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Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Since the late nineteenth century hundreds of people, on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, have searched for what it means to be human, studying the infinite variety of human cultures. The Museum's extensive collections provide vital clues in this quest. For the first time curators and Museum staff present more than 220 of the most intriguing and beautiful objects from such sites as Nippur, Thebes, the Amazon, Sitio Conte, Ur of the Chaldees, Borneo--all resonating with an eloquence that recalls the curiosity that drove the Museum and its founders and continues to drive its contemporary researchers after more than 350 international expeditions. The objects selected--from African to American to Asian, from Babylonian and Near Eastern to Egyptian, Oceanian, and Mediterranean--are important even beyond their immediate, individual aesthetic. The depth of information recovered when they are examined in their original contexts allows experts and lay readers to reconstruct the many stories, large and small, that constitute the shared lives and heritage of humanity.

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1931707634

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Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Jean MacIntosh Turfa

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Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Jean MacIntosh Turfa

This well-presented volume presents a catalogue of all 324 Etruscan and Italic objects held by the Museum preceded by eight essays which examine the historical and cultural background to the objects as well as an overview of the archaeology of early central Italy.

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1931707529

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Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Elin C. Danien

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Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Elin C. Danien

The University Museum has been involved in Mesoamerican archaeology for more than a century. Its collections include material from northern Mexico to Costa Rica and represent all of the major cultures of the region. This guide allows the visitor to gain on-site understanding and the off-site reader to grasp how the Museum's collections fit into current archaeological theory. The text underscores some of the pan-Mesoamerican aspects of pre-Columbian peoples and the way each group interpreted underlying similarities to create individual customs and beliefs, burials and caches, beauty and adornment. The guide focuses on the unique aspects of the collection, much of it stemming from the Museum's own excavations, including eight large carved limestone monuments from its historic early excavations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (1931-39) and Caracol, Belize (1951-53), the only group of original Maya monuments on display in an American museum. The inscriptions on these monuments are reproduced in detail, accompanied by translations and explanations drawing on the latest epigraphic research. Also included are important pieces from the Guatemala highlands; figurines and carvings collected in the early nineteenth century by the U.S. ambassador to Mexico; as well as significant material from Central America, including the famous carved alabaster vases from the Uloa Valley in Honduras.

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1931707286

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Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Donald White

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By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Donald White

Lavishly illustrated with 117 color images, 2 maps, and 15 black and white photographs, and including list of readings and an index, the Guide will be of interest to both general Museum visitors and scholars."--BOOK JACKET.

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1931707375

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Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Donald White

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1931707383

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Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Since the late nineteenth century hundreds of people, on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, have searched for what it means to be human, studying the infinite variety of human cultures. The Museum's extensive collections provide vital clues in this quest. For the first time curators and Museum staff present more than 220 of the most intriguing and beautiful objects from such sites as Nippur, Thebes, the Amazon, Sitio Conte, Ur of the Chaldees, Borneo—all resonating with an eloquence that recalls the curiosity that drove the Museum and its founders and continues to drive its contemporary researchers after more than 350 international expeditions. The objects selected—from African to American to Asian, from Babylonian and Near Eastern to Egyptian, Oceanian, and Mediterranean—are important even beyond their immediate, individual aesthetic. The depth of information recovered when they are examined in their original contexts allows experts and lay readers to reconstruct the many stories, large and small, that constitute the shared lives and heritage of humanity.

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1931707642

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Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Lucy Fowler Williams

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Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Lucy Fowler Williams

Totaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas—the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast. This guide highlights the strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied to history and people living within different cultural and social contexts. It also underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objects illustrate intertribal relations; others best reflect collecting attitudes at the turn of the century when much of the Museum's collections was acquired. Visitors and off-site readers will learn about such related archival resources as documentation and photographs, past and present Museum exhibitions, current research, repatriation, and contemporary collections development.

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1931707324

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Searching for Ancient Egypt

Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,David P. Silverman,Edward Brovarski

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Searching for Ancient Egypt

Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,David P. Silverman,Edward Brovarski

Lavishly illustrated in color, this book presents a spectacular collection of archaeological and artistic treasures covering the extent of Egyptian art from the Predynastic Period of the fourth millennium B.C. to the Greco-Roman period of the fourth century A.D. The volume features more than 130 objects ranging from architectural elements of a royal palace and funerary chapel to delicate jewelry and textile fragments, and contains many objects never previously shown in print. In an introductory essay David P. Silverman documents major expeditions to sites in Egypt and Nubia and summarizes the new information gleaned about ancient Egyptian civilization. Donald B. Redford provides a general treatment of ancient Egypt history. The objects themselves are introduced with concise essays by recognized Egyptologists: Edward Brovarski, Rita E. Freed, Arielle P. Kozloff, David O'Connor, Edna R. Russmann, William K. Simpson, and Josef W. Wegner. Contributors-- Edward Brovarski, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rita Freed, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Arielle Kozloff, Cleveland Museum of Art David O'Connor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Donald Redford, University of Toronto Edna. R. Russman, Brooklyn Museum of Art David Silverman, University of Pennsylvania William Kelly Simpson, Yale University Josef W. Wegner, University of Pennsylvania

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Cornell University Press

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0801434823

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9780801434822

The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum

By: University of Pennsylvania. University Museum,P. Gregory Warden

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The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum

By: University of Pennsylvania. University Museum,P. Gregory Warden

Catalogs the Hilprecht collection of bronzes at the museum. Entries on individual pieces include physical descriptions and notes on ancient symbolism and the piece's relationship with similar items in this and other collections. Bandw photos of pieces are all grouped at the end of the volume. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0924171499

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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.

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0924171553

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9780924171550

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,John M. Weeks

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The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,John M. Weeks

Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University of Pennsylvania Museum library and portraits of individual authors represented in the Brinton Library."--BOOK JACKET.

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1931707464

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9781931707466

Classical Sculpture

Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Irene Bald Romano

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Classical Sculpture

Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Irene Bald Romano

Romano describes each piece completely, with measurements, accession data where known, report of condition, a list of the published sources, and commentary reflecting the most recent scholarship. Photographs provide additional information for each entry. An accompanying CD includes 54 color images, many of which are of the pieces. Various audiences will appreciate the accessibility of the scholarship presented here; students may engage in further study on some of the topics raised by individual pieces or groups of sculptures, and the scholarly community will welcome a work that provides an up-to-date and comprehensive examination of a significant Classical sculpture collection."--BOOK JACKET.

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1931707847

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9781931707848

Etruscans: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

By: Oxford University Press

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Etruscans: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

By: Oxford University Press

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

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0199802858

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Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Lucy Fowler Williams

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Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Lucy Fowler Williams

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Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Searching for Ancient Egypt

Searching for Ancient Egypt

The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum

The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

Classical Sculpture

Classical Sculpture

Etruscans: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Etruscans: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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