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The circular archetype in microcosm : the carved stone balls of late neolithic Scotland
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ISBN: 1803271272 1803271264 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.,

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The Circular Archetype in Microcosm is the culmination of seven years research into the Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland. It is the first study of these enigmatic artefacts since that undertaken by Dorothy Marshall in 1977 and includes all currently known examples in both museums and private hands, described and analysed in considerable detail. For the first time, visual geological characterisation has been undertaken on approximately a third of carved stone balls, which has enabled a more detailed analysis of their potential origin and the landscapes in which they were found. The book offers a revised classification/typology of these artefacts which, following careful analysis, suggests that it is possible to determine individual craftspeople with a wide range of skills. It suggests that carved stone balls were used as unique and distinctive gestalts that represented the ideology of the core area of Aberdeenshire and enabled disparate groups to recognise one another.

History of early stone sculpture at mathura, ca. 150 BCE-100 CE.
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ISBN: 9004155376 9789004155374 9786611917210 1281917214 9047419308 9789047419303 Year: 2007 Volume: 25 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis and chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura, dating prior to the famous Kushan period. It includes numerous new attributions of objects based primarily on epigraphic and visual analysis. The sculptures attributable to these pre-Kushan periods reveal new evidence for the reasons behind the emergence of the anthropomorphic image of the Buddha at Mathura, the predominance of a heterodox sect of Jainism, and the proliferation of cults of nature divinities. This book provides a wealth of reference material useful for historians of early Indian art, religion, and epigraphy. The book is illustrated with over three hundred photographs, and it includes epigraphic appendices with complete transcriptions and updated translations.


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Sculpture and social dynamics in preclassic Mesoamerica
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ISBN: 9781107012462 9781139525954 1139525956 9781139528344 1139528343 1283522012 9781283522014 9780511998256 0511998252 1139530623 9781139530620 1107012465 9781139530620 1139539957 1107229200 1139527150 9786613834461 1139531816 9781139539951 9781107229204 9781139527156 6613834467 9781139531818 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies. This book focuses specifically on an enigmatic type of public, monumental sculpture known as the 'potbelly' that traces its antecedents to earlier, small domestic ritual objects and ceramic figurines. The cessation of domestic rituals involving ceramic figurines along the Pacific slope coincided not only with the creation of the first monumental potbelly sculptures, but with the rise of the first state-level societies in Mesoamerica by the advent of the Late Preclassic period. The potbellies became central to the physical representation of new forms of social identity and expressions of political authority during this time of dramatic change.


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The economics of the Roman stone trade
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ISBN: 9780199656394 0199656398 1306300282 0191765198 0191630403 9780191630408 9781306300285 9780191765193 0192590529 Year: 2013 Volume: *4 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press

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Russell provides an examination of the production, distribution and use of carved stone objects in the Roman world. Focusing on the market for stone and its supply, he offers an assessment of the practicalities of stone transport and how the relationship between producer and customer functioned even over considerable distances.


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Animals in stone : Indian mammals sculptured through time
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ISBN: 1282601393 9786612601392 904744356X 9789047443568 9789004168190 9004168192 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies devoted to these animal sculptures has remained extremely limited. The present book aims at filling this knowledge gap. With this richly illustrated book, the first of its kind, Van der Geer offers a comparative study of the ways in which various animals have been depicted and a lucid analysis of the sculptors’ treatment of their “models”: living animals. The art history of sculptured animals is contextualized with a description of the use of animals as can be read from ancient texts, archaeological evidence and contemporaneous culture. In doing so, parallels as well as differences in style or iconography are highlighted, elucidating the variety of animal depictions across regions, religious contexts and through time. The corpus of discussed material ranges from Indus seals, stupa panels and railings, monumental temples from North and South India, non-religious palace and fort architecture to loose sculptures in museum collections.


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Twelfth-century sculptural finds at Canterbury Cathedral and the cult of Thomas Becket
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ISBN: 1789252318 1789252334 9781789252316 9781789252330 9781789252309 178925230X 9781789252323 1789252326 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford


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Monumental kipchak statues in South-Eastern Europe : archeology, conservation and protection
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ISBN: 3110399350 8376560298 837656028X Year: 2013 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Stone statues, indigenous to the early Turks, appeared in the vast territory of the Asian steppes, from Southern Siberia to Central Asia and across the foothills of the Ural Mountains. The custom originated among Cumans in Eastern Europe. The skill of erecting anthropomorphic stelae required proficiency in processing different kinds of stone and wood, and was characterized by artistic value of representations, as well as by the timeless aesthetics of the canon. The author presents the results of her formative studies into the collection of the Cuman sculptures of the Veliko-Anadol Forest Museum, Ukraine. The book delves into the history of research on Cuman stone stelae, resulting in great reading for all archeologists and historians alike.


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Stone, flesh, spirit : the entombment of Christ in late medieval Burgundy and Champagne
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ISBN: 9789004264113 9004264116 9789004293144 9004293140 Year: 2015 Volume: 2 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Grief binds the worshipers together in an adagio of sorrow as they encounter the sculptural representation of the Entombment of Christ. Located in funerary chapels, parish churches, cemeteries, and hospitals, these works embody the piety of the later Middle Ages. In this book, Donna Sadler examines the sculptural Entombments from Burgundy and Champagne through a variety of lenses, including performance theory, embodied perception, and the invocation of the absent presence of the Holy Sepulcher. The author demonstrates how the action of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus entombing Christ in the presence of the Marys and John operates in a commemorative and collective fashion: the worshiper enters the realm of the holy and becomes a participant in the biblical event.

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