The Graven Image : : Representation in Babylonia and Assyria / / Zainab Bahrani.
Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation-both in writing and in visual images-was thought to participate in the world and to...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Archaeology, Culture, and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 28 illus. |
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Published: c2003.
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Published: c2003.