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Sources and Approaches Across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies [Hardback]
Verena Klemm (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9789042925588
Published by : Peeters Press
This volume collects papers from the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) in 2008 at the University of Leipzig. Original research and new approaches illustrate its theme of Sources and Approac... .... Learn More -
Offerings to the Gods in Egyptian Temples [Paperback]
S. Cauville (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9789042926189
Published by : Peeters Press
This splendidly illustrated book serves as a dictionary of the many different types of offerings to the gods depicted in Egyptian funerary reliefs, as well as their ritual context and symbolic meaning. Over 200 offerings are divid... .... Learn More -
Kosmos: Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Bronze Age Aegean [Hardback]
Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor); Robert Laffineur (Editor)
£150.00ISBN: 9789042926653
Published by : Peeters Press
Containing the complete proceedings of the 13th International Aegean Conference, this is almost certainly the biggest book on Bronze Age clothing and jewellery that you are ever likely to see. Nearly 100 papers address a vast arra... .... Learn More -
Ostia Speaks: Inscriptions, Buildings and Spaces in Rome's Main Port [Paperback]
L. B. Van der Meer (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789042927001
Published by : Peeters Press
With its long history as the principal port of Rome, Ostia forms one of the most significant and well known Roman sites. This book, designed for the interested general reader and visitor, as well as for a scholarly audience, forms... .... Learn More -
Etrusco Ritu: Case Studies in Etruscan Ritual Behavior [Hardback]
L B Van der Meer (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9789042925380
Published by : Peeters Press
This book focuses on Etruscan private and public ritual behaviour in the last millennium BC. After an introduction to recent theories and definitions, first private rituals are traced, rites de passage like marriage, birth, perinatal burial, tr... .... Learn More -
More Than Men, Less Than Gods: Studies on Royal Cult and Imperial Worship [Paperback]
P.P. Iossif (Author);A.S. Chankowski (Author);Catharine C Lorber (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9789042924703
Published by : Peeters Press
The essays in this volume take an in-depth look at the phenomenon of divine kingship in the Classical world. They are organised in three sections, the first exploring the origins of conceptions of divine kingship in Achaemenid Persia and Teucri... .... Learn More -
Alexandria and the Moon [Hardback]
C. Bennett (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9789042925052
Published by : Peeters Press
A comprehensive study of the Macedonian lunar calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt. The mechanics of the calendar are examined in detail, and a new approach for reconstructing the sequence of intercalary months and years is proposed which, for the first... .... Learn More -
A Companion to Linear B: Mycenean Greek Texts and Their World, Volume 2 [Paperback]
Y Duhoux (Author); A. Morpurgo (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9789042924031
Published by : Peeters Press
The second volume of this acclaimed companion to Linear B contains six chapters: Interpreting the Linear B records: some guidelines (Duhoux); Scribes, scribal hands and palaeography (Bennet); Mycenaen religion and cult (Hiller); Mycenaean onom... .... Learn More -
Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History ^edited by Gemma C.M. Jansen, Ann Olga Kolokowski-Ostrow and Eric M. Moormann [Paperback]
Eric M Moormann (Author);Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (Author);G C M Jansen (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9789042925410
Published by : Peeters Press
This handbook by an international group of specialists in archaeology, anthropology, and classical literature addresses a wide variety of questions regarding toilets in the Greco-Roman world. Chapters on the technology and construction of toile... .... Learn More -
Temple of the Sun-God Shamash and Other Occupational Remains at Ed-Dur [Paperback]
E Haerinck (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9789042923980
Published by : Peeters Press
Excavations at ed-Dur by a team from Ghent University (Belgium) resulted in the discovery of the only known temple in southeast Arabia for this period. The small single-roomed almost square structure was preserved to a height of more than 2 met... .... Learn More