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Composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East : exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature /

This volume represents a first attempt to conceptualise the construction and use of composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East by looking at the complex relationships between environments, materials, societies and materiality.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Di Paolo, Silvana (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018.
Series:Archaeopress ancient Near Eastern archaeology ; 3.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Silvana Di Paolo
  • Introduction: New Lines of Enquiry for Composite Artefacts?; Section 1. The Planning: Materiality and Imagination; Silvana Di Paolo
  • From Hidden to Visible. Degrees of Mental and Material Construction of an 'Integrated Whole' in the Ancient Near East; Alessandro Di Ludovico
  • A Composite Look at the Composite Wall Decorations in the Early History of Mesopotamia; Section 2. Symbols in Action; Chikako Watanabe
  • Composite Animals Representing the Property of Thunder in Mesopotamia.; Elisa Roßberger
  • Shining, Contrasting, Enchanting: Composite Artefacts from the Royal Tomb of Qatna; Megan Cifarelli
  • Entangled Relations over Geographical and Gendered Space: Multi-Component Personal Ornaments at Hasanlu; Section 3. Sum of Fragments, Sum of Worlds; Jean M. Evans
  • Composing Figural Traditions in the Mesopotamian Temple; Frances Pinnock
  • Polymaterism in Early Syrian Ebla; Anna Paule
  • Near Eastern Materials, Near Eastern Techniques, Near Eastern Inspiration: Colourful Jewellery from Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Archaic Cyprus.