Editor’s note

Introduction to the Volume

KRISZTINA HOPPÁL

Chinese Historical Records and Sino-Roman Relations. A Critical Approach to Understand Problems on the Chinese Reception of the Roman Empire

JOSÉ CARLOS QUARESMA & RODRIGO BANHA DA SILVA

An overview on oriental commerce in the Tagus estuary region: 5th and 6th century AD late Phocaean (lrc) and Cypriot (lrd) tableware

ISABEL GOMES DE ALMEIDA & MARIA DE FÁTIMA ROSA

The Pathos of the divine existence in Mesopotamia: Reconstruction of a cycle through text and image

FRIEDERIKE JUNGE

On the significance of pottery vessels in private burial contexts of Early Dynastic Egypt. Selected case studies from the necropolis area Operation 4, Helwan

GUILHERME BORGES PIRES

Before Time, after Time: existential time markers in Ancient Egypt - beginning, end and restart. A preliminary approach (with a special focus on the Heliopolitan conception)

EVA KATARINA GLAZER

(Re)constructing the history of the nomadic population in Bronze Age southern Levant

CHRISTOPH SCHMIDHUBER

Childhood in Mesopotamian texts and archaeology: finding a common ground?

RONALDO GURGEL PEREIRA

Ancient Egyptian Collections in Portuguese Museums – Building an Image of Ancient Egypt

CATARINA MIRANDA

Sources that study Antiquity: study perspectives on Herodotus’ Histories, or how have the historians interpreted the father of History

LEONOR SANTA BÁRBARA

Sappho’s poems – Portraits of a poetess

JOANNA POPIELSKA-GRZYBOWSKA

Religious texts as a source of a contemporary study of Antiquity – linguistic interpretations of the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts