On the art in the ancient Near East /
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This volume of collected essays brings together for the first time the range of Winter's pioneering studies related to Neo-Assyrian relief sculpture and seals, Phoenician and Syrian ivory and bronze production, and inter-polity connections across the various cultures of first millennium B.C.E. from the Aegean to Iran. Consistent threads are an emphasis on the potential for art historical analysis to yield 'history' in the broadest sense; the importance of making the theoretical frame of interpretation explicit; and the necessity of textual evidence being brought to bear upon elements of formal analysis and archaeological context. "These beautifully produced volumes bring together essays written over a 35-year period, creating a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts...No library should be without this impressive collection." J.C. Exum
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047425847
Walls of the prince : Egyptian interactions with Southwest Asia in antiquity : essays in honour of John S. Holladay, Jr. /
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Walls of the Prince offers a series of articles that explore Egyptian interactions with Southwest Asia during the second and first millennium BCE, including long-distance trade in the Middle Kingdom, the itinerary of Thutmose III's great Syrian campaign, the Amman Airport structure, anthropoid coffins at Tell el-Yahudiya, Egypt's relations with Israel in the age of Solomon, Nile perch and other trade with the southern Levant and Transjordan in the Iron Age, Saite strategy at Mezad Hashavyahu, and the concept of resident alien in Late Period Egypt. These are complemented by methodological and typological studies of data from the archaeological investigations at Tell al-Maskhuta, the Wadi Tumilat, and Mendes in the eastern Nile delta. Together, they reflect the diverse range of Professor Holladay's long and distinguished scholarly career.
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1 online resource (xx, 436 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004302563 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890 : Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform /
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"The commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the social life of typical objects moving from Cairo and Damascus to Paris, London, and beyond, uncovers the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in the trade of architectural salvage and historic handicraft, and traces impacts on private interiors, through creative reuse and Revival design, in Egypt, Europe and America. By devoting attention to both local and global engagements with Middle Eastern tangible heritage, the present volume invites to look anew at Orientalism in art and interior design, the canon of Islamic architecture and the translocation of historic works of art"--
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1 online resource. :
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9789004449886
9789004449879
On the art in the ancient Near East /
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This second volume of collected essays, complement to volume one, focuses upon the art and culture of the third millennium B.C.E. in ancient Mesopotamia. Stress is upon the ability of free-standing sculpture and public monuments not only to reflect cultural attitudes, but to affect a viewing audience. Using Sumerian and Akkadian texts as well as works, the power of visual experience is pursued toward an understanding not only of the monuments but of their times and our own. \'These beautifully produced volumes bring together essays written over a 35-year period, creating a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts...No library should be without this impressive collection.\' J.C. Exum
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047428459 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Thirsty seafarers at Temple B of Kommos : commercial districts and the role of Crete in Phoenician trading networks in the Aegean /
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The island of Crete was an important place for cultural and economic exchanges between Greeks and Near Easterners in the Aegean during the 1st millennium BC. This book aims to understand the Phoenician presence and trade in Aegean temples, as well as how Crete shaped its role within the context of Mediterranean trade routes from East to West.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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9781803273235 (PDF ebook) :
Composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East : exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature /
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This volume represents a first attempt to conceptualise the construction and use of composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East by looking at the complex relationships between environments, materials, societies and materiality.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 96 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784918545 (ebook) :
Ex Asia et Syria : Oriental religions in the Roman Central Balkans /
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This title examines the cults of Asia Minor and Syrian origin in the Roman provinces of the Central Balkans. The author analyses all hitherto known epigraphical and archaeological material attesting to the presence of the cults in that region, a subject yet to be the object of serious scholarly study.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699142 (PDF ebook) :
Glazed brick decoration in the Ancient Near East : proceedings of a workshop at the 11th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Munich) in April 2018 :...
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Glazed bricks applied as a new form of colourful and glossy architectural decor first started to appear in the early Iron Age on monumental buildings of the Ancient Near East. This volume provides an updated overview of the development of glazed bricks and scientific research on the topic.
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Conference proceedings.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (130 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789696066 (ebook) :
Lost and now found : explorers, diplomats and artists in Egypt and the near East /
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Long distance travel and mass tourism are not recent phenomena. This collection of papers from the 2015 ASTENE Conference in Exeter demonstrates that over the centuries many individuals and groups of people have left the safety of their family home and travelled huge distances both for adventure and to learn more about other peoples and places. Some travels were to help establish trade routes, while others were for personal pleasure and knowledge. Many of those who travelled have left little or no record but in a few cases their travels can be determined from the brief encounters they had with other travellers who noted these chance meetings in their journals and diaries, which they later used to inform and write for publication accounts of their own travels and impressions.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes index.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784916282 (ebook) :
The first thousand years of glass-making in the ancient Near East : compositional analyses of Late Bronze and Iron Age glasses /
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Explores glass composition and production from the mid-second to mid-first millennia BC, the first thousand years of glass-making. Multi-element analyses of 132 glasses from Pella in Jordan, and Nuzi and Nimrud in Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) produce new and important data that provide insights into the earliest glass production.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations, maps :
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9781789697049 (PDF ebook) :
Colonial geopolitics and local cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (3rd century BC - 3rd century AD) = Géopolitique coloniale et cultures locales dans l'Orient hellénistique...
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What changes in the material culture can we observe, when a state is overwhelming a local population with soldiers, katoikoi, and civil officials or merchants? What were the mutual influences between native and colonial cultures? This collection addresses these questions and many more, focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman East.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"proceedings of a panel held during the Celtic Conference in Classics 2014 ... [and] a number of papers given previously ... under the aegis of the Symposium international le livre, la Roumanie, L'Europe2--Introduction. :
1 online resource (v, 218 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) :
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9781789699838 (PDF ebook) :
The genesis of the textile industry from adorned nudity to ritual regalia : the changing role of fibre crafts and their evolving techniques of manufacture in the ancient Near East...
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The Genesis of the Textile Industry from Adorned Nudity to Ritual Regalia documents and evaluates the changing role of fibre crafts and their evolving techniques of manufacture and also their ever-increasing wider application in the lives of the inhabitants of the earliest villages of the Ancient Near East. It is a broad-spectrum enquiry into fibre working in a broad swathe from Mesopotamia across Persia and Anatolia to the Nile Valley. It focuses, however, on the southern Levant from incipient sedentism in the Natufian culture, c. 13,000 cal BCE to the Ghassulian culture, c. 4500-3800/3700 cal BCE. This is the first comprehensive study addressing the fibre technologies of the southern Levant on a long chronological axis. Currently, fibre crafts play only a minor role in archaeological thinking.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789694499 (ebook) :
Stone vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian period (c. 1200-330 BCE) /
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This text focuses on the characteristics and the development of the stone vessel industry in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian period (c. 1200 - 330 BCE). Three main aspects of this industry are investigated. First, the technology behind the manufacture of stone vessels, the tools and techniques, and how these changed across time. Second, the mechanisms of exchange of stone vessels and how these were affected by the changing political landscape through time. Third, the consumption patterns of stone vessels in both elite and non-elite contexts, and how these patterns changed through time.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915537 (ebook) :
Over the mountains and far away : studies in near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday /
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The publication of 'Over the Mountains and Far Away' was initiated by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, the International Association of Mediterranean and Oriental Studies (Rome, Italy) and the Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies (Yerevan, Armenia) as a tribute to the career of Professor Mirjo Salvini on the occasion his 80th birthday. It is composed of 62 papers written by his colleagues and students from Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Great Britain, Russian Federation, Israel, Turkey, Islamic Republic of Iran, Georgia, United States and Armenia. The contributions presented here cover numerous topics, a wide geographical area and a long chronological period.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (xviii, 572 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919443 (ebook) :
Arab settlements : tribal structures and spatial organizations in the Middle East between Hellenistic and early Islamic periods /
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How can the built environment help in the understanding of social and economic changes involving ancient local communities? 'Arab Settlements' aims to shed light on the degree to which economic and political changes affected social and identity patterns in the regional context from the Nabatean through to the Umayyad and Abbasid periods.
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"Available both in print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789693621 (ebook) :