Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffins In the Context of 8th-6th Century BC Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite Funerary Practices

Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffins In the Context of 8th-6th Century BC Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite Funerary Practices
Author: Yasmina Wicks
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-10-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784911755

This volume is dedicated to the examination of a small corpus of bronze U-shaped burial receptacles from ancient Mesopotamia and Elam, dubbed 'bathtub' coffins for their characteristic apsidal shape, reminiscent of a style of 19th and early 20th century bathtub.

Forgotten Empire

Forgotten Empire
Author: Béatrice André-Salvini
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: Achaemenid dynasty
ISBN: 0520247310

A richly-illustrated and important book that traces the rise and fall of one of the ancient world's largest and richest empires.

Bronze 'bathtub' Coffins

Bronze 'bathtub' Coffins
Author: Yasmina Wicks
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Coffins
ISBN: 9781784911744

This volume is dedicated to the examination of a small corpus of bronze U-shaped burial receptacles from ancient Mesopotamia and Elam, dubbed 'bathtub' coffins for their characteristic apsidal shape, reminiscent of a style of 19th and early 20th century bathtub.

Dictionary of the Ancient Near East

Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
Author: Piotr Bienkowski
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2010-03-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812221152

An authoritative guide to the whole of the cradle of civilization.

From Sherds to Landscapes

From Sherds to Landscapes
Author: Mark Altaweel
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1614910642

This volume honors McGuire Gibson and his years of service to archaeology of Mesopotamia, Yemen, and neighboring regions. Professor Gibson spent most of his career at the University of Chicago's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department and the Oriental Institute. Many of his students, colleagues, and friends have contributed to this volume, reflecting Gibson's diverse interests. The volume presents new results in areas such as landscape archaeology, urbanism, the ancient languages of Mesopotamia, history of Mesopotamia, the archaeology of Iran and Yemen, prehistory, material culture, and wider archaeological topics.

The Art of Elam CA. 4200–525 BC

The Art of Elam CA. 4200–525 BC
Author: Javier Álvarez-Mon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 711
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000034852

The Art of Elam ca. 4200-525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world’s first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. Not unlike a gallery of historical paintings, this comprehensive treatment of the rich heritage of ancient Iran showcases a visual trail of the evolution of human society, with all its leaps and turns, from its origins in the earliest villages of southwest Iran at around 4200 BC to the rise of the Achaemenid Persian empire in ca. 525 BC. Richly illustrated in full colour with 1450 photographs, 190 line drawings, and digital reconstructions of hundreds of artefacts—some of which have never before been published—The Art of Elam goes beyond formal and thematic boundaries to emphasize the religious, political, and social contexts in which art was created and functioned. Such a magisterial study of Elamite art has never been written making The Art of Elam ca. 4200-525 BC a ground-breaking publication essential to all students of ancient art and to our current understanding of the civilizations of the ancient Near East.

Susa and Elam II

Susa and Elam II
Author: Jan Tavernier
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2023
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004541438

Susa and Elam II contains 16 contributions presented at an international conference on Susa and Elam (SW Iran) in 2015 in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). They cover various themes on Susian and Elamite history, language, religion, and culture.

The Archaeology of Elam

The Archaeology of Elam
Author: D. T. Potts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 954
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1316586316

Elam was an important state in southwestern Iran from the third millennium BC to the appearance of the Persian Empire and beyond. Less well-known than its neighbors in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, the Levant or Egypt, it was nonetheless a region of extraordinary cultural vitality. This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written evidence, and brings to life one of the most important regions of Western Asia, re-evaluates its significance, and places it in the context of the most recent archaeological and historical scholarship. The new edition includes material from over 800 additional sources, reflecting the enormous amount of fieldwork and scholarship on Iran since 1999. Every chapter contains new insights and material that have been seamlessly integrated into the text in order to give the reader an up-to-date understanding of ancient Elam.

Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past

Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past
Author: William G. Dever
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 1575060817

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, this collection of erudite essays concentrates on the archaeology of ancient Israel, Canaan, and neighboring nations.

The Tropical Turn

The Tropical Turn
Author: Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520390849

This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels the breathtaking anthropogenic peregrinations of these familiar crops from their homelands in tropical and subtropical Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean, showing the significant impact South Asia had on the ecologies, dietary habits, and cultural identities of peoples across the ancient world. In the process, Sureshkumar Muthukumaran offers a fresh narrative history of human connectivity across Afro-Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the late centuries BCE.