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What happens when a temple, say, Hatshepsut’s New Kingdom temple at Deir el Bahari, throws out offerings? Are there good and bad types of garbage? Let’s face it, archaeologists will take what they can get. But isn’t “precious rubble” the name of one of Barney and Betty’s kids?
Murray tackles this question on the Silver Shields. Do we have any evidence that the Silver Sheilds’ actual combat effectiveness began to diminish as they grew old? How much of it was true strength and how much of it was fearsome reputation? How unique were these ‘old’ veterans in ancient warfare?
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Book Reviews
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- BMCR – Benjamin P. Luley, Continuity and rupture in Roman Mediterranean Gaul: an archaeology of colonial transformations at ancient Lattara. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020.
- RCR – Fred C. Woudhuizen, Luwian Hieroglyphic Texts in Late Bronze Age Scribal Tradition, (Wiesbaden: Harrowitz Verlag, 2021).
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, the much-hated king will be the victim of a final conspiracy.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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