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Phantom Image Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780226648293, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones
Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...
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£45,00
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Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections
ISBN: HB: 9788763543743, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
156 pp., 37.5x29.2 cm, 106 colour plates
Published here for the first time, the "Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections" presents an exhaustive assemblage of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume features sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of whi...
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£52,50
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What Is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
ISBN: PB: 9780226266633, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings
Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was...
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£13,50
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Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru New Questions and Approaches
ISBN: PB: 9781606064351, Getty Publications, March 2015
224 pp., 25.6x17.7 cm
This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic, or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts – t...
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£42,00
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Birth of the State Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China
ISBN: PB: 9788024622149, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2013
358 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 52 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Birth of the State" provides an overview of four of the most significant cultural centers in the ancient world, now in Egypt, the Persian Gulf region, India, and China. Petr Charvat a...
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£19,00
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City of Gold The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus
ISBN: PB: 9780300174397, Yale University Press, September 2012
400 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 225 colour images, 25 black&white illus.
The modern Cyprian town of Polis Chrysochous – "City of Gold" – lies above the city of Arsinoe and the earlier city – kingdom of Marion. In 1885 excavators began exploring the extensive cemeteries of these cities. Since 1983 the Princeton Cyprus Expe...
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£40,00
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Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC - AD 1000
ISBN: PB: 9780300170863, Yale University Press, March 2011
480 pp., 24.6x18.6 cm, 120 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.
Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, bearing restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade and often to settle. By the fift...
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£19,99
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Herakleides A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt
ISBN: PB: 9781606060360, Getty Publications, February 2011
104 pp., 23.6x18.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This is a fascinating multi-disciplinary study of the mummified remains of a young man who died nearly 2,000 years ago in Roman Egypt. Herakleides was a young man who lived and died in Roman Egypt almost two thousand years ago. This multidisciplinary...
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£18,99
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Empire Without End Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome c.1350-1527
ISBN: HB: 9780300154214, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 220 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displa...
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£55,00
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Houses and Monuments of Pompeii The Work of Fausto and Felice Niccolini
ISBN: HB: 9780892366842, Getty Publications, March 2006
224 pp., 36.9x26 cm, 270 colour illus.
The discovery of and excavation at Pompeii in the second half of the 18th century not only provided historians with a trove of information about ancient Roman civilization but also fired artists' imaginations and inaugurated the vogue for "Pompeian s...
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