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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2013) - vol. 11 (2023)Latest Articles: Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies2166-35562166-3548Latest articles in Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Polis Sites and Sightlines: Using Digital Techniques to Trace the Experience of the Built Environment of Hellenistic Athens
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/915052
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Viewshed analysis and intervisibility studies have been applied to landscapes of the past to understand structural use (Kantner and Hobgood 2016), territoriality (Gerritsen 2003), and monumentality (Criado Boado and Villoch Vásquez 2000), all to great success. Visibility is often considered primary among the senses for communicating information. As such, visual displays have been prioritized in performances of power, control, and authority, often to legitimize and cement the ruling powers that be (Schechner 2003; Llobera 2007). In Hellenistic Greece, those powers were the monarchs of the various royal dynasties that succeeded Alexander the Great's empire. After Alexander's death in 324 BC, his successors sought to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/600/image/coversmallPolis Sites and Sightlines: Using Digital Techniques to Trace the Experience of the Built Environment of Hellenistic Athens2023-12-19text/htmlen-USPolis Sites and Sightlines: Using Digital Techniques to Trace the Experience of the Built Environment of Hellenistic Athens2023-12-192023TWOProject MUSE®988912026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002023-12-19The Mineralogical, Chemical, and Physical Properties of Ceramic Building Material: Khirbet Edh-Dharih in Southern Jordan (First Century BC–Seventh Century AD)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/915053
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Clay-based and clay-like materials were used already more than 10,000 years ago to produce tableware, art objects, and ceramic building material (CBM) (Rice 1987: 6–10; Baradan 1990; Boch and Baumard 2007). In the Levant, the use of CBM, especially roof tiles, was connected to the urbanization process brought by the Hellenistic kingdoms in the late fourth century BC (Hamari 2019: 59). However, many archaeologists ignore CBM, although it is one of the most important construction materials (Rice 1987: 4; Mills 2013: 1 [this is one of the more significant works focusing on CBM trade in Carthage and Beirut]). The typical way of creating CBM is to shape, dry, and then fire clay that has been specially prepared (Duggal
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/600/image/coversmallThe Mineralogical, Chemical, and Physical Properties of Ceramic Building Material: Khirbet Edh-Dharih in Southern Jordan (First Century BC–Seventh Century AD)2023-12-19text/htmlen-USThe Mineralogical, Chemical, and Physical Properties of Ceramic Building Material: Khirbet Edh-Dharih in Southern Jordan (First Century BC–Seventh Century AD)2023-12-192023TWOProject MUSE®2074102026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002023-12-19"Princeton's Gift to Turkey": Exploring the Political Matrix of the Orpheus Mosaic from Jerusalem and Late Ottoman Sardis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/915054
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Taking a long view of archaeological practice and preservation policies in the Middle East is increasingly common. A wave of interest in British, French, and German cultural imperialism has resulted in a fervor of scholarship unpacking archaeological practice in the Ottoman provinces and the subsequent transition into the Mandate period (Z. Çelik 2016; Eldem 2011; Goode 2007; Koçak 2011; Kersel 2010; Çağlar 2017). Scholarship has also addressed the entry of and participation by Americans in this historiography (Holod and Ousterhout 2011). Yet, less clear is the relationship within Anatolia and specifically the hinterlands of western Anatolia along the Gediz River. This proximate inland territory to the bustling
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/600/image/coversmall"Princeton's Gift to Turkey": Exploring the Political Matrix of the Orpheus Mosaic from Jerusalem and Late Ottoman Sardis2023-12-19text/htmlen-US"Princeton's Gift to Turkey": Exploring the Political Matrix of the Orpheus Mosaic from Jerusalem and Late Ottoman Sardis2023-12-192023TWOProject MUSE®974992026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002023-12-19The Materiality of the Religious Soundscape: Bells and Bell Casting in Lebanon
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/915055
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The pealing of bells has been a key element of the Christian faith for centuries. The sound was mainly used to call the faithful to service and regulate the life of monastic communities. A number of studies have been devoted to bells and their evolution through time (Price 1983; Williams 1985; Sutter 1993; Rama 1993). However, the artifacts of the Levant have not received much attention, with the exception of a group of bells found buried in the grounds of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (Cheneau 1923; Lehr 1981). This study looks at bells in Lebanon (Fig. 1) by presenting ten artifacts dated from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Their analysis provides information about the Christian
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/600/image/coversmallThe Materiality of the Religious Soundscape: Bells and Bell Casting in Lebanon2023-12-19text/htmlen-USThe Materiality of the Religious Soundscape: Bells and Bell Casting in Lebanon2023-12-192023TWOProject MUSE®1046262026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002023-12-19Cities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant: Studies in Honour of Gabi Mazor ed. by Walid Atrash, Andrew Overman, and Peter Gendelman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/915056
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This Festschrift honors Gabi Mazor, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority. Following a brief preface of appreciation by N. Goldman, the twenty-five articles are arranged in rough chronological order, beginning with a report on the Hellenistic remains uncovered in recent excavations at Tell Iẓtabba (M. Edrey, P. Ebeling, T. Harpak, A. Lichtenberger, and O. Tal) and ending with a study of nineteenth-century guidebooks to the Holy Land for Russian pilgrims (A. Nagorsky and M. Frumin). Walid Atrash and A. Overman co-authored two of the articles: one surveying the urban development of Nysa-Scythopolis in the first and second centuries CE (the second article in the volume), and the other on an early
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/600/image/coversmallCities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant: Studies in Honour of Gabi Mazor ed. by Walid Atrash, Andrew Overman, and Peter Gendelman (review)2023-12-19text/htmlen-USCities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant: Studies in Honour of Gabi Mazor ed. by Walid Atrash, Andrew Overman, and Peter Gendelman (review)2023-12-192023TWOProject MUSE®136262026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002023-12-19South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros ed. by Emilia Oddo and Konstantinos Chalikias (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/915057
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The origins of the work under review can be traced to a 2016 colloquium at the Archaeological Institute of America's annual meeting, chaired by the editors, on the archaeology of the southern Ierapetra Isthmus in southeast Crete, which resulted in its own volume in 2019 (Chalikias and Oddo 2019). Keen to expand the chronological and geographic scope of that colloquium, E. Oddo and K. Chalikias organized a stand-alone conference in 2017, the proceedings of which constitute the present volume. The editors' motivation in both cases has been to draw attention to an historically underinvestigated region. But where that earlier volume presented results of archaeological projects focused on the Bronze Age around
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/600/image/coversmallSouth by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros ed. by Emilia Oddo and Konstantinos Chalikias (review)2023-12-19text/htmlen-USSouth by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros ed. by Emilia Oddo and Konstantinos Chalikias (review)2023-12-192023TWOProject MUSE®183522026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002023-12-19All Things Cypriot: Studies on Ancient Environment, Technology, and Society in Honor of Stuart Swiny ed. by Zuzana Chovanec and Walter Crist (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/915058
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This handsome volume is a collection of essays written in honor of Stuart Swiny, director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) from 1980 to 1995 and professor of Cypriot studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University at Albany. It is the outcome, in large part, of a symposium held in 2017 to mark Swiny's retirement from the University at Albany and reflects his major contribution to the Bronze Age archaeology of the island, as well as his wide-ranging interest in "all things Cypriot." The volume achieves its stated objective of "bringing together different theoretical, spatial, and analytical approaches to a wide range of types of material culture" (xv), and it is at the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/600/image/coversmallAll Things Cypriot: Studies on Ancient Environment, Technology, and Society in Honor of Stuart Swiny ed. by Zuzana Chovanec and Walter Crist (review)2023-12-19text/htmlen-USAll Things Cypriot: Studies on Ancient Environment, Technology, and Society in Honor of Stuart Swiny ed. by Zuzana Chovanec and Walter Crist (review)2023-12-192023TWOProject MUSE®181372026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002023-12-19