Author: Guitty Azarpay
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Art, Urartian
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Oscar White Muscarella
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004236694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1094

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Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East follows the evolution of the author’s scholarly work and interests and is divided into several categories of interrelated fields. The first part deals primarily with excavations and associated artifacts, issues in ancient geography and the identification of ancient sites in northwest Iran, the author’s research involving the culture and chronology of the Phrygian capital at Gordion in Anatolia, and the chronology and Iranian cultural relations of a site in the Emirate of Sharjah. Part two is wide-ranging and includes chapters on Aegean and ancient Near Eastern cultural and political interconnections, the role of fibulae in revealing cultural and chronological matters, and the gender-determined usage of parasols and their recognition in excavated contexts. There are also articles specifically concerned with “Plunder Culture” and the forgery of both objects and their alleged proveniences. "At 1,088 pages, this volume provides a wonderful sample– chosen by Muscarella himself – of forty papers spanning the author’s career and many interests...This volume is so rich that it contains something for everyone." D.T. Potts, NYU, Bibliotheca Orientalis lxxIII n° 3-4, mei-augustus 2016

Author: John Boardman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521242899
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995251
Category : Bronze age
Languages : en
Pages : 509

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This volume catalogues more than six hundred bronze and iron objects in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each is illustrated and discussed in terms of its formal and stylistic aspects, cultural background, function, and chronology. Bibliographic citations present comparative material relevant to each object. - Book jacket.

Author: Susan J. Bridges
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Maurits Nanning van Loon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armenia
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: David Frankel
Publisher: British Museum Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Guitty Azarpay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Östasiatiska museet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Kenneth D. S. Lapatin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198153115
Category : Mediterranean Region
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Composite statues of gold (chrysos), ivory (elephas), and other precious materials were the most celebrated artworks of classical antiquity. Greek and Latin authors leave no doubt that such images provided a centrepiece for religious and civic life and that vast sums were spent to producethem. A number of these statues were the creations of antiquity's most highly acclaimed artists: Polykleitos, Alkamenes, Leochares, and, of course, Pheidias, whose magnificent Zeus Olympios came to be ranked among the Seven Wonders of the World. Although a few individual images such as Pheidias'Athena Parthenos have been the subject of detailed scholarly analysis, chryselephantine statuary as a class, from the exquisite statuettes of Minoan Crete to the majestic temple images constructed by classical Greek city-states and imitated by the Romans, has not received comprehensive study since1815. This book presents not only the ancient literary and epigraphical evidence for lost statues and examines representations of them in other media, but also assembles and analyses much-neglected physical survivals, elucidating throughout the innovative techniques, such as ivory-bending, employedin their production as well as the variety of social, religious, and political roles they played within the ancient societies that produced them.