Palace ware across the Neo-Assyrian imperial landscape : social value and semiotic meaning

Palace ware across the Neo-Assyrian imperial landscape : social value and semiotic meaning / by Alice M.W. Hunt.

"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. Traditiona...

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Main Author: Hunt, Alice M. W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Series:Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 78.
Subjects:
Pottery, Assyro-Babylonian.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Assyria.
ART > Ceramics.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Pottery & Ceramics.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Pottery, Assyro-Babylonian
Assyria > Antiquities.
Middle East > Assyria
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Table of Contents:
  • Glossary
  • The Palace Ware Problem
  • Power and Prestige : The Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape
  • Palace Ware from the Central Provinces : Nimrud, Nineveh and Assur
  • Palace Ware from the Annexed Provinces : Dur-Katlimmu & Guzana
  • Palace Ware in the Unincorporated Territories
  • Conspicuous Consumption : Social Function and Semiotic Meaning of Palace Ware
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Appendix A: Palace Ware Petrographic Thin-section Descriptions
  • Appendix B: INAA Bulk Chemical Data.

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