Culture through objects : ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of P.R.S. Moorey / edited by Timothy Potts, Michael Roaf and Diana Stein

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Object Details

Author
Moorey, P. R. S (Peter Roger Stuart) 1937-
Potts, Timothy F
Roaf, Michael
Stein, Diana L
Subject
Moorey, P. R. S (Peter Roger Stuart) 1937-
Contents
Preface: P.R.S. Moorey: bibliography 1964-2002.I. TRACKING CULTURAL TRANSFERS. Introduction/ P.F. Potts -- Early definitions of the Egyptian world and its surroundings / J. Baines -- To write or not to write / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- A soft -stone genre from southeastern Iran: 'zig-zag' bowls from Magan to Margiana / D.T. Potts -- The north-south divide in ancient Jordan: ceramics, regionalism and routes / P. Bienkowski -- von Bissing's Memphis stela: a product of cultural transfer? / O.W. Muscarella -- Disguise and exchange in eastern imagery / J. Boardman
II. UNDERSTANDING IMAGES. Introduction / D.L. Stein -- Interpreting animal art in the prehistoric Near East / D. Wengrow -- Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold / E.McAdam -- Scorpion, fish and nets: an unusual jar in Canaanite Middle Bronze context with an appendix by Yuval Goren / M. Tadmor -- Symbols of conquest in Sennacherib's reliefs of Lachish: impaled prisoners and booty / D. Ussishkin -- The gold plaques of the Oxus Treasure: manufacture, decoration and Meaning with an appendix by M.R. Cowell / J. Curtis and A. Searight -- Hero worshipper at Seleucia: re-inventions of Babylonia on a banded agate cylinder seal of the Achaemenid Empire / M Cool Root
III. MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURE. Introduction / M.D. Roaf -- Chalcolithic copper-base metallurgy on the Iranian plateau: a new look at old evidence from Tal-I-Iblis / V.C. Pigott and H. Lechtman -- Early Bronze Age I copper production on the coast of Israel; archaeometallurgical analysis of finds from Ashkelon-Afridar / S. Shalev -- Le temple d'Inshushinak de Suse et l'architecture monumentale en 'faience'/ A. Caubet -- Vitreous materials in Ugarit; new data / V. Matoian and A. Bouquillon -- From Mesopotamia to Merv; reconstructing patterns of consumption in Sasanian households / St. J. Simpson -- who used ivories in the first millenium BC? / G. Herrmann and A. Millard -- 'Surpassing work': mastery of materials and the value of skilled production in ancient Sumer / I.J. Winter
2003
Type
Books
Festschriften
Physical description
421 pages : illustrations, maps, 1 portrait ; 24 cm
Place
Middle East
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Material culture
Antiquities
Record ID
siris_sil_1078742
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0