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Beyond Babylon : Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.

by: Aruz, J. Benzel, K. Evans, J.M.

Price: 67,00 EURO

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Category: Prehistory
Code: 12221
ISBN-13: 9780300141436 / 978-0-300-14143-6
ISBN-10: 0300141432 / 0-300-14143-2
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2008
Publication Place: New Haven and London
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 548
Book Condition: New
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 Beyond Babylon : art, trade, and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C.
Authors:Joan Aruz, Kim Benzel, Jean M. Evans


Summary:Describes the extraordinary art created in the second millennium BC for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean. This book discusses the history of the period and the artistic creativity fostered by interaction among the powers of the ancient Near East, both great and small.

Series:
Metropolitan Museum of Art


Contents
Director?s Foreword
Philippe de Montebello
Acknowledgments
Lenders to the Exhibition
Contributors to the Catalogue
Introduction
Joan Aruz
The Middle Bronze Age
Mogens Trolle Larsen
Babylon
B¿atrice Andr¿-Salvini
Mari
Jean-Claude Margueron
Elba and Its Foreign Relations
Paolo Matthiae
Development of Trade Routes in the Levant
Michel Al-Maqdissi
Ugarit
Bassam Jamous
Byblos
Suzy Hakimian
Egypt and the Levant
Thomas Schneider
Anatolian Trading and Colonies
Mogens Trolle Larsen
Texts, Trade, and Travelers
Jack M. Sasson
The Art of the Jeweler
Kim Benzel
Egypt, the Levant, and the Aegean
David O?Connor
Painted Palaces
Joan Aruz
The Spread of Royal and Ritual Imagery
Joan Aruz
The Late Bronze Age
Mario Liverani
Hittite Empire
Andreas Müller-Karpe
Mitanni
Jean M. Evans

Kassite Babylonia
Jean M. Evans
Middle Assyria
Jean M. Evans
Qatna
Michel Al-Maqdissi
Qatna
Peter Pf¿lzner
Qatna
Daniele Morandi-Bonacossi
Ugarit
Bassam Jamous
Ugarit
Jean-Claude Margueron
New Kingdom Egypt
Thomas Schneider
The Aegean
Robert Koehl

The Uluburum Ship
Cemal Pulak
Interconnections and Intercultural Styles
Joan Aruz
Ivory
Annie Caubet
Vitreous Materials
Annie Caubet
Legacy
Bridges to Babylon: Homer, Anatolia, and the Levant
Sarah H. Morris
Ivory-Working Traditions in the Early First Millennium
Marian Feldman
Appendixes
Chronology
Erich H. Cline
Chronology
Glenn Schwartz
Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits

Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 18, 2008-Mar. 15, 2009

xxiii, 524 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 32 cm

 

 

 
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Beyond Babylon : Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.

by: Aruz, J. Benzel, K. Evans, J.M.

  • ISBN-13: 9780300141436 / 978-0-300-14143-6
  • ISBN-03: 0300141432 / 0-300-14143-2
  • Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008

Price: 67,00 EURO

1 copy in stock