Ancient cultures at Monash University : proceedings of a conference held between 18-20 October 2013 on approaches to studying the ancient past /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Conference for Ancient Cultures at Monash University Monash University
Other Authors: Cox, Jessica (Egyptologist) (Editor), Hamilton, Caleb R. (Editor), McLardy, Katherine R. L. (Editor), Pettman, Amy Jean (Editor), Stewart, David (Egyptologist) (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2015.
Series:BAR international series ; 2764.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Editor's preface
  • Papers presented at Ancient Cultures at Monash University
  • Religion and ritual. Remembering the practicalities of meeting human needs: a southern Italian folk tradition with roots in ancient 'magic' practices / Liberata Luciani
  • Themophorian influences in Rome: interrelations between the Thesmophoria and the Festival for Bona Dea, the Sacrum Anniversarium Cereis, and the Ieiunium Cereris / Katherine R.L. McLardy
  • Rome, Chios, Cyzicus and Miletus: the intercultural value of the Roman foundation myth / Jonathan Ratcliffe
  • Textual Analysis. Aspects of the judiciary in the Egyptian Old Kingdom / Caleb R. Hamilton
  • Receiving Sappho's Erotic Moon - a very literary affair / Tom Sharkie
  • Method and theory. Predynastic female figurines: a reappraisal of the El-Maʼ Mariya Corpus / Ryna Ordynat
  • Approaches to lithic analysis: the assemblage from Mut al-Kharab / Sarah M. Ricketts
  • Distribution and trade. From Nubia to the Levant: the distribution of predynastic Egyptian decorated ware in space and time / Jessica Cox
  • Beyond the Fayum: the development of Egypt's western oases during the Ptolemaic Period / James C.R. Gill
  • Material culture. North Sinai during the LBA IIB-EIA: preliminary results for Way of Horus analysis / Stuart Ibrahim
  • New evidence from the Third Intermediate Period temple at Mut al-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis / Richard J. Long
  • ʻAin al-Gazzareen: new evidence for the earliest phases of occupation / Amy J. Pettman.