Aramaic Incantation Bowl: Scorpion Rider
An ancient Judeo-Aramaic incantation bowl with a seven line inscription spiraling around the interior, invoking protection from demons for Abba and his family. At the center a figure brandishing a spear is mounted on a scorpion like quadruped.
The Museum of London Archaeology is recruiting a volunteer army of dog walkers, bird watchers, amateur historians and geology enthusiasts to help record sites that have been uncovered by storms and flood tides over the winter. The project is being launched by the museum, with the help of a Heritage Lottery grant – an initial £1.4m, including a development grant of £75,000 – to help recruit the amateur archaeologists. [...] The volunteers will be trained to help record information and use a web-based system to co-ordinate information on finds. [...] Nathalie Cohen, an archaeologist who will be working on the project, after years with the Thames Foreshore survey which also used amateurs and volunteers side by side with professionals, said: "The grant couldn't be more timely. This winter has really been shocking. There has been so much erosion happening in so many places, and accelerating where we were already aware of a problem, that it is really terrifying."[...] Cohen said reports from the public would be entered on a database which will gradually build, linking with older records and work by local history societies, to a record of thousands of sites, while professional archaeologists will be ready to intervene where there is a critical threat to a site of national importance.This project, by creating a standardised, web-based recording system and providing training and new skills, is seen by its initiators as "an extraordinary opportunity for people across the country to create a lasting record that will benefit us all for years to come". Real community archaeology, involving proper site documentation and preservation not the ersatz form propagated by that other London museum's "Portable Antiquities Scheme" concerned mainly - as the name implies - with what people can carry off from such sites. Let's hope this new project brings an end to the pretence that free-for-all exploitive relic collecting is any kind of archaeology. The London Museums project is PAS without the pockets.
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The fisherman, called Mounir by Fabio Scuto in la Repubblica, is identified as Jouda Ghurab by Vernon Silver in Businessweek. And it’s not just the fisherman’s name that’s changed [...] From the details of the characters to the development of the plot, there are so many oppositions between Mounir and Jouda’s tales that they could be a book from the Masnavi. They seem laboriously, contrivedly perfect mirror images. And as such, they appear implausible. Personally, they make me doubt that the statue’s discovery was an accident.Sam promises more later.
The book consists of a collection of papers presented at the homonymous symposium which was organised in November 2011.
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Since its beginning in 2012, the excavation at Karanpura, has brought to light two broad cultural levels, representing the early and the mature Harappan age
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The winner of the Prize is Kate A. Reyes for her essay, "Demonology and Magic Ritual Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” completed at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Committee members praised its erudition and the sophistication with which she analyzed historical texts. The paper was part of her Honours dissertation under the supervision of Professor James R. Davila. Ms. Reyes graduated with an MA in Biblical Studies and Hebrew. In her undergraduate studies, she was awarded the Robert T. Jones Fellowship to undertake a Master of Theological Studies at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University.I have known about this for some time, but have only just found the online announcement. I have already congratulated her in private, but now I am very happy to do so in public. Well done, Katie!
Christie's claim that their decision is based on legal uncertainties concerning the collection's ownership status, claiming they a have a responsibility to our buyers to be sure that legal title can transfer to them without issue.
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Information Technology has brought many significant changes in the field of Cultural Heritage and continues to be a dynamic and exciting field for the emergence of new opportunities. This wave of change has had particularly significant consequences in the field of Epigraphy and Classical Studies where the vast potential for digital content and new tools continues to reveal itself, opening doors to new and as-yet-unexplored synergies. Many technological developments concerning digital libraries, research and education are now fully developed and ready to be exported, applied, utilized, and cultivated by the public.
In the spirit of this vibrant environment, EAGLE is pleased to announce the EAGLE 2014 International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World. The conference is organised by EAGLE in collaboration with the École Normale Supérieure and Collège de France Chaire Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique.
Co-funded by the European Commission under its Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme, EAGLE aims to create an e-library for Digital Epigraphy of unprecedented scale and quality for ingestion to Europeana.
EAGLE is also aiming at creating a network of experts and people interested in Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage. This event is intended to be a forum for anyone willing to share and discuss experiences and current general best practices for digital editions. It is open to researchers, archivists, industry professionals, museum curators and others seeking to create a forum in which individuals and institutions can find a place to collaborate.
The EAGLE 2014 conference will confirm a keynote-speaker lineup consisting of some of the most salient voices in the field, including Thomas Jaeger (European Commission), Tom Elliott (NYU), Susan Hazan (The Israel Museum).
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Date & Venue
September 29-30, 2014 École Normale Supérieure 45 Rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris, France | October 1, 2014 Collège de France Chaire Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique 11 Place Marcellin Berthelot 75005 Paris, France |
Limestone anthropoid sarcophagus containing mummy and a number of shabti figurines revealed.
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Another piece of sad news. Pascal Royère, the architect behind the reconstruction of the Baphuon and the West Mebon passed away yesterday in France. He will be remembered by his family and friends, and for his remarkable contributions to Cambodia.
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The Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology (JIIA) invites the submission of papers for a forthcoming issue focusing on the consumption of perfumed oil in the ancient Mediterranean.
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