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Bringing Carthage home : the excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859 /
Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis; the work was funded by the Foreign Office of the Britis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, U.K. :
Oxbow Books, for the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia,
2011.
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| Colección: | University of British Columbia studies in the ancient world ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis; the work was funded by the Foreign Office of the British Government. This book recounts for the first time the extraordinary story behind this pioneering enterprise and the political and cultural rivalry between representatives of the colonial powers as they asserted their rights to explore the buried remains of one of the ancient world's greatest citie. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 pages :) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781842176740 1842176749 9781842176726 1842176722 |