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Incised Drawings from Early Phrygian Gordion: Gordion Special Studies IV
Lynn E. Roller
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Description for Incised Drawings from Early Phrygian Gordion: Gordion Special Studies IV
Hardback. Lynn E. Roller focuses on a series of stone blocks with incised figural and abstract drawings recovered from early Phrygian structures at Gordion. Num Pages: 192 pages, 236 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDAG; HDD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 287 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 846.
In 1950, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology began excavations at the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordion in central Turkey. The Museum's Gordion Project continues today, with researchers from many disciplines and with many specializations contributing to a growing-and sometimes changing-body of information and understanding about this complex and multifaceted site, inhabited by peoples and diverse civilizations for millennia. In this volume of Gordion Special Studies, Lynn E. Roller focuses on a series of stone blocks with incised figural and abstract drawings recovered from early Phrygian structures at Gordion. The great majority of the incised stones come ... Read more
In 1950, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology began excavations at the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordion in central Turkey. The Museum's Gordion Project continues today, with researchers from many disciplines and with many specializations contributing to a growing-and sometimes changing-body of information and understanding about this complex and multifaceted site, inhabited by peoples and diverse civilizations for millennia. In this volume of Gordion Special Studies, Lynn E. Roller focuses on a series of stone blocks with incised figural and abstract drawings recovered from early Phrygian structures at Gordion. The great majority of the incised stones come ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, United States
ISBN
9781934536148
SKU
V9781934536148
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About Lynn E. Roller
Lynn E. Roller is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele and Gordion Special Studies 1: The Non-Verbal Graffiti, Dipinti, and Stamps, the latter also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Reviews for Incised Drawings from Early Phrygian Gordion: Gordion Special Studies IV
"A useful book... It supplies the reader with all that one might want to learn about its subject and all the tools to do one's own research... The early history and development of Gordion, Phrygia, and the Phrygians are still mostly shrouded in mist, but books such as this allow one to peer through it."-Ancient West and East