Interconnections in the Ancient Near East : A Study of the Relationships between the Arts of Egypt, the Aegean, and Western Asia

by: Smith, W.S.

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Interconnections in the ancient Near-East; a study of the relationships between the arts of Egypt, the Aegean, and western Asia

Author:William Stevenson Smith

xxxii, 202 pages 221 illustrations (some folded), maps (on lining papers) 29 cm

Contents:
Part I. Historical Survey of Interconnections
Chapter 1. Syria as a Cultural Link and Early Sea Trade
Chapter 2. Chariotry and the Age of International Relations
Chapter 3. The Part Played by the Manufacture of Glazed Faiences
Chapter 4. Readjustment after the Invasion of the Sea Peoples and the Rise of the Later Empires of Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia
Part II. The Composition of Wall Scenes
Chapter 5. The Mycenae Silver Rhyton and Aegean Paintings
Spatial Relationships
Concentric Compositions
The Hagia Trinada Paintings
Mainland Painting
Historical Problems
Chapter 6. Palace Decoration in Western Asia
Problems of Style : The Mari Paintings
North Syria and the Aegean : Alalakh
Mesopotamian Painting and the Question of the Development of Stone Wall Relief
The Later Assyrian Palaces
Chapter 7. Egyptian Wall Decorations : The Basic Register System and its Variations
The Egyptian Middle Kingdom and Crete
The Arrangement of Subject Matter in Large Wall Compositions
Early Hunting and Battle Scenes
New Kingdom Egypt and the Aegean
The Ramesside Battle Scenes
The End of an Epoch

Interconnections in the Ancient Near East : A Study of the Relationships between the Arts of Egypt, the Aegean, and Western Asia

by: Smith, W.S.

• Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1965

Price: 115,00 EURO

1 copy in stock