Tuesday's Anthro Classes

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[OOC: You know the drill. I'm posting all three classes here, you post comments if you want to participate. And actually doing the homework (aka writing an essay) is not necessary, all that's necessary is commenting to the thread if you want to be marked as present]

Africa:

[will be discontinued as there is a whopping one person to the syllabus. unless other people want to join]

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Greek & Roman Archaeology

Slide identification! Please report to me with your favorite piece of art or architecture from Greece or Rome. Please tell me the date it was found, the date it was originally made in, the site, and any other important information you find while researching it.

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Linguistics:

Quiz on the Greek alphabet!

Take out a sheet of paper and write out the greek alphabet in order.

Your homework is to study page 180 in your Linguistics book, which has a complete record of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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Re: Homework

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Tomb Of The Kings

The Tombs of the Kings is the name given to a complex of tombs located by the coast on the northern side of Paphos. They seem to have been the tombs of the ruling élite during the Hellenistic period and the earlier part of the Roman, even if they were not kings.


The tombs are cut into the native rock, and at times imitated the houses of the living. In this respect they echo the tombs of Hellenistic Alexandria and other contemporary complexes such as that recently excavated at Marina el-Alamein, 76 km west of Alexandria.

Although the tombs have been known and casually explored for centuries, they were first subjected to systematic excavation in the later 1970s and the 1980s under the direction of Dr Sophocles Hadjisavvas, now Director of Antiquities of the Republic of Cyprus.

Dr Hadjisavvas has turned over to research students of the University of Sydney the preparations of the finds for publication.

Part of the importance of the tombs lies in the Paphian habit of including Rhodian amphorae among the offerings in a burial. Though the manufacturing stamps placed on the handles of these amphorae, it is possible to give them a date and, through them, the other material from the same burial.

Thus, it is hoped to develop a more secure chronology for archaeological material in the Eastern Mediterranean of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods.