Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014)

Articles

• TECHNOLOGICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF RED POLISHED WARE FROM THE BRONZE AGE KOURIS VALLEY (CYPRUS)

  P. Davit, P. Davit, F. Turco, S. Coluccia, L. Operti, F. Chelazzi, L. Bombardieri

  1-18

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• ANCIENT BREAD STAMPS FROM JORDAN

  Randa Kakish

  19-31

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• MEDITERRANEAN DESCRIPTIONS IN THE PERSIAN LITERATURE THROUGH ASTRONOMICAL, HISTORICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND MYTHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

  Alireza Nabilou

  33-42

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• BYZANTINE GLASS MOSAICS EXCAVATED FROM THE “CROSS CHURCH”, JERASH, JORDAN: AN ARCHAEOMETRICAL INVESTIGATION

  Mahmoud Arinat, Adnan Shiyyab, Ramadan Abd-Allah

  43-53

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• THE MYSTERIOUS COEXISTENCE OF BLOODSTAINS AND BODY IMAGE ON THE SHROUD OF TURIN EXPLAINED BY A STOCHASTIC PROCESS The presence of bloodstains certifies that a wounded human body has been enveloped in the Shroud of Turin and that most parts of this corpse came in direct contact with the cloth during the burial procedure. On the contrary, the ventral body image, by correlation between image intensity and cloth-body distance, shows codified information regarding the distance from which the cloth was versus the body at the time of the image formation. At first sight, this last statement seems to be impossible for a human corpse. Therefore, the coexistence of the bloodstains and the body imprints on both sides of the Shroud could be seen as unnatural, especially when we consider that a deterministic process as the UV radiation or the action of an electrostatic field (corona discharge), as well as manmade chemical and thermal treatment. These processes do not explain all the known characteristics of the body images (ventral and dorsal) because they do not distinguish the fibrils that must be yellowed from the ones that must retain the background colour. In this paper we prove that a natural stochastic process can offer a rational and scientific explanation that can account for all the known properties of these bloodstains and body images. However, another possible explanation that must be taken into account is a natural process involving the production of oxygen that yields a latent image.

  G. Fazio, Y. Clement, G. Mandaglio

  55-65

• IN SITU MOSAIC CONSERVATION: A CASE STUDY FROM KHIRBET YAJUZ, JORDAN

  Mahmoud Arinat

  67

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• POLYBIUS’ ‘PREVIOUS LANDSLIDE’: PROOF THAT HANNIBAL’S INVASION ROUTE CROSSED THE COL DE LA TRAVERSETTE

  W.C. Mahaney, C.C.R. Allen, P. Pentlavalli

  77

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• SACRED ARCHITECTURE ORIENTATION ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN: A COMPARATIVE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

  A. César González García, Juan Antonio Belmonte

  95

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• LATE ROMAN FINE POTTERY FROM GADARA (UMM QAIS), 2011 SEASON OF EXCAVATION

  Lamia El-Khouri

  115

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• JERUSALEM IN CLASSICAL AGES: A CRITICAL REVIEW

  Sultan Abdullah Ma'ani, Abd alrzaq Al-Maani

  139

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• THE MEANING OF VOLCANIC ASH CHARACTERISTICS FOUND IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTTERY OF CHICHEN ITZA, YUCATAN, MEXICO

  Heajoo Chung, Youngsun Song

  155

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• “TOROUD”, THE LATE MOTION FOR As-Sb BEARING Cu PRODUCTION FROM 2ND MILLENNIUM BC IN IRAN: AN ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL APPROACH

  Mohammadamin Emami

  185

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• PRINCE MITHQAL AL-SODOUNY HOUSE IN AL-AZHAR MOSQUE LINE FROM WAQF DOCUMENT

  Yasser Ismail Abdel Salam Saleh

  205

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• CHEMICAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF ROMAN GLASS FROM SEVERAL NORTHWESTERN IBERIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES

  M. Dolores Petit-Domínguez, Rosario García Giménez, Isabel S. de Soto, Isabel Rucandio

  221

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• USING DENTAL CARIES AS A NUTRITIONAL INDICATOR, IN ORDER TO EXPLORE POTENTIAL DIETARY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SEXES IN AN ANCIENT GREEK POPULATION

  D.-E. Michael, S.K. Manolis

  237

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• DOCUMENTATION OF HISTORICAL STRUCTURES IN THE COURTYARD OF MEVLANA MUSEUM BY TERRESTRIAL LIDAR AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY

  Cihan Altuntas, Ferruh Yildiz, Erkan Baygul

  249

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• MULTIELEMENTAL ICP-MS ANALYSIS OF CLASSICAL PERIOD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CREMATED BONE AND SEDIMENT SAMPLES FROM DÊMOSION SÊMA POLYANDRIA OF SALAMINOS 35 SITE IN KERAMEIKOS, ATHENS, GREECE

  Jack J. Lohne, Anagnostis P

  259

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• THE SYMMETRICPLACING AND THE DATING OF PARTHENON AND HEPHAISTEION IN ATHENS (GREECE)

  George Pantazis

  273

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• RESTRUCTURING THE SETTLEMENT PATTERN OF A PERAEAN DEME THROUGH PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND GIS: THE CASE OF PHOINIX (BOZBURUN PENINSULA, TURKEY)

  E.Deniz OĞUZ-KIRCA

  281

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• WOODS OF BYZANTINE TRADE SHIPS OF YENIKAPI (ISTANBUL) AND CHANGES IN WOOD USE FROM 6th TO 11th CENTURY

  Ünal Akkemik, Ufuk Kocabaş

  317

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• SEX DETERMINATION USING THE TIBIA IN AN ANCIENT ANATOLIAN POPULATION

  Başak Koca Özer, İsmail Özer, Mehmet Sağır, Erksin Güleç

  329

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• OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION IN A SEMI-ARID AREA: EVIDENCE FROM ROMAN TELL ES-SUKHNAH, JORDAN

  Nabil Ali

  337

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• ANALYTICAL STUDY OF PAINT LAYER IN MURAL PAINTING OF KRABIA SCHOOL (19th c.), CAIRO, EGYPT

  Nabil A. Bader, Waeel, B. Rashedy

  349

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• ANALYSIS AND CONSERVATION OF AN IRON AGE DAGGER FROM TALL ABU AL-KHARAZ, JORDAN VALLEY: A CASE STUDY

  Ahmad N. Abu-Baker, Peter M. Fischer

  365

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• AN ANCIENT GREEK VETERAN-WARRIOR WITH STAFNE’S CAVITY

  Agelarakis P. Anagnostis

  361

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