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February 1-7, 2015

Contents February 1

eREVIEWS: Of ‘By the rivers of Babylon’ exhibit eREVIEWS: Of "Henchmen of Ares: Warriors and Warfare in Early Greece" LECTURES: "The Al-Yahudu Archive in the Jewish World Today" (Jerusalem, EXHIBITIONS: Mapping the Holy Land III (Jerusalem. February 17--June 27) BOOKS: Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World WORKSHOPS: Masculinities in ANE (Rome, 05/02/2015) APPEALS: Save the Beşparmak Dağları (Mt Latmos) eREVIEWS: Of "Ecrire à ses morts: enquête sur un usage rituel de l'écrit dans NEWS: 2,200-Year-Old Moat Discovered in Spain EXHIBITIONS: Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World OBITUARIES: For Marcus Borg

February 2- no emails sent February 3

CONFERENCES: "Neolithic Networks in the longue durée" (Berlin, Dec. 9-11) CALLS FOR PAPERS: Landscapes of Settlement in the Ancient Near East (ASOR 2015) CONFERENCES: Aspects of Family Law in the ancient World (London, April 22-24) JOURNALS: International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 44/1 (March 2015) JOURNALS: Henoch 36/2 (2014)

APPEALS: Save Libyan Archaeology NOTICES: HUCA online NEWS: Damage to the Al-Arish National Museum WORKSHOPS: "...Environmental Impact of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in Northwestern Israel" (Jerusalem, Feb. 12) BOOKS: By the Rivers of Babylon, The Story of the Babylonian Exile LECTURES: "Traces of Race" (Toronto, February 11 February) KUDOS: For Paul Flesher POSTDOCS: Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik (Innsbruck) JOURNALS: Historiae 11 (2014) CALLS FOR PAPERS: "Representing the Senses in the Ancient Near East..." (RAI Geneva/Bern 2015) CONFERENCES: "Ancient” Art and the Art Historical Canon Today" (NYC, Feb 13) February 4

eREVIEWS: Of "Herodots Quellen - Die Quellen Herodots." AWARDS: For publication assistance (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) LECTURES: ‘The Scandal of a Male Bible’ (London, Feb 24) eREVIEWS: Of "Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal" February 5 LECTURES: “The Literature of the Copts..." (Washington, March 26) CONFERENCES: "... Visual Narratives in the Cultures and Societies of the Old World" (Freiburg, March 18-21) SAD NEWS: Erika Endesfelder ( 1935-2015)

February 6 CONFERENCES: "... Humans and Anthropomorphs in the Rock Art of Northern Africa" (Brussels, 17-19 September) BOOKS: Reprint of SAA & SAAS volumes

LECTURES: "Ecologies of divination" (NYC, Feb 13) BOOKS: “Apotropaic Intercession” in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East eJOURNALS: Miscellanea 15.3 & 15.4 BLOGS: Speaking women in the Bible POSTDOCS: “Immaterial Causes and Physical Space” (Slavonic philology) CALLS FOR PAPERS: "Approaches to the Study of Dress and the Body" (ASOR 2015)

-----------------------------------------------------------------February 1 eREVIEWS: Of ‘By the rivers of Babylon’ exhibit From : [Go there for pix] ============================== ‘By the rivers of Babylon’ exhibit breathes life into Judean exile Never-before-showcased clay tablets documenting the first diaspora go on display at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum BY ILAN BEN ZION We know they sat on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, and that they wept. But a new exhibit at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum puts faces and names to the Judean exiles in ancient Babylonia 2,500 years ago. “By the Rivers of Babylon” showcases a collection of about 100 rare clay tablets from 6th century Mesopotamia that detail the lives of exiled Judeans living in the heartland of the Babylonian Empire. Through these mundane Akkadian legal documents written in cuneiform, scholars have breathed life back into generations of Judeans who lived in Babylon but whose names and traditions speak of a longing for Zion. The Al-Yahudu tablets are part of a private collection that has never before gone on public display. Their provenance is unknown; they likely turned up somewhere in southern Iraq, but no one knows when. After decades on the antiquities market they ended up in the hands of a private collector, David Sofer, who offered to loan them to the Bible Lands Museum. After two years of labor, the exhibit is opening to the public on Sunday. “It puts a face on the real people who went through these fateful events,” Dr. Filip Vukosavovic, curator of the exhibit, told The Times of Israel. The tablets preserve a wealth of Judean names — including the familiar Natanyahu — of the exilic community, and even include a handful of Aramaic inscriptions. The exhibit takes visitors through the final days of Jerusalem before its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE, and transports them to Mesopotamia, where the deportees were resettled. At the center of the gallery is a model of a Mesopotamian village, animated to show light shimmering on the canals at night and farmers plowing the field at midday, similar to those in which Judeans made their home.

Before the Al-Yahudu texts were found and studied, scholars only had an outline of life for Judeans in Babylon, said Dr. Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University’s professor of Assyriology, who helped prepare the exhibition and the corresponding academic literature. “We had before this an outline, a tradition, but as historians we couldn’t prove it. And now we’re actually seeing the community living its life, really fleshed out.” He compared the experience of the exiled Judeans to that of new immigrants to Israel in the early years of the state. They were settled in a region of southern Babylon that had been ravaged by years of war and forced to rebuilt infrastructure and dig canals — the rivers by which they wept when they remembered Zion. “Once they had built the infrastructure they were allowed to settle and build their lives,” Horowitz explained. Within a short while, the community became more prosperous and secure, a fact documented in the financial documents preserved in clay. “It’s impossible to exaggerate when it comes to the importance and the amount” of information gleaned from the tablets, Vukosavovic said. He called the Babylonian exile the “most important event in the history of the Jewish people.” Each document catalogs when and where it was written and by whom, providing scholars with an unprecedented view into the day-to-day life of Judean exiles in Babylonia, as well as a geography of where the refugees were resettled. The earliest in the collection, from 572 BCE, mentions the town of Al-Yahudu — “Jerusalem” — a village of transplants from Judea. “Finally through these tablets we get to meet these people, we get to know their names, where they lived and when they lived, what they did,” Vukosavovic said. The texts help dispel the misconception that the Judeans in Babylon were second-class citizens of the empire, living in ghettos and pressed into hard labor. While some toiled in base drudgery, others thrived, owned property, plantations and slaves, and became part of the Babylonian bureaucratic hierarchy. “It teaches us that we weren’t slaves, like we were slaves to the Pharaoh,” Vukosavovic said. “It teaches us that we were simply free people in Babylon, living not only in Al-Yahudu, but also in a dozen other cities where Jews either lived or did their business.” Employing a variety of media — animated videos, antiquities from the destruction of Jerusalem, illuminated manuscripts, and illustrations to complement conventional text — the gallery culminates with the clay tablets accompanied by iPad tablets replete with information to better understand the cuneiform texts. “One of the challenges of creating this show was to make it accessible [to the general public],” museum director Amanda Weiss said. “We had to create a way that would entice all ages to relate to this information.” “This is an amazing collection. It is truly the world premiere of this archive on display,” said Weiss. “It’s never been published, it’s never been displayed until now.” She said the museum admits thousands of schoolchildren each year, and she hopes that the exhibition will “supplement or inspire learning” of biblical history, “to take it away from the boring or the difficult.” The exhibit opens Sunday, February 1, at the Bible Lands Museum, and will run for a year.

eREVIEWS: Of "Henchmen of Ares: Warriors and Warfare in Early Greece" Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.01.51

Josho Brouwers, Henchmen of Ares: Warriors and Warfare in Early Greece . Ancient Warfare special, 4. Rotterdam: Karwansaray Publishers, 2013. Pp. v, 203. ISBN 9789490258078. €29.95. Reviewed by Christopher Matthew, Australian Catholic University ([email protected]) Josho Brouwers’s Henchmen of Ares is a recent addition to the growing body of non-scholarly literature examining warfare in the ancient Greek world from earliest times the end of the Classical Period. This work is beautifully presented with magnificent colour illustrations reconstructing the warriors of ancient Greece and images of artefacts and artworks throughout. Text boxes and sidebars scattered across the chapters take the reader to additional information about specific elements of ancient Greek warfare without taking anything away from the flow of the main narrative of the text. The book is well written and easy to read and appears to have been designed with the layman and/or general reader with an interest in this period of history as its target audience. Consequently, this book is not academic in its feel—despite being a reworked version of Brouwers’s doctoral dissertation. There are, for example, no references (footnotes or endnotes) within the book, other than in-text citations of key ancient texts when they are quoted within the chapters. Nor is there a list of suggested ‘further reading’ or a standard bibliography. Rather, the ‘bibliographical notes’ at the end of the book (pages 150-170) contain pages of discussion of some modern texts which deal with various aspects of the chapters to which they are associated. However, even these notes are in places simplistic in their form and are missing references to some key works relevant to the examined topics. Nor does the text as a whole engage with many of the scholarly debates which have raged (and in some cases are still raging) over many of the aspects of ancient Greek warfare that are being discussed. There is no in-depth analysis within this work and nothing overly new is presented in the book’s pages. Brouwers, possibly due to the intended market for the work, has instead presented a clear, but in some cases one-sided, view of many features to do with the changing nature of ancient Greek warfare. In other cases, where a debate over a certain topic is mentioned, Brouwers does not offer his own view or interpretation of what he perceives to be the correct perspective or argument, and some sides of a multi-viewpoint debate are omitted entirely. Thus, while the material is well-presented and easy to read, the limited engagement with the topic means that the information provided within the book can be, in parts, lacking. However, a lack of rigorous academic engagement with the subject matter should not detract from the book in its entirety because that is not what the work has set out to be. When viewed as a basic, introductory-level, text detailing the evolution of warfare in early Greece, the book adequately fulfils its role. Those just starting out on their investigation of this fascinating period of human history could do far worse than to use Henchmen of Ares as their starting point.

LECTURES: "The Al-Yahudu Archive in the Jewish World Today" (Jerusalem, Feb 4) From Anat Sella-Koren [mailto:[email protected]]: ============================================ Bible Lands Museum Lecture Wednesdays | 19:30 | Free with Museum admission 4.2 - 12th Annual Dr. Elie Borowski: Memorial Lecture Ancient Voices from the Clay: The Al-Yahudu Archive in the Jewish World Today Dr. Irving L. Finkel, The British Museum, English Advance reservations required, place is limited: 02-5611066

EXHIBITIONS: Mapping the Holy Land III (Jerusalem. February 17--June 27) From < http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/presentation/exhibit/?id=916>: ============================================================ Mapping the Holy Land III: Milestones in Modern Mapping of the Holy Land of Israel from the Collection of Risa and Richard Domb February 17, 2015-June 27, 2015 Location: Kay Merrill Hillman Gallery, Israel Museum (Jerusalem) Curator: Ariel Tishby Media: maps This important, comprehensive new collection of topographic maps of the Land of Israel from the 19th and 20th centuries enriches the holdings of the Museum's Section for Maps of the Holy Land. The maps reflect the historical and geopolitical processes that took place in the region in the modern era, which continue to affect us to this day.

BOOKS: Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World From < http://www.amazon.com/Power-Pathos-Bronze-Sculpture-Hellenistic/dp/1606064398>: ================================================ Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World Hardcover - May 1, 2015 by Jens M Daehner (Editor), Kenneth Lapatin (Editor) Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum; 1 edition (May 1, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 1606064398 ISBN-13: 978-1606064399Hardcover $50.68 For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isolation, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly identifying these remarkable pieces. Designed to become the standard reference for decades to come, the book emphasizes the unique role of bronze both as a medium of prestige and artistic innovation and as a material exceptionally suited for reproduction. Power and Pathos is published on the occasion of an exhibition on view at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum from July 20 through November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from December 6, 2015, through March 20, 2016.

WORKSHOPS: Masculinities in ANE (Rome, 05/02/2015) From Lorenzo Verderame [mailto:[email protected]]: ================================================ The construction of masculinities in ancient Mesopotamia “Sapienza” Università di Roma ( Auletta di Archeologia, Facoltà di lettere) 05/02/2015 Auletta di Archeologia

10:00-13:00 Omar N’Shea – University of Malta, Languor in the Garden: Assurbanipal’s Party Reconsidered in Light of Masculinity Studies Agnès Garcia-Ventura – “Sapienza”, Feminism, Gender Studies & Masculinities: some thoughts about their relationship Gioele Zisa – LMU München, “The man and the woman will find satisfaction together". The loss of niš libbi as a male problem? Notes for an anthropological reflection Lorenzo Verderame – “Sapienza”, Becoming a Man: The case of Martu and Enkidu 15:00-17:00 General discussion (taking the cue from Alberti’s article “Archeology, Men, and Masculinities.” In Handbook of Gender in Archaeology, edited by S. M. Nelson, 401–33. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2006) Contact: Lorenzo Verderame ([email protected]) Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali Facoltà di Lettere "Sapienza" Università di Roma P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 - Roma info e aggiornamenti sul corso: http://elearning.uniroma1.it/course/view.php?id=2007

APPEALS: Save the Besparmak Daglari (Mt Latmos) At is posted this appeal: [Go to for the rock paintings ] ==================================================== Petitioning Republic of Turkey Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs This petition will be delivered to: Republic of Turkey Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs Save Mount Latmos EKODOSD EKOSISTEMI KORUMA VE DOGA SEVENLER DERNEGI Kusadasi, Turkey The Besparmak Daglari, known as "Latmos" in antiquity, is one of the most fascinating and archaeologically richest regions in western Turkey. As early as prehistoric times the Latmos was already revered as a sacred mountain in Anatolia. Upon its peak the Old Anatolian weather god together with a local mountain deity were worshipped. The mountain peak was the centre of weather and fertility rituals. Despite socio-cultural changes that transformed religious concepts, the cultic tradition there continued into Ottoman times. The beauty of the rock landscape and the cultural monuments that it inspired are now greatly endangered by increased stone quarrying in the area. For several decades feldspar, a rock-forming mineral used for the production of ceramics, glass and sanitary installations world-wide, has been quarried in the Besparmak. This exploitation is causing the drastic metamorphosis of the Latmos from a sacred mountain into a source for bathroom installations! Tax exemptions and lax mining regulations, especially in the past few years, have enabled quarrying feldspar to expand dramatically, so that sites are threatened of the most important group of archaeological monuments on the Latmos: the prehistoric rock paintings. Discovered in 1994 by the Berlin archaeologist Dr. Anneliese Peschlow-Bindokat, these rock paintings, dating to the 6th and 5th millennia B.C., belong to the recent extraordinary discoveries in prehistoric archaeology in Anatolia. The repertory of images focuses on family scenes and reflects the changes that occurred in society with the onset of sedentism. The themes and message conveyed by this imagery are unparalleled in the Mediterranean sphere and the Near East.

If the exploitation of feldspar is not curbed immediately, a landscape unique to Anatolia and the Aegean will be lost forever. The Latmos is an Open-Air Museum that covers with its cultural heritage a time span of almost 8000 years. It is also a geo-park, characterised by fantastic rock formations that are rarely found anywhere else in the world, and the magnificent pine forests (Pinus pinea) are the greatest of their kind in Turkey. However, now their number has been severely cut back. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) the Besparmak with its rare plants is one of the 122 important plant areas of Turkey. Yet, 22 species are seriously endangered: 2 according to general, 6 to European and 14 to national standards. 2 of them are endemic. The Comperia comperiana, member of the orchid family, and the Cyclamen mirabile should be conserved, following the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats of 1979, which Turkey - among other countries - signed in agreement. Among the endangered wildlife of the mountains special mention should be made of the wild cat (Caracal caracal), one of the five species of wild cats native in Turkey, and the white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). The cost of making the area appropriate for a low-impact "ecotourism" would not be unfeasible. The local population, whose living quality and basis of existence are threatened by deforestation by quarries, would profit economically from visitors. Most of the inhabitants live from pine-seed-gathering and pine-tree products, bee-keeping, cultivation of olives and animal husbandry. However, today this subsistence basis has become impossible for many local establishments. Furthermore, the fine quarry dust carried by the wind presents a hazard to the population's health and contaminates the earth, especially through rainfall. Among the communities most stricken by these environmental changes is the village of Karakaya. Feldspar can be found in other regions of Turkey, but the Latmos is singular in its uniqueness and importance for the World Natural and Cultural Heritage. The NABU Deutschland e. V. (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, Germany), the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) in Turkey as well as the conservation of nature organisation EKOKODOSD in Kusadasi, further the "Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC)" and the "Association pour le Rayonnement de l'Art Pariétal Européen (ARAPE)" have emphasised the exceptional abundance of nature and archaeological monuments in the region. Due to all these reasons I request that the Latmos Mountains - the Besparmak Daglari - must be declared a National Park by the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs of the Republic of Turkey.

eREVIEWS: Of "Ecrire à ses morts: enquête sur un usage rituel de l'écrit dans From < http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015-01-53.html>: ==================================================== Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.01.53 Sylvie Donnat Beauquier, Ecrire à ses morts: enquête sur un usage rituel de l'écrit dans l'Egypte pharaonique. Collection Horos?. Grenoble: Jérôme Millon Editions?, 2014. Pp. 286. ISBN 9782841372522. €26.00 (pb). Reviewed by Juan Carlos Moreno García?, CNRS ([email protected]) One of the most characteristic aspects of pharaonic culture is undoubtedly the funerary domain. Massive monuments like the pyramids, beautifully decorated royal and private tombs, extensive ritual texts carved on temples or inscribed in coffins, even contemporary popular icons of the Egyptian past like mummies or the Book of the Dead, attest to the importance of death and deceased people in Egyptian beliefs and in contemporary interpretations of pharaonic civilization. In fact Egyptology has devoted most of its archaeological and philological work to the study of texts and monuments related to the mortuary sphere, especially those belonging to members of the royalty and of the elite who ruled the country. Furthermore, these researches have been mainly focused on art and religious history, while the social aspects of death and its importance in cementing interpersonal ties among the living ones, especially among common people, have not received as much attention. In the last decades Egyptologists have become increasingly aware, however, of the existence of extensive kin networks in Egyptian society, a circumstance usually concealed

behind the use of rather general and imprecise kinship terms like “brother”, “sister”, “son” or “child” to refer, in fact, to collateral or descendant members of one's family as well as to subordinates. The epigraphic and ritual sources of the end of the 3rd millennium suddenly contain a plethora of terms evoking extensive kin groups, but the precise meaning of many of them still eludes us and in many cases it is only possible to suggest approximate translations like “household” or “extended family”. Irrespective, the influence of these networks left their mark in the domain of funerary beliefs. The end of the 3rd millennium appears in fact as an unstable period of political turmoil, increasing social autonomy and weakened royal authority. Under these conditions, extensive kin and patronage networks provided protection for people and inspired new forms of ideological legitimacy, alternative to those derived from service to the (now divided) monarchy. The provincial elite now proudly proclaimed their old and noble origins and, in some cases, developed ritual activities centered on the presentation of offerings to deceased members of the ruling local family or to a prestigious ancestor.1 The best known examples come from the area of Elephantine, in southern Egypt, and from the oasis of Dakhla, where chapels dedicated, respectively, to Heqaib and Medunefer, remained active foci of local cults and of presentation of offerings until the beginning of the 2nd millennium.2 More generally, ritual activities centered on deceased members of a kin group or devoted to ancestors of powerful patronage networks helped drawing together families and communities. Not surprisingly some recent Egyptological research has explored the impact of these ritual practices in pharaonic society, usually from the perspective of archaeological, anthropological and cultural history studies, thus departing from the more traditionally philological and art history views prevalent in Egyptology.3 The book published by Sylvie Donnat Beauquier belongs to this renewed tradition and the focus of her work is an exceptionalcorpus of texts, mostly dating from the end of the 3rd millennium BC, and known as “letters to the dead”. Its author is a reputed specialist in the study of these documents and she has devoted much of her research to a better knowledge of the social and religious context in which they appeared, especially to the very particular ways in which deceased people were invoked in order to help solving everyday problems of their living relatives. In a very insightful introduction, Sylvie Donnat reminds us that the ritual uses of hieratic writing have been somewhat neglected in Egyptological studies, as most research was focused on the more prestigious (and abundant) texts written in hieroglyphs and in cursive hieroglyphs. Commonly regarded as an everyday type of writing, mostly restricted to the administrative and personal (i. e. letters) sphere, the utilization of hieratic in ritual and religious compositions has attracted less attention from Egyptologists, despite its early appearance in the 3rd millennium in the so-called “execration texts.” She continues her argument by highlighting the importance of the other early corpus of ritual sources written in hieratic, the letters to the dead, for two reasons: on the one hand because the analysis of this epistolary genre helps better understand its history and particularities within text production of pharaonic Egypt; and, on the other hand, because it provides a privileged tool for understanding the role played by writing in the communication between dead and living people. After a general description of the problems and state-of-the-art of these particular documents, the book is organized in two main parts. The first one consists in the presentation, translation and discussion of all relevant texts. Usually grouped under the label of “letters to the dead”, Sylvie Donnat introduces a subtle classification of the corpus by categories. As she reminds the reader in the introduction to the first part, the very notion of “letters to the dead” is a modern one and the sources under discussion appear in fact in a variety of supports, like papyri, bowls, stelae, pieces of cloth, even figurines. But they all share a common feature, the use of the formulaic repertory characteristic of the epistolary genre, but here adapted to an actually funerary communication. In fact, these letters were addressed to a very particular kind of recipient, to the point that rites played an essential role in the communicative context in which they were enacted. These characteristics distinguish them from other types of petitions addressed to deceased people. After a brief overall presentation of the texts, Sylvie Donnat classifies them in two broad chronological categories, texts written in the (late) 3rd millennium (fourteen documents) and those composed in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC (five examples), the former one being in turn divided into five sub-categories, depending on the use of very distinctive epistolary formulae: summings-up, petitions/complaints, classical epistolary expressions, classical funerary expressions and other epistolary formulae (including a contract). As for texts later than the 3rd millennium, they spread over nearly 1500 years, appear on a diversity of supports and, contrary to those of the late 3rd millennium, they do not constitute a coherent corpus from a stylistic or a contents point of view. The second part of the book consists in an insightful analysis of the social and cultural context in which the documents were produced. To begin with, the earlier group of letters, going back to the late 3rd millennium, consists in pleas addressed to the dead by members of his extended family (sons, spouse, dependents), often motivated by troubles menacing the stability of the household: disputed inheritances, debts, protection of the dependents, etc. A crucial element was the accomplishment of the appropriate rites in order to obtain the help of the dead, but also to remind him or her that offerings were subject to the efficacy of the assistance obtained, so libations and presents might be interrupted if the aid failed to appear. To put it in other terms, these texts reproduce the characteristics and tensions typical of social relations where patronage links bounded together extensive households, including not only

people of the same family but also a broader network made up of servants, dependents, friends, colleagues, etc. It is not by chance that such links are often evoked in contemporary sources where rituals played an essential role, like the Coffin Texts or some “execration texts” where wet nurses figure prominently in households.4 As a reflection of contemporary social practices, the dead plays the role of patron, the one from whom help is expected in troubled times, but whose authority must be continuously reasserted and legitimized through the efficacy of his measures. On the contrary, the “letters of the dead” from the 2nd and 1st millennium BC lack a comparable stylistic homogeneity, to the point that the author suggests that only two of the five documents analyzed could be considered true “letters to the dead”. This leads to a difficult question: did the practice continue uninterrupted over time? Sylvie Donnat suggests —quite sensibly in my opinion— that it was not the case due to the differences between the earlier and the later (and rather more discontinuous) group of texts. In fact she thinks that what reappeared from time to time was the idea of using letters as an appropriate tool to communicate with dead people, even gods. Finally, the author suggests a sensible link between changes in funerary beliefs and transformations in the political and cultural spheres. While patronage networks provided crucial support for people during the First Intermediate Period, the reconstruction of the monarchy and the centralization of power in the hands of Pharaohs again, during the Middle Kingdom, had a durable impact on funerary beliefs. Cults sponsored by the king (like that of Osiris) and the formation of a Court society, where provincial nobles were integrated and granted honors and recompenses by the king, undermined the influence of local patronage networks and put an end to the letters addressed to the dead. Later on, during the New Kingdom, the emergence of a more direct relation between individuals and gods further restricted the role to be played by deceased relatives. They appeared as potential irascible forces to be appeased instead of powerful mediators between the world of the living and the world of invisible forces. In the end, Sylvie Donnat deserves our warmest thanks for the task of bringing together a corpus of texts indispensable for the study of the social practices and funerary beliefs during a rather obscure period of Egyptian history. Also for providing a sensible and suggestive analysis of the interactions between the two spheres and for scrutinizing the use of cursive writing in domestic, private activities, far from its more current utilization in administrative documents. Egyptologists, historians and anthropologists will be well repaid to read her book. Notes: 1. Michael Fitzenreiter (ed.), Genealogie — Ralität und Fiktion von Identität (IBAES, 5), London: Golden House Publications, 2005; Michael Höveler-Müller. Funde aus dem Grab 88 der Qubbet el-Hawa bei Assuan (Die Bonner Bestände) (Bonner Sammlung von Aegyptiaca, 5), Wiesbaden: Harrassowtiz, 2006; Paul Whelan, Mere Scraps of Rough Wood? 17th-18th Dynasty Stick Shabtis in the Petrie Museum and Other Collections (GHP Egyptology, 6), London: Golden House Publications, 2007; Antonio J. Morales, “Traces of official and popular veneration to Nyuserra Iny at Abusir. Late Fifth Dynasty to the Middle Kingdom.” In: Miroslav Bárta, Filip Coppens, Jaromír Krejcí (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2005, Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, p. 311-341. 2. Detlef Franke, Das Heiligtum des Heqaib auf Elephantine. Geschichte eines Provinzheiligtums im Mittleren Reich (SAGA, 9), Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1994; Georges Soukiassian, Michel Wuttmann, Laure Pantalacci, Balat, VI : Le palais des gouverneurs de l’époque de Pépy II. Les sanctuaires de ka et leurs dépendances (FIFAO, 46), Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 2002. 3. Harco Willems (ed.), Social Aspects of Funerary Culture in the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms (OLA, 103), Leuven: Peeters, 2001; John Baines, Peter Lacovara, “Burial and the dead in ancient Egyptian society: respect, formalism, neglect”, Journal of Social Archaeology 2 (2002), 5-36; Heike Guksch, Eva Hofmann, Martin Bommas (eds.), Grab und Totenkult im alten Ägypten, Munich: C. H. Beck, 2003; Janet Richards, Society and Death in Ancient Egypt. Mortuary Landscapes of the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005; Juan Carlos Moreno García, “Oracles, ancestor cults and letters to the dead: the involvement of the dead in the public and private family affairs in Pharaonic Egypt.” In: Anne Storch (ed.), Perception of the Invisible: Religion, Historical Semantics and the Role of Perceptive Verbs (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, 21), Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe, 2010, p. 133153; Nicola Harrington, Living with the Dead. Ancestor Worship and Mortuary Ritual in Ancient Egypt, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2013. 4. Georges Posener, “Tablettes-figurines de prisonniers”, Revue d'Égyptologie 64 (2013), 135-175. ?

NEWS: 2,200-Year-Old Moat Discovered in Spain From < http://www.archaeology.org/news/2937-150129-spain-punic-war >: ================================================

2,200-Year-Old Moat Discovered in Spain Students led by Jaume Noguera of the University of Barcelona and Jordi López of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology were attempting to reconstruct the route traveled by Carthaginian troops through northeastern Spain when they discovered a 2,200-year-old moat with electrical resistivity tomography. The moat may have been built to defend the town of Vilar del Valls, which is thought to have been destroyed during the Second Punic War, when Roman troops defeated Carthaginian troops left in Iberia by Hannibal to protect his supply route to Italy. Carthaginian coins and lead projectiles also point to the presence of the Carthaginians in the region. The project will continue to survey the area to find the rest of the ancient town of Vilar del Valls. To read more about warfare in this period, see "Abandoned Anchors From Punic Wars" .

EXHIBITIONS: Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World From < http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=2871>: ================================= First Major Exhibition of Hellenistic Bronzes to Tour Internationally Sat, Jan 31, 2015 First of its kind collection includes 50 ancient bronzes from 4th century BC to 1st century AD. Beginning in March 2015, the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., will present Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, the first major international exhibition to bring together approximately 50 ancient bronzes from the Mediterranean region and beyond ranging from the 4th century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. During the Hellenistic era, artists around the Mediterranean created innovative, realistic sculptures of physical power and emotional intensity. Bronze-with its reflective surface, tensile strength, and ability to hold the finest details-was employed for dynamic compositions, graphic expressions of age and character, and dazzling displays of the human form. From sculptures known since the Renaissance, such as the Arringatore (Orator) from Sanguineto (in the collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence), to spectacular recent discoveries that have never before been exhibited in the United States, the exhibition is the most comprehensive museum survey of Hellenistic bronzes ever organized. In each showing of the exhibition, recent finds-many salvaged from the sea-will be exhibited for the first time alongside well-known works. The works of art on view will range in scale from statuettes, busts and heads to lifesize figures and herms. Just one example, illustrated below right, is the bronze Portrait of a Man, dated to 100 BC.* Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World is especially remarkable for bringing together works of art that, because of their rarity, are usually exhibited in isolation. When viewed in proximity to one another, the variety of styles and techniques employed by ancient sculptors is emphasized to greater effect, as are the varying functions and histories of the bronze sculptures. Bronze was a material well-suited to reproduction, and the exhibition provides an unprecedented opportunity to see objects of the same type, and even from the same workshop, together for the first time. The travel schedule for Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World is: . Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy March 14 - June 21, 2015 www.palazzostrozzi.org

. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA July 28 - November 1, 2015 www.getty.edu . National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. December 6, 2015 - March 20, 2016 www.nga.gov This exhibition is curated by Jens Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin of the J. Paul Getty Museum and co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; with the participation of Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Bank of America is the National Presenting Sponsor of this exhibition. The Los Angeles presentation is also supported by the Getty Museum's Villa Council.

The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts that includes the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Foundation. The J. Paul Getty Trust and Getty programs serve a varied audience from two locations: the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu. The J. Paul Getty Museum collects in seven distinct areas, including Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts, and photographs gathered internationally. The Museum's mission is to make the collection meaningful and attractive to a broad audience by presenting and interpreting the works of art through educational programs, special exhibitions, publications, conservation, and research. Visiting the Getty Center The Getty Center is open Tuesday through Friday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. It is closed Monday and most major holidays. Admission to the Getty Center is always free. Parking is $15 per car, but reduced to $10 after 5 p.m. on Saturdays and for evening events throughout the week. No reservation is required for parking or general admission. Reservations are required for event seating and groups of 15 or more. Please call (310) 440-7300 (English or Spanish) for reservations and information. The TTY line for callers who are deaf or hearing impaired is (310) 440-7305. The Getty Center is at 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, California. Additional information is available at www.getty.edu.

OBITUARIES: For Marcus Borg From < http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/marcus-borg-liberal-christian-scholar-dies-at-72.html >: ================================================================== Marcus Borg, Liberal Scholar on Historical Jesus, Dies at 72 By LAURIE GOODSTEINJAN. Marcus J. Borg, a scholar who popularized a liberal intellectual approach to Christianity with his lectures and books about Jesus as a historical figure, died on Wednesday at his home in Powell Butte, Ore. He was 72. His publisher, HarperOne, said the cause was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Professor Borg was among a group of scholars, known as the Jesus Seminar, who set off an uproar with its very public efforts to discern collectively which of Jesus' acts and utterances could be confirmed as historically true, and which were probably myths.

His studies of the New Testament led him not toward atheism but toward a deep belief in the spiritual life and in Jesus as a teacher, healer and prophet. Professor Borg became, in essence, a leading evangelist of what is often called progressive Christianity. He came to the fore in the late 1980s and early '90s, just as a conservative brand of evangelical Christianity was gaining adherents in America and emerging as a political force. He was among those who helped provide the theological foundation for liberals who were pushing back, defining Jesus as a champion of justice for the poor and marginalized. He wrote or co-wrote 21 books and lectured at so many churches, conferences, universities and seminaries that, friends say, he accumulated more than 100,000 frequent flier miles almost every year. A friend and collaborator, John Dominic Crossan, an emeritus professor of religious studies at DePaul University who helped found the Jesus Seminar, said in an interview last week that Professor Borg had delivered a radical message, but with a notably gentle demeanor. "His own vision was not simply derived from opposing fundamentalist or literalist Christianity," Mr. Crossan said. "It was a very positive vision. He could talk about Jesus and he could talk about Paul and the positive vision they had." In his last book, the memoir "Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most" (2014), Professor Borg wrote: "Imagine that Christianity is about loving God. Imagine that it's not about the self and its concerns, about 'what's in it for me,' whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life." Professor Borg was for 28 years a professor of religion and culture at Oregon State University, where he held a chair endowed by an alumnus who said he had been inspired by Professor Borg's research. His books "Jesus: A New Vision" (1987) and "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time" (1994) were on many best-seller lists. Professor Borg was born on March 11, 1942, in Fergus Falls, Minn., to a traditional Lutheran family. He attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at Oxford, where he did research on the historical Jesus. In 1983 he became an Episcopalian. His wife, Marianne Wells Borg, is an Episcopal priest and a former canon at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Ore., where Professor Borg later served as a canon theologian. She survives him, as do a son, Dane; a daughter, Julie; and a grandson. Continue reading the main storyContinue reading the main storyContinue reading the main story Professor Borg relished public debates with more conservative scholars who criticized both his methods and his message. One sparring partner was N. T. Wright, a professor of the New Testament and early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and an Anglican who was formerly the bishop of Durham. Mr. Wright said in an interview last week that the two men had often debated the birth of Jesus and the bodily resurrection. Professor Wright said he had argued that "there's very good historical reason to believe these are things that actually happened," while Professor Borg had believed they were "metaphors." Despite their disagreements, Professor Wright said, he and Professor Borg shared "a deep and rich mutual affection and friendship." They wrote a book together, "The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions." When Professor Borg went to Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Fort Collins, Colo., as a visiting scholar a few years ago, the sanctuary was full and hundreds watched his lecture on a screen in an overflow room, said the Rev. Hal Chorpenning, the senior minister there. He said that on the day Professor Borg died, he received an email from a young woman in the parish who wrote, "Without Marcus, I wouldn't be able to call myself a Christian." A version of this article appears in print on January 27, 2015, on page A15 of the New York edition with the headline: Marcus Borg, Liberal Christian Scholar, Dies at 72.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------February 2- no emails sent -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------February 3 CONFERENCES: "Neolithic Networks in the longue durée" (Berlin, Dec. 9-11)

From Ruti Ungar [mailto:[email protected]]: ========================================= [English follows bellow] Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ich möchte Sie auf eine Veranstaltung des Digitalen Atlas der Innovationen (Jürgen Renn, Svend Hansen und Florian Klimscha) hinweisen, die im Rahmen von TOPOI vom. 9.-11. Dezember im MPIWG in Berlin stattfinden wird. Die Konferenz "Neolithic Networks in the longue durée: Neolithic Innovations and Innovations enabling the Neolithic Revolution" behandelt schwerpunktmäßig den Übergang von Jungpaläolithikum zum ältesten Neolithikum in Westasien (d.h. die Zeit vom 14.-7. Jahrtausend). Interessierte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die sich mit einem Beitrag einbringen möchten, kontaktieren bitte die email: . ------------------Dear Colleagues, The Digital Atlas of Innovation group (Jürgen Renn, Svend Hansen and Florian Klimscha) is organizing a TOPOI workshop which will take place between 9-11 December 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. The Conference "Neolithic Networks in the longue durée: Neolithic Innovations and Innovations enabling the Neolithic Revolution" will focus on the transition from the Upper Paleolithic to the oldest Neolithic in Western Asia (ca. 14-7 millennium). If you are interested in giving a paper at the conference please contact Ruti Ungar. CALLS FOR PAPERS: Landscapes of Settlement in the Ancient Near East (ASOR 2015)

From Emily Hammer [mailto:[email protected]]: ===============================================

“Landscapes of Settlement in the Ancient Near East” American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia, 18-21 November 2015 This session brings together scholars investigating regional-scale problems of settlement history and archaeological landscapes across the ancient Near East. Research presented in the session is linked methodologically through the use of regional survey, satellite remote sensing, geophysics, geoarchaeology, and paleoenvironmental studies to document ancient settlements, communication routes, field systems, irrigation networks, and other evidence of human activity that is inscribed in the landscape. Session participants are especially encouraged to offer analyses of these regional archaeological data that explore political, economic, and cultural aspects of ancient settlement systems as well as their dynamic interaction with the natural environment. The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 2015. Presenters can submit an abstract of 250 words or less via ASOR's Online Abstract Submission Site. http://www.asor.org/am/2015/call-2.html Membership in ASOR and registration for the Annual Meeting is required in advance for participants. For more information on the rules and regulations, please visithttp://www.asor.org/am/2015/call-1.html. If you have any questions, feel free to contact session chairs Emily Hammer ([email protected]) and Jesse Casana ([email protected]). CONFERENCES: Aspects of Family Law in the ancient World (London, April 22-24) From John Tait : ========================= INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: ‘ASPECTS OF FAMILY LAW IN THE ANCIENT WORLD – A CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE’, UCL, London 22-24 APRIL 2015 Registration for the International Conference ‘Aspects of Family Law in the Ancient World’, which will take place at UCL, London, 22-24 April 2015, has now opened and can be found at: https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/myaccount/?modid=2&compid=1. (Please create an account/ log in; enter ‘family law’ in the ‘search’ field on the left hand side of the screen to find the relevant booking form). The programme is available online and can be downloaded from our website at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/events/2015FamilyLaw. With the generous support of our sponsors we will be able to offer a number of bursaries covering the conference fee for postgraduates and senior classicists (over 65s), to assist them to attend the event. We would like to invite postgraduates to submit an application in a word document of 250 words MAXIMUM indicating how the conference relates to their academic activity/ research interests and how the conference will benefit their work. Applications should be sent to the organisers at [email protected] by the end of February at the latest (eligibility will be checked at registration prior to reimbursement).

Chris Carey, Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Brenda Griffith-Williams Organisers JOURNALS: International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 44/1 (March 2015) From < http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijna.2015.44.issue-1/issuetoc >: ================================================== International Journal of Nautical Archaeology Volume 44, Issue 1 Pages 1 - 242, March 2015 The latest issue of International Journal of Nautical Archaeology is available on Wiley Online Library Editorial Editorial (page 1) Miranda Richardson Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12104 Shipwrecked? New developments in Southeast Asian maritime archaeology and the safeguard of shipwrecks in the region (pages 1–4) Jun Kimura Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12104_1 Articles The Yenikapı Byzantine-Era Shipwrecks, Istanbul, Turkey: a preliminary report and inventory of the 27 wrecks studied by Istanbul University (pages 5–38) Ufuk Kocabaş Article first published online: 24 DEC 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12084 Eight Byzantine Shipwrecks from the Theodosian Harbour Excavations at Yenikapı in Istanbul, Turkey: an introduction (pages 39–73) Cemal Pulak, Rebecca Ingram and Michael Jones Article first published online: 8 DEC 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12083 Did Ancient Egyptian Ships have Keels? The evidence of Thonis-Heracleion Ship 17 (pages 74–80) Alexander Belov Article first published online: 6 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12078 Two Artificial Anchorages off the Northern Shore of the Dead Sea: a specific feature of an ancient maritime cultural landscape (pages 81–94) Asaf Oron, Ehud Galili, Gideon Hadas and Micha Klein Article first published online: 6 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12077 Practical Knowledge in the Viking Age: the use of mental templates in clinker shipbuilding (pages 95– 110) Thomas Dhoop and Juan-Pablo Olaberria Article first published online: 28 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12081

Construction Features of Doel 1, a 14th-Century Cog found in Flanders (pages 111–131) Jeroen Vermeersch and Kristof Haneca Article first published online: 29 JUL 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/10959270.12073 The Wreck of the Warship Northumberland on the Goodwin Sands, England, 1703: an interim report (pages 132–144) Daniel Pascoe and Robert Peacock Article first published online: 14 OCT 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12074 A Chain Pump Recovered from the Wreck of the Warship Northumberland (1703) (pages 145–159) Daniel Pascoe, Mark Mavrogordato and Angela Middleton Article first published online: 13 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12075 A Late 17th-Century Trade Cargo from Ponta do Leme Velho, Sal Island, Cape Verde (pages 160–172) Mário Varela Gomes, Tânia Manuel Casimiro and Joana Gonçalves Article first published online: 7 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12076 The Western River Steamboat Heroine, 1832–1838, Oklahoma, USA: propulsion machinery (pages 173– 195) Kevin Crisman and Glenn Grieco Article first published online: 6 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/10959270.12079 Notes Phønix: a preliminary report on the 19th-century Danish steamer wrecked on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland (pages 196–202) Ragnar Edvardsson and Arnar Þór Egilsson Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12080 Discovery and Survey and of a 17th–18th Century Shipwreck near Drumbeg, NW Scotland: an initial report (pages 202–208) John McCarthy, Philip Robertson and Ewen Mackay Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12087 Marble Disc Ophthalmoi from Two Shipwrecks off the Israeli Coast (pages 208–213) Ehud Galili and Baruch Rosen Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12082 Reviews A Maritime Archaeology of Ships: innovation and change in medieval and early modern europe by Jonathan Adams 250 pages, 57 b&w illustrations, 16 colour plates, 11 tables Oxbow Books, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX2 2EW, 2013, £29.95 (sbk), ISBN 978-1842172971 (pages 214–217) Eric Rieth Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12097

Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf: a global review edited by Amanda M. Evans, Joseph C. Flatman and Nicolas C. Flemming (Eds), with 44 Contributors pp. 307, 95 illustrations, 30 in colour Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA, 2014, £117 (hbk), ISBN 978-1461496342 (pages 218–219) R. Helen Farr Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12091 The Bronze Age in the Severn EstuaryCBA Research Report 172 by Martin Bell with 22 Contributors 368 pp., 136 figures, 27 colour plates, summaries in French, German and Welsh Council for British Archaeology, St Mary's House, 66 Bootham, York YO30 7BZ, 2013, £50 (hbk), ISBN 978-1902771946 (pages 219–222) David Tomalin Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/10959270.12101 Coastal Archaeology in a Dynamic Environment: a Solent case studyBritish Archaeological Reports, British Series no. 568 edited by David J. Tomalin, Rebecca Loader and Robert G. Scaife (Eds) 545 pp., 308 b&w illustrations, maps and tables; CD Archaeopress for BAR, Gordon House, 276 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7ED, 2012, £60 (sbk) ISBN 978-1407310428 (pages 222–224) Valerie Fenwick Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12092 Shell Energy: mollusk shells as coastal resources edited by Geoffrey N. Bailey, Karen Hardy and Abdoulaye Camara (Eds) with 30 Contributors 326 pp., many tables, maps, plans and figures, some in colour Oxbow Books, Hythe Bridge Road, Oxford OX1 2EW, 2013, £50 (hbk), ISBN 978-1842177655 (pages 224–225) Atholl Anderson Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/10959270.12088 Conservation of Archaeological Ships and Boats: personal experiences by Per Hoffmann with 6 Contributors 187 pp., lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w, with many charts and diagrams Archetype Publications, 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ, in association with Deutsches Shiffahrts Museum, 2014, £45/$95 (hbk), ISBN 978-1904982821 (pages 225–227) Mike Corfield Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12089 Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World by Thomas F. Tartaron 360pp., 71 b&w figs, 25 maps, 11 tables Cambridge University Press, 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA, 2013, £65/$99 (hbk), ISBN 978-1107002982 (pages 227–228) Damian Robinson Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12098 L'Epave de la Première Moitié du XVe Siècle de la Canche à Beutin (Pas de Calais)Revue du Nord, Horssérie. Collection Art et Archéologie No 20 edited by Éric Rieth (Ed.), with È. Armynot Du Châtelet, J.-L. Gaucher, G. Jouanin, C. Lavier, I. Leroy, D. Malengros, P. Poveda, V. Serna, P. Texier and A. Trentesaux 222 pp., 215 illustrations some with colour and line drawings Revue du Nord, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3, BP 601 49, CEDEX 596 53 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, 2013, €45 (sbk), ISBN 9782953821697 (pages 229–230) Christer Westerdahl Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12103

Naturalists at Sea: scientific travellers from Dampier to Darwin by Glyn Williams 309 pp, 39 plates (some in colour), 1 map Yale University Press, 47 Bedford Square, WC1B 3DP, 2013, £25 (hbk), ISBN 9780300180732 (pages 230–232) Margaret Deacon Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12090 Coffins of the Brave: lake shipwrecks of the war of 1812 edited by Kevin J. Crisman (Ed.) with 11 Contributors 440 pp. 114 b&w photos, 90 line drawings, 23 colour plates 5 maps Texas A&M University Press, 4345 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4345, 2014, $60 (hbk), ISBN 978-1623490324 (pages 232– 234) Andrew Lambert Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12093 The Coming of the Comet: the rise and fall of the paddle steamer by Nick Robins 186 pp., 154 b&w illustrations, 7 tables Seaforth Publishing, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 47 Church Street, Barnsley S70 2AS, UK, £25 (hbk), ISBN 978-1848321342 (pages 234–235) Colin Martin Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12095 Viermastbark Passat, eine Baudokumentation by Thomas Böttcher 141 pp., 125 illustrations many colour Oceanum Verlag, Wiefelstede, for the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, 2013, €29.90 (sbk), ISBN 9783869270128 (pages 236–237) John Robinson Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12100 Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 35 (2012)Yearbook of the German Shipmuseum edited by Erik Hoops (Ed.) with 6 Contributors 354 pp., many b&w illustrations, 63 colour, 1 folded plan Oceanum Verlag e.K., Thienkamp 93, Wiefelstede, D-26215 for Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven D-27568, 2014, €23.50 (hbk), ISBN 978-3869270357 (pages 237–238) Timm Weski Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12102 L'épave du Vapeur Prophète au Cap Lardier (Var): approche historique, archéologique, technologique d'un navire naufragé en 1860Cahiers d'Archéologie Subaquatique Supplement edited by Anne and JeanPierre Joncheray (Eds) with many Contributors 281 pp., illustrated in b&w and colour Cahiers d'Archéologie Subaquatique, 1637 avenue de Lattre de Tassigny, 83600 Fréjus, France, http://cahiersarcheosub.org/, 2014, €30 (hbk) (pages 238–240) John Robinson Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12099 The Ships of Scapa Flow by Campbell McCutcheon 96 pp., 138 b&w illustrations, mostly contemporary photographs Amberley Publishing, The Hill, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4EP, UK, 2013, £14.99 (sbk), ISBN 978-1445633862 (pages 240–241) Andrew Lambert Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12094 Between the Devil and the Deep: meeting challenges in the public interpretation of maritime cultural heritage edited by Della A. Scott-Ireton (Ed.) with 23 Contributors xii+ 214 pp., 26 illustrations, 21 in

colour Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013 via KNO VA GmbH, Stuttgart, D-70765, 2014, £90 (hbk), ISBN 978-1461481775 (pages 241–242) Danielle Newman Article first published online: 2 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/1095-9270.12096

JOURNALS: Henoch 36/2 (2014) From Corrado Martone [mailto:[email protected]]: ============================================== Henoch 36/2 (2014) CONTENTS: CONTENTS / SOMMARIO Editorial / Editoriale (Maria Luisa Russo)................................................... 163 THEME SECTION / SEZIONE MONOGRAFICA Archives of the Orient. Selected Papers from the International Conference on Paul Ernst Kahle (Turin, April 10-11, 2014) Bruno Chiesa, Paul Kahle and the Hebrew Bible.......................................... 167 Geoffrey Khan, Paul Kahle and the Cairo Genizah Manuscripts................ 177 Corrado Martone, Forgotten Legacy. A Reassessment of Paul Kahle’s views on the Dead Sea Scrolls.......................................................................... 188 Andrea Ravasco, Paul Kahle as a Septuagint Scholar................................. 198 Alessandro Mengozzi, “Das zur Zeit Jesu in Palästina gesprochene Aramäisch” by Paul Kahle. Research on Aramaic, Then and Today............... 208 Elvira Martín-Contreras, Building Research Projects. The Correspondence between Paul E. Kahle and Federico Pérez Castro kept at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (csic)................................................. 222 Bruno Chiesa, Paul Kahle and Some of His Jewish Pupils........................... 231 Thomas Beck er - Wilhelm Bleek, Paul Kahle and the University of Bonn. 238 Hyder Abbas, Scholar and Collector. Paul Kahle and Chester Beatty in the Chester Beatty Library Archives...................................................................... 248 Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti, La missione a Düsseldorf nella primavera del 1966 per espletare le pratiche relative all’acquisto della Biblioteca Kahle.... 270 Maria Luisa Russo, The Rearrangement and Preservation of the Documentary Heritage of Paul Ernst Kahle..................................................................... 273 Articles / Articoli Helen R. Jacobus, Noah’s Flood Calendar (Gen 7:10-8:19) in the Septuagint.... 283 Paolo Sacchi, Il Patto di Gesù (Mc 14,22-24), Reimarus e l’origine del cristianesimo.................................................................................................... 297 Giuseppe Veltri Gianfranco Miletto, “... per esser buon Catolico Cristian, è necessario esser perfettamente Ebreo”. Difesa inedita del senatore veneziano Loredan in favore degli ebrei nel 1659/60, basata sul “Discorso” di Simone Luzzatto........................................................................................... 307

NEWS / NOTIZIARIO.................................................................................... 328 Séminaire Qumrân de Paris 2013-2014 “Questions actuelles sur les manuscrits de Qumrân et les littératures connexes” [Christophe Batsch], p. 328

APPEALS: Save Libyan Archaeology From : [Go there for the 1.5 minutes audio] ==================================== Save Libyan Archaeology Plea Issued Savino di Lernia, director of the Archaeological Mission in the Sahara at the Sapienza University of Rome, says violence and unrest threaten World Heritage sites and researchers. Cynthia Graber reports The revolution in Libya four years ago toppled Muammar Qaddafi. It also led to hopes for a cultural revolution. But violence has increased, any cultural revolution is on hold, and Libya’s world-renowned archaeological sites—as well as its scientists—need protection. That’s the conclusion of Savino di Lernia, director of the Archaeological Mission in the Sahara at the Sapienza University of Rome. He made his points in a commentary in the journal Nature. [Savino di Lernia, Cultural heritage: Save Libyan archaeology: ] Di Lernia has worked in Libya since 1990, studying, for example, 9,000-year-old wall art that depicts crocodiles and cattle. In addition to the activities of indigenous people, the country’s archaeological sites hold artifacts from ancient Greek and Phoenician cultures. But the unrest has stopped work on these archaeological treasures. The fighting has damaged historic mosques and tombs, and relics are being trafficked out of the country, both for profit and to support radical groups. Di Lernia argues that international groups should fund local research and continue training Libyan scientists in the hopes of a resumption of the cross-cultural exchanges and scientific training that had been going before the violence. Allowing Libyan archaeology to die would be, he says, quote, “a missed opportunity for a generation of young Libyan archaeologists — and a tragedy for the safeguarding of monuments and sites of universal and outstanding value.”

NOTICES: HUCA online From Angela Erisman [mailto:[email protected]]: ============================================

Volumes 82-83 of the Hebrew Union College Annual are now available in print and electronically! You will find articles on topics ranging from the book of Job, to women's testimony and ecology in Jewish law, to Abarbanel's views on biblical historiography. Visit press.huc.edu/huca to find out more, including how to get your copy. The entire run of HUCA is now searchable at jstor.org! "The Speech about God in Job 42:7-8: A Contribution to the Coherence of the Book of Job" (David Daniel Frankel, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies) "Scripture as Rhetor: A Study in Early Rabbinic Midrash (Tzvi Novick, University of Notre Dame) Perception, Compassion, and Surprise: Literary Coherence in the Third Chapter of Bavli Ta'anit" (Devora Steinmetz, Drisha Institute) "Women's Testimony in Jewish Law: A Historical Survey" (Ilan Fuchs, The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University) "Majority Rule in the Jewish Legal Tradition" (Haim Shapira, Bar-Ilan University) "Isaac Abarbanel's Defense of the Authority, Reliability and Coherence of Biblical Historiography" (Jair Haas, Bar-Ilan University) "Ecology in Jewish Law: Between the Universal and the Particularistic: The Trend of Delimiting 'Environmental Laws' to the Land of Israel" (Shlomo E. Glicksberg, Efrata College and Bar-Ilan University) "'Shith Descended to the Depths': The Baraita in the Talmuds and its Relation to the Tosefta," Rabin Shushtri (Bar-Ilan University) [Hebrew] "Examining the Origins of the 'Amoraic Baraitot' in Nehardea: The Case of Tannei Tanna Qameh de R. Sheshet/de R. Nahman," Barak S. Cohen (Bar-Ilan University) [Hebrew] "Between Ashkenaz and Sefarad: The Ideological Apostate," Shalom M. Sadik (Tel Aviv University) [Hebrew] "'The Priest Shouting Opposite Me': The Jewish-Christian Polemic in R. Obadiah Sforno's Commentary to Psalms," Moshe Rachimi (Orot Israel College) [Hebrew] Please direct any questions to Dr. Angela Roskop Erisman, Managing Director ([email protected]). NEWS: Damage to the Al-Arish National Museum From : ======================================== Al-Arish National Museum damaged in Sinai attacks

Al-Arish National Museum is one of the few antiquities holders in North Sinai where there are lots of monuments from the Pharaonic period, Graeco-Roman era, drawings of the Coptic and Islamic antiques. Egypt is full of ancient treasures, monuments and antiques which go back to the ancient glories that Egypt has witnessed. Most people only know about the ones in the Egyptian Museum, the pyramids and the temples of Luxor and Aswan, without knowing about the amount of treasures that exist in Sinai. Al-Arish National Museum is one of the few antiquities holders in North Sinai where there are lots of monuments from the Pharaonic period, Graeco-Roman era, drawings of the Coptic and Islamic antiques. During the attacks that Sinai witnessed Thursday night by the militant group ‘State of Sinai’, and which led to at least 30 military deaths, part of the museum was destroyed due to the bombings. The main front and one of the sides of the building were totally destroyed, and as a result collapsed, according to Ahmad Sharaf, Head of the Museums Sector at the Ministry of Antiquities. Sharaf confirmed that none of the antiques in the museum were affected or lost during the attacks. “All of the precious antiques in the museum are saved in the basement of the building, as it was built to be a warehouse for them,” said Mohammed Fawzy, the former head of the ministry’s Museums Sector. “The people who are responsible for the attacks are simply sick and hate themselves before they hate anyone else,” Fawzy said. The museum was opened in 2008 by former first lady Suzanne Mubarak, with the building itself costing approximately EGP 45m. WORKSHOPS: "...Environmental Impact of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in Northwestern Israel" (Jerusalem, Feb. 12) From Debi Cassuto [mailto:[email protected]]: =========================================== The W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, 26 Salah ed-din St. Jerusalem, invites you to a Workshop: "Towards a Study of the Environmental Impact of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in Northwestern Israel" by Melissa Rosenzweig, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, AIAR Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. (Refreshments will be served from 3:45pm) RSVP: Debi Cassuto .

BOOKS: By the Rivers of Babylon, The Story of the Babylonian Exile From < http://www.blmj.org/en/catalog/product.aspx?cat=2&prod=326>: =============================== Filip Vukosavović By the Rivers of Babylon, The Story of the Babylonian Exile Jerusalem, 2015 ISBN 978-965-7027-27-1 128 pages (English and Hebrew) Softcover, $39 Orders through [email protected] The publication accompanies the exhibition By the Rivers of Babylon opened at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem on 1 February 2015. It offers an overview of the Babylonian Exile from 604BCE to 539BCE through a variety of textual sources and archaeological finds. Included are also a number of texts from the recently published Al-Yahudu Archive, documenting the daily lives of the exiled Judeans. In addition, the publication offers artistic depictions of the Babylonian Exile from the Medieval and Modern eras, as well as maps, a time-line and selected readings on the topic. LECTURES: "Traces of Race" (Toronto, February 11 February) From Nola Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]: =============================================== On Wednesday,11 February 2015, Piotr Michalowski, George C. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Michigan, will give a lecture for the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies: TRACES OF RACE: NOTIONS OF THE OTHER IN EARLY MESOPOTAMIAN THOUGHT Many historians have elucidated various aspects of the history of modern Western racist attitudes and thought and some have even traced some of the strands of this horror as far back as Classical antiquity. But we now have access to thousands of years of earlier written history from Western Asia and Egypt, compelling us to inquire whether it is possible to trace this kind of classificatory thinking further back in time. This lecture will present evidence from an early second millennium BCE heroic poem, written in the Sumerian language in the area that is now Iraq, that may shed some light on ancient Mesopotamian attitudes toward what we today label as race. This free public lecture is at 8:00 pm in Earth Sciences Auditorium B142, 5 Bancroft Avenue, University of Toronto, St. George Campus Further information may be obtained at: [email protected] KUDOS: For Paul Flesher

From < http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2015/02/uws-flesher-receives-distinguished-professorshiphonor.html >: [CV at < http://www.uwyo.edu/relstds/faculty/flesher.html > ====================================================== UW's Flesher Receives Distinguished Professorship Honor February 2, 2015 - Professor Paul Flesher of the University of Wyoming's Department of Religious Studies has received a prestigious award that includes funding for a four-and-a-half month residency in Jerusalem in spring 2016. The Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professorship award is given by the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem. "The Albright Institute is known worldwide for its role in fostering research in biblical and Near Eastern studies, and to have this fellowship awarded to a UW faculty member is quite an honor," says Associate Professor Quincy Newell, head of the Department of Religious Studies. "This will raise the profile of the UW Religious Studies Department and the university as a whole. I'm very proud of his achievement and pleased that the Albright Institute has recognized the importance of his research." Founded in 1900 as the American School of Oriental Research, the AIAR was renamed in 1970 in honor of its director, William Foxwell Albright. The mission of the AIAR is "to develop and disseminate scholarly knowledge of the literature, history and culture of the Near East, as well as the study of the development of civilization from prehistory to the early Islamic period." Flesher is internationally known for his research on the Jewish Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Targums, as well as his work on early synagogues, from their origins into the Rabbinic period. Since 2011, he has been part of an archaeological team that is unearthing a late Roman (fifth century) synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's lower Galilee which has a floor covered in mosaics. The site has already become famous for its depictions of the Samson story (Judges 13). "At present, the Huqoq excavations are still in their early stages," Flesher says. "The synagogue is so large, we have not yet progressed beyond the eastern aisle. This residency will give me a chance to study the central mosaics of two other ancient synagogues nearby in Galilee, in anticipation of the Huqoq finds. These depict Torah shrines, the Jerusalem Temple and the so-called sacrifice of Isaac from Genesis 22 -- all theologically key themes in Late-Antique Judaism. I will bring my expertise in the Targums and in rabbinic literature to the study of these mosaics." Seymour Gitin, for whom the distinguished professorship is named, became director of the AIAR in 1980. He and his colleague, Trude Dothan of Hebrew University, conducted 14 seasons of excavations at Tel-Miqne-Ekron. "I am particularly excited to receive the professorship named after the great archaeologist Seymour Gitin," Flesher says. "In the early 1990s, the University of Wyoming was a sponsoring institution of his excavations at Tel Miqne, the ancient Philistine city of Ekron. I, and several UW students, had the privilege of digging there under his direction."

POSTDOCS: Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik (Innsbruck) From Astrid Rief [mailto:[email protected]]: =================================== UniversitätsassistentIn - Postdoc (Ersatzkraft) Chiffre PHIL-HIST-8299 Beginn/Dauer: • ab 01.07.2015 • bis 30.06.2018, längstens jedoch bis zur Rückkehr der Stelleninhaberin/des Stelleninhabers Organisationseinheit: • Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik Beschäftigungsausmaß: • Ersatzkraft - 40 Stunden/Woche Hauptaufgaben: • Durchführung eines klar definierten Forschungsprogrammes mit Ziel Habilitation; interdisziplinäre Forschung • Selbstständige Abhaltung qualitativ hochwertiger forschungsgeleiteter Lehre • Mitarbeit an Verwaltungs- und Organisationsaufgaben • Bereich des Lehrstuhls "Kulturbeziehungen und Kulturkontakte zwischen den Kulturen des Alten Orients und des mediterranen Raumes" Erforderliche Qualifikation: • Abgeschlossenes Doktoratsstudium mit Bezug zur Altorientalistik oder Alten Geschichte; Ausbildung im Bereich der altorientalischen Philologien (Sumerisch und Akkadisch); Breiter altertumswissenschaftlicher Horizont im Sinn des Zentrums für Alte Kulturen; wissenschaftliche Kompetenzen in den Bereichen der Geschichte des Vorderen Orients (1. Jahrtausend), der Rezeptionsgeschichte sowie der Kulturkontaktforschung (Schwerpunkt: Transkulturalität); Erfahrung in Projektleitung, in der Lehre und Lehrorganisation und -verwaltung; Erfahrung in der Einwerbung von Drittmitteln; Vorlage eines Lehrkonzepts; 2 Empfehlungsschreiben; Fähigkeit zu interdisziplinärem Arbeiten und kreativer Problemlösung; Einschlägige wissenschaftliche Leistungen über die Dissertation/PhD hinaus; Post Doc-Erfahrung oder einschlägige Berufserfahrung • Fähigkeit zu interdisziplinärem Arbeiten und kreativer Problemlösung; Kommunikations-, Team- und Konfliktlösungsfähigkeit Stellenprofil: Die Beschreibung der mit dieser Stelle verbundenen Aufgaben und Anforderungen finden sie unter: http://www.uibk.ac.at/universitaet/profile-wiss-personal/post-doc.html Entlohnung: Für diese Position ist ein Entgelt von brutto € 3.546 / Monat (14 mal) vorgesehen. Darüber hinaus bietet die Universität zahlreiche attraktive Zusatzleistungen (http://www.uibk.ac.at/universitaet/zusatzleistungen/). Bewerbung: Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Onlinebewerbung bis 21.02.2015 unter: http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=8299

JOURNALS: Historiae 11 (2014) From Jordi Vidal [mailto:[email protected]]: ======================================== Historiae 11 (2014) has just been published Table of contents GREGORIO DEL OLMO LETE Moisés y la Ley

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FABRICE DE BACKER The Smallest Neo-Assyrian Combat Unit

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MARTA ORTEGA BALANZA Propietarios de cuerpos femeninos

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CÉSAR SIERRA MARTÍN La 'Arqueología' y la utilización de las fuentes antiguas

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RICARDO MARTÍNEZ LACY El oráculo de Delfos en la historia de Atenas según Plutarco de Queronea 95 BORJA ANTELA-BERNÁRDEZ Desmontando a Sila

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ISAÍAS ARRAYÁS MORALES Aprovechamiento y explotación de las aguas subterráneas en el noreste de la Península Ibérica en época romana 117 JORDI CORTADELLA Els sarraïns i la seva manera de fer la guerra amb Roma i contra Roma 135 Review-articles AGNÈS GARCIA-VENTURA Au début du siècle JORDI VIDAL La 'nueva' historia antigua de Palestina

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The contents of Historiae 11 will shortly be available for free download as well. CALLS FOR PAPERS: "Representing the Senses in the Ancient Near East..." (RAI Geneva/Bern 2015) From Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel [mailto:[email protected]]: =============================================== CALL FOR PAPERS: "Representing the Senses in the Ancient Near East: Between Text and Image" (RAI Geneva/Bern 2015) The sound of the drum, the light of the sun, the scent of the sacrifice. The ancient world was rich with sensation. Over the past two decades, the field of sensory studies has garnered increasing attention from scholars in the humanities. Sensory studies prioritize the human experience of sensation and examine how people have understood the senses differently from one culture to another and in various historical periods. This workshop will highlight the Assyriological research that is currently being conducted in this emerging field. We invite participants to explore how the cultures of the Ancient Near East represented sensory phenomena, not only in languages and literature, but also in art and iconography. Drawing on the evidence from textual and artistic sources, we will consider questions like: How did the people of the Ancient Near East understand their senses to operate? What types of sensory phenomena are represented in the sources and why? Can representations of the senses in art shed light on the literary evidence, or vice versa? We seek to present a variety of approaches to this topic and welcome proposals that: take philological, literary, art historical, or other perspectives; that address the means of sense perception (e.g. vision, hearing, touch) or the objects of perception (e.g. light, noise, texture); and that examine the senses within religious, political, or social contexts. This specific session is integrated within a general workshop on Emotion and Senses in the Ancient Near East, organized in collaboration with Sara Kipfer (Bern University). It will take place in Bern during the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Thursday June 25th, 2015). An abstract of approximately 250 words should be sent to the organizers of the workshop, with a short CV, before the March, 1st. The abstract should outline the topic, methodology, and any specific texts or images to be discussed. Organizers: Ainsley Hawthorn (Yale University) [email protected] & Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel (University of Geneva) [email protected] CONFERENCES: "Ancient” Art and the Art Historical Canon Today" (NYC, Feb 13)From Amy Gansell [mailto:[email protected]]:

We welcome you to attend our third conference session on the Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeological Canon. Previous sessions were hosted at AIA and ASOR in 2013. This iteration widens

the scope of our inquiry to include art/objects/monuments from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the GrecoRoman world, and Late Antiquity. Shifting Sands: “Ancient” Art and the Art Historical Canon Today Annual College Art Association Meeting (New York, NY) Register here: http://conference.collegeart.org/registration/individual-registration/ Time: Friday, February 13th, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM Location: New York Hilton Midtown (53rd & 6th Ave), 3rd Floor, Trianon Ballroom Chairs: Ann Shafer, State University of New York, FIT Amy Gansell, St. John’s University This session critiques the art historical “canon” by investigating the terminology “ancient” across cultural boundaries. We define a canon as an established list of sites, monuments, and objects considered most representative of a tradition. Although the current canon has evolved to include global cultures, outmoded periodizations linger. When, how, and why did ancient art become canonized as such? We aim to take stock of the viability of our present criteria for classifying art as ancient, to investigate how regional sub-canons of ancient material have developed, and to explore the impact of discovery, exhibition, publication, and commercialization. Considering future frameworks of conceptualization, how might ancient art be situated within the global perspective? When issues of authenticity, provenance, and loss arise, should the canon preserve the memory? With a focus on Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures, which form the core of what is conventionally defined as the “ancient” world, the papers in this session aim to challenge and transform the very concept of ancient art in the art historical canon today. Opening Remarks: Hallie Franks, New York University Papers: “Wonderful Things” in the Western Canon: Scholarly Bias and the Public Reception of Tutankhamun vs. Tanis, Rachel P. Kreiter, Emory University The Canon and Everything Roman: Can Roman Provincial Sculpture Contend with the Farnese Hercules?, Ana Milena Mitrovici, University of California, Santa Barbara Votives and the Canon of Late Antique Art: The Aesthetic Role of “Archaeological” Objects, Sean Villareal Leatherbury, The Getty Research Institute “Walking Backwards into the Future”: Using Global Contemporary Art to Enliven the Ancient Near Eastern Canon, Michelle I. Marcus, The Dalton School Discussant: Irene J. Winter, Harvard University

February 4 eREVIEWS: Of "Herodots Quellen - Die Quellen Herodots."

From < http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015-02-05.html >: ===================================================== Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.02.05 Boris Dunsch, Kai Ruffing (ed.), Herodots Quellen - Die Quellen Herodots. Classica et Orientalia, Bd 6. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. Pp. viii, 352. ISBN 9783447068840. €58.00. Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk, Universiteit van Amsterdam ([email protected]) [Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review.] Even in antiquity Herodotus's Histories were not uncontested. First Plutarch and later Lucian heavily criticised Herodotus as an unreliable author and an inventor. After them, such qualifications regularly emerge throughout history. In 1971, Detlev Fehling published Die Quellenangaben bei Herodot, an attack on Herodotus that has found both support and opposition. Fehling considered Herodotus first and foremost as a man of letters (perhaps even a novelist) , who took (too) great literary liberties in his work.1 Opponents of Fehling regard Herodotus as a historian, struggling to establish the historical truth. The book under scrutiny is the result of a 2011 conference at PhilippsUniversität Marburg on the value of Fehling's work. All contributions end with their own bibliography; a general bibliography is lacking. In the introduction, Ruffing states that the main interest of Fehling’s work was that it questioned the views expressed by Felix Jacoby, whose view on Herodotus had dominated discussions for nearly sixty years (from 1912 onward). Fehling’s work sparked mixed reactions, most of them not very supportive. Ruffing briefly reviews the most important ones. Only after an enlarged second edition, in English, was published in 1989, did Fehling’s view find more adherents. Since then, a synthesis of views seems to be developing, to a large extent led by the so-called Innsbrucker Schule, a group of scholars working on Greek historiography, notably Herodotus, led by Robert Rollinger and Reinhold Bichler, both from the Innsbruck University. The question is (generally) no longer “True” or “False” as regards Herodotus’s work, but about Herodotus’s sources and how he dealt with them. One of the debates is the date of composition of the Histories. Irwin argues (in by far the longest contribution, which constitutes the first section) that book 9 contains several clues indicating that this date (or at least the date of this book) should be put well after 413 BC and that it is, in fact, a response to Thucydides’ work (9). Irwin notably discusses chapter 9.73 and its context to prove her position, concentrating both on the hybris of Theseus and the importance of Decelea. She adduces a considerable amount of evidence, ingenuity, and scholarship, but at the end she fails to completely convince me, though I admit her theory may be appealing to those who believe in multiple layers hidden in the Histories. The next four contributions, forming section two, focus on Herodotus’s sources, each starting from a different angle and/or a specific part of the work. Nesselrath argues – in spite of Fehling’s (and before him Diels’s) arguments – that no classical historian provides us with so much evidence regarding his sources as Herodotus, and sides with those acknowledging Herodotus’s merits to preserve anterior knowledge. Rollinger focuses on Herodotus's knowledge of the East. In particular the erection of the stelai at the Bosporus by King Darius and Xerxes’ behaviour at the Hellespont fit in with a well-known Ancient Near Eastern tradition, like Darius’ claims to control the Indian Ocean: it suggests that Herodotus somehow included Oriental source material in his work. West considers Herodotus 4.88, where Darius, pleased with Mandrocles’ bridge over the Bosporus, presents him with gifts that Mandrocles uses to commission a painting. West discusses several conceptions of this picture but especially addresses its inspiration for Herodotus. Prontera discusses the particularities of Herodotus's references to ancient situations like the Egyptian origin of the inhabitants of Colchis, an issue also mentioned by Nesselrath, concluding that Herodotus only includes those references that correspond with his interpretation of the facts. The next section, consisting of six contributions, deals with Herodotus as “Literat.” Bichler addresses the use and function of Herodotus's references to autopsy, notably in the Egyptian logos. Dunsch, in a long and worthwhile paper, approaches Herodotus through the eyes of Cicero, who was very interested in historiography, especially as magistra vitae. Special attention is given to Cicero’s valuation of Herodotus as pater historiae (De leg. 1.5) and the use of history. The same goes for Ruffing’s treatment of the number 300 in Herodotus for whom the number was particularly appealing, superseded only by the number 100. The number 300 features prominently in other ancient authors as well: Dunsch considers 300 as a symbolic number, not necessarily accurately. Dorati occupies himself with narratological aspects of the Histories, especially with the relation between the so-called cognitive narratology and source references. It is a quite technical treatment, fitting in with modern developments to pay increasing attention to this side of literary works. Rösler focuses on the ‘miracle of Delphi’, the rescue of the sanctuary from a Persian attack in 480 BC (8.35-9). Fehling believed the story to be completely fictitious; Rösler admits the fictitious elements, but

argues the fiction was not created by Herodotus but by the Delphians; he stresses that Fehling does not do justice to Herodotus's position as pater historiae but treats him merely as a pseudo-historian, a view Rösler does not share. Blösel, finally, investigates Herodotus's representation of the Athenians. Though Herodotus obviously admires Athenian actions in the period 490-480/79, he nevertheless pays attention to criticism of other poleis towards Athens and Athenian sources critical of Athenians and Athenian activities and is thus more critical than Fehling made him appear. The penultimate section consists of only one contribution, by Wiesehöfer, on Herodotus and a Persian Hellas, a Greece that might have been if the Persian invasions had been successful. But in general our knowledge of Persian motives for invading Greece is, as yet, far from complete. Partly this is due to a lack of knowledge of Greek (and notably Athens-oriented) authors, including Herodotus, but also partly to the modern inability to discern between the nuances of Achaemenid Persian state ideology and Achaemenid Persian “Realpolitik” (279-282). In the last section, Schmitt considers whether Aristotle’s philosophy offers viable criteria for interpreting Herodotus's Histories. He analyses several elements of Aristotle’s famous passage on poetry and history (Arist. Poet. 1451a36b11) in detail and concludes that Herodotus succeeds to describe particular events and/or people in such a manner that one is able to find “das Allgemeine in der Geschichte” (the general in history), precisely what Aristotle requires. Schmitt’s intricate paper may well be hard to digest, but in the end it is worth the effort, especially because his contribution (directly or indirectly) has some bearing on other contributions in this book as well, notably Dunsch’s as regards Cicero’s views on Herodotus. Föllinger places all contributions in context, concluding that the connecting element is that “Herodot entweder als Lügner oder als naiven Sammler von Informationen erscheinen würde ad acta gelegt ist” (327). Indexes of gods, people, places, and sources conclude this attractive and well-produced volume. Whether the conference’s aim, to discuss the value of Fehling’s work for both present and future research, was really achieved might, I think, still be a matter of contention (mainly because the extreme positions in the debate on Fehling’s views, once taken, seem to be difficult to abandon, leaving only some room for compromise in the middle), but I at least came across several inspiring contributions. I believe, moreover, that the objectives of the so-called Innsbrucker Schule (represented by, e.g., Rollinger and Bichler) have been well presented and have proven their worth in this volume. Table of Contents Vorwort VII Kai Ruffing (Marburg), Einführung: 1 Die Entstehung der Historien Elizabeth Irwin (New York), ‘The hybris of Theseus’ and the Date of the Histories: 7 Herodot und seine Quellen Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (Göttingen), Indigene Quellen bei Herodot und ihre Erfinder – einige Fallbeispiele: 85 Robert Rollinger (Innsbruck/Helsinki), Dareios und Xerxes an den Rändern der Welt: 95 Stephanie West (Oxford), ‘Every picture tells a story’: a note on Herodotus 4.88: 117 Francesco Prontera (Perugia), Dati e fonti nell’ archeologia di Erodoto: 129 Herodot als Literat Reinhold Bichler (Innsbruck), Zur Funktion der Autopsiebehauptungen bei Herodot: 135 Boris Dunsch (Marburg), Et apud patrem historiae sunt innumerabiles fabulae: Cicero über Herodot: 153 Kai Ruffing (Marburg), 300: 201 Marco Dorati (Urbino), Indicazioni di fonti (‘Quellenangaben’) e narrazione storica: 223 Wolfgang Rösler (Berlin), Ein Wunder im Kampf um Delphi (VIII 35–9): 241 Wolfgang Blösel (Düsseldorf), Quellen – Kritik: Herodots Darstellung der Athener: 255 Herodot und die Nachbarn der Griechen Josef Wiesehöfer (Kiel), Herodot und ein persisches Hellas: 273 Abendvortrag Arbogast Schmitt (Marburg), Gibt es eine aristotelische Herodotlektüre?: 285 Sabine Föllinger (Marburg), Resümee: 323 Register: 329 Notes: 1. However, the word “Literat”, usually translated as a “man of letters”, can also be understood in German as a “grub-street hack” (although not in this collection), and the context makes insufficiently clear which meaning has been intended. In fact, Fehling, when using the term “Literat” in the original publication, is precisely as ambivalent as he, occasionally, blames Herodotus for being. In this respect the English edition, Herodotus and His ‘Sources’: Citation, Invention and Narrative Art (ARCA: Classical & Medieval Texts, Papers & Monographs, vol. 21), Leeds: Cairns, 1989, is generally much less ambiguous. AWARDS: For publication assistance (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)

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Cost Sharing: No Sponsor Type: NONE Geo. Restricted: NO RESTRICTIONS CFDA#: OBJECTIVES: In this program, INSTAP provides specialists based at the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete (SCEC) in one or more of the following categories: artist for pottery and small finds, conservator, photographer, petrographer, or services of a ground penetrating radar (GPR) team. ELIGIBILITY Excavation Directors may apply. FUNDING INSTAP provides the salary and maintenance for the specialists assigned to the project. The Project Director should provide the place to work and should arrange for permits, working space, and other facilities. The Excavation Director is expected to supervise the team members? work and to provide INSTAP with an evaluation of the progress of the publication. Team members may work either during the summer or during the academic year. A complete and detailed budget for the publication work should accompany a description of the work to be done. (elg) KEYWORDS: Greece Historical Documents Photography Art Works/Artifacts Archaeology Ancient/Classical History Historic Preservation/Restoration Turkish Studies LECTURES: ‘The Scandal of a Male Bible’ (London, Feb 24) From Jonathan Stökl [mailto:[email protected]]: =============================================== Ethel M. Wood Lecture 2015: ‘The Scandal of a Male Bible’ by David M. Clines King’s College London Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29) Strand Campus 6.30pm Feb 24 The Bible is a male book, written by men, to be read by men. That means that it is permeated by characteristically male values and ideals, some overt, others rarely noticed. Among these values are: the glorification of strength; the valorization of strength in action, which is violence; the approval of killing; the quest for honour; the tendency to misogyny. These embedded values continue to influence Bible readers, often subconsciously. They are most potent when they affect the language of religion, and shape the picture of the Bible’s deity, the God of Christian and Jewish believers. The scandal is twofold: it is that the Bible is deeply compromised by its ubiquitous adherence to specifically male values, and that its masculinity is hardly ever noticed or mentioned, even in our much more egalitarian world. Professor David J.A. Clines is one of the most creative and influential biblical scholars in the world. Originally from Sydney, Australia, David Clines has spent his career in the University of Sheffield, including as Professor and Head of the Department of Biblical Studies. It is a measure of his distinction that he was President of the US-based Society of Biblical Literature in 2009, the first person from outside North America to serve the Society in that role. for further details and to book (free) tickets please go to: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/eventrecords/2015/ethel2015.aspx

eREVIEWS: Of "Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal" From < http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015-02-03.html>: ============================================= Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.02.03 Alan Kaiser, Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal: The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman's Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them. New York; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Pp. xx, 251. ISBN 9781442230033. $38.00. Reviewed by Kathy L. Gaca, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) What difference do prominent thesis and dissertation advisors make as gatekeepers of social equity in their respective academic fields? Back in the 1920s and 1930s, the cultural anthropologist Franz Boas, a somewhat older contemporary of the classical archaeologist David M. Robinson, understood that master's thesis and doctoral dissertation advisors should nurture and empower their graduate students to produce and publish their own research. Boas also realized that female graduate students in particular should be encouraged to move beyond social biases that tend to reduce women to the status of ancillary support staff and that they should be treated as researchers in their own right. Boas tried to live by this principle in his own complicated way, as "Papa Franz" both protective and controlling, during the formative years of cultural anthropology at Columbia University. His guidance helped lead Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ruth Bunzel, and Elsie Clews Parsons, among others, to come into their own and make a name for themselves by producing landmark studies. That in turn helped shape cultural anthropology to become, among the social sciences, relatively progressive and inclusive early on.1 Although Kaiser does not mention Boas as a counter example to Robinson, he makes a solid case that classical archaeology was behind the curve by comparison with cultural anthropology. Kaiser demonstrates that Robinson -professor of classical archaeology at Johns Hopkins University, ambitious excavation director at Olynthus from 1928 to 1938, and advisor of numerous master's theses and doctoral dissertations - stole the intellectual property of his advisee Mary Ross Ellingson on two separate occasions, once in 1933 and again in 1952. Robinson published a lightly altered version of Ellingson's master's thesis solely under his own name as Excavations at Olynthus VII: The Terra-Cottas of Olynthus Found in 1931 (1933), and he did the same in the first chapter of his Excavations at Olynthus XIV: Terracottas, Lamps, and Coins Found in 1934 and 1938 (1952), which he took from Ellingson's doctoral dissertation. In so doing Robinson treated Ellingson as an unrecognized subordinate in the service of his own career, not as a future colleague whose scholarly career he was obligated to nurture and promote in her own name. Given the strength of Kaiser's case, Johns Hopkins University Press and Johns Hopkins University should acknowledge Mary Ross Ellingson as the author of the volume and chapter in question. In addition to the solid evidence for Robinson's plagiarism, Kaiser offers a persuasive argument that sexism informs Robinson's use of Ellingson's work. This argument unfolds gradually in the book through the genuine efforts Kaiser makes to offer a more generous explanation in this regard, that is, to find Robinson an excuse if he had one. Perhaps plagiarism standards differed back then. Maybe Robinson as excavation director actually owned the work of his graduate students. Even if a plagiarist, perhaps Robinson did not discriminate by sex in this regard. Possibly he coopted the work of his male graduate students to the same degree as he did Ellingson's work. Maybe the painted portrait of himself that Robinson commissioned, reproduced as a card, and sent as a holiday greeting to Ellingson in December 1952 was a tacit follow-up apology to her that he probably should have given her more credit for the first chapter of Olynthus XIV. Yet Kaiser explains why his many efforts to excuse Robinson fail, and that leaves sexism as the most plausible explanation still standing. Kaiser graciously tries to leave intact his last effort to mitigate Robinson's unacknowledged use of Ellingson's intellectual property-his view that the imagery on Robinson's 1952 holiday greeting card in effect shows Robinson offering Ellingson an apology. The card's imagery, however, will surely provoke further debate as to the messages it conveys. In Robinson's portrait as represented on the card (165, fig. 6.1), there sits the white-haired Robinson, dressed magisterially in his professorial regalia, with a faint hint of a smile on his placid face, while unmistakably holding Olynthus VII on his lap, open to the distinctive image on the frontispiece of the volume that Ellingson had to have recognized when she received the card. Even if Robinson meant the card as an apology to Ellingson, as Kaiser maintains, in other ways the card reasserts Robinson's wrongful claiming of her work. There the volume sits on his lap and in his hands, her master's thesis published as his own work. Further, given the social custom of sending holiday greeting cards, Robinson likely sent this card to other recipients too. Any colleagues and graduate students in classical archaeology who received a copy of this card would also have recognized the book, but they would have

seen it as one of Robinson's volumes in the Olynthus series. Seen from this perspective, Robinson's 1952 holiday greeting card further represents the book as his own, thereby reenacting his deception of 1933. Just as unsettling is the fact that Ellingson lived for years as a professor teaching classical archaeology, mainly at the University of Evansville in southern Indiana, knowing full well that Robinson took over her work as his own. Yet she never raised any protest about what he did, not a peep to Robinson or to other colleagues or to the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) or to a court of law. Kaiser makes this silence reverberate in his engaging biography and social contextualizing of Ellingson as a lively and assertive graduate student and then as a teacher and mother. We are shown Ellingson's youthful dream to become a classical archaeologist of note and her first steps toward realizing this goal, as brought to life through Kaiser's skillful choice of her hitherto unpublished photos. The photos reveal both Ellingson's energetic field work at Olynthus and her growing anthropological interest in the nearby Vlachs because of their culture, not only because they were a labor source for Robinson's work crews whom she oversaw at Olynthus. Thereafter, her more ambitious dream faded. Ellingson, married as of 1939, went on to become a minor figure in classical archaeology, excellent at teaching the subject at the University of Evansville, yet publishing no research in her own name as a professor even though she earned her Ph.D. in 1939. Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal should help give classical archaeology, and directed graduate fieldwork more generally, an even stronger impetus to make sure that graduate students, female and male alike, are empowered to realize their potential as the published and recognized authors of their research, not to have their intellectual property taken over by advisors and feel constrained to remain deferential about it. The experience of Mary Ross Ellingson is one life story that shows us why. Notes: 1.

See Jerold S. Auerbach, Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008), along with relevant bibliography therein. --------------------------------------------------------------------

February 5, 2015 LECTURES: “The Literature of the Copts..." (Washington, March 26)

From Edward Cook : ==================================== Catholic University of America Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures presents the 4th Annual Henri Hyvernat Lecture: Leo Depuydt, Brown University, “The Literature of the Copts and the Contributions of Msgr. Henri Hyvernat to the Study of the Subject” March 26th, 5:00 pm, Aquinas Hall Auditorium, CUA Campus Reception to follow For more information call 202-319-5084 or write to [email protected].

CONFERENCES: "... Visual Narratives in the Cultures and Societies of the Old World" (Freiburg, March 18-21)

From Elisabeth Wagner-Durand [mailto:[email protected]]: =============================================== Image . Narration . Context -Visual Narratives in the Cultures and Societies of the Old World March 1821, FRIAS, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Narratives constitute fundamental components in the production of social meaning and identity. They are developed and articulated not only in oral and literal forms of expression, but also in images and artefacts. By virtue of their materiality, these narratives take place in specific contexts of, for instance, observation, use, veneration and destruction. How do these images and artefacts perform narration? Where are the social loci of their observation? How do these contexts – social practices, religious rituals, demonstrations of political power – interact with, and re-affect the images/artefacts in question? These questions and the complex network of visual media, narratives and social contexts constitute the central agenda of the conference. Special emphasis is given to early cultures of the Old World, ranging from Mesopotamia and Egypt through Classical and Late Antiquity including European Prehistory. Approaches from various fields of the cultural studies, including philosophy, literary theory and art history will complement the case studies both from archaeology and extra-European and contemporary cultures, thereby putting their findings into a broader methodological framework. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Wednesday, 18st of March FRIAS, Albertstr. 19, 79194 Freiburg 16.00 Registration FRIAS 18.15 Welcome Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmuth Gander, Dean Prof. Dr. Sebastian Brather, Executive Director, IAW 18:30 opening lecture Hans P. Hahn (Frankfurt) In Geschichten verstrickt. Was Dinge erzählen – und was nicht 19:30 Welcome Reception Thursay, the 19st BILDERZÄHLUNGEN - ZUGÄNGE UND ZUGRIFFE Chair: Nicole Falkenhayner 9:00 Martin Gessmann (Offenbach) Wie Dinge erzählen: Bilder von der Handhabung und die Handhabung der Bilder 9.35 Luca Giuliani (Berlin) Über den Unterschied zwischen narrativen und nicht-narrativen Bildern 10:30 Antonius Weixler (Wuppertal) ‘Nebeneinander’ vs. ‘Aufeinander’. Zeitdarstellung als Herausforderung. 11.05 Michael Ranta (Lund) Pictorial and Narrative Strategies for Establishing Ethnic Identities --ANFÄNGE DER BILDERZÄHLUNG IN DER ALTEN WELT Chair: Hans-Peter Hahn

14:00 Marion Benz (Laufenburg) Gedanken ohne Geschichten? Annäherung an prähistorische Narrationen 14:35 Michela Luiselli (Basel) Visualising religion. Narration, performance and interaction in religious scenes of ancient Egypt 15:40 Gebhard Selz (Wien) Erzählen jenseits der Sprache 16.15 Elisabeth Wagner-Durand (Freiburg) Narration. Description. Reality - The Neoassyrian Royal Hunt 18:15 keynote speach Davide Nadali (Rom) The Power of Narratives in the Ancient Near East Friday, 20st BILD UND MYTHOS IN DER GRIECHISCHEN KULTUR Chair: Martin Guggisberg 9.00 Ralf von den Hoff (Freiburg) Vom Heros erzählen. Formen visueller Narrative im antiken Griechenland 9:35 Alexander Heinemann (Freiburg) Bild - Erzählung - Reflex. Sehen und Gesehenwerden auf griechischen Klappspiegeln 10.10 Caroline van Eck (Leiden) Visual Retellings: the Medusa Rondanini and the rise of the tableau vivant --BILDERZYKLEN AN DEN RÄNDERN DES RÖMISCHEN REICHES Chair: Ralf von den Hoff 11:20 Michel Fuchs (Lausanne) Romano-Celtic Rites in the Cryptoporti cus of Meikirch Villa or a Daily Laugh 11:55 Monika Zin (München) Die Großreliefs aus Kanaganahalli, 1. Jh. n. Chr. 12:30 Rainer Warland (Freiburg) Die Elfenbeinkathedra des Maximianus von Ravenna und ihr narrativer Bildüberschuss. --14:30 POSTERSESSION --ARTEFAKT UND NARRATIV IN DEN METALLZEITEN EUROPAS Chair: Christoph Huth 15:30 Peter Skoglund (Göteborg) Narratives in Scandinavian Rock Art 16:05 Martin Guggisberg (Basel) Handlungsbilder oder handelnde Bilder? Narrative Konstruktionen in der eisenzeitlichen Kunst nördlich und südlich der Alpen 17:00 Daniel Ebrecht / Barbara Fath (Freiburg) Gewebte Geschichten. Der rote Faden in der frühen Eisenzeit 17:35 Jennifer Bagley (Palo Alto) Frühlatènezeitliche Bilder in ihrem Kontext - Überlegungen zu Möglichkeiten von Kommunikation durch figürliche Kunst Saturday, 21st ZURÜCK IN DIE GEGENWART: BILDERZÄHLUNGEN IN ZEITEN MEDIALER ENTGRENZUNG

Chair: Martin Gessmann 9.00 Shane McCausland (London) Intermediary Moments: Framing and Scrolling Devices Across Painting, Print and Film in Chinese Visual Narratives 9:35 Mary O’Neill (Lincoln) Stuff: Materiality and Narrative in Contemporary Art 10:10 Cornelia Brink (Freiburg) Wieviel Kontext braucht ein Foto? 11:30 ROUND TABLE Organizing team Elisabeth Wagner-Durand Near Eastern Archaeology Barbara Fath Prehistory Alexander Heinemann Classical Archaeology Daniel Ebrecht Prehistory On organizational reasons, we kindly ask for an informal registration via email: .

SAD NEWS: Erika Endesfelder ( 1935-2015)

From Gunnar Sperveslage [mailto:[email protected]]: ======================================================= On January 28, Egyptologist Erika Endesfelder (born 3 July 1935) sadly passed away in Berlin after years of unsteady health. She will be missed by her family, her many colleagues, and the great number of students who had the privilege of studying Egyptology under her guidance. She will be remembered as a most esteemed academic teacher of the “old school”, meaning that she took teaching her students most seriously by believing in a basic all-round education most appreciated by her many students.

After studying Egyptology with Fritz Hintze in (East-)Berlin, Erika Endesfelder took a job in the diplomatic service of the German Democratic Republic working for many years at the embassy in Cairo. Her engagement in cultural affairs but especially for Egypt’s health system and hospitals in Cairo was so highly appreciated by Egypt’s government that it awarded her the “Ordre du Mérite”; the first NonEgyptian but also the first woman to receive it.

On returning to Berlin in 1972 she joined the teaching staff at the Institute for Egyptology and Meroitic Studies of Berlin’s Humboldt University where in 1981 she became professor succeeding Hintze upon his retirement. After having had only few students due to East Germany’s restriction of students in Egyptology, she continued teaching most successfully when regaining her professorship after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the fall of 1989.

Her thorough teaching method became almost legendary and quickly attracted students from all over Germany to study with her at the Egyptology department of Humboldt University. Over a dozen doctoral theses have been supervised by her and a fair number of her former students and doctoral candidates – mainly due to their broad education –gained permanent positions in Egyptology. After her retirement in 2001 she continued teaching as professor emeritus, thus effectively supplementing the institute’s teaching staff.

In 2001 colleagues and students dedicated to her (and three of her once-fellow students) a “Festschrift” that included a list of her publications (Begegnungen – Antike Kulturen im Niltal, pp. XV-XIX). It was only recently, in 2011, that her “Habilitation” of 1980, about the state formation in Ancient Egypt, came to be published (London: Golden House Publications; see also: http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/nilus/netpublications/ibaes14). Despite its partially Marxist approach (back then inevitable for this kind of subject) – the study has been well received by the scholarly community. (See the review by Maarten Horn in BiOr LXXI, 2014, col. 422-427.)

Always a very private personality, Erika Endesfelder was nevertheless highly esteemed and broadly popular, as can be gauged by the fact that her former colleagues and students are currently planning to dedicate another “Festschrift” to her. Most sadly for all of us, it will now become a “Gedenkschrift”.

Frank Feder (Göttingen), Christian E. Loeben (Hannover), and Gunnar Sperveslage (Berlin) [A brief notice about her is at the German Wiki

February 6, 2015 CONFERENCES: "... Humans and Anthropomorphs in the Rock Art of Northern Africa" (Brussels, 17-19 September)

From Dirk Huyge [mailto:[email protected]]: ========================================== ROYAL ACADEMY FOR OVERSEAS SCIENCES International Conference "What Ever Happened to the People? Humans and Anthropomorphs in the Rock Art of Northern Africa" (Brussels, 17-19 September 2015)

On 17, 18 and 19 September 2015, the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (http://www.kaowarsom.be/en) in Brussels will be organizing the international conference “What Ever Happened to the People? Humans and Anthropomorphs in the Rock Art of Northern Africa”. As shown by the title, the colloquium focuses on human and human-like representations in Northern African rock art, without any chronological limitations, from Late Palaeolithic ‘headless females’ and Naturalistic Bubaline therianthropes to Libyan Warriors and Camel Period cavaliers. All facets of human representations will be dealt with: chronological considerations, stylistic variability, ethnographic aspects, and so on. The aim of the conference is to discuss and properly define the relevance of such images for rock art research in Northern Africa. Preliminary programme Thursday, 17 September 2015 9.00 h: Registration and coffee 9.45 h: President or Permanent Secretary of RAOS: Welcome Address 9.50 h: VAN NOTEN Francis: Introduction 10.00 h: - EWAGUE Abdelhadi: Représentations gravées d’anthropomorphes dans l’aire rupestre du Yagour (Haut Atlas occidental, Maroc) - RODRIGUE Alain: Les anthropomorphes du Haut Atlas marocain: images d'une société hiérarchisée? - HECKENDORF Renate: Anthropomorphic representations in the so called "Bovidian" and "Tazinien" rock engravings of South-Morocco 11.00 h: - LOUART Agnès: L'empreinte humaine dans la vallée de l'Oued Seyyad (Maroc). Les gravures podomorphes - PONTI Rosanna & BRAVIN Alessandra: Représentations humaines dans les peintures rupestres du Sud du Maroc - SKOUNTI Ahmed & OULMAKKI Naïma: Les anthropomorphes des sites de peintures rupestres au Maroc 12.00 – 13.00 h: Lunch 13.00 h: - HAMDI Ahmed: La représentation anthropoïde dans l’art rupestre de l’Atlas saharien: cas de la région de Laghouat-Algérie - BEN NASR Jaâfar: La gravure du personnage vêtu de peau animale de l’abri de R’mada (Jebel Ousselat, Tunisie Centrale): lecture ethnographique et symbolique - YAHIA-ACHECHE Sophie: Les anthropomorphes dans les gravures et les peintures rupestres de Tunisie 14.00 h: - BAITICHE Abdelhamid: La mythologie du Tassili n'Ajjer (Algérie) pendant le Néolithique - FOUILLEUX Bernard: Diversité des représentations humaines dans les peintures de la Tassili-n-Ajjer - DUPUY Christian: Du port d’objets coudés au port de la lance dans l’Adrar des Iforas: la traduction figurative d’un important virage sociétal

15.00 – 15.20 h: Coffee break 15.20 h: - HACHID Malika: Des gravures rupestres représentant des Berbères et des Noirs. Qui sont qui? - OULMI Rabie: Le peuplement du grand Sahara à l’ère Néolithique d’après les peintures et gravures rupestres 16.00 h: - ROUBET Colette: Portrait du pasteur holocène en Algérie - SOUKOPOVA Jitka: Round Heads: Religion and spirituality of ancient central Saharan hunters - HALLIER Ulrich: A new kind of anthropomorphs in the Djado Mountains (Niger) Friday, 18 September 2015 9.00 h: - ZAMPETTI Daniela: The presence of anthropomorphic subjects in the rock art of Saharan sites - GALLINARO Marina: Women in Pastoral Saharan rock art - SOLEILHAVOUP François: La femme, l'intimité féminine et leurs symboliques dans l'art rupestre du Sahara 10.00 – 10.40 h: - BARICH Barbara: A discussion on gender roles through human representations in North African rock art - WALDOCK Victoria: The mid-Holocene cattle-keepers of the Messak Plateau, southwest Libya 10.40 – 11.00 h: Coffee break 11.00 h: - VAN ALBADA Axel & Anne-Michelle: Quelles informations tirer des représentations humaines du Messak Libyen? - DI LERNIA Savino: People, activities and identities: An (ethno)archaeological perspective of Tadrart Acacus rock art - GAUTHIER Yves: Art rupestre au Tchad : étude aréale des groupes culturels 12.00 – 13.00 h: Lunch 13.00 h: - COULSON David: Rock art and body decoration in northern Chad - FORSTER Frank & GOSS Reinhold: Range and categories of human representation in the Cave of Beasts, SW-Egypt - MENARDI NOGUERA Alessandro: Uweinat Roundhead: Body proportions and postures 14.00 h: - ZBORAY András: The wide stylistic variation in representing the human figure among Uweinat cattle pastoralist paintings and engravings - IKRAM Salima: Fat Ladies, Thin Men, Pointed Headed People, and Body Parts: Humans in rock art in the North Kharga Basin - KUCIEWICZ Ewa: Mysterious female figures in the rock art of Dakhleh Oasis

15.00 – 15.20 h: Coffee break 15.20 h: - POLKOWSKI Paweł: Feet and sandals: Metonymies for human beings? Some considerations based upon findings from Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt - DARNELL John Coleman: Homo Pictus and Painted Men: Depictions and intimations of humans in the rock art of the Theban Western Desert 16.00 h: - HUYGE Dirk: ‘Headless Women’ and ‘Kel Essuf’: The earliest anthropomorphic representations in Egyptian rock art - HENDRICKX Stan: Human representations in Predynastic rock art and on cemetery objects: Two sides of one story - NILSSON Maria: From Epipalaeolithic petroglyphs to Roman graffiti: Stylistic variability of anthropomorphs at Gebel el Silsila (Upper Egypt) 17.00 – 19.00 h: Break 19.00 – 20.30 h: Public Lecture at RMAH: RIEMER Heiko: Wadi Sura and the Cave of Beasts 20.30 – 22.00 h: Reception at RMAH Saturday, 19 September 2015 10.00 h: - GRAFF Gwenola, KELANY Adel & BAILLY Maxence: Figures d'hommes dans le wadi Abu Subeira (Assouan, Egypte): le proche désert investi - HARDTKE Fred: Where are the hunters? Hunting scenes by implication - BREMONT-BELLINI Axelle: Understanding the Naqadan culture in the light of animal-human relationships as depicted in desert petroglyphs 11.00 h: - JUDD Anthony: Rock art anthropomorphs in Egypt - LANKESTER Francis: The 'dancing' figures in desert and valley - EISENBERG-DEGEN Davida: Thoughts on why the Negev rock art, Israel, turned towards the nonfigurative 12.00 h: - SOLOMON Anne: Body images: Visual perspectives on humans and anthropomorphs in African rock arts - SMITH Andrew: Therianthropes in South Africa 12.40 h: HUYGE Dirk: Conclusion and Farewell Address 12.50 h: Aperitif and lunch

The final programme together with an inscription form will be made available on the website of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (http://www.kaowarsom.be/en) in April at the latest. The conference will take place at the Academy Palace, Hertogsstraat 1, B-1000 Brussels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Palace#). For all practical matters, please contact: Mrs. Patricia Bulanza Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences Avenue Louise 231 B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Tel.: +32 (0)2 538.02.11 Fax: +32 (0)2 539.23.53 E-mail: [email protected]

BOOKS: Reprint of SAA & SAAS volumes

From Andrew Knapp [mailto:[email protected]]: ================================================= Eisenbrauns is pleased to announce that all eleven volumes in the State Archives of Assyria (SAA) and State Archives of Assyria Studies (SAAS) that have gone out of print in recent years have been reprinted and are available through Eisenbrauns. The newly available volumes are: SAA 2 - Parpola & Watanabe - Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/PARNEOAS) SAA 3 - Livingstone - Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/LIVCOURT) SAA 5 - Lanfranchi & Parpola - The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/LAN2CORR) SAA 7 - Fales & Postgate - Imperial Administrative Records, Part I (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/FAL1IMPE) SAA 8 - Hunger - Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/HUNASTROL) SAA 10 - Parpola - Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/PARLETTER) SAA 11 - Fales & Postgate - Imperial Administrative Records, Part II (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/FAL2IMPE) SAA 12 - Kataja & Whiting - Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/KATGRANTS) SAA 13 - Cole & Machinist - Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/COLLETTER) SAAS 2 - Millard - The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910-612 B.C. (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/MILEPONYM) SAAS 11 - Mattila - The King's Magnates (www.eisenbrauns.com/item/MATKINGSM)

To celebrate, for the month of February Eisenbrauns is offering a sale on all of these titles, and several other SAA and SAAS volumes. The discounted books are all available at www.eisenbrauns.com/pages/SPECIAL. Eisenbrauns continues to serve as the exclusive distributor for all SAA series published by the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

LECTURES: "Ecologies of divination" (NYC, Feb 13)

From Evan Luke Jewell [mailto:[email protected]]: =============================================== The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (CAM) invites you to attend its next lecture this semester on February 13, 11am (Level 5 seminar room, the Italian Academy), this time from one of Columbia's own faculty, Dr Dan-el Padilla. His lecture is entitled: "Ecologies of divination: Cic. De div. 1.90-94 on ritual practice and environmental 'determinants'." He has provided the following abstract: "In the course of citing examples of non-Roman (and non-Greek) divinatory practice, Cicero's fraternal interlocutor Quintus observes in Book 1 of *De divinatione *that "the means of divination seem to me to be drawn from the habitats in which practitioners live" (*De div. *1.92). This talk will examine how Quintus' association of specific habitats with particular forms of religious expertise both derives from and at the same time perpetuates the project of empire. First, I will consider the intellectual genealogy of Quintus' claim, singling out its debts to Hellenistic philosophy, religious comparativism (as a sub-genre of ethnography), and geography. I will argue that Quintus' description of divinatory practice as formed through interaction with different local habitats is an expression of an emergent imperial knowledge: to imagine regionally specific techniques of divination as a function of local environments presupposes (1) access to knowledge of these techniques and (2) familiarity with a broad range of environments, both of which were greatly facilitated by the imperializing enterprises of the Hellenistic kingdoms and their Roman successor. The second part of my talk will develop this notion by exploring how discourses of religious expertise in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds--the credentialing or "branding" of certain city-states and geographic regions as proficient in specific religious practices--mobilized features of local environments as explanations for and justifications of such proficiency. I will show that divination in particular moved to the center of these branding efforts, and that awareness of previously unknown or unusual microecologies inflected how members of the late Republican and early Imperial elite conceptualized the religious practices of non-Romans. In the last part of my talk, I will advance a comparative/transhistorical reading of Quintus' claim. Is the attempt to explain divinatory techniques by reference to ecological "constants" simply an isolated by-product of the historical context within which *De divinatione *was composed, or might we find parallels for this attempt elsewhere in the religiousimperial histories of the Eurasian landmass? In pursuit of (very provisional) answers to this final question, I will conclude with a look at the relationship of ecology to divinatory practice in Warring States and Han China."

BOOKS: “Apotropaic Intercession” in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

From Kai Metzler [mailto:[email protected]]: =============================================== Marian W. Broida Forestalling Doom. “Apotropaic Intercession” in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East = Alter Orient und Altes Testament 417 Münster: Ugarit-Verlag 2014 xx + 282 pages https://www.ugarit-verlag.com/index.html?pid=453 book (ISBN: 978-3-86835-110-1): 98 € (www.ugarit-Verlag.com) / 114 $ (www.eisenbrauns.com) book + E-book ((ISBN: 978-3-86835-130-9): 127,40 € (www.ugarit-Verlag.com) / 149 $ (www.eisenbrauns.com) According to a common Ancient Near Eastern belief, misfortune resulted when irate gods, angered by human offense, ordained doom for individuals or nations. But divine decrees of doom were not always viewed as irrevocable. As we see in texts from the Ancient Near East, including the Hebrew Bible, the gods often gave advance notice of disastrous decrees via omens or, in some biblical stories, through YHWH’s own speech. Such warnings allowed humanity a chance to respond. Frequently, the response was intercession. Numerous ritual texts from the Ancient Near East and narratives in the Hebrew Bible depict humans interceding with the divine realm to ward off foretold doom on behalf of the gods’ intended targets. In this study, M.W. Broida concentrates on the direct discourse in apotropaic intercession by humans. These human utterances appear as oral rites in apotropaic intercessory rituals, or as quoted speech in biblical stories depicting apotropaic intercession. The ritual texts, in general, portray strategies thought to originate with the gods, use magical utterances as well as persuasion, and dispose of impurity as well as (or instead of) pleading the client’s case. In contrast, the biblical narratives depict intercessors in impassioned conversation with the divine, protesting YHWH’s injustice. These differences derive in part from genre (ritual texts vs. narratives) but also from different underlying theologies. The gods of the Neo-Assyrian and Hittite texts work with the intercessors to accomplish the necessary procedures, often magical in nature. YHWH, in contrast, typically rewards those who skillfully oppose his decisions using ordinary human speech. Content 1 Introduction 1.1 Corpora Compared 1.2 Agency 1.3 Background Beliefs 1.4 Approach to Comparison 1.5 Approach to Magic 1.6 Approach to Speech 1.7 Means of Efficacy 1.8 Analytic Process and Conclusion 2 Apotropaic Intercession in Mesopotamia 2.1 Introduction

2.2 Analysis of Apotropaic Intercessory Speech in Two Namburbis 2.3 Analysis of the Links to the Supernatural 2.4 Analysis of Evidence for Presumed Efficacy 2.5 Summary and Conclusions 3 Apotropaic Intercession in Anatolia 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Apotropaic Intercessory Speech in Text 3: Ritual of Ḫuwarlu (CTH 398) 3.3 Apotropaic Intercessory Speech in Text 4: Ritual of Papanikri (CTH 476) i 41-47 (§10) 3.4 Analysis of Links to the Supernatural 3.5 Analysis of Evidence for Presumed Efficacy 3.6 Summary and Conclusions 4 Apotropaic Intercession in the Hebrew Bible 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Analysis of Direct Discourse in Texts 5-15 4.3 Analysis of Evidence for Efficacy of Apotropaic Intercession 4.4 Summary and Conclusions 5 Summary and Conclusions 5.1 Summary of Previous Chapters 5.2 Comparative Analysis 5.3 Theoretical Implications 5.4 Conclusion Bibliography Scripture Index Ancient Literature Index Subject Index Best regards, Kai Metzler Ugarit-Verlag – Buch- und Medienhandel GmbH, Rosenstraße 9, 48143 Münster, Deutschland Telefon: +49 - (0)251 – 83 22663, Telefax: +49 (0)911 – 30844 – 46000 E-Mail: [email protected], Webpage: www.ugarit-verlag.com Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Thomas R. Kämmerer, Prof. Dr. Manfried Dietrich Ugarit-Verlag – Buch- und Medienhandel GmbH, Sitz Münster, Registergericht Münster, Ust-ID-Nummer/VAT-Nr: DE 283960587 HRB 13884 – AG Münster

eJOURNALS: Miscellanea 15.3 & 15.4

From Krzysztof Ulanowski [mailto:[email protected]]: [Go there for Contents and for downloadable articles] ============================================== Two special volumes (15.3, 15.4) of the journal MISCELLANEA.

ANTHROPOLOGICA ET SOCIOLOGICA dedicated to the topic THE IDEA OF MAN AND DIVINITY IN ANTIQUITY (edited by Krzysztof Ulanowski). .

BLOGS: Speaking women in the Bible

From : ======================================== This Is How Many Words Are Spoken By Women In The Bible The Huffington Post Antonia Blumberg There are 93 women who speak in the Bible, 49 of whom are named. These women speak a total of 14,056 words collectively -- roughly 1.1 percent of the total words in the holy book. These are the findings of the Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman, an Episcopal priest who three years ago embarked on an unprecedented project: to count all the words spoken by women in the Bible. With the help of three other women in her church community -- as well as highlighters, sticky notes and spreadsheets -- Freeman painstakingly dissected the Bible's New Revised Standard Version. "I wanted to know what women in the Bible really said," Freeman told The Huffington Post. "I was stunned to see that nobody had done this before." The women met in the basement of Trinity Episcopal Church in Excelsior, Minnesota, where Freeman served as rector at the time the project began. They worked to identify each woman who makes a speaking appearance in the Bible, how many words she utters and what her larger role is. Their efforts culminated in a final book, Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter, which was published in September 2014. Some of the biblical women are prominent and well-known, like Jesus' mother, Mary, who utters just 191 words. Mary Magdalene says 61 words, while Sarah, the wife of Abraham, says 141. Many of the female characters in the Bible go through what Freeman called "tremendous trauma," and have largely been silenced over the centuries. "We have for whatever reason overlooked the witness of women in the Bible for all these thousands of years and all the contributions they've made to the faith and to world history," Freeman said. "We are just finally finding out their stories." Freeman is also the author of The Scarlet Cord: Conversations With God's Chosen Women, which analyzed the stories of 12 women in the Bible. Greg Carey, a New Testament professor at Lancaster Theological Seminary, agreed with Freeman, and said her book performed "a valuable service" by elevating these women's stories.

"The Bible was written by men largely for men, and women's contributions are scattered pretty thinly through its pages," Carey told HuffPost. "By bringing these women and their stories into one place, Freeman opens an opportunity for us to see them as a whole." Freeman dedicated one chapter to her book to each book of the Bible, and the chapters are further divided into sections for each woman who appears in a given book. In Genesis, for instance, Freeman and her team found that 11 women speak, compared to 50 men. Reading and analyzing the women's narratives brought their stories to life, Freeman said, and helped her start to see them as "neighbors" with important wisdom to offer. "I think they have a lot to share with us about what it means to believe, what it means to have faith," Freeman reflected, noting the effect the work has had on her team. "We have been transformed, our little group of four people," she said. "We have cried over these stories, we have laughed over these stories. Our faith has been increased."

POSTDOCS: “Immaterial Causes and Physical Space” (Slavonic philology)

From Florentina Geller [mailto:[email protected]]: ================================================== POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT (SLAVONIC PHILOLOGY) A postdoctoral fellowship in Research Group D-4 “Immaterial Causes and Physical Space” of Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi is now open to applicants who have obtained exemplary results in their doctoral studies in the field of Slavonic Philology (with a special emphasis on Old Church Slavonic language and apocryphal literature). Pursuant to DFG guidelines, the fellowship will be awarded for two years and will include a stipend of between 1468 and 1500 Euros per month (including research allowance). A child allowance will be made available in accordance with DFG guidelines. In the research group, whose subject area deals with immaterial causes and their effects on physical space, a project is carried out by the supervisor on Lingua Sacra and Apocrypha. In this framework, the recipient should pursue an original research project on editions and translations of Slavonic Apocrypha. A prerequisite is a proven knowledge of Old Church Slavonic and ability to work with manuscripts, and desirable is the ability to translate Slavonic Apocrypha into English. The project advisor will be Prof. Dr. Florentina Badalanova Geller of the FU Berlin. Application deadline and documents Applications, together with the documents listed below, should be emailed to by August 15 . For more information, please visit and .

Application documents: � Cover letter (2 - 3 pages) � Résumé � Official copies of degree certificates � Two letters of recommendation � Writing sample (15 - 20 pages)

CALLS FOR PAPERS: "Approaches to the Study of Dress and the Body" (ASOR 2015)

From Megan Cifarelli [mailto:[email protected]]: =============================================== "Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Dress and the Body" ASOR Annual Meetings Atlanta GA, November 18-21, 2015 Dress, personal adornment, bodily modification and representation in play critical roles in the construction of identity in the Ancient Near East, and the avenues by which these issues can be approached are myriad, and involve diverse disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, art history, and text studies. The goal of this session is to provide an opportunity to discuss different theoretical and methodological strategies for the interpretation of dress, personal ornament, and bodily representation, and to encourage collaborative dialogue within the field. Rather than simply presenting case studies, this session will feature papers that articulate the theoretical underpinnings as well as the methodological strategies employed. The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 2015. Presenters can submit an abstract of 250 words or less via ASOR's Online Abstract Submission Site. http://www.asor.org/am/2015/call-2.html Membership in ASOR and pre-registration for the Annual Meeting is required in advance. For questions, please contact session chair Megan Cifarelli ([email protected])