The Use of Ivories as Interpreters of Political History
The hypothesis that art can illuminate Late Bronze Age political connections between Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean is questioned and ultimately rejected as premature, due to the lack of absolute chronology as well as agreement on the dating and categorization of individual objects and object t...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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The University of Chicago Press
1998
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Bulletin of ASOR
Année: 1998, Volume: 310, Pages: 25-33 |
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| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | The hypothesis that art can illuminate Late Bronze Age political connections between Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean is questioned and ultimately rejected as premature, due to the lack of absolute chronology as well as agreement on the dating and categorization of individual objects and object types. It is argued that more agreement about the cultural characteristics displayed by art must be present before political history can be written from it. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1357575 |