble the Fürstengräber of the Hallstatt Culture of Central Europe, with famous Dutch and Belgian examples being the Chieftain¿s grave of Oss, the wagon-grave of Wijchen and the elite cemetery of Court-St-Etienne.Fragmenting the Chieftain presents the results of an in-depth and practice-based archaeological analysis of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves and the burial practice through which they were created. It was established that the elite burials are embedded in the local burial practices ¿ as reflected by the use of the cremation rite, the bending and breaking of grave goods, and the pars pro toto deposition of human remains and objects, all in accordance with the dominant local urnfield burial practice. It appears that those individuals interred with wagons and related items warranted a more elaborate funerary rite, most likely because these ceremonial and cosmologically charged vehicles marked their owners out as exceptional individuals. Furthermore, in a few graves the configuration of the grave good set, the use of textiles to wrap grave goods and the dead and the reuse of burial mounds show the influence of individuals familiar with Hallstatt Culture burial customs.A comprehensive overview of the Dutch and Belgian graves can be found in the accompanying Fragmenting the Chieftain ¿ Catalogue. Late Bronze and Early Iron Age elite burials in the Low Countries (separate publication).Contents1 Introduction2 Theoretical framework: identifying elites and their graves3 Dating elite burials4 The elite burials: presenting the dataset5 The (development of the) elite burial practice6 How grave goods were used and interpreted7 Conclusion8 Final reflections and questions for the futureSummary (English and Dutch)AcknowledgementsBibliographyCurriculum vitaeApp. A1 AbbreviationsApp. A2 Summary overview of objects in Catalogue, per find categoryBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Starting in the year 1828, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, unearthed more than 2000 Greek vases on his estate near the ancient Etruscan town of Vulci. The vases were restored and found their way to archaeological collections all around the world. This volume publishes 10 papers by scholars of international repute dealing with these ceramics.The papers were presented in 2015 at a colloquium in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, which acquired 96 vases from the Bonaparte collection in 1839. Specialists in the fields of museum history, Greek vase-painting, restoration and 19th century collecting practices from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy and Russia have contributed to this volume, which offers the newest insights into the person of Lucien Bonaparte, his excavation practices, the history of restorations and the selling and buying of Greek ceramics in the 19th century.The results have helped to extend our knowledge of the collectors, traders and scholars, who were concerned with Greek vases during the 19th century. Their activities took place in a pivotal period, in which the black- and red figure ceramics, which had come to light in Italy during the previous centuries, were finally assigned to Greek craftsmanship instead of to Etruscan manufacture.The book also contains a concise photographic catalogue illustrating the highlights of the Leiden Canino collection.ContentsWim WeijlandForewordPieter ter KeursLucien Bonaparte and the Politics of CollectingAlessandra CostantiniLucien Bonaparte, the Archaeologist-PrinceAnne Viole SiebertStaying at Musignano: August Kestner and the excavations of the Principe di CaninoAnna PetrakovaCanino vases in the State Hermitage Museum: the history of purchasingRuurd Halbertsma and Jos van HeelGreek vases in The Hague and Leiden: the sale of Canino vases in 1839Vinnie NørskovThe Canino Auctions ¿ the unidentified vasesFriederike Bubenheimer-ErhartThe appreciation of black- and red-figure vases and other pottery wares according to the Canino documentsMarie-Amélie BernardWithout adding any line of drawing ¿ The restoration of the Canino vases: principles, reality and actorsRenske Dooijes and Marianna DüringThe Canino Collection: Historical Restorations on Greek vases in the National Museum of Antiquities in LeidenAnastasia BukinaRestorations on the Canino vases of the Hermitage museumPhotographic catalogue of highlights of the Leiden Canino collectionBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 166 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various studies on the use of methods such as LiDAR (light detection and ranging), archaeological prospection, visibility, mobility and the analysis of the spatial distribution of archaeological objects, applied in various contexts. The case studies vary widely and include the Late Pleistocene in the Northern Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Republican period in Southern Italy, the Formative period in the Andes and the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War.In 2005 a (then) pioneering postgraduate course on the applicability of digital geospatial technologies for archaeology was launched in Spain. Quite unexpectedly, the course has been alive annually for more than 10 years so far, having trained around 300 young archaeologists from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in the critical use of nowadays popular tools such as GIS, GPS, remote sensing and LiDAR for the documentation and analysis of the archaeological record.To commemorate the first 10 years of the course, a conference was organized in Mérida (Spain) in October 2015. Former students were invited to present and discuss their research in which these technologies were used intensively; this edited book is a selection of those contributions. Through a series of widely varying case-studies, both technically sophisticated and theoretically informed applications of such digital technologies are presented.All the contributors are young researchers, either young doctors or doctorate students, coming from fairly varied archaeological contexts and approaches.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Many are no larger than a fingertip. They are engraved with symbols, magic spells and images of gods, animals and emperors. These stones were used for various purposes. The earliest ones served as seals for making impressions in soft materials. Later engraved gems were worn or carried as personal ornaments ¿ usually rings, but sometimes talismans or amulets. The exquisite engraved designs were thought to imbue the gems with special powers. For example, the gods and rituals depicted on cylinder seals from Mesopotamia were thought to protect property and to lend force to agreements marked with the seals.This edited volume discusses some of the finest and most exceptional precious and semi-precious stones from the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities ¿ more than 5.800 engraved gems from the ancient Near East, Egypt, the classical world, renaissance and 17th-20th centuries ¿ and other special collections throughout Europe. Meet the people behind engraved gems: gem engravers, the people that used the gems, the people that re-used them and above all the gem collectors. This is the first major publication on engraved gems in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden since 1978.ContentsTable of contents:PrefaceWim Weijland, director Rijksmuseum van OudhedenIntroductionBen van den Bercken (assistant curator Engraved Gems, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)1. Roman Gems in Old Collections and in Modern ArchaeologyMartin Henig (member of the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford/honorary professor, University College London)2. Cassandra on Seals. Ring Stone Images as Self-Representation: an ExampleMarianne Kleibrink (professor emeritus Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, Groningen University)3. Some Cameos in Leiden ¿ Roman to NeoclassicismGertrud Platz-Horster (former vice director Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)4. The Original RMO Engraved Gem Collection: Gem Identification and Applied Research TechniquesHanco Zwaan and Christine Swaving (Naturalis Biodiversity Center/Netherlands Gemmological Laboratory, Leiden)5. An Important Collection of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals.Diederik J.W. Meijer (associate professor Near Eastern Archaeology, Leiden University)6. Sasanian Seals: Owners and Re-usersRika Gyselen (research director emeritus CNRS, Iranian and Indian World)7. Invocations to Hermes and Aphrodite on Two Engraved Gems in LeidenAttilio Mastrocinque (professor of Roman history, University of Verona)8. The Importance of Gems in the Work of Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640Marcia Pointon (professor emeritus in History of Art, University of Manchester)9. Post-Classical Cameos, their Makers and UsersClaudia Wagner (senior research lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)10. Princely Splendour: Some Cameo Vessels from the Middle of the Seventeenth Century and their PatronsJørgen Hein (senior curator of the Royal Danish Collection at Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen)11. ¿A Treasure, a Schoolmaster, a Pass-Time¿ Dactyliothecae in the 18th and 19th Centuries and their Function as Teaching Aids in Schools and UniversitiesValentin Kockel (professor emeritus for Classical Archaeology, University of Augsburg)12. Non Grylloi, Baskania Sunt. On the Significance of the So Called Grylloi/Grilli or Grylli in Greek and Roman GlypticsCarina Weiss, (independent researcher, Archaeological Institute of the University of Würzburg)13. Another Perspective on the So Called GrylloiSelkit Verberk (assistant curator Engraved Gems, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)14. Some Unpublished Scarabs from the Leiden CollectionBen van den Bercken (assistant curator Engraved Gems, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 184 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Ritual Failure' is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transform, change or disappear, leaving only traces of its past glory Do societies change and then their ritual Or do customs change first, in turn provoking wider cultural shifts in society Archaeology possesses the tools and methodologies to explore these questions over the long term; from the emergence of a system, to its peak, and then its decay and disappearance, and in relation to wider social and chronological developments.The collected papers in this book introduce the concept of 'ritual failure' to archaeology. The analysis explores ways in which ritual may have been instrumental in sustaining cultural continuity during demanding social conditions, or how its functionality might have failed - resulting in discontinuity, change or collapse. The collected papers draw attention to those turbulent social times of change for which ritual practices are a sensitive indicator within the archaeological record. The book reviews archaeological evidence and theoretical approaches, and suggests models which could explain socio-cultural change through ritual failure. The concept of 'ritual failure' is also often used to better understand other themes, such as identity and wider social, economic and political transformations, shedding light on the social conditions that forced or introduced change.This book will engage those interested in ritual theory and practices, but will also appeal to those interested in exploring new avenues to understanding cultural change. From transformations in the use of ritual objects to the risks inherent in practicing ritual, from ritual continuity in customs to sudden and profound change, from the Neolithic Near East to Roman Europe and Iron Age Africa, this book explores what happens when ritual fails.Contents:IntroductionVasiliki G. Koutrafouri and Jeff SandersForeword: Introductory Thoughts on the Theme of 'Ritual Failure. Archaeological Perspectives'.by Timothy InsollThe Passage of Matter: Transformations of Objects and Ritual Meanings in the Neolithic of the Near East.Marc VerhoevenThe sky almost never falls on your head - why ritual rarely failsJeff SandersRitual Failure in the Business Records of Mesopotamian TemplesMichael KozuhRitual Failure and the Temple collapse of prehistoric Malta.Caroline Malone and Simon StoddartFrom wells to pillars, and from pillars to. Ritual systems transformation and collapse in the early prehistory of CyprusVasiliki G. KoutrafouriWhen Ancestors become Gods: The Transformation of Cypriote Ritual and Religion in the Late Bronze AgeDavid CollardColonial Entanglements and Cultic Heterogeneity on Rome's Germanic FrontierKarim MataThe Dead Acrobat: Managing Risk and Minoan IconographyEvangelos KyriakidisDiscussion: Defining momentsby Richard Bradley 170 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -For many past and present societies, pottery forms an integral part of material culture and everyday practice. This makes it a promising case example to address human-thing-relations on a more general level, as well as social life itself. Humans organise their lives not only by engaging with materials and things but also by oscillating between movement and stasis. In these various rhythms of mobility ¿ from daily subsistence-based movements to long-term migrations ¿ things like ceramic vessels are crafted, but also act as consumer goods. From their production until their deposition as waste, grave-goods, collectibles etc. pottery vessels can move with their owners or be passed on and may thus shift between spatial, temporal, social, economic and cultural contexts.This volume unites contributions addressing such phenomena from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Evolved from an interdisciplinary workshop held at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences (University of Bern) in 2015, the aim is not to promote one single epistemic approach or any elaborated empirical findings but to trigger thoughts and foster discussions.While the first part of the book contains introductory texts, the second part includes archaeological contributions that address mobility and social ties by focussing on variability in pottery production within, as well as between, settlements and regions. Taking a more object-centred perspective, they comprise attempts to think beyond established concepts of ¿archaeological cultures¿ and chronological issues. The third part unites anthropological and archaeological texts that take more actor-centred perspectives of making, distributing and using pottery. These texts examine how humans and things are intertwined though practices and various rhythms of movement and mobility. Thereby it can be shown how cultural forms are reproduced but also transformed by humans and things, like pots, potters, pottery mongers and pottery users that are intermittently on the move.ContentsForeword - Albert HafnerPart 1. Changing perspectives, changing insights'Mobility and pottery production', what for Introductory remarks - Caroline Heitz, Regine StapferPrehistoric archaeology, anthropology and material culture studies: aspects of their origins and common roots - Albert HafnerMaterial culture and mobility: A brief history of archaeological thought - Astrid Van OyenPart 2. Object-centred perspectives: From 'cultures' and chronology to relations and mobilityThe Munzingen culture in the southern Upper Rhine Plain (3950¿3600 BC) - Loïc Jammet-ReynalFrom typo-chronology to inter- and intra site variety: the ¿Michelsberg¿ pottery of South Germany (4300¿3600 BC) - Ute SeidelSocial dynamics and mobility: Discussing ¿households¿ in Linear Pottery Culture research (6 ML BC) - Isabel HohleSpecial pottery in ¿Cortaillod¿ settlements of Neolithic western Switzerland (3900¿3500 BC) - Regine StapferCultural and chronological attribution of pottery on the move: from rigid time-space schemata towards flexible microarchaeological 'messworks' - Eda GrossPart 3. Actor-centred perspectives: Movements of making ¿ mobilities of pots, potters, skills and ideasMovement in making: ¿Women working with clay¿ in northern Côte d¿Ivoire - Iris KöhlerForm follows fingers: Roman pottery, the producer¿s perspective and the mobility of ideas - Nadja MelkoPractice, social cohesion and identity in pottery production in the Balearic Islands (1500¿500 BC) - Daniel Albero SantacreuMaking things, being mobile: pottery as intertwined histories of humans and materials - Caroline HeitzPots on the move become different: Emplacement and mobility of pottery, specific properties of pots and their contexts of use - Hans Peter HahnAfterword - Philipp StockhammerBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 322 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins also pl ayed a vital role in the daily life of the living and marked their owner's taste and status. Coffin history is an ongoing process and does not end with the ancient burial. The coffins that were discovered and shipped to museums have become part of the National heritages. The Vatican Coffin Project is the first international research project to study the entire use-life of Egyptian coffins from an interdisciplinary perspective.This edited volume presents the first Leiden results of the project focusing on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of Amun that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. Six chapters, written by international specialists, present the history of the Priests of Amun, the production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins from Ancient Egypt until modern times. The book appeals to the general public interested in Egyptian culture, heritage studies, and restoration research, and will also be a stimulating read for both students and academics.ContentsChapter 1: The Vatican Coffin ProjectAlessia Amenta, Christian Greco, Ulderico Santamaria, and Lara WeissChapter 2: The 21st Dynasty: The theocracy of Amun, and the position of the Theban priestly families.Gerard P. F. BroekmanChapter 3: The Tomb of the Priests of Amun at Thebes: The history of the findRogério SousaChapter 4: The coffins in Leiden4.1. The Letters of Willem PleyteLiliane Mann4.2 Lot XI in LeidenChristian Greco and Lara WeissChapter 5: Painting techniques of the Leiden coffinsElsbeth GeldhofChapter 6: Coffin Reuse in Dynasty 21: A Case Study of the Coffins in the Rijksmuseum van OudhedenKathlyn M. Cooney 102 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.ContentsPreface: Relaunching the Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens SeriesWinfred van de Put, director of the Netherlands Institute at AthensIntroductionTamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser, and David WeidgenanntPart I: Building Remembrance1. Roman Greece and the 'Mnemonic Turn'. Some Critical RemarksDimitris Grigoropoulos, Valentina Di Napoli, Vassilis Evangelidis, Francesco Camia, Dylan Rogers and Stavros Vlizos2. Strategies of Remembering in the Creation of a Colonial Society in PatrasTamara M. Dijkstra3. Contending with the Past in Roman Corinth: The Julian BasilicaCatherine de Grazia Vanderpool and Paul D. ScottonPart II: Competing with the Past4. Heritage Societies Private Associations in Roman GreeceBenedikt Eckhardt5. Performing the Past: Salamis, Naval Contests and the Athenian EphebeiaZahra Newby6. Greek Panhellenic Agones in a Roman Colony: Corinth and the Return of the Isthmian GamesLavinia del BassoPart III: Honoring Tradition7. Heroes of Their Times. Intra-Mural Burials in the Urban Memorial Landscapes of the Roman PeloponneseJohannes Fouquet8. Public Statues as a Strategy of Remembering in Early Imperial MesseneChristopher Dickenson9. Shortages, Remembering and the Construction of Time: Aspects of Greek Honorific Culture (2nd century BC - 1st century AD)David WeidgenanntPart IV: History in Athens10. Anchoring Political Change in Post-Sullan AthensInger N.I. Kuin11. Reused Statues for Roman Friends: The Past as a Political Resource in Roman AthensMuriel Moser12. Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome: Some ConclusionsInger N.I. Kuin and Muriel MoserConclusion: Change and Remembering in Roman GreeceI.N.I. Kuin, M. Moser 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800¿500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these objects are found brought together in varying configurations in cremation burials generally known as chieftains¿ graves or princely burials. In terms of grave goods they resemble the Fürstengräber of the Hallstatt Culture of Central Europe, with famous Dutch and Belgian examples being the Chieftain¿s grave of Oss, the wagon-grave of Wijchen and the elite cemetery of Court-St-Etienne.The majority of the Dutch and Belgian burials were found several decades to several centuries ago and context information tends to be limited. They also tend to be published in Dutch or French or otherwise difficult to access publications. This research went back to the original reports and studied the objects found in these graves in detail. This generated new and evidence-based insights and interpretations into these exceptional burials and allowed for the reconstruction of the individual burial rituals. Fragmenting the Chieftain ¿ Catalogue presents the first comprehensive overview of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves (in English) and the objects they contain.The results of an in-depth and practice-based archaeological analysis of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves and the burial practice through which they were created can be found in Fragmenting the Chieftain. A practice-based study of Early Iron Age Hallstatt C elite burials in the Low Countries.ContentsC1 IntroductionC2 Terminology and typologyC3 Revealing restorationsC4 BaarloC5 Basse-WavreC6 Court-St-EtienneC7 Darp-BisschopsbergC8 Ede-BennekomC9 Flobecq-Pottelberg Tombelle 78C10 Gedinne-ChevaudosC11 Haps grave 190C12 Harchies-Maison CauchiesC13 HavréC14 Heythuizen-BisschopC15 Hofstade-Kasteelstraat Sp. 16C16 Horst-HegelsomC17 La Plantée des DamesC18 Leesten-Meijerink grave 1C19 Limal-MorimoineC20 Lommel-Kattenbos Tombelle 20C21 Louette-St-Pierre Fosse-Aux-MortsC22 Maastricht-HeerC23 MeerloC24 MeppenC25 Neerharen-Rekem tombe 72C26 Oss-VorstengrafC27 Oss-ZevenbergenC28 Rhenen-KoerheuvelC29 Someren-KraayenstarkC30 Someren-PhilipscampingC31 Stoquoy Tombelle 5C32 Uden-SlabroekC33 VenloC34 Weert-BoshoverheideC35 WijchenBibliographyCA1 Hallstatt period textile finds from the NetherlandsCA2 Inventory Chieftain¿s grave of Oss through three restorationsBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 282 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did What purpose did grave-goods actually serve Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed, once and for all, a curse placed upon them at their inception as research disciplines in the early nineteenth century Searching for answers to these questions is the aim of this book which has been written on the basis of widely spread, typical components of grave-goods. For the last two centuries, they have been interpreted incorrectly, because of being aligned with archaeologists' ideas about the spiritual world of the society in question.The book introduces a recently discovered phenomenon that accompanied mankind from his discovery of the uses of metal all the way through to the Middle Ages - that is the importance of touchstones, tools used to determine the nature and test the value of non-ferrous metals. Of the hundreds of thousands of such finds, which have most often been regarded as 'whetstones', the author has made a selection of specimens that cast light on the role of touchstones in the culture of ancient societies, especially in the burial ritual.Forming a key part of the book are the results of chemical microanalyses of metal streaks on the touchstones, a hitherto unused source of information for the skills of ancient metallurgists. Streaks of precious metal are not as important today as the common streaks of lead, tin, brass, etc.; streaks of metals composed of zinc, nickel, mercury, etc., raise new questions. Viking Age Birka serves as a fine example. It has yielded the largest known assemblage of touchstones and also boasts the largest number of such finds to have been analysed in the scanning electron microscope. However, this site has counterparts in Mesopotamia and the Near East, in the ancient Mediterranean region, in the Cimmerian and Scythian environments, in Europe of the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Migration periods, and, in particular, in the northern part of Europe during the Early Middle Ages - anywhere trade was not dominated by coins minted by local authorities. The four-millennium continuity of the essentially unified spiritual life shared by a large part of the Old World came to an end with the onset of Christianity in Europe.This book is intended for archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, ethnologists, archaeometallurgists, and for everybody who wishes to marvel at the consistent symbolic behaviour of ancient societies of the Old World from between, at the least, Mesopotamia, the Altai Mountains and Iceland, despite their cultural, ethnic and religious differences.ContentsTable of contents1. Acknowledgements2. Introduction3. General issues4. The (pre)historic background - in brief5. Prehistory in archaeology and prehistory in practice6. Not just stones7. Archaeology, myths and archaeological myths8. Longue durée symbols of elite status9. A symbol for the dead of all ages10. Analysed touchstones from the Birka burials11. Metals on touchstones from Birka and elsewhere12. Nickel appearance13. On the limits of SEM analysis14. A lesson from the deep15. Forgotten star witnesses, or Conclusion16. Appendix: The petrographic qualities of analysed stone artefacts from Birka, and their description 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How people produced or acquired their food in the past is one of the main questions in archaeology. Everyone needs food to survive, so the ways in which people managed to acquire it forms the very basis of human existence. Farming was key to the rise of human sedentarism. Once farming moved beyond subsistence, and regularly produced a surplus, it supported the development of specialisation, speeded up the development of socio-economic as well as social complexity, the rise of towns and the development of city states. In short, studying food production is of critical importance in understanding how societies developed.Environmental archaeology often studies the direct remains of food or food processing, and is therefore well-suited to address this topic. What is more, a wealth of new data has become available in this field of research in recent years. This allows synthesising research with a regional and diachronic approach.Indeed, most of the papers in this volume offer studies on subsistence and surplus production with a wide geographical perspective. The research areas vary considerably, ranging from the American Mid-South to Turkey. The range in time periods is just as wide, from c. 7000 BC to the 16th century AD. Topics covered include foraging strategies, the combination of domestic and wild food resources in the Neolithic, water supply, crop specialisation, the effect of the Roman occupation on animal husbandry, town-country relationships and the monastic economy. With this collection of papers and the theoretical framework presented in the introductory chapter, we wish to demonstrate that the topic of subsistence and surplus production remains of interest, and promises to generate more exciting research in the future.ContentsStudying subsistence and surplus production - Maaike Groot and Daphne LentjesThe role of gathering in Middle Archaic social complexity in the Mid-South: a diachronic perspective - Stephen B. Carmody and Kandace D. HollenbachRethinking Neolithic subsistence at the gateway to Europe with new archaeozoological evidence from Istanbul - Canan ÇakirlarAgricultural production between the 6th and the 3rd millennium cal BC in the central part of the Valencia region (Spain) - Guillem Pérez Jordà and Leonor Peña-ChocarroFrom subsistence to market exchange: the development of an agricultural economy in 1st-millennium-BC Southeast Italy - Daphne LentjesThree systems of agrarian exploitation in the Valencian region of Spain (400-300 BC) - Mª Pilar Iborra Eres and Guillem Pérez JordàThe well in the settlement: a water source for humans and livestock, studied through insect remains from Southeast Sweden - Magnus HellqvistThe Late Iron Age-Roman transformation from subsistence to surplus production in animal husbandry in the Central and Western parts of the Netherlands - Joyce van Dijk and Maaike GrootTracing changes in animal husbandry in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean) from the Iron Age to the Roman Period - Alejandro Valenzuela, Josep Antoni Alcover, Miguel Ángel CauFood production and exchanges in the Roman civitas Tungrorum - Fabienne Pigière and Annick LepotEntrepreneurs and traditional farmers: the effects of an emerging market in Middle Saxon England - Matilda HolmesScant evidence of great surplus: research at the rural Cistercian monastery of Holme Cultram, Northwest England - Don O'Meara 298 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -¿Ritual Failure¿ is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transform, change or disappear, leaving only traces of its past glory Do societies change and then their ritual Or do customs change first, in turn provoking wider cultural shifts in society Archaeology possesses the tools and methodologies to explore these questions over the long term; from the emergence of a system, to its peak, and then its decay and disappearance, and in relation to wider social and chronological developments.The collected papers in this book introduce the concept of ¿ritual failure¿ to archaeology. The analysis explores ways in which ritual may have been instrumental in sustaining cultural continuity during demanding social conditions, or how its functionality might have failed ¿ resulting in discontinuity, change or collapse. The collected papers draw attention to those turbulent social times of change for which ritual practices are a sensitive indicator within the archaeological record. The book reviews archaeological evidence and theoretical approaches, and suggests models which could explain socio-cultural change through ritual failure. The concept of ¿ritual failure¿ is also often used to better understand other themes, such as identity and wider social, economic and political transformations, shedding light on the social conditions that forced or introduced change.This book will engage those interested in ritual theory and practices, but will also appeal to those interested in exploring new avenues to understanding cultural change. From transformations in the use of ritual objects to the risks inherent in practicing ritual, from ritual continuity in customs to sudden and profound change, from the Neolithic Near East to Roman Europe and Iron Age Africa, this book explores what happens when ritual fails.Contents:IntroductionVasiliki G. Koutrafouri and Jeff SandersForeword: Introductory Thoughts on the Theme of 'Ritual Failure. Archaeological Perspectives'.by Timothy InsollThe Passage of Matter: Transformations of Objects and Ritual Meanings in the Neolithic of the Near East.Marc VerhoevenThe sky almost never falls on your head ¿ why ritual rarely failsJeff SandersRitual Failure in the Business Records of Mesopotamian TemplesMichael KozuhRitual Failure and the Temple collapse of prehistoric Malta.Caroline Malone and Simon StoddartFrom wells to pillars, and from pillars tö Ritual systems transformation and collapse in the early prehistory of CyprusVasiliki G. KoutrafouriWhen Ancestors become Gods: The Transformation of Cypriote Ritual and Religion in the Late Bronze AgeDavid CollardColonial Entanglements and Cultic Heterogeneity on Rome¿s Germanic FrontierKarim MataThe Dead Acrobat: Managing Risk and Minoan IconographyEvangelos KyriakidisDiscussion: Defining momentsby Richard BradleyBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 170 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800-500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these objects are found brought together in varying configurations in cremation burials generally known as chieftains' graves or princely burials. In terms of grave goods they resemble the Fürstengräber of the Hallstatt Culture of Central Europe, with famous Dutch and Belgian examples being the Chieftain's grave of Oss, the wagon-grave of Wijchen and the elite cemetery of Court-St-Etienne.Fragmenting the Chieftain presents the results of an in-depth and practice-based archaeological analysis of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves and the burial practice through which they were created. It was established that the elite burials are embedded in the local burial practices - as reflected by the use of the cremation rite, the bending and breaking of grave goods, and the pars pro toto deposition of human remains and objects, all in accordance with the dominant local urnfield burial practice. It appears that those individuals interred with wagons and related items warranted a more elaborate funerary rite, most likely because these ceremonial and cosmologically charged vehicles marked their owners out as exceptional individuals. Furthermore, in a few graves the configuration of the grave good set, the use of textiles to wrap grave goods and the dead and the reuse of burial mounds show the influence of individuals familiar with Hallstatt Culture burial customs.A comprehensive overview of the Dutch and Belgian graves can be found in the accompanying Fragmenting the Chieftain - Catalogue. Late Bronze and Early Iron Age elite burials in the Low Countries (separate publication).Contents1 Introduction2 Theoretical framework: identifying elites and their graves 3 Dating elite burials4 The elite burials: presenting the dataset5 The (development of the) elite burial practice6 How grave goods were used and interpreted7 Conclusion8 Final reflections and questions for the futureSummary (English and Dutch)AcknowledgementsBibliographyCurriculum vitaeApp. A1 AbbreviationsApp. A2 Summary overview of objects in Catalogue, per find category 234 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various studies on the use of methods such as LiDAR (light detection and ranging), archaeological prospection, visibility, mobility and the analysis of the spatial distribution of archaeological objects, applied in various contexts. The case studies vary widely and include the Late Pleistocene in the Northern Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Republican period in Southern Italy, the Formative period in the Andes and the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War.In 2005 a (then) pioneering postgraduate course on the applicability of digital geospatial technologies for archaeology was launched in Spain. Quite unexpectedly, the course has been alive annually for more than 10 years so far, having trained around 300 young archaeologists from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in the critical use of nowadays popular tools such as GIS, GPS, remote sensing and LiDAR for the documentation and analysis of the archaeological record.To commemorate the first 10 years of the course, a conference was organized in Mérida (Spain) in October 2015. Former students were invited to present and discuss their research in which these technologies were used intensively; this edited book is a selection of those contributions. Through a series of widely varying case-studies, both technically sophisticated and theoretically informed applications of such digital technologies are presented.All the contributors are young researchers, either young doctors or doctorate students, coming from fairly varied archaeological contexts and approaches. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins also pl ayed a vital role in the daily life of the living and marked their owner¿s taste and status. Coffin history is an ongoing process and does not end with the ancient burial. The coffins that were discovered and shipped to museums have become part of the National heritages. The Vatican Coffin Project is the first international research project to study the entire use-life of Egyptian coffins from an interdisciplinary perspective.This edited volume presents the first Leiden results of the project focusing on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of Amun that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. Six chapters, written by international specialists, present the history of the Priests of Amun, the production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins from Ancient Egypt until modern times. The book appeals to the general public interested in Egyptian culture, heritage studies, and restoration research, and will also be a stimulating read for both students and academics.ContentsChapter 1: The Vatican Coffin ProjectAlessia Amenta, Christian Greco, Ulderico Santamaria, and Lara WeissChapter 2: The 21st Dynasty: The theocracy of Amun, and the position of the Theban priestly families.Gerard P. F. BroekmanChapter 3: The Tomb of the Priests of Amun at Thebes: The history of the findRogério SousaChapter 4: The coffins in Leiden4.1. The Letters of Willem PleyteLiliane Mann4.2 Lot XI in LeidenChristian Greco and Lara WeissChapter 5: Painting techniques of the Leiden coffinsElsbeth GeldhofChapter 6: Coffin Reuse in Dynasty 21: A Case Study of the Coffins in the Rijksmuseum van OudhedenKathlyn M. CooneyBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 102 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.ContentsPreface: Relaunching the Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens SeriesWinfred van de Put, director of the Netherlands Institute at AthensIntroductionTamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser, and David WeidgenanntPart I: Building Remembrance1. Roman Greece and the ¿Mnemonic Turn¿. Some Critical RemarksDimitris Grigoropoulos, Valentina Di Napoli, Vassilis Evangelidis, Francesco Camia, Dylan Rogers and Stavros Vlizos2. Strategies of Remembering in the Creation of a Colonial Society in PatrasTamara M. Dijkstra3. Contending with the Past in Roman Corinth: The Julian BasilicaCatherine de Grazia Vanderpool and Paul D. ScottonPart II: Competing with the Past4. Heritage Societies Private Associations in Roman GreeceBenedikt Eckhardt5. Performing the Past: Salamis, Naval Contests and the Athenian EphebeiaZahra Newby6. Greek Panhellenic Agones in a Roman Colony: Corinth and the Return of the Isthmian GamesLavinia del BassoPart III: Honoring Tradition7. Heroes of Their Times. Intra-Mural Burials in the Urban Memorial Landscapes of the Roman PeloponneseJohannes Fouquet8. Public Statues as a Strategy of Remembering in Early Imperial MesseneChristopher Dickenson9. Shortages, Remembering and the Construction of Time: Aspects of Greek Honorific Culture (2nd century BC ¿ 1st century AD)David WeidgenanntPart IV: History in Athens10. Anchoring Political Change in Post-Sullan AthensInger N.I. Kuin11. Reused Statues for Roman Friends: The Past as a Political Resource in Roman AthensMuriel Moser12. Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome: Some ConclusionsInger N.I. Kuin and Muriel MoserConclusion: Change and Remembering in Roman GreeceI.N.I. Kuin, M. MoserBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For many past and present societies, pottery forms an integral part of material culture and everyday practice. This makes it a promising case example to address human-thing-relations on a more general level, as well as social life itself. Humans organise their lives not only by engaging with materials and things but also by oscillating between movement and stasis. In these various rhythms of mobility - from daily subsistence-based movements to long-term migrations - things like ceramic vessels are crafted, but also act as consumer goods. From their production until their deposition as waste, grave-goods, collectibles etc. pottery vessels can move with their owners or be passed on and may thus shift between spatial, temporal, social, economic and cultural contexts.This volume unites contributions addressing such phenomena from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Evolved from an interdisciplinary workshop held at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences (University of Bern) in 2015, the aim is not to promote one single epistemic approach or any elaborated empirical findings but to trigger thoughts and foster discussions.While the first part of the book contains introductory texts, the second part includes archaeological contributions that address mobility and social ties by focussing on variability in pottery production within, as well as between, settlements and regions. Taking a more object-centred perspective, they comprise attempts to think beyond established concepts of 'archaeological cultures' and chronological issues. The third part unites anthropological and archaeological texts that take more actor-centred perspectives of making, distributing and using pottery. These texts examine how humans and things are intertwined though practices and various rhythms of movement and mobility. Thereby it can be shown how cultural forms are reproduced but also transformed by humans and things, like pots, potters, pottery mongers and pottery users that are intermittently on the move.ContentsForeword - Albert HafnerPart 1. Changing perspectives, changing insights'Mobility and pottery production', what for Introductory remarks - Caroline Heitz, Regine StapferPrehistoric archaeology, anthropology and material culture studies: aspects of their origins and common roots - Albert HafnerMaterial culture and mobility: A brief history of archaeological thought - Astrid Van OyenPart 2. Object-centred perspectives: From 'cultures' and chronology to relations and mobilityThe Munzingen culture in the southern Upper Rhine Plain (3950-3600 BC) - Loïc Jammet-ReynalFrom typo-chronology to inter- and intra site variety: the 'Michelsberg' pottery of South Germany (4300-3600 BC) - Ute SeidelSocial dynamics and mobility: Discussing 'households' in Linear Pottery Culture research (6 ML BC) - Isabel HohleSpecial pottery in 'Cortaillod' settlements of Neolithic western Switzerland (3900-3500 BC) - Regine StapferCultural and chronological attribution of pottery on the move: from rigid time-space schemata towards flexible microarchaeological 'messworks' - Eda GrossPart 3. Actor-centred perspectives: Movements of making - mobilities of pots, potters, skills and ideasMovement in making: 'Women working with clay' in northern Côte d'Ivoire - Iris KöhlerForm follows fingers: Roman pottery, the producer's perspective and the mobility of ideas - Nadja MelkoPractice, social cohesion and identity in pottery production in the Balearic Islands (1500-500 BC) - Daniel Albero SantacreuMaking things, being mobile: pottery as intertwined histories of humans and materials - Caroline HeitzPots on the move become different: Emplacement and mobility of pottery, specific properties of pots and their contexts of use - Hans Peter HahnAfterword - Philipp Stockhammer 322 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Starting in the year 1828, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, unearthed more than 2000 Greek vases on his estate near the ancient Etruscan town of Vulci. The vases were restored and found their way to archaeological collections all around the world. This volume publishes 10 papers by scholars of international repute dealing with these ceramics.The papers were presented in 2015 at a colloquium in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, which acquired 96 vases from the Bonaparte collection in 1839. Specialists in the fields of museum history, Greek vase-painting, restoration and 19th century collecting practices from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy and Russia have contributed to this volume, which offers the newest insights into the person of Lucien Bonaparte, his excavation practices, the history of restorations and the selling and buying of Greek ceramics in the 19th century.The results have helped to extend our knowledge of the collectors, traders and scholars, who were concerned with Greek vases during the 19th century. Their activities took place in a pivotal period, in which the black- and red figure ceramics, which had come to light in Italy during the previous centuries, were finally assigned to Greek craftsmanship instead of to Etruscan manufacture.The book also contains a concise photographic catalogue illustrating the highlights of the Leiden Canino collection.ContentsWim WeijlandForewordPieter ter KeursLucien Bonaparte and the Politics of CollectingAlessandra CostantiniLucien Bonaparte, the Archaeologist-PrinceAnne Viole SiebertStaying at Musignano: August Kestner and the excavations of the Principe di CaninoAnna PetrakovaCanino vases in the State Hermitage Museum: the history of purchasingRuurd Halbertsma and Jos van HeelGreek vases in The Hague and Leiden: the sale of Canino vases in 1839Vinnie NørskovThe Canino Auctions - the unidentified vasesFriederike Bubenheimer-ErhartThe appreciation of black- and red-figure vases and other pottery wares according to the Canino documentsMarie-Amélie BernardWithout adding any line of drawing - The restoration of the Canino vases: principles, reality and actorsRenske Dooijes and Marianna DüringThe Canino Collection: Historical Restorations on Greek vases in the National Museum of Antiquities in LeidenAnastasia BukinaRestorations on the Canino vases of the Hermitage museumPhotographic catalogue of highlights of the Leiden Canino collection 166 pp. Englisch.