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Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape: Social Value and Semiotic Meaning

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2015
ISBN
9004304118, 9789004304116
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6123895 bytes)
Pages
248\268
Time added
2021-03-20 17:16:59

Description

"In Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape, Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic meaning of Palace Ware by its cultural audience in the Neo-Assyrian central and annexed provinces, and the unincorporated territories, including buffer zones and vassal states. Traditionally, Palace Ware has been equated with imperial identity. By understanding these vessels as a vehicle through which interregional and intercultural relationships were negotiated and maintained she reveals their complexity gaining a more nuanced view of imperial dynamics. Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape is the first work of its kind; providing in-depth analysis of the formal and fabric characteristic, production technology, and raw material provenance of Palace Ware, and locating these data within the larger narratives of power, presentation, symbol and meaning that shaped the Neo-Assyrian imperial landscape"--Privided by publisher. Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables List of Maps Glossary Chapter 1 The Palace Ware Problem Chapter 2 Power and Prestige: The Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape Chapter 3 Palace Ware from the Central Provinces: Nimrud, Nineveh and Aššur Chapter 4 Palace Ware from the Annexed Provinces: Dur-Katlimmu & Guzana Chapter 5 Palace Ware in the Unincorporated Territories Chapter 6 Conspicuous Consumption: Social Function and Semiotic Meaning of Palace Ware Chapter 7 Concluding Remarks Appendix A: Palace Ware Petrographic Thin-section Descriptions Appendix B: INAA Bulk Chemical Data Bibliography Index

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