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Book Alexandrian and Alexandria influenced Mould made Lamps of the Hellenistic Period

Download or read book Alexandrian and Alexandria influenced Mould made Lamps of the Hellenistic Period written by Jolanta Młynarczyk and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents and examines the available data on mould-made terracotta lamps manufactured and/or used in Alexandria in the 3rd to 1st century BC. Mlynarczyk divides the lamps into twenty-eight types and discusses distribution, fabric, manufacturing centres, shape and decoration, and dating.

Book Oil lamps in the Holy Land

Download or read book Oil lamps in the Holy Land written by Varda Sussman and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2007 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning to the Hellenistic period. Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority In the course of the past century, excavations in Palestine have turned up large numbers of oil lamps. This first volume in a planned catalogue raisonné, summarizes the typological development of Palestinian oil lamps from the earliest such items of the Late Chalcolithic period onward, and their historical, cultural, and political contexts. The abundance and great variety of the material make this, a difficult undertaking - particularly for the oil lamps of the earlier periods dealt with in the present volume. Detailed descriptions of many items in the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority, as well as of recorded oil lamps from other sites and neighboring regions, serve here as a basis for generalizations and conclusions.

Book Terracotta Lamps

Download or read book Terracotta Lamps written by Oscar Broneer and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hellenistic West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan R. W. Prag
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-24
  • ISBN : 1107782929
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book The Hellenistic West written by Jonathan R. W. Prag and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the 'Hellenistic world'; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the 'Greek East' and the 'Roman West' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek history than a reflection of the Hellenistic-period Mediterranean, which was a strongly interconnected cultural and economic zone, with the rising Roman republic just one among many powers in the region, east and west. The contributors argue for a dynamic reading of the economy, politics and history of the central and western Mediterranean beyond Rome, and in doing so problematise the concepts of 'East', 'West' and 'Hellenistic' itself.

Book Ancient Lamps in the J  Paul Getty Museum

Download or read book Ancient Lamps in the J Paul Getty Museum written by J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have much to reveal about life, religion, pottery, and trade in the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Most of the Museum’s lamps have never before been published, and this extensive typological catalogue will thus be an invaluable scholarly resource for art historians, archaeologists, and those interested in the ancient world. Reflecting the Getty's commitment to open content, Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum is available online at http://www.getty.edu/publications/ancientlamps and may be downloaded free of charge in multiple formats, including PDF, MOBI/Kindle, and EPUB, and features zoomable images and multiple views of every lamp, an interactive map drawn from the Ancient World Mapping Center, and bibliographic references. For readers who wish to have a bound reference copy, a paperback edition has been made available for sale.

Book The Lamps of Late Antiquity from Rhodes

Download or read book The Lamps of Late Antiquity from Rhodes written by Angeliki Katsioti and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the recording, study and publication of the corpus of the Late Antique lamps dating from the 3rd to the 7th centuries as found in rescue excavations in the town of Rhodes. The aim here is to present the diachronic changes in the artistic sensibility and preferences of this particular market.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings  P Z

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings P Z written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Excavations at Maresha Subterranean Complex 169

Download or read book Excavations at Maresha Subterranean Complex 169 written by Ian Stern and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tel Maresha is located in the foothills of Israel's Judaean Mountains. It was established in the Iron Age II (circa 700 BCE) and is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Josh 15:44; I Chron. 2:42). But it was mainly a Hellenistic-period town - a major Idumean political and administrative center. One of the unique and fascinating aspects of Maresha is its subterranean city - hundreds of underground galleries and chambers filled to the gills with artifacts. This volume is a report of the excavations of one of these rich subterranean complexes - SC 169 - which contained a full corpus of Hellenistic pottery forms - both local and exotic altars, figurines, amulets, seals and seal impressions, hundreds of inscriptions in Greek and Aramaic, coins, jewelry and much more. These finds tell the story of an affluent cosmopolitan society comprised of Idumeans, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Jews, who lived together in a vibrant urban setting until the city was destroyed, probably by the Jewish Hasmonean kingdom in 104 BCE.

Book The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art  Terracotta Oil Lamps

Download or read book The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art Terracotta Oil Lamps written by Christopher S. Lightfoot and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth catalogue in a series that documents the renowned Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art, this book focuses on the collection’s 453 terracotta oil lamps dating from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Early Byzantine periods. The rich iconography on many of these common, everyday objects provides a rare look into daily life on Cyprus in antiquity and highlights the island’s participation in Roman artistic and cultural production. Each lamp is illustrated, and the accompanying text addresses typology, decoration, and makers’ marks on each of these objects that provide new insights into art, craft, and trade in the ancient Mediterranean.

Book Greek Lamps and Their Survivals

Download or read book Greek Lamps and Their Survivals written by Richard Hubbard Howland and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has used the trustworthy chronological data supplied by the scientific excavation of closed deposits at the Athenian Agora to build a continuous series of lamp types from the 7th century B. C. to the 1st century A. D. Many photographs and profiles of sections permit ready identification, and a handy graphical chart of lamp types facilitates quick checking of the chronological range of each.

Book Greek and Roman Pottery Lamps

Download or read book Greek and Roman Pottery Lamps written by Donald M. Bailey and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This booklet illustrates various types of pottery lamps made mainly in the Mediterranean world from the Minoan period until Early Christian times. Such lamps can be very attractive small objects and well repay attention. They are of interest to the social and art historian because of the representations of daily life, religion and mythology, and lost masterpieces of sculpture appearing on some Roman lamps. Lamps are useful, too, to the archeologist in that they are ephemeral and are easily recognizable : even small fragments can be placed within their types. These types can, on the whole, e dated comparatively closely, and so, in lamps, the excavator has a valuable dating tool. The distribution of lamps foreign to the area in which they are found is some indication of the pattern of trade in the ancient world, while the various uses to which lamps were put illustrate aspects of social and religious life... "-- from introduction.

Book The Journal of Hellenic Studies

Download or read book The Journal of Hellenic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sepphoris II

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric C. Lapp
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2016-02-01
  • ISBN : 1575064057
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Sepphoris II written by Eric C. Lapp and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sepphoris was an important Galilean site from Hellenistic to early Islamic times. This multicultural city is described by Flavius Josephus as the “ornament of all Galilee,” and Rabbi Judah the Prince (ha-Nasi) codified the Mishnah there around 200 CE. The Duke University excavations of the 1980s and 1990s uncovered a large corpus of clay oil lamps in the domestic area of the western summit, and this volume presents these vessels. Richly illustrated with photos and drawings, it describes the various shape-types and includes a detailed catalog of 219 lamps. The volume also explores the origins of the Sepphoris lamps and establishes patterns of their trade, transport, and sale in the lower city’s marketplace. A unique contribution is the use of a combined petrographic and direct current plasma-optical emission spectrometric (dcp-oes) analysis of selected lamp fabrics from sites in Israel and Jordan. This process provided valuable information, indicating that lamps found in Sepphoris came from Judea, the Decapolis, and even Greece, suggesting an urban community fully engaged with other regional centers. Lamp decorations also provide information about the cosmopolitan culture of Sepphoris in antiquity. Discus lamps with erotic scenes and mythological characters suggest Greco-Roman influences, and menorahs portrayed on lamps indicate a vibrant Jewish identity.

Book Harvard Excavations at Samaria  1908 1910

Download or read book Harvard Excavations at Samaria 1908 1910 written by G.A. Reisner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Inception and Conditions of the Work /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Summary Account of the Excavations of 1908 /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Description of Objects Found in 1908 /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Organization of the Expedition /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Methods of Excavation /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Identification of the Remains of the Several Periods /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Description of the Deposits of Debris in the Various Working Sections at the summit /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Israelite Period /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Early Post-Israelite Period /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --The Preherodian Town, with the Underlying Fragments of Hellenistic Walls (See Plan 7) /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --The Roman Period (Plans 2-4, 8-12) /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Inscriptions /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Coins at Samaria /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Pottery /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Potter's Marks on Large Jars, Including Rhodian Stamps /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Lamps /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Faience /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Glass /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Stone Vessels and Implements, Whorls, Weights, Raw Materials, and Shells /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Metals /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Objects of Bone and Ivory /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Amulets, Seals, and Beads /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Sculpture, Figurines, and Miscellaneous Objects of Pottery /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Progress of the Excavations /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --References to Registration Numbers /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --References to Numbers of Discarded Objects /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --References to Plates /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon.

Book Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology

Download or read book Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology written by Ann Killebrew and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of eminent archaeologist and historian of ancient Jewish art, Rachel Hachlili, friends and colleagues offer contributions in this festschrift which span the world of ancient Judaism both in Palestine and the Diaspora. Hachlili's distinctive research interests: synagogues, burial sites, and Jewish iconography receive particular attention in the volume. Archaeologists and historians present new material evidence from Galilee, Jerusalem, and Transjordan, contributing to the honoree’s fields of scholarly study. Fresh analyses of ancient Jewish art, essays on architecture, historical geography, and research history complete the volume and make it an enticing kaleidoscope of the vibrant field of scholarship that owes so much to Rachel.