Books: 'INSCRIPTION IMAGES'

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Zhang, Baozhou, and Baiding Fan. Tu xiang yu ti ming: Image and inscription. Hangzhou: Zhongguo mei shu xue yuan chu ban she, 2011.

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Écrire, inscrire: Images d'inscriptions, mirages d'écriture. Paris: Corti, 2010.

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1954-, Bean Robert, and Gallery 44, eds. Image and inscription: An anthology of contemporary Canadian photography. Toronto: Gallery 44, 2005.

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Vi, Paramaśivamūrti Ḍi. Kannaḍa śāsanaśilpa. Hampi: Prasārāṅga, Kannaḍa Viśvavidyālaya, 1999.

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Pictorial Victorians: The inscription of values in word and image. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004.

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L' image de l'empereur en Gaule romaine: Portraits et inscriptions. Paris: CTHS-Ed. du Comité des Travaux historiques & scientifiques, 2006.

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Image inscriptions of Northern India: From 3rd century B.C. to 7th century A.D. Kolkata: Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 2009.

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Images of eternal beauty in funerary verse inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods. Boston: Brill, 2013.

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Christian celts: Messages & images. Stroud, England: Tempus, 1998.

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Unveiling emotions II: Emotions in Greece and Rome : texts, images, material culture. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013.

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Alyılmaz, Cengiz. (Kök)Türk harfli yazıtların izinde. Ankara: KaraM, 2007.

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(Kök)Türk harfli yazıtların izinde. Ankara: KaraM, 2007.

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Gazō kaiseki ni yotte hanmeishita kofun bohi. Tōkyō-to Shibuya-ku: Seirindō, 2013.

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Boot, Erik. Continuity and change in text and image at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico: A study of the inscriptions, iconography, and architecture at a Late Classic to Early Postclassic Maya site. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2005.

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Continuity and change in text and image at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico: A study of the inscriptions, iconography, and architecture at a late Classic to early Postclassic Maya site. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2004.

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Fo ying liu hen: Xianyang bo wu guan fo jiao wen wu chen lie = Images and traces of Buddha statues. Xi'an Shi: San Qin chu ban she, 2012.

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Bulandʹakhtarān-i Shahr-i Khafr: Barʹrasī-i sangʹnivishtahʹhā-yi mazār-i Imāmzādah Sayyid Majd al-Dīn Ḥusayn va dīgar khāndān ... Qum: Majmaʻ-i Z̲akhāʼir-i Islāmī, 2009.

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Beaux, Nathalie. Image et conception du monde dans les écritures figuratives: Actes du colloque Collège de France-Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Paris, 24-25 janvier 2008. Paris: AIBL [Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres], 2009.

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France, Collège de, and Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France), eds. Image et conception du monde dans les écritures figuratives: Actes du colloque Collège de France-Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Paris, 24-25 janvier 2008. Paris: AIBL [Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres], 2009.

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Morris and Barraclough, Beryl West. Images and Inscriptions. HarperCollins Publishers, 1997.

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Findlay, Alison. ‘Make My Image but an Alehouse Sign’. Edited by Jonathan Post. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607747.013.0010.

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Queen Margaret’s words ‘Make my image but an alehouse sign’ in 2 Henry VI (III. ii. 81) offer an appropriate metaphor for the female voice in Shakespeare’s texts because they advertise the ways female characters strive to speak out within a discursive environment that silences them as images. The chapter explores how women in Shakespeare’s plays negotiate a space to speak within a poetic discourse that repeatedly objectifies them as signs, focusing on Catherine’s role in Henry V and the blason, and the Jailer’s Daughter’s self-inscription into a ballad tradition in Two Noble Kinsmen. A second section uses the analytic tools provided by corpus-linguistics to explore the poetic voices of tragic female characters: Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, and the women of Richard III. The essay concludes by tracing the growth of an independent, poetic female voice in the role of Queen Margaret who offers an ironic commentary on Shakespeare's growing sense of his own identity as national bard.

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Bean, Robert. Image And Inscription: Essays on Contemporary Photography. Yyz Books, 2006.

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Cimanalāla, Parīkha Pravīṇacandra, and Shelat Bharati Kirtikumar, eds. The Jain image inscriptions of Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad: B.J. Institute of Learning and Research, 1997.

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Pouillaude, Frédéric. The Supporting Trace: Images and Scores. Translated by Anna Pakes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199314645.003.0012.

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This chapter explores the modalities of work survival dependent on material traces. These traces linger in the form of fragments of pottery, inscriptions, photos, films, and also scores. The function of museums and libraries is to preserve these trace-objects and make them accessible. There is significant research to do analyzing the role of such institutions within the choreographic field and explaining the likely specificity of the dance archive. Here the chapter mentions only the significance of the project begun by Rolf de Maré during the 1930s. This project was called the “Archives Internationales de la Danse.” The chapter puts aside the general question of the dance archive and its institutional management to focus solely on the different types of restaging, revival, and reconstruction that it makes possible.

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Performing the Sixteenth-Century Brain: Beyond Word and Image Inscriptions. Lit Verlag, 2019.

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Brennan, T. Corey. Final Years in Rome. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190250997.003.0009.

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Direct evidence for Sabina’s activities as Augusta in and around Rome is disappointing. Although inscriptions suggest some (limited) benefactions by the empress, the most conspicuous expression of Sabina’s heightened status comes from the Rome mint, which produced an impressive series of original images publicizing the empress’s imperial virtues. Changing titulature and hairstyles on Sabina’s Rome coins help establish a relative chronology and an understanding of the intended messages. The provincial coin issues bearing Sabina’s portrait are harder to assess: on their reverses their subject matter overlaps significantly with types showing the emperor. The regime also offered ever-changing sculptural images of Sabina. On both coins and sculptures, this era’s portrait artists, generally abandoning naturalism, pictured the middle-aged empress as a young serene beauty. The chapter also quantifies Sabina’s assimilation to specific goddesses in the eastern inscriptions, and seeks to understand how eastern communities balanced public honors for Hadrian, Sabina, and Antinoös.

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Epigraphy Through Five Millennia: Texts and Images in Context. Harrassowitz, 2020.

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Bowman, Alan, and Charles Crowther, eds. The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858225.001.0001.

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The book contains twelve chapters, by various authors, discussing aspects of the Greek and Egyptian bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, from the conquest by Alexander the Great (332 BC) to the death of Kleopatra VII (30 BC). It is intended as a complement to the publication of the full texts, with up-to-date commentaries and images, of about 650 inscriptions on stone. These include major decrees of priestly colleges, such as the Rosetta Stone, and a great variety of religious and secular monuments from the whole of Egypt, from Alexandria to Philae. The subjects covered include the latest technologies for digital imaging of stone inscriptions, the character of Egyptian monuments with Greek text, the survival and collection of bilingual monuments in the nineteenth century through excavation and the antiquities trade, religious dedications from Alexandria and elsewhere, the civic government of Greek foundations and public associations, the role of the military in public epigraphy, verse epigrams, onomastics, and palaeography. Overall, the collection offers a comprehensive review of the social, religious, and cultural context of the great inscribed monuments of the Ptolemaic dynasty which are key sources for understanding the coexistence of two different cultures and the impact of Ptolemaic rule and Greek immigration in Egypt.

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Epigraphy in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges in the Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions. Archaeopress, 2021.

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Classica Orientalia, Essays Presented to Wiktor Daszewski on his 75th Birthday, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Warsaw 2011. Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2011.

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Booth, Marilyn. Disruptions of the Local, Eruptions of the Feminine: Local Reportage and National Anxieties in Egypt’s 1890s. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430616.003.0003.

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This chapter demonstrates that inscriptions of female images in Cairo’s late nineteenth-century nationalist press were part of a discursive economy shaping debates on how gender roles and gendered expectations should shift as Egyptians struggled for independence. The chapter investigates content and placement of ‘news from the street’ in al-Mu’ayyad in the 1890s, examining how these terse local reports – equivalent to faits divers in the French press – contributed to the construction of an ideal national political trajectory with representations of women serving as the primary example in shaping a politics of newspaper intervention on the national scene. In this, an emerging advocacy role of newspaper correspondents makes the newspaper a mediator in the construction of activist reader-citizens.

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Ritual Landscape at Persepolis: Glyptic Imagery from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, The, 2017.

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Peterson, Carla L. An Easter Prayer, 1859. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199390205.003.0011.

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Carla L. Peterson describes her own experience of seeing one of Dave’s pots on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and interprets the Easter imagery in the incised poem, “Good for lard—or holding fresh meats.” Peterson conducts a thorough biblical exegesis of the inscription in connection with the Gospel of John’s account of the graveclothes left behind by the resurrected Jesus and with the figure Peterson names as the other prophet implied within it. Peterson ends by proposing Passover as another religious touchstone for Dave the Potter and thus ascribing a radical ecumenicalism to him and his jar, which is ultimately argued to be Dave the Potter’s Easter service.

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Constantakopoulou, Christy. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787273.003.0001.

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This chapter provides a brief overview of the history of Delos, with particular emphasis on the period of Independence (314–166 BC). It examines the image of the Delian ‘parasite’, and explains it as essentially the result of a negative approach towards the Delians’ reliance to outsiders. The chapter discusses the nature of the sources, and the importance of epigraphy. What allows us to write the history of Delos is the plethora of Delian inscriptions: inventories, accounts, and decrees, among others. The chapter then discusses network theory and regionalism as the two main methodological approaches employed in the book, and presents a summary of the four case studies discussed in the book.

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Netherton, Robin, and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, eds. Medieval Clothing and Textiles. The Boydell Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781800108325.

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Historical dress and textiles, always a topic of popular interest, has in recent years become an academic subject in its own right, transcending traditional genre boundaries. This annual journal includes in-depth studies from a variety of disciplines. The contents cover a broad geographical scope and a range of periods from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The first three volumes are now available as a specially-priced set. Topics coveredinclude: Anglo-Saxon embroidery; textiles and textile imagery in the Exeter Book; the Latin inscription embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry; clothmaking in twelfth-century French romances; medieval Paris as an internationaltextile market; the use of jewelled animal pelts as fashion accessories in the Renaissance; soft furnishings; aristocratic children's clothing, and much more.

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Ball, Warwick. Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199277582.001.0001.

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Since its publication in 1982, the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan has become the main reference work for the archaeology of Afghanistan, and the standard sites and monuments record for the region; archaeological sites are now referred to under their Gazetteer catalogue number as routine in academic literature, and the volume has become a key text for developing research in the area. This revised and updated edition has been significantly expanded to incorporate new field-work and discoveries, as well as older field-work more recently published, and presents new cases of synthesis and unpublished material from private archives. New discoveries include the Rabatak inscription detailing the genealogy of the Kushan kings, a huge archive of Bactrian documents, Aramaic documents from Balkh on the last days of the Persian empire, a new Greek inscription from Kandahar, two tons of coins from Mir Zakah, a Sasanian relief of Shapur at Rag-i Bibi, a Buddhist monastic 'city' at Kharwar, new discoveries of Buddhist art at Mes Aynak and Tepe Narenj, and a newly revealed city at the Minaret of Jam. With over 1500 catalogue entries, supplemented with concordance material, site plans, drawings, and detailed maps prepared from satellite imagery, the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan: Revised Edition is the most comprehensive reference work on the archaeology and monuments of the region ever undertaken. Cataloguing all recorded sites and monuments from the earliest times to the Timurid period, this volume will be an invaluable contribution to the renewed interest in Afghanistan's cultural heritage and an essential resource for students and researchers.

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Schotter, Jesse. The Hieroglyphics of Character. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424776.003.0003.

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This chapter examines how hybrid conceptions of language and media come to challenge representations of literary character and narrative in the modernist period. Understanding Virginia Woolf as a film theorist situated within the ferment of avant-garde film culture in London in the mid-1920s—a period which saw the formation of the journal Close-Up and the London Film Society—the chapter argues that Woolf’s engagement with film and its ‘hieroglyphs’ in her essay ‘The Cinema’ transforms her understanding of language and character in To the Lighthouse. Throughout the late 1920s, Woolf imagines writing as emulating the material and visual form of hieroglyphs, revealing the inscriptions graven upon the ‘sacred tablets’ of the minds and hearts of her characters.

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Enemies of Assyria: The Image and Role of Enemy in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and Selected Textual Sources from the Neo-Assyrian Period. Ugarit-Verlag, 2018.

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Poehler, Eric E. World of the Mulio. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190614676.003.0007.

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Chapter 7 is the story of Sabinus, the fictional cart driver (mulio), from the Casa del Menandro. Sabinus is a narrative device invented to help imagine what the archaeological evidence cannot reveal: how traffic at Pompeii operated day-to-day and how as a system it was maintained. Although a fiction, the image of what Sabinus sees and encounters in the Pompeian street is a culmination and enlivening of the deep archaeological detail of preceding chapters. Importantly, Sabinus is also a means to explore the more speculative aspects of traffic management while simultaneously signaling the hypothetical nature of such exploration. The potential management mechanisms through which traffic information flowed are (1) the social networks that connect local drivers to civil authorities, (2) the observation of the environment and other drivers, and (3) direct contact with such information proxies as inscriptions, maps, and hired guides.

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Radner, Karen. Assyrians and Urartians. Edited by Gregory McMahon and Sharon Steadman. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376142.013.0033.

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This article traces the interactions between Assyria and Urartu, military and otherwise, and their impact on the neighboring Anatolian kingdoms, especially the chain of buffer states situated between Assyria's northern and Urartu's southern border. To the Assyrian mind, Urartu was on one hand an anti-Assyria, the archenemy and eternal temptation for its vassals, and on the other a mirror image, a kind of Assyria in the mountains; inscriptions and archival materials alike attribute Assyrian concepts to Biainili, for example, by superimposing the Assyrian administrative structure onto the other country, referring to provinces and governors and using various specifically Assyrian titles for Urartian officials. This tends to promote the idea that the two kingdoms were very much alike, but the fact that climatic conditions and the economic basis of Assyria and Urartu were very different should make it clear that this assumption is implausible. The various states situated in the border region between Assyria and Urartu, too, had their own distinct identities and traditions.

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Shaner, Katherine A. Power in Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190275068.003.0001.

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This chapter suggests a reorientation of interpretive strategy for archaeological materials that explicitly recognizes the ubiquitous presence of slaves; takes seriously the persuasive, prescriptive nature of architecture, city layout, inscriptions, and imagery; and accounts for the complexity of enslaved persons’ lives and the different power dynamics at work in those complexities. It then provides a tour of three sites in Ephesos—the harbor, the marketplace, and the Terrace Houses—and reenvisions these spaces as spaces where enslaved persons were ubiquitous. At the same time, this revision tour demonstrates that these city spaces are rhetorical spaces that attempt to persuade viewers and dwellers alike of enslaved invisibility and compliance with kyriarchal expectations. The chapter explores examples of how archaeological remains in Ephesos mark, discuss, and regulate enslaved persons who participate in civic and religious practices around the city.

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Rüpke, Jörg. On Roman Religion. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501704703.001.0001.

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Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? This book demonstrates that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading. The book dismantles previous approaches that depicted religious practice as uniform and static. Juxtaposing very different, strategic, and even subversive forms of individuality with traditions, their normative claims, and their institutional protections, this text highlights the dynamic character of Rome's religious institutions and traditions. In the view expressed in this book, lived ancient religion is as much about variations or even outright deviance as it is about attempts and failures to establish or change rules and roles and to communicate them via priesthoods, practices related to images or classified as magic, and literary practices. The text analyzes observations of religious experience by contemporary authors including Propertius, Ovid, and the author of the “Shepherd of Hermas.” These authors, in very different ways, reflect on individual appropriation of religion among their contemporaries, and they offer these reflections to their readership or audiences. The book also concentrates on the ways in which literary texts and inscriptions informed the practice of rituals.

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Terras, Melissa. Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2006.

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Beg, Mirza Sangin. Introduction to the Persian Manuscript. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199477739.003.0001.

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There are four dimensions to the introductory note of Mirza Sangin Beg’s Sair-ul Manazil. He begins the work with Islamic imagery that seemed to be de rigueur in Persian and Urdu texts, wherein he waxes eloquent about the creator and His creation. The creation also includes Prophet Muhammad, his family, and companions. The author intersperses the imagery with relevant verses from the Quran. He informs the reader that he inspected buildings and copied the inscriptions very diligently and had these overseen by a Persian gentleman at the court who had great mastery on the subject. He put together this work in the time of the Mughal Badshah Akbar II, and called it Sair-ul Manazil. Mirza Sangin Beg indulges in applaudable praise of the British, who are compared with some of the greatest exemplars of the world across cultures. In the last segment he acclaims and extols his benefactor, William Fraser, for his patronage of the work and the suitable recompense he received. The sophistry involved here is that in another version of the manuscript the patron is replaced with Charles Theophilus Metcalfe. In two other renditions both the British gentlemen, officers of the English East India Company controlling Delhi, are accommodated seamlessly as patrons.

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Stroup, Christopher. The Christians Who Became Jews. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300247893.001.0001.

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When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. This book explores the depiction of Jewish and Christian identity by analyzing ethnicity within a broader material and epigraphic context. Examining Acts through a new lens, the book shows that the text presents Jews and Jewish identity in multiple, complex ways, in order to legitimate the Jewishness of Christians. The book begins with an overview of the importance of ethnicity and ethnic rhetoric to the formation of ancient Christian identity. It then situates Acts of the Apostles historically and examines previous scholarship on Jewish identity and Acts before moving on to focus on the production of Jewish identity and difference in Acts 2:5–13. The book assesses how Acts of the Apostles uses the image of Jewishness constructed in Acts 2:5–13 to depict the Jewishness of Christian non-Jews in the Jerusalem council (15:1–21), and explores how Acts of the Apostles and the Salutaris Foundation inscription each uses ethnic reasoning together with civic and imperial space to produce unified identities. The book concludes that Acts of the Apostles' rhetoric of Jewish and Christian identity should be situated within the context of Roman-era cities, in which ethnic, civic, and religious identities were inseparable. Placing Acts within this broader ethnic discourse emphasizes the Jewishness of Christians, even in Acts.

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Terras, Melissa. Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Terras, Melissa. Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents). Oxford University Press, USA, 2006.

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Athanassaki, Lucia, and Frances Titchener, eds. Plutarch's Cities. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859914.001.0001.

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This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch’s works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book’s multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch’s cities—past and present, real and ideal—yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments, and inscriptions, about which he acquired impressive knowledge in order to help him understand and reconstruct the past. Cult and ritual proved equally fertile for Plutarch’s visual imagination. Whereas historiography was the backbone of his reconstruction of the past and evaluation of the present, material culture, cult, and ritual were also sources of inspiration to enliven past and present alike. Plato’s descriptions of Athenian houses and the Attic landscape were also a source of inspiration, but Plutarch clearly did his own research, based on autopsy and on oral and written sources. Plutarch, Plato’s disciple and Apollo’s priest, was on balance a pragmatist. He did not resist the temptation to contemplate the ideal city, but he wrote much more about real cities, as he experienced or imagined them.

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Di Cerbo, Cristiana, and Richard Jasnow. On the Path to the Place of Rest. Lockwood Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/2022419.

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In this volume Christina Di Cerbo and Richard Jasnow publish 92 Demotic graffiti, along with several ostraca and mummy bandages, from Theban Tombs 11, 12, Tomb-399-, and environs recorded and studied under the aegis of the Spanish Mission at Dra Abu el-Naga directed by José Galán. These texts from the mid-second century BCE were inscribed on the tomb walls by workers of the Ibis and Falcon cult, who used the New Kingdom tombs as burial places for mummified birds dedicated to the gods Thoth and Horus. This varied corpus of texts includes not only votive formulae and lists of names, but, most unusually, labels for chambers and halls to guide the men depositing the mummies through the labyrinthine catacombs. The cult workers also recorded important burials and memorialized events of special significance, as when a massive conflagration broke out that consumed several mummies and damaged the tomb walls. The Missions conservators recovered many hitherto virtually invisible graffiti. Numerous inscriptions posed daunting epigraphic challenges; the text editors employed computer applications, especially DStretch, in order to enhance the digital images forming the basis for decipherment. In an introductory chapter Galán discusses the work of the Spanish Mission at Dra Abu Naga and recounts the complicated history of this important area of the Theban Necropolis down to the Roman period. The graffiti illustrate how New Kingdom tombs were reused for the sacred animal cult in the Ptolemaic period. Francisco Bosch-Puche and Salima Ikram contribute a detailed chapter analyzing the archaeological context of the graffiti and the material evidence for the animal cult in the site. The volume, a holistic study of this area at the twilight of Pharaonic history, represents a true collaboration between archaeologists and philologists.

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Yaniv, Bracha. The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764371.001.0001.

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The carved wooden Torah arks found in eastern Europe from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries were magnificent structures, unparalleled in their beauty and mystical significance. The work of Jewish artisans, they dominated the synagogues of numerous towns both large and small throughout the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, inspiring worshippers with their monumental scale and intricate motifs. Virtually none of these pieces survived the devastation of the two world wars. This book breathes new life into a lost genre, making it accessible to scholars and students of Jewish art, Jewish heritage, and religious art more generally. Making use of hundreds of pre-war photographs housed in local archives, the author develops a vivid portrait of the history and artistic development of these arks. Analysis of the historical context in which these arks emerged includes a broad survey of the traditions that characterized the local workshops of Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. The author provides a detailed analysis of the motifs carved into the Torah arks and explains their mystical significance, among them representations of Temple imagery and messianic themes — and even daring visual metaphors for God. Fourteen arks are discussed in particular detail, with full supporting documentation; appendices relating to the inscriptions on the arks and to the artisans' names will further facilitate future research. The book throws new light on long-forgotten traditions of Jewish craftsmanship and religious understanding.

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