Review of Sinéad O’Sullivan, Glossae aevi carolini in libros I-II Martiani Capellae De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis (CCCM), 237. Turnhout: 2010. Pp. clxxxxi, 472. €320.00. ISBN 9782503534534.![]()
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2012.10.34: Glossae aevi carolini in libros I-II Martiani Capellae De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis (CCCM), 237
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2012.10.35: I Longobardi del Sud
Review of Giuseppe Roma, I Longobardi del Sud. Roma: 2010. Pp. 491. €140.00 (pb). ISBN 9788876892523.![]()
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Archaeo News Podcast 215
Archaeo News Podcast 215
17 October 2012
In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons
Headlines
Bronze Age discoveries at Cheeseman’s Green, England
Crete, 3500-year-old Minoan building found
Oldest dental filling found in a Stone Age tooth
Stonehenge scan reveals hidden rock art
Danish textile history gets re-writtend
Bronze Age pathway found along London’s railway
Europe’s ‘oldest urban settlement’ found in Bulgaria
Neolithic Houses are to be built at Stonehenge
New insight into ancient Mesopotamian trade routes
The nomadic horse worshippers of Kazakhstan
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Journée d’information 2013
La prochaine journée d’actualités de l’AFEAF aura lieu le 2 février 2013
à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm à Paris,
à partir de 9h30 (salle Dussane)
Jusqu’au 15 décembre 2012, vous pouvez envoyer une proposition de communication à Laurence Augier
(aife2@voila.fr ou l.augier@agglo-bourgesplus.fr)
Formulaire à télécharger
Journée d’information 2012.
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Metal Detecting Find Withdrawn from Auction
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Collectors of early European hammered coins will not have the opportunity of acquiring this specimen from the upcoming Baldwin's sale (lot 459 at the forthcoming Baldwin's Argentum sale ):
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It's struck in the name of Aethelweard of East Anglia (c.840-855) by the moneyer Aethelhelm:
Photo: from the online Baldwin's Catalogue
Collectors of early European hammered coins will not have the opportunity of acquiring this specimen from the upcoming Baldwin's sale (lot 459 at the forthcoming Baldwin's Argentum sale ):
central cross pattée with wedge in each angle, all within beaded circle, legend surrounding, e Ð elpard rex, rev cross pattée with a pellet in each angle, all within beaded circle, legend surrounding, ae Ð elhelim mo (Naismith type E48.2; N 447/2; S 953).According to the seller it was "recently found in France" by a metal detectorist and has therefore "official export papers". But now it has been withdrawn, maybe you can work out why. Caveat emptor an' all that. Buyers should look carefully at the documentation and what it means - and no, this is not because the sales offer does not mention a ("Glasgow Fourth") landowner's release form - but the lack of one might have something to do with it.
Photo: from the online Baldwin's Catalogue
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Michel van Rijn in the News
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There are two recent stories about Michel van Rijn worth (a little) attention. The first is an interview (Jake Hanrahan, 'How I Became One of the Most Successful Art Smugglers in the World' Vice.com, October 10, 2012):
King Adz, 'Art Adventurer: The Incredible Story of Michel van Rijn, Sabotage Times 10 May 2012.
Vignette: Van Rijn.
There are two recent stories about Michel van Rijn worth (a little) attention. The first is an interview (Jake Hanrahan, 'How I Became One of the Most Successful Art Smugglers in the World' Vice.com, October 10, 2012):Having turned the craft of international art smuggling into an art in its own right, Michel Van Rijn was once wanted by authorities all over the world for sneaking valuable pieces of art across sea and land. With millions in the bank, Michel lived the life of a playboy. He owned private planes, enjoyed a harem of beautiful women, and did business with some of the world’s most dangerous criminals—many of whom were members of various governments (and probably still are). Art smuggling has been his racket since he was 20 years old. Dealing with upper class gangsters and supposedly legitimate art dealers, he’s been shot, extradited, jailed, hunted by MI6 and Interpol, and received photos of his children in the mail by way of a very unsettling threat from his enemies. He hasn’t given many interviews over the past six years, but I managed to track him down for a chat. After learning I did a bit of unlicensed boxing before becoming a journalist, Michel took a liking to me, as he is a fighter himself. He once had so many contracts on his head that Scotland Yard detectives allegedly placed bets on how long he had left to live before he was murdered by a hitman. Well built, bearded and rugged, Michel greeted me, took a drag of his cigarette, and agreed to speak about the lucrative world of art smuggling and how he became the kingpin of it [...].The article ends with the information (if that is what it is) that "a movie of Michel’s life, written and directed by sub-culture specialist King Adz and co-produced by ex-CIA agent Bob Baer is now in the works. Called The Iconoclast, it will be like Gomorra set in the Louvre, with a bearded Tom Hardy playing Michel Van Rijn (or so rumor has it)". This may therefore put a text on a related subject published earlier in context:
King Adz, 'Art Adventurer: The Incredible Story of Michel van Rijn, Sabotage Times 10 May 2012.
Vignette: Van Rijn.
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Colloque 2013 : Montpellier du 8 au 11 mai
Le 37e colloque de l’A.F.E.A.F. aura lieu du mercredi 8 mai au samedi 11 mai 2013 à Montpellier.
Il est co-organisé par l’UMR 5140 Archéologie des sociétés Méditerranéennes et l’AFEAF avec le concours de différents partenaires.
Pour la seconde fois, le colloque s’organise autour d’un thème unique, qui permet de réintégrer les recherches régionales dans un contexte européen. Le contexte géographique littoral et lagunaire ainsi que les orientations des recherches de l’UMR 5140 ont conduit à proposer le thème fédérateur de l’eau, qui sera développé lors de différentes sessions. Le champ chronologique couvrira la totalité de l’âge du Fer du VIIIe au Ier siècle avant notre ère.
Secrétariat du colloque : afeaf2013montpellier@yahoo.fr Afeaf 2013 Montpellier – UMR5140 – 390 avenue de Pérols – 34970 LATTES – France
Programme scientifique sur le site de l’AFEAF : http://www.afeaf.org/actualites-1-9.htm
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Daf Yomi column: Berakhot
ADAM KIRSCH has posted a new Daf Yomi column at Tablet Magazine: The Rabbis’ Mental World: The last chapter of the first tractate brings modern readers back to sex, bowel movements, and thunder.
Kirsh's earlier Daf Yomi columns are noted here, here here, here, and here.![]()
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The first eight chapters of Berachot are composed primarily of halakhah, or Jewish law—close legal and textual reasoning about the correct timing, manner, and language of the major Jewish prayers. Aggadah, the folklore and anecdotes and proverbs that constitute the more imaginative and accessible part of the Talmud, comes in the interstices of the halakhic argument. But chapter nine of Berachot is just about all aggadah—a cornucopia of rabbinic views on subjects ranging from meteorology to embryology to bathroom etiquette to dream interpretation. “Turn it and turn it, for everything is in it,” Pirkei Avot famously says of the Torah, and this section of the Berachot seems like the kind of thing Ben Bag-Bag had in mind.The content is too varied to excerpt usefully (read it all), but here's one paragraph of interest:
All of this raised the question for me of how contemporary Orthodox readers make sense of parts of the Talmud, like this one, that are based on clearly erroneous scientific ideas. When Aristotle makes empirical mistakes—as, for instance, when he says that women have fewer teeth than men—it’s easy to say that he was simply wrong, that he lacked modern ideas of scientific observation and method. With the Talmud, which grounds religious obligations on its empirical assertions, things must be more complicated. I’m sure much thought has been given to this problem and—as always—I would be grateful to hear from knowledgeable readers in the comments.It happens that the Jewish Press published an article by Harry Maryles yesterday on this very issue: Rav Elyashiv, Torah and Science: It is very troubling that there are those who say insist that it is forbidden to believe that Chazal were mistaken in matters of science. There are just too many instances of nature quoted in the Gemarah that contradict what we know today.
Kirsh's earlier Daf Yomi columns are noted here, here here, here, and here.
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FUN: Pyramid problems 1
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Beaded Basket [Object of the Day #86]
Basket
This incredibly decorated basket is from Djibouti, Africa. The object is intricately beaded with a combination of red, black, and white glass beads. The structure of the basket is made of raphia, a type of palm tree, and is adorned with several tassels ending in shells.
Penn Museum Object #2003-53-2
See this and other objects like it on Penn Museum’s Online Collection Database
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Resurrected Beer
WHAT WOULD THE LOST TRIBES DRINK? Lost Tribes Beer Co. Resurrects Ancient Brews (JTA/The Forward).
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According to the company’s website, “2,700 years ago, ten of the twelve tribes were sent into exile, eventually settling across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Legend has it that one day the tribes will return home bearing gifts from their lands. We’ve discovered that each tribe holds a unique crew [read "brew"? - ed.] recipe – we believe that their brews were the gifts they were meant to bring home.”I have my doubts about the historical rationale, but the beers sound nice.
Lost Tribes sells three beer lines: a pale ale they call Shikra, an Aramaic word for alcoholic beverage; Tej, an Ethiopian-adapted recipe of honey and herbs that is kosher for Passover; and a low-calorie option called Light.
Related post here.
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The Eclosure of a tumulus comes to light in Amphipolis.
It may be the grave of the wife and son of Alexander the Great.
Source: To Vima, 04.10.2012 [Translated from the Greek Original]
A circular enclosure, of a height of three meteres, with a perimeter that is calculated to be 500 meters, surrounds the toumba (the tumulus), that is situated in an agricultural area near Amphipolis of Serres, as the head of the 28th Ephorate of Antiquities, mrs Katerina Peristeri, declared.
The Kastas toumba, as it is called, has been known since 1965, but now for the first time its excavation was decided, without, however, having secured the necessary funding, resulting only in the partial uncovering of the verily impressive enclosure wall. There is a log way to go before the dig proceeds to a greater depth to verify the existence of burials and to explore and seek elements that will prove to whom these belong.
The Kastas toumba, as it is called, has been known since 1965, but now for the first time its excavation was decided, without, however, having secured the necessary funding, resulting only in the partial uncovering of the verily impressive enclosure wall. There is a log way to go before the dig proceeds to a greater depth to verify the existence of burials and to explore and seek elements that will prove to whom these belong.
In Amphipolis, however, it would seem that they are in a hurry, both the Ephorate of Antiquities and the local authorities, who decided in advance that it belongs to well-known persons, Roxane, the wife of Alexander the Great and their son, Alexander IV.
According to history Roxane did indeed go to Macedonia after the death of Alexander, where she and her twelve-year-old son were murdered; but whether they were buried in Amphipolis, were according to one version they had been exiled, that belongs to the sphere of myth and not science.
“This is an enclosure wall that is one of a kind, as nor in Vergina nor elsewhere in the Hellenic area exists anything similar”, declared mrs Peristeri and no one can deny this. But the hurry to identify it with historical persons, as well as the fact that this excavation does not have a foreseeable future in these financially difficult times, can only be characterised unscientific.
A.M. Comment:
The article seems to be biased against mrs Peristeri. Neither in the declaration published here nor in her other public statements on the state TV does she mention specific “historical persons”. All she does is to point out the exceptional nature of the site. What the unnamed “local authorities” claim the site to be is of no consequence, and it is bad journalism to amalgamate the two.
In short the unsigned article has the smell of an archaeologist’s feud, something all too common in Greek archaeology… This should not, however, subtract from the fact that the Kastas toumba appears to be an extremely promising site which we hope will one day be properly explored and excavated.
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