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Making Pictures of War
Laura Battini
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Paperback. This book brings together the main discussions that took place at an international conference on the iconology of war in the ancient Near East, a subject never addressed at an international meeting before. Series: Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology. Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: HDDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 292 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
This book brings together the main discussions that took place at an international conference on the iconology of war in the ancient Near East, a subject never addressed at an international meeting before. The articles span the 3rd to the 1st millennium, with a special stress on the Neo-Assyrian period. They try to respond to many questions about representations of war: what is ‘warrior’ iconography and on what basis it can be defined? Did the war scenes follow a specific directory whereby they adopted the most varied forms? Can we determine the most usual conditions for the creation of pictures ... Read more
This book brings together the main discussions that took place at an international conference on the iconology of war in the ancient Near East, a subject never addressed at an international meeting before. The articles span the 3rd to the 1st millennium, with a special stress on the Neo-Assyrian period. They try to respond to many questions about representations of war: what is ‘warrior’ iconography and on what basis it can be defined? Did the war scenes follow a specific directory whereby they adopted the most varied forms? Can we determine the most usual conditions for the creation of pictures ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Archaeopress United Kingdom
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
Series
Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology
Number of Pages
106
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784914035
SKU
V9781784914035
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About Laura Battini
Laura Battini is an archaeologist specialised in the Ancient Near East. She is currently a researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research (Laboratory PROCLAC, UMR 7192, directed by Thomas Römer). Laura created a new journal for the Ancient Near East (Ash sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East, Archaeopress), and is the editor of the archaeological series Archaeopress ... Read more
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