Introduction to the Special Issue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22105237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brien K Garnand (Leiden University, corresponding author), Jeremy A Greene (0000-0002-8013-0694, Harvard University), Joseph A Greene (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE), Harvard University , 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge , MA 02138, USA United States of America), Paolo Xella (University of Tübingen) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-189 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Ancient History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2324-8106 • E-ISSN: 2324-8114 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/jah-2023-2001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388861811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
This general introduction serves as a preface to each author’s contribution, outlining certain common standards and methods. These include the range of meanings we use for specific terms and the answers to basic yet often contested interrogatives relating to the precinct (the who, what, when, and where) and the history of polemical debates within the discipline (the why and how). By providing this background context here, oft repeated at the beginning of any study of tophet precincts, each author can instead focus on specific data and on analysis within their specialization
Archaeology · Epistemology · Interrogative word · Linguistics · Precinct · Sociology · Ancient Near East History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Philosophy
US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology
Preserving which past for whose future? The dilemma of cultural resource management in case studies from Tunisia, Cyprus and Jordan
The Punic Mediterranean
Death and Renewal
Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
Les fouilles du tophet de Salammbô à Carthage (première partie)
Stèles votives à Saturne découvertes près de N'gaous
The Theoretical Possibility of Extensive Infanticide in the Graeco-Roman World
Phoenician “identity”
Africa Punica? Child Sacrifice and Other Invented Traditions in Early Roman Africa
The Problem of Female Infanticide in the Greco-Roman World
In Search of the Phoenicians
The Origin of the Terms "Canaan," "Phoenician," and "Purple
Infanticide and fertility among Eskimos
The Phoenician Cemetery of Tyre
Demography and the Exposure of Girls at Athens
Life and death in the sixteenth century in the City of York
Sur l'incinération des enfants aux tophets de Carthage et de Sousse
A metropolitan landscape
Aging cremated infants
Bones, teeth, and estimating age of perinates
Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet
Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |