Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Catalogue of the Silver Plate (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Catalogue of the Silver Plate (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate
Author: D.E. Strong
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040036104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate (1966) examines the history of ancient plate in the period from the Bronze Age to the fifth century A.D. It describes in detail the development of gold and silver plate throughout this long period, and looks at the civilizations where this complicated craft flourished.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040036104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate (1966) examines the history of ancient plate in the period from the Bronze Age to the fifth century A.D. It describes in detail the development of gold and silver plate throughout this long period, and looks at the civilizations where this complicated craft flourished.
Zeus
Author: Arthur Bernard Cook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
zeus. a study in ancient religion. volume 2, part 1.
Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
The Cambridge Ancient History: Plates, New ed., 1988
Author: John Bagnell Bury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity
Author: Ralph Haussler
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789253349
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalized – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyze the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789253349
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalized – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyze the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective.
The Jewellery Of Roman Britain
Author: Dr Catherine Johns
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135851115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This work provides a survey of the jewellery of Roman Britain. Fully illustrated and accessible to both the specialist and amateur enthusiast, it surveys the full range of personal ornament worn in Britain during the Roman period, the 1st to 4th centuries AD. It emphasizes the presence of two distinct cultural and artistic traditions, the classical element introduced by the Romans and the indigeneous Celtic background. The interaction of these traditions affected all aspects of Romano-British life and is illustrated in the jewellery.; The meaning and significance of personal ornament in a wide range of cultures is discussed, including such matters as symbolism and the display of wealth and status. The principal types of Romano-British jewellery are classified in detail, drawing attention to those which can be relatively closely dated. The coverage is not restricted to precious-metal objects, but includes jewellery made of base metals and materials such as bone, jet and glass. The final chapter is devoted to the techniques of manufacture, a subject which has become better understood in recent years as a result of scientific advances. The book should appeal to anyone who practices, teaches or studies Roman archaeology, together with all those with a professional or amateur interest in the history of jewellery and design.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135851115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This work provides a survey of the jewellery of Roman Britain. Fully illustrated and accessible to both the specialist and amateur enthusiast, it surveys the full range of personal ornament worn in Britain during the Roman period, the 1st to 4th centuries AD. It emphasizes the presence of two distinct cultural and artistic traditions, the classical element introduced by the Romans and the indigeneous Celtic background. The interaction of these traditions affected all aspects of Romano-British life and is illustrated in the jewellery.; The meaning and significance of personal ornament in a wide range of cultures is discussed, including such matters as symbolism and the display of wealth and status. The principal types of Romano-British jewellery are classified in detail, drawing attention to those which can be relatively closely dated. The coverage is not restricted to precious-metal objects, but includes jewellery made of base metals and materials such as bone, jet and glass. The final chapter is devoted to the techniques of manufacture, a subject which has become better understood in recent years as a result of scientific advances. The book should appeal to anyone who practices, teaches or studies Roman archaeology, together with all those with a professional or amateur interest in the history of jewellery and design.
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description