Culture through objects : ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of P. R. S. Moorey

Weitere Verfasser: Potts, Timothy F.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Griffith Institute, 2003.
Umfang/Format: 421 p. : ill., 1 port. ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Early definitions of the Egyptian world and its surroundings /
  • J. Baines -
  • To write or not to write /
  • C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -
  • A soft-stone genre from southeastern Iran : 'zig-zag' bowls from Magan to Margiana /
  • D. T. Potts -
  • The north-south divide in ancient Jordan : ceramics, regionalism and routes /
  • P. Bienkowski -
  • Von Bissing's Memphis stela : a product of cultural transfer? /
  • O. W. Muscarella -
  • Disguise and exchange in eastern imagery /
  • J. Boardman -
  • Interpreting animal art in the prehistoric Near East /
  • D. Wengrow -
  • Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold /
  • E. McAdam -
  • Scorpion, fish and nets : an unusual jar in Canaanite Middle Bronze context with an appendix by Yuval Goren /
  • M. Tadmor -
  • Symbols of conquest in Sennacherib's reliefs of Lachish : impaled prisoners and booty /
  • D. Ussishkin -
  • The gold plaques of the Oxus Treasure : manufacture, decoration and meaning with an appendix by M. R. Cowell /
  • J. Curtis and A. Searight -
  • Hero and worshipper at Seleucia : re-invention of Babylonia on a banded agate cylinder seal of the Achaemenid Empire /
  • M. Cool Root -
  • Chalcolithic copper-base metallurgy on the Irania plateau : a new lookk at old evidence from Tal-I-Iblis /
  • V. C. Pigott and H. Leichtman -
  • Early Bronze Age I copper production on the coast of Israel : archaeometallurgical analysis of finds from Ashkelon-Afridar /
  • S. Shalev -
  • Le temple d'Inshushinak de Suse et l'architecture monumentale en 'faience' /
  • A. Caubet -
  • Vitreous materials in Ugarit : new data /
  • V. Matoian and A. Bouqillon -
  • From Mesopotamia to Merv : reconstructing patters of consumption in Sasanian households /
  • St. J. Simpson -
  • Who used ivories in the first millenium BC? /
  • G. Herrmann and A. Millard -
  • 'Surpassing work' : mastery of materials and the value of skilled production in ancient Sumer /
  • I. J. Winter.