Syrian and Phoenician ivories of the early first millennium BCE
Subtitle: chronology, regional styles and iconographic repertories, patterns of inter-regional distribution
By: edited by Serena Maria Cecchini, Stefania Mazzoni, Elena Scigliuzzo
Contributors: Università di Pisa
Series: Ricerche di archeologia del Vicino Oriente -- 3; Ricerche di archeologia del Vicino Oriente -- 3.
Publisher: Edizioni ETS
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pisa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9788846724939
Subjects: Congresses; Phoenician antiquities; Phoenician Ivories; Ivories; Ivory carving; Antiquities
Notes: "Acts of the International Workshop: Pisa, December 9th-11th 2004, Aula Magna Storica, Palazzo La Sapienza, Università degli studi di Pisa"

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface and 13 texts in English, 2 in French.
Table of contents: title: Ivories from the North West Palace at Nimrud  -- Georgina Herrmann; title: Nimrud, Fort Salmanasar: entrepôts et ateliers de la zone SW  -- Paolo Fiorina; title: Ivories from Italian excavations in Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud  -- Elisa Follis; title: Ivories from Italian excavations in Nimrud in 1987/89: methodological remarks  -- Eleonora Pappalardo; title: Ivoires de Arslan Tash  -- Serena Maria Cecchini; title: Ivories and art traditions in the Hama region  -- Stefania Mazzoni; title: What production model can be deduced for first-millennium BC Syro-Phoenician ivories?  -- Silvana Di Paolo; title: Measuring beauty: an anthropometric methodology for the assessment of ideal feminine beauty embodied in first-millennium BCE Levantine ivory carvings  -- Amy Gansell; title: Ivory sphinxes of North Syrian tradition: the Flame and Frond school  -- Giorgio Affanni; title: "Unusually-shaped ivories" (USI) group with stylized trees  -- Eric Gubel; title: Group of ivory fan-handles from the Burnt Palace of Nimrud and the "Wig and Wing workshop"  -- Elena Scigliuzzo; title: "Intermediate tradition": dreifach Problematisch  -- Dirk Wicke; title: Iconographie des calices en relief égyptiens par rapport aux adaptations phéniciennes  -- Vanessa Boschloos; title: Taste for Egypt: Egyptianizing ivories and other artifacts at the Neoassyrian court  -- Davide Ciafaloni; title: Near Eastern ivories in the Aegean during the early-first-millennium B.C. and their impact on local Greek art  -- Hartmut Matthäus; title: Classification and contextualization of 2nd-millennium ivories: the case of Ugarit -- Marian H. Feldman.