Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher : Hudson Hills Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
In addition to a study of cuneiform texts, this volume includes a chemical interpretation of these texts and two accounts of Mesopotamian glass vessels of the period 1500-500 B.C. with corresponding cataloguing of objects. Illustrated.
Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher :
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
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Author : Wendy Reade
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789697042
This volume explores glass composition and production from the mid-second to mid-first millennia BC, the first thousand years of glass-making. Multi-element analyses of 132 glasses from Pella in Jordan, and Nuzi and Nimrud in Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) produce new and important data that provide insights into the earliest glass production.
Author : Hugh Tait
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Glass
ISBN : 9780714150956
A new edition of this definitive world history of glassmaking and decorative techniques from 2500 BC, updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. This classic book traces the history of glassmaking from its origins in Western Asia some 5000 years ago, through the invention of glassblowing around the first century BC, to the introduction of mechanised processes and new styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. It highlights the flourishing industries of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the extraordinary achievements of the Roman Empire, the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East, the superb mastery of Renaissance Venice and the wide‐ranging experiments of modern Europe and America. With a new final chapter by John P. Smith, Editor of The Glass Circle journal, to bring the book right up to date with the latest developments, 5000 Years of Glass is still the definitive single‐volume general history of this most versatile art form.
Author : Katharina Schmidt
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789691542
'Glass and Glass Production in the Near East during the Iron Age: Evidence from objects, texts and chemical analysis' examines the history of glass in Iron Age Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions (1000-539 BCE). This is the first monograph to cover this region and period comprehensively and in detail and thus fills a significant gap in glass research. It focusses on identification of the different types of glass objects and their respective manufacturing techniques from the the Iron Age period. Both glass as material and individual glass objects are investigated to answer questions such as as how raw glass (primary production) and glass objects (secondary production) were manufactured, how both these industries were organised, and how widespread glass objects were in Mesopotamian society in the Iron Age period. Such a comprehensive picture of glass and its production in the Iron Age can only be achieved by setting archaeological data in relation to cuneiform texts, archaeometric analyses and experimental-archaeological investigations. With regard to the different disciplines incorporated into this study, an attempt was made to view them together and to establish connections between these areas.
Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher : Hudson Hills Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
In addition to a study of cuneiform texts, this volume includes a chemical interpretation of these texts and two accounts of Mesopotamian glass vessels of the period 1500-500 B.C. with corresponding cataloguing of objects. Illustrated.
Author : Katharina Schmidt
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789691559
This book examines the history of glass in Iron Age Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions (1000–539 BCE). This is the first monograph to cover this region and period comprehensively and in detail and thus fills a significant gap in glass research.
Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Glass
ISBN :
Author : Shiyanthi Thavapalan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004415416
"In The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia, Shiyanthi Thavapalan offers the first in-depth study of the words and expressions for colors in the Akkadian language (c. 2500-500 BCE). By combining philological analysis with the technical investigation of materials, she debunks the misconception that people in Mesopotamia had a limited sense of color and convincingly positions the development of Akkadian color language as a corollary of the history of materials and techniques in the ancient Near East"--
Author : Peter Roger Stuart Moorey
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575060422
This is the first systematic attempt to survey in detail the archaeological evidence for the crafts and craftsmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia, covering the period ca. 8000-300 B.C.E. As creators of some of the earliest farming and urban communities known to us, these people were among the first pioneers of many crafts and skills that remain fundamental to modern ways of life. Many of the raw materials for crafts had to be imported from outside the river valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, providing an unusually sensitive indicator of the commercial and cultural contacts of Mesopotamia. In this book, Dr. Moorey reviews briefly the textual evidence, and then goes on to examine in detail the material evidence for a wide range of crafts using stones, both common and ornamental, animal products--from hippopotamus ivory to ostrich egg-shells--ceramics, glazed materials and glass, metals, and building materials. With a comprehensive bibliography, this will be a key work of reference for archaeologists and those interested in the early history of crafts and technology, as well as for specialist historians of the ancient Near East.
