Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia /

Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia / / Nicolo Marchetti, Gianni Marchesi.

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The corpus of Early Dynastic figurative monuments from ancient Mesopotamia is substantial. For many years, establishing the chronological sequence and development of these artifacts has been a complicated and problematic task. In this volume-first published in Italian in 2006 and here translated, re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Marchesi, Gianni,
Marchetti, Nicolo,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Mesopotamian Civilizations
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Archaeological Contexts and Chronology of Early Dynastic Statuary
  • Chapter 2 Historical Framework
  • Chapter 3 Early Dynastic Royal Statuary
  • Chapter 4 The Inscriptions on Royal Statues
  • Chapter 5 Kingship and Visual Communication in the Early Dynastic Period
  • Chapter 6 Conclusions
  • Appendix A. Remarks on Early Dynastic Temples
  • Appendix B. Royal Statues in Administrative Texts
  • Appendix C. Notes on the Transliteration of Texts and the Transcription of Proper Names
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Philological Index
  • Sources of Illustrations
  • Plates

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