Overview

Stone containers have been made and used in the Middle East for over eleven millennia where they pre-dated the invention of pottery and were widely traded. The appearance or properties of the stone helped govern how stone vessels were valued or used and many classes were strictly utilitarian, being used for storage, cooking or lighting. Others were decorated and at times they were considered valuable exotica, particularly in regions far removed from their source areas. The subject of stone vessels is attracting growing attention but this is the first attempt to bring together different approaches to the study of softstone vessels, particularly but not exclusively those carved from varieties of chlorite, and covering all periods from prehistory to the present.

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Author:   Carl S. Phillips ,  St John Simpson (Senior Curator and Archaeologist, Department of the Middle East, The British Museum)
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 20.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 29.00cm
Weight:   0.985kg
ISBN:  

9781784919924

ISBN 10:   1784919926
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   13 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword - by Carl S. Phillips and St John Simpson; Introduction - by Carl Phillips and St John Simpson; Middle Holocene Omani jewels: thoughts on the production of softstone earrings - by Donatella Usai; Wood-worked and metal-shocked: softstone vessels in the Bronze and early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean - by Andrew Bevan; Alabaster vessels: manufacture, function and distribution (4th to 2nd millennia BC) - by Michele Casanova; Three examples of 3rd millennium BC softstone vessel imports found in Syria - by Helene David; Un exemple de production et de diffusion du style 'Interculturel' : les representations architecturales en Mesopotamie, Iran et dans le Golfe Persique au IIIe millenaire av. J.-C. - by Adrien Berthelot; A painted chlorite 'hut model' vessel in the British Museum - by St John Simpson; Remarks on the iconography of the 'Intercultural Style' - by Sylvia Winkelmann; The question of workshops and chronology in the Wadi Suq period - by Christian Velde; The steatite cooking bowl of the 1st millennium BC and early 1st millennium AD in South Arabia: archaeological views and cultural dynamics - by W.D. Glanzman; The distribution and provenance of ancient South Arabian steatite-tempered pottery: a thin-section analysis - by Alexandra Porter; Ancient South Arabian softstone vessels in the British Museum - by Carl S. Phillips and St John Simpson; 'Of cooking pots let him choose those made of stone': the manufacture, circulation and function of chlorite cooking pots and other objects in the Middle East and Central Asia during the Sasanian and medieval periods - by St John Simpson; Softstone at Siraf - by Sarah Jennings; Imported medieval stone vessels and other items from Merv and Nysa - by L.A. Kuraeva; A collection of stone utensils from the Merv oasis, southern Turkmenistan - by Z.I. Usmanova and V. Tikhomirov; Notes on the production of stone cooking pots in Mashhad, Iran - by M.G. Konieczny; Yemeni stone vessels: a different perspective. The use and interpretation of stone vessels by the Jews of Yemen - by Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper; The contemporary softstone industry in Jabal Razih, north-west Yemen - by Shelagh Weir; Cumulative bibliography

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CARL S. PHILLIPS works in the Université Paris Ouest, specialises in Arabian archaeology and has excavated extensively in Oman, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates; ST JOHN SIMPSON is a senior curator in the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum, specialises in the archaeology of the Sasanian and early medieval periods and has excavated extensively in the Middle East and Central Asia.

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