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Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance : the Stone Reliefs at Carchemish and Zincirli in the Earlier First Millennium BCE /
The ceremonial centers of the Syro-Hittite city-states (1200-700 BC) were lavishly decorated with large-scale, open-air figurative reliefs - an original and greatly influential artistic tradition. But why exactly did the production of such an array of monumental images ever start? This volume explor...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
De Gruyter,
2011, ©2011.
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| Series: | Topoi (Berlin, Germany) ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF FIGURES
- List of Tables
- Bibliographical abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Syro-Anatolian region in the Iron Age
- 3 Carchemish
- 4 Zincirli
- 5 The embedment of monumental art in ritual performance
- 6 Art and ritual performance in diachronic perspective
- 7 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Catalogue of monumental items
- Index of concepts