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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moorey, P. R. S. (Peter Roger Stuart), 1937-2004.

Potts, Timothy C.

Roaf, Michael

Stein, Diana L.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moorey, P. R. S. (Peter Roger Stuart), 1937-2004.

Moorey, P. R. S.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

421 pages : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Griffith Institute, 2003.

Contents:

P. R. S. Moorey: Bibliography 1964-2002 9

I. Tracking Cultural Transfers

Early definitions of the Egyptian world and its surroundings / J. Baines 27

To write or not to write / C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky 59

A soft-stone genre from southeastern Iran: 'zig-zag' bowls from Magan to Margiana / D. T. Potts 77

The north-south divide in ancient Jordan: ceramics, regionalism and routes / P. Bienkowski 93

Von Bissing's Memphis Stela: a product of cultural transfer? / O. W. Muscarella 109

Disguise and exchange in eastern imagery / J. Boardman 123

II. Understanding Images

Interpreting animal art in the prehistoric Near East / D. Wengrow 139

Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold / E. McAdam 161

Scorpion, fish and nets: an unusual jar in Canaanite Middle Bronze context with an appendix by Yuval Goren / M. Tadmor 189

Symbols of conquest in Sennacherib's reliefs of Lachish: impaled prisoners and booty / D. Ussishkin 207

The gold plaques of the Oxus Treasure: manufacture, decoration and meaning with an appendix by M. R. Cowell / J. Curtis, A. Searight 219

Hero and worshipper at Seleucia: re-inventions of Babylonia on a banded agate cylinder seal of the Achaemenid Empire / M. Cool Root 249

III. Materials and Manufacture

Chalcolithic copper-base metallurgy on the Iranian plateau: a new look at old evidence from Tal-I-Iblis / V. C. Pigott, H. Lechtman 291

Early Bronze Age I copper production on the coast of Israel: archaeometallurgical analysis of finds from Ashkelon-Afridar / S. Shalev 313

Le temple d'Inshushinak de Suse et l'architecture monumentale en 'faience' / A. Caubet 325

Vitreous materials in Ugarit: new data / V. Matoian, A. Bouquillon 333

From Mesopotamia to Merv: reconstructing patterns of consumption in Sasanian households / St J. Simpson 347

Who used ivories in the first millennium BC? / G. Herrmann, A. Millard 377

'Surpassing work': mastery of materials and the value of skilled production in ancient Sumer / I. J. Winter 403.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-421)

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

0900416793

0900416807

OCLC:

53123068