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Kathryn Lomas, Ruth Whitehouse and John Wilkins (eds) Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean Specialist Studies on the Mediterranean 7 2007 ISBN 978-1873415344 Price: £36 (Members £27) Contents Kathryn Lomas  Introduction: Literacy and the state in the ancient Mediterranean Cary Martin  The Saite dynasty and the spread of Demotic in Egypt Eleanor Robson  Numeracy, literacy and the state in early Mesopotamia Ilse Schoep  The social and political context of Linear A writing on Crete Flavia Carraro  The ‘Speaking Objects’ of Archaic Greece: Writing and Speech in the first complete alphabetic documents David Langslow  Alphabets, spelling and punctuation in pre-Roman Italy Ruth Whitehouse  Writing and identity in theory and practice in the 1st millennium BC  Tamar Hodos  Writing more than Words in Iron Age Sicily Edward Herring  Priestesses in Puglia? An archaeological perspective on the Messapic tabara inscriptions Kathryn Lomas  Writing boundaries: Literacy and identity in the ancient Veneto Luca Zaghetto  Iconography, Writing and Language: The Missing Link Philip Milnes-Smith  “Lapidarias litteras scio”: literacy and inscribing communities in Roman Venetia Alison Cooley  The publication of Roman official documents in the Greek East Ralph Häussler and John Pearce  Towards an archaeology of literacy

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Edward Herring, Irene Lemos, Fulvia Lo Schiavo, Lucia Vagnetti, Ruth Whitehouse & John Wilkins (eds) Across Frontiers. Papers in honour of David Ridgway and Francesca R. Serra Ridgway Specialist Studies on the Mediterranean 6.  ISBN 1 873415 29 X 2006 Contents Ellen Macnamara   Introduction: An Appreciation Maria Eugenia Aubet  Burial, symbols and mortuary practices in a Phoenician tomb Nicolas Coldstream  Other peoples' pots: ceramic borrowing between the early Greeks and Levantines, in various Mediterranean contexts Bruno d'Agostino  Funerary customs and society on Rhodes in the Geometric period: some observations Alan Johnston  Swallow an Amazon? The case of Chania 295 Vassos Karageorghis  'Cypriote' styles beyond Cyprus: from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic period Irene S. Lemos  A new figurine from Xeropolis at Lefkandi Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood  A small pot with big ideas: imitating metalwork in Late Bronze Age Cyprus Gocha R. Tsetskhladze  More finds of early Greek pottery in the Pontic hinterland Rosa Maria Albanese Procelli  Pilgrim flasks dalla Sicilia John Boardman  A group of Hellenising scarabs from Sardinia Joseph Coleman Carter  A bronze mirror from Pantanello Marina Castoldi  II riposo del guerriero. Riflessioni sulle raffigurazioni di giovani indigeni nella ceramografia apula Juliette de La Geniere  Faut-il avoir peur des lezards? Filippo Delpino  Tra sardegna nuragica ed etruria villanoviana . . . Michel Gras  Dunbabin et Megara Hyblaea. Notes de lecture Giovanna Greco e Francesca Mermati  Pithecusa, Cuma e la valle del Sarno:  intorno ad un corredo funerario dalla necropoli di San Marzano sul Sarno Pier Giovanni Guzzo Un primo assaggio di Poggiomarino Edward Herring   Conventions of time and nudity in the work of the Prisoner Painter Elena Lattanzi  Personaggio di alto rango dell'antica Rhegion Fulvia lo Schiavo  Pithecusan Gleanings I: Fibulae connections Ellen Macnamara  Pithecusan Gleanings II: Other early Italic bronze objects from Pithekussai Judith Toms  Pithecusan gleanings III: Connections with Etruria and Latium Piero Orlandini  Il problema della continuita di culti tra l'eta greco-romana e l'eta cristiana Enrico Procelli  Lo Stretto di Messina e il basso Tirreno nell'antica e media eta del Bronzo Gillian Shepherd  Dead but not buried: the First Western Greeks' children and the evidence from the cemeteries Alastair Small  Impressions of ethnic identity: Hellenistic tile stamps in South Italy Lucia Vagnetti  Tartarughe nella Sibaritide Nancy Winter  Gorgons, Minotaurs and Sibyls: a shared Early Archaic terracotta roof system at Pithecusae, Cumae and Rome Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni  A proposito delia forma e delia funzione delia fiaschetta di Poggio Sommavilla Robin Barber  The sincerest form of flattery: Arturo Martini and Etruscan sculpture Gilda Bartoloni  Vino fenicio, coppe greche Larissa Bonfante  Advertising their own wares... and their patrons' pride and glory Maria Bonghi Jovino  I rituali sacri etruschi tra identita e innovazione alia luce di un inedito calderone di impasto dall'area sacra di Tarquinia Glenys Davies  Etruscan body language Nancy de Grummond   Maris, the Etruscan Genius Sybille Haynes  The Castelluccio di Pienza: an Etruscan acropolis? Robert Leighton  Poetry and perception in the discovery of ancient Etruria Kathryn Lomas  The stele of Ostiala Gallenia: funerary commemoration and cultural identity in northeast Italy Alfonso Mele Grattugia e ciceone Mark Pearce  On Acheron's shore? Echoes of Greek belief and practice in the north Italian Final Bronze and Early Iron Ages Lisa Pieraccini  Impressions of Bellerophon and the Chimaera at Caere Annette Rathje Etruscology through the looking glass or through the eyes of the beholder Antonella Romualdi  Un rinvenimento del XIX secolo e la coltura arborea a Populonia Eva Rystedt  Athens in Etruria: A note on Panathenaic amphorae and Attic ceramic imagery in Etruria Charlotte Schiffer Bad birds and similar unpleasant motifs in Etruscan art Margareta Strandsberg Olofison Creatures great and small. Animals on Archaic Etruscan terracotta reliefs Ruth Whitehouse & John Wilkins  Veneti and Etruscans: issues of language, literacy and learning

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John B. Wilkins and Edward Herring (eds) Inhabiting symbols:  Symbol and image in the ancient Mediterranean Specialist Studies on the Mediterranean 5.  ISBN 1 873415 25 7 2003 Contents John B. Wilkins & Edward Herring, Introduction Reuben Grima, Image, order and place in Late Neolithic Malta Susanna Harris, Representations of woven textiles in Alpine Europe during the Copper Age Maria Mina, Gender in transition: evidence and implication from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Aegean Eleanor Betts, The sacred landscape of Picenum: towards a phenomenology of cult places Edward Herring, Body art and the Daunian stelae Fay Glinister, Gifts of the Gods: sanctuary and society in Archaic Tyrrhenian Italy Maria Pretzler, City devices and city identities Sian Lewis, Representation and reception: Athenian pottery in its Italian context Kathryn Lomas, Personal Identity and Romanisation: funerary inscriptions and funerary iconography from southern Italy Glenys Davies, Roman funerary symbolism in the Early Empire

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David Ridgway, Francesca R. Serra Ridgway, Mark Pearce, Edward Herring, Ruth Whitehouse and John Wilkins (eds) Ancient Italy in its Mediterranean setting. Studies in honour of Ellen Macnamara Specialist Studies on the Mediterranean 4.  ISBN 1 873415 21 4 2000 Contents Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, The role of archaeological and historical data in the reconstruction of Italian protohistory Robert Leighton, Time versus tradition: Iron Age chronologies in Sicily and southern Italy Claudio Giardino, The beginning of metallurgy in Tyrrhenian south-central Italy: The Eneolithic facies of Gaudo Mark Pearce, What this awl means: understanding the earliest Italian metalwork Rosa Maria Albanese Procelli, with Paolo Mazzoleni, Bronze metallurgy in protohistoric Sicily: the stone moulds Judith Toms, The arch fibula in Early Iron Age Italy Judith Swaddling, Paul Craddock, Susan La Niece and Marilyn Hockey, Breaking the mould: the overwrought mirrors of Etruria Fulvia Lo Schiavo, Sea and Sardinia: Nuragic bronze boats Helle Salskov Roberts, The Capena Boat and its style of decoration Anthony Snodgrass, Prehistoric Italy: a view from the sea David Ridgway, The first Western Greeks revisited Alessandro Naso, Etruscan and Italic artefacts from the Aegean Peter F. Stary, Early Iron Age armament and warfare: Near Eastern influences from the Aegean via Etruria to Andalucia Alastair Small, The use of javelins in central and south Italy in the 4th century BC Edward Herring, Ruth Whitehouse and JohnWilkins, Wealth, wine and war: some Gravina tombs of the 6th and 5th centuries BC Dyfri Williams, Cista a cordoni – bicchiere a cordoni Larissa Bonfante, Classical nudity in Italy and Greece Annette Rathje, ‘Princesses’ in Etruria and Latium Vetus? Francesca Serra Ridgway, The Tomb of the Anina Family: some motifs in late Tarquinian painting Sybille Haynes, Etruria Britannica

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Robert H. Tykot, Jonathan Morter and John E. Robb (eds) Social dynamics of the prehistoric central Mediterranean Specialist Studies on the Mediterranean 3.  ISBN 1 873415 19 2 1999 Contents Albert J. Ammerman, Introduction Robin Skeates, Unveiling Inequality: Social Life and Social Change in the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic of East-Central Italy. Roberto Maggi, Coasts and Uplands in Liguria and Northern Tuscany from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age Robert H. Tykot,  Islands in the Stream: Stone Age Cultural Dynamics in Sardinia and Corsica Jonathan Morter, A ‘Social’ Structure and ‘Social Structure’: Recent Architectural Finds from the Middle Neolithic Site at Capo Alfiere, Calabria Gary D. Shaffer, An Examination of Architectural Stability and Change: Contributions from Southern Italy John E. Robb, Great Persons and Big Men in the Italian Neolithic Paula Kay Lazrus, Farmers or Pastoralists in Sardinian Prehistory?  Settlement and Environment Simon Stoddart, Long-term Dynamics of an Island Community: Malta 5500 BC – 2000 AD Sebastiano Tusa, Short-term Cultural Dynamics within the Mediterranean Cultural Landscape Laura Maniscalco, The Sicilian Bronze Age Pottery Service Brian E. McConnell and Bruce W. Bevan, Spatial Analysis of a Castelluccian Settlement in Early Bronze Age Sicily Alberto Cazzella and Maurizio Moscoloni, The Walled Bronze Age Settlement of Coppa Nevigata, Manfredonia and the Development of Craft Specialisation in Southeastern Italy Marshall Joseph Becker,  Human Skeletons from the Greek Emporium of Pithekoussai on Ischia (NA): Culture Contact and Biological Change in Italy after the 8th Century BC

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	John B. Wilkins (ed.) Approaches to the study of ritual: Italy and the ancient Mediterranean Specialist Studies on the Mediterranean 2.  ISBN 1 873415 15 X Contents John B. Wilkins, Introduction. Approaching the study of ritual Ruth D. Whitehouse, Ritual objects. Archaeological joke or neglected evidence? Caroline Malone, Cult and burial in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Central Mediterranean. An assessment of the potential Vedia Izzet, Engraving the boundaries. Exploring space and surface in Etruscan funerary architecture Christopher Smith, Dead dogs and rattles. Time, space and ritual sacrifice in Iron Age Latium Corinna Riva and Simon Stoddart, Ritual landscapes in archaic Etruria Ray Laurence, Ritual, landscape and the destruction of place in the Roman imagination John B. Wilkins, Urban language ritual Edward Herring, ‘Using your religion’. Native ritual and belief in southern Italy in  the 5th and 4th centuries BC
	K. Painter (ed.) Churches built in ancient times: Recent studies in early Christian archaeology Specialist Studies on the Mediterranean 1.  (Joint Publication with the Society of Antiquaries) 1994 Contents Kenneth Painter, Introduction William H.C. Frend, The archaeology of the early church Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, The small early church in Nubia, with reference to the Church on the Point at Qasr Ibrim Peter Grossmann and Donald Bailey, The South Church at Hermopolis Magna (Ashmunein) Martin Biddle, The Tomb of Christ: sources, methods and a new approach Nöel Duval, L’architecture chrétienne et les pratiques liturgiques en Jordanie en rapport avec la Palestine: recherches nouvelles Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Early church architecture in southern Asia Minor †Martin Harrison, From Jerusalem and back again: the fate of the treasures of Solomon Andrew Poulter, Churches in space: the early Byzantine city of Nicopolis Charles Thomas, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Western provinces: a British perspective Rosemary Cramp, Monkwearmouth and Jarrow in their European context Warwick Rodwell, The archaeology of the early church in the Channel Islands Michael Ryan, Early Christian metalwork: new evidence from Ireland Michael J. Jones, St Paul in the Bail, Lincoln: Britain in Europe?

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