Ancient Near Eastern art in context : studies in honor of Irene J. Winter /
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Through her published works and in the classroom, Irene J. Winter has served as a mentor for the latest generation of scholars of Mesopotamian visual culture. The various contributions to this volume in her honor represent a cross section of the state of scholarship today. Topics by the twenty authors include palatial and temple architecture, royal sculpture, gender in the ancient Near East, and interdisciplinary studies that range from the fourth millennium BCE to modern ethnography and cover Sumer, Assyria, Babylonia, Iran, Syria, Urartu, and the Levant. Reflections on Winter's scholarship and teaching accompany her bibliography. The volume will be useful for scholars who are curious about how visual culture is being used to study the ancient Near East.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047420859 :
1566-2055 ; :
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Hellenizing art in ancient Nubia, 300 BC-AD 250, and its Egyptian model s a study in "acculturation" /
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Presenting a large body of evidence for the first time, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of Nubian architecture, sculpture, and minor arts in the period between 300 BC-AD 250. It focuses primarily on the Nubian response to the traditional pharaonic, Hellenistic/Roman, Hellenizing, and "hybrid" elements of Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian culture. The author begins with a history of Nubian art and a critical survey of the literature on Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian art. Special chapters are then devoted to the discussion of the Egyptian-Greek interaction in the arts of Ptolemaic Egypt, the place of Egyptian Hellenistic and Hellenizing art within the oikumene, the pluralistic visual world of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, as well as on the specific genre of terracotta sculpture. Utilizing examples from Meroe City and Musawwarat es Sufra, the author argues that cultural transfer from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to Nubia resulted in an inward-focused adaptation. Therefore, the resulting Nubian art from this period expresses only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art that are compatible with indigenous Nubian goals.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004211292 :
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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.
Ancient Jewish art and archaeology in the diaspora /
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Jewish Diaspora in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods from first to the eighth centuries C.E. is the subject of this work. The author thoroughly investigates origin, symbolism and significance of the mainly synagogal and funerary art forms in the Diaspora. Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology in the Diaspora is the companion volume to the successful Ancient Jewish Art and Archeaeology in the Land of Israel (1988) by the same author. The geographical area covered includes Syria, Asia Minor, North Africa and Mediterranean Europe. The first section examines the characteristic features of Diaspora Art synagogue architecture and art (including the Torah shrine and mosaic pavements). Another section deals with burial and funerary practices. Of special importance are the sections on the Biblical scenes , designs and iconography of the Dura Europos synagogue, and the Jewish symbols such as the Menorah, ritual objects, the Ark, the conch and the Torah Scrolls . The book is richly illustrated with more than 325 drawings and photographs, some in colour.
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1 online resource (xxxiii, 499 pages, [64] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-486) and index. :
9789004294042 :
0169-9423 ; :
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Barbaric splendour : the use of image before and after Rome /
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This text comprises a collection of essays comparing late Iron Age and Early Medieval art. Fundamentally, the work asks what making images meant on the fringe of the expanding or contracting Roman empire, particularly as the art from both periods drew heavily from - but radically transformed - imperial imagery.
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"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696608 (ebook) :
The Lie Became Great : The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures /
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The Lie Became Great explores the closed society of international plunderers and forgers which thrives as a subculture of the Art World. These multi-cultural denizens include antiquity dealers, collectors, museum curators, forgers working in conjunction with auction houses, museums and galleries. Forgeries are made to be sold, and a great number pass into the Art World - collections, exhibitions, catalogues, and popular and scholarly journals - complete with their fabricated stories of excavation, and how they were found. The Lie Became Great documents the success and activities of one small corner of this vast network - artifacts form the Ancient Near East - with hundreds of detailed catalogue entries of forgeries. The participants in this society gain money, prestige, power, position as they distort and irretrievably damage the true story of our cultural heritage. STYX PUBLICATIONS.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004502147
9789056930417
Art and architecture in Neolithic Orkney : process, temporality and context /
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This text offers a groundbreaking analysis of Neolithic art and architecture in Orkney, focusing upon the incredible collection of hundreds of decorated stones being revealed by the current excavations at the Ness of Brodgar.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781784914349 (ebook) :
Assyria to Iberia : art and culture in the Iron Age /
: "The essays in this volume are based on papers and lectures presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 27, 2014, through January 4, 2015"--Colophon. : ix, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781588396068 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Bes : demon God, protector of Egypt /
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"The demon god Bes was above all a protector of Egypt, as manifested in a variety of ways over the ages. This publication takes a closer look at the themes of the exhibition Bes. Demon God - Protector of Egypt. Who was Bes? What role did he play in sexuality, as a musician or alongside other gods? And why was he so popular in Nubia, Egypt's southern neighbour? Exhibition: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (20.05 - 31.10.2021)"-- Back cover.
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, May 20-October 31, 2021. :
127 pages : many illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (page 127). :
9788774523772
Image and identity in the ancient Near East : papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet /
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This volume, consisting of two parts, gathers papers in honour of Pierre Amiet. Part 1 analyses the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). Part 2 includes articles closely related to the specialisms of Amiet: glyptics, state formation, and the organisation of craftsmen and statuary.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource. :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271231 (PDF ebook) :
The Greeks in the east /
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"This volume owes its existence to the 21st British Museum Classical Colloquium, The Greeks in the East, held on 9-10 December 1997 ... The papers as now presented mostly reflect the state of research in 2002, but some have been substantially updated thereafter"--Preface. :
v, 123 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
0861591577 (pbk.)
9780861591572 :
0142-4815 ;