Timothy Potts, Michael Roaf & Diana Stein (ed.). Culture through objects: ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of P.R.S. Moorey.

Timothy Potts, Michael Roaf & Diana Stein (ed.). Culture through objects: ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of P.R.S. Moorey. TIMOTHY POTTS, MICHAEL ROAF Michael Roaf is a British orientalist, who specialized in ancient Irarian studies and Assyriology. He studied Archaeology of Western Asia at the University College of London, and wrote his doctoral thesis, Sculptures and Sculptors at Persepolis (published, 1983) at Oxford. & DIANA STEIN (ed.). Culturethrough objects: ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of P.R.S.Moorey. 421 pages, 141 figures, 11 tables. 2003. Oxford: GriffithInstitute The Griffith Institute is an institution based in the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford for the advancement of Egyptology as a discipline. The Griffith Institute is named after the eminent Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith, who bequeathed funds within his will for ; 0-900416-79-3 paperback 25 [pounds sterling]. Civilizations 'are deliberate products of elites', saysJ. Baines, in Culture through objects (p. 51): 'more"advanced" organization was utterly foreign to local knowledgeand culture' which 'saw it for what it was: a ... device ofsocial control' (C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, pp. 723); and the"basic core of ideas and ... practices ... throughout the Neolithicof the Near East ... are still clearly discernible in ... dynasticMesopotamia' (D. Wengrow p. 155). T. POTTS et al. introduce theseand 16 other papers and a bibliography that illustrate the range oftheir dedicatee's interests. They are grouped by theme:'cultural transfers'; iconography, including 'Symbols ofconquest' from Lachish and (J. Curtis & A. Searight with M.R.Cowell) 'The gold plaques of the Oxus'; and 'Materialsand manufacture', including V. Pigott & H. Lechtman on'Chalcolithic ... metallurgy ... at ... Tal-I-Iblis', a paperon copperwork from Ashkelon, 'l'architecture monumentale en"faience faience(fāĕns`, –äns`, fī–)[for Faenza, Italy], any of several kinds of pottery, especially earthenware made of coarse clay and covered with an opaque tin-oxide glaze. "' at Susa, 'consumption in Sasanianhouseholds' and (cp. C. Johns ed. SCOTT & WEBSTER in'Imperialism', above) 'the value of skilled production in... Sumer'.