From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V1998 #112 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Friday, July 3 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 112 anenews Adolf Klasens (1917-1998) anenews The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire anenews SSEA Call for Papers anenews David Ayalon anenews Extended Deadline of Neo-Lithics 2/98: 30 Aug 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 10:48:33 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Adolf Klasens (1917-1998) Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reply-To: Arno Egberts It is my sad duty to report that Adolf Klasens, former Director of the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden and former Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University, passed away on July 1, 1998, at the age of 81. An obituary will appear on the web site of the International Association of Egyptologists: http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/iae/obits.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 10:51:11 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reply-To: Robert Whiting The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project announces the publication of the following: The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire Volume 1, Part I: A edited by Karen Radner Using the Electronic Database of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project and with the Collaboration of Numerous Colleagues Helsinki 1998 | 175 x 250 mm | Pp. xxx + 240 Paper | $55.00 | ISBN 951-45-8163-6 This volume will be available for inspection at the RAI in Boston next week. More details on the Prosopography Project can be found on the Project's web page at: http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/pna.html Worldwide distribution of PNA is handled by Eisenbrauns, P.O. Box 275, Winona Lake, IN, U.S.A., and all orders and queries should be directed to them. The volumes of PNA are not published or sold by the Helsinki University Press (unlike State Archives of Assyria volumes), and writing to the Helsinki University Press or the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project will only delay your order. Orders may be placed by e-mail to orders@eisenbrauns.com or by using the order form on Eisenbrauns web page: http://www.eisenbrauns.com/orderform.html - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert M. Whiting Managing Editor The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Department of Asian & African Studies | Voice: +358-9-191 23289 PL 13 (Meritullinkatu 1 B) | Fax: +358-9-191 22094 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki | E-mail: whiting@cc.helsinki.fi Finland | URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 10:53:14 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews SSEA Call for Papers Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CALL FOR PAPERS The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities would like to invite all interested Egyptologists, both graduate students and established scholars, to present a 20 minute paper on any subject connected to Egyptology at their annual Scholars' Colloquium. The Colloquium will be held on Friday, November 6th, 1998 at the Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park Cres., Toronto, Canada. The Scholar's Colloquium will be held in conjunction with the SSEA's annual public symposium, held in association with the Royal Ontario Museum. The Symposium takes places on Saturday, November 8th. This year's topic is "Crime and Punishment in Ancient Egypt". There is no registration fee for the Colloquium; however, those wishing to attend the public symposium must pay a fee of $80 ($40 for students). For information on the Symposium, contact: ssea@bigfoot.com or visit the SSEA webpage: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1456 To enquire about giving a paper at the Scholars' Colloquium, e-mail lyng@rom.on.ca Regular mail to the SSEA can be directed to P.O. Box 578, Postal Station P, Toronto, Ont. M5S 2T1, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:02:16 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews David Ayalon Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Israeli Scholar Of Muslim History and Arabic David Ayalon, a scholar of Muslim history who pioneered research on the Mameluke dynasties of Egypt and compiled what is considered the most authoritative Arabic-Hebrew dictionary, died in Jerusalem on Thursday. He was 84."--The New York Times, Saturday June 27, 1998. ^^^^^^^^^^ Ali Houissa The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer 504 Olin Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-5301 Tel. (607) 255-5752 Fax (607) 255-6110 URL= http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:19:50 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Extended Deadline of Neo-Lithics 2/98: 30 Aug 1998 Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To colleagues working in the Near and Middle Eastern Neolithic: Extended deadline for contributions to Neo-Lithics 2/98, a Newsletter of Southwest Asian Lithics Research For organizational reasons, the deadline for contributions to Neo-Lithics 2/98 was extended until 30th of August. Call for submissions/ next deadlines: November 1st for Neo-Lithics 3/97 Submission of contributions: 1) until 25/8/98: send your contributions to H.G.K. Gebel, Seminar fuer Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Bitterstr. 8-12, D- 14195 Berlin, Fax 0049 30 8314252, Email: hggebel@zedat.fu-berlin.de 2) after 25/8/98 (until 1/5/98): send your texts to G.O. Rollefson, Dept. of Anthropology, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, USA, Email: rollefgo@whitman.edu // illustrations of your contributions send directly to H.G.K. Gebel, Seminar fuer Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Bitterstr. 8-12, D- 14195 Berlin Articles on topics relating to lithic technology and typology of the late Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Near East and adjacent areas are particularly welcome. We also accept brief reports on recently conducted excavations and surveys that deal with these periods and short contributions on new Neolithic research issues. Manuscripts should be c. 2500 words, and please limit bibliographies as much as possible. Contributions may include up to three high-contrast black-and-white photos or line drawings. Please consult earlier issues of NEO-LITHICS as guides for style (Note: authors' names are not written in capital letters anymore.) We also inform in Neo-Lithics about new books treating Near and Middle East Neolithic sites and topics; newly completed doctoral dissertations and masters'theses can be announced as well. Interesting miscellaneous are welcomed, too. The editors especially would like to encourage potential contributors from outside the Levant to accept Neo-Lithics as a forum for quick triannual information. Best wishes, Gary O. Rollefson & Hans Georg K. Gebel Contents of the last issue of Neo-Lithics (1/98) Editorial Note Field Reports Yosef Garfinkel: Sha'ar Hagolan 1997 Phillip Wilke and Leslie Quintero: New Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Sites in the Jordanian Desert Leslie Quintero and Phillip Wilke: Jafr Basin Archaeological Project Alan Simmons and Mohammad Najjar: Preliminary Report of the 1997-98 Ghwair I Excavation Season, Wadi Feinan, Southern Jordan Articles Klaus Schmidt: A New LPPNB Figurine Type: The "Tell Assouad " Type Dani Nadel: A Note on PPNA Intra-Site Tool Variability Phillip Rassmann: Greener Pastures at Bawwab el-Ghazal? Research Overviews Bernd M¸ller-Neuhof: Current German Research on the Neolithic of the Near East (including address list) New Books Conferences and Meetings Circular Announcing the Third Workshop on PPN Chipped Lithic Industries, Venice Preliminary programme of the Third Workshop on PPN Chipped Lithic Industries, Venice Neo-Lithics & SENEPSE 4 Order Forms *******Order Form for Neo-Lithics******* to be returned to: ex oriente e.V., c/o Seminar fuer Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Bitterstr. 8-12, D-14195 Berlin, Fax +49 30 8314252. email: bemuneu@zedat.fu-berlin.de o I herewith order NEO-LITHICS. A Newsletter of Southwest Asian Lithics Research (three issues per year, each 15-20 pages; 48 DM/ 30 US$ for 2 years including postage: orders for a minimum of 2 years) ________________________________________________ name _______________________________________________ mailing address _______________________________________________ fax number / email Payment is enclosed o as check # _________________________ drawn on a German (made out to ex oriente) or a US (made out to Gary O. Rollefson) bank account o Please, charge the Total Due to my Mastercard/ Eurocard Card No.________________________ Expiry _______ Date:________________ Signature: Hans Georg K. Gebel Seminar fuer Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Free University of Berlin, Bitterstr. 8-12, D- 14195 Berlin tel. 0049 30 8386747 or 7959937, fax 0049 30 8314252 or 7959937 from (Hans Georg K. 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