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Author |
: Elizabeth Simpson |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 1049 |
Release |
: 2018-06-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004361713 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004361715 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar by : Elizabeth Simpson
The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella, edited by Elizabeth Simpson, is a Festschrift celebrating the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Oscar Muscarella is a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a formidable scholar who has excavated at sites in Turkey, Iran, and the United States. He has published eight books and nearly 200 articles, excavation reports, and reviews on topics ranging from the arts of antiquity and the importance of connoisseurship, to the difficulties of dating and the problems of forgeries, the looting of ancient sites, and the antiquities trade. The forty-seven contributors are experts in the areas of Muscarella’s interests and are major scholars in their fields. This volume constitutes an unusual, important, and timely addition to the archaeological and art historical literature.
Author |
: Elizabeth Simpson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9004361707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004361706 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar by : Elizabeth Simpson
The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella, edited by Elizabeth Simpson, celebrates the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Forty-seven major scholars contribute to this unusual and important volume.
Author |
: Ephraim S. Ayil |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2024-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004678002 |
ISBN-13 |
: 900467800X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew by : Ephraim S. Ayil
Since the translation of the Septuagint in the 3rd century BCE, scholars have attempted to identify the stones that populate the biblical text. This study rejects the long-standing reliance on ancient translations for identifying biblical stones. Despite the evident contradictions and historical inconsistencies, scholars traditionally presumed these translations to be reliable. By departing from this approach, this volume presents a novel synthesis of comparative linguistics and archeogemological data. Through rigorous analysis of valid cognates, it establishes correlations between Hebrew stone names and their counterparts in ancient languages, corresponding to known mineral species. This methodological shift enables a more accurate identification of stones mentioned in biblical texts, thus recovering their true historical context. The research not only advances our understanding of biblical mineralogy but also provides a fresh perspective on the material culture of the Ancient Levant, offering valuable insights for scholars and laymen, linguists and archaeologists alike.
Author |
: Jonathan Conlin |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2024-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231556170 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231556179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Met by : Jonathan Conlin
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove, and what do the experiences of the people who bought, restored, catalogued, visited, and watched over these works tell us about the museum? This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings. Jonathan Conlin tells the stories of the people who have shaped the museum—from curators and artists to museumgoers and security guards—and the communities that have made it their own. Highlighting inequalities of wealth, race, and gender, he exposes the hidden costs of the museum’s reliance on “robber barons” and oligarchs, the exclusionary immigration policies that influenced the foundation of the American Wing, and the obstacles faced by women curators. Drawing on extensive interviews with past and current staff, Conlin brings the story up to the present, including the museum’s troubled 150th anniversary in 2020. As the Met faces continued controversy, this book offers a timely account of the people behind an iconic institution and a compelling case for the museum’s vision of shared human creativity.
Author |
: Robert B. Koehl |
Publisher |
: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2021-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789698756 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789698758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Koukounaries I: Mycenaean Pottery from Selected Contexts by : Robert B. Koehl
Excavations on the Koukounaries Hill, Paros, Greece from 1976-1992 revealed a 12th century B.C.E. Mycenaean building, an Iron Age settlement, and an Archaic sanctuary. This volume presents the pottery from five areas inside the building, as well as the pottery from a limited reoccupation after the building's destruction and abandonment.
Author |
: Robert Parker |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2023-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520395497 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520395492 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion in Roman Phrygia by : Robert Parker
Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed “lived ancient religion” than any other region in the ancient world. The evidence from Phrygia is neither literary nor issued by cities or their powerful inhabitants but rather comes from farmers and herders who left behind numerous stone memorials of themselves and dedications to their gods, praying for the welfare of their families, crops, and cattle. In Religion in Roman Phrygia: From Polytheism to Christianity, Robert Parker opens a rare window into the world of those Sir Ronald Syme called “the voiceless earth-coloured rustics” who have been “conveniently forgotten.” The period in which Phrygian paganism flourished so visibly was also the period in which Christianity was introduced by the apostle Paul and took root. Parker presents a rich body of evidence and uses it to explore one of history’s great stories and enigmas: how and why the new religion overtook its predecessor, with the Christian God meeting needs previously satisfied by Zeus and the other gods.
Author |
: Jessica Wärnberg |
Publisher |
: Icon Books |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2023-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781837731077 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1837731071 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis City of Echoes by : Jessica Wärnberg
In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic tale, historian Jessica Wärnberg tells, for the first time, the story of Rome through the lens of its popes, illuminating how these remarkable (and unremarkable) men have transformed lives and played a crucial role in deciding the fate of the city. Emerging as the anonymous leader of a marginal cult in the humblest quarters of the city, less than 300 years later the pope sat enthroned in a gilt basilica, endorsed by the emperor himself. Eventually, the Roman pontiff would supplant even the emperors, becoming the de facto ruler of Rome and pre-eminent leader of the Christian world. Shifting elegantly between the panoramic and the personal, the spiritual and the profane, this is a fresh and often surprising take on a city, a people and an institution that is at once familiar and elusive.
Author |
: Stefano Anastasio |
Publisher |
: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2020-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789696042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789696046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building between the Two Rivers: An Introduction to the Building Archaeology of Ancient Mesopotamia by : Stefano Anastasio
This volume introduces university students and scholars of Near Eastern archaeology to 'Building archaeology' methods as applied to the context of Ancient Mesopotamia. It helps the reader understand the principles underlying this discipline and to realise what knowledge and skills are needed, beyond those that are specific to archaeologists.
Author |
: Jonathan M. Hall |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226828343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226828344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Connected Iron Age by : Jonathan M. Hall
An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected. The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Surveying the region from Greece to Iraq, one finds a host of cultures and political formations, all distinct, yet all visibly connected in meaningful ways. These include the early polities of Geometric period Greece, the Phrygian kingdom of central Anatolia, the Syro-Anatolian city-states, the seafaring Phoenicians and the biblical Israelites of the southern Levant, Egypt’s Twenty-first through Twenty-fifth Dynasties, the Urartian kingdom of the eastern Anatolian highlands, and the expansionary Neo-Assyrian Empire of northern Mesopotamia. This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and political significance of how interregional networks operated within and between Mediterranean cultures during that era.
Author |
: Mohsen Ashtiany |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 657 |
Release |
: 2023-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786726582 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786726580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres by : Mohsen Ashtiany
The third volume in this ground-breaking series, Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres, introduces masterpieces of Persian literature from these seven centuries to an international audience. In the process, it underlines the remarkable tenacity of their malleable tradition: the perennial dialogue and the interconnectedness which binds together a vast and varied literature composed of many threads, romantic and didactic, in many lands, from Anatolia and Iran to India and Central Asia. In its companion volume, Persian Lyric in the Classical Era, 800-1500, the readers of the series will have already met in passing all the mythical and historical figures who appear with far more aplomb on the stage here, with their lives narrated in detail by poets of different caliber from different perspectives. The first two chapters of this volume recount the literary history of the entire period, focusing on didactic and romantic narratives. The central chapters take a closer look at the towering figure of the poet Nezâmi Ganjavi. The final chapter takes the reader to a wider landscape tracing the footsteps of Alexander across the globe, offering insights to the cultural preoccupations refracted in so many versions past and present.