The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar

Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36170-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 94, 1020 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 2132 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simpson, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Hattian Royal Tombs of Alaca Höyük
Aykut Çinaroglu
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 Çilingiroglu
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

Über Autor(innen)

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.