Softstone : approaches to the study of chlorite and calcite vessels in the Middle East and Central Asia from prehistory to the present /: approaches to the study of chlorite and calcite vessels in the Middle East and Central Asia from prehistory to the present. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Carl S. Phillips and St John Simpson.
• Editors: Phillips, Carl S; Simpson, St John
• Contents: Foreword – by Carl S. Phillips and St John Simpson; Introduction – by Carl Phillips and St John Simpson; Middle Holocene Omani jewels: thoughts on the production of softstone earrings – by Donatella Usai; Wood-worked and metal-shocked: softstone vessels in the Bronze and early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean – by Andrew Bevan; Alabaster vessels: manufacture, function and distribution (4th to 2nd millennia BC) – by Michèle Casanova; Three examples of 3rd millennium BC softstone vessel imports found in Syria – by Hélène David; Un exemple de production et de diffusion du style 'Interculturel' : les representations architecturales en Mesopotamie, Iran et dans le Golfe Persique au IIIe millenaire av. J.-C. – by Adrien Berthelot; A painted chlorite 'hut model' vessel in the British Museum – by St John Simpson; Remarks on the iconography of the 'Intercultural Style' – by Sylvia Winkelmann; The question of workshops and chronology in the Wadi Suq period – by Christian Velde; The steatite cooking bowl of the 1st millennium BC and early 1st millennium AD in South Arabia: archaeological views and cultural dynamics – by W.D. Glanzman; The distribution and provenance of ancient South Arabian steatite-tempered pottery: a thin-section analysis – by Alexandra Porter; Ancient South Arabian softstone vessels in the British Museum – by Carl S. Phillips and St John Simpson; 'Of cooking pots let him choose those made of stone': the manufacture, circulation and function of chlorite cooking pots and other objects in the Middle East and Central Asia during the Sasanian and medieval periods – by St John Simpson; Softstone at Siraf – by Sarah Jennings; Imported medieval stone vessels and other items from Merv and Nysa – by L.A. Kuraeva; A collection of stone utensils from the Merv oasis, southern Turkmenistan – by Z.I. Usmanova and V. Tikhomirov; Notes on the production of stone cooking pots in Mashhad, Iran – by M.G. Konieczny; Yemeni stone vessels: a different perspective. The use and interpretation of stone vessels by the Jews of Yemen – by Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper; The contemporary softstone industry in Jabal Rāziḥ, north-west Yemen – by Shelagh Weir; Cumulative bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 736.50935; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Asia; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East; Stone vases -- Asia; Stone vases -- Middle East; Asia -- Antiquities; Middle East -- Antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784919931
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2018).
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