Pojawiło się ogłoszenie o tegorocznej edycji Komisji Historii Starożytnej PTH. Tym razem odbędzie się w Lublinie, pod koniec (?) września 2015. Temat przewodni to: „Przemoc w świecie starożytnym: źródła, struktura, interpretacje”. Termin zgłaszania wystąpień upływa 18 maja. Będzie również osobna sesja dotycząca Bliskiego Wschodu!
Wszelkie dostępne informacje można znaleźć na stronie Zakładu Historii Starożytnej Instytutu Historii UMCS. (por. zaproszenie na C&M).
As part of the 21st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), to be held in Glasgow between the 2nd and 5th September 2015, we are organizing a session that will present topics on fermented foods and beverages in pre- and protohistory, focusing mainly on methods used to identify fermentation products and their cultural significance.
The call for abstracts is now open until the 16th February 2015, and we would like to invite you to submit paper/poster abstracts. Abstracts can be submitted by following this link: http://eaaglasgow2015.com/call-for-papers/
Shira Gur-Arieh, Domingo Carlos Salazar García, Cynthianne Debono Spiteri
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ABSTRACTS
Main theme: Science and Archaeology
Session title: Exploring the production and consumption of fermented beverages and foods in pre- and protohistoric communities (SA9)
Abstract: Fermentation is an important process in the production of some of the staple food products and beverages in the human diet. It is brought about by the action of yeast, enzymes and bacteria, which convert carbohydrates into alcohols, organic acids and gas. Examples of these are the leavening of bread, the production of beer, wine, mead, cider, yoghurt and the souring of milk. These fermented products are not only important for their nutritional value, their potential to store otherwise perishable foodstuffs, their increased digestibility (e.g. yoghurt for lactose intolerant individuals), but also for their social aspect. Indeed, they play a central role in cultural, celebratory and ritual aspects of different human communities around the world. Identifying the production and consumption of fermented foods and beverages is not straight forward since they rarely preserve in the archaeological record, especially in pre- and protohistoric periods. Attempts to identify these dietary products often require a multidisciplinary approach, including the use of macroscopic (e.g. charred grains) and microscopic (e.g. phytoliths and starches) plant remains from archaeological finds including stone tools and sediments, or directly from skeletal remains such as dental calculus and stomach content.
Fermented food and drink products can also be identified using spectroscopic techniques to identify residual biomolecules trapped in porous, unglazed pottery vessels. Other lines of evidence are derived from the study of historical references such as art and decoration, ancient texts, typological pottery studies, and ethnographic or ethnoarchaeological studies. This session will focus on research carried out at identifying fermented food and beverage products, and their dietary and cultural significance to the communities that produced them.
We invite submissions aimed at exploring the role of fermented products in the human diet, and their contribution to our understanding of the development and spread of complex food production processes and cultural ideas.
Wrocław wyrasta na nowy prężny ośrodek interdyscyplinarnych konferencji naukowych dotyczących starożytności. Po konferencji dotyczącej jedzenia (2013) rodziny (2014) kolejna edycja poświęcona będzie przestępstwom i karom.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period: New Online Material
1. I am pleased to announce the presence of Part 2 of a fully searchable and lemmatized online corpus of the royal inscriptions of Sennacherib based on the volume „The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC), Part 2” (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period volume 3/2), texts edited by A. Kirk Grayson and Jamie Novotny.
This open access, electronic companion to RINAP volume 3/2 (Eisenbrauns, 2014) is accessible at http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/corpus/ and http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/corpus/, as well as from the RINAP project’s home page: (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/).
The book version of RINAP 3/2 can be purchased in North America from Eisenbrauns (http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/GRA2ROYAL) or in Europe from its partner Ugarit Verlag (https://www.ugarit-verlag.com). The print and electronic versions of „The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC), Part 2” both provide up-to-date editions of 195 texts of Sennacherib, as well as 26 other late Neo-Assyrian inscriptions that might belong to this king and 2 inscriptions of his family (including one of his wives, Tashmetu-sharrat). The volume and its online companion contain historical inscriptions on bull and lion colossi from Nineveh, rock reliefs, stone horizontal prisms, and clay cylinders and prisms from other cities under Sennacherib’s authority (especially Ashur and Tarbisu); epigraphs on reliefs; and inscriptions on bricks, threshold slabs, door sockets, wall panels, stone blocks, beads, metal plating (including door bands); and drafts and copies of historical and building inscriptions written on clay tablets.
2. Downloadable and searchable PDFs of name indices for RIMA 1-3 (Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Period Volumes 1, 2, and 3), RIMB 2 (Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Babylonian Period Volume 2), and RIME 1-4 (Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Period Volumes 1, 2, 3/1, 3/2, and 4) are now available at the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period website: <http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/namesindex/>. The indices include: Personal Names; Geographic, Ethnic, and Tribal Names; Divine, Planet, and Star Names; Gate, Palace, Temple, and Wall Names; and Object Names. These indices have been prepared by Dr. Jamie Novotny, Dr. Josh Jeffers, and Dr. Andrew Knapp.
3. I am pleased to announce the presence of two new RINAP subprojects: RINAP sources and RINAP scores. These are accessible at http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/pager/ and http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/scores/pager/ The former includes individual object transliterations of approximately 1,200 inscribed objects from the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III, Shalmaneser V, Sennacherib, and Esarhaddon. The latter contains twenty-nine scores of Sennacherib and twenty-four scores of Esarhaddon.
The RINAP Project is under the direction of G. Frame (University of Pennsylvania) and is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Pennsylvania. The books are published by Eisenbrauns and the fully searchable and lemmatized online corpus is a subproject of the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc). Links: RINAP homepage: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/ List of Publications: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/publications/ Browse Online Corpus (RINAP 1, RINAP 3, RINAP 4): http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/corpus/ Browse Online RINAP 1 Corpus: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap1/corpus Browse Online RINAP 3 Corpus: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/corpus Browse Online RINAP 4 Corpus: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap4/corpus Browse Online RINAP Sources: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/pager/ Browse Online RINAP Scores: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/scores/pager/ Names Index (RIMA 1-3, RIMB 2, RIME 1-4): http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/namesindex/ Oracc: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/index.html Eisenbrauns: https://www.eisenbrauns.com/
We would like to notify the Agade list that the Call for Papers for the next International Congress of Egyptologists, which will be held in Florence (Italy) net 23-30 August 2015, will terminate on the *26th of January*.
For the 2nd Circular, please go to <http://www.ice11florence.org/circulars>.
Dotarł do nas abstrakt artykułu z BASOR:
[agade] ARTICLES: „The Authenticity of the Bullae of Berekhyahu son of Neriyahu the Scribe” (BASOR 372 / Dec. 2014): Via Joseph I. Lauer [mailto:josephlauer@hotmail.com] came a notice about the following article in BASOR vol. 372 (December 2014), pp. 147-158:
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„The Authenticity of the Bullae of Berekhyahu son of Neriyahu the Scribe by Dr. Yuval Goren and Dr. Eran Arie. Abstract: Bullae are small lumps of clay, often fingernail-sized and shaped as flat disks, which were usually affixed to a cord binding a commodity or a document and then stamped with a seal. Hebrew bullae from the time of the Kingdom of Judah are known from recorded excavations as well as from the antiquities market. This article reports the results of a set of analyses that were made of two celebrated bullae attributed to Berekhyahu (Baruch) son of Neriyahu, the scribe to the prophet Jeremiah mentioned in Jer 36:1-4. These results were compared with similar analyses of more than 180 bullae, most of them from Jerusalem. The results of the comparison, together with their interpretations, are presented, pointing to the production of the two Berekhyahu bullae in modern times. —
Uniwersytet Hebrajski oferuje m.in. katalog, wraz ze szczegółowymi opisami przedmiotów sztuki żydowskiej, w tym również starożytnej. Tu dostępne są zasoby pod nazwą: The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art. Przeszukiwać można zarówno po type przedmiotów, jak i np. miejscu pochodzenia. Całość niestety tylko do legalnego oglądania, bo wyraźnie widać znak Copyright.
CDL Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia In the Collection of David Sofer Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology (CUSAS), Vol. 28 David I. Owen, Editor-in-Chief pp. 364, pl. CV ISBN 9781934309575 Price: $69
The publication by Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch of the first, extra-biblical, archival source from the exiled Judean community in Babylonia in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE represents a major contribution to both Mesopotamian and Biblical studies. The volume provides complete editions, translations, copies and outstanding photographs of 103 cuneiform texts from the David Sofer Collection along with an extensive commentary on the hundreds of new personal names with Yahwistic elements that add substantially to our understanding of Judean religious beliefs during this formative period in the development of exilic Judaism. The new documents provide us with new insights into the social and economic life of the Judeans (along with others groups forcibly settled in Mesopotamia by Nebuchadnezzar II) in their own community of Al Yahudu (Jewtown) and their interrelationships with and assimilation to their West Semitic and Babylonian neighbors. The comprehensive analysis and discussion of the new data by the authors offer many additions and insights into the hitherto limited knowledge of this community, the naming practices of immigrant groups over several generations, and, by implication, how other exiles in Babylonia might have been influenced by similar experiences after being forcibly resettled in a foreign environment. This is an essential resource not only for Assyriologists, archaeologists and historians but particularly for biblical scholars interested in the history of Judaism in its Mesopotamian context.
To order; Shipping: Outside the U.S. individuals should consider ordering the book through Amazon.com to reduce the shipping charge. Otherwise, within the U.S. shipping $5, outside $40 for up to 3 copies. CDL Press, POB 34454 Bethesda MD 20827, U.S. www.cdlpress.com; fax: 253-4845542; email: cdlpress@erols.com
European Association of Biblical Studies w tym roku zaplanowało doroczną konferencję w malowniczej Kordobie. Odbędzie się ona w dniach 12-15 lipca 2015. W lutym upływa termin zgłaszania referatów. EABS działa – jak na tego typu towarzystwa – dość demokratycznie. Członkowie proponują sesje tematycznie i autonomicznie odpowiadają za ich organizację. Warto odwiedzić stronę z wykazem aktualnie czynnych grup badawczych / sesji tematycznych.
Link do strony EABS z informacjami o procedurze zgłaszania wystąpień.
Można zgłaszać propozycje referatów i posterów na tegoroczną konferencję EAA. Tym razem 21th Annual Meeting of the EAA odbędzie się w Glasgow w dniach 2-5 września 2015. Oto link do strony konferencji z informacjami o procedurze zgłaszania wystąpień.
