Composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East : exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature /: exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Silvana Di Paolo.
• Editors: Di Paolo, Silvana
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 96 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 939.4; Antiquities -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500; Technology and civilization -- History -- To 1500; Material culture; Middle East -- Antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784918545
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2018).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.