Author: Dominik Bonatz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110691930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Despite ongoing interest in Middle Assyrian glyptic art, the publications of Middle Assyrian seals and seal impressions from excavated sites in the Near East are very rare. The book is the first to offer a comprehensive study on the seal corpus from an archaeological site historically located in the western territory of the Middle Assyrian state. The seal impressions and few original seals, which were found during the excavations in Tell Fekheriye (Syria), substantially add to our understanding of the iconographic repertory and the use of seals in the Middle Assyrian period. The corpus dates to the reigns of the Assyrian kings Shalmaneser I and Tukulti-Ninurta I in the 13th century B.C. It documents practices of governance and administration in the growing Middle Assyrian Empire, points to activities of high-ranking Assyrian officials and unfolds the pictorial reality of political and ideological intensions. While finding detailed information on unpublished materials, their archaeological contexts and interpretations, the reader is also invited to follow a discourse on art, state and society for which the Middle Assyrian seal motifs from Tell Fekheriye provide an excellent case study.
Author: Hans Peter Hahn
Publisher:
ISBN: 1789258154
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Author: Costanza Coppini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111075303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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The importance and primary role of the site of Tell Fekheriye (Syria) has always been emphasized in the research history of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology. As known from excavations and written sources, the site was an important centre in the Mittani and the Middle Assyrian periods. However, a systematic study and analysis of the pottery has never been accomplished, although the material offers a local and regional perspective on the ceramic production of a Late Bronze Age urban centre. This book fills this gap, offering an insight into the pottery from the site. The material provides a crucial set of data from Northern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on the Late Bronze Age, and in the phase of power alternation between the Mittani Kingdom and the Middle Assyrian state. This work illustrates the chrono-typological changes in the ceramic assemblages and provides an analysis of the functions related to the ceramic vessels, in context with other findings (sealings). In the end, the analysis of ceramic material as a starting point leads the reader to the investigation of topics related to society and social behaviours, economy, and political assets and administration in this urban centre for roughly 300 years of its history.
Author: Serdar Yalcin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004524568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which multiple aspects of identity were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of personal seals from ancient Mesopotamia and Syria in the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE.
Author: Pavel S. Avetisyan
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784919446
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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This volume is a tribute to the career of Professor Mirjo Salvini on the occasion his 80th birthday, composed of 62 papers written by his colleagues and students. The majority of contributions deal with research in the fields of Urartian and Hittite Studies, the topics that attracted Prof. Salvini most during his long and fruitful career.
Author: Donald M. Matthews
Publisher: Saint-Paul
ISBN:
Category : Birak, Tall (Syria)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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This book is the most comprehensive treatment of the art of Syria in the third millennium B.C. It is a catalogue of nearly 600 seals from Tell Brak, combined with a general study of the comparative material. It is both a basic word of reference and a new synthesis of the Syrian Early Bronze Age. relate to taxation during the New Kingdom.
Author: Dominik Bonatz
Publisher: de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110691238
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The series is dedicated to the ancient site of Tell Fekheriye in Syria which is believed to have played a central role in the political and cultural history of the region during mainly the Late Bronze Age and later the Roman-Byzantine periods. In fact, the excavations exposed impressive architectural remains and finds from the period when the site was under the hegemony of first the Mittani and then the Middle Assyrian state (ca. 1500-1100 BC).
Author: Claudio Saporetti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Benjamin Sass
Publisher: Saint-Paul
ISBN: 9783525537602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Benjamin Sass
Publisher: Universitatsverlag
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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