Egypt
What's New in Papyrology
See the above page for more details, plus a summary in French.
- Online Journal: Spectral Imaging Of Ostraca
PalArch Gregory Bearman* & William A. Christens-Barry Bearman, G. & W.A. Christens-Barry. 2009. Spectral Imaging of Ostraca Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 6(7) (2009), 1-20. ABSTRACT By analogy with ancient texts, infrared...
- Auction: Roman Statue Of Purple Porphyry
News-Antique I've added this only because the statue in question was made from a stone exclusively available from the Eastern Desert of Egypt and quarried from there during the Roman period. The settlement built to accompany the site was called Mons...
- Quarryscapes Website Updated
QuarryScapes Publications It is good to see that the website for a very useful project has been updated with an expanded bibliography and some online publications (thanks to Per Storemyr for letting me know). The QuarryScapes project was first established...
- Weekly Websites
Weekly Websites has been missing for the last two weeks, mainly because I haven't been here very much. So here are some diverse pages to kick it off again. OsirisNet www.osirisnet.net Another ruthless plug for a super online resource. OsirisNet need...
- Roman Mines In Eastern Desert
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa8/cwa8.htm Recent excavations at a Roman porphyry mine "have not only revealed the well-preserved quarries and the dwelling places of the quarry men, but have also revealed thousands of ostraca, that is potsherds...
Egypt
New Book: Mons Claudianus. Ostraca graeca et latina IV
What's New in Papyrology
Adam Bülow-Jacobsen, Mons Claudianus. Ostraca graeca et latina IV
The international excavations at Mons Claudianus (1987-1993) in the Eastern Desert with the collaboration of the IFAO produced over 9000, mostly Greek, ostraca. This fourth volume in the series contains texts that are directly concerned with the technicalities and the daily administration of the quarrying. All texts are from the second century of our era. There are lists of distribution of workers to individual quarries, letters and requisitions concerning tools, texts concerning the forges and the maintenance of tools. There is a series of drafts of letters to the procurator Caesaris concerning finished works, and a number of more private letters illustrating the life in the quarries.
At the end there are three appendices: a dictionary of termini technici, many of which are new, one concerning the number of people working in the quarries, and one concerning the transportation of the stone down to the Nile.
See the above page for more details, plus a summary in French.
- Online Journal: Spectral Imaging Of Ostraca
PalArch Gregory Bearman* & William A. Christens-Barry Bearman, G. & W.A. Christens-Barry. 2009. Spectral Imaging of Ostraca Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 6(7) (2009), 1-20. ABSTRACT By analogy with ancient texts, infrared...
- Auction: Roman Statue Of Purple Porphyry
News-Antique I've added this only because the statue in question was made from a stone exclusively available from the Eastern Desert of Egypt and quarried from there during the Roman period. The settlement built to accompany the site was called Mons...
- Quarryscapes Website Updated
QuarryScapes Publications It is good to see that the website for a very useful project has been updated with an expanded bibliography and some online publications (thanks to Per Storemyr for letting me know). The QuarryScapes project was first established...
- Weekly Websites
Weekly Websites has been missing for the last two weeks, mainly because I haven't been here very much. So here are some diverse pages to kick it off again. OsirisNet www.osirisnet.net Another ruthless plug for a super online resource. OsirisNet need...
- Roman Mines In Eastern Desert
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa8/cwa8.htm Recent excavations at a Roman porphyry mine "have not only revealed the well-preserved quarries and the dwelling places of the quarry men, but have also revealed thousands of ostraca, that is potsherds...