Serie editoriale ufficiale delle pubblicazioni scientifiche del CAMNES in collaborazione con la casa editrice Arbor Sapientiae di Roma

Comitato Scientifico:
Giorgio Buccellati, Aaron Burke, Giovanni Alberto Cecconi, Massimo Cultraro, Ian Hodder, Salima Ikram, Nicola Laneri, Mario Liverani, Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, Alessandro Naso, Vincenzo Palleschi, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Adam. T. Smith
Comitato di Redazione:
Maria Elisa Garcia Barraco, Guido Guarducci, Valentina Santini, Simona Sperindei, Stefano Valentini

Introduzione alla serie editoriale

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La serie editoriale SANEM, Studies on the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean, nasce come sede ufficiale delle pubblicazioni scientifiche monografiche del CAMNES, Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, per iniziativa del centro studi e grazie al supporto della casa editrice Arbor Sapientiae di Roma.
Il logo della serie, una chimera alata, è stato scelto come incarnazione simbolica delle strette connessioni e delle reciproche influenze tra le culture d’Oriente e quelle d’Occidente. Infatti, l’iconografia della chimera nasce in ambito Classico, ma le sue radici sono da ricercare nel Vicino Oriente come dimostrano gli esempi ritrovati a Ebla (XVIII secolo a.C.) e a Karkemish (XI-IX secolo a.C.).
Nei SANEM saranno pubblicate opere di significativo valore scientifico inerenti l’archeologia, l’antropologia, la storia, la filologia e la storia dell’arte, in tutte le loro applicazioni e sottobranche, con particolare attenzione ai moderni metodi di indagine volti alla ricostruzione e all’interpretazione dell’antico passato delle grandi aree culturali del Vicino Oriente e del Mediterraneo, in un arco cronologico che si estende dalla preistoria, passando per la protostoria, fino al periodo classico.
Secondo i principi ispiratori del CAMNES, i SANEM saranno la sede editoriale ideale non solo per studiosi affermati, ma anche per la pubblicazione del lavoro dei giovani ricercatori all’inizio delle loro carriere accademiche e dei loro progetti di ricerca.
Dato il contesto internazionale nel quale opera CAMNES, salvo eccezioni, le opere della serie saranno pubblicate in inglese, e sottoposte a double-blind peer review (autore e revisore saranno anomini) dal Comitato Scientifico del SANEM, creato appositamente per la serie editoriale. In casi particolari CAMNES potrà avvalersi anche di un referaggio esterno al Comitato Scientifico.
Tutti i volumi della serie, che saranno pubblicati senza una cadenza cronologica regolare, avranno un’edizione cartacea e un’edizione digitale.

Rethinking Osiris
Proceedings of the International Conference. Florence, Italy 26-27 March 2019

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CONTRIBUTI
Massimiliano FRANCI, Introduction; Mark SMITH, Following Osiris: New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century; Nils BILLING ‘Meryre has come to you, Horus, so that you may make it for him, this great and perfect speech that you gave to Osiris’. Ritual identification of the king with Osiris’ in the pyramids of Unas and Pepi I; Mariano BONANNO, A New Osirian Solar Epithet in TT49? Considerations about the nocturnal sun in the chapel; Sara CARAMELLO, Osiris, the Aramaeans, and the Water; Maria Cristina GUIDOTTI, Unpublished images of Osiris in the Egyptian Museum of Florence; Nadine GUILHOU, Osiris and the Heavenly Bodies; Dagmara HałaDaj, Scenes and symbols of Osirian character in the iconography of Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Dynasty coffins from Thebes; Francesca IANNARILLI, The Nubian Osiris: traditions and elaborations of the Osiris’s cult in the Kushite culture; Ilaria INCORDINO, Osiris in Byzantine Egypt? Possible reminiscences of Osirian themes in pottery decoration from Manqabad monastery (Asyut); Eid MERTAH, Studying polychromed bronze statues of Osiris: a methodology; Irene MORFINI, Milagros ÁLVAREZ SOSA, A New ‘Osiris Tomb’ in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna – Luxor: From Myth to Architecture, Andrzej NIWIŃSKI, Osiris on the 21st Dynasty cofins; Massimiliano NUZZOLO, The Appearance of Osiris. A case of royal patronage or a bottom up process?; Gyula PRISKIN, The 104 amulets of Osiris at Dendera; Valentina SANTINI, The role of Osiris During the Amarna age: From Texts to Depictions; Marina SARTORI, Osiris and the (lotus) fan. On the birth of a rare iconographic association; Uta SIFFERT, Osiris—the Mummy par excellence? Investigating the iconography, development and function of the Mummy shape during the Middle Kingdom.

Constructing Kurgans
Funerary Customs in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia During the Bronze and Iron Age

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Nicola Laneri, Sylvie Müller Celka, Giulio Palumbi: Constructing Kurgans: An Introduction; Adam T. Smith: Bronze Age Metaphysics: Burial and Being in the South Caucasus; Sabine Reinhold: Transforming the Horizon – Early Mounds and Monumentalised Landscapes in the North Caucasus and Their Social Context; Yilmaz Selim Erdal, Bakhtiyar Jalilov, Meliha Melis Koruyucu, Valentina d’Amico, Ömür Dilek Erdal: Kura-Araxes Kurgans at Uzun Rama, Azerbaijan: Interpretation of the Burial Customs and Human Remains; Muzaffar Magsud Oglu Huseynov: Tatarli Kurgans; Brenna r. Hassett, Haluk Sağlamtimur, Metin Batihan: The Radical Death of the 4th Millennium: Contextualising Human Sacrifice at Başur Höyük; Goderdzi Narimanishvili, Nino Shanshashvili, George Narimanishvili: Kurgans of Trialeti: The Roads to Eternity; Aynur Özfirat: Kurgans in the Highlands of Eastern Anatolia: From the Kura-Araxes Period to the Urartian Kingdom; Şevket Dönmez: Horse Burials in Anatolian Protohistory; Artavazd Zakyan, Mateusz Iskra, Hasmik Simonyan: The Internal Arrangement and Reuse of Kurgan Chambers in the Metsamor Cemetery; Zaur Hasanov: Two Different Funerary Rituals in the Kurgans of the Eastern Part of the South Caucasus in the Early Iron Age; Lorenzo Crescioli: The Scythians and the Southern Caucasus Region.

Between Syria and The Highlands
Studies in Honor of Giorgio Buccellati & Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati

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CONTRIBUTI
Acknowledgements, Foreword, Giorgio Buccellati & Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Author Biographies, Maamoun Abdulkarim, Afaf Laila: Ruweiha, a Village from Northern Syria During Byzantine Period: Study of Preservation of Domestic Architecture; Neville Agnew, Martha Demas: Integrating Conservation, Archaeology, and Community at Tell Mozan (Urkesh); Silvia Alaura: The Wandering Life of the Hittite Seal Dresden ZV 1769 at the End of the 19th Century: New Archival Light; Mohammed Alkhalid: Tales from the Desert Nomads: From Textual Sources till Gertrude Bell’s Letters; Alfonso Archi: Šamagan and the Mules of Ebla. Syrian Gods in Sumerian Disguise; Piotr Bieliński, Dorota Bielińska: A Tale of Two Temples of the Ninevite 5 Period; Luca Bombardieri: Give a Man a Fish or Teach Him How to Fish? Situated Learning and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East; Marco Bonechi: How Kirta’s Love for Blue-Eyed Hurriya Clarifies Ebla Ophtalmic Terms and the 3rd Column of the ‘Barton Cylinder’; Federico Buccellati: Houses of Nippur: An Architectural Study using EnCAB; Amalia Catagnoti: Symbol of Wisdom, Decorated with Earrings: The Ear in the Ebla Texts; Dominique Charpin: Quelques Aspects Méconnus du Statut et du Rôle des Quartiers-bâbtum dans les Villes Paléo-Babyloniennes; Caitlin Chaves Yates: Tell Mozan’s Outer City in the Third Millennium BCE; Marta D’Andrea, Agnese Vacca: Alike but Different. Drinking Vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean around 2500-2000 BC; Vittoria Dall’Armellina, Elena Rova: Beasts and Wine. Zoomorphic Vessels and the Northern Corridor of the Near East; Rita Dolce: On the Basalt Base from Susa (Sb5): A Reinterpretation; Ernestine S. Elster: The Scepter of Sitagroi and Early Bronze Age Symbols of Power; Stefania Ermidoro: The Repentant God in the Flood Story. A Comparison Between When Gods Were Men and Genesis 6-9; Diane Favro: The Roman Bridge over the Chabinas: Meaning in Infrastructure; Candida Felli: Ladies and Cups: A Reconsideration of some Akkadian Artefacts from Northern Syria; Ellery Frahm: Seen Through a Glass Darkly: Reexamining Connections Between Mesopotamia and the Caucasus; Pelio Fronzaroli: About the Eblaite Names of the “Cultic Journey”; Thomas Gamkrelidze: La Patria Protoindeuropea e le Migrazioni Indeuropee; Rick Hauser: Learning from Canis 203. Impressions of an Absent Artifact; Frank Hole, Yukiko Tonoike: Traces of Third Millennium Pastoralism in the Jebel Abd al-Aziz Region; Marta Luciani: Between Enduring Symbols and Elite Identity: New Glyptic Evidence from Nuzi; Yasmine Mahmoud: Through the Eyes of the Ancients. The Perception of Beauty in 3rd Millennium Syria; Massimo Maiocchi: Thoughts on Ancient Textual Sources in Their Current Digital Embodiments; Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, Olivier Rouault: Les Murs de Kilizu; Paolo Matthiae: A Note on Lions at Temple Entrances in Old and Middle Syrian Temples; Stefania Mazzoni: Up and Down in Early Syrian Palaces: Spaces of Power Performance and Economic Wealth; Diederik J. W. Meijer: Giorgio Buccellati’s critique and archaeological explanation; Maria Gabriella Micale: Some Considerations on Walter Andrae’s “Urformen des Kultbaues”, in Mensch und Baukunst. Eine Correspondenz 2 (1953): 1-5, or rather…On a Hidden Grundthema of Archaeological Research; Rauf M. Munchaev, Shahmardan N. Amirov: Collection of Seals from the Settlement of Tell Hazna 1 (Syria); Davide Nadali: Miniatures of Wars: Fights, Skirmishes and Conflicts in Ancient Near Eastern Seals; Luca Peyronel: Il ruggito del Leone. Qualche Osservazione sulle Immagini Ferine nel Mondo Siriano del III Millennio a. C.; Frances Pinnock: A Game of Goddesses (and Thrones?). Some Reflection about a Cylinder Seal Impression from the Royal Palace G of Ebla (ca. 2300 BC); Daniel Potts: Wild Water Buffalo (Bubalus arnee [Kerr, 1792]) in the Ancient Near East; Marina Pucci, Sebastiano Soldi: Going Red in The Iron Age II: The Emergence of Red-Slip Pottery in Northern Levant with Specific Reference to Tell Afis, Chatal Höyük and Zincirli Höyük; Marco Ramazzotti: Nel Segno di Ebla. Memoria Topologica per la Città del Trono al Centro delle Quattro Parti del Mondo; Monica Smith: The Terqa Cloves and the Archaeology of Aroma; Marie-Claude Trémouille, Roberto Dan: Between Philology and Archaeology. Some Comments on Urartian Landscape Management; Willeke Wendrich: Placentas, Sieves and the Ancestors.

SANEM 2

Settlement Patterns and Political Landscapes in the Upper Tigris River Valley

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Located between the Caucasus, the Syrian-Iraqi border, south-eastern Anatolia and western Iran, the upper Tigris River region lies at a crucial intersection between Anatolia and Mesopotamia and became, since the early Holocene, a focal point in human history. There, communities during the Neolithic period experienced vibrant local developments. During the Uruk expansion in the 4th millennium BCE, the region played a key role in the relations between southern Mesopotamian societies and Anatolian people. The region served as a site of contact between commercial and imperial forces throughout the Bronze and the Iron Ages when it was highly affected by the contacts led by the Assyrians with the northern local political entities. By the end of the 1st millennium BCE, the region had become the location where “East” and “West” met.
Despite its central role in the evolution and history of the Near East, until the late 1980’s the valley was terra incognita in terms of archaeological research. The start of archaeological projects in the region was due to the planned construction of a series of dams along the upper course of the Tigris. The aim of this study is to connect all the data collected from the rescue survey projects carried out in the last decades with those available from the archaeological excavations and to focus on the changes in settlement patterns throughout the millennia. This volume is an attempt to organize our knowledge over the upper Tigris River valley, in light of the last decades of research, and as a reassessment of the available archaeological data according to the topographic method, under a diachronic perspective.

Stefano Giuntoli

Arbor Sapientiae (Roma), 2015
 

Serie editoriale SoRS (School of Religious Studies) improntata sul rapporto tra cultura materiale e religione pubblicata da CAMNES in collaborazione con la casa editrice Oxbow Books.

Direttore editoriale:
Nicola Laneri
Comitato Editoriale:
Ian Hodder, Peter Dubovsky, Francesco D’Andria, Alessandro Naso, Pascal Butterlin, Aren Maier, Julia Shaw, Salima Ikram, James Brown, Paolo Matthiae
Introduzione:

THE SACRED BODY
Materializing the divine through human remains in antiquity

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SACRED NATURE
Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions

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Elenco delle pubblicazioni CAMNES in ordine cronologico partendo dal basso

This study analyses the social and symbolic value of the material culture, in particular the pottery production and the architecture, and the social structure of the local communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucasus and North-western Iran during the last phase of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. This broad area is known from the Assyrian texts as ‘Nairi lands’. The second part of the study, furnishes a reassessment of pottery production characteristics and theories, as well as of the socio-economic structure and issues, tied to the sedentary and mobile local communities of the Nairi lands. The study brings into focus the characteristics, the extension and the distribution of Grooved pottery, along with other pottery typologies, by providing an accompanying online catalogue with detailed descriptions and high-resolution images of the pots and sherds obtained from public and private institutions in Turkey and Armenia. Moreover, the socio-political organisation and subsistence economy issues are addressed in order to advance a possible reconstruction of the social structure of the Nairi lands communities. Particular attention is devoted to the pastoral nomad component and the role played within the Nairi phenomenon. The study includes a very large corpus of text images and high-resolution color images of the pottery of the area under examination, gathered by the author in order to offer a reliable tool and compendium.

L'undicesimo Congresso Internazionale di Egittologi si è svolto presso il Museo Egizio di Firenze e l'Università di Firenze dal 23 al 30 agosto 2015. Il congresso è stato organizzato dall'International Association of Egyptologists (IAE), dalla Soprintendenza Archeologia della Toscana (Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo), CAMNES (Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies), l'Università degli Studi di Firenze (SAGAS) e con l'appoggio dell'Istituto Lorenzo de 'Medici.
Dalle mummie animali al vocabolario antico egizio ai temi del culto imperiale: non mancano argomenti di grande interesse.
Il volume dei lavori presenta 125 contributi peer-reviewed di una selezione di poster.

Il volume raccoglie gli atti del workshop ‘Archeologia a Firenze: Città e territorio’, organizzato dal CAMNES, Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana, nell’aprile 2013. Un evento che ha registrato una straordinaria partecipazione da parte degli addetti ai lavori, ottenendo un rilevante successo anche in termini di archeologia pubblica tra la cittadinanza. A quasi vent’anni dalla mostra ‘Alle origini di Firenze’ e dalla pubblicazione del relativo Catalogo, considerato un punto fermo sull’archeologia fiorentina, il workshop, anche grazie alla presentazione degli scavi più recenti, è stato un’occasione di confronto fra chi svolge attività di ricerca, tutela e valorizzazione del patrimonio archeologico fiorentino, nel quale sono state approfondite le origini di una città che ha certamente vissuto da protagonista la stagione del Rinascimento, ma che nelle sue radici trova le ragioni stesse di questo destino glorioso. Le sessioni, articolate attraverso un percorso cronologico - dalla preistorica al periodo medievale - sono state integrate da contributi relativi a progetti di valorizzazione di una realtà storica antica sulla cui ricostruzione le attività di scavo e di studio impongono costantemente nuove discussioni, riflessioni e, non di rado, ripensamenti.

I presenti volumi raccolgono gli atti della 16a edizione del Symposium On Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA) che si è tenuto a Firenze, Italia, tra 1-3 Marzo 2012 presso la Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze e presso l'Auditorium del Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies (CAMNES).
Questa edizione del Simposio si è incentrata sulle "Identità e connettività" del Mediterraneo e del Vicino Oriente, dalla preistoria al periodo medievale. I 145 contributi esplorano e analizzano questi aspetti all'interno di contesti diversi e attraverso molteplici approcci, col fine di allargare le nostre conoscenze e la creazione di nuovi ponti sul queste importanti aree culturali attraverso il loro patrimonio archeologico.