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Title The Elamite world / edited by Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (832 pages)
Series Routledge worlds
Routledge worlds.
Contents Part, I Imagining Elam: The history of research and its sources -- chapter Introduction / Javier Álvarez-Mon Gian Pietro Basello Yasmina Wicks -- chapter One Ælam regio -- Elam in Western scholarship from the Renaissance to the late 19th century / Daniel T. Potts -- chapter Two Elam and the Bible / Peter Dubovský -- chapter Three France and Elam / Nicole Chevalier -- chapter Four Between orientalism and Persomania -- The presentation of the Iranian collections at the Louvre / Marianne Cotty -- chapter Five Elamite forgeries and the antiquities market / Oscar White Muscarella -- part, II The land and peoples of Elam -- chapter Six Physical geography and environment of Elam / Cameron A. Petrie Morteza Djamali Matthew D. Jones -- chapter Seven Metals and mining / Barbara Helwing -- chapter Eight The peoples of Elam / Ran Zadok -- chapter Nine Elamites and Iranians 1 / Jan Tavernier -- part, III Elam through history -- chapter Ten The birth of Elam in history / Piotr Steinkeller -- chapter Eleven The Old Elamite period / Luca Peyronel -- chapter Twelve Elam in the Middle Elamite period / Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi -- chapter Thirteen The last centuries of Elam -- The Neo-Elamite period / Elynn Gorris Yasmina Wicks -- part, IV Close encounters on the eastern and western fronts -- chapter Fourteen Great Domino games -- From Elam, looking eastwards / Massimo Vidale -- chapter Fifteen Elam and Babylonia c. 1400-1100 BC / Ran Zadok -- chapter Sixteen Elam and Assyria / Peter Dubovský -- chapter Seventeen Propaganda and symbolism -- Representations of the Elamites at the time of Ashurbanipal 1 / Shahrokh Razmjou -- part, V Language and writing in Elam -- chapter Eighteen Prehistoric administrative technologies and the ancient Near Eastern redistribution economy -- The case of greater Susiana / Denise Schmandt-Besserat -- chapter Nineteen The proto-Elamite writing system / Jacob L. Dahl -- chapter Twenty Linear Elamite writing / François Desset -- chapter Twenty-One The Elamite language / Jan Tavernier -- chapter Twenty-Two Writing in Elam / Jean-Jacques Glassner -- chapter Twenty-Three Elamite royal inscriptions / Florence Malbran-Labat -- chapter Twenty-Four Elamite administration / Gian Pietro Basello Grazia Giovinazzo -- part, VI The material culture of Elam -- chapter Twenty-Five Elamite architecture / Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi -- chapter Twenty-Six Elamite ceramics / Bernadette K. McCall -- chapter Twenty-Seven The metal arts of Elam / François Bridey -- chapter Twenty-Eight The industry of vitreous materials in Elam / Noëmi Daucé -- chapter Twenty-Nine Origins of monumental sculpture in Elam -- Two case studies / Holly Pittman -- chapter Thirty The sculptural arts of Elam / Javier Álvarez-Mon -- chapter Thirty-One Glyptic in the 4th-2nd millennium / Enrico Ascalone -- chapter Thirty-Two Glyptic in the 1st millennium / Mark B. Garrison -- chapter Thirty-Three Elamite dress and textiles 1 / Trudy S. Kawami -- part, VII Elamite society -- chapter Thirty-Four Cuneiform culture and science, calendars, and metrology in Elam / Gian Pietro Basello Enrico Ascalone -- chapter Thirty-Five Elamite religion and ritual / Enrique Quintana -- chapter Thirty-Six Elamite funerary practices / Hermann Gasche Steven W. Cole -- chapter Thirty-Seven Women of Elam / Aurelie Daems -- chapter Thirty-Eight Music / Bo Lawergren -- part, VIII The legacy of Elam -- chapter Thirty-Nine Elamite administrative and religious heritage in the Persian heartland / Wouter F.M. Henkelman -- chapter Fourty The Elamite artistic heritage of Persia / Javier Álvarez-Mon -- chapter Fourty-One Elam in Achaemenid studies / Adriano V. Rossi
Summary Amongst the civilizations to participate in the dynamic processes of contact and interchange that gave rise to complex societies in the ancient Near East, Elam has remained one of the most obscure, at times languishing in the background of scholarly inquiry. In recent years, however, an increasing body of academic publications have suggested that the legacy of Elam was more considerable and long-lasting than previously estimated.0The Elamite World assembles a group of forty international scholars to contribute their expertise to the production of a solid, lavishly illustrated, English language treatment of Elamite civilization, covering topics such as its physical setting, historical development, languages and people, material culture, art, science, religion and society. Also treated are the legacy of Elam in the Persian empire and its presence in the modern world. This comprehensive and ambitious survey seeks for Elam, hardly a household name, a noteworthy place in our shared cultural heritage. It will be both a valuable introductory text for a general audience and a definitive reference source for students and academics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iran -- Elam
HISTORY -- Civilization.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Elam -- Antiquities
Iran -- History -- To 640.
Iran
Middle East -- Elam
Genre/Form Electronic books
handbooks.
History
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Álvarez-Mon, Javier, editor.
Basello, Gian Pietro, editor.
Wicks, Yasmina, editor.
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