Animals, gods and men from east to west : papers on archaeology and history in honour of Roberta Venco Ricciardi / edited by Alessandra Peruzzetto, Francesca Dorna Metzger, Lucinda Dirven.

Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • French
Published/​Created
Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2013.
Description
x, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Editor
    Honouree
    Series
    BAR international series ; 2516. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    The 21 articles collected in this commemorative volume centre on animals in relation to men and gods.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Language note
    Essays in English and French.
    Contents
    • Roberta Venco Ricciardi: a life with the past / Alessandra Peruzzetto, Francesca Dorna Metzger, Lucinda Dirven
    • Bibliography of Roberta Venco Ricciardi
    • Ancient Near East and Iran. Snakes on pottery / Stefano Valentini
    • A flask from the tomb of Mulissu-Mukannishat-Ninua in Nimrud / Muayad Said Damerji
    • Hybrid creatures (part human, part animal) in ancient Mesopotamia / Hikmat Basheer al-Aswad
    • La cigogne, la chèvre et les renards / Olivier Lecomte & Marjan Mashkour
    • Transformation of near eastern animal motifs in Murghabo-Bactrian Bronze Age art / Sylvia Winkelmann
    • Ancient and classical Greek world. The bull's head symbol from the Tel Haror fragment to the Linear B writing / Anna Margherita Jasink
    • Tile stamps depicting a frog on the roof tiles of Selinus (Sicily) / Maria Clara Conti
    • A female figure with swan in the Camillo Leone Museum in Vercelli / Rosina Leone
    • Hellenistic, Parthian and Sasanian. Héraclès, l'anguipède et le géant. Le médaillon (emblêma) de Termez : un nouvel épisode de gigantomachie / Pierre Leriche
    • Weasels and calves. Animals and onomastics from Qaryatain to the Euphrates / Jean-Baptiste Yon
    • Rams, stags and crosses from Sasanian Iraq: elements of a shared visual vocabulary from Late Antiquity / St John Simpson
    • Devilish apparitions in Mesopotamian incantation bowls. Preliminary remarks about demons in the guise of animals / Marco Moriggi
    • Terracott animal figurines from Veh Ardashi (Coche) in the collection of the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica e Palazzo Madama (Torino) / Alessandra Cellerino & Vito Messina
    • Hatra. Animal remains at Hatra, City of the Sun. First archaeozoological evidence for the Parthian period / Marjan Mashkour & Alessandra Peruzzetto
    • A goddess with dogs from Hatra / Lucinda Dirven
    • The fish of Allat at Hatra / Ted Kaizer
    • Griffins in the architectural decoration at Hatra / Francesca Dorna Metzger & Monica Girardi
    • A gazelle pendant from Hatra. A comparative analysis / Enrico Foietta & Ilaria Bucci
    • Scriptorial evidence of scratched inscriptions from Building A in Hatra / Roberto Bertolino
    • Miscellaneous. Lambs and the tradition of the palium / Neda Parmegiani
    • The fantastic world of Munʼim Furat, Iraqi sculptor / Roberto Parapetti & Aysar Akrawi.
    ISBN
    • 9781407311340
    • 1407311344
    OCLC
    868299815
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