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The city on the Kerkenes Da in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later seventh century BC, the city was put to the torch in the mid-sixth century and then abandoned. Excavations at what we have identified as the Palatial Complex were conducted between 1999 and 2005. The stone glacis supporting the Fortified Structure at the eastern end of the complex was revealed in its entirety while the greater portion of the Monumental Entrance was uncovered. Portions of buildings within the complex were also excavated, notably one-half of the heavily burned Ashlar Building, one corner of the Audience Hall, and parts of other structures. This volume documents as fully as possible the results of those excavations with the exception of sculpture, some bearing Paleo-Phrygian inscription, already published (OIP 135). The location of the complex, its development from foundation to destruction, and its architecture are discussed and illustrated. Within the Monumental Entrance were extraordinary, unexpected, semi-iconic stone idols, and other embellishments that include stone blocks with bolsters, bases for large freestanding wooden columns, and stone plinths. Extensive use was made of iron in combination with timber-framed facades and large double-leafed doors. Objects of gold, silver, copper alloys, and iron attest to former splendor. Organization of the volume is roughly chronological, beginning with the Fortified Structure, and concluding with the Monumental Entrance. Presentation of material culture is organized with an emphasis on context. Specialist chapters report on alphabetic and nonalphabetic graffiti and masons marks, animal bones among which was found the jawbone of a dolphin, and a Byzantine-period burial. This volume provides further dramatic and surprising new evidence for the power, wealth, and sophistication of an eastward expansion of Phrygian culture exemplified by architecture, cultic imagery, Paleo-Phrygian inscriptions and graffiti, pottery, and artifacts. The brief existence of this extraordinary city, hardly more than one hundred years, together with the excellent stratigraphic context provided by the destruction level, offer an unparalleled window onto the first half of the sixth century BC on the Anatolian Plateau.

This book presents a comprehensive corpus of beads and pendants found during excavations undertaken by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago between 1960 and 1968 at the Lower Nubian sites of Qustul, Adindan, Serra East, Dorginarti, Ballana, and Kalabsha and stored in the Oriental Institute Museum. This vast, illustrated catalog organizes the finds first chronologically according to the main periods of Nubian history and then by cultural units, beginning with the A-Group and ending with modern times. The present volume-the first of two-comprises beads from Early Nubian (A-Group, Post-A-Group), Middle Nubian (C-Group, Pan Grave, Kerma, Middle Kingdom), and New Kingdom sites. The discussion of each cultural unit begins with background information and develops into a fascinating story of the most characteristic types that form part of that groups identity, though types and materials often cross chronological and regional borders. The story is also one of jewelry fashions and the wealth and long-distance contacts of Lower Nubia, which lay at the crossroads of ancient routes in this part of the world. More specialized information on bead types, ordered by the materials from which the beads were made, is given in the second section of each cultural category. An outline of the preserved beadwork and an anthropological analysis of the remains of the beads owners, together with references to parallels known from relevant literature and museum research, are also provided. The volume concludes with illustrated synoptic and concordance tables that allow the reader to switch easily between catalog, Oriental Institute Museum, and Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition find numbers.

In the winter of 1978, an extensive archaeological campaign was launched in the Hamrin Basin area in the east-central part of Iraq to salvage many archaeological sites before their flooding, due to the construction of a large dam. This volume documents the excavations carried out in two of the sites-Tell Abada and Tell Rashid-dating back to the Ubaid period in the fifth millennium BC. The first site (Tell Abada) is of particular importance; it is an almost complete village with three occupational levels unearthed. Several residential houses and buildings with distinctive architectural features are exposed. Industrial workshops dedicated to the manufacture of pottery vessels are present. Of express interest was the first-time discovery of pottery-making equipment, notably the potters wheel. An equally exciting discovery is the presence of many fire installations dedicated to pottery vessels ?burning. The pottery products are enormous, varied, and richly decorated, reflecting aesthetic features and agility. The presence of the pottery in a very well stratified sequence enhances our understanding of Ubaid pottery, clarifies its chronological classifications, and establishes cultural links with other Ubaid sites in the region. Among other remarkable discoveries are many infant burial urns, granaries, water ducts, and proto-tablets. The varied aspects of the cultural material revealed throughout the excavations provides significant insight into daily life, settlement patterns, craft specialization, religious practices, and socioeconomic status, and sheds new light on the Ubaid period in general in Mesopotamia.

Two-volume set of text and figures and plates This volume presents the 1994-1997 excavation of the Lower Terraces of the Mycenaean citadel of Midea in the Argolid Plain of Greece. It compliments the authors previous volume on the Lower Terraces of Midea, which was published in 1998. A shrine and megaron were discovered on Terraces 9 and 10. The stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, lithics, small finds, and human and faunal remains dating from the Final Neolithic through Byzantine periods are discussed and cataloged. Additionally, the continuous sequence of LH IIIB-LH IIIC strata on the Lower Terraces revealed the ground plan and expansion of the megaron complex.

M. Abdelrahiem Chapter 144 of the Book of the Dead from the Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos H. Beinlich Zwischen Tod und Grab: Tutanchamun und das Begrabnisritual E. Bernhauer Zur Typologie rundplastischer Menschendarstellungen am Beispiel der altagyptischen Privatplastik N. Billing The Secret One: An analysis of a core motif in the Books of the Netherworld S. Bojowald Gedanken zum syntaktischen wie idiomatischen Funktionszusammenhang des Geierflugels im agyptischen pAnastasi IV, 10,4 A. Busch Uber Herkunft und Handel von Elfenbein im Neuen Reich M. Depauw Egyptianizing the Chancellery during the Great Theban Revolt (205186 BC): A New Study of Limestone Tablet Cairo 38258 K. Dohrmann Kontext und Semantik der Hapi-Motive an den Thronreliefs der Lischter Sitzstatuen Sesostris I M. von Falck Text- und Bildprogramm agyptischer Sarge und Sarkophage der 18. Dynastie: Genese und Weiterleben F. Forster Klar zum Gefecht! Zur Beschreibung des Kampfschiffes im Horusmythos von Edfu (Edfou VI, 79,1180,10) D. Franke Fursorge und Patronat in der Ersten Zwischenzeit und im Mittleren Reich H. Goedicke Rsi m h.tp W. Grajetzki Another early source for the Book of the Dead: The Second Intermediate Period Burial D 25 at Abydos K. Jansen-Winkeln Thebanische Statuen der 25. und 26. Dynastie J. Kahl / M. El-Khadragy / U. Verhoeven The Asyut Project: Third season of fieldwork D. Kahn The Assyrian Invasions of Egypt (673663 B.C.) and the Final Expulsion of the Kushites D. Klotz Between Heaven and Earth in Deir el-Medina: Stela MMA 21.2.6. C. Leitz Die Sternbilder auf dem rechteckigen und runden Tierkreis von Dendara

FARIED ADROM, ""Der Gipfel der Frommigkeit"" (Soziale und funktionale Uberlegungen zu Kultstelen am Beispiel der Stele Turin CG 50058 des Nfr-cbw) HARTWIG ALTENMULLER, Eine Stiftungsurkunde fur die Opferversorgung des Grabherrn? Zum Bild des Grabherrn an der Staffelei HORST BEINLICH, Fragmente eines Opferstanders aus dem Tempel von el-Hibe EDITH BERNHAUER, Eine Hathorkuh, eine Privatperson und ein Schlitten STEFAN BOJOWALD, Eine semitische Analogie zu Gattungszugehorigkeit und Rollenverstandnis des cb(w)-Vogels im agyptischen Cheti XIIIa? MARTIN BOMMAS, Amun von Theben als Ziel von Gottesnahe: Uberlegungen zur Konigsnekropole von Tanis GERARD P. F. BROEKMAN, The Chronological Position of King Shoshenq Mentioned in Nile Level Record No. 3 on the Quay Wall of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak MANUELA GANDER, Die Farbigkeit der Schrift: Zur Verwendung und Bedeutung monochromer und polychromer Inschriften auf Sargen des Mittleren Reiches STEFAN GRUNERT, Verlorenes erhalten: Zerstorte Inschriften aus dem Grab des Hetepniptah (G 2430) KARL JANSEN-WINKELN, Vier Denkmaler einer thebanischen Offiziersfamilie der 22. Dynastie JAC. J. JANSSEN, Accountancy at Deir el-Medina: How accurate are the administrative ostraca? JOCHEM KAHL / MAHMOUD EL-KHADRAGY / URSULA VERHOEVEN with an appendix by ULRIKE FAUERBACH, The Asyut Project: fieldwork season 2004 MAHMOUD EL-KHADRAGY, The Offering Niche of Sabu/Ibebi in the Cairo Museum KRISTINA LAHN, Qedeschet. Genese einer Transfergottheit im agyptisch-vorderasiatischen Raum BENOIT LURSON, De Ramses a Horus. Analyse du programme iconographique des murs de la salle E du temple de Derr SABINE NEUREITER, Schamanismus im Alten Agypten MANSOUR EL-NOUBI, The Shrine of Min at the Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos (Room XII). JOACHIM FRIEDRICH QUACK, Positionsprazise Nachtrage in spatzeitlichen Handschriften FAIZA MAHMOUD SAKR, New Foundation Deposits of Kom el-Hisn IGOR URANIC, Book of the Dead Papyrus Zagreb 601 PETRA VOMBERG, Die Weidendarstellung im Grab des Jpwj (TT 217) aus onomasiologischer Sicht betrachtet. u.a.m.

The Pre-Columbian Maya were organized into a series of independent kingdoms or polities rather than unified into a single state. The vast majority of studies of Maya states focus on the apogee of their development in the classic period, ca. 250-850 C.E. As a result, Maya states are defined according to the specific political structures that characterized classic period lowland Maya society. The Origins of Maya States is the first study in over 30 years to examine the origins and development of these states specifically during the preceding preclassic period, ca. 1000 B.C.E. to 250 C.E. Attempts to understand the origins of Maya states cannot escape the limitations of archaeological data, and this is complicated by both the variability of Maya states in time and space and the interplay between internal development and external impacts. To mitigate these factors, editors Loa P. Traxler and Robert J. Sharer assemble a collection of essays that combines an examination of topical issues with regional perspectives from both the Maya area and neighboring Mesoamerican regions to highlight the role of interregional interaction in the evolution of Maya states. Topics covered include material signatures for the development of Maya states, evaluations of extant models for the emergence of Maya states, and advancement of new models based on recent archaeological data. Contributors address the development of complexity during the preclassic era within the Maya regions of the Pacific coast, highlands, and lowlands and explore preclassic economic, social, political, and ideological systems that provide a developmental context for the origins of Maya states. Contributors: Marcello A. Canuto, John E. Clark, Ann Cyphers, Francisco Estrada-Belli, David C. Grove, Norman Hammond, Richard D. Hansen, Eleanor King, Michael Love, Simon Martin, Astrid Runggaldier, Robert Sharer, Loa Traxler.

Excavations in Residential Areas of Tikal-Nonelite Groups Without Shrines is a two-volume presentation of the excavations carried out in and near small residential structures at Tikal, Guatemala, beginning in 1961. These reports show that Tikal was more than a ceremonial center; in addition to its numerous temples, the great Maya city was home to a large population of people. These volumes look at the residential structures themselves as well as domestic artifacts such as burials, ceramic test pits, chultuns. Tikal Report 20A is a descriptive presentation of the excavation data and includes nearly two hundred illustrations. Together with Tikal Report 20B, which reviews and interprets this data, this report augments the data presented in Tikal Reports 19 and 21.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Presss distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age--ca. 1200 BCE--to the Archaic period, when Athens became the largest city of the Classical period, only to be destroyed by the Persians in 480/479 BCE. From a systematic study of all the excavation reports and surveys in central Athens, the author has synthesized a detailed diachronic overview of the city from the Submycenaean period through the Archaic. It is a treasure trove of information for archaeologists who work in this period. Of great value as well are the detailed maps included, which present features of ancient settlements and cemeteries, the repositories of the human physical record. Over eighty additional large-scale, interactive maps are available online to complement the book.

Southwest Asia is at the epicenter of zooarchaeological research on pivotal changes in human history such as animal domestication and the emergence of social complexity. This volume continues the long tradition of the ASWA conference series in publishing new research results in the zooarchaeology of southwest Asia and adjacent areas. The book is organized in three thematic areas. The first presents new methodological tools and approaches in the study of animal remains exemplified through studies on domestication, butchery practices, microdebris, intrasite contextual comparisons and age-at-death recording. Besides offering interesting insights into our past, these methodological developments enable higher resolution for future research. The second section focuses on the subsistence economies of prehistoric and early complex societies and provides new insights into how animal management developed in southwest Asia. The third section includes intriguing new research results on the roles of animals in the symbolic world of ancient societies, such as the meaning of insect figures at Gobekli Tepe, animal cults in Egypt, feasting in Iron Age Oman, and the ornithological interpretation of Byzantine mosaics.

M. ABDELRAHIEM, The Inscriptions of the Alabaster Sanctuary of Osiris (Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos) H. ALTENMULLER, Der Konvoi der Sonnenschiffe in den Pyramidentexten N. BILLING, Writing an Image The Formulation of the Tree Goddess Motif in the Book of the Dead, Ch. 59 A. BRAWANSKI, Die Wirbelsaulenverletzungen des Papyrus Edwin Smith (Fall 2933) V. G. CALLENDER, Queen Tausret and the End of Dynasty 19 M. COENEN, The Documents of Breathing in the Royal Museum of Edinburgh M. FITZENREITER, Richtungsbezuge in agyptischen Sakralanlagen oder: Warum im agyptischen Tempel das Sanktuar hinten links in der Ecke liegt (Teil II) CH. GEISEN, Zur zeitlichen Einordnung des Konigs Djehuti an das Ende der 13. Dynastie F.-R. HERBIN, Un texte de glorification K. JANSEN-WINKELN, Sprachliche Bemerkungen zu den ""Unterweltsbuchern"" M. EL-KHADRAGY / J. KAHL in collaboration with E.-M. ENGEL, The First Intermediate Period Tombs at Asyut Revisited N. KLOTH, Zur Uberlieferung (auto-)biographischer Inschriften im Alten Reich K. KONRAD, Der Ptah des Amenemhet: Zur theologischen Konzeption einer Kniefigur am Opferbecken R. KRAUSS: August Bockh (17851867) und andere Autoren uber den Beginn des agyptischen Kalendertages nach Ptolemaus im Almagest S. L. LIPPERT / M. SCHENTULEIT: Ein Webstuhl mit Zubehor: Die spatdemotische Urkunde P. Berlin P 23779+30009 A. MANISALI: ""Imitate but innovate"" oder: Eine Gotterbedrohung mit hymnischer Struktur im Papyrus Genf MAH 15274 L. D. MORENZ: Visuelle Poesie als eine sakrale Zeichen-Kunst der altagyptischen hohen Kultur J. F. QUACK: Der pranatale Geschlechtsverkehr von Isis und Osiris sowie eine Notiz zum Alter des Osiris G. ROSATI: A Group of Middle Kingdom Stelae from El Rizeiqat/El Gebelein H. SELIM: Three Unpublished Late Period Statues u.a.m.