Can anyone tell me what the French art historical and archeological term "choroplastique" means? It doesn't seem to have a dictionary entry anywhere; google...
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Charles J
chuckjones2000
Jul 2, 2012 3:50 pm
Coroplastic in English And see: http://www.coroplasticstudies.org -Chuck Jones- ISAW - NYU...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Jul 2, 2012 4:14 pm
This is a term used (at times) to describe the study of small clay figures, usually produced in quantities from molds. Trudy S. Kawami From:...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jul 2, 2012 4:41 pm
Since the word "coroplastic" is also not English, and that spelling betrays unfamiliarity of how Greek roots are taken into English, but rather nothing but a...
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Lisbeth S. Fried
lizzfried
Jul 3, 2012 3:44 am
Dear John, I recommend Hanan Eshel's book The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State, Eerdmans, 2008. He does a wonderful job, imo, of dating the scrolls. ...
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Beatrice Hopkinson
beahopkinson@...
Jul 3, 2012 4:42 am
Peter, What a strange combination, my translator gave plastic for platique (a non brainer), but Wikipedia did better. It tells us it is a Portuguese ...
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drbrucekgardner@...
brucegardner...
Jul 3, 2012 10:45 am
Dear ANE, The CSIG website offers this etymology: "The CSIG takes its name from the word koroplastes, which in Greek antiquity was the term used for a...
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Virginia Laporta
virlaporta
Jul 3, 2012 1:27 pm
ANTIGUO ORIENTE Vol. 9 - Special Number. This volume is dedicated to Prof. Alicia DANERI RODRIGO on occasion of her retirement. TABLE OF CONTENTS 11 A...
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drbrucekgardner@...
brucegardner...
Jul 3, 2012 1:56 pm
Dear ANE, By way of a supporting reference to CSIG's own, offered etymology, mentioned in my previous post, one also finds the term in a study of the Black...
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Charles J
chuckjones2000
Jul 3, 2012 2:05 pm
The oldest reference cited sub coroplast in the OED is: "1885 Nation (N.Y.) 1 Oct. 286/3 The Myrinćan coroplasts, or manufacturers of terra-cottas, were...
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Jean-Fabrice Nardelli
jnardellis36
Jul 4, 2012 3:08 pm
Dear list-members, my newest publication is fresh off the presses : ARISTARCHUS ANTIBARBARUS. PSEUDOLOGIES MESOPOTAMIENNES, BIBLIQUES, CLASSIQUES. Amsterdam,...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Jul 8, 2012 9:29 pm
Apologies if this has been mentioned before, I don't see it in the list archive: Vexillum: The Undergraduate Journal of Classical and Medieval Studies ...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Jul 9, 2012 4:20 pm
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) Fellowship Opportunities for U.S. Scholars to Conduct Research on Iraq The American Academic Research...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Jul 9, 2012 9:21 pm
Published today in the ASOR blog (http://asorblog.org) "THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN ASOR July 9th, 2012 By: Beth Alpert Nakhai, University of Arizona In a recent...
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judith weingarten
judithweinga...
Jul 11, 2012 9:56 am
/Die Parther - die vergessene Großmacht/ (/The Parthians - the forgotten empire/) by Uwe Ellerbrock 290 pages, 55 pictures, German language, 29,90 Euro Zabern...
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Antonio Lombatti
antonio_lomb...
Jul 11, 2012 11:35 am
Hi all, I'm having troubles in ordering a PDF copy of this article via my university library: ...
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Douglas Petrovich
ane.fan
Jul 11, 2012 12:23 pm
Dear Antonio and List, “I'm having troubles in ordering a PDF copy of this article via my university library:” The article was download and sent, off list....
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Jul 11, 2012 2:10 pm
The American School of Classical Studies announced this morning an open access version of Hesperia. All articles beyond the three-year moving wall are now...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jul 12, 2012 3:32 pm
Itamar Singer's mailbox may have been hijacked -- I just received a malicious-looking message from his(?) yahoo account. -- Peter T. Daniels...
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Niels Peter Lemche
nplemche
Jul 12, 2012 3:33 pm
Definitely! Also got one. To everybody who might get this mail: Don't open the link. Niels Peter Lemche ... Fra: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com...
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itamar singer
singer_itamar
Jul 12, 2012 5:34 pm
Indeed! Do not open any links in past e-mails of mine. I cleaned my PC and from now on it's safe again. Please inform the readers. Itamar Singer From: Niels...
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Virginia Laporta
virlaporta
Jul 12, 2012 9:43 pm
The Cult Remains at Arad and Tel Beer-sheba and the Evidence for Religious Reforms in the Kingdom of Judah A conference by Dr. ZE'EV HERZOG Prof....
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zmbq
Jul 13, 2012 8:13 pm
Hello all. Until recently I thought there was a rather certain method of detecting whether an iron-age settlement is Israelite or not, and that was the almost...
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Miller, Robert
hroedeburt
Jul 13, 2012 8:22 pm
I've always been very skeptical of the pig bones criteria. Most archaeologists from other regions of the world look at the minute amount of faunal remains we...
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Raz Kletter
raz.kletter
Jul 14, 2012 6:19 am
Dear list members, Regarding pig bones, Archaeozoologists have warned that the "pig bones' criterion" is doubtful a long time ago: Harris 1996, “The...
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Niels Peter Lemche
nplemche
Jul 14, 2012 7:09 am
Raz is right. Archaeology can define a material culture but not an ethnic one. There need be no connection. Take some of the North-European Stone Age cultures...
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deutsch51
Jul 14, 2012 12:00 pm
Dear list members Is anyone aware of monkey bones found in ANE excavations: (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel or Iraq (Not Egypt). Robert Deutsch...
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Miller, Robert
hroedeburt
Jul 14, 2012 12:12 pm
I agree in part. Material culture similarities, whatever their origin, serve to stress, perpetuate, and define group identity and thus may form ethnicity....
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Niels Peter Lemche
nplemche
Jul 14, 2012 12:54 pm
All of this is possible although difficult to know without written sources. Talking about communication, who communicated with whom? Lot of romanticism here:...
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Raz Kletter
raz.kletter
Jul 14, 2012 2:34 pm
I agree with Niels here. Sure, certain material objects and 'styles' can serve as ethnic markers, but how does one know which ones? Any type of object can...
