Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East: Sites, Cultures, and ProveniencesArchaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East follows the evolution of the author’s scholarly work and interests and is divided into several categories of interrelated fields. The first part deals primarily with excavations and associated artifacts, issues in ancient geography and the identification of ancient sites in northwest Iran, the author’s research involving the culture and chronology of the Phrygian capital at Gordion in Anatolia, and the chronology and Iranian cultural relations of a site in the Emirate of Sharjah. Part two is wide-ranging and includes chapters on Aegean and ancient Near Eastern cultural and political interconnections, the role of fibulae in revealing cultural and chronological matters, and the gender-determined usage of parasols and their recognition in excavated contexts. There are also articles specifically concerned with “Plunder Culture” and the forgery of both objects and their alleged proveniences. "At 1,088 pages, this volume provides a wonderful sample– chosen by Muscarella himself – of forty papers spanning the author’s career and many interests...This volume is so rich that it contains something for everyone." D.T. Potts, NYU, Bibliotheca Orientalis lxxIII n° 3-4, mei-augustus 2016 |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part One Sites and Excavations | 5 |
A Preliminary Report | 9 |
Second Report | 43 |
Phase III | 83 |
An Urartian Site in Northwestern Iran | 97 |
Chapter Five Excavations at Agrab Tepe Iran | 109 |
Chapter Six The Iron Age at Dinkha Tepe Iran | 161 |
PART TWO ARTIFACTS CULTURES FORGERIES AND PROVENIENCE | 651 |
Chapter TwentyOne The Archaeological Evidence for Relations between Greece and Iran in the First Millennium BC | 655 |
Chapter TwentyTwo Urartian Bells and Samos | 689 |
Chapter TwentyThree King Midas of Phrygia and the Greeks | 703 |
A Review | 725 |
Chapter TwentyFive Fibulae Represented on Sculpture | 767 |
Chapter TwentySix Phrygian or Lydian? | 783 |
Chapter TwentySeven Fibulae and Chronology Marlik and Assur | 803 |
Chapter Seven Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century BC | 255 |
Chapter Eight The Hasanlu Lion Pins Again | 285 |
An Archaeological Evaluation | 305 |
Chapter Ten The Iranian Iron III Chronology at Muweilah in the Emirate of Sharjah | 351 |
Chapter Eleven The Location of Ulhu and Uishe in Sargon IIs Eighth Campaign 714 BC | 369 |
a MiniReport | 389 |
Bronze Age to Iron Age | 459 |
A Review Article of Yousef Madjidzadeh Jiroft The Earliest Oriental Civilization | 485 |
An Introduction and Overview | 523 |
King Midas Tumulus at Gordion | 533 |
Chapter Seventeen The Iron Age Background to the Formation of the Phrygian State | 549 |
Chapter Eighteen The Date of the Destruction of the Early Phrygian Period at Gordion | 569 |
ca + 700 BC | 601 |
An Archaeological Review | 621 |
Chapter TwentyEight Parasols in the Ancient Near East | 817 |
Chapter TwentyNine The Pope and the Bitter Fanatic | 827 |
Chapter Thirty The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures | 837 |
The Great Divide | 861 |
Chapter ThirtyTwo Bazaar Archaeology Plate 34 ab | 879 |
Ashurbanipals Beaker | 889 |
A Product of Cultural Transfer? | 901 |
Ancient or Modern? | 915 |
Chapter ThirtySix The Veracity of Scientific Testing by Conservators | 931 |
The Forgery of a Provenience | 955 |
Chapter ThirtyEight Median Art and Medizing Scholarship | 999 |
Forgeries of Provenience and Ancient Culture | 1025 |
Chapter Forty Excavated and Unexcavated Achaemenian Art | 1043 |
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