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Laying the Foundations, which developed out of the British Museum's 'Iraq Scheme' archaeological training programme, covers the core components for putting together and running an archaeological field programme. The focus is on practicality. Individual chapters address background research, the use of remote sensing, approaches to surface collection, excavation methodologies, survey with total (and multi) stations, use of a dumpy level, context classification, on-site recording, databases and registration, environmental protocols, conservation, photography, illustration, post-excavation site curation and report writing. While the manual is oriented to the archaeology of Iraq, the approaches are no less applicable to the Middle East more widely, an aim hugely facilitated by the open-source distribution of translations into Arabic and Kurdish.

Archaeology. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- British Museum. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Daiei Hakubutsukan --- Matḥaf al-Barīṭānī --- Museo Británico --- Britské muzeum v Londýně --- Briṭish Muzeʼon --- Ta Ying po wu kuan --- Da Ying bo wu guan --- Museum Britannicum --- Great Britain. --- בריטיש מוזיאום --- מוזיאון הבריטי --- 大英博物館 --- British Library

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The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia , Dan Levene collects and analyses a selection of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls. While such texts are usually apotropaic or healing in purpose, those collected here are distinctive in that their purpose was to curse or return curses against human adversaries. This book presents new editions of thirty texts, of which fourteen are edited here for the first time, with an introduction, commentary, analysis and glossaries, as well as photographs. “In this valuable addition to the literature on the role of bowls with aggressive texts in magic practices in this period, Levene (Jewish history and culture, U. of Southampton, UK) presents a summary of newly edited and already published bowls with Aramaic transcription; English translation; its type (e.g., invocation of demons to attack a named person, counter-charm); publication source; formulaic parallels in other texts; and notes.' Reference andamp; Research Book News, 2013.

Incantations, Aramaic. --- Incantation bowls. --- Jewish magic --- Magic, Jewish --- Magic, Semitic --- Babylonian demon bowls --- Bowls, Incantation --- Magic bowls --- Ceremonial objects --- Aramaic incantations --- History. --- Pergamonmuseum (Berlin, Germany) --- British Museum --- British Library --- Daiei Hakubutsukan --- Matḥaf al-Barīṭānī --- Museo Británico --- Britské muzeum v Londýně --- Briṭish Muzeʼon --- Ta Ying po wu kuan --- Da Ying bo wu guan --- Museum Britannicum --- Great Britain. --- בריטיש מוזיאום --- מוזיאון הבריטי --- 大英博物館 --- Pergamon Museum (Berlin, Germany) --- Pergamum Museum (Berlin, Germany) --- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz. --- Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz. --- Archaeological collections. --- Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Pergamonmuseum

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Robert Proctor will always be remembered among bibliographers for two things: for his rearrange¬ment of the incunabula in the British Museum in what has become known as 'Proctor order', based on the way in which printing spread in its early days; and for the mystery which continues to surround his death. Born in 1868, he was appointed to the British Museum in 1891, and in 1898 he published his Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. In 1899 he started to keep a private diary, and this lasted until his death in 1903. One of the volumes is missing, but the remaining three are edited and published for the first time here.

Bibliographers -- England -- Diaries. --- British Museum -- Officials and employees -- Diaries. --- Incunabula -- Bibliography -- Methodology. --- Librarians -- England -- Diaries. --- Proctor, Robert, b. 1868 -- Diaries. --- Bibliographers --- Librarians --- Incunabula --- General --- Bibliography - General --- Early printed books --- Cradle books (Early printed books) --- Incunables --- Books --- Information scientists --- Library employees --- Libraries --- Methodology --- Bibliography --- 09 <092 PROCTOR, ROBERT> --- 09 <092 PROCTOR, ROBERT> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Biografieën--PROCTOR, ROBERT --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Biografieën--PROCTOR, ROBERT --- Bibliography&delete& --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Biografieën--PROCTOR, ROBERT --- Proctor, Robert, --- British Museum --- Daiei Hakubutsukan --- Matḥaf al-Barīṭānī --- Museo Británico --- Britské muzeum v Londýně --- Briṭish Muzeʼon --- Ta Ying po wu kuan --- Da Ying bo wu guan --- Museum Britannicum --- Great Britain. --- בריטיש מוזיאום --- מוזיאון הבריטי --- 大英博物館 --- British Library --- Officials and employees --- Proctor, Robert George Collier, --- Proctor, R.