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UCL -­‐ INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY ARCL 1011 TEXTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY 2014-­‐15 Year 1 Course 0.5 unit Turnitin class ID: 783166 Turnitin password: IoA1415 Co-­‐ordinator: Dr Rachael Sparks r.sparks@ucl.ac.uk Room B55 Telephone: 020 7679 1529 Using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to record inscribed lead tablets. This technique allows researchers to view an image with differing light sources, making texts much easier to read (image source: R. Sparks) Please see the last page of this document for important information about submission and marking procedures, and links to the relevant webpages. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Overview About this course Lecture Summary Aims Objectives Learning outcomes 2. Teaching methods Lectures Seminars Workload 3. Learning Resources Moodle Libraries Online reading list Other online resources 4. Methods of assessment Essays Submission of coursework The exam 5. Communication Intercollegiate & interdepartmental students Feedback 6. Teaching schedule Lecture and seminar summaries with weekly readings 7. Course reading list 1. Introductory reading II. Cultural and archaeological background III. Texts as writing systems IV. Texts as social, cultural & political tools V. The visual, physical & temporal setting of texts VI. The Materiality of texts (‘Text as object’) VII. Ethical concerns VIII. Source material: texts in translation IX. Online object databases 8. Your lecturers 9. Appendix A: Policies and procedures 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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1. OVERVIEW ABOUT THIS COURSE This course examines how textual evidence may be used by students of different disciplines to study past societies, with a particular focus on archaeological research. It uses written sources from the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean to explore issues such as the materiality of texts, literacy and orality, the relationship between texts, physical space and visual media, and the social context of writing. LECTURE SUMMARY I. TEXTS AS WRITING SYSTEMS 1. Fri. 3rd Oct. Introduction to the course 2. Fri. 10 th Oct. The nature of the surviving evidence 3. Fri. 17 th Oct. The development and operation of early writing systems 4. Fri. 24 th Oct. Text and object: uses of alphabetic writing in the Greek World II. TEXTS AS SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL TOOLS 5. Fri. 31st Oct. Taking writing to the west: script diversity and the social contexts of writing in pre-­‐Roman Italy Fri. 7th Nov. READING WEEK – NO CLASSES OR SEMINARS 6. Fri. 14th Nov. Writing and society in ancient Egypt 7. Fri. 21st Nov. The Hebrew Bible and the archaeology of Iron Age Israel III. CONTEXTUALISING THE MESSAGE 8. Fri. 28th Nov. The relationship between texts and visual imagery in the Neo-­‐Assyrian empire th
9. Fri. 5 Dec. Text and architecture in ancient Egypt. Guest lecturer: Richard Bussmann th
10. Fri. 12 Dec. Using texts as a chronological tool th
Fri. 24 Jan. COURSE ESSAY DUE by 5.00 pm today. th
11. Wed. 29 Exam revision session (date to be confirmed later in the year) Apr. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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AIMS • To introduce students to the nature of written sources for pre-­‐industrial societies • To examine methods and approaches of working with texts in archaeology • To consider how to integrate textual and non-­‐textual approaches to the past • To discuss and analyse specific case-­‐studies of texts in archaeology, sampled from a wide range of past literate societies. OBJECTIVES On successful completion of this course a student should: • Have a broad overview of how texts can be studied from an archaeological perspective, and understand the value of this approach • Appreciate the significance of written texts as evidence from the past • Recognise the importance of critical and integrated approaches to the use of archaeological and textual sources when investigating past societies. LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of the course students should be able to demonstrate: • Understanding and critical awareness of a range of primary and secondary sources. • Appreciation of, and ability to apply, methods and theories of archaeological and textual analysis. • Written and oral skills in analysis and presentation. 2. TEACHING METHODS The course runs for Term I only. The course is taught through a total of 20 hours of lectures and seminars. These are divided into weekly sessions consisting of a one-­‐hour lecture, which will take place from 10.00 to 11.00 am, followed by a one-­‐hour seminar on the same day, either from 3.00 to 4.00 pm, or from 4.00 to 5.00 pm. Attendance at both lecture and seminar are compulsory. In addition to this, an optional revision session will take place in the first week of Term III to prepare students for the examination paper. The exact date and location of this will be arranged closer to the time. LECTURES The weekly lecture is designed to give an overview of a topic, using a series of case studies to illustrate how different cultures make use of writing systems, and to demonstrate points of method or theory. It is intended to be complementary to the specific topics discussed in depth during that week’s seminar session. SEMINARS Students will be divided into two seminar groups during the first lecture, and a list of names will be posted on Moodle. Anyone whose name does not appear on this list should contact the Course Coordinator. You are expected to attend the same group every week in order to keep numbers small enough for effective discussion. If you need to attend a different group for a particular session, you 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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should obtain permission from the Course Co-­‐ordinator to do so in advance of that session. Each seminar session will involve one or two student presentations and a period of open discussion and/or group exercises. This will sometimes include the opportunity to handle objects from the Institute of Archaeology Collections. The aim of these sessions is to gain a deeper understanding of the materials and themes discussed in this course. Presentation topics are assigned to students by the Course Co-­‐ordinator; guidance on how to approach these will be given during the first seminar session and via Moodle. Every student in the class is required to take part in the seminars, to make at least one presentation to the class on an assigned topic, complete any online reading or homework assigned, and to be involved in a process of peer review. Open discussion will be based on required reading and a set question, as indicated in the Course Schedule. It is essential to have done this reading BEFORE the relevant class. WORKLOAD There will be 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars for this course. Students will be expected to undertake around 8 hours of reading per week (80 hours in all), plus 68 hours preparing for and producing the assessed work, and an additional 40 hours on revision for the examination. This adds up to a total workload of 188 hours for the course. 3. LEARNING RESOURCES MOODLE Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment that will be used to support this course. It contains a range of useful resources, including a searchable database of objects and texts discussed in class, a glossary of technical terms, links to electronic reading lists, announcements, and supporting documentation including electronic versions of class hand-­‐outs (note that a printed copy will also be provided at the relevant sessions). You can log into Moodle at https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/login/index.php. Students who have already enrolled via PORTICO are enrolled automatically; non UCL students will have to obtain a user ID and password from UCL's Information Systems Division before they can log in (contact email: userservices@ucl.ac.uk). Instructions on how to use this resource will be given in the introductory session. If you are awaiting an ID and password, you may still log onto the site as a guest, by selecting the 'login as a guest' option, then typing ARCL1011 into the search box. Click on the course title when it appears, and enter the enrolment key when prompted to do so. This key will be given out in class during the first session, or may be obtained from the course co-­‐ordinator thereafter. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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LIBRARIES The principal resources for this course are the Institute of Archaeology library (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/ioalib.shtml) and the Main UCL library (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/main.shtml). Institute students also have borrowing rights at the University of London Library at Senate House on Mallet Street (http://www.ull.ac.uk), and reading rights at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) (http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/), and will find several books on the reading lists at these alternative locations. Access to these alternate libraries may be obtained by presenting library staff with a valid UCL or SOAS student card. All shelf marks in the reading lists below have prefixed to indicate the appropriate library location: ‘INST ARCH’ 'MAIN', 'SCIENCE' (another UCL branch library), LangSpeechSci (The Language and Speech Science library, located at Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street (just off Tavistock Place), http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/library/), 'SENATE HOUSE' or 'SOAS'. A map showing the location of the most relevant libraries will be found on Moodle under the tab for ‘week 1’. Please treat all books and journals with respect; marking, underlining or otherwise defacing library materials is considered a serious offence as well as being disrespectful to your fellow students. ONLINE READING LIST An electronic reading list of is available online via a link within Moodle, under the ‘Resources’ tab. You can also access this directly online at: http://readinglists.ucl.ac.uk/lists/8694BB5F-­BE3D-­6EAA-­54C3-­85579A8B04A1.html
These will give you shortcuts to the library record for each item, and in some cases allow you to download a copy. Electronic copies of additional journal material are also available via the eUCLid online library catalogue (http://library.ucl.ac.uk/F); you may find these by searching for the journal name and following the links provided. These will take you to various repositories for electronic journals, such as JSTOR, which are a useful resource in their own right. OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES The full UCL Institute of Archaeology coursework guidelines are given here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/administration/students/handbook and the full text of the ARCL 1011 course handbook may be found via this link: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/studying/undergraduate/courses/ARCL101
1 and also at: https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2072&topic=13 4. METHODS OF ASSESSMENT The course is assessed by means of: (a) One essay, of between 2,375-­‐2,625 words, which will contribute 50% to the final grade for this course. This will be due on Friday 23rd January 2015. The nature of the assignment and possible approaches to it will be discussed in class in advance of the submission deadline. If students are unclear about the 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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nature of an assignment, they should discuss this with the Course Co-­‐ordinator. The expected learning outcome of this method of assessment is a reasoned and critical assessment of multiple sources. (b) A two-­hour written exam in May, worth 50% of the final course-­‐mark. Students are expected to answer 4 out of a total of 12 questions. Guidance on the exam paper will be given in an optional revision session early in Term III and posted on Moodle; students may also contact the course-­‐coordinator for advice at any time. This is a time-­‐limited and invigilated form of assessment, designed to test comprehension and critical use of taught knowledge. ESSAYS Students are required to complete a written essay of 2,375-­‐2,625 words. The actual word count achieved should be indicated on your essay coversheet. The following should not be included in your word-­‐count: title page, essay question, list of figures and tables, figure or table captions, the contents of tables and figures, and bibliography. Penalties will be imposed if you exceed the upper figure in the range, according to UCL regulations, which are as follows: • Essays that are less than 10% longer than the official word limit will receive a 10% reduction in their final mark. • Essays that exceed the word limit by 10% or more (= 250 words or more) will receive a mark of 0. There is no official penalty for using fewer words than the lower figure in the range: this lower figure is simply for your guidance to indicate the sort of length that is expected. However you should aim to achieve the recommended length. Choose ONE of the following questions: 1. Discuss the archaeological evidence for the emergence of writing in at least two different ancient societies. How does writing appear there and why? What problems or questions does this material raise? 2. Compare and contrast the archaeological evidence for official and personal uses of writing in the ancient world. How might the purpose of a text influence its physical form and setting? 3. How can a more holistic approach to texts, considering their archaeological setting, materiality and written content help us gain a better understanding of past societies? 4. Discuss the potential ethical issues surrounding the study and use of ancient texts. How might these be addressed? 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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There is no set reading list for each question; you are expected to identify relevant material from your weekly course reading lists, and the general reading listed at the end of this handbook. You are welcome to discuss your choice of question and how to approach it with the Course Co-­‐ordinator or individual course lecturers. There will also be time scheduled for discussion of the essays in the seminar session for week 8 of the course. You can expect to receive your marked work within four calendar weeks of the official submission deadline. If you do not receive your work within this period, or a written explanation from the marker, you should notify the IoA’s Academic Administrator, Judy Medrington. SUBMISSION OF COURSEWORK Late submission will be penalized in accordance with these regulations unless permission has been granted and an Extension Request Form (ERF) completed. Date-­‐stamping will be via ‘Turnitin’ (see below), so in addition to submitting hard copy, students must also submit their work to Turnitin by midnight on the day of the deadline. This must be a full and complete copy, including bibliography. Students who encounter technical problems submitting their work to Turnitin should email the nature of the problem to ioa-­‐turnitin@ucl.ac.uk in advance of the deadline in order that the Turnitin Advisers can notify the Course Co-­‐ordinator that it may be appropriate to waive the late submission penalty. If there is any other unexpected crisis on the submission day, students should telephone or (preferably) e-­‐mail the Course Co-­‐ordinator, and follow this up with a completed ERF. Please see the Coursework Guidelines in your Degree Handbook and on the IoA website for further details of penalties: https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/archadmin/Submission THE EXAM This course has a two-­‐hour unseen examination, which will be held during May 2015. The specific date and time will be announced when the schedule of examinations is set by the College. In the examination, students will have to answer 4 out of 12 questions. The format of this paper, outlined above under "Methods of Assessment" will be further detailed during the course. Previous examination papers with the same format and examples of the style of questions which will be asked are available for consultation in the Institute Library, and are also made available in electronic format at: http://digitool-­‐
b.lib.ucl.ac.uk:8881/R/5T7LQQTE3B2BAETPSSX1P5SFPFCVC7MVTYQJCFX46TQ
UE56H5E-­‐01669. An optional revision session to discuss the examination will be held in the first week of Term III. 5. COMMUNICATION If any changes need to be made to the course arrangements, these will normally be communicated by email. It is therefore essential that you consult your UCL 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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email account regularly. Moodle will also be used to disseminate class notices, so you must also ensure that you are fully enrolled in this system. INTERCOLLEGIATE AND INTERDEPARTMENTAL STUDENTS Students enrolled in Departments outside the Institute should obtain the Institute’s coursework guidelines from Judy Medrington (email j.medrington@ucl.ac.uk), which will also be available on the IoA website. Those enrolled outside UCL should also contact Judy Medrington to find out how to obtain a UCL user ID and password – which will be needed to access online resources for this course. Paperwork submitted for this must be processed through college, and the process can take some time, so students should ensure they have submitted their forms for this by the end of the first week of term I. FEEDBACK In trying to make this course as effective as possible, we welcome feedback from students during the course of the year. Anonymous feedback forms for this course may be filled in anytime via Moodle, under the ‘resources’ tab (https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2072&section=13). More formal feedback is also collected towards the end of the course, when all students are asked to give their views on the course in an anonymous evaluation form. This will circulated at one of the last sessions (week 8 or 9). These evaluations are taken very seriously and help the Course Co-­‐ordinator to develop the course. The summarised responses are considered by the Institute's Staff-­‐
Student Consultative Committee, Teaching Committee, and by the Faculty Teaching Committee, who may all recommend actions to further improve the course. If students are concerned about any aspect of this course we hope they will feel able to talk to the Course Co-­‐ordinator, but if they feel this is not appropriate, they should consult their Personal Tutor, the Academic Administrator (Judy Medrington), or the Chair of Teaching Committee (Dr. Karen Wright). 6. TEACHING SCHEDULE Lectures will be held in Room 410 at the Institute of Archaeology, 31-­‐34 Gordon Square on Fridays from 10.00 to 11.00 am. Seminars will be held in room 209 from 3:00-­‐4:00 pm and 4:00-­‐5:00 pm. Allocation of students to one of these two seminar groups will be made at the first lecture. Lectures are given by Dr Sparks, with the exception of week 9, which will be delivered by Richard Bussmann. LECTURE AND SEMINAR SUMMARIES WITH WEEKLY READINGS The following section describes the course as a whole, outlining weekly topics and identifying essential and supplementary readings relevant to each session. The seminar questions allocated for student presentations may vary from this schedule, depending on class size; students will be informed of any changes in the first two weeks of the course. Readings marked with an asterix (*) are considered essential to keep up with the topics covered in the course. Essential reading will be made available as 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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electronic reading, placed in the Teaching Collection or put behind the Library Issue Desk for short-­‐term loan wherever possible, to allow maximum access. Please remember that items in the Teaching Collection MAY NOT BE PHOTOCOPIED. Each reading is followed by library classmarks, indicating where copies may be found. These begin with a prefix to indicate the library name: INST ARCH (located on the 5th floor of the Institute), MAIN (located on the 1st floor of the Wilkins Building), SCIENCE (located on Malet Place), SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies library) or SENATE HOUSE (located on Malet Street). The reference that follows indicates the specific shelf location within that library. Note that PERS is short for ‘periodicals’; any item with this marking may be found in the Journals section of the library. Any reading that is available eletronically will be marked ‘digitised reading available’. Please note that we provide digitised versions of reading list material wherever possible, within copyright regulations. The loan status of UCL material can be accessed on the Library’s ‘Explore’ catalogue system: http://ucl-­‐primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do. For SOAS items see: http://lib.soas.ac.uk/ and for Senate House items go to: http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/search~S1. If you encounter any problems accessing any of this reading, please inform the Course Coordinator immediately. There will be weekly handouts provided in classes and seminars, which may also include additional reading suggestions. Further reading is also provided in section 7 of this handbook; this is intended for those who wish to follow a topic further, and as source material for course essays. WEEK 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE Rachael Sparks, 3rd October 2014. This session explains the aims and format of the course, what resources are available, and what will be expected of students in terms of oral presentations and written work. Copies of the course handbook will be disseminated and students will be assigned to their seminar groups. The following seminar session will be used to develop personal theories on what constitutes a 'text', and the different forms that texts may take. WEEK 2. THE NATURE OF THE SURVIVING EVIDENCE Rachael Sparks, 10th October 2014. What constitutes a 'text' and how do we go about reading it? Does the accidental and random survival of texts colour our views of the past? And what role should ethics play in the study of this type of material? 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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SEMINAR TOPICS: 2.1. How were cuneiform texts stored in the Near East? What does this tell us about the way they were used? Matthiae, P. 1980. Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 150-­‐63. INST ARCH ISSUE DESK MAT 5 and DBD 10 MAT; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY H52 MAT; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY 7th Floor (63) LKF EBL Mat; SOAS QHG939.4 /428526. *Van den Hout, T. 2003. Miles of Clay: Information Management in the Ancient Near Eastern Hittite Empire. Available online at: http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/1/777777190247/ FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION 2.2. Does the provenance or exact findspot of ancient texts really matter? * Rollston, C.A. and A.G. Vaughn, 2006. The Antiquities Market, Sensationalized Textual Data, and Modern Forgeries: Introduction to the Problem and Synopsis of the 2004 Israeli Indictment. Available online at: http://www.sbl-­‐site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=373
You’ll also find the articles by Van Hout, Gates, Goren and Von Dassow relevant to this issue. 2.3. What effect does the material used for recording texts have on their survival? Is this distorting the ancient record? *Leach, B. and J. Tait, 2000. Papyrus, in: P. T. Nicholson and I. Shaw (eds), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 239-­‐243. INST ARCH K QTO NIC; EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS S5 NIC; SOAS FRE.L /725149; digitised reading available. *Postgate, J.N. Wang, T. and T. Wilkinson, 1995. The Evidence for Early Writing: Utilitarian or Ceremonial?, Antiquity 69 no. 264, 459-­‐80. INST ARCH PERS A; digitised reading available. READING: Bagley, R.W. 2004. Anyang Writing and the Origin of the Chinese Writing System, in S.D. Houston (ed.), The First Writing. Script Invention as History and Process, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 190-­‐249. INST ARCH GC HOU; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Houston]; SOAS A411.09 /951246; digitised reading available. Black, J.A. and W.J. Tait, 2000. Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East, in: J.M. Sasson (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Volumes III-­IV, New York: Scribner, 2197-­‐2209. INST ARCH DBA 100 SAS; MAIN ANCIENT 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS and MAIN ISSUE DESK ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS; SOAS L Ref QB930 /725824. Daniels, P.T. 2000. The Decipherment of Ancient Near Eastern Scripts, in: J.M. Sasson (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Volumes I-­II, New York: Scribner, 81-­‐93. INST ARCH DBA 100 SAS; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS and MAIN ISSUE DESK ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS; SOAS L Ref QB930 /725824. Gates, M.-­‐H. 1988. Dialogues Between Ancient Near Eastern Texts and the Archaeological Record: Test Cases from Bronze Age Syria, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 270, 63-­‐91. INST ARCH PERS B; digitised reading available. Goren, Y., Ahituv, S., Ayalon, A., Bar-­‐Matthews, M., Dahari, U., Dayagi-­‐Mendels, M., Demsky, A. & Levin, N. 2005. A Re-­‐examination of the Inscribed Pomegranate from the Israel Museum, Israel Exploration Journal 55.1, 3-­‐20. INST ARCH PERS I; SOAS Per 5 74853; digitised reading available. See also Avigad, N. 1990. The Incised Pomegranate from the ‘House of the Lord”, Biblical Archaeologist 53, 157-­‐166 (written before this item was declared a fake) INST ARCH PERS B; SOAS Per 107L 355717; digitised reading available. and Lemaire, A. 2006. A Re-­‐examination of the Inscribed Pomegranate: A Rejoinder -­‐ Appendix by Amnon Rosenfeld and Shimon Ilani, Israel Exploration Journal 56.2, 167-­‐177 (a response to Goren et al. 2005); INST ARCH PERS I; SOAS Per 5 74853; digitised reading available. Sherratt, S. 2011. Between Theory, Texts and Archaeology: Working with the Shadows, in: K. Duistermaat and I. Regulski (eds), Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean: Proceedings of the International Conference at the Netherlands-­Flemish Institute in Cairo, 25th to 29th October 2008, Leuven: Peeters Press, 3-­‐30. INST ARCH DAG 100 DUI. Von Dassow, E. 2005. Archives of Alalah IV in Archaeological Context, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 338, 1-­‐69. INST ARCH PERS B; digitised reading available. Zettler, R.L. 2003. Reconstructing the World of Ancient Mesopotamia: Divided Beginnings and Holistic History, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 46.1, 3-­‐45. INST ARCH PERS J; digitised reading available. WEEK 3. THE DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF EARLY WRITING SYSTEMS. Rachael Sparks, 17th October 2014. This lecture will use case studies from Bronze Age Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Levant to investigate the development of pictographic, syllabic and early 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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alphabetic writing systems, and the different ways in which these can be used to record language. FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION There will be no seminar presentations in week 3. Instead, the class will be given the opportunity to engage with a series of artefacts relating to different writing systems, and asked to consider how they were used by the societies that created them. The objects will be selected from the Institute of Archaeology collections (for more information on these collections, see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/archaeology/). READING: *Hooker, J.T. 1990. Reading the Past. Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet New York: Barnes and Noble. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK HOO 2; GC HOO; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Hooker]; SOAS A411.09 /607197. Read at least two chapters of your choice from: Cuneiform, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Linear B, The Early Alphabet. Note that the chapters in this book have also been published as individual monographs (Chadwick 1987, Davies 1987, Healey 1990, Walker 1987). MESOPOTAMIAN WRITING SYSTEMS Michalowski, P. 1993. Tokenism, American Anthropologist 95.4, 996-­‐999. INST ARCH PERS A; SOAS Per 28/ 68177; digitised reading available. Nissen, H.J. 1986. The Archaic Texts from Uruk, World Archaeology 17.3, 317-­‐334. INST ARCH PERS W; Digitised reading available. Pearce, L.E. 2000. The Scribes and Scholars of Ancient Mesopotamia, in: J.M. Sasson (ed.), 2000. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Volumes III-­IV, New York: Scribner, 2265-­‐2278. INST ARCH DBA 100 SAS; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS and MAIN ISSUE DESK ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS; SOAS L Ref QB930 /725824. Pedersén, O. 1997. Use of Writing among the Assyrians, in: H. Waetzoldt and H. Hauptmann (eds), Assyrien im Wandel der Zeiten. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 139-­‐152. INST ARCH DBB 100 Qto WAE; ISSUE DESK TC 3269; SOAS L QDB935 /747128. Postgate, J.N. 1994. The Written Record, in: Early Mesopotamia. Society and Economy at the Dawn of History, London: Routledge, 51-­‐70. INST ARCH DBB 100 POS; IOA ISSUE DESK POS 2; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY SHL South Block 7th Floor (63) LJA Pos; SOAS QD935 /635635; digitised reading available. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Schmandt-­‐Besserat, 2000. in: J.M. Sasson (ed.), 2000. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Volumes III-­IV, New York: Scribner, 2097-­‐2106. INST ARCH DBA 100 SAS; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS and MAIN ISSUE DESK ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS; SOAS L Ref QB930 /725824. EGYPTIAN WRITING SYSTEMS: Baines, J. 2004. The Earliest Egyptian Writing: Development, Context, Purpose. In: S.D. Houston (ed.), The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 150-­‐189. INST ARCH GC HOU; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Houston]; SOAS A411.09 /951246; digitised reading available. Bard, K. A. 1992. Origins of Egyptian Writing, in: R. Friedman and B. Adams (eds.) The Followers of Horus: Studies dedicated to Michael Allen Hoffman 1944-­
1990, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 297-­‐306. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK FRI 4; EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS A 6 FRI; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63), LM7 Fol; digitised reading available. Dreyer, G. 2011. Tomb U-­‐j, a Royal Burial of Dynasty O at Abydos, in: E. Teeter (ed.), Before the Pyramids, Chicago: Oriental Institute Chicago, 127-­‐136; digitised reading available. Ray, J.D. 1986. The Emergence of Writing in Egypt, World Archaeology 17.3, 307-­‐
315. INST ARCH PERS W; digitised reading available. Wengrow, D. 2011. Tomb U-­‐j at Abydos and the origins of writing, in: The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000-­2650 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 198-­‐207. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK WEN 7; EGYPTOLOGY B 11 WEN; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63), LMA Wen; SOAS FRE /975237; digitised reading available. THE EARLY ALPHABET IN EGYPT AND THE NEAR EAST Darnell, J.C. et al. 2005. Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-­Hol: New Evidence for the Origin of the Alphabet from the Western Desert of Egypt, Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 59. INST ARCH DBE Series ANN 59; digitised reading available. Darnell, J.C. 2013. Wadi el-­‐Hol. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, 1(1). UCLA: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd2j49d (accessed on 10/8/2014). Goldwasser, O. 2012. The Miners Who Invented the Alphabet – A Response to Christopher Rollston, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 4.3, 9-­‐22. Millard, A.R. 1986. The Infancy of the Alphabet, World Archaeology 17.3, 390-­‐398. INST ARCH PERS W; digitised reading available. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Rollston, C. 2010. The Probable Inventors of the First Alphabet. http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=195 (accessed on 2/10/2014). COMPARATIVE STUDIES *Damerow, P. 2006. The Origins of Writing as A Problem of Historical Epistemology, Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2006.1, Available online at: http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2006/cdlj2006_001.html (accessed on 02/10/2014). Lawler, A. 2001. Writing Gets a Rewrite, Science 292 no. 5526, 2418-­‐2420; digitised reading available. WEEK 4. TEXT AND OBJECT: USES OF ALPHABETIC WRITING IN THE GREEK WORLD. Rachael Sparks, 24th October 2014. This lecture will provide an outline of the spread of the alphabet across the Mediterranean world in the first millennium BC, the role played by Greek script, and the importance of archaeological context in identifying patterns of use and development. SEMINAR TOPICS: 4.1. Why do you think the Greeks adopted alphabetic writing? Consider the types of texts and objects on which this writing first appears, and their contexts of use. Powell, B.B. 1989. Why was the Greek Alphabet Invented?, Classical Antiquity 8, 321-­‐350; digitised reading available. Sherratt S. 2003. Visible Writing: Questions of Script and Identity in Early Iron Age Greece and Cyprus, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 22 no. 3, 225-­‐
242. INST ARCH PERS O; digitised reading available. 4.2. To what extent was Greek writing merely ‘decoration using letters’ in the period c. 800-­‐400 BC? Hurwit, J.M. 1990. The Words in the Image: Orality, Literacy, and Early Greek Art, Word and Image 6.2,180-­‐198; digitised reading available. *Johnston, A.W. 1987. All Runes to Me, in: S. Nystrom (ed.) Runor och ABC, Stockholm: Sällkapet Runica et Mediævalia, Riksantikvarieämbetet, Stockholms Medeltidmuseum, 93-­‐112. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK NYS; GC NYS; TEACHING COLLECTION 3761. Lissarrague, F. 2002. Inscriptions on Greek Vases, in: A.-­‐M. Christin (ed.), A History of Writing: From Hieroglyph to Multimedia, Paris: Flammarion, 241-­‐
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FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION 4.3. Consider the ways in which Greek writing was presented visually. What practical techniques were used to assist the reader? *Cook, B.F. 1987. Greek Inscriptions, London: British Museum Press. INST ARCH GE 54 COO; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY W20 COO; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LDP Coo. Note that this has also appeared as a chapter in: Hooker, J.T. 1990. Reading the Past. Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet New York: Barnes and Noble. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK HOO 2; GC HOO; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Hooker]; SOAS A411.09 /607197. Easterling, P. and C. Handley (eds), 2001 Greek Scripts; an Illustrated Introduction London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS W20 EAS; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.2 [Easterling]. * British Museum -­‐ http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.
aspx Look especially at the illustrations in these sources and think how visual presentation of a text influences its clarity, and a reader's expectations. READING: Carraro, F. 2007. The ‘Speaking Objects’ of Archaic Greece: Writing and Speech in the First Complete Alphabetic Documents, in: K. Lomas, R.D. Whitehouse & J.B. Wilkins (eds), Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean, London: Accordia Research Institute, 65-­‐80. INST ARCH DAG 100 Qto LOM; digitised reading available. Davies, J. 2005. The Origins of the Inscribed Greek Stela, in: P. Bienkowski, C. Mee and E. Slater (eds), Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard, London: T & T Clark, 283-­‐300. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B 72 BIE; SOAS Main Library QC411.09 /937203. Dobias-­‐Lalou, C. 2002. The Greek Alphabets, in: A.-­‐M. Christin (ed.), A History of Writing: From Hieroglyph to Multimedia. Paris: Flammarion, 233-­‐240. INST ARCH GC CHR; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall fol. CC25.2 [Christin]. Foxhall, L. 2004. Field Sports: Engaging Greek Archaeology and History, in: E.W. Sauer (ed.), Archaeology and Ancient History: Breaking Down the Boundaries, London: Routledge, 76-­‐84. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY A 8 SAU; 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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SENATE HOUSE ARCHAEOLOGY South Block 7th Floor (63) LA3 Arc; digitised reading available. Jackson, A.H. 2000. Argos’ Victory over Corinth, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 132, 295-­‐316. MAIN PAPYROLOGY Pers Z; digitised reading available. Jeffery, L.H. 1989. The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, Oxford: Clarendon Press. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS W20 JEF; SENATE HOUSE CLASSICS South Block 6th Floor (3) XEH Jed. Ridgway, D. 1996. Greek Letters at Osteria dell’Osa, Opuscula Romana 20, 87-­‐97. INST ARCH TEACHING COLLECTION 3767. *Snodgrass, A. 2000. The Uses of Writing on Early Greek Painted Pottery, in: N.K. Rutter and B.A. Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 22-­‐34. INST ARCH YATES A 70 RUT; SENATE HOUSE ART South Block 4th Floor Mx South Gallery V3AG Wor; digitised reading available. Woodhead, A.G. 1992. The Study of Greek Inscriptions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY W 5 WOO; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) (note this is an older edition). WEEK 5. TAKING WRITING TO THE WEST. SCRIPT DIVERSITY AND THE SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF WRITING IN PRE-­‐ROMAN ITALY Rachael Sparks, 31st October 2014. This lecture considers the emergence and development of writing across Iron Age Italy by looking at the various material objects which were inscribed and the archaeological contexts and uses of inscriptions, with a particular focus on the evidence from Etruria and Central Italy. SEMINAR TOPICS: 5.1. Is there a relationship between urbanization, state formation and literacy in Iron Age Italy? Lomas, K. 2007. Writing boundaries: Literacy and Identity in the Ancient Veneto, 600-­‐300 BC, in: K. Lomas, R.D. Whitehouse and J. Wilkins (eds) Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean, London: Accordia Research Institute, 149-­‐169. INST ARCH DAG 100 Qto LOM. Whitehouse, R.D. 2007. Writing, Identity and the State. A Comparative Case Study from Italy in the 1st millennium BC, in: K. Lomas, R.D. Whitehouse and J. Wilkins (eds), Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean, London: Accordia Research Institute, 95-­‐106. INST ARCH DAG 100 Qto LOM; digitised reading available. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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5.2. What role did women have in Iron Age Italy vis-­‐à-­‐vis literacy? Hodos, T. 1998. The Asp’s Poison: Women and Literacy in Iron Age Italy, in: R.D. Whitehouse (ed.) Gender and Italian Archaeology: Challenging the Stereotypes, London: Accordia Research Institute, 197-­‐208. INST ARCH DAF Qto WHI; digitised reading available. Rallo, A. 2000. The Woman’s Role, in: M. Torelli (ed.), The Etruscans, Milan: Bompiani, 131-­‐139. INST ARCH YATES QUARTOS A 35 TOR. FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION: 5.3. Was literacy socially exclusive? How easily can we tell from the archaeological evidence of Archaic Central Italy? *Cornell, T.J. 1991. The Tyranny of the Evidence: a Discussion of the Possible Uses of Literacy in Etruria and Latium in the Archaic Age, in: M.N. Beard et al. (eds), Literacy in the Roman World, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary series 3, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 7-­‐
34. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY R 72 BEA; digitised reading available. *Stoddard, S. and J. Whitley. 1988. The Social Context of Literacy in Archaic Greece and Etruria, Antiquity 62 no. 237, 761-­‐772. INST ARCH PERS A; digitised reading available. READING: Ampolo, C. et al. 2009. Mnamon: Ancient Writing Systems in the Mediterranean: A Critical Guide to Electronic Resources. http://lila.sns.it/mnamon/index.php?page=Home&lang=en (accessed on 2/10/2014). Becker, H. 2009. The Economic Agency of the Etruscan Temple, in: M. Gleba and H. Becker (eds), Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion, Leiden: Brill, 87-­‐99. INST ARCH DAF 100 GLE. *Bonfante, L. 1990. Etruscan, London: British Museum Publications. GE 102 BON, MAIN: COMP. PHIL. B 32 BON. Also available as a chapter in: J.T. Hooker (ed.) Reading the Past. Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet New York: Barnes and Noble, 321-­‐378. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK HOO 2; GC HOO; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Hooker]; SOAS A411.09 /607197. Bonfante, G. and L. 2002. The Etruscan Language, Manchester: Manchester University Press. MAIN COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY B32 BON; SENATE HOUSE LANGUAGE/LITERATURE South Block 6th Floor (3) WUT Bon. Briquel, D. 2002. The Script of Ancient Italy, in: A.-­‐M. Christin (ed.), A History of Writing: From Hieroglyph to Multimedia, Paris: Flammarion, 244-­‐253. INST 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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ARCH GC CHR; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall fol. CC25.2 [Christin]. Johnston, A. 1983. The Extent and Use of Literacy: the Archaeological Evidence, in: R. Hagg (ed.), The Greek Renaissance of the Eighth Century B.C.: Tradition and Innovation, Svenska Institutet i Athen, Stockholm, 63-­‐8. INST ARCH YATES QUARTOS A 22 HAG; digitised reading available. Robinson, A. 2007. Undeciphered Scripts, in: The Story of Writing, London: Thames and Hudson, 144-­‐155. (2007 and 1995 editions). INST ARCH GC ROB; (1995 edition) SOAS Main Library A411.09 /726863; digitised reading available. Smith, C.J. 1996. Inscriptions in Latium, in: C.J. Smith, Early Rome and Latium. Economy and Society c. 1000-­500 BC, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 233-­‐238. INST ARCH DAF 10 SMI; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY R 11 SMI; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LUB Smi; digitised reading available. Wallace, R. 1989. The Origins and Development of the Latin Alphabet, in: W.M. Senner (ed.), The Origins of Writing, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 121-­‐135. INST ARCH CG SEN and IOA ISSUE DESK SEN; MAIN LINGUISTICS B 9 SEN; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1; SOAS A411.09 /657348; digitised reading available. Wallace, R.E. 2008. Muluvanice Inscriptions at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), American Journal of Archaeology 112.3, 449-­‐ 458. INST ARCH PERS A; digitised reading available. Whitehouse, R. and J. Wilkins. 2006. Veneti & Etruscans: Issues of Language, Literacy and Learning, in: E. Herring, I. Lemos, F. Lo Schiavo, L. Vagnetti, R. Whitehouse & J. Wilkins (eds), Across Frontiers. Papers in honour of David Ridgway and Francesca R. Serra Ridgway, London: Accordia Research Institute, 531-­‐548. INST ARCH DAG 100 Qto HER. READING WEEK – No scheduled classes WEEK 6. WRITING AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT EGYPT Rachael Sparks, 14th November 2014. This lecture will examine the role of the scribe within Egyptian society. Who had access to writing, and how was it used? And how should our source material, including representations of scribes and equipment, be 'read' by modern audiences? SEMINAR TOPICS: 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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6.1. What do we know about how Egyptian scribes were trained? How does this compare with what we know of scribal training elsewhere in the Near East? Wente, E. 2000. The Scribes of Ancient Egypt, in: J.M. Sasson (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Volumes III-­IV, New York: Scribner, 2211-­‐2221. INST ARCH DBA 100 SAS; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS and MAIN ISSUE DESK ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS; SOAS L Ref QB930 /725824. Tinney, S. 1998. Texts, Tablets and Teaching. Scribal Education in Nippur and Ur, Expedition 40.2, 40-­‐50. INST ARCH PERS E; digitised reading available. FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION 6.2. Discuss the debate on literacy levels in ancient Egypt. How can we identify literacy through the archaeological record? *Baines, J. R. & C. J. Eyre, 1983. Four Notes on Literacy, Göttinger Miszellen 61, 65-­‐96. PERS G; republished (with new commentary) in: Baines, J. 2007. Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 63-­‐94 and 172-­‐178. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY B 20 BAI; IOA ISSUE DESK BAI; digitised reading available. Janssen, J.J. 1992. Literacy and Letters at Deir el-­‐Medina, in: R. J. Demarée and A. Egberts (eds), Village voices: Proceedings of the Symposium "Texts from Deir el-­Medîna and their Interpretation”, Leiden: Centre of Non-­‐
Western Studies, Leiden University, 81-­‐94. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY V 50 DEM; SOAS Level F Mobiles QSA893.1 /725247. 6.3. What can the text The Tale of Wenamun tell us about language and literacy in the Egyptian world? Consider particularly how writing and documentation of past events are mentioned within the text. Baines, J. 1999. "On Wenamun as a Literary Text", in: J. Assman and E. Blumenthal (eds), Literatur und Politik im pharaonischen und ptolemäischen Ägypten, Le Caire: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 209-­‐233. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK ASS; TC 2575; digitised reading available. *Lichtheim, M. 1976. The Report of Wenamun, in: Ancient Egyptian Literature: a Book of Readings, Volume II: The New Kingdom, Berkeley: University of California Press, 224-­‐230. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY V20 LIC; SOAS Level F Mobiles QSA893.108/906671, 906672, 906673. For another translation, see *Simpson, W.K. (ed.), 2003. The Report of Wenamun, in: The Literature of Ancient Egypt, New Haven: Yale University Press, 116-­‐124. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY V 20 SIM. An older translation by Breasted is also available online, with some commentary and notes where readings vary from Lichtheim's version: 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/wenamen.htm (accessed on 2/10/2014). READING: Baines, J. R. 1988. Literacy, Social Organization, and the Archaeological Record: the Case of Early Egypt, in: J. Gledhill, B. Bender and M.T. Larsen (eds), State and Society: the Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization. London: Unwin Hyman; Reissued 1995, London: Routledge, 187-­‐208. INST ARCH BD STA; IOA ISSUE DESK STA 2; digitised reading available. Baines, J. R. 1983. Literacy and Ancient Egyptian Society, Man, New Series 18 no. iii, 572–599; digitised reading available. Haring. B.J.J. 2006. Scribes and Scribal Activity at Deir el-­‐Medina, in: A. Dorn & T. Hofmann (eds), Living and Writing in Deir el-­Medine. Socio-­historical Embodiment of Deir el-­Medine Texts, Basel: Schwabe, 107-­‐112. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS A 6 DOR. Lion, B. and E. Robson. 2005. Quelques textes scolaires paléobabyloniens rédigés par des femmes, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 57, 37-­‐54. INST ARCH PERS J; digitised reading available. Martin, C.J. 2007. The Saite 'Demoticisation' of Southern Egypt, in: Lomas, K., R.D Whitehouse and J.B. Wilkins (eds), 2007. Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean, London: Accordia Research Institute, 149-­‐169. INST ARCH DAG 100 Qto LOM. Pestman, P.W. 1982. Who were the Owners in the 'Community of Workmen' of the Chester Beatty Papyri?, in: R.J Demarée and J.J. Janssen (eds), Gleanings from Deir el-­Medina, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden, 155-­‐172. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY B12 DEM. *Shubert, S.B. 2001. Does She or Doesn’t She? Female Literacy in Ancient Egypt, in: Proceedings of the Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Graduate Students' Annual Symposia 1998-­2000, Toronto: Benben Publications, 55-­‐76. INST ARCH DBA 100 NEA; digitised reading available. WEEK 7. THE HEBREW BIBLE AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF IRON AGE ISRAEL. Rachael Sparks, 21st November 2014. For centuries, the Old Testament was the only source material for the history of the peoples of Iron Age Israel and Judah. However the discovery of a wider range of textual sources from neighbouring cultures and extensive archaeological exploration has led to the development of alternative, often contradictory, histories for the region. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION This week there will be an object handling session in place of the usual student presentations. This will include a consideration of a cast of the Mesha stela; please consider the following question in advance of the session: 7.1 Consider the Mesha Stela and its significance to our understanding of contemporary history. How does its version of events compare with the biblical account? In preparation, read translations of the Mesha Stela (aka The Moabite Stone) and the related Old Testament passage from 2 Kings listed below. * Read a translation of the text of the Mesha Stele and some commentary on its background from one of the following: Routledge, B. 2004. Mesha and the Naming of Names, in: Moab in the Iron Age. Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 133-­‐153. INST ARCH DBE 100 ROU; digitised reading available. Schmidt, B.B. 2006. The Moabite Stone, in: M.W. Chavalas (ed.). 2006. The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation, Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA, 311-­‐316. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B 4 CHA; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LJ7 Anc; SOAS QC930 /964774 and /995338. *The Bible: 2 Kings 3: 4-­‐27. http://www.biblegateway.com (try reading the passage using different translations, for an idea of how much variation there is between versions). READING: Arie, E., Goren, Y. and I. Samet. 2011. “Indelible Impression: Petrographic Analysis of Judahite Bullae”, in: I. Finkelstein & N. Na’aman (eds), The Fire Signals of Lachish. Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin, Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, 1-­‐16. INST ARCH DBE 100 FIN; SOAS Main library FW/738808. Blakely, J.A. & Horton, F.L. 2001. On Site Identifications Old and New: The Example of Tell el-­‐Hesi, Near Eastern Archaeology 64.1-­2, 24-­‐36. INST ARCH PERS N; digitised reading available. Cobbing, F. 2009. John Garstang’s Excavations at Jericho: A Cautionary Tale, Bulletin of the Anglo-­Israel Archaeological Society 27, 63-­‐77. SENATE HOUSE (available electronically with a University of London library card). 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Dalley, S. 2004. Recent evidence from Assyrian sources for Judean history from Uzziah to Manasseh, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 28, 387-­‐
401; digitised reading available. *Dever, W. 2001. Chapter 4, Getting at the 'History Behind the History', in: What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel. Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 97-­‐157. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK DEV and DBE 100 DEV; digitised reading available. Faust, A. and S. Bunimovitz. 2003. The Four Room House: Embodying Iron Age Israelite Society, Near Eastern Archaeology 66.1-­2, 22-­‐31. INST ARCH PERS N; digitised reading available. Finkelstein, I. 1988. Chapter 1: Introduction and History of Research, and Part IV: The Process of Israelite Settlement, in: The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK FIN 2 and DBE 100 FIN; SOAS FW /558608. *Finkelstein, I. and Silberman, N. 2000. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origins of its Sacred Texts. New York: The Free Press. (chapters 3 to 5). INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK FIN and DBE 100 FIN. Hoffmeier, J.K. and Millard, A. (ed.), 2004. The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions, Cambridge: W.B. Eerdmans. INST ARCH DBE 100 HOF; SOAS FW /963533. Kletter, R. 1991. The Inscribed Weights of the Kingdom of Judah, Tel Aviv 18.2, 121-­‐163. INST ARCH PERS T; digitised reading available. Lipschits, O., Sergi, O. and I. Koch. 2010. Royal Judahite Jar Handles: Reconsidering the Chronology of the lmlk Stamp Impressions, Tel Aviv 37.1, 3-­‐32. INST ARCH PERS T; digitised reading available. Liverani, M., van der Mieroop, M. & Bahroni, Z. 2004. Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography. London: Equinox. INST ARCH DBA 200 LIV; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY A 8 LIV; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LJ2 Liv; SOAS QB907.2 /925804 and QB907.2 /933980. Mazar, A 1990. Chapter 8: The Days of the Judges, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, 295-­‐363. New York: Doubleday. INST ARCH DBE 100 MAZ; IOA ISSUE DESK MAZ; digitised reading available. Moorey, P.R.S. 1991. A Century of Biblical Archaeology. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, especially chapters 2-­3. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK MOO 14. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Parker, S.B. 2000. Did the Authors of the Books of Kings Make Use of Royal Inscriptions?, Vetus Testamentum 50.3, 357-­‐378. INST ARCH PERS V; digitised reading available. Pritchard, J. 1969. Hymn of Victory of Mer-­‐Ne-­‐Ptah (The "Israel Stele", in: Ancient Near Eastern Texts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 320, 376-­‐8. INST ARCH REFERENCE DBA 600 QTO PRI, DBA 600 PRI and EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS R 80 PRI; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B 4 PRI and HEBREW QUARTOS A 50 PRI; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LJ7 Pri; SOAS Main Library L QC890 /330793 and L Ref QC890 /330789. For a more recent translation, see Simpson, W.K. 2003. The Literature of Ancient Egypt, New Haven: Yale University Press, 356-­‐360. (Make sure you use the third edition); INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY V 20 SIM. Sparks, K.L. 2005. Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature, Peabody Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers. MAIN HEBREW QM 7 SPA; SOAS Ref QC890 /951633 and QC890 /951578. Van Seters, J. 1997. In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History (especially Chapter 7). Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY A 8 VAN; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) L43 Van; SOAS QB907.2 /482462. Wengrow, D. 1996. Egyptian Taskmasters and Heavy Burdens: Highland Exploitation and the Collared-­‐rim Pithos of the Bronze/Iron Age Levant, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 15.3, 307-­‐326. INST ARCH PERS O; digitised reading available. WEEK 8. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXTS AND IMAGERY IN THE NEO-­‐ASSYRIAN EMPIRE. Rachael Sparks, 28th November 2014. This lecture will examine the visual setting of Near Eastern texts, and the way in which imagery can be used to enhance or reinforce written content. How much influence did the intended audience have on the way textual and visual information is presented? SEMINAR TOPICS: 8.1. Discuss the way images can be used to enhance the impact of Neo-­‐Assyrian wall reliefs. What role does associated text play in the process? *Reade, J.1979. Ideology and Propaganda in Assyrian Art, in M.T. Larsen (ed.) Power and Propaganda. A Symposium on Ancient Empires, Mesopotamia Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology 7, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 329-­‐343. INST ARCH DBA 200 LAR and IOA ISSUE DESK LAR 3; SCIENCE ANTHROPOLOGY PM 5 LAR; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LI7 Pow; SOAS QB930 /416841. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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*Winter, I.J. 1997. Art in Empire: the Royal Image and the Visual Dimensions of Assyrian Ideology, in: S. Parpola and R.M. Whiting (eds) Assyria 1995. Helsinki: The Neo-­‐Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 359-­‐381. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK PAR 2 and DBB 200 PAR; SOAS L QDB935.03 /748491. FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION 8.2. How can you determine who the original audience of a text was supposed to be? * Payne, A. 2006. Multilingual Inscriptions and their Audiences: Cilicia and Lycia, in: S.L. Sanders (ed.), Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures, Chicago: University of Chicago, 121-­‐136. INST ARCH DBA 200 SAN, TEACHING COLLECTION 3756; SOAS QC411.09 /995244. *Porter, B.N. 2001. The Importance of Place: Esarhaddon’s Stelae at Til Barsip and Sam’al, in: T. Abusch, P.-­‐A. Beaulieu, J. Huehnergard, P. Machinist and P. Steinkeller (eds), Historiography in the Cuneiform World. Proceedings of the XLVe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale I, Bethesda: CDL Press, 373-­‐390. INST ARCH DBA 200 ABU, TEACHING COLLECTION 3756; SOAS QD935.0072 /813728. READING: Cogan, M. 2008. The Raging Torrent. Historical Inscriptions from Assyria and Babylonia Relating to Ancient Israel. Jerusalem: Carta. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY D 4 COG; SOAS QED956.9401 /725603. Gerardi, P. 1988. Epigraphs and Assyrian Palace Reliefs: The Development of the Epigraphic Text, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 40.1, 1-­‐35. INST ARCH PERS J; digitised reading available. Jacoby, R. 1991. The Representation and Identification of Cities on Assyrian Reliefs. Israel Exploration Journal 41.1-­3, 112-­‐131. INST ARCH PERS I; digitised reading available. Kitchen, K.A. 2005. Now You See It, Now You Don’t! The Monumental Use and Non-­‐Use of Writing in the Ancient Near East, in: P. Bienkowski, C. Mee and E. Slater (eds), Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard, London: T & T Clark, 175-­‐187. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B 72 BIE; SOAS Main Library QC411.09 /937203; digitised reading available. Laato, A. 1995. Assyrian Propaganda and the Falsification of History in the Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, Vetus Testamentum 45.2, 198-­‐226. MAIN HEBREW PERS; digitised reading available. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Liverani, M. 1979. The Ideology of the Assyrian Empire, in: M.T. Larsen (ed.) Power and Propaganda. A Symposium on Ancient Empires, Mesopotamia Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology 7, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 297-­‐317. INST ARCH DBA 200 LAR and IOA ISSUE DESK LAR 3; SCIENCE ANTHROPOLOGY PM 5 LAR; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LI7 Pow; SOAS QB930 /416841. Michalowski, P. 1990. Early Mesopotamian Communicative Systems: Art, Literature, and Writing, in A. C. Gunter (ed.) Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East, Washington: Smithsonian Institution: 53-­‐69. INST ARCH DBA 300 GUN, TEACHING COLLECTION 3757; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B52 GUN; SOAS FR/632117. Reade, J.E. 1975. Assurnasirpal I and the White Obelisk, Iraq 37.2, 129-­‐150. INST ARCH PERS I; digitised reading available. Ross, J.C. 2005. Representations, Reality, and Ideology, in: S. Pollock & R. Bernbeck (eds), Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives, Oxford: Blackwell, 308-­‐326. INST ARCH DBA 100 POL, IOA ISSUE DESK POL 4; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LJ4 Arc; SOAS FR /949353; digitised reading available. Russell, J.M. 1999. The Writing on the Wall. Studies in the Architectural Context of Late Assyrian Palace Inscriptions. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY D 4 RUS; SOAS QEJ935.03 /805087. Tadmor, H. 1997. Propaganda, Literature, Historiography: Cracking the Code of the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, in: S. Parpola & R.M. Whiting (eds), Assyria 1995: Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Neo-­
Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki, September 7-­11, 1995, Helskinki: Neo-­‐Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 77-­‐103. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK PAR 2 and DBB 200 PAR; SOAS L QDB935.03 /748491. Winter, I.J. 2010. Royal Rhetoric and the Development of Historical Narrative in Neo-­‐Assyrian Reliefs, in: I.J. Winter (ed.), On the Art in the Ancient Near East. Volume 1: of the First Millennium BC, Leiden: Brill, 3-­‐69. INST ARCH DBA 100 WIN; SOAS MAIN FR /739730 (REFERENCE). WEEK 9. TEXT AND ARCHITECTURE IN ANCIENT EGYPT Guest lecturer Richard Bussmann, 5th December 2014. Built environment is key evidence for the study of past societies. However, it is often difficult to escape the bias towards Western ideas when we interpret architecture. Ancient Egypt provides a wealth of texts that give insight into the indigenous understanding of buildings and space. We will examine how the integration of texts, art, and the material record helps understand the meaning of buildings and spaces in the Egyptian mindset. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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SEMINAR TOPICS: 9.1. Explain how Egyptian hieroglyphs and formal art work together visually and spatially. Collier, M. and W. Manley, 2003 [1998]. Chapter 1: Hieroglyphs, in: How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, London: British Museum Press, 1-­‐14. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY V5 COL; SENATE HOUSE LANGUAGE/LITERATURE South Block 6th Floor (3) WVF Col; digitised reading available. Robins, G. 1997. Principles of Egyptian Art, in: The Art of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 19-­‐24 (for the principles of formal art and its relation to the hieroglyphic script). INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS M5 ROB; SENATE HOUSE ART South Block 4th Floor Mx South Gallery V3AE Rob; SOAS FRE.L /752932 and FRE.L /752933; digitised reading available. FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION 9.2. The Rosetta Stone is an iconic text, now on display in the British Museum. Consider what the original function of this text was, and how its meaning and relevance has changed over time. Andrews, C. 1981. The Rosetta Stone, London: British Museum Publications. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY T30 ROS. Parkinson, R. 2005. The Rosetta Stone, London: British Museum Press, especially 7-­‐17 and 57-­‐60. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY T 30 ROS, IOA ISSUE DESK PAR 4. The Rosetta Stone is on display in the British Museum in rooms 4 and 1 (the original and a replica). You might want to look at the object in person, and also consider how it is presented by the British Museum. See also the British Museum website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/ ; you can also do a web search to see how the stone is portrayed and discussed on the internet in general.
9.3. We will use the last part of the session to discuss your course essays. Please prepare for this by reviewing the available topics on p.8 of this handbook and considering any questions you may wish to raise about this material. READING: *Assmann, J. 2001 [1984]. Temple as Cosmos, in: The Search for God in Ancient Egypt. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 35-­‐40. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY R5 ASS, TEACHING COLLECTION 3758; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LMF Ass. *Bryan, B.M. 1992. Designing the Cosmos: Temples and Temple Decoration, in: A.P. Kozloff, B.M. Bryan and L. Cleveland (eds), Egypt’s Dazzling sun: 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Amenhotep III and his World, Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 73-­‐115. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS C 81 CLE. Cruze-­‐Uribe, E. 2008. "Graffiti (Figural)", in: W. Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7v92z43m (accessed on 02/10/2014). Davies, W. V. 1987. Egyptian Hieroglyphs, London: British Museum Publications. EGYPTOLOGY V 8 DAV; GE 16 DAV; SENATE HOUSE LANGUAGE/LITERATURE South Block 6th Floor (3) WVF Dav; SOAS FRE/752791; also available as a chapter in: J.T. Hooker (ed.), 1990. Reading the Past. Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet New York: Barnes and Noble. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK HOO 2; GC HOO; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Hooker]; SOAS A411.09 /607197. Frandsen, P.J. 1997. On Categorization and Metaphorical Structuring: Some Remarks on Egyptian Art and Language, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7/1, 71-­‐104. INST ARCH PERS C; digitised reading available. Gallet, L. 2013. "Karnak: The Temple of Amun-­‐Ra-­‐Who Hears-­‐Prayers", in: W. Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h92j4bj (accessed on 2/10/2014). Grallert, S. 2007. Pharaonic Building Inscriptions and Temple Decoration, in: P.F. Dorman and B.M. Bryan (eds), Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes, Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 35-­‐49. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS R 5 DOR; digitised reading available. Jacquet-­‐Gordon, H. 2003. “Introduction”, in: The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple Roof at Karnak: A Manifestation of Personal Piety, Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1-­‐8. The whole volume is available for download from: http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oip/oip123.html. Kemp, B. J. 2006. Ancient Egypt; Anatomy of a Civilization. 2nd Edition, London and New York: Routledge, 111-­‐160 on architecture. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK KEM, and EGYPTOLOGY B5 KEM; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LME Kem; SOAS FRE/716757 and FRE /588667. Larkin, D.W. 2008. Making Egyptian Temple Decoration Fit the Available Space, in: S.E. Thompson and P. Der Manuelian (eds), Egypt and Beyond. Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005, Providence, R.I.: Brown University, 209-­‐225. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS A 6 LES. Mironova, A. 2010. The Relationship Between Space and Scenery of an Egyptian Temple: Scenes of the Opet Festival and the Festival of Hathor at Karnak and Deir el-­‐Bahari under Hatshepsut and Tuthmose III, MOSAIKjournal 1, 127-­‐158. Digitised reading available. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Spence, K. 2007. Architecture. In T. Wilkinson (ed.), The Egyptian World, 366-­‐
387. London: Routledge. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY A5 WIL and IOA ISSUE DESK WIL 10. *Stadler, M. 2008. "Processions", in: W. Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/679146w5 (accessed on 2/10/2014). MUSEUM RESOURCES The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology includes temple reliefs with hieroglyphic inscriptions oriented to the figures of king and god and the Coptos reliefs in the Main Gallery beside the back stairs: http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/koptos/reliefs/middlewall.html http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/koptos/uc14786.html These demonstrate the inter-­‐relation of script and image in formal temple art. The same rules for orienting hieroglyphs to the figures of deity and worshipper may be seen on the smaller votive and offering-­‐chapel blocks (stelae) in Inscription Cases 1-­‐10 in the same gallery. WEEK 10. USING TEXTS AS A CHRONOLOGICAL TOOL Rachael Sparks, 12th December 2014. This session we will consider how ancient societies recorded the passage of time, including the use of genealogies and regnal dates to construct dating systems. How are royal-­name inscriptions and objects such as coins used to date archaeological deposits, and what methodological problems are inherent in this approach? FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION There will be no seminar presentations this week. Instead we will use the time to discuss the outcome of the seminar ‘tips and tricks’ wiki, and develop ideas about presentation skills and techniques. During the second half of the session the class will participate in an exercise designed to explore the concept of ‘texts as objects’. As preparation for this, please consider the following question: 10.1. What are the different ways in which ancient texts might be dated? READING: Burnett, A. 1991. Chapter 2: Dating and Attributing Coins, Interpreting the Past: Coins, London: British Museum Press, 12-­‐28. INST ARCH KM BUR; digitised reading available. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Collins, J. 1988. Data for Dating, in: J. Casey & R. Reece (eds), Coins and the Archaeologist, London (2nd edition), 189-­‐199. INST ARCH KM CAS and ISSUE DESK IOA CAS 1; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY 6th Floor (63) LBD Coi. Drinkard Jr, J.F. 1988. Epigraphy as a Dating Method, in: J.F. Drinkard Jr, G.L. Mattingly, J. Miller and J. Maxwell (eds), Benchmarks in Time and Culture. An Introduction to Palestinian Archaeology Dedicated to Joseph A. Callaway, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 417-­‐439. INST ARCH DBE 100 CAL.
*Lockyear, K. 2012. Dating Coins, Dating with Coins, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 191-­‐211. INST ARCH PERS O; digitised reading available.
*Malek, J. 1982. The original version of the Royal Canon of Turin, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 68, 93-­‐106. INST ARCH PERS J; SENATE HOUSE STACK SERVICE PR C5o.1 Egypt; digitised reading available. Robertson, A.S. 1988. Romano-­‐British Coin Hoards: Their Numismatic, Archaeological and Historical Significance, in: J. Casey & R. Reece (eds), Coins and the Archaeologist. London: Seaby, 13-­‐38. INST ARCH KM CAS and IOA ISSUE DESK CAS 1; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LBD Coi; digitised reading available. Rotroff, S. 1997. Coins and Stratigraphy, in K.A. Sheedy & Ch. Papageorgaiadou-­‐
Banis (eds), Numismatic Archaeology, Archaeological Numismatics, Oxford: Oxbow, 8-­‐16. INST ARCH KM SHE. Schniedewind, W.M. 2005. Problems in the Paleographic Dating of Inscriptions, in: T.E. Levy & T. Higham (eds), The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science, London: Equinox, 405-­‐412. INST ARCH DBE 100 LEV; SOAS FW /963530.
Sherratt, S. 2005. High Precision Dating and Archaeological Chronologies. Revisiting an Old Problem, in: T.E. Levy & T. Higham (eds), The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science, London: Equinox, 114-­‐
125. INST ARCH DBE 100 LEV; SOAS FW /963530; digitised reading available. *Spalinger, A. J. 2001. Chronology and Periodization, in: D. B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt Volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 264-­‐268. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY A 2 OXF; digitised reading available. van der Plicht, J. & Bruins, H. 2001. Radiocarbon Dating in Near-­‐Eastern Contexts: Confusion and Quality Control, Radiocarbon 43.3, 1155-­‐1166. INST ARCH PERS R; digitised reading available. WEEK 11. REVISION SESSION. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Rachael Sparks, Wednesday 29th April 2015 (time and date to be confirmed). This seminar will be held in room 209, and will last for one hour. It will summarise some of the issues raised throughout the course, look at the concepts of archaeology as a form of history and the cultural significance of texts, and help prepare you for the coming exams. 7. COURSE READING LIST This list comprises books and articles additional to those already listed under individual session headings above. The reading material has been classified according to the following subject areas: I. Introductory reading II. Cultural and archaeological background III. Texts as writing systems IV. Texts as social, cultural and political tools V. The visual, physical and temporal setting of texts VI. The materiality of texts (‘text as object’) VII. Ethical concerns VIII. Source material: texts in translation IX. Online object databases I. Introductory Reading Adkins, L. & R. 2001. The Keys of Egypt. The Race to Read the Hieroglyphs. London: Harper Collins. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY A 8 ADK Andren, A. 1988. Between Artifacts and Texts: Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective, translated by Alan Crozier. New York: Plenum Press. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK AND 6; AH AND. Bickerman, E. 1980. Chronology of the Ancient World. London: Thames & Hudson (Revised edition). INST ARCH JA BIC; MAIN ANCENT HISTORY A 10 BIC, and LAW R 2 BIC; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY 7th Floor (63) LFC Bic. Bodel, J. P. 2001. Epigraphy and the Ancient Historian, in: J.P. Bodel (ed.), Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions. London: Routledge, 1-­‐
56. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY W 5 BOD (1 week, standard); SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) 5th Floor (63) LDP Epi. Also available to read online. Lamberg-­‐Karlovsky, C.C. 2003. To Write or Not to Write, in: T. Potts, M. Roaf & D. Stein (eds), Culture Through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of P.R.S. Moorey, Griffith Institute Oxford, 59-­‐75. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK POT 3; DBA 300 POT; SOAS FR /900282; digitised reading available. Little, B.J. 1992. Text-­‐Aided Archaeology, in: B.J. Little (ed.), Text-­Aided Archaeology: 1-­‐6. London: CRC Press. INST ARCH DED 100 LIT; IOA ISSUE DESK LIT; digitised reading available. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Millard, A. 2005. Only Fragments from the Past: The Role of Accident in our Knowledge of the Ancient Near East, in: P. Bienkowski, C. Mee and E. Slater (eds), Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard, London: T&T Clark, 301-­‐319. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B72 BIE; SOAS Main Library QC411.09 /937203. Palaima, T. 2003. Archaeology and Text: Decipherment, Translation, and Interpretation, in: J. K. Papadopoulos and R. M. Leventhal (eds), Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 45-­‐73. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK PAP, TEACHING COLLECTION 3759. Robinson, A. 2009. Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction. INST ARCH GC ROB; SOAS Main Library A302.2244/732322; SENATE HOUSE palaeography 4th floor, CC25.1 [Robinson]. Sasson. J. (ed.), 2000. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (in 2 volumes). New York: Scribner. Also available in an earlier 1995 edition (in 4 volumes). See esp. Volume 4, part 9: 'Language, Writing and Literature'. Additional chapters are listed under the reading for individual sessions. INST ARCH DBA 100 SAS; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B5 SAS and MAIN ISSUE DESK SAS (quartos); SOAS L Ref QB930 / 825674. Schaps, D.M. 2010. Handbook for Classical Research, London: Routledge. MAIN CLASSICS A1 SCH. Zettler, R.L. 1996. Written Documents as Excavated Artifacts and the Holistic Interpretation of the Mesopotamian Archaeological Record, in: J.S. Cooper & G.M. Schwartz (eds), The Study of the Ancient Near East in the 21st Century. The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 81-­‐
102. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK COO 4; SOAS MAIN L QB930 /734557; digitised reading available. II. Cultural and Archaeological Background Bonfante, G. and L. 2002. Chapter 1: Archaeological Introduction, in: The Etruscan Language, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 3-­‐45. MAIN COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY B32 BON; SENATE HOUSE LANGUAGE/LITERATURE South Block 6th Floor (3) WUT Bon. Holloway, R.R. 1994. The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium, London: Routledge. INST ARCH DAF 10 HOL; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LSH Hol. See especially Chapter 8: Osteria dell'Osa. Mazar, A 1990. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, 295-­‐363. New York: Doubleday. INST ARCH DBA 100 MAZ; IOA ISSUE DESK MAZ. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Podany, A.J. 2013. The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B 5 POD; SOAS Main Library QB930 /757922. Postgate, J.N. 1994. Early Mesopotamia. Society and Economy at the Dawn of History, London: Routledge. INST ARCH DBB 100 POS; IOA ISSUE DESK POS 2; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LJA Pos; SOAS QD935 /635635. Shaw, I. 2004. Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY A 5 SHA. Smith, C. 2014. The Etruscans: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY Q 5 SMI. Steiner, M.L. and A.E. Killebrew (eds). 2014. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c.8000-­‐332 BCE. Oxford: Oxford University Press. INST ARCH DBA 100 STE; SOAS Main Library FR /758182 LONG LOAN Trigger, B.G., Kemp, B.J., O’Connor, D. and A.B. Lloyd, 1983. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY B 5 TRI; IOA ISSUE DESK TRI 1; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LME/Anc; SOAS Level F Mobiles QR932.01 /900782 and /695912. Wengrow, D. 2006. The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000-­2650 BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 198-­‐
207. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK WEN 7; EGYPTOLOGY B 11 WEN; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63), LMA Wen; SOAS FRE /975237. III. Texts as Writing Systems Campbell, G.L. 1997. Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets. London: Routledge. INST ARCH GC CAM; LangSpeechSci 411 CAM; SENATE HOUSE STACK SERVICE [DEPOS -­‐ MxS] Ref.only 411 [Campbell]; SOAS A411 /720913. Coulmas, F. 1999. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Oxford: Blackwell. INST ARCH GC COU; LangSpeechSci 411 COU (1995 edition); SENATE HOUSE INFORMATION CENTRE South Block 4th Floor rapid reference 411 [Coulmas]; SOAS Ref A411.03 /725970 (1996 edition). Demattè, P. 2010. The Origins of Chinese Writing: the Neolithic Evidence, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20.2, 211-­‐228. INST ARCH PERS C; digitised reading available. Easterling, P. and C. Handley (eds), 2001. Greek Scripts; an Illustrated Introduction (London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies). MAIN 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS W20 EAS; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.2 [Easterling]. Gelb, I.J. 1963. A Study of Writing, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2nd edition). MAIN LINGUISTICS B9 GEL; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Gelb]; SOAS A411 /317312. Glassner, J.-­‐J. 2003. The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. INST ARCH GE 101 CLA; SOAS Main Library QEA411 /904984. Gnanadesikan, A.E. 2009. The Writing Revolution: From Cuneiform to the Internet, Oxford: Blackwell. INST ARCH GC GNA; MAIN ENGLISH A 7 GNA; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Gnanadesikan]. Goldwasser, O. 2006. Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? -­‐ The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai, Ägypten und Levante 16, 121-­‐160. INST ARCH PERS A; digitised reading available. Hamilton, G.J. 2006. The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts, Washington: Catholic Biblical Association of America; INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY V 7 HAM; SOAS QK411 /994180. Hamilton, G.J. 2010. From the Seal of a Seer to an Inscribed Game Board: A Catalogue of Eleven Early Alphabetic Inscriptions Recently Discovered in Egypt and Palestine, http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/seal357910.shtml (accessed on 2/10/2014). Haring, B.J.J. and O.E. Kaper (eds). 2009. Pictograms or Pseudo Script? Non-­textual Identity Marks in Practical Use in Ancient Egypt and Elsewhere, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY T 6 HAR; SOAS Main library FRE/742766. Hawkins, D. 1986. Writing in Anatolia: Imported and Indigenous Systems, World Archaeology 17.3, 363-­‐375. INST ARCH PERS W; digitised reading available. Hooker, J.T. 1990. Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet. London: British Museum Publications. INST ARCH GC HOO; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Hooker]; SOAS A411.09 /607197. Houston, S.D. (ed.), 2004. The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. INST ARCH GC HOU; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Houston]; SOAS A411.09 /951246. Immerwahr, H. 1990. Attic Script, Oxford: Clarendon Press. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS W20 IMM. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Jean, G. 2000. Writing: the Story of Alphabets and Scripts. London: Thames and Hudson. INST ARCH CG JEA; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.2 [Jean]. Kahl, J. 2001. Hieroglyphic Writing during the Fourth Millennium BC: An Analysis of Systems, Archéo-­Nil 11, 103-­‐125. INST ARCH TC 3568. Lehmann, W.P. 1992. Chapter 3: The Use of Written Records, Historical Linguistics: an Introduction. London: Routledge (3rd edition). MAIN LlNGUISTICS A 10 LEH; SENATE HOUSE LINGUISTICS South Block 6th Floor (3) WAH Leh; SOAS A417.7 /654041; digitised reading available. Moore, O. 2000. Chapter 2: The Chinese Writing System, Chinese, London: British Museum Press, 11-­‐17. INST ARCH DBL MOO; SOAS CC495.111 /927194. Payne, A. 2007. Writing Systems and Identity, in: B.J. Collins, M.R. Bachvarova and I.C. Rutherford (eds), Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbours, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 117-­‐122. INST ARCH DBC 100 Col; SOAS MAIN L QF939.2 /984614. Parkinson, R. and S. Quirke, Papyrus. London: British Museum Press, INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY X 5 PAR; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC21 [Parkinson]. Powell, B. 2002. Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. MAIN CLASSICS GC18 POW; SENATE HOUSE CLASSICS South Block 6th Floor (3) XFA Pow. Powell, B.B. 2009. Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization. Willey-­‐Blackwell: Chichester. INST ARCH GC POW; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY 4th Floor CC24.1 [Powell]. Radner, K. 1995. The Relation between Format and Content in Neo-­‐Assyrian texts, in R. Mattila (ed.), Nineveh 612 BC: the glory and fall of the Assyrian Empire, Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 63-­‐80. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY D 15 MAT; SOAS MAIN QEJ892.1 /735160. http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/downloads/radner_nineveh612.pdf Schmandt-­‐Besserat, D. 1996. How Writing Came About, Austin: University of Texas Press. INST ARCH DBB 100 SCH; SOAS FR/735004. Senner, W.M. (ed.), 1989. The Origins of Writing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. INST ARCH GC SEN; IOA ISSUE DESK SEN; MAIN LlNGUISTlCS B9 SEN; SOAS A411.09 /657348; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.1 [Senner]. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Turner, E.G. 1968. Greek Papyri: an Introduction. Oxford: Clarendon. MAIN PAPYROLOGY P5 TUR; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC21 [Turner]. Walker, C.B.F. 1987. Cuneiform, London: British Museum. INST ARCH GE 21 WAL; IOA ISSUE DESK WAL 5; MAIN COMP. PHIL. B 2 WAL; SOAS QE411 /546888 and /961233. Woods, C. (ed.). 2010. Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. INST ARCH GC Qto WOO, also available electronically via eUCLid; SOAS MAIN LQE411/737187; digitised reading available. Van de Mieroop, M. 1999. Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History. London: Routledge. INST ARCH DBB 200 MIE; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY D 8 MIE; SOAS QE935 /783889 and /783888. IV. Texts as Social, Cultural and Political Tools Baines, J. 2007. Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY B 20 BAI; IOA ISSUE DESK BAI. Baines, J., Bennet, J. and S. Houston (eds). 2008. The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication. Oakville: Equinox. INST ARCH GC BAI; SOAS Main Library A411.09. Blakely, J.A. 2002. Reconciling Two Maps: Archaeological Evidence for the Kingdoms of David and Solomon, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 327, 49-­‐54. INST ARCH PERS B; digitised reading available. Bonfante, L. 2006. Etruscan Inscriptions and Etruscan Religion, in: N.T. de Grummond and E. Simon (eds), The Religion of the Etruscans, University of Texas at Austin, 9-­‐26. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS Q 70 DEG; MAIN DEG; Senate House HISTORY (SHL) 5th Floor (63) LSE Rel. Butcher, K. 2003. Numismatics (Minting and Monetary Systems/Coinage) in the Levant, in: S. Richard (ed.), Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 210-­‐217. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK RIC 7 and DBA 100 RIC; SOAS FR /915730; digitised reading available. Delnero, P. 2010. Sumerian Extract Tablets and Scribal Education, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 62, 53-­‐69. INST ARCH PERS C; digitised reading available. Finkelstein, I. 1996. The Archaeology of the United Monarchy: An Alternative View. Levant 28, 177-­‐187. INST ARCH PERS L; digitised reading available. Finley, M.I. 1992. Ancient History: Evidence and Models. London: Penguin books. Especially Chapter 2: 'The Ancient Historian and his Sources'. MAIN ANCIENT 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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HISTORY M 8 FIN; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LO2 Fin. Larsen, M.T. 1995. Introduction: Literacy and Social Complexity, in: J. Gledhill, B. Bender and M.T. Larsen (eds), State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralisation, London: Routledge, 169-­‐186. INST ARCH BD STA. Lomas, K. 2008. Script Obsolescence in Ancient Italy: From Pre-­‐Roman to Roman Writing, in: J. Baines, J. Bennet, and S. Houston (eds), The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication, 109-­‐138, Oakville: Equinox. INST ARCH GC BAI; SOAS Main Library A411.09. Haring, B.L.L. 2003. From Oral Practice to Written Record in Ramesside Deir El-­‐
Medina, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 46.3, 249-­‐272. INST ARCH PERS J; digitised reading available. Harris, W.V. 1989. Ancient Literacy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. MAIN CLASSICS A75 HAR; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25 [Harris]. Henrichs, A. 2003. Writing Religion. Inscribed Texts, Ritual Authority, and the Religious Discourse of the Polis, in: H. Yunis (ed.), Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 38-­‐
58. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY P 72 YUN. Hornung, E. 1992. Idea into Image: Essays on Ancient Egyptian Thought. New York: Timken. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY R 5 HOR, IOA ISSUE DESK HOR 5; SENATE HOUSE PHILOSOPHY North Block 2nd Floor (66) AAD Hor. Jensen, H. 1970. Sign, Symbol, and Script. London: Allen and Unwin. (3rd edition). INST ARCH GC GEN; MAIN LINGUISTICS B9 JEN; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.2 [Jensen]. Johnson, W.A. and Holt N. Parker (eds). 2009. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, New York: Oxford University Press. MAIN CLASSICS A 60 JOH; SENATE HOUSE PALAEOGRAPHY North Block Ground Floor Small Hall CC25.7 [Johnson]. Larsen, M.T. 1995. Literacy and Social Complexity, in: J. Gledhill, B. Bender & M.T. Larsen (eds), State and Society. The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization. London: Routledge, 169-­‐186. INST ARCH BD STA. Lomas, K., R.D Whitehouse and J.B. Wilkins (eds), 2007. Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean, London: Accordia Research Institute. INST ARCH DAG 100 Qto LOM. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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326. INST ARCH DBA 100 REN; SOAS QB930 /806902. Nissen, H.J., Damerow, P. and Englund, R.K. 1993. Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. INST ARCH DBA 600 NIS; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B 4 NIS; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LDJ Nis; SOAS QEA411 /693469. Peden, A.J. 2001. The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt. Scope and Roles of Informal Writings (c. 3100-­332 B.C.). Leiden: E.J. Brill. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY T 50 PED. Radner, K. & E. Robson. 2011. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY D 72 RAD, and 3 hour loan RAD; SOAS main library QC930 /739763. Ristvet, L. 2008. Legal and Archaeological Territories of the Second Millennium BC in Northern Mesopotamia, Antiquity 82 no. 317, 585-­‐599. INST ARCH PERS A; digitised reading available. Robson, E. 2007. Literacy, Numeracy and the State in Early Mesopotamia, in: K. Lomas, R.D. Whitehouse & J.B. Wilkins (eds), Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean, London: Accordia Research Institute, 65-­‐80. INST ARCH DAG 100 Qto LOM. Slater, N. 2002. Dancing the Alphabet; Performative Literacy on the Attic Stage, in I. Worthington and J. Foley (eds), Epea and Grammata; oral and written communication in Ancient Greece, Leiden: Brill. 117-­‐29. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY P 72 WOR. Svenbro, J. 1993. Phrasikleia; an Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. MAIN CLASSICS GA 60 SVE; SENATE HOUSE CLASSICS South Block 6th Floor (3) XEH Sve. Tait, J. 1996. Egypt, Ancient, XVI, 11 'Maps and Plans', in: J. Turner (ed.), The Dictionary of Art, vol. 10. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 62-­‐4. MAIN REFERENCE DB 310 GRO; SENATE HOUSE ART South Block 4th Floor Mx South Gallery V11 Dic; digitised reading available. (click the SFX link then search for chapter heading 'Egypt, Ancient'). Tappy, R.E. & P. Kyle McCarter Jr (eds). 2008. Literate Culture and Tenth-­Century Canaan: The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. INST ARCH DBE 10 TAP. Taylor, C. 2011. Graffiti and the Epigraphic Habit. Creating Communities and Writing Alternate Histories in Classical Attica, in: J.A. Baird and C. Taylor (eds), 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Ancient Graffiti in Context, London: Routledge, 90-­‐109. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY W 99 BAI. V. The Visual, Physical and Temporal Setting of Texts Arnold, D. 1991. Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS K 5 ARN and IOA ISSUE DESK ARCH ARN 3; SOAS Main library FRE.L/713479. Arnold, D. 1999. Temples of the Last Pharaohs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS K7 ARN. Bryan, B.M. 1996. The Disjunction of Text and Image in Egyptian Art, in: P. der Manuelian (ed.), Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson Volume I, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 161-­‐168. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY A6 SIM, TEACHING COLLECTION 3760.; digitised reading available. Cooper, J.S. 1990. Mesopotamian Historical Consciousness and the Production of Monumental Art in the Third Millennium B.C., in: A. C. Gunter (ed.), Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 39-­‐51. INST ARCH DBA 300 GUN; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B52 GUN; SOAS FR/632117. Curtis J. and J. E. Reade (eds). 1995. Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, London: British Museum Press. INST ARCH DBB 300 CUR; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS D 52 CUR; SENATE HOUSE ART FOLIO (f) South Block 4th Floor Mx South V58ed BRI; SOAS Main Library FRM.L/702272. Davies, W. 1989. The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY M 20 DAV and IOA ISSUE DESK DAV 7; SOAS Short Loan Collection FRE/618462. Fischer, H. G. 1977. The Orientation of Hieroglyphs: Part 1, Reversals. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS T 5 FIS. Fischer, H.G. 1986. L'écriture et l'art de l'Égypte ancienne: quartre leçons sur la paléographie et l'épigraphie pharaoniques, Paris: Presses universitaires de France. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY T 5 FIS. Jacoby, R. 1991. The Representation and Identification of Cities on Assyrian Reliefs, Israel Exploration Journal 41.1-­3, 112-­‐131. INST ARCH PERS I; digitised reading available. McMahon, A. 2013. Space, Sound, and Light: Toward a Sensory Experience of Ancient Monumental Architecture, AJA 117.2, 163-­‐179. INST ARCH PERS A; digitised reading available. Mitchell, T.C. 2004. The Bible in the British Museum: Interpreting the Evidence. London: British Museum Press. SOAS Main Library A220.93 /721980. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Newby, Z. & R. Leader-­‐Newby (eds). 2007. Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ANCIENT HISTORY W 6 NEW. Pedersén, O. 1998. Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East, 1500-­300 B.C., Bethesda: CDL Press. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B 54 PED; SOAS QB027 /768461 and /769231. Piquette, K.E. 2008. Re-­‐Materialising Script and Image, in: V. Gashe & J. Finch (eds), Current Research in Egyptology 2008: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium, Bolton: Rutherford Press Limited, 89-­‐107. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY A 6 GAS; HISTORY (SHL) South Block 5th Floor and 4th Gallery (63) LM2 Cur; digitised reading available. Postgate, J.N. 1994. Text and Figure in Ancient Mesopotamia: Match and Mismatch, in: C. Renfrew and E.B.W. Zubrow (eds), The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 176-­‐184. INST ARCH IOA ISSUE DESK REN 3 and AH REN; SENATE HOUSE ARCHAEOLOGY South Block 7th Floor (63) LAD Anc; digitised reading available. Robins, G. 1994. Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art. London: Thames and Hudson. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS M 20 ROB; SOAS Main Library FRE.L/717006. Spencer, A. J. 1979. Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt. Warminster: Aris and Phillips. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS K 5 SPE. VI. The Materiality of Texts (‘Text as Object’) Arie, E., Goren, Y. and I. Samet. 2011. “Indelible Impression: Petrographic Analysis of Judahite Bullae”, in: I. Finkelstein & N. Na’aman (eds), The Fire Signals of Lachish. Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin, Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, 1-­‐16. INST ARCH DBE 100 FIN; SOAS Main library FW/738808. Cooney, K.M. 2008. “Scarab”, in: W. Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles, 1-­‐11. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/13v7v5gd?query=scarab (accessed on 8/5/2014) Englehardt, J. (ed.). 2012. Agency in Ancient Writing. University Press of Colorado. INST ARCH GC ENG. Kahl, J. 2010. “Archaism”, in: W. Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tn7q1pf (accessed on 6/8/2014). Piquette, K.E. 2008. Re-­‐Materialising Script and Image, in: V. Gashe & J. Finch (eds), Current Research in Egyptology 2008: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium, Bolton: Rutherford Press Limited, 89-­‐107. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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A 6 GAS; HISTORY (SHL) South Block 5th Floor and 4th Gallery (63) LM2 Cur; digitised reading available. Piquette, K.E. and R.D. Whitehouse. 2013. Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium. Ubiquity Press: London. INST ARCH GC PIQ; Digitised reading of whole volume also available at: http://www.ubiquitypress.com/files/009-­‐writingasmaterialpractice.pdf (accessed on 6/8/2014). Pucci, G. 2001. Inscribed Instrumentum and the Ancient Economy, in: J.P. Bodel (ed.), Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions. London: Routledge, 137-­‐152. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY W 5 BOD (1 week, standard); SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) 5th Floor (63) LDP Epi. Also available to read online. Sparks, R.T. 2013. Re-­‐writing the Script: Decoding the Textual Experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c.2000-­‐150 B.C.), in: K.E. Piquette and R.D. Whitehouse (eds), Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium. Ubiquity Press: London, 75-­‐104. INST ARCH GC PIQ; Digitised reading of whole volume also available at: http://www.ubiquitypress.com/files/009-­‐writingasmaterialpractice.pdf (accessed on 6/8/2014). Volioti, K. 2011. The Materiality of Gaffiti. Socialising a Lekythos in Pherai, in: J.A. Baird and C. Taylor (eds), Ancient Graffiti in Context, London: Routledge, 134-­‐
152. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY W 99 BAI. Zuckerman, B. 2010. The Dynamics of Change in the Computer Imaging of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Ancient Inscriptions, http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/information/DynamicsDSS/ (accessed on 27/8/2014). VII. Ethical Concerns Ayalon, A., Bar-­‐Matthews, M. & Y. Goren. 2004. “Authenticity Examination of the Inscription on the Ossuary Attributed to James, Brother of Jesus”, Journal of Archaeological Science 31.8, 1185-­‐1189. INST ARCH PERS J; digitized reading available. Brodie, N. 2009. “Consensual Relations? Academic Involvement in the Illegal Trade in Ancient Manuscripts”, in: P. Green and S. Mackenzie (eds), Criminology and Archaeology: Studies in Looted Antiquities, Hart: Oxford, 41-­‐58. INST ARCH AG 20 MAC; http://traffickingculture.org/publications/brodie-­‐n-­‐2009-­‐
consensual-­‐relations-­‐academic-­‐involvement-­‐in-­‐the-­‐illegal-­‐trade-­‐in-­‐ancient-­‐
manuscripts-­‐in-­‐p-­‐green-­‐and-­‐s-­‐mackenzie-­‐eds-­‐criminology-­‐and-­‐archaeology-­‐
studies-­‐in/ (accessed on 6/8/2014). Brodie, N. and K.M. Kersel. 2012. “The social and political consequences of devotion to Biblical artifacts”, in: P.K. Lazrus and A.W. Barker (eds), All The Kings Horses: Looting, Antiquities Trafficking and the Integrity of the Archaeological 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Record, Society for American Archaeology: Washington, 109-­‐125. INST ARCH AG 20 LAZ; http://traffickingculture.org/publications/brodie-­‐n-­‐and-­‐kersel-­‐m-­‐m-­‐
2012-­‐the-­‐social-­‐and-­‐political-­‐consequences-­‐of-­‐devotion-­‐to-­‐biblical-­‐artifacts-­‐in-­‐
p-­‐k-­‐lazrus-­‐and-­‐a-­‐w-­‐barker-­‐eds-­‐all-­‐the-­‐kings-­‐horses-­‐looting-­‐anti/ (accessed on 6/8/2014). Cross, F.M. 2003. “Notes on the Forged Plaque Recording Repairs to the Temple”, Israel Exploration Journal 53.1, 119-­‐123. INST ARCH PERS I; digitised reading available. The refers to a text known in the media as the ‘Jehoash Inscription’. Elkins, N.T. 2012. “The Trade in Fresh Supplies of Ancient Coins: Scale, Organization, and Politics”, in: P.K. Lazrus and A.W. Barker (eds), All The Kings Horses: Looting, Antiquities Trafficking and the Integrity of the Archaeological Record, Society for American Archaeology: Washington, 91-­‐107. INST ARCH AG 20 LAZ. Eph’al, I. 2003. “The ‘Jehoash Inscription’: A Forgery”, Israel Exploration Journal 53.1, 124-­‐128. INST ARCH PERS I; digitised reading available. Gill, D. 2012. “The Material and Intellectual Consequences of Acquiring the Sarpedon Krater”, in: P.K. Lazrus and A.W. Barker (eds), All The Kings Horses: Looting, Antiquities Trafficking and the Integrity of the Archaeological Record, Society for American Archaeology: Washington, 25-­‐42. INST ARCH AG 20 LAZ. Goren, Y., Ayalon, A., Bar-­‐Matthews, M. & B. Schilman. 2004. “Authenticity Examination of the Jehoash Inscription”, Tel Aviv 31.1, 3-­‐16. INST ARCH PERS T; digitised reading available. Ilani, S., Rosenfeld, A., Feldman, H.R., Krumbein, W.E. and J. Kronfeld. 2008. Archaeometric Analysis of the “Jehoash Inscription” Tablet, Journal of Archaeological Science 35.11, 2966-­‐2972. INST ARCH PERS J; digitised reading available. Muscarella, O.W. 2000. The Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures. Styx: Groningen. INST ARCH AG 30 MUS; SOAS Main Library FS /809251. See also the reading from Week 2: Avigad 1990, Gates 1988, Goren et al. 2005, Lemaire 2006, Rollston and Vaughn 2006. VIII. Source Material: Texts in Translation Bonfante, G. and L. 2002. Part III: Study Aids. Sources, in: The Etruscan Language, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 132-­‐185. MAIN COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY B32 BON; SENATE HOUSE LANGUAGE/LITERATURE South Block 6th Floor (3) WUT Bon. Bryce, T. 2003. Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age, London: Routledge. MAIN ANCIENT 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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HISTORY B 4 BRY; SOAS QC890 /915902. Chavalas, M.W. (ed.). 2006. The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation, Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B 4 CHA; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LJ7 Anc; SOAS QC930 /964774 and /995338. Chavalas, M.W. (ed.). 2014. Women in the Ancient Near East: A Sourcebook. Routledge: London. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY B65 CHA. Cogan, M. 2008. The Raging Torrent. Historical Inscriptions from Assyria and Babylonia Relating to Ancient Israel. Jerusalem: Carta. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY D 4 COG; SOAS QED956.9401 /725603. Cogan, M. 2013. Bound for Exile. Israelites and Judeans Under Imperial Yoke: Documents from Assyria and Babylonia. Carta: Jerusalem. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY JH 12 COH; SOAS Main Library QJ956.9401 /501955. Frood, E. 2007. Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt. Society for Biblical Literature: Atlanta. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY B 20 FRO; online version available: http://quod.lib.umich.edu.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/cgi/t/text/text-­‐
idx?c=acls;idno=heb07787 (accessed on 6/8/2014). Hoffner, Jr., H.A. 2009. Letters from the Hittite Kingdom, Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY EE 4 HOF; SOAS QGC939.3 /730679. Lichtheim, M. 2006. Ancient Egyptian Literature: a Book of Readings, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms, Volume II: The New Kingdom; Volume III: the Late Period. Berkeley: University of California Press. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY V 20 LIC; SOAS Level F Mobiles QSA893.108 /906668. Payne, A. 2012. Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta. MAIN COMP. PHIL. B 4 PAY; SOAS Main Library QGF418 /742902. Pritchard, J. 1969. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton: Princeton University Press (3rd edition is the most recent). INST ARCH REFERENCE DBA 600 QTO PRI, DBA 600 PRI and EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS R 80 PRI; MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY QUARTOS B 4 PRI and HEBREW QUARTOS A 50 PRI; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LJ7 Pri; SOAS Main Library L QC890 /330793 and L Ref QC890 /330789. Rhodes, P.J. & R. Osbourne (eds), 2003. Greek Historical Inscriptions 404-­323 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press. MAIN ANCIENT HISTORY P 4 RHO; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) South Block 7th Floor (63) LDP Gre. Simpson, W.K. 2003. The Literature of Ancient Egypt, New Haven: Yale University Press (third edition). INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY V 20 SIM. 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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Wallace, R. 2008. Zikh Rasna. A Manual of the Etruscan Language and Inscriptions, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press. MAIN COMP. PHIL. B 32 WAL. Wente, E.F. 1990. Letters from Ancient Egypt. Scholars Press: Atlanta. INST ARCH EGYPTOLOGY V50 WEN; SENATE HOUSE HISTORY (SHL) 5th Floor (63) LM8 Let; also digitised reading available (follow link from UCL library database). IX. Online object databases British Museum -­‐ http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx Institute of Archaeology Collections -­‐ http://archcat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/ Louvre Museum -­‐ http://www.louvre.fr/en/moteur-­‐de-­‐recherche-­‐oeuvres Petrie Museum of Egyptology -­‐ http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology -­‐ http://www.penn.museum/collections/ 8. YOUR LECTURERS RACHAEL SPARKS (Course Co-­‐ordinator) Lecturer/ Keeper of the IoA Collections Research interests: the material culture of the Bronze and Iron Age Levant; stone vessel production, distribution and use; cultural interaction between Egypt and the Levant; the relationship between material culture and group identity; Flinders Petrie and the archaeology of British Mandate Palestine. Please ask if you have any further queries about this handbook or the course in general. Additional information about coursework may also be found in your First Year Handbook, and in the Coursework Guidelines on the Institute intranet. Room B55, Email: r.sparks@ucl.ac.uk RICHARD BUSSMANN Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology Research interests: social and cultural anthropological approaches to ancient Egypt; cultural diversity and long-­‐term development of ancient Egyptian society; correlation of ancient Egyptian material culture, images, and texts. Project director: "The seals and seal impressions from Hierakonpolis". Room 106, Email: r.bussmann@ucl.ac.uk 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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APPENDIX A: POLICIES AND PROCEDURES 2014-­‐15 Please read the following information carefully. This appendix provides a short précis of policies and procedures relating to courses. It is not a substitute for the full documentation, with which all students should become familiar. For full information on Institute policies and procedures, see the following website: http://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/archadmin For UCL policies and procedures, see the Academic Regulations and the UCL Academic Manual: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/academic-­‐regulations; http://www.ucl.ac.uk/academic-­‐manual/ GENERAL MATTERS ATTENDANCE: A minimum attendance of 70% is required, except in case of illness or other adverse circumstances which are supported by medical certificates or other documentation. A register will be taken at each class. If you are unable to attend a class, please notify the lecturer by email. DYSLEXIA: If you have dyslexia or any other disability, please discuss with your lecturers whether there is any way in which they can help you. Students with dyslexia should indicate it on each coursework cover sheet. COURSEWORK SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: You must submit a hardcopy of coursework to the Co-­‐ordinator's pigeon-­‐hole via the Red Essay Box at Reception (or, in the case of first year undergraduate work, to room 411a) by stated deadlines. Coursework must be stapled to a completed coversheet (available from IoA website; the rack outside Room 411A; or the Library). You should put your Candidate Number (a 5 digit alphanumeric code, found on Portico. Please note that this number changes each year) and Course Code on all coursework. It is also essential that you put your Candidate Number at the start of the title line on Turnitin, followed by the short title of the coursework (example: YBPR6 Funerary practices). LATE SUBMISSION: Your essays must be submitted by the due date of Friday 23rd January 2015. Late submission is penalized in accordance with UCL regulations, unless prior permission for late submission has been granted and an Extension Request Form (ERF) completed. Copies of this form can be downloaded from the Institute of Archaeology intranet at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/administration/forms; the form must be signed by both your personal tutor and course co-­‐ordinator. However once the agreed extension period has been exceeded the usual penalties will apply. The penalties are as follows: i) A penalty of 5 percentage marks should be applied to coursework submitted the calendar day after the deadline (calendar day 1); ii) A penalty of 15 percentage marks should be applied to coursework submitted on calendar day 2 after the deadline through to calendar day 7; iii) A mark of zero should be recorded for coursework submitted on calendar day 8 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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after the deadline through to the end of the second week of third term. Nevertheless, the assessment will be considered to be complete provided the coursework contains material than can be assessed; iv) Coursework submitted after the end of the second week of third term will not be marked and the assessment will be incomplete. TURNITIN: Date-­‐stamping is via Turnitin, so in addition to submitting hard copy, you must also submit your work to Turnitin by midnight on the deadline day. If you have questions or problems with Turnitin, contact ioa-­‐
turnitin@ucl.ac.uk. Further information is also given on the IoA website at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/administration/students/handbook/turnitin RETURN OF COURSEWORK AND RESUBMISSION: You should receive your marked coursework within four calendar weeks of the submission deadline. If you do not receive your work within this period, or a written explanation, notify the Academic Administrator. When your marked essay is returned to you, return it to the Course Co-­‐ordinator within two weeks. You must retain a copy of all coursework submitted. CITING OF SOURCES and AVOIDING PLAGIARISM: Coursework must be expressed in your own words, citing the exact source (author, date and page number; website address if applicable) of any ideas, information, diagrams, etc., that are taken from the work of others. This applies to all media (books, articles, websites, images, figures, etc.). Any direct quotations from the work of others must be indicated as such by being placed between quotation marks. Plagiarism is a very serious irregularity, which can carry heavy penalties. It is your responsibility to abide by requirements for presentation, referencing and avoidance of plagiarism. Make sure you understand definitions of plagiarism and the procedures and penalties as detailed in UCL regulations: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/current-­‐students/guidelines/plagiarism RESOURCES MOODLE: Please ensure you are signed up to the course on Moodle. For help with Moodle, please contact Nicola Cockerton, Room 411a (nicola.cockerton@ucl.ac.uk). 1011 - Texts in Archaeology
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