Nicosia astrom editions (16 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. xxii, 218 pages : illustrations, map, plans, facsimiles ; 25 cm. A Danish police officer, who volunteered for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, spent his spare time documenting traditional technologies, especially those related to handmade pottery, farming and food. Knud Jensen recorded over 60 pitharia, immense jars for fermenting wine, produced for centuries until 1972. He speculated that the names incised on jar shoulders, prior to firing, held information about the history of Cyprus. Detective Jensen managed to trace century-old jars back to the craftspeople who made them and to their descendants living in Lazania and other Troodos foothill villages. His findings, combined with more recent ethnoarchaeological research by the author, provide practical templates to: reconstruct the ancient ceramics industry; assess the markings on archaeological pottery; evaluate artefact reuse; identify sources of variation in the work of craft specialists past and present; acknowledge itinerant male and female potters; and explain the multiplicity of traditional and ancient regional terms for essential household items.…

XXIV/530 pp. with many illustrations, 2 corners of the binding slightly bumped, else very good and clean, text in English, BITTE BEACHTEN: Aufgrund des höheren Gewichtes sind zusätzliche Versandkosten für den Versand außerhalb der EU erforderlich. PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy book / set, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside EU. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2700 Folio. , original hardcover (no dust jacket).…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. viii, 414 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 31 cm. Summary:This volume combines diverse approaches to provide a new, broadly-based, contextualised understanding of the decline of Bronze Age societies in the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the 13th and the first half of the 12th centuries BC with a particular focus on Cyprus and neighbouring cultures. The volume's five sections contain 19 chapters by leading scholars which deal variously with (1) Egyptian, Ugaritic and Hittite written sources, (2) possible evidence for the destruction, abandonment and transformation of sites, (3) the study of regional and interregional connections based on provenance studies of pottery and other artefacts, (4) the importance of economic resources such as copper and animal supplies, and (5) the contribution of scientific approaches to the general theme, viz. radiocarbon, climatological studies and material analyses. The papers in this volume are the results of the conference The Decline of Bronze Age Civilisations in the Mediterranean: Cyprus and Beyond organised by the editors of the volume and held on January 17 and 18, 2020 at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg. In addition, it was the final conference of the project The Collapse of Bronze Age Societies in the Eastern Mediterranean that investigated the causes of disruption in international trade and the collapse of Bronze Age civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the second half of the 13th and the 12th centuries BC, focusing on the island of Cyprus which was the centre of interregional trade in this region.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. xviii, 279 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 31 cm. The volume has a strong methodological focus on the spatial analysis of ritual and cult. It is organised around three major themes: the relationship between sacred landscapes, socio-political units and socio-economic networks; experiencing sacred landscapes; and the employment of artefacts and agency in the creation and perception of sacred space. CONTENTS: Sacred landscapes, socio-political units and socio-economic networks -- 1. Unlocking sacred landscapes: the applicability of a GIS approach to the territorial formation of the Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical polities / Giorgos Papantoniou -- 2. A contextual approach to non-urban sanctuaries: a micro-regional study of the cult place of Laghetto del Monsignore (Lazio, Italy) / Tanja van Loon and Tymon de Haas -- 3. The sacred landscapes of Cyprus in late antiquity: cityscapes and peripheries in context / Niki Kyriakou -- 4. The spatiality of the Byzantine/Medieval rural church: landscape parallels from the Aegean and Cyprus / Athansios K. Vionis -- 5. Unlocking sacred space on early medieval Naxos: digital approaches to an historic landscape / Sam Turner and Jim Crow -- 6. The early Ottoman and sacred landscape of Khania, Crete / Lucia Nixon -- Experiencing sacred landscapes -- 7. Journeys with death: spatial analysis of the Mesara-type tombs of prehistoric Crete / Lucy Goodison -- 8. Sensing death among the Phoenicians and the Punics (900-200 BC) / Mireia López-Bertran -- 9. Processing time and space in Byzantine Constantinople / Vicky Manolopoulou -- Artefacts, agency and sacred space -- 10. Socio-spatial discontinuities in burial ritual in prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus / Jennifer M. Webb -- 11. Space, place and performance in the Minoan peak sanctuary of Atsipadhes Korakias, Crete / Alan A.D. Peatfield and Christine E. Morris -- 12. Late Cypriot female figurines: from intra- to inter-site investigation of their function and lifecycle -- Constantina Alexandrou -- 13. Walking thorough the sacred funerary landscape of Narce again / Jacopo Tabolli -- 14. Sacred space and ritual behaviour in early Iron Age Crete: the case of the sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme / George Papasavvas -- 15. On figurines and identity: an inter-site study of terracotta figurines from Idumaea (south Israel) in the Persian period / Adi Erlich.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. xi, 299 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 25 cm. Conference papers and proceedings. Throughout antiquity, Sicily and South Italy provided a grand stage for encounters and relationships between different groups attracted by abundant natural resources and strategically advantageous locations in the Mediterranean: indigenes, Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans and Carthaginians all left their mark on both the material and intangible cultures of these areas. In this volume a group of international scholars examines the complexity and richness of those interactions, and the ways in which they contributed to the formation of local identities from individual to civic level. Across a chronological span from prehistory to Late Antiquity, chapters explore the articulation of evolving relationships through religion, buildings, artefacts and funerary practices, with a particular focus on Sicily. Inscriptions and other texts reveal how language was used to express ethnic affiliations and claim social ones, together with the significance of location in defining specific identities, while cutting-edge technology applied to both old datasets and current archaeological work provides important new insights. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars concerned with cultural interactions and the relationship between material culture and identity.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 255 pages. Transport containers such as amphorae offer an important insight into the commodity trade which promoted economic expansion and sociocultural unity within the Roman empire. This volume includes 16 papers by prominent specialists on the morphology, production and distribution of eastern amphora types, dating from the Early to the Late Roman period, with a focus on the application of scientific techniques, such as petrographic and statistical analyses. The contributors address methodological and technological issues and discuss amphora production in Cyprus, Kos, Syro-Palestine, Cilicia, Judaea and the Black Sea region, and at Alexandria, Cyrenaica, Sagalassos and Ephesus. They provide new information that adds substantially to our knowledge of the development of Roman trade. Previously, limited knowledge of eastern amphora types has restricted the ability to identify and assess eastern exports to the West and among the eastern regions.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. xv, 507 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 25 cm. Series: Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, 195. Ceramic flasks were a small but regular component of domestic and, in particular, of cemetery assemblages during the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Cyprus. They were made in a variety of fine fabrics and decorated with incised geometric designs. Given their small size, narrow apertures and recovery in burial contexts, it is likely that they were used to store, transport and dispense small quantities of precious liquids-oils, perfumes, drugs or/and other valuable compounds-used in funerary and perhaps other ceremonies. In this volume a fully illustrated catalogue of 560 known flasks provides the basis for a thorough analysis of form, fabric and decoration, and an assessment of change through time and variability at different scales of analysis, from broad regional traditions to specific sites and workshops. Special attention is given to questions of style and recognition of the products of individual potters within a varied and complex decorative tradition, and models of production and distribution are set within changing relationships between communities and regions and across the island.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. 232 pages. The papers in this volume honour and elucidate Ian Todd's important research on the prehistory of Anatolia and Cyprus. Ian's work at Çatalhöyük and his Central Anatolian Survey are discussed, updated and reassessed in chapters by Hodder, Baird, Baysal, Summers and Bachhuber. Özbasaran, Duru and Kayacan outline key results from ongoing work at Asikli; and Düring investigates connections between Kalavasos Tenta and Asikli Höyük in light of recent evidence. Several chapters focus on the legacy of Todd's excavations at Tenta (South) and the Vasilikos Valley Project (Kearns and Andreou). Crewe discusses evidence for early Cypro-PPN activity at Kissonerga, Wasse, Reese and Clarke suggest a ritual use for triton shells in underground complexes at Kokkinoyia, Bolger explores differences in Chalcolithic ceramics at Kalavasos and Kissonerga and Clarke suggests that Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic low walled trays were used for salt production. Manning addresses the Cypriot longue durée through an examination of radiocarbon data from the 7th 6th millennia BC, while other chapters focus on later periods: Georgiou on a rare human representation of the Early Cypriot period and Steel on household taskscapes at Late Bronze Age Arediou. The volume provides numerous fresh insights and will be of interest to scholars working in both Anatolia and Cyprus. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 310 pages : 24 cm. This volume honours the very significant contribution to the study of ancient Greek pottery and vase-painting in Greece and South Italy made by Ian McPhee. Contributions by 20 leading international scholars explore interrelated issues of style, attribution and interpretation central to the field. They address both new vases and old questions and focus variously on painters, specific vessel types and images. Chapters discuss depictions of childhood on choes, hunting dogs and astragal games in Greek vase painting, comic figures on phlyax vases, Hekate in Apulia and Theseus in Magna Graecia, captives and victors in Apulian red-figure and mantle figures in the red-figure pottery of Magna Graecia and Sicily. Vessel types examined include 4th-century BC bell-kraters, conical oinochoai, kothons, early South Italian volute-kraters and fish-plates; and painters include the Painter of Corinth 1937-525, the Painter of the Geneva Orestes, and the Meleager and Jena Painters in the Jatta National Museum in Ruvo di Puglia. The volume provides numerous fresh insights and will be of interest to scholars concerned with all aspects of ancient Greek pottery and vase-painting. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. xvi, 200 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour map, plan ; 31 cm. This volume re-examines one of the most exceptional archaeological discoveries made by the 1927 1931 Swedish Cyprus Expedition, the sanctuary of Ayia Irini. Celebrated for its corpus of terracotta votive sculpture, Ayia Irini has played a key part in our understanding of the island s material and votive culture. In spite of its importance, however, significant aspects of Ayia Irini s biography remained poorly understood. Based on the exceptional progress of Cypriot archaeological scholarship during the last decades, the volume explores two pivotal issues: it reconsiders the special symbolism, ideological connotations and political affiliation of Ayia Irini during the Archaic period, a time when the political landscape of Cyprus underwent significant transformations; and by thoroughly examining the sanctuary s cultic and religious features, it attempts a more precise definition of the deity worshipped at Ayia Irini.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. viii, 211 pages, illustrations : 29 cm. In June 2021 the members of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cyprus Project (NCCP) organised a conference on Cypriot archaeology, which was the first international meeting under the auspices of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, focusing specifically on early Cypriot prehistory. The main subject of this conference was everyday life , and the everyday and its profound implications for individuals and groups are also among the main issues examined in this volume, which was partly inspired by the conference and by the discussions that were fuelled at that time. Nevertheless, the broader term lifeways was adopted here, so as to leave enough space for diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. The study of quotidian life through the analysis of its material and immaterial components forms a key issue for anyone who wishes to approach early Cypriot communities and their way of life since the earliest appearance of human groups on the island. Archaeology plays a rather crucial role in these attempts; it extracts meaning from the recovered materialities, the organisation of space and the broader landscape surrounding areas of human action; it provides comprehensive views of various daily indoor/ outdoor practices and socialities that largely shape identities, social perspectives and experiences; and it locates habitual activities and performances echoing social reproduction and enculturation processes or even acts of resistance to the social norms and/or change. Ultimately, by highlighting the ordinary or what are sometimes perceived as mundane activities it becomes possible to reconstruct the ways people understand and reproduce both their selves and their world. The latter allows fruitful insights into individual/group behaviours and structured lifeways. The selected time frame of this volume covers a rather long period from the local Epipalaeolithic (or Akrotiri phase , i.e. ca 11,000 9000 BC) through the end of the Middle Bronze Age, traditionally dated at around 1650/1600 BC, just before the major socioeconomic restructuring of the early Late Bronze Age and the subsequent appearance of urban centres in Cyprus.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. xvi, 166 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, plans ; 31 cm.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. xxx, 335 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 31 cm. Summary:This volume is the final report on the excavations conducted by the University of Nevada at Las Vegas at the early Neolithic site of Kritou Marottou Ais Giorkis in the foothills of the Troodos Mountains in western Cyprus. It consists of 19 chapters which variously discuss the site's chronology, geoarchaeology and palaeoenvironment, excavated features and architecture, lithic finds, human remains and faunal and botanical data, including the results of residue and isotopic analyses of ground stone and plant and animal remains. It is now clear that the Neolithic of Cyprus is as old as that on the mainland. Important recent research, including that presented here, has revolutionised perspectives on the colonisation of the Mediterranean islands and helped to position Cyprus within the wider Near Eastern landscape, providing new insights into the capacity of early seafarers to colonise new territories and a broader context for the expansion of the Neolithic from its continental cores.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. 190 pages, illustrations : 30 cm. This volume is the final report on excavations by the La Trobe University Alambra Archaeological Mission at the primarily Middle Bronze Age settlement of Alambra Mouttes in Cyprus from 2012 to 2016. It provides a full analysis of the architecture, ceramics, stone artefacts and small finds. The latter include two copper ingots, the first of their type to be found on the island. There are specialist reports on a human burial found in one of the domestic units, on the archaeobotanical remains and on the chemical analysis of the metal artefacts. In the final chapter the authors offer a detailed discussion of the evidence for regionalism and regional interaction at Alambra and the nature and possible causes of the abandonment of the settlement toward the end of the Middle Bronze Age.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. xviii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. This volume honours the very significant contribution to Cypriot archaeology made by Alison South, whose excavations at Kalavasos 'Ayios Dhimitrios' have revealed textbook evidence for complex society in the latter half of the Late Bronze Age.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. x, 273 pages : ill. ; 31 cm.