The Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology publishes a monograph series as part of the publication programme of the Institute of Archaeology. The OCMA oversees the scholarly publication of the fieldwork conducted by the IEASM in Alexandria and the submerged Canopic region, as well as post-excavation studies of the material culture recovered from these excavations by IEASM specialists and Hilti Foundation sponsored post-graduate students. The monograph series also includes works based upon OCMA’s conferences.
Each volume is assessed by an internal review committee comprising principal members of staff from the Institute of Archaeology, the Oriental Institute, the Classics Faculty and the Ashmolean museum and is also fully peer-reviewed.
The weights from Thonis-Heracleion offer a new perspective on trading activities and mechanisms in this port-city during the Late and early Ptolemaic periods.
J3 was a small ship’s boat that sank at in the harbor of Antirhodos island in the Portus Magnus of Alexandria. Exceptionally well preserved, J3 retains its entire structure from the keel to the guard-rail, including the thwarts and thole pins of its rowing system. Entirely made in non-Egyptian timber, J3 was likely constructed in a boatyard on the
The island of Antirhodos, isolated from the contemporary Alexandrian shoreline, was according to Strabo the property of kings (Geography 17.1.9). It was here in the third century BC that the Ptolemies...
This volume provides windows onto constructing, remaking, and dismantling sacred landscapes in cities in Thonis-Heracleion and Alexandria, and also more widely in Lower Egypt.
A study of the construction, structure and identification of Ship 17, a Late Period baris-vessel discovered during underwater excavations at Thonis-Heracleion, a sunken city in Aboukir Bay. Ship 17 is placed within the traditions of naval architecture both in Egypt and the wider Mediterranean.
This work investigates a temple identified at site M8 at Thonis-Heracleion, which was located on an island or a peninsula at the point where the waters of the Nile met the Mediterranean Sea. This book presents a remarkable range of inscribed bronze objects engraved with royal and divine names were discovered within its demolition layer.
Joint Conference Proceedings of Alexandria: City and Harbour (Oxford 2004) and The Trade and Topography of Egypt's North-West Delta: 8th century BC to 8th century AD (Berlin 2006)
Edited by Damian Robinson and Andrew Wilson
Price: $90.00
ISBN: 9781905905140
Publisher: Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Pub Date: 2010-06-16
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology
300 Pages
This monograph contains the joint proceedings of the first two conferences organised by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology.
This monograph presents a translation, commentary and interpretation of the bilingual monumental Stele of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, which stood in the temple district of Heracleion-Thonis in the north-western Nile Delta of Egypt.
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