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A Unique Prehistoric Figurine of the Near East (Paperback)
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A Unique Prehistoric Figurine of the Near East (Paperback)
Series: Archaeolingua Series Minor, 15
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As regards an artistic object, e.g. a sculpture of the ancient
world of unknown provenance, it is a usual practice to study its
possible context, historic and sometimes also religious background.
But is it correct to do the same with an artefact of an earlier
age, a prehistoric figurine?The author devotes the present study to
a meticulous analysis of a stray find, bought from a collection in
Egypt and now deposited in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. The
main goal certainly was to collect as much information as possible
about the time and place of its birth, about the (pre)historic
context within which the figurine may have been used. The result
reveals fairly much about the periphery of the late 3rd millennium
Mesopotamia, about groups of peoples who traded and thus came into
cultural contact with Egypt, but also with coeval Transcaucasian
cultures. An attempt for a reconstruction of early religious koine
of the Syro-Palestinian region, concerning Goddesses, was also
possible. Beyondthat, the book is also of methodological value,
giving an example for studying contextless archaeological objects,
which, unfortunately, according to the proliferating trade in
antique objects of art, grow in number.
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Imprint: |
Archaeolingua
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Country of origin: |
Hungary |
Series: |
Archaeolingua Series Minor, 15 |
Release date: |
December 2001 |
First published: |
December 2001 |
Authors: |
Eszter Banffy
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Dimensions: |
231 x 165 x 5mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
106 |
ISBN-13: |
978-963-8046-36-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
963-8046-36-8 |
Barcode: |
9789638046369 |
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