Stories told around the fountain : papers offered to Piotr Bieliński on the occasion of his 70th birthday / volume editors: Agnieszka Pieńkowska, Dariusz Szeląg and Iwona Zych.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pieńkowska, Agnieszka, editor.

Szela̜g, Dariusz, editor.

Zych, Iwona, editor.

Bieliński, Piotr, honouree.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Antiquities.

Bronze age.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

791 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Warsaw, Poland : Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw : University of Warsaw Press, [2019]

Summary:

The papers offered in this volume, celebrating Prof. Piotr Bieliński on his 70th birthday anniversary, cover issues of archaeology, iconography and cult, ceramics and other objects of material culture of the Ancient Near East. The chronological and geographical spectrum of these papers reflects the Jubilarian's core research field of Bronze Age Near East, concentrating on one hand on northern Mesopotamia and on the other reaching out to the Gulf, his colleagues reach even further beyond, to Egypt, Cyprus and the Roman provinces in southeastern Europe. While the bulk of the papers are set in the Bronze Age, a number of the contributions reach back in time to the Neolithic as well as forward, to Roman and even medieval Islamic times. Five of the 42 papers in general explore topics related to Tell Arbid, a site in northern Mesopotamia that Bieliński brought to the limelight, excavating this primarily Bronze Age city with a long history between 1996 and 2010. The authors, all of them team members, discuss various aspects of ceramics (M. Momot, Ł. Rutkowski,), also in terms of what the Bronze Age diet could have been (J. Pia̜tkowska-Małecka and A. Smogorzewska), bioarchaeological data on women from Tell Arbid (A. Sołtysiak) and the Ninevite 5 infant burials (D. Szela̜g and Z. Wygnańska). However, no clear lines can be drawn considering the topics of the presentations as they tend to reach across categories. The Bronze Age landscape, urban and non-urban, of northern Mesopotamia appears in contributions presenting past and current archaeological excavations and ground surveys (R. Koliński, M. Masetti-Rouault and O. Rouault), as well as broader views of the results (K. Jakubiak, A. Reiche, Ö. Tunca). This approach comes through strongly in a series of papers that delve into iconographic studies revolving around various aspects of religion and cult, mythology and ruler representationsfrom the Bronze Age through the times of the Roman Empire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

8323541639

9788323541639

OCLC:

1231448421