Two Opisthographs and Scribal Practices in the Ancient Near Eastern World:...
Recent scholarship has developed an increasing interest in the materiality of ancient manuscripts. Opisthographs, manuscripts that contain writing on both sides, are of special interest in this regard....
View ArticleBeyond Meaning: Employing an Artefact Approach to Study Figurines as...
Even though figurines are a ubiquitous find on many Neolithic sites, some aspects of figurines are still poorly understood. Figurines have been studied as symbolic messages to be decoded, as art, and...
View ArticleSacred precincts in the Neolithic of the Near East?
The interpretations of unusual or special archaeological contexts in the Near Eastern Neolithic that might suggest the appearance of the first forms of religious belief in early sedentary communities...
View ArticleA Seventh Century BCE Pendant, Ištar and Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchange
What is the proper approach that scholars should use for understanding cross-cultural artistic exchange in the ancient Near East? There are certainly a number of ways one group may borrow another...
View ArticleHow to Create “Administrative” Iconographies? The Bestiary of the Sasanian...
This study focuses on the bestiary of Iran in late antiquity, in an administrative context of sealing (seals and bullae) and within an administration characterized by a close relationship with the...
View ArticleWriting and Social Diversity in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
Writing at Ugarit has received a great deal of scholarly attention for the wide range of languages and writing systems used, and especially for the city’s distinctive alphabetic cuneiform script which...
View ArticleAlmost a Family, Practically Related: Questions on Sumerian Kinship Terminology
The aim of this paper is to investigate some aspects of fictive kinship in ancient Sumer that we find out through administrative, legal and literary texts. From the Neo-Sumerian period several texts of...
View ArticleLooking for Realism: Neo-Assyrian Horses Through the Prism of Reality
Neo-Assyrian reliefs have been studied as a coherent whole in number of publications, including the notable works by Pauline Albenda and Elena Cassin. Choosing the representation of equids, largely...
View ArticleRethinking Latin American Archaeology: "Affective Alliances" and Traditional...
The integration of archaeology and community engagement in Latin America remains a new challenge, largely because the multiple social configurations, practices, and [...]
View ArticlePlague and Prejudice: Archaeology, COVID-19, and the Resurgence of Social...
An introduction to the PIA special issue Plague and Prejudice: Archaeology, COVID-19 and the Resurgence of Social Justice Movements authored by the journal's editors.
View ArticleRubble Archaeology on the North Edinburgh Shoreline: Creative Research in the...
This photo essay describes how a COVID-19 lockdown led to the creative investigation of an unlikely archaeological site: Royston Beach on the shoreline of north Edinburgh (Scotland).Much of the Beach...
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