The "ivory houses" at Mycenae /
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"Catalogue of artefacts" on nine microfinches in pockets.
Appendices (pages [301]-320): A. Chemical analysis of coarse-ware stirrup jars from the House of the Oil Merchant, Mycenae / by Richard Jones -- B. Multi-variate analysis of neutron activation analysis on heavy-ware stirrup jars from Mycenae / by Jonathan Tomlinson -- C. Petrographic analysis of transport stirrup jars from the Housse of the Oil Merchant / by Peter Day -- D. Comparison of petrographic and chemical results / by Jonathan Tomlinson and Peter Day :
xx, 341 pages, [41] pages of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. + 9 microfiches (11 x 15 cm.) :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-335) and index. :
090488712x :
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Looted, recovered, returned : antiquities from Afghanistan : a detailed scientific and conservation record of a group of ivory and bone furniture overlays excavated at Begram, stolen from the National...
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The 'Begram ivories' are widely considered to be miniature masterpieces of Indian art and are one of the largest archaeological collections of ancient ivories. They were excavated at the site of Begram, in northern Afghanistan, in 1937 and 1939 and belong to a period when Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India were united under rulers of the Kushan dynasty. This book describes their story from excavation to display and return, with individual object biographies and detailed scientific analyses and conservation treatments. It also discusses how these objects have attracted very different interpretations over the decades since their discovery, and how the new analyses shed a completely fresh light on the collection.
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1 online resource : illustrations (colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910174 (PDF ebook) :
Inscriptions from Lisht : texts from burial chambers /
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The inscribed objects found in or associated with the burial chambers of Middle Kingdom officials and other individuals provide an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of ancient Egyptian funerary culture. These include the coffins and sarcophagi as well as canopic chests and jars, mummy masks, ivory wands, miniature coffins, and shawabtis. This volume incorporates all such inscribed material associated with more than one hundred burial chambers and graves found at Lisht North and Lisht South, two sites excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1907 until 1934 and from 1984 to 1991. Two kings, several members of the royal family, and many elite persons, as well as a community of middle-class people found their resting place in and around the royal pyramids at Lisht, which served as the principal cemetery for Egypt's capital during the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1650 B.C.). The material in the corpus published here represents a sequence of seven chronological phases at Lisht that range from the reigns of the kings Amenemhat I and Senwosret I through the late Dynasty XIII and the Second Intermediate Period. The inscribed texts presented in this corpus are transliterated and translated, and are accompanied by extensive drawings that meticulously detail these texts, as well as annotations to some previously published material. The lavishly illustrated volume includes heretofore unpublished photographs from the Department of Egyptian Art's archives. Each object described in Inscriptions from Lisht has been assigned a code referring to the primary individual associated with it, and its description includes transliterations of the deceased's name(s) and title(s). Because the location of an inscription on a coffin or sarcophagus is usually significant and because some of these include multiple texts, the author has designed a system of references that reflects the location on the object. Further, the catalogue of objects draws on Museum archives and also provides information concerning the findspot and current location of the object as well as relevant archival material and bibliography." --Provided by publisher
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Includes Director's Foreword. :
xi, 74 pages, 251 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9781588397164
Umayyad legacies : medieval memories from Syria to Spain /
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The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus - Islamic Spain - from 756 to 1031, ruling first as emirs and then as caliphs themselves. This book is the first to bring together studies of this far-flung family and treat it not as two unrelated caliphates but as a single enterprise. Yet for all that historians have made note of Umayyad accomplishments in the Near East and al-Andalus, Umayyad legacies - what later generations made of these caliphs and their achievements - are poorly understood. Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, this book highlights Umayyad achievements and the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past.
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Includes selected papers from a conference organized by the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) and the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute held in Damascus, Syria, June 29-July 2, 2006. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004190986 :
0929-2403 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Cultures in contact : from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. /
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"Most of the essays published in this volume were presented at "The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Symposium: Beyond Babylon: art, trade and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C." held on December 18 and 19, 2008 and "The Friends of Inanna scholars' day workshop" held on February 4, 2009 ... held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York"-- Title page verso.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia". :
xvii, 354 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-352). :
9780300185034
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Kenchreai, eastern port of Corinth : results of investigations by the University of Chicago and Indiana University for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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Hundreds of richly decorated ivory and bone fragments from furniture and parts from at least three crossed-leg chairs, survived under seawater in an apsidal room at Kenchreai, the Eastern port of ancient Corinth. These excavated remains include fragments of an incised bone panel with a scene of an emperor and attendants, a thiasos, bucolic and hunt scenes, seated philosophers, erotes, and a miniature ivory Corinthian order supporting a bone arcade decorated with erotes. Decorative moldings and large bone rings suggest that most of these belonged to a luxuriously decorated chest. Dating to the fourth century, these objects provide an important addition to our knowledge of the artistic production of late Roman Egypt and the working of ivory, bone, and wood.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047421160 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Facts and artefacts : art in the Islamic world : festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday /
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The scholarly search on the art of the object is of enduring interest and enjoys a new renaissance in the last few years. This book mainly explores the art and craft of Islamic artefacts and presents to the reader a diverse range of approaches. Despite this variety, in which also artefacts of the pre-Islamic, period as well as 'orientalized' European artefacts of the modern era are included, there is an overarching theme - the linking of the interpretation of objects and their specific aesthetics to textual sources and the aim of setting them in historical and artistic context. In this impressive collection honouring the German scholar of Islamic art Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday, Avinoam Shalem and Annette Hagedorn bring together contributions from a highly distinguished group of scholars of Asiatic, Sasanian, Islamic as well as European art history. Unpublished artefacts and new interpretations are presented in this book.
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1 online resource. :
"Jens Kröger's list of publications": pages [xix]-xxvii.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047422815 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.