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Animals, gods and men from east to west : papers on archaeology and history in honour of Roberta Venco Ricciardi
- Title
- Animals, gods and men from east to west : papers on archaeology and history in honour of Roberta Venco Ricciardi / edited by Alessandra Peruzzetto, Francesca Dorna Metzger, Lucinda Dirven.
- Publication
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2013.
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- Description
- x, 206 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.
- Summary
- The 21 articles collected in this commemorative volume centre on animals in relation to men and gods.
- Series Statement
- BAR international series ; 2516
- Uniform Title
- BAR international series ; 2516.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Essays in English and French.
- Contents
- Roberta Venco Ricciardi: a life with the past / Alessandra Peruzzetto, Francesca Dorna Metzger, Lucinda Dirven -- Bibliography of Roberta Venco Ricciardi -- Ancient Near East and Iran. Snakes on pottery / Stefano Valentini -- A flask from the tomb of Mulissu-Mukannishat-Ninua in Nimrud / Muayad Said Damerji -- Hybrid creatures (part human, part animal) in ancient Mesopotamia / Hikmat Basheer al-Aswad -- La cigogne, la chèvre et les renards / Olivier Lecomte & Marjan Mashkour -- Transformation of near eastern animal motifs in Murghabo-Bactrian Bronze Age art / Sylvia Winkelmann -- Ancient and classical Greek world. The bull's head symbol from the Tel Haror fragment to the Linear B writing / Anna Margherita Jasink -- Tile stamps depicting a frog on the roof tiles of Selinus (Sicily) / Maria Clara Conti -- A female figure with swan in the Camillo Leone Museum in Vercelli / Rosina Leone -- Hellenistic, Parthian and Sasanian. Héraclès, l'anguipède et le géant. Le médaillon (emblêma) de Termez : un nouvel épisode de gigantomachie / Pierre Leriche -- Weasels and calves. Animals and onomastics from Qaryatain to the Euphrates / Jean-Baptiste Yon -- Rams, stags and crosses from Sasanian Iraq: elements of a shared visual vocabulary from Late Antiquity / St John Simpson -- Devilish apparitions in Mesopotamian incantation bowls. Preliminary remarks about demons in the guise of animals / Marco Moriggi -- Terracott animal figurines from Veh Ardashi (Coche) in the collection of the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica e Palazzo Madama (Torino) / Alessandra Cellerino & Vito Messina -- Hatra. Animal remains at Hatra, City of the Sun. First archaeozoological evidence for the Parthian period / Marjan Mashkour & Alessandra Peruzzetto -- A goddess with dogs from Hatra / Lucinda Dirven -- The fish of Allat at Hatra / Ted Kaizer -- Griffins in the architectural decoration at Hatra / Francesca Dorna Metzger & Monica Girardi -- A gazelle pendant from Hatra. A comparative analysis / Enrico Foietta & Ilaria Bucci -- Scriptorial evidence of scratched inscriptions from Building A in Hatra / Roberto Bertolino -- Miscellaneous. Lambs and the tradition of the palium / Neda Parmegiani -- The fantastic world of Munʼim Furat, Iraqi sculptor / Roberto Parapetti & Aysar Akrawi.
- ISBN
- 9781407311340
- 1407311344
- OCLC
- ocn853508284
- 853508284
- SCSB-5698655
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries