Art and Society in Cyprus From the Bronze Age Into the Iron Age

Informationen zum Autor Joanna S. Smith is Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, a former visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and National Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America, she has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of Script and Seal Use in Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages and Views from Philamoudhi, Cyprus. Klappentext This study examines the development of economic and social control at Kition in Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus. Zusammenfassung This study emphasizes the placement and scale of images and how they reveal the development of economic and social control at Kition from its establishment in the thirteenth century BCE until the development of a centralized form of government by the Phoenicians! backed by the Assyrian king! in 707 BCE. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Setting the record; 3. Sizing up images; 4. The human perspective; 5. Deposits and pots; 6. Pits and imports; 7. From scholars to potters; 8. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Joanna S. Smith, Joanna S. (Princeton University Smith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2014
• EAN: 9781107683969
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68396-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / Ceramics, Ceramic arts, pottery, glass, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / European, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / Glass, sculpture, Mediterranean Sea, History of Art, Ancient World, Cyprus, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Carvings: artworks, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks, Carvings, masks, reliefs