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Palace ware across the Neo-Assyrian imperial landscape [electronic resource] : social value and semiotic meaning / by Alice M. W. Hunt.

By: Hunt, Alice M. WMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Culture and history of the ancient Near East: v. 78.Publisher: Leiden : Brill, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xx, 248 p.)ISBN: 9004304126; 9789004304123Subject(s): Excavations (Archaeology) -- Assyria | Pottery, Assyro-Babylonian | Antiquities | Excavations (Archaeology) | Pottery, Assyro-Babylonian | Assyria -- Antiquities | Middle East -- AssyriaDDC classification: 738.3093 LOC classification: NK3820 | .H86 2015ebOnline resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

Glossary -- The Palace Ware Problem -- Power and Prestige : The Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape -- Palace Ware from the Central Provinces : Nimrud, Nineveh and Assur -- Palace Ware from the Annexed Provinces : Dur-Katlimmu & Guzana -- Palace Ware in the Unincorporated Territories -- Conspicuous Consumption : Social Function and Semiotic Meaning of Palace Ware -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix A: Palace Ware Petrographic Thin-section Descriptions -- Appendix B: INAA Bulk Chemical Data.

Scope and content: "In Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape, Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic meaning of Palace Ware by its cultural audience in the Neo-Assyrian central and annexed provinces, and the unincorporated territories, including buffer zones and vassal states. Traditionally, Palace Ware has been equated with imperial identity. By understanding these vessels as a vehicle through which interregional and intercultural relationships were negotiated and maintained she reveals their complexity gaining a more nuanced view of imperial dynamics. Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape is the first work of its kind; providing in-depth analysis of the formal and fabric characteristic, production technology, and raw material provenance of Palace Ware, and locating these data within the larger narratives of power, presentation, symbol and meaning that shaped the Neo-Assyrian imperial landscape"--Privided by publisher.

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"In Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape, Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic meaning of Palace Ware by its cultural audience in the Neo-Assyrian central and annexed provinces, and the unincorporated territories, including buffer zones and vassal states. Traditionally, Palace Ware has been equated with imperial identity. By understanding these vessels as a vehicle through which interregional and intercultural relationships were negotiated and maintained she reveals their complexity gaining a more nuanced view of imperial dynamics. Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape is the first work of its kind; providing in-depth analysis of the formal and fabric characteristic, production technology, and raw material provenance of Palace Ware, and locating these data within the larger narratives of power, presentation, symbol and meaning that shaped the Neo-Assyrian imperial landscape"--Privided by publisher.