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Dissertations related to Mediterranean and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology (2005 – 1898)
Doctoral work in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology has been a feature of the University of Pennsylvania since 1898, largely in response to the excavations undertaken by the University Museum. The names of the programs overseeing such doctoral work have changed in the course of the last century, but they encompass the current departments of Classical Studies, History of Art, Anthropology, and Near Eastern Languages and Civiliizations. Nearly 170 dissertations in Old World Archaeology and Art have been produced at Penn in the course of the last century, and they are listed below by year of completion, beginning with the most recent.
  Author Dissertation Title Year
 
Borbonus, Dorian Textual and Visual Commemoration in Columbarium Tombs of Early Imperial Rome 2006
Koh, Andrew The Organic Residues of Mochlos, Crete: An Interdisciplinary Study of Typological and Spatial Function at an Archaeological Site 2006
Dumser, Elisha Ann The Architecture of Maxentius: A Study in Architectural Design and Urban Planning in Early Fourth-Century Rome 2005
Harmansah, Omur Spatial Narratives, Commemorative Practices and the Building Project: New Urban Foundations in Upper Syro-Mesopotamia During the Early Iron Age 2005
Kellogg, Danielle Leigh The Attic Deme of Acharnai: History and Identity 2005
Brown, Kimberley Michelle Fluxgate Gradiometry and the Investigation of Archaic Period Rural Settlement in Central Italy (600-450 B.C.) 2004
Grossman, Heather E. Building Identity: Architecture as Evidence of Cultural Interaction Between Latins and Byzantines in Medieval Greece 2004
Kourelis, Konstantinos Monuments of Rural Archaeology: Medieval Settlements in the Northwestern Peloponnese 2003
Morton, Thomas John The Impact of Luxury: The Forum of Meninx. An Architectural Investigation 2003
Rakic, Yelena Zora The Contest Scene in Akkadian Glyptic: A Study of its Imagery and Function Within the Akkadian Empire 2003
Hattori, Atsuko Texts and Impressions: A Holistic Approach to Ur III Cuneiform Tablets from The University of Pennsylvania Expeditions To Nippur (Iraq) 2002
Wegner, Mary-Ann Pouls The Cult of Osiris at Abydos: An Archaeological Investigation of the Development of an Ancient Egyptian Sacred Center During the Eighteenth Dynasty 2002
Barnard, Kellee Ann Transition, Production and Standardization in Minoan Ceramics: A View from Neopalatial Mochlos 2001
Hafford, William Bradley Merchants in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: Tools, Texts and Trade 2001
Morris, Ellen Fowles The Architecture of Imperialism: An Investigation into the Role of Fortresses and Administrative Headquarters in New Kingdom Foreign Policy 2001
Robinson, Betsey Ann Fountains and the Culture of Water at Roman Corinth 2001
Shear, Julia Louise Polis and Panathenaia: The History and Development of Athena's Festival 2001
Bedal, Leigh-Ann The Petra Pool-Complex: A Hellenistic Paradeisos in The Nabataean Capital (Results from The Petra 'Lower Market' Survey and Excavation, 1998 2000
Budin, Stephanie Lynn The Origins of Aphrodite 2000
Danti, Michael Douglas Early Bronze Age Settlement and Land Use in the Tell es-Sweyhat Region, Syria 2000
Katz, Jill Citron The Archaeology of Cult in Middle Bronze Age Canaan: The Sacred Area of Tel Harbor, Israel 2000
Monnier, Gilliane Fanny A Re-Evaluation of the Archaeological Evidence For a Lower/Middle Paleolithic Division in Western Europe 2000
Peasnall, Brian L. The Round House Horizon Along the Taurus-Zagros Arc: A Synthesis of Recent Excavations of Late Epipaleolithic and Early Aceramic Sites in Southeastern Anatolia and Northern Iraq 2000
Taylor, Laurel L. Dying Like A Roman: Funerary Monuments and the Creation of Provincial Material Culture in Roman Venetia 2000
Good, Irene Lee The Ecology of Exchange: Textiles from Shahr-i Sokhta, Eastern Iran 1999
Petrakis, Susan Lynn Ayioryitika: A Neolithic Settlement in Eastern Arcadia, Greece 1999
Danien, Elin Corey The Chama Polychrome Ceramic Cylinders 1998
Golden, Jonathan Michael The Dawn of the Metal Age: Social Complexity and the Rise of Copper Metallurgy During the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant, Circa 4500-3500 B.C. 1998
Harvey, Stephen Phillip The Cults of King Ahmose at Abydos 1998
Leigh, Shawna The Aqueduct of Hadrian and the Water Supply of Roman Athens 1998
Onyshkevych, Lada Archaic and Classical Cult-Related Graffiti from the Northern Black Sea Region 1998
Karvouni, Maria Treading On the Rhythmos of a Greek Temple 1997
Scotton, Paul Douglas The Julian Basilica at Corinth: An Architectural Investigation 1997
Rusch, Scott Michael Poliorcetic Assault in the Peloponnesian War 1997
Bougia, Polyxeni Ancient Bridges in Greece and Coastal Asia Minor 1996
Mitrovic, Branko The Theory of Proportions in Daniele Barbaro's Commentary On Vitruvius' 'de Architectura' 1996
Olson, Stacie Lynn New Kingdom Funerary Figurines in Context: An Analysis of the Cemeteries of Aniba, Gurob, and Soleb 1996
Wegner, Josef William The Mortuary Complex of Senwosret III: A Study of Middle Kingdom State Activity and the Cult of Osiris at Abydos 1996
Hamilton, Elizabeth Garrett Technology and Social Change: The Iron Age and Gallo-Roman Copper-Working Industry at the Titelberg, G.D. Luxembourg, Circa 125 B.C.-A.D. 300 1995
Suter, Claudia E. Gudea's Temple Building: A Comparison of Written and Pictorial Accounts 1995
Bjorkman, Judith Kingston Hoards and Deposits in Bronze Age Mesopotamia 1994
Glanzman, William Dale Toward A Classification and Chronology of Pottery from HR3 (Hajar Ar-Rayhani), Wadi Al-Jubah, Republic of Yemen 1994
Jansen, Anton Stations Along the Roads in the Area of Mycenae: An Analysis of the Mycenaean Road System and its Relation to the Mycenaean State 1994
Maggidis, Christofilis Burial Building 19 at Archanes: A Study of Prepalatial and Early Protopalatial Funerary Architecture and Ritual 1994
Skon-Jedele, Nancy Joan "Aigyptiaka": A Catalogue of Egyptian and Egyptianizing Objects Excavated from Greek Archaeological Sites, Ca. 1100-525 B.C. 1994
Turner, Lee Ann The History, Monuments and Topography of Ancient Lebadeia in Boeotia, Greece 1994
Athanassopoulos, Effie-Fotini Intensive Survey and Medieval Rural Settlement: The Case of Nemea 1994
Bregstein, Linda Beth Seal Use in Fifth Century B.C. Nippur, Iraq: A Study of Seal Selection and Sealing Practices in The Murashu Archive 1993
Matney, Timothy Cecil A Semantic Model for the Analysis of Architecture from Late Third Millennium B.C. Mesopotamia 1993
Shelton, Kim S. The Late Helladic Pottery from Prosymna 1993
Bochi, Patricia Annie Agricultural Scenes in the Private Tombs of the Eighteenth Dynasty: A Study in Iconographic Polyvalence 1992
Banou, Eleni Spyridonos Pottery Groups from the West Side of Area A at Pseira 1992
Conwell, David Hulburt The Athenian Long Walls: Chronology, Topography and Remains 1992
Dierckx, Heidi M. C. Aspects of Minoan Technology, Culture, and Economy: The Bronze Age Stone Industry of Crete 1992
Donohoe, Jean M. The Lapithos-Lower Geometric Cemetery: An Early Iron Age Necropolis in Cyprus (Report of the 1931-1932 Excavations of the Cyprus Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum) 1992
Gursan-Salzmann, Ayse Alaca Hoyuk: A Reassessment of the Excavation and Sequence of the Early Bronze Age Settlement 1992
Kamrin, Janice Monument and Microcosm: The 12th Dynasty Tomb Chapel of Khnumhotep II at Beni Hasan 1992
Richards, Janet E. Mortuary Variability and Social Differentiation in Middle Kingdom Egypt 1992
Salapata, Georgia Lakonian Votive Plaques with Particular Reference to the Sanctuary of Alexandra at Amyklai 1992
Bell, Martha Rhoads The Tutankhamun Burnt Group from Gurob, Egypt: Bases for the Absolute Chronology of LH III A and B 1991
Cline, Eric H. Orientalia in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: A Catalogue and Analysis of Trade and Contacts Between the Aegean and Egypt, Anatolia and the Near East 1991
Holdaway, Simon John Resharpening Reduction and Lithic Assemblage Variability Across the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition 1991
Arnush, Michael Frank The Chronology of Delphi in the Late Fourth and Early Third Centuries B.C.: An Epigraphic and Historical Analysis 1991
Patch, Diana Craig The Origin and Early Development of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: A Regional Study 1991
Schneider, Tammi Joy A New Analysis of the Royal Annals of Shalmaneser III 1991
Smadi, Taleb Abdallah The Umayyad Presence in The Bilad Al-Sham: A Toponymic Study 1991
Tobin, Jennifer Lynn The Monuments of Herodes Atticus 1991
Blakely, Jeffrey Alan Historical Geography and its Impact on the Analysis and Publication of Excavated Ceramics in the British and American Traditions of Palestinian Archaeology 1990
Ghaleb, Abdu O. Agricultural Practices in Ancient Radman and Wadi Al-Jubah (Yemen) 1990
Simon, Marilyn Louise Late Bronze Age Ivories from Cyprus 1990
Butler, Lawrence Elliott The Nave Cornices of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul 1989
Magness, Jodi A Typology of the Late Roman and Byzantine Pottery of Jerusalem 1989
Mahasneh, Hamzeh Mazlough The Settlement Patterns in the Levant During the Neolithic Period 1989
Risser, Martha Kay Corinthian Conventionalizing Pottery 1989
Horne, Lee Claflin The Spatial Organization of Rural Settlement in Khar O Tauran, Iran: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study 1988
Marcus, Michelle Irene The Seals and Sealings from Hasanlu IVB, Iran 1988
Rosenberg, Michael Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Marv Dasht, Fars Province, Iran 1988
Rothman, Mitchell S. Centralization, Administration, and Function at Fourth Millennium, B.C. Tepe Gawra, Northern Iraq 1988
Shaheen, Alaa El-Din M. Historical Significance of Selected Scenes Involving Western Asiatics and Nubians in the Private Theban Tombs of the XVIIIth Dynasty 1988
Stein, Gil Jeremy Pastoral Production in Complex Societies: Mid - Late Third Millennium B.C. and Medieval Faunal Remains from Gritille Hoyuk in the Karababa Basin, Southeast Turkey 1988
Hawass, Zahi Abass The Funerary Establishments of Khufu, Khafra and Menkaura During the Old Kingdom 1987
Kling, Barbara Barrett Mycenaean III C: 1B and Related Pottery in Cyprus 1987
McCallum, Lucinda Rasmussen Decorative Program in the Mycenaean Palace of Pylos: The Megaron Frescoes 1987
Balthazar, Judith Weinstein Copper and Bronze Working in Early through Middle Bronze Age Cyprus 1986
Russell, Pamela Jaye The Pottery from the Late Cypriot IIC Settlement at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus: The 1979-1984 Excavation Seasons 1986
Anthony, David Waller The Social and Economic Implications of the Domestication of the Horse 1985
Evans, Jane Derose The Legends of Early Rome Used as Political Propaganda in the Roman Republican and Augustan Periods (Numismatics, Painting, Sculpture) 1985
Hall, Mark Glenn A Study of the Sumerian Moon-God, Nanna/Suen 1985
Russell, John Malcolm Sennacherib's "palace Without Rival": A Programmatic Study of Texts and Images in a Late Assyrian Palace (Nineveh) 1985
Simpson, Elizabeth The Wooden Furniture from Tumulus MM at Gordion, Turkey 1985
McClellan, Murray C. Core-formed Glass from Dated Contexts (Classical, Mediterranean) 1984
Winter, Frederick Alan Late Classical and Hellenistic Pottery from Gordion: The Imported Black Glazed Wares 1984
Brandfon, Fredric Richard Beginning of the Iron Age in Palestine 1983
Harrison, Cynthia Milton Coins of the Persian Satraps 1982
Hartmann, Nicholas Bains Iron-Working in Southern Etruria in the Ninth and Eighth Centuries B.C 1982
Koehl, Robert Barry The Imported Bronze and Iron Age Wares from Area II, Sounding X at Sarepta (Modern Sarafand), Lebanon 1982
Murray, William Michael The Coastal Sites Of Western Akarnania: A Topographical-Historical Survey 1982
Moser, Mary Elizabeth The "Southern Villanovan" Culture of Campania 1982
Hayden, Barbara Jeanne The Development of Cretan Architecture from the LM IIIA through the Geometric Periods 1981
Johnston, Paul Forsythe Ship and Boat Models in Ancient Greece 1981
Khalifeh, Issam Ali A Stratigraphic and Ceramic Analysis of the Late Bronze and Iron Age Periods from Area II, Sounding X, A/B-8/9, at Sarepta (Modern Sarafand), Lebanon 1981
Pigott, Vincent Charles The Adoption of Iron in Western Iran in the Early First Millennium B.C.: An Archaeometallurgical Study 1981
Romano, David Gilman The Stadia of the Peloponnesos 1981
Sillen, andrew Strontium and Diet at Hayonim Cave, Israel: An Evaluation of the Strontium/Calcium Technique for investigating Prehistoric Diets 1981
Trinkaus, Kathryn Maurer The Partho-Sassanian Northeast Frontier: Settlement in the Damghan Plain, Iran 1981
Brown, Kristine Stuart The Question of Near Eastern Textile Decoration of the Early First Millennium B.C. as a Source for Greek Vase Painting of the Orientalizing Style 1980
El-Harami, Jamal Hussein Greek Terracotta Figurines from the Demeter Sanctuary, Cyrene, 1969-1977 1980
Geddes, David Simon Patterns of Animal Exploitation in the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in the Aude Valley (Southern France) 1980
McGovern, Patrick Edward Ornamental and Amuletic Jewelry Pendants of Late Bronze Age Palestine: An Archaeological Study 1980
Nicholas, Ilene Mildred A Spatial/Functional Analysis of Late Fourth Millennium Occupation at the Tuv Mound, Tal-E Malyan, Iran 1980
Bennett, Carl Graham The Cults of the Ancient Greek Cypriotes 1980
Romano, Irene Bald Early Greek Cult Images 1980
Walker, Alan Stuart A Chronological Study of the Greek Imperial Coinage of Athens Based on the Collection of the Agora Excavations at Athens 1980
Young, Philip Howard Building Projects and Archaic Greek Tyrants 1980
Abercrombie, John Rogers Palestinian Burial Practices from 1200 to 600 B.C.E. 1979
Anderson, William Paul A Stratigraphic and Ceramic Analysis of the Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata of Sounding Y at Sarepta (Sarafand, Lebanon) 1979
Eiseman, Cynthia Jones The Porticello Shipwreck: A Mediterranean Merchant Vessel of 415 - 385 B.C. 1979
Fiedel, Stuart Jay Intra- and Inter-Cultural Variability in Mesolithic and Neolithic Mortuary Practices in the Near East 1979
Gates, Charles Warner, III Burials at Ialysos and Kameiros (Rhodes) in the Mid Archaic Period, ca. 625-525 B.C 1979
Marty-Peppers, Jeanne Selected Roman Pottery, Isthmia Excavations, 1967-1972 1979
Ozgen, Engin The Urartian Bronze Collection at the University Museum: The Urartian Armor 1979
Eiseman, Cynthia Jones The Porticello Shipwreck: A Mediterranean Merchant Vessel of 415 - 385 B.C 1979
Brookes, Alan Cunningham The Chronology and Development of Daedalic Sculpture 1978
Herscher, Ellen Carol The Bronze Age Cemetery at Lapithos, Vrysi Tou Barba, Cyprus; Results of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavation, 1931 1978
Kocybala, Arcadia Xenia Greek Colonization on the North Shore of the Black Sea in the Archaic Period 1978
Schaus, Gerald Paul Archaic Greek Pottery From The Demeter Sanctuary, Cyrene 1969-1976: Minor Fabrics 1978
Silverman, Jean Schneer The Gournia Collection in the University Museum: A Study in East Cretan Pottery 1978
Williams, Charles Kaufman, II Pre-Roman Cults in the Area of the Forum of Ancient Corinth 1978
Brady, Barry John Etruscan Bucchero Chalices in the University Museum 1977
Gualtieri, Maurizio Iron in Calabria in the Ninth and Eighth Centuries B.C. 1977
Kuniholm, Peter Ian Dendrochronology at Gordion and on the Anatolian Plateau 1977
Malek Shahmirzadi, Sadegh Tepe Zagheh: A Sixth Millennium B.C. Village in the Qazvin Plain of the Central Iranian Plateau 1977
Van Horn, David Michael Bronze Age Chipped Stone Tools from the Argolid of Greece and their Relation to Tools Manufactured from Other Materials 1976
Voigt, Mary Mathilda Hajji Firuz Tepe: An Economic Reconstruction of a Sixth Millennium Community in Western Iran 1976
Weiss, Harvey Ceramics for Chronology: Discriminant and Cluster Analyses of Fifth Millennium Ceramic Assemblages from Qabr Sheykheyn, Khuzestan 1976
McClellan, Joanna Alice The Iron Objects from Gordion, A Typological and Functional Analysis 1975
McClellan, Thomas Lynn Quantitative Studies in the Iron Age Pottery of Palestine 1975
Stevenson, William Edward, III The Pathological Grotesque Representation in Greek and Roman Art 1975
Jewell, Elizabeth Ruth The Archaeology and History of Western Anatolia During the Second Millennium, B.C. 1974
Rutter, Jeremy Bentham The Late Helladic IIIB and IIIC Periods at Korakou and Gonia in the Corinthia 1974
Sheftel, Phoebe Aldrich The Ivory, Bone and Shell Objects from Gordion from the Campaigns of 1950 through 1973 1974
Slater, Ray Anita The Archaeology of Dendereh in the First Intermediate Period 1974
Vitelli, Karen Donne The Greek Neolithic Patterned Urfirnis Ware from the Franchthi Cave and Lerna 1974
Watrous, Livingston Vance An Archaeological Survey of the Lasithi Plain in Crete from the Neolithic to the Late Roman Period 1974
Zouck, Nina Poe Turned and Hand-Carved Alabaster from Gordion 1974
Eiteljorg, Harrison, II The Greek Architect of the Fourth-Century B.C.: Master Craftsman or Master Planner 1973
Soles, Jeffrey Scott The Gournia House Tombs: A Study of the Architecture, Chronology and Use of the Built Rectangular Tombs of Crete 1973
Weinstein, James Morris Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt 1973
Woodard, William Stanton Prolegomena to the Religion of Knossos 1973
Langdon, Merle Kenneth The Sanctuary of Zeus Ombrios on Mount Hymettos 1972
Liebowitz, Harold Alter Regionalism in the Art of Syria and Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age 1972
Eisman, Michael Max Attic Kyathos Painters 1971
Sams, Gilbert Kenneth The Phrygian Painted Pottery of Early Iron Age Gordion and its Anatolian Setting 1971
Betancourt, Philip Pablo The Origin and Diffusion of Metallic Shaft-Hole Implements in the Aegean Early Bronze Age 1970
Carpenter, James Robert Propylon in Greek and Hellenistic Architecture 1970
Cooper, Frederick Alexander The Temple of Apollo at Bassai 1970
Cummer, Wellington Willson, III A Monumental Roman Tomb at Corinthian Kenchreai 1970
Devries, Keith Robert A Study of Boeotian Incised Fibulae and their Antecedents 1970
Shaw, Joseph Winterbotham Minoan Building Materials and their Uses 1970
Levine, Louis David Contributions to the Historical Geography of the Zagros in the Neo- Assyrian Period 1969
Moore, Charlotte Alice Brodkey Description and Analysis of the Bronze and Lead Objects in the Herman V. Hilprecht Collection. The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania 1969
Vinson, Sterling Peter An Archaeological Survey in South Italy 1969
Biers, William Richard Investigations at Phlius 1968
Hemphill, Pamela An Archaeological Survey of the Hill Region South of Lago Bracciano, Southern Etruria 1968
Sammis, Jane Williams The Gnathian Pelike: Local Centers of Production 1968
Dengate, James andrew The Coinage of Klazomenai 1967
Glass, Stephen Lloyd Palaistra and Gymnasium in Greek Architecture 1967
Van Doorninck, Frederick Hendrik, Jr The Seventh Century Byzantine Ship at Yassi Ada: Some Contributions to the History of Naval Architecture 1967
Greenewalt, Crawford Hallock, Jr Lydian Pottery of the Sixth-Century B.C.: The Lydion and Marbled Ware 1966
Muscarella, Oscar White Phrygian Fibulae from Gordion 1965
Nicol, Murray Boyd White-On-Black Painted Ware. (A Case Study for the Relationship Between Artifact Groups and Historical Events) 1965
Bass, George Fletcher Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck 1964
Hadley, Robert Arthur Deified Kingship and Propaganda Coinage in the Early Hellenistic Age: 323-280 B.C. 1964
Jacobsen, Thomas Warren Prehistoric Euboia 1964
Young, Theodore Cuyler, Jr Proto-historic Western Iran, an Archaeological and Historical Review: Problems and Possible Interpretations 1963
Knudsen, Ann Konrad A Study of the Relation Between Phrygian Metalware and Pottery in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries B.C. 1961
Dales, George Franklin, Jr Mesopotamian and Related Female Figurines: Their Chronology, Diffusion, and Cultural Functions 1960
Fischer, Henry George Denderah in the Old Kingdom and its Aftermath 1955
Daniel, John Franklin Prolegomena to the Cypro-Minoan Script 1941
Welker, Marian Diffusion of Ceramic Types in Western Asia in the Third and Second Millennia B.C. 1939
Fewkes, Valdimir Jaroslav The Neolithic Age in Bohemia 1931
Pickett, Cora Aileen The Temple of Quirinus 1930
Charles, Benson Brush Recent Researches in Hittite Lands 1910
Hinke, William John A New Boundary Stone of Nebuchadrezzar I from Nippur 1906
Van Burkalow, James Turley, Jr Buildings of Nebu-Kadnezzar 1898
 
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