Culture through objects : ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of P.R.S. Moorey /
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Language: English
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Griffith Institute,
2003.
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Call Number: DS56 .C85 2003
Table of Contents:
- •Preface •P. R. S. Moorey: Bibliography 1964-2002 •I.. Tracking Cultural Transfers •Introduction •Early definitions of the Egyptian world and its surroundings •To write or not to write •A soft-stone genre from southeastern Iran: 'zig-zag' bowls from Magan to Margiana •The north-south divide in ancient Jordan: ceramics, regionalism and routes •Von Bissing's Memphis Stela: a product of cultural transfer? •Disguise and exchange in eastern imagery •II.. Understanding Images •Introduction •Interpreting animal art in the prehistoric Near East •Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold •Scorpion, fish and nets: an unusual jar in Canaanite Middle Bronze context with an appendix by Yuval Goren •Symbols of conquest in Sennacherib's reliefs of Lachish: impaled prisoners and booty •The gold plaques of the Oxus Treasure: manufacture, decoration and meaning with an appendix by M. R. Cowell •Hero and worshipper at Seleucia: re-inventions of Babylonia on a banded agate cylinder seal of the Achaemenid Empire •III.. Materials and Manufacture •Introduction •Chalcolithic copper-base metallurgy on the Iranian plateau: a new look at old evidence from Tal-I-Iblis •Early Bronze Age I copper production on the coast of Israel: archaeometallurgical analysis of finds from Ashkelon-Afridar •Le temple d'Inshushinak de Suse et l'architecture monumentale en 'faience' •Vitreous materials in Ugarit: new data •From Mesopotamia to Merv: reconstructing patterns of consumption in Sasanian households •Who used ivories in the first millennium BC? •'Surpassing work': mastery of materials and the value of skilled production in ancient Sumer