The current study presents the first comprehensive treatment of the image of Babylon as presented in medieval Muscovite manuscript stories, illuminations, icons, frescoes, and church rituals. The theme of Babylon is based primarily on chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel, in which th…
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This thesis describes the social practice of music as it is represented in images from the late Neo-Assyrian period (883–648 BC), and then considers how images of music may contribute new understanding to the study of ancient art. Musical instruments of the period include chordo…
El tapiz andino colonial, el textil más complejo confeccionado durante los tres siglos de dominación hispana del territorio peruano, surgió de la fusión de dos tradiciones textiles milenarias. De un lado, la andina, que alcanzó un notable desarrollo tecnológico dominando procedi…
This diachronic and synchronic analysis examines the poetics of funerary lament in Upper Egypt (ʿidid), using a comparative methodology derived from ethnoarchaeology. The study interprets the meaning of contemporary lament as the ritual expression of grief for an idealized decea…
Stamp Seals of the Ancient Yemen introduces a corpus of material which dates from the third millennium B.C. to the first millennium A.D. The seals were collected by travelers to the area at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. Recent archaeol…
This study seeks to assess the impact of architecture on identity and experience in pre- exilic Israel and argues that crucial to this assessment is an interdisciplinary treatment of the iconographic system of the Temple of Solomon. It begins with a look to theoretical approache…