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"Ancient Art Revisited develops new perspectives on ancient art by weaving together diverse strands within archaeology and art history, exploring it through recent developments in archaeological theory. In order to foster dialogue among various subfields, contributors are drawn from a wide range of domains. Classical archaeology, Aegean prehistory, Near Eastern archaeology, Egyptology, Pre-Columbian South America, and North America are brought together to explore ancient art from multiscalar perspectives and through the lenses of entanglement theory, network thinking, assemblage theory and other recent theoretical developments. Representing a new wave in research on ancient art, considering both the proximal and distributed operations of artworks, Ancient Art Revisited provides broad and inclusive coverage of ancient art and offers a cohesive approach to a fragmented area of study. This book will be suitable for archaeologists, anthropologists and art historians wishing to understand the latest thinking on ancient art"--

Art, Ancient. --- Archaeology and art --- Archaeology and history

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This catalog accompanies the exhibition at Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum, on view from February 3 through August 6, 2023, and presents 165 works that illustrate daily life, sacred life, and funerary culture from 4800 BCE and 800 CE. The collection was named by Georges Ricard after the refined objects found in the ancient workers' village Hetep-Senusret, modern Lahun in Egypt. The catalog begins with introductory essays on the history of the collection, ancient Egyptian daily life, ancestor cults, mummy studies, conservation, and the evolution of objects over time. Exhibition objects follow in three thematic sections follow that illustrate activities of daily life, the agency of sacred votive offerings, and the purpose of burial items.

Art, Ancient --- Art objects, Egyptian --- Grave goods --- Michael C. Carlos Museum --- Lāhūn (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Antiquities --- Social life and customs

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The motif of the woman and the dragon has been prevalent in Western art since antiquity, yet has hitherto remained understudied, and artworks featuring this motif in Western Mediterranean cultures have been examined primarily in relation to the topos of the male dragon-slayer. This book analyzes artistic images of women and dragons over an extensive period, from Classical Greece and Rome (with forays to Egypt and Mesopotamia) to the early modern period in Western Europe. The unique methodology employed in the study of this motif reveals its sacred core, as well as its relationship to rituals of fertility and oracular knowledge, to the liminal realm between life and death, and to the symbolism of Great Mother goddesses. At the same time, the images explored throughout expose stereotypes and biases against women in unusual positions of power, which were embedded in the motif and persisted in Western European art.

Dragons in art --- Women in art --- History of art: ancient and classical art,BCE to c 500 CE. --- History of art: Byzantine and Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400. --- ART / History / Ancient & Classical. --- ART / History / Medieval. --- HISTORY / Women * --- Paintings and painting. --- History of art. --- Gender studies: women and girls. --- History --- History, Art History, and Archaeology --- HIS --- Art and Material Culture --- ART & MAT --- Diachronic --- DIACHRONIC --- Gender and Sexuality Studies --- GEND & SEXU --- Women, Dragon, Art, Witch, Sacred --- Iconography --- History of civilization --- dragons --- women [female humans] --- iconography --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- Art and mythology --- Art, Ancient --- Art, Medieval --- Themes, motives. --- Themes, motives

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Cities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant celebrates Gabriel Mazor and his lifetime of work at the monumental city of Nysa-Scythopolis, Bet Sheʼan Baysān. This metropolis, part of the storied Decapolis, or league of ten cities, that flourished during the Hellenistic, Roman-Byzantine and very early Islamic periods until the devastating earthquake of AD 748, has been the singular focus of Gabi Mazor for a generation. The excavations, conservation and reconstruction at the site, and the detailed publications all are deserving of praise and appreciation.

Chapters by leading archaeologists in Israel and the Levant explore themes and sites, in most cases by the chief archaeologists themselves, providing the latest information and insights about cities and villages from the Hellenistic to early Islamic periods across the region. This rare assemblage of scholars offers new material and interpretations of many of the key archaeological sites active today. The result is a rich trove of up-to-date data and insights that will be a must read for scholars and students active in this part of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Archaeology --- Archaeology. --- Byzantine antiquities. --- Classical antiquities. --- Middle East --- Middle East. --- Antiquities, Byzantine. --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Antiquities, Classical --- Antiquities, Grecian --- Antiquities, Roman --- Archaeology, Classical --- Classical archaeology --- Roman antiquities --- Antiquities --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Art, Ancient --- Classical philology --- Antiquities, Byzantine --- Christian antiquities --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Asia, Western --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mideast --- Near East --- South West --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Asia --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- East (Middle East) --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Orient --- Monuments --- Byzantine --- Villages --- Roman --- Israel --- Cities --- Hellenistic