Abbreviations and Symbols
in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology
December 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Classical Studies; Greek and Roman Papyrology; Historical Archaeology. 3100 words.
The first part of this article deals with abbreviations found in Greek documentary papyri and ostraca. The documents in which abbreviation is rife are predominantly those produced on a...
Accounting in Proto-Cuneiform
in The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture
September 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Classical Studies; Historical Archaeology. 5438 words.
This article examines the accounting methods in proto-cuneiform during the archaic period. It discusses the importance of archaic numerical and metrological systems as elements of social...
Adapting to New Contexts: Cuneiform in Anatolia
in The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture
September 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Classical Studies; Historical Archaeology. 9667 words.
This article focuses on cuneiform and scribal education in Anatolia. It attempts to trace some of the developments in the corpus of knowledge and training when it let the confines of its...
Aegypto Capta
in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt
June 2012; p ublished online November 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Archaeology of the Near East; Egyptian Archaeology; Historical Archaeology. 5746 words.
This article discusses the Ptolemaic legacy and Egyptian independence; the annexation of Egypt; and the first Roman prefects in Egypt. In contrast to earlier changes of ruler, the...
Agriculture and Farming
in The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine
August 2010; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Classical Studies; Classical History; Historical Archaeology. 7866 words.
This article presents a survey of research in farming and agriculture. It discusses the extent the economy was open that involved export and import. It then demonstrates how the local...
Agriculture as Civilization: Sages, Farmers, and Barbarians
in The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture
September 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Classical Studies; Historical Archaeology. 11634 words.
This article examines the role of farmers and sages in the history of cuneiform writing in ancient Mesopotamia. It explains that when cuneiform writing was invented at the end of the fourth...
Ancestor Cults
in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
October 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Archaeology; Historical Archaeology. 6761 words.
This article focuses on ancestor cults and archaeology. The term ‘ancestor worship’, and to a lesser extent ‘ancestor cults’ carry a lot of baggage linked with evolutionary approaches to...
The Ancient Book
in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology
December 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Classical Studies; Greek and Roman Papyrology; Historical Archaeology. 11734 words.
From the beginnings of Greek written literature until deep into the Roman era, a “book” was fashioned by taking a premanufactured papyrus roll, writing out the text, attaching additional...
Ancient Greece
in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
October 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Archaeology; Historical Archaeology. 6850 words.
This article focuses on the study of ancient Greek religion. It begins with a brief discussion of the need to integrate the archaeological evidence better into historically oriented...
Ancient Written Sources for Engineering and Technology
in The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World
December 2009; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Classical Studies; Greek and Roman Archaeology; Historical Archaeology. 9928 words.
This article tries to illustrate an idea of the range of extant ancient textual sources for engineering and technology. It also presents a broad outline of how the production of texts...
