Culture through objects : ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of P. R. S. Moorey
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Potts, Timothy F.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Griffith Institute,
2003.
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| Umfang/Format: |
421 p. : ill., 1 port. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0900416793 0-900416-80-7 |
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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.
