DENVER, COLORADO—Western Digs reports that Durham University archaeochemist Denise Regan has discovered traces of salicylic acid, a precursor compound of aspirin, on an unassuming, 1,300-year-old ceramic sherd unearthed in a rock shelter in eastern Colorado. The discovery could be the earliest proven use of the chemical in North America, and offers a unique glimpse at prehistoric medicinal practices. Derived from willow bark, salicylic acid is still used by some Native groups today to cure aches. “If you talk to the Arapahoe or the Cheyenne, they’ll use willow bark either as a tea with the leaves or they will soften the bark in boiling water and chew on it for toothaches and as a pain reliever,” says Regan. She believes the sherd itself could have come from a vessel that was reserved for preparing poultices or tea. "I think it’s reasonable to infer that this pot was used for medicinal purposes and not to cook food. If it was used to cook food we would’ve more than likely found something else in there.”
Traces of Ancient Painkiller Found in Colorado
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Conservators Begin New Work on H.L. Hunley
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—The Post and Courier reports that conservators have begun to scrape away the layer of sand and shell encasing the hull of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, which went down in Charleston Harbor in 1864 just minutes after it sank the Union warship USS Housatonic. The layer, known as concretion, has obscured many of the specific features of the vessel that scientists are interested in studying, especially evidence of bullet holes or other damage that might reveal clues about why the submarine sank. "We have been waiting for this a long time," says Nestor Gonzalez, associate director Warren Lasch Conservation Center, which is responsible for the project. "We will know if there was any damage to the submarine pre-sinking or post-sinking." The painstaking work, carried out using dental chisels and small hammers to remove concretion that is in some places a couple of inches thick, could take up to a year to complete.
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Theft from the Italian Chapel in Orkney
Three wooden plaques stolen from the Italian Chapel in Orkney today. These artefact are priceless - please retweet. pic.twitter.com/cKqZzNcLiQ
— Dave Gray (@whassigo) August 12, 2014BBC Journalist Dave Grey is reporting this evening that there have been thefts from the Italian Chapel in Orkney. This building was created by Italian POWs during the Second World War.
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Amphipolis: Toumba Kasta revisited (and visited by the PM Samaras...)
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| Map of Macedonia marking principal sites and the marble quarry of Aliki on the island of Thasos (made with Google Earth). |
Once again Greek media are publishing information concerning the Toumba Kasta located near the village of Mesolakkia, to the North-East of ancient Amphipolis. We have already discussed this important funerary monument a couple of years ago. In summary the archaeological data is as follows:
a. An enclosure (perivolos wall) of almost 500 m. diameter (497 m to be exact), unique among Macedonian tombs.
b. Two statues of Sphinxes, on either side of the door, which was served by a large (4.5 m wide) dromos (road)
c. The "Lion of Amphipolis", of a height of 5.25 m itself, is now, apparently, definetly attributed (by the architect mr Lefantzis) to this monument, its original position being at the summit of the tumulous.
d. According to mrs Peristeri, the excavator of the site, the monument "bears the signature of the famous architect and friend of Alexander, Deinokrates". It is not clear from the Greek statement whether this means that an inscription bearing the name if Deinokrates has been discovered, or whether it means that the monument is in his style...
e. Mrs Peristeri dates the monument to "the last quarter of the 4th century", i.e. 325-300.
f. The marble used for the perivolos comes from the neighbouring island of Thasos, and specifically the quarry of Aliki (Αλύκη). This means that the large blocks were transported by sea, an expensive and difficult operation.
It should be noted that the first archaeological excavations were carried out by Dimitris Lazaridis between 1965 and 1985; excavations restarted in 2009.
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| The PM Antonios Samaras being guided around the site (photos: Ptoto Thema) |
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Views of the perivolos of the Toumba Kasta published in Greek media. |
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| The "Lion of Amphipolis" as it stands today. It is said to be the sema of the tomb, having stood on the summit of the tumulous. |
Parts of the monument have been known since 1912, when Greek troops sent a report mentioning the lion and parts of its base. The lion itself had various adventures during the 20th century, being moved a number of times, including by British troops in 1916 who tried to smuggle it out of the country, but whose attempt was foiled by impudent Bulgarian troops, who seemed to believe that fighting a war was more important than enriching the collection of the British Museum...
In all the visit of the Greek PM, Antonios Samaras, to the site and his declaration that it is "an extremely important find", has excited all sort of speculation.
Using existing data we can postulate the following hypotheses:
1. The tomb was meant for the body of Alexander, but was left empty as the body was hijacked by Ptolemy and buried in Alexandria, Egypt. This would be consistent with the narrative of ancient sources.
2. The tomb belonged to members of Alexander's family (Roxane, Alexander IV).
3. The tomb belonged to a member of Alexander's court, a close collaborator, general etc. Candidates here would include the admiral Leosthenes of Mytelene and the admiral Laomedon, a long-time friend of Alexander (who had been exiled by Philip II for plotting with Alexander to overthrow him, wnd who, for a short time was one of Alexander's successors).
4. The tomb belonged to Alexander himself. This is the most unlikely scenario. Not only does it go against the information of ancient sources that state that Alexander's body was taken to Alexandria and preserved in a special tomb that was accessible to special visitors (several Roman Emperors have been recorded as having visited the site and viewed the body), but it is also hard to believe that such an important monument would have been pillaged during the Roman era, and material from it taken and used for other purposes as apparently happened.
Anyway, the good news is that the digs will continue, as fresh funding of 100.000 Euros has just been announced. Lets be patient and see what shall be revealed from this uncontestedly magnificent monument!
Sources:
- Archaiologia.gr, 01.04.2013, "Το Λιοντάρι της Αμφίπολης αγναντεύει την αρχική του θέση στον Τύμβο Καστά", here
- Dimokratia, 01.09.2013, "Το μυστικό του τάφου και τα «σφραγισμένα» τείχη της Αμφίπολης!", here.
- Kathimerini, 12.08.2014, "Σαμαράς: "Εξαιρετικά σημαντικό εύρημα"στην Αμφίπολη", here.
- Proto Thema, 12.08.2013, "Σαμαράς από Αμφίπολη: «Είμαστε μπροστά σε ένα εξαιρετικά σημαντικό εύρημα», here.
- Proto Thema, 12.08.2013, "Ο τάφος της Αμφίπολης: Τα στοιχεία που τον κάνουν μοναδικό", here.
- Proto Thema, 12.08.2013, "Δείτε εντυπωσιακές φωτογραφίες από τα ευρήματα στην Αμφίπολη", here.
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Hybrid Open Access Journal: Internet Archaeology
[First posted in AWOL 21 March 2012. Updated 12 August 2013]
Internet Archaeology
ISSN: 1363-5387
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Internet Archaeology
ISSN: 1363-5387
Internet Archaeology has been publishing on the web since 1996 and is the premier e-journal for archaeology. The journal publishes quality academic content and explores the potential of electronic publication through the inclusion of video, audio, searchable data sets, full-colour images, visualisations, animations and interactive mapping. Internet Archaeology is international in scope, a true journal without borders, and all content is subject to rigorous peer-review. Internet Archaeology is hosted by the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and published by the Council for British Archaeology. Internet Archaeology is a hybrid Open Access e-journal.
Open Access content 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Partial Open Access 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
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Archaeology- the Dyslexic Profession or the Profession of Dyslexics
I don’t know why this is but Archaeology attracts an abnormally high number of people with Dyslexia. The 2005 survey that I mentioned in my last post found that 16% of Professional Archaeologists with disabilities had dyslexia. What is more striking is the number of archaeology students at University with dyslexia, 63%. That is of course out of all students with a reported disability which makes up about 14% of all archaeology students. 42% of academics with a disability have dyslexia, though this is out of a small number academics, only 12 (see my post on archaeology not being disability friendly).
Comparison
I have tried finding numbers of the number of people in the UK with dyslexia but the numbers range from 2% to 15% depending on how one defines it. What is probably more valuable is to compare like data. At the time of the survey, 2004/5, only 6.5% of the general population of University students in the UK had a registered disability. Archaeology appears to attract a large number of students with disabilities, twice the average. I should say these numbers come from two different datasets so they may not be comparable. Still 3% of all University students report dealing with Dyslexia while for Archaeology is 8.6% (out of all Archaeology students).
My perspective may not be typical but I have gone to 3 Universities for Archaeology degrees and would never have guessed that 1 in 10 archaeology students has dyslexia. I have also taught at a University and graded papers in which there is a mention of the student having a disability (we give a grading dispensation for some disabilities, mainly more time to work on the paper) but that is not 1 in 10, it is closer to 1 in 40.
Why?
Like I said, I don’t know why. My first guess would be that Archaeology can provide more hands on activity which is easier to be successful in, than one that requires lots of reading, writing, and working with numbers. However, anyone who has worked in Archaeology knows that there is an incredible amount of reading, writing, and a fair amount of working with math. Moreover, in UK Archaeology 47% of archaeologists have a Masters or PhD. Writing 20,000-70,000+ words and reading a ton of papers and books is not exactly conducive to people with dyslexia.
Thoughts?
Has anyone experienced such high number of students with dyslexia? Anyone with dyslexia want to share their experiences of dealing with it at University or working in Archaeology? Anyone have thoughts as to why so many Archaeology professionals and students have dyslexia? To go back to the title of this post, does archaeology benefit those with dyslexia (Dyslexic Profession) or for some reason we just have a high number of people with dyslexia (Profession of Dyslexics)?
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Delphi Tholos, Greece. The tholos was created approximately...
Delphi Tholos, Greece. The tholos was created approximately 380-360 BC within the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia.
Photo taken by Kufoleto.
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The rock art of Viking Cave
Stories by Alex is a video series featuring ancient civilisations around the world. In this episode, he visits Tham Phrayanaga or Viking Cave in southern Thailand, a rock art site with depictions of ships from many different cultures and highlights the vibrant maritime silk route in Southeast Asia. I have previously worked at this site before with Atthasit Sukkham, one of the people featured in this video. The Viking Cave is not normally open to public, so it’s a great way to see the site!
Tham Phrayanaga/Viking Cave
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Video: The Plain of Jars
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2nd Call: Museum of Our Own (Museology in Asia Conference)
This is a second call for papers for the upcoming conference Museum of Our Own: In Search of Local Museology in Asia on running 18-20 November in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. List of topics and convenors after the jump.
Conference website
Writing Museum in Southeast Asia
Convener:Prof. DR Bambang Purwanto (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)
Museums in Southeast Asia emerged at the end of the nineteenth century, through initiatives by
both local authorities and colonial governments. Especially in the latter case these museums
functioned within a colonial context, as part of a technology of colonial rule. After independence
museums in Asia adopted new functions, and were mobilized as part the new national
government’s attempt to fashion national narratives. As new museums emerge and old museums
try to redefine their missions and visions for contemporary society, what critical histories can we
write of these institutions and the ways they have functioned in different Asian societies over the
years? In what ways do these histories impact on the current role that these museum play, or can
play today? Can any regional tendencies in museum histories and practices be detected in the ways
that these museums developed? The conveners of this session want to explore these histories from
different perspective looking at the relationship between national and regional histories and the
development of museums.
The West and the Rest, the development of the theory of museology.
Convener: DR. Wayne Modest (National Museum of Worldcultures, The Netherlands)
Since Macdonald and Fyfe’s 1998 call for ‘theorizing the museum’ a large and robust body of
literature has developed that could be regarded as museological theory. Drawing on different
disciplinary frames from anthropology to art history, from history to archeology, much of this
theorization has occurred in the so-called ‘West’ with limited attention paid to non-western
museum practices. Where calls for a non-western museology have occurred, for example Kreps
(date), these have often not taken hold, resulting in little real attempts to think through what such a
model for museology could look like? But is there really a need for a non-western museology or are
the models that are developed in the west applicable to other places across the world? Should
models for museological theory and practices be locally based? If yes what could this look like?
Museum and Heritage
Convener: DR. Tular Sudarmadi (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)
The long existence of museums in countries such as Indonesia as well as the different points of view
on collections is inseparable from the dynamics of heritage discourse locally and globally. How do
we take these histories as well as past and present heritage discourse into account as we train
museums professionals or formulate strategies for more successful museum practices?
Conservation
Convener: DR. Mahirta (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)
Traditional museological practices have maintained rigid rules and standards for
preservation/conservation. These rules have for decades been applied universally and are taught
through museum training programmes or global heritage governance organizations such as ICOM
or ICCROM. More recently, these standards have been questioned, demanding more flexible
applications mindful of local situations. But are there ethno-conservation standards or other more
locally sensitive procedures acceptable to take care of the museum collections? If yes, how should
local standards for preservation be developed and embedded in practices? How do these take
ground mindful of collaborative practices across Global North/South divide and discourses of
International Development.
Museology Education in Indonesia
Convener: Pim Westerkamp, MA (National Museum of Worldcultures, The Netherlands)
Museums in Southeast Asia have developed since the end of the nineteenth century, through initiatives
by both local authorities and colonial governments. Especially in the latter case these museums
functioned within a colonial context, as part of a technology of colonial rule. After independence
museums in Southeast Asia adopted new functions, and were mobilized as part the new national
government’s attempt to fashion national narratives. As new museums emerge and old museums try to
redefine their missions and visions for contemporary society, what critical histories can we write of
these institutions and the ways they have functioned in different SEA societies over the years. In what
ways do these histories impact on the current role that these museum play, or can play today. The
conveners of this session want to explore these histories from different perspective looking at the
relationship between national and regional histories and the development of museums.
More details in the conference website here.
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A bit of music in Greek
I couldn’t resist posting this. I came across this by accident.
Lantern Night at Bryn Mawr College
Mid-November
Traditions help build a feeling of community at Bryn Mawr, a women’s college near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the induction ceremony of Lantern Night has welcomed freshwomen since the late 1880s. The ceremony takes place in the courtyard of the Cloisters, a quadrangle with a pond at the center. The first-year students process into the courtyard, and the sophomores place candlelit lanterns behind each one. Upperclass women sing a hymn in ancient Greek to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, and freshwomen respond in kind. The ceremony in the Cloisters is followed by a step-sing, in which the students of all classes gather together for fellowship and the singing of lighthearted songs outside of Taylor Hall, on the administration building’s steps.
This is the song that is sung while the sophomores are running lanterns to the freshmen during Lantern Night at Bryn Mawr College.
Pallas Athena, goddess of learning and strength,
We come to you to worship you, dread goddess.
Bless us we pray; give us wisdom.
Be with us always, Blessed goddess, hear!
Sanctify our lanterns now, to shine forever clearly,
Lighting the way, making bright the dark.
Greek:
Pallas Athena thea,
Mathe mastos kai stenous
Se par he me is iman
Hie rus sou sai soi deine (x2)
Hie rus sou sai soi deine (x4)
Akoue. Akoue.
Makar i ze ai toumen
He min sophian didou
He min syngignou aei
Makarthe a akoue(x2)
Makarthe a akoue(x4) Akoue. Akoue.
Hie rize nyntous lydnous
Aei phanos phanoien
Lamprynontes ten hodan
Melan phanon poiuntes(x2)
Melan phanon poiuntes(x4)
Akoue. Akoue.
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Austin Declaration 'on the Excavation of Archaeological Material in the Popular Media'
The presidents of the Australian Archaeological Association, the Canadian Archaeological Association, the European Association of Archaeologists, the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), the Pan African Archaeological Association, the World Archaeological Congress, and the Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association have together prepared this document after discussions initiated at a meeting of presidents held on 5 April 2014 in Austin, Texas, concerning the proliferation of content in popular media that celebrates and encourages the destruction of the archaeological record.
The Excavation of Archaeological Material in the Popular MediaAlthough I think that we should all (responsible collectors too) support any endeavour that aims to underline and promote ethics, standards and legality in the use of the cultural heritage and especially archaeological sites and material, I cannot but help think this document falls wide of the mark. First of all for an intended (I assume) international document, it is awkwardly Amero-centric in its approach, which goes deeper than the spelling. Its structure and wording are both shoddy, giving very much the impression that this was begun and completed in three hours by seven happy guys around a downtown Austin restaurant table with much pizza and beer and not subsequently consulted to any degree outside that circle (for example with UK archaeologists). In my presentation above, I've cut out three bits, the full text can be seen here, among other places.
August 12, 2014
Excavating an archaeological site is an unavoidably destructive process. Archaeologists mitigate this destruction through the use of careful excavation techniques, documentation, preservation, and reporting procedures that have been developed over the past century, and are updated as new technologies become available [...] To excavate a site without following such protocols is unmitigated destruction of the archaeological record, and with it, all of the information that might have been gained from that record about human history and the changing relationships among human groups and the environment. [...] In certain countries, notably the United States (with the exceptions of a few states), the legal structure is such that property owners have the right to engage in undertakings that disturb or destroy archaeological sites, or to allow others, including non-archaeologists, to excavate archaeological sites on their property. In such countries, it is crucial to inform the public about how proper archaeological research is conducted, why it is undertaken, and what this research has revealed that might be of interest to them. In most countries, however, archaeological sites cannot be disturbed without a license, and sometimes they are not even considered private property. In such countries, broadcasting programs that depict excavation for pleasure or profit can only encourage illegal activity. For these reasons, we, the undersigned, call upon the media to refrain from broadcasting any program that presents in a favorable manner excavation of archaeological materials in any way that does not adhere to the excavation protocols outlined in the first paragraph above, which conform to standard archaeological practice around the world. Further, we note that, if appropriately produced, archaeology- and heritage-related programs in the media can be effective tools that provide the public with knowledge that is satisfying on a personal level and useful to all of us as we plot our course through a globalized and rapidly changing world.
The first is along list of the conditions these guys say any media portrayal should fulfil to be kosher. I feel it was a mistake putting it in the introductory paragraph, rather like scooping the jam out of the jar before you've buttered the bread. This needs to go in an appendix for two reasons, firstly the document would then cut to the point much quicker for busy TV executives to see what's landed on his or her desk. Secondly, if we assume this document has any lasting significance, those criteria may need to change as the discipline and perceptions alter with time, which requires only revision of the appendix and not the whole document. Not to mention the need to expand it as new problems come up. I can imagine that in the eventuality of a repeat of something like the recent "Nazi War Diggers fracas", it might be thought advisable to add to that list the manner of treatment (and showing in the media) human remains.
The second ellipsis is where the author wrote the purpose of archaeology which is no less than Save the World. Pure positivistic blather ("information that might have been gained from that record about human history and the changing relationships among human groups and the environment. Such questions have never been more important as we move into a future in which human alteration of the environment and social change continues to accelerate enormously"). The questions are important, but archaeology can never provide the answers. Too much New Archaeology here.
The third bit which in my opinion is superfluous and confusing is the bit "Further, anyone excavating archaeological sites has an ethical responsibility to engage with all interested and affected parties, in particular local communities". Now, I think the authors probably had something more complex in mind, and the position gets very complex in cases like the "Nazi War Diggers". My bet is that many readers are going to see the bit about involving local people, which is exactly what artefact/relic hunting etc are promoted as doing. The promoter of a planned project may well skip some of the documenting guff the reader skipped through at the beginning to get to the meat, but at least - the promoters can say - it fulfils that "ethical responsibility" to "engage with local people", they are doing the digging!
One crucial point, the Austin folk present archaeology (and the collecting of archaeological material) as only through excavation. Both in archaeology as well as artefact collecting, surface retrieval are very important, indeed much collection driven exploitation of archaeological sites is through removing material from assemblages near the surface and not deep-dug. This is what will be shown on many programmes depicting artefact hunting. This document, ridiculously - given its context - totally ignores the key issue of how surface retrieval of archaeological evidence differs from surface retrieval of collectables.
The Austin folk (despite the EAA President being there) seem to ignore the whole block of activity clustered around Britain's Portable Antiquities Scheme, which seems here to have been marginalised (wonder why?). So, to bring them back into the fold, how many of these things does the PAS get its local community partners doing? The first paragraph says that to be useful as archaeology, it's not all about just hoiking the finds out. That's fine by me, that's what I've been saying now for over a decade and a half. But this document sets high standards for any future TV programme on metal detecting (of the PAS-approved "Britain's Secret Treasures" ilk). In the light of this document, to be true partners, artefact hunters will have to fulfil conditions like these:
"Procedures include documenting exactly what was done in the field; analyzing and describing in detail all that was found that might be pertinent to a wide range of questions regarding human and environmental history; obtaining and analyzing samples of material relevant to those questions (for example, soils, pollen, micro faunal remains, and charcoal or other organic materials); comprehensively documenting, describing, and analyzing of all recovered artifacts; developing a catalogue of artifacts and other material taken from the site; preparing field notes each day that include photographs and drawings; treating all materials taken for storage and placing them in an environmentally controlled facility; and writing a report that describes all the above activities and provides an interpretation of what was found in the context of current research questions and interests.Now, considering that all is one single sentence, my guess is most UK and many US metal detectorists started rolling their eyes on line three. TV producers probably don't have either much time to try and pick their way through an unsolicited forest of words from some US-spelling ivory-towerists. I'd say this document is an Epic Fail as a piece of public information material by archaeology. When you are going to do something, what is the point if you are not going to do it well?
The current EAA President is Friedrich Lüth a Neolithic specialist from Germany.
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9 Touching Epitaphs Ancient Greeks And Romans Wrote For Their Deceased Dogs
9 Touching Epitaphs Ancient Greeks And Romans Wrote For Their Deceased Dogs:
1. “I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home in my own hands fifteen years ago.” (Source)Aside from the general SADFACE EMOTICON and I NEVER WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS EVER feelings this article inspired, I will note that the best epitaph is clearly “[Myia] never barked without reason, but now he is silent." This is because, in addition to being a moving epitaph, it also reads like an extremely passive-aggressive note to the neighbors.
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2014.08.16: Monopodia: figürliche Tischfüße aus Kleinasien. Ein Beitrag zum Ausstattungsluxus der römischen Kaiserzeit. Byzas, 17
Review of Stefan Feuser, Monopodia: figürliche Tischfüße aus Kleinasien. Ein Beitrag zum Ausstattungsluxus der römischen Kaiserzeit. Byzas, 17. Istanbul: 2013. Pp. xv, 285; 37 p. of plates. ISBN 9786054701216.![]()
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Delēta est Carthago
PUNIC WATCH: In Carthage (Josephine Quinn, London Review of Books Blog).![]()
Earlier this month a double celebration took place at Carthage, once the greatest city in the Mediterranean, destroyed by the Romans at the end of the Punic Wars and now a seaside suburb of Tunis. The anniversary of Hannibal’s defeat of the Roman army at Cannae in southern Italy on 2 August 216 BCE could be commemorated on the same day (2/8) as the beginning of the 2828th year since the foundation of the city by the Tyrian princess Dido in 814 BCE. Scholarly talks on Carthage and its heroes were followed by a carnival, including a parade from the acropolis to the amphitheatre with Carthaginian and Roman soldiers.I'm sorry to have missed that party.
The Tunisian embrace of Dido, Hannibal and their city might seem surprising. ...
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Sanctity and sacred trash in the Talmud
THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET: How Can We Respect Both the Sanctity of Jewish Things and the Practical Needs of the Jews? In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic rabbis debate the value of recycling, upselling, renovation, and sacred trash.
Earlier Daf Yomi columns are noted here and links.![]()
Very early in the Daf Yomi cycle, way back in Tractate Berakhot, I remember reading about the principle that in sacred things, we elevate and do not lower. In a debate over the right way to light candles on Hanukkah, Beit Shammai argued that we should start with eight candles on the first night and then reduce the number each night; Beit Hillel, by contrast, said that we should start with one candle and build up to eight. As usual, Hillel’s interpretation prevailed, because of the principle that we should always try to increase our sanctity, rather than lessen it.As Kirsch notes, this principle led in a roundabout way to the preservation of the Cairo Geniza. The writer of the sub-heading makes a quiet nod in this direction with the phrase "sacred trash."
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Earlier Daf Yomi columns are noted here and links.
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Bon Appetit Shark Week! Eat Like the Ancient Shark Callers with Papua New Guinea’s Chicken Pot
In honor of Shark Week we’re bringing you a recipe from the island of Papua New Guinea where people continue to practice the ancient practice of shark calling. The Chicken Pot is a simple dish imbued with the flavors of … Continue reading ![]()
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Tigchelaar (ed.), Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures
IN THE MAIL:
Cross-file under "New Book."![]()
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the ScripturesI attended the 2012 Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense and posted on it here. My paper, "Seven Theses Concerning the Use of Scripture in 4 Ezra and The Latin Vision of Ezra," is published in this volume.
Series:
Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 270 [Peeters]
Editors: Tigchelaar E.
Year: 2014
ISBN: 978-90-429-3128-2
Pages: XXVI-526 p.
Price: 95 EURO
Summary:
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures contains the papers of the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense 2012, which focused on a series of contemporary questions in Pseudepigrapha research. The papers discuss the relationship of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha to scriptures, both in a technical sense (how did authors rewrite or interpret Scripture) and in a literary sense (how and why did authors expand or extend earlier scriptures). Many papers cover the phenomenon of pseudepigraphy, giving explanations ranging from pious forgery through various kinds of literary devices to authorial self-effacement. Some contributions discuss the historically fluid boundaries between canonical and pseudepigraphic texts, and the production and use of Old Testament pseudepigrapha in early Christianity.
The volume contains papers on texts like Jubilees, the Genesis Apocryphon, other Dead Sea Scrolls texts, the Sibylline Oracles, Baruch, the Testament of Abraham, 4 Ezra, Jannes and Jambres, the Latin Vision of Ezra, the Life of Adam and Eve, the Story of Melchizedek, and the Story of Zosimus, as well as detailed studies on aspects of other texts like, e.g., 2 Baruch and the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum.
Cross-file under "New Book."
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ADCAEA: Collector of Egyptian Antiquities
I have been reflecting on the Association of Dealers & Collectors of Ancient & Ethnographic Art (ADCAEA). One of the three board members is Joop Bollen. Bollen is a collector of Egyptian antiquities (see "Joop Bollen, directeur South Dakota International Business Institute", volkskrant.nl 2 February 2002 [translation here]).
In 2011 Bollen donated an Egyptian mummy mask to the Michael C. Carlos Museum (inv. 2011.017.001). No further information about the prior collecting history is provided on the museum's website. There is a short piece about the gift on the Emory University website ("Art Collector Donates Rare Works to Carlos Museum", Emory Magazine Winter 2013).
These are not the only gifts to the museum:
There seems to be an association with the Egyptology curator at the Museum:
And whatever happened to Culturegrrl's request to the Museum? (Or, for that matter, mine?)
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In 2011 Bollen donated an Egyptian mummy mask to the Michael C. Carlos Museum (inv. 2011.017.001). No further information about the prior collecting history is provided on the museum's website. There is a short piece about the gift on the Emory University website ("Art Collector Donates Rare Works to Carlos Museum", Emory Magazine Winter 2013).
These are not the only gifts to the museum:
Collector and friend Joop Bollen has donated several important Egyptian works of art to the Michael C. Carlos Museum, including a Middle Kingdom wooden sarcophagus and a large Nineteenth Dynasty limestone relief slab called a stela.What are the full documented and authenticated collecting histories of these three pieces?
There seems to be an association with the Egyptology curator at the Museum:
Bollen, a business leader based in South Dakota, is a longtime collector whose interest in antiquities led him to a close association with Peter Lacovara, senior curator of Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Carlos Museum.If ADCAEA is promoting more transparency ('open communication') in the antiquities market, we would expect to see disclosure when collectors donate to museums.
And whatever happened to Culturegrrl's request to the Museum? (Or, for that matter, mine?)
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New evidence raises questions about when dinosaurs evolved in North America
The Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the golden age of dinosaurs, during which the prehistoric giants roamed the Earth for nearly 135 million years. Paleontologists have unearthed numerous fossils from these periods, suggesting that dinosaurs were abundant throughout the world. But where and when dinosaurs first came into existence has been difficult to ascertain.
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