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The furniture of Western Asia, ancient and traditional : papers of the Conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, June 28 to 30, 1993

Title
The furniture of Western Asia, ancient and traditional : papers of the Conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, June 28 to 30, 1993 / ed., Georgina Herrmann ; assistant ed., Neville Parker.
Publication
Mainz : Philipp von Zabern, ©1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Herrmann, Georgina.
  • Parker, Neville, -1995.
  • University College, London. Institute of Archaeology.
Description
xxvii, 301 pages, 92 pages of plates : illustrations (1 color), maps; 31 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Konferenzschrift – 1993 – London.
  • Congresses (form)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Georgina Herrmann -- Timber trees of Western Asia / F. Nigel Hepper -- Ancient Egyptian carpentry, its tools and techniques / Geoffrey Killen -- Architecture and furniture / Michael Roaf -- Domestic furniture in Iraq, ancient and traditional / Lamia al Gailani Werr -- The earliest evidence from Mesopotamia / Harriet Crawford -- Middle Bronze Age furniture from Jericho and Baghouz / Peter J. Parr -- Furniture in the West Semitic texts / T.C. Mitchell -- Le Mobilier d'Ougarit (d'aprés les travaux récents) / Annie Caubet et Marguerite Yon -- Cypriote furniture and its representations from the Chalcolithic to the Cypro-Archaic / Maro Theodossiadou -- Furniture in the Aegean Bronze Age / O.H. Krzyszkowska -- Mycenaean footstools / Yannis Sakellarakis -- Hittite and neo-Hittite furniture / Dorit Symington -- The influence of Egypt on Western Asiatic furniture, and evidence from Phoenicia / Eric Gubel -- Ivory furniture pieces from Nimrud: North Syrian evidence for regional traditions of furniture manufacture / Georgina Herrmann -- Assyrian furniture: the archaeological evidence / John Curtis -- Urartian furniture / Ursula Seidl -- Phrygian furniture from Gordion / Elizabeth Simpson -- Furniture in Elam / Ann C. Gunter -- Neubabylonische Möbel und das Sitzen auf dem Bett / Peter Calmeyer -- Achaimenidische Möbel und kussû ša šarrute / P. Calmeyer -- Parthian and Sasanian furniture / Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis -- Furniture in Islam / J.M. Rogers -- Concluding remarks / Roger Moorey.
ISBN
  • 3805318383
  • 9783805318389
OCLC
  • ocm35563282
  • 35563282
  • SCSB-2111233
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library