Gordion Seals and Sealings

Gordion Seals and Sealings
Author: Elspeth Dusinberre
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2005-11-21
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781931707824

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

A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story so Far

A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story so Far
Author: John Boardman
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-07-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1789693446

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Sir John Boardman is one of the foremost experts on ancient Greek art. His autobiography offers a mixture of scholarly reminiscence, reflection on family life, travelogue, and critique of classical scholarship worldwide. Illustrated with pictures of travels, friends and home life, it reflects on his experiences of more than 90 years.

Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece

Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece
Author: Veronique Dasen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2013-03-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199680868

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This book examines dwarfs in myth and everyday life in ancient Egypt and Greece. The spectacular forms of dwarfism were always a focus of interest, and it is the most depicted disorder in antiquity. Dasen brings together a whole range of mostly unpublished or little-known iconographic, epigraphic, literary, and anthropological evidence.

Greek Offerings

Greek Offerings
Author: Olga Palagia
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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This collection of papers on Greek art by pupils and friends is offered to John Boardman on his seventieth birthday. Many of the objects discussed here in his honour are published for the first time. Contents include: The Hesiodic myth of the five races and the tolerance of plurality in Greek mythology (Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood) ; A Minoan Ringstone from the Idaean Cave (Yannis Sakellarakis) ; A Mycenaean Sealstone from Gla (Spyros Iakovidis) ; A Geometric electrum band from a tomb on Skyros (Effie Sapouna-Sakellaraki) ; A new Geometric amphora in the Benaki Museum (Nota Kourou) ; The orientalising period in Macedonia (Stephi Korti-Konti) ; East Greek and related pottery at Harvard (Eleutherios Yalouris) ; Rizari, a cemetery in Chios town (Anna Lemos) ; A skyphos by the Affecter in Athens (Maria Pipili) ; An early Attic Ionic capital and the kekropion on the Athenian Acropolis (Manolis Korres) ; A new Aphrodite for John (Angelos Delivorrias) ; Helen, the seductress? (Anthi Dipla) ; Herakles and a "man in need?" (Marilena Carabatea) ; Kraters, libations and Dionysiac imagery in early south Italian red-figure (Maria-Christina Tzannes) ; A symposion scene on an Attic fourth-century calyx-crater in St. Petersburg (Thaleia Sini) ; Eleusinian iconography (Michalis Tiverios) ; Reflections on the Piraeus bronzes (Olga Palagia) ; Greek gem-cutters in Babylonia and beyond (Dimitris Plantzos) ; Spoons in the Greek world (Eleni Zimi) ; Greek gods and heroes in Cyprus

Classical Phoenician Scarabs

Classical Phoenician Scarabs
Author: John Boardman
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

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Between the 6th and 4th centuries BC, Phoenician workshops produced green jasper scarabs which demonstrated both Greek and Persian influences. This volume presents a fully illustrated catalogue of examples drawn from across the area of Phoenician influence, including Spain, Sardinia, North Africa and theEastern Mediterranean. The scarabs, which are held in collections worldwide, are catalogued according to their cultural influences: Egyptian, Levantine, Hellenistic and miscellaneous. Within each of these four groups the scarabs are organised iconographically, with scenes including beetles, boats, birds, gods, fantastic creatures, warriors and kings, chariots, trees and animal attacks. John Boardman's introduction discusses the style, function and source material of the scarabs and the location of the workshops.

The Stamp-seals of Ancient Cyprus

The Stamp-seals of Ancient Cyprus
Author: A. T. Reyes
Publisher: Oxford University School of Archaeology
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2001
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

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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.

BAR International Series

BAR International Series
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 562
Release: 1978
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN:

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