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The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella, edited by Elizabeth Simpson, is a Festschrift celebrating the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Oscar Muscarella is a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a formidable scholar who has excavated at sites in Turkey, Iran, and the United States. He has published eight books and nearly 200 articles, excavation reports, and reviews on topics ranging from the arts of antiquity and the importance of connoisseurship, to the difficulties of dating and the problems of forgeries, the looting of ancient sites, and the antiquities trade. The forty-seven contributors are experts in the areas of Muscarella’s interests and are major scholars in their fields. This volume constitutes an unusual, important, and timely addition to the archaeological and art historical literature.

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Author:   Elizabeth Simpson
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   94
Weight:   1.594kg
ISBN:  

9789004361706

ISBN 10:   9004361707
Pages:   1020
Publication Date:   05 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface Oscar White Muscarella Introduction  Elizabeth Simpson Part 1: “There is Nothing like First-hand Evidence” 1 Oscar White Muscarella and Sherlock Holmes  Laurie Adams Part 2: Arts and Archaeology: Anatolia 2 The King Has Ass’s Ears! The Myth of Midas’s Ears  Susanne Berndt 3 The Project to Reconstruct the Early Bronze Age Hattıan Royal Tombs of Alaca Höyük  Aykut Çınaroğlu 4 The Lydian Hoard and Its Progeny: Repatriation and the Statute of Limitations  Lawrence M. Kaye 5 Labors Lost and Found in Tumulus mm at Gordion  Richard F. Liebhart 6 A Pithos Burial at Sardis  David Gordon Mitten 7 Attitudes toward the Past in Roman Phrygia: Survivals and Revivals  Lynn E. Roller 8 The City Mound at Gordion: The Discovery, Study, and Conservation of the Wooden Fragments from Megaron 3  Krysia Spirydowicz 9 Monumental Entrances, Sculpture, and Idols at Kerkenes: Aspects of Phrygian Cult East of the Kizilirmak  Geoffrey Summers and Françoise Summers 10 Of Fibulae, Of Course!  Maya Vassileva Part 3: Arts and Archaeology: Urartu 11 Artifacts Belonging to Queen Qaquli and Mr. Tigursagga from an Elaborately Decorated Quarter of the Ayanis Fortress  Altan Çilingiroğlu 12 A Fragment of a Ram’s Head Rhyton Found at Qalatgah, Iran  Stephan Kroll 13 Toul-E Gilan and the Urartian Empire  D.T. Potts 14 Some Considerations on Urartian Burial Rites  Veli Sevin 15 Architectural and Other Observations Related to Erebuni in the Late Seventh/Early Sixth Centuries b.c.  David Stronach Part 4: Arts and Archaeology: The Near East 16 Neo-Assyrian Views of Foreign Cities: A Brief Survey  Pauline Albenda 17 The Role of the Petra Great Temple in the Context of Nabataean Archaeology  Martha Sharp Joukowsky 18 Fibulae in Neo-Assyrian Burials  Friedhelm Pedde 19 Fibulae, Chronology, and Related Considerations: Marlik Reloaded  Christian Konrad Piller 20 A Middle Bronze Stele from Hama and Old Syrian Cylinder Seals  Barbara A. Porter 21 A Unique Human Head-Cup from the Environs of Tel Qashish in the Jezreel Valley, Israel  Irit Ziffer, Edwin C.M. van den Brink, Orit Segal and Uzi Ad Part 5: Arts and Archaeology: The Mediterranean World 22 Back to the Future: Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in the 12th Century b.c.e. on Paros  Robert B. Koehl 23 Liturgy  Günter Kopcke 24 What Did the Fisherman Catch?  Mark J. Rose 25 The Weight of Good Measure: A Reassessment of the Balance Weights from the Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun  Rachael Dealy Salisbury Part 6: Arts—Craft—Materials—Techniques 26 Kyme: An Ancient Center of Jewelry Production in Asia Minor  Özgen Acar 27 Voicing the Past: The Implications of Craft-referential Pottery in Ancient Greece  Einav Zamir Dembin 28 The Neoclassical Klismos Chair: Early Sources and Avenues of Diffusion  Ana Gutierrez-Folch 29 The Furniture of the Ramesside Pharaohs  Geoffrey Killen 30 Excavated Roman Jewelry: The Case of the Gold Body Chains  Meredith Nelson 31 Ivory Identification  Anibal Rodriguez 32 Luxury Arts of the Ancient Near East  Elizabeth Simpson Part 7: Issues and Methods 33 The Literature of Loot: Notes on The Lie Became Great and Its Heirs  Roger Atwood 34 Oscar the Oracle: On the Publication of Unprovenienced Objects  Larissa Bonfante 35 The Illicit Antiquities Research Centre: Afterthoughts and Aftermaths  Neil Brodie 36 Illicit Traffic of Pre-Columbian Antiquities  Clemency Chase Coggins 37 The History and Continuing Impact of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (nagpra)  Emily Field 38 Connoisseurship Conundrums and a Visit to Hans Hofmann’s Studio  Carroll Janis 39 Blue from Babylon: Notes from the Curatorial Trenches  Margaret Cool Root and Helen Dixon 40 “Outing” the Old Teaching Collections  Karen D. Vitelli 41 Figure and Ground: Reading Ancient Near Eastern Sources  Eva von Dassow Part 8: “Leave No Stone Unturned” 42 “Elementary”  Jeanette Greenfield Master Bibliography Index of Terms Authors’ Biographies

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Elizabeth Simpson, PHD (1985), is Professor of Ancient Art and Archaeology at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY. She is Director of the Gordion Furniture Project and Consulting Scholar in the Mediterranean Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

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