The Stamp Seals Of Ancient Cyprus

Author : A. T. Reyes
Publisher : Oxford University School of Archaeology
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015043711236

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The Stamp-seals of Ancient Cyprus by A. T. Reyes Pdf

Glyptics had a long history in Cyprus; from at least the fourteenth century BC, the island produced seals in significant quantities in a variety of shapes and styles. The cylinders from the Late Bronze Age are well documented, but the stamp-seals which came after them, and preceded the gem industry of classical times, have previously been neglected. This study examines these in order to discover what they reveal about society at the end of the Late Bronze Age when they first appear and the subsequent Iron Age when they proliferated and moved into common use within the island. Reyes discusses the different designs and styles of stamp-seals and their development, local tradition and foreign influence, including a detailed discussion of evidence for Phoenician influence. Also examined are materials and manufacture and the different uses they were put to - inscriptions, sealings, votive practices and personal adornment. There are several appendices and a glossary of terms.

Author : Joanna S. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015055840345

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Script and Seal Use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages by Joanna S. Smith Pdf

This is an exploration of the different approaches to the contextual study of ancient Cypriot methods of writing and recording, including the use of seal stones.

Author : Philippa M. Steele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107169678

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Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus by Philippa M. Steele Pdf

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.

Author : Stephan G. Schmid,Will M. Kennedy
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783832582654

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The Topography of Ancient Idalion and its Territory by Stephan G. Schmid,Will M. Kennedy Pdf

The question of how to define the territories of the ancient polities (city-kingdoms) of Iron Age Cyprus is a fascinating, but also a very difficult one. While this topic has already been widely explored by previous scholarship, recent investigations that include both modern approaches, such as the application of landscape archaeological methodologies, as well as a re-evaluation of the available archaeological evidence from a new perspective, now offers a fresh take on such questions. A workshop organized in Berlin in 2018 aimed at discussing additional information on the topography of the ancient city of Idalion and its hinterland. This volume therefore includes unique contributions that deal with a wide array of relevant aspects. They provide new information on the location, chronology and character of settlements, necropoleis and sanctuaries from the wider area of Idalion, and discuss important issues such as the continuity or discontinuity of settlement activities from the (Late) Bronze Age to the Iron Age and how this is reflected by material culture. They address questions concerned with the physical control of territories and communication networks by considering Idalion’s resource availability and the overall development of its rural settlement pattern in contrast to that of its neighbouring polities.

Author : Brian A. Brown,Marian H. Feldman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781614510352

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Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art by Brian A. Brown,Marian H. Feldman Pdf

This volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological evidence and critically examine the historiography of the discipline itself. Not intended to be comprehensive, the volume instead captures a cross-section of the field of Ancient Near Eastern art history as its stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The volume will be of value to scholars working in the Ancient Near East as well as others interested in newer art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture.

Author : Giorgos Papantoniou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004233805

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Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus by Giorgos Papantoniou Pdf

By focusing on religion, this monograph represents the first extended attempt to explore how the socio-cultural infrastructure of Cyprus was affected by the transition from segmented administration by many Cypriot kings to the island-wide government by a foreign Ptolemaic correspondent.

Author : G.R. Tsetskhladze
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004494206

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Ancient West & East by G.R. Tsetskhladze Pdf

Author : Beatrice Teissier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520348912

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Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection by Beatrice Teissier Pdf

Author : Amihay Mazar
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 939 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Excavacions arqueològiques-
ISBN : 9781575061030

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"I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times" by Amihay Mazar Pdf

Ami Mazar has gained a reputation as one of the most prolific and reliable archaeologists doing work in Israel during the last 40 years. Not only has he participated in and directed excavations at many sites, his professional standards are of the first order, and what's more, his publication record is enviable: he has never begun a new major project before the final publication of the previous excavation was well underway. Here, more than 55 colleagues gather to honor him with a wide range of essays, organized in 7 sections: I. Early Bronze Age Studies II. Middle and Late Bronze Age Studies III. Philistine/Sea Peoples Studies IV. Iron Age Studies V. Historical, Biblical, and Epigraphic Studies VI. Jerusalem Studies VII. Post-Iron Age Studies An international group of contributors includes: E. Braun, I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin, P. M. Fischer, R. Gophna, D. Gazit, R. Greenberg, P. de Miroschedji, B. Sass, M. Sebbane, E. Yannai, M. Artzy, M. Bietak, A. Caubet, M. Yon, T. Dothan, M. Jasmin, E. H. E. Lass, J.-C. Margueron, P. Matthiae, R. S. Merrillees, R. A. Mullins, A. F. Rainey, E. D. Oren, A. Gilboa, A. Cohen-Weinberger, Y. Goren, A. Maeir, I. Shai, S. Sherratt, L. E. Stager, E. Stern, O. Borowski, J. M. Cahill, W. G. Dever, A. Faust, S. Gitin, L. G. Herr, V. Karageorghis, A. E. Killebrew, R. Kletter, Z. Lederman, S. Bunimovitz, S. M. Ortiz, N. Panitz-Cohen, R. E. Tappy, D. Edelman, A. Fink, V. Fritz, A. Lemaire, W. M. Schniedewind, I. Singer, A. G. Vaughn, C. Dobler, E. Mazar, S. M. Paul, R. Reich, E. Shukron, J. R. Zorn, H. Eshel, B. Zissu, L. Horowitz, A. Kloner, E. M. Meyers, and S. A. Rosen.

Author : Marta Ameri,Sarah Kielt Costello,Gregg Jamison,Sarah Jarmer Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108173513

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Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World by Marta Ameri,Sarah Kielt Costello,Gregg Jamison,Sarah Jarmer Scott Pdf

Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity, gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient South Asia and the Aegean during the 4th-2nd Millennia BCE.

Author : Elspeth Dusinberre
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-21
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1931707820

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Gordion Seals and Sealings by Elspeth Dusinberre Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "[a]dditional figures accompanying the volume." -- disc label.

Author : Medelhavsmuseet (Stockholm, Sweden),Vassos Karageorghis,Sanne Houby-Nielsen,Paul Åström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015060366104

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The Cyprus Collections in the Medelhavsmuseet by Medelhavsmuseet (Stockholm, Sweden),Vassos Karageorghis,Sanne Houby-Nielsen,Paul Åström Pdf

Author : Vassos Karageorghis
Publisher : CHAMAN Edition
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9963810233

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Ancient Cypriote Art in the Musée D'art Et D'histoire, Geneva by Vassos Karageorghis Pdf

Author : Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004429390

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Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War by Krzysztof Ulanowski Pdf

Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War is about practices which enabled humans contact the divine. These relations, especially in difficult times of military conflict, could be crucial in deciding the fate of individuals, cities, dynasties or even empires.

Author : J. Brian Peckham
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068961

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Phoenicia by J. Brian Peckham Pdf

Phoenicia has long been known as the homeland of the Mediterranean seafarers who gave the Greeks their alphabet. But along with this fairly well-known reality, many mysteries remain, in part because the record of the coastal cities and regions that the people of Phoenicia inhabited is fragmentary and episodic. In this magnum opus, the late Brian Peckham examines all of the evidence currently available to paint as complete a portrait as is possible of the land, its history, its people, and its culture. In fact, it was not the Phoenicians but the Canaanites who invented the alphabet; what distinguished the Phoenicians in their turn was the transmission of the alphabet, which was a revolutionary invention, to everyone they met. The Phoenicians were traders and merchants, the Tyrians especially, thriving in the back-and-forth of barter in copper for Levantine produce. They were artists, especially the Sidonians, known for gold and silver masterpieces engraved with scenes from the stories they told and which they exchanged for iron and eventually steel; and they were builders, like the Byblians, who taught the alphabet and numbers as elements of their trade. When the Greeks went west, the Phoenicians went with them. Italy was the first destination; settlements in Spain eventually followed; but Carthage in North Africa was a uniquely Phoenician foundation. The Atlantic Spanish settlements retained their Phoenician character, but the Mediterranean settlements in Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, and Malta were quickly converted into resource centers for the North African colony of Carthage, a colony that came to eclipse the influence of the Levantine coastal city-states. An emerging independent Western Phoenicia left Tyre free to consolidate its hegemony in the East. It became the sole west-Asiatic agent of the Assyrian Empire. But then the Babylonians let it all slip away; and the Persians, intent on war and world domination, wasted their own and everyone’s time trying to dominate the irascible and indomitable Greeks. The Punic West (Carthage) made the same mistake until it was handed off to the Romans. But Phoenicia had been born in a Greek matrix and in time had the sense and good grace to slip quietly into the dominant and sustaining Occidental culture. This complicated history shows up in episodes and anecdotes along a frangible and fractured timeline. Individual men and women come forward in their artifacts, amulets, or seals. There are king lists and alliances, companies, and city assemblies. Years or centuries are skipped in the twinkling of any eye and only occasionally recovered. Phoenicia, like all history, is a construct, a product of historiography, an answer to questions. The history of Phoenicia is the history of its cities in relationship to each other and to the peoples, cities, and kingdoms who nourished their curiosity and their ambition. It is written by deduction and extrapolation, by shaping hard data into malleable evidence, by working from the peripheries of their worlds to the centers where they lived, by trying to uncover their mentalities, plans, beliefs, suppositions, and dreams in the residue of their products and accomplishments. For this reason, the subtitle, Episodes and Anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean, is a particularly appropriate description of Peckham’s masterful (posthumous) volume, the fruit of a lifetime of research into the history and culture of the Phoenicians.