New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

At Empire’s Edge
Project Paphlagonia Regional Survey in North-Central Turkey
edited by Roger Matthews and Claudia Glatz
Project Paphlagonia was a large-scale program of regional survey in north-central Turkey. More
than 330 sites of archaeological and historical significance were located and recorded. This volume,
to be used in conjunction with the Project Paphlagonia website, presents synthetic treatments of
all archaeological periods as well as studies of the geology, geomorphology and climatology of
the region. Studies of long-term settlement, trends and patterns complete this publication.
293p, 24 col & 288 b/w illus, hardback, 9781898249238, $100.00, British Institute of Archaeology at
Ankara, July 2009.
Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum
Essays in Honour of Dr Veronica Tatton-Brown
edited by Thomas Kiely
The ancient Cypriot collections of the British Museum have
inspired the essays in this volume in honor of Veronica
Tatton-Brown, who for many years was their curator.
Written by her colleagues and friends, the themes range
from funeral rites at Late Bronze Age Enkomi to sculptured
portraits in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.
120p, 95 col & b/w illus, paperback, 9780861591800,
$70.00, British Museum Press, December 2009,
British Museum Press Research Publication 180.
Die Altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden
Editio minor mit deutscher Übersetzung
by Rüdiger Schmitt
New Light on Nimrud
Proceedings of the Nimrud Conference 11th–13th March 2002
edited by J E Curtis, H McCall, D Collon and L al-Gailani Werr
This volume publishes 34 papers by international and Iraqi experts given at a conference on
Nimrud at The British Museum in 2002. All aspects of the excavations and the various finds
and inscribed material from Nimrud are considered in this volume, with particular attention
being paid to the tombs of the queens and their contents. The evidence of inscriptions and the
results of paleopathological investigation are brought together to identify the bodies in the
tombs. There is much previously unpublished information, and the jewelry is fully illustrated.
336p, 9p col plates, 8p plans & 295 b/w illus, hardback, 9780903472241, $80.00,
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, December 2008.
This volume contains a complete edition and German translation of the Old Persian texts of the
mostly trilingual cuneiform inscriptions of the Persian kings from the Achaemenid dynasty. It
presents the transliterated and the transcribed texts with succinct annotations and the translation
beneath. German text.
212p, hardback, 9783895006852, $85.00(s), Reichert Verlag, July 2009.
the ancient near east
Reflections of Empire
Archaeological and Ethnographic Studies
on the Pottery of the Ottoman Levant
edited by Bethany Walker
Ottoman archaeology in the last decade has progressed to the
multi-faceted investigation of the history and societies of the longest-lived
Muslim empire of the early modern era. Missing from this
investigation, however, have been technical studies of Ottomanperiod
ceramics – studies that identify assemblages, define typologies,
and posit chronologies for specific wares across entire regions.
This volume assembles such technical studies for the region of the
Ottoman Levant: Cyprus, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan.
224p, b/w illus, hardback, 9780897570817, $89.95, American Schools
of Oriental Research, December 2009, ASOR Annual 64.
Ottoman Cyprus – New Perspectives
A Collection of Studies on History and Culture
edited by Michalis N Michael, Matthias Kappler
and Eftihios Gavriel
This volume presents new studies on various topics (primarily history,
but also history of art, folklore and literature) about Cyprus in
the Ottoman period (1571–1878), offering new approaches on the
history of institutions and developments in Cyprus at that time. The
book is divided into four parts: the history of the island from the eve
of the Ottoman conquest until the cession of the island to British administration;
studies that analyze various particular historical topics;
studies on literature, folklore and art; an extensive bibliographical
guide, a catalogue of archives and archival material related to Cyprus
in the Ottoman period.
400p, hardback, 9783447058995, $102.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag,
July 2009, Near and Middle East Monographs. New Series 4.
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