Author : Philippa M. Steele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1107169674
The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.
Author : Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9788772899565
The earliest roads in Cyprus go back to the Bronze Age, and by the end of the Hellenistic period the road network encircled the entire island. More roads were added and older roads rebuilt during the Roman period to serve the needs of the provincial administration as well as of the individual cities. This book, the first on its subject, traces the development of the Cypriot road network over a period of a thousand years, drawing on a combination of archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources. Separate chapters deal with travellers and life on the road, transport technology and the legal and administrative context of road building. It is often assumed that the primary purpose of Roman road building was military domination, but, as this study demonstrates, road development in Cyprus is best understood in terms of communication between cities and their territories and the day-to-day exchanges between town and countryside.
Author : Philippa M. Steele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107042860
The first comprehensive treatment of the languages and scripts of Cyprus, from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period.
Author : Veronica Tatton-Brown
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 1997
Category : A.G. Leventis Gallery of Cypriot Antiquities
ISBN :
The geographical position of Cyprus at the eastern end of the Mediterranean has always played a vital role in its history. As an island poised between the major civilizations of the ancient world - Mesopotamia, Assyria and Persia to the east, Anatolia to the north, Egypt to the south and Greece and Rome to the west - Cyprus developed a unique and distinctive culture.
Author : Desmond Morris
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : 9780714822808
Author : Diane Bolger
Publisher : American Society of Overseas Research
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
This is a collection of papers which focus on issues of gender and society in ancient Cyprus from the Neolithic to Roman periods.
Author : Andreas P. Parpas
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1803272481
This study considers the maritime economy of ancient Cyprus from 1450 BC to 295 BC, combining, for the first time, three distinct disciplines, that is History, Archaeology and Economic theory. The principles of New Institutional Economics are used to trace the island’s institutions and their continuity and to reconstruct its maritime history.
Author : Diane Bolger
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759104303
Gender in Ancient Cyprus examines some of the fundamental facets of gender as they intersect with the dynamics of social, political, and economic change in Cyprus, beginning with the earliest traces of human habitation on the island to the final phases of the Bronze Age. The book closely analyzes gender as it relates to the domestic space, technology and labor, ritual and social identity, and the roles of children, as well as the practices of modern day Near Eastern archaeology and the roles of women in it. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author : Vassos Karageorghis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN :
Anyone approaching the archaeology of Cyprus for the first time cannot fail to be intimidated by the wealth of information available, not only relating to the island of Cyprus itself, but also to other polities with which it interacted from an early period.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870999443
"The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the richest and most varied representation, outside Cyprus, of Cypriot antiquities. These works were purchased by the newly established Museum in the mid-1870s from General Luigi Palma di Cesnola, a Civil War cavalry officer who had amassed the objects while serving as the American consul on Cyprus." "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the opening of the Museum's four permanent galleries for ancient art from Cyprus. It is also the first scholarly publication since 1914 devoted to the Cesnola Collection (which totals approximately six thousand objects). The volume features some five hundred pieces from the collection, illustrated in new color photography. Dating from about 2500 B.C. to about A.D. 300, these works rank among the finest examples of Cypriot art from the prehistoric, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. Among the objects are monumental sculpture; weapons, tools, and domestic utensils; vases, lamps, and ritual paraphernalia; dedicatory figurines; engraved sealstones and jewelry; and luxury objects."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
