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In recent years, the increasing significance of cultural (also archaeological) landscapes has presented archaeology with new major challenges, which can only be met through interdisciplinary cooperation and on the basis of participatory initiatives. The urgent need to develop effective concepts for the stewardship of archaeological sites and their natural environment can be the triggering force for replacing the destructive methods of archaeology with creative strategies and thereby for drastically changing the profile of this discipline in research and teaching. These considerations were the focus of the present volume that presents the results of the project ¿Modelling Archaeological Landscapes. Bridging Past and Present in Two Mediterranean Islands¿, which was carried out by the Universities of Heidelberg and Catania in 2018 and funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).

Der vorliegende Sammelband ¿Schöne Denkmäler sind entstanden¿ vereint Studien zu Ehren von Ursula Verhoeven. Die vielfältigen Beiträge ägyptologischer Fachkolleginnen und ¿kollegen sowie ihrer universitären Schülerinnen und Schüler spiegeln die thematische und methodische Breite der Forschungsinteressen der Ägyptologin wider. Dazu zählen ägyptische Schriftkultur, insbesondere die kursiven Schriftarten, ihre Entwicklung und ihre Interdependenzen mit Monumentalhieroglyphen sowie ihre (digitale) paläografische Analyse, ägyptische Papyri, Graffiti und Dipinti, literarische und Totentexte, Funerärkultur, Religion, Götterwelt, Kulturgeschichte und viele mehr. DE

The topic of the international workshop ¿Excavating the Extra-Ordinary. Challenges and merits of workings with small finds¿ was the challenging task of working with seemingly ¿ordinary¿ small objects and their processing. On this occasion in April 2019 at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, experts from Egyptological excavations, museums and institutions presented and discussed current issues. The present volume offers contributions held at the workshop, including the handling of vast amounts of material, fragmentary finds and methodological questions. The diversity of the discussed materials covers pottery, wooden and bone artefacts, as well as metal objects. Another focus lies on the scientific valuation of insufficient early documentations and disturbed find contexts.

Nikolaos Myrepsos¿ Dynameron, is critically edited after eight centuries. This one is the second edition. It is a text of the late Byzantine period, following the long tradition of similar medicinal and pharmaceutical manuals since antiquity. As a consequence, one can easily recognize earlier types of Greek words, but also several loans from the Latin, Arabic and Persian language. Dynameron was known in central Europe from an early translation into Latin, which had had a great influence on the edition of several Pharmacopeias, as well as on academic textbooks of therapeutics.

Many times in human history, the search for new markets has been a key driver for cultural exchange. Analyzing the economic connections within the ancient world provides a propitious basis from which to examine intercultural connections. The Iron Age, especially, was a period of increasing interconnection between different cultures in the Mediterranean, offering up a gripping chance to study an emerging economic and cultural system. But where did these new routes pass, such that the people were able to move themselves and commodities forward? How did growing demands on foreign markets influence production patterns and social structures within local communities ? How did local customs respond to foreign commodities, and how did these imports mold local cultures ? This volume comprises a collection of papers focusing on the 8th¿6th centuries BC. Long object biographies are carefully reconstructed and analyzed using up-to-date methodologies, thus offering answers to questions about production modes, trade routes, and consumption patterns. Discussing resources, commodities, and the reception of foreign products, this volume gives new details and insights to advance our understanding of the role played by the economy in cultural contacts.

The eight essays published in this volume address topics relating to the production, consumption and trade of painted pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World, during the Archaic and Classical periods, with special emphasis on the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Balkans. Important questions on the use, function and role of vases at a broader social or religious level have also been taken into account, by focusing on the response of individual clients to both imports and local vases, or by examining specific shapes traded in both the home market and overseas. Another goal attempted, and to a large extent fulfilled, was to present fresh material, newly excavated or recently studied. Above all, our aim was to present original studies that may be considered valuable contributions in vase scholarship.