Chronolog

https://tidsskrift.dk/Chronolog/issue/feed Chronolog 2023-06-25T18:56:09+02:00 Anne Drewsen chronologjournal@gmail.com Open Journal Systems Welcome to Chronolog Journal! Chronolog is a journal for students concerned with the history, culture, archaeology and language of ancient Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa. The focus of the journal is to provide students at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (CCRS) at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and students affiliated with the department through conferences or collaborations, the opportunity to have their first scholarly article published in a peer reviewed journal. The first issue of Chronolog is out now! https://tidsskrift.dk/Chronolog/article/view/136716 Understanding the Conduct During Festivals of Drunkenness 2023-03-24T13:29:30+01:00 Maria Mayland Nielsen airamaria@hotmail.com

When studying the proper conduct dictated by ancient Egyptian instructional texts, specifically the Papyrus Insinger teachings, the conduct that is encouraged is starkly different from what was practiced during festivals to the Solar Eye Goddess. This article seeks to compare depictions of the Festivals of Drunkenness with Wisdom Literature which dictate good etiquette. Special focus will be on the how differently the festivals and the instructional texts endorse alcohol consumption, boisterous behaviour, and promiscuity. Finally, an explanation for the differences will be suggested: The reason the Egyptians were willing to defy cultural moral norms on such occasions were ideological – in order to keep the capricious and powerful Solar Eye Goddess at peace, as many people as possible should partake in her favourite activities during her celebration. If she was somehow not satisfied during her festival, it could lead the world into numerous kinds of disasters. Therefore, by taking part in these, otherwise discouraged, acts, every Egyptian was helping keep the world stable.

2023-03-31T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Maria Mayland Nielsen https://tidsskrift.dk/Chronolog/article/view/136718 Utility of the Sex Assessment Method, DSP, on a Nubian Skeletal Sample 2023-03-24T13:53:34+01:00 Mathilde Sehested Thormann Mathilde.thormann@sund.ku.dk

In this study, the validity of a new method for sex determination, Diagnose Sexuelle Probabiliste (DSP), was tested using ten coxal measurements obtained from 43 ancient Nubian individuals. Using statistical analyses, differences in means between females and males and the discriminant power of each metric variable were tested. The inter-observer agreement between the sex determinations by the author and the DSP2 program was also tested. The sex of 34 individuals was determined using the DSP2 program with a sexing accuracy of 100% according to the sex estimation of the author. Metric variables with significant difference in means between sexes displayed sexing accuracies between 89,7-97,1%, while, metric variables with no significant difference in means between sexes displayed sexing accuracies between 72,2-78,3%. The inter-observer agreement between the results of the author and the DSP2 program were of very good strength. Conclusively, the DSP method is highly recommended to be used in the sex estimation of skeletal remains and is assessed to be an accurate method to be used on ancient Nubian skeletal material as well.

2023-04-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Mathilde Sehested Thormann https://tidsskrift.dk/Chronolog/article/view/138267 A figurine in the hand is worth two behind glass 2023-06-25T18:56:09+02:00 Kristian Alex Larsen kristian@5marts.dk

Four brown-black hand-sized clay figurines from Kazabad, Iran call for attention because of their imagery, colour and surface and because they do not seem to have any close morphological parallels. As they were obtained from locals during an archaeological expedition in 1963-64, they are not associated with a stratigraphic context. However, by using the “New Materialist”approach“agential realism”of Karen Barad, alternative opportunities of interpretation come out. By following small details using all relevant senses, significant similarities and differences are revealed. Instead of letting a basic theory direct the analysis, Karen Barad advises to think through different connections and scales. This leads to narratives and possible relations, which can be tested as hypotheses. The analyses suggest that the design and handling of the figurines followed certain practices, and that they may connect to a Mesopotamian as well as an Indo-Iranian past. Agential realism gives justice to concrete findings rather than subsuming them under categories, and it allows the marvel of engaging with the past through tangible things.   Note from the editors: We are currently working on retranslating the abstract to persian. The paper will be reuploaded once it is ready. Sorry for the inconvience.

2023-05-17T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Author https://tidsskrift.dk/Chronolog/article/view/136861 Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace: Looking at Austen Henry Layard’s Reconstruction 2023-04-01T13:26:34+02:00 Anna S. Poulsen mzc592@alumni.ku.dk

Book review of Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace: Looking at Austen Henry Layard’s reconstruction