Script and Seal Use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages,9780960904273

Script and Seal Use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages

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ISBN13: 9780960904273
ISBN10: 0960904271
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-09-01
Publisher(s): David Brown Book Co
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Summary

This volume explores different approaches to the "contextual" study of Cypriot scripts and seals and fosters a more integrated view of cultural continuities and discontinuities through time and space, and among different methods of recording in Cyprus.

Author Biography

Georgia Bonny Bazemore: Rantidi Forest Excavations Nicolle E. Hirschfeld: Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory University of Texas at Austin Barry B. Powell: Department of Classics University of Wisconsin-Madison Andres T. Reyes: Groton School Joanna S. Smith: Department of Art History and Archaeology Columbia University Jennifer M. Webb: Department of Archaeology La Trobe University

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Preface ix
Joanna S. Smith
Problems and Prospects in the Study of Script and Seal Use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages
1(48)
Joanna S. Smith
Marks on Pots: Patterns of Use in the Archaeological Record at Enkomi
49(62)
Nicolle E. Hirschfeld
Device, Image, and Coercion: The Role of Glyptic in the Political Economy of Late Bronze Age Cyprus
111(44)
Jennifer M. Webb
The Display and Viewing of the Syllabic Inscriptions of Rantidi Sanctuary
155(58)
Georgia Bonny Bazemore
The Stamp Seals of Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age: An Introduction
213(14)
Andres T. Reyes
Seals and Writing in the Ancient Near East and Cyprus: Observations from Context
227
Barry B. Powell

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