Jochem Kahl
Geoffrey Thorndike Martin
Kenneth A. Kitchen, Paul J.N. Lawrence
Ancient Asyut
Umm el-Qaab VII
The First Synthesis after 300 Years of Research
Private Stelae of the Early Dynastic Period from the Royal Cemetery at Abydos
Treaty, Law and Covenant in the Ancient Near East
The Asyut Project 1 Reprint of the 1st edition, 2012. X, 188 pages, 112 fig., 1 map, 16 plates, pb ISBN 978-3-447-06424-8 € 48,− (D) / £ 38,−
Due to a poor history of research and the deprival of many of its monuments, Asyut had been forgotten for a long time. The ancient site, its town, its temples, and its necropolis had not been the focus of any archaeological interest since the 1920s. In the 1980s and 1990s some attempts to start scientific work in Asyut failed. Only in 2003 a new field-project began: The Asyut Project, a joint mission of the Universities of Münster (2003 and 2004), Mainz (2004 up to present) and Sohag (2003 up to present). Fieldwork and studies of former research work enabled the author to reconstruct for the first time the history of the ancient necropolis, and thereby of the ancient town and its different fortunes as a city of culture, as a border town, and as a wounded city.
Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 123 2011. V, 312 pages, 1.332 fig., 90 plates with 335 fig., clothbound ISBN 978-3-447-06256-5 € 128,− (D) / £ 100,−
The objects published in this catalogue by Geoffrey T. Martin are stelae (gravestones), over 350 in number, most of which commemorate administrators, priests, attendants, artisans, and others who formed part of the entourage of Egypt’s earliest kings, interred in the ancestral royal cemetery at Abydos in southern Egypt at the beginning of the fourth millennium BC. A surprising number are inscribed for women, who do not for the most part have titles, though it cannot automatically be assumed that they were members of the royal harem. Most of the stelae were excavated more than a century ago, but have never received definitive publication.
Jochem Kahl, Mahmoud El-Khadragy, Ursula Verhoeven, Andrea Kilian (Eds.)
Seven Seasons at Asyut First Results of the EgyptianGerman Cooperation in Archaeological Fieldwork Proceedings of an International Conference at the University of Sohag, 10 th–11th of October, 2009 The Asyut Project 2
HARRASSOWITZ Verlag
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2012. LXXIV, 1641 pages, numerous tables, 7 maps, numerous diagrams, hc ISBN 978-3-447-06726-3 Ca. € 298,− (D) / £ 235,−
This work presents a far-reaching social profile of life in the Ancient Near East, based on its wealth of lawcollections, treaties and covenants through three millennia. Volume 1 sets out a uniquely comprehensive corpus of over 100 such documents in 10 languages, mostly displayed in facing-page transliterations and English translations with individual bibliographies. Volume 2 provides essential philological and background commentary to the texts, fully indexes their subjectmatter, and concludes with a revolutionary and innovative series of full-colour diagrams of every text, vividly highlighting variations through the centuries. Finally, Volume 3 outlines the flowing interplay of political history, changing social norms and varying documentary formats throughout the whole period.
Katja Weiß The Asyut Project 1
Harrassowitz Verlag
Jochem Kahl
Ancient Assiut The First Synthesis of 300 Years of Research
2012. XII, 186 pages, 98 ill., 4 tables, 38 plates, hc ISBN 978-3-447-06529-0 € 38,– (D) / £ 30,−
Volume 2 in the series The Asyut Project presents the contributions of an international conference held at Sohag University after the first seven seasons of Egyptian-German cooperation in archaeological fieldwork in the necropolis of Asyut, Middle Egypt. The volume is edited by scholars of the three Egyptological institutions involved in the project, the Universities of Berlin (Freie Universität), Sohag and Mainz. The first article gives an overview of the present state of knowledge (2011) of the historical background of Asyut, the different functions of the western mountain (Gebel Asyut al-gharbi), and its architectural structures from Egyptian Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity and partially Islamic Period. It is followed by a study on the succession of the First Intermediate Period/Middle Kingdom local ruling elite (the so-called nomarchs) which reconstructs the eventful history of these eras. Special contributions are devoted to wooden models and offering plates as grave goods, hieratic visitors’ graffiti, methods of epigraphy, reconstruction of tomb architecture, and Islamic pottery. In addition, analyses of the anthropological and botanical finds are presented. All articles are written in English and provided with an Arabic abstract.
Part 1: The Texts Part 2: Text, Notes and Chromograms Part 3: Overall Historical Survey
Ägyptische Tier- und Götterbronzen aus Unterägypten Untersuchungen zu Typus, Ikonographie und Funktion sowie der Bedeutung innerhalb der Kulturkontakte zu Griechenland Ägypten und Altes Testament 81 2012. XXXVI, 1171 Seiten, 2 Teile, 7 Abb., 79 Tafeln mit zahlreichen Abb., 145 Tabellen, 1 Karte, gb ISBN 978-3-447-06719-5 € 198,− (D) / £ 155,−
Monika Dolińska, Horst Beinlich (Hg./Eds.)
8. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: Interconnections between Temples Warschau, 22.–25. September 2008 Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft früher Hochkulturen 3,3
Rolf Gundlach, Kate Spence (Eds.)
Palace and Temple Architecture – Decoration – Ritual 5. Symposium zur Ägyptischen Königsideologie/ 5th Symposium on Egyptian Royal Ideology Cambridge, July, 16th–17th, 2007
2010. X, 237 Seiten, 140 Abb., 1 Tabelle, 1 CD-ROM, br ISBN 978-3-447-06238-1 € 68,– (D) / £ 53,−
Hans-Ulrich Onasch
Ägyptische und assyrische Alabastergefäße aus Assur
Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft früher Hochkulturen 4,2
Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 128
2011. VIII, 210 pages, 77 fig., 2 tables, pb ISBN 978-3-447-06515-3 € 58,– (D) / £ 45,50
2010. X, 244 Seiten, 163 Abb., 34 Tafeln, gb ISBN 978-3-447-06108-7 € 68,− (D) / £ 53,−
The 5th symposium was hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge in cooperation with the Institute for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Mainz. The general theme of the congress was determined by archaeological aspects of Egyptian Royal Residences. Palace and Temple: Architecture – Decoration – Ritual put two primary elements of royal residences into focus. Lectures and discussions were dedicated to the interior of the residences, namely to decoration and worship.
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