The adventure of the illustrious scholar : : papers presented to Oscar White Muscarella / / edited by Elizabeth Simpson.
The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella , edited by Elizabeth Simpson, is a Festschrift celebrating the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Oscar Muscarella is a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a for...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1,049 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Oscar White Muscarella: Excavations and Publications
- Introduction / Elizabeth Simpson
- “There is Nothing like First-hand Evidence”
- Oscar White Muscarella and Sherlock Holmes / Laurie Adams
- Arts and Archaeology: Anatolia
- The King Has Ass’s Ears! The Myth of Midas’s Ears / Susanne Berndt
- The Project to Reconstruct the Early Bronze Age Hattıan Royal Tombs of Alaca Höyük / Aykut Çınaroğlu
- The Lydian Hoard and Its Progeny: Repatriation and the Statute of Limitations / Lawrence M. Kaye
- Labors Lost and Found in Tumulus MM at Gordion / Richard F. Liebhart
- A Pithos Burial at Sardis / David Gordon Mitten
- Attitudes toward the Past in Roman Phrygia: Survivals and Revivals / Lynn E. Roller
- The City Mound at Gordion: The Discovery, Study, and Conservation of the Wooden Fragments from Megaron 3 / Krysia Spirydowicz
- Monumental Entrances, Sculpture, and Idols at Kerkenes: Aspects of Phrygian Cult East of the Kızılırmak / Geoffrey Summers and Françoise Summers
- Of Fibulae, Of Course! / Maya Vassileva
- Arts and Archaeology: Urartu
- Artifacts Belonging to Queen Qaquli and Mr. Tigursagga from an Elaborately Decorated Quarter of the Ayanis Fortress / Altan Çilingiroğlu
- A Fragment of a Ram’s Head Rhyton Found at Qalatgah, Iran / Stephan Kroll
- Toul-E Gilan and the Urartian Empire / D.T. Potts
- Some Considerations on Urartian Burial Rites / Veli Sevin
- Architectural and Other Observations Related to Erebuni in the Late Seventh/Early Sixth Centuries B.C. / David Stronach
- Arts and Archaeology: The Near East
- Neo-Assyrian Views of Foreign Cities: A Brief Survey / Pauline Albenda
- The Role of the Petra Great Temple in the Context of Nabataean Archaeology / Martha Sharp Joukowsky
- Fibulae in Neo-Assyrian Burials / Friedhelm Pedde
- Fibulae, Chronology, and Related Considerations: Marlik Reloaded / Christian Konrad Piller
- A Middle Bronze Stele from Hama and Old Syrian Cylinder Seals / Barbara A. Porter
- A Unique Human Head-Cup from the Environs of Tel Qashish in the Jezreel Valley, Israel / Irit Ziffer , Edwin C.M. van den Brink , Orit Segal and Uzi Ad
- Arts and Archaeology: The Mediterranean World
- Back to the Future: Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in the 12th Century B.C.E. on Paros / Robert B. Koehl
- Liturgy / Günter Kopcke
- What Did the Fisherman Catch? / Mark J. Rose
- The Weight of Good Measure: A Reassessment of the Balance Weights from the Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun / Rachael Dealy Salisbury
- Arts—Craft—Materials—Techniques
- Kyme: An Ancient Center of Jewelry Production in Asia Minor / Özgen Acar
- Voicing the Past: The Implications of Craft-referential Pottery in Ancient Greece / Einav Zamir Dembin
- The Neoclassical Klismos Chair: Early Sources and Avenues of Diffusion / Ana Gutierrez-Folch
- The Furniture of the Ramesside Pharaohs / Geoffrey Killen
- Excavated Roman Jewelry: The Case of the Gold Body Chains / Meredith Nelson
- Ivory Identification / Anibal Rodriguez
- Luxury Arts of the Ancient Near East / Elizabeth Simpson
- Issues and Methods.