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Dawn of the Yellow Earth: Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection [Paperback]
Regina Krahl (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
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ISBN: 9780965427036
Published by : Art Media Resources
This catalogue of pre-Han pottery presents a variety of regional ancient cultures and reveals China's early civilizations through 63 fine examples of ceramic artworks from the Neolithic period through the Western Zhou dynasty drawn from the renown... .... Learn More -
Early Urban Life in the Land of Anshan: Excavations at Tal-e Malyan in the Highlands of Iran [Hardback]
William M. Sumner (Author)
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ISBN: 9781931707459
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
This book provides summary data on the archaeological excavations of Banesh Period (ca. 3400-2600 B.C.) levels in Operation ABC at Tal-e Malyan, site of the Elamite royal city of Anshan. These levels cover the critical centuries when complex urban... .... Learn More -
Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century [Paperback]
Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet (Author)
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ISBN: 9783039119127
Published by : Peter Lang Verlag
Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as `other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not ... .... Learn More -
Martyrdom, Murder and Magic [Hardback]
Patricia Healy Wasyliw (Author)
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ISBN: 9780820427645
Published by : Peter Lang Verlag
Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe is a comprehensive history of child saints and their cults from late Antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. The child martyrs of the persecutions, including the ... .... Learn More -
The Thousand and One Churches [Hardback]
William Mitchell Ramsay (Author); Gertrude Bell (Author); Robert Ousterhout (Editor); Mark P. C. Jackson (Editor)
Regular Price: £41.00
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ISBN: 9781934536056
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Published in 1909 and long out of print, The Thousand and One Churches remains a seminal study of the postclassical monuments of Anatolia. Now a new generation of readers can learn of the extensive remains of the sprawling early Christian site kno... .... Learn More -
Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography [Paperback]
Mario Liverani (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801473586
Published by : Cornell University Press
The essays included in this volume analyze important historical texts from various regions of the Ancient Near East. The distinguished Italian historian Mario Liverani suggests that these historiographical texts were of a "true" historical nature ... .... Learn More -
Unmarriages: Women, Men and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages [Paperback]
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ISBN: 9780812222982
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital h... .... Learn More -
Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the British Museum [Paperback]
Nigel Strudwick (Author); Edna Russmann (Author); T. G. H. James (Author)
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ISBN: 9781885444325
Published by : University of Washington Press
The eighty-five objects featured in this book span a full range of pharaonic history - from shortly before the Third Dynasty, about 2686 BC, to the Roman occupation of the fourth century AD - and cover each of the four periods into which ancien... .... Learn More -
Art and Society in Roman Britain [Paperback]
Jennifer Laing (Author)
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ISBN: 9780905778501
Published by : Sutton Publishing Ltd
A useful introduction to the Romans in Britain and their impact on the native culture. Laing examines the development of Romano-British art and discusses the artistic acheivements of the era through examples of mosaics, sculptures, metalwork, ... .... Learn More -
Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East: archaeology, epigraphy, iconography [Hardback]
Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor); Henriette Koefoed (Editor); Eva Andersson Strand (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
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ISBN: 9781842174890
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 12
In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of fin... .... Learn More
