Word becomes image : openwork vessels as a reflection of late antique transformation /

This study presents a diachronic investigation providing a rich case study as well as an approach tracing the contours of a category of Roman material culture defined by the Roman period technique of openwork carving. As the first comprehensive assemblage of openwork vessels from Classical to late A...

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Main Author: Meredith, Hallie, 1976- (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2015]

Series: Archaeopress archaeology.

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