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1 online resource (370 pages) |
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Archaeopress archaeology |
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Archaeopress archaeology.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents Page; List of Figures; Chapter 1; Experiment and emergence; Chapter 2; Figure 1. Diagram of temperatures during cementation; Figure 2. Miniature brass helmet from a royal grave at Ur; Figure 3. Dagger from Umm-an-Nar; Figure 4. The Middle East to India, map showing some sites mentioned in the text; Figure 5. above, horse figurine, Kachbulag; below, brass arrowhead, Sary Tepe; Figure 6. Brass bowl from Taxila; Figure 7. Transcaucasian belt-clasp; Figure 8. Map, early medieval European sites mentioned in the text |
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Figure 9. Roman face-mask vizor sports helmet, Ribchester Roman fortFigure 10. Roman brooches, left Aucissa type fibula, c.10 BC-AD 50; right Hod Hill type, AD 44-80, Alchester Roman camp; Medieval Europe and far beyond; Chapter 3; Figure 11. 8-10-century ewer, Khurasan; Figure 12. Celestial attendant, Kashmir, tenth century, height 6.03 cm; Figure 13. Padmapani, god of compassion, in sorrowful thought; Figure 14. Talismanic plaques, Tibet: horses, AD 701-900; peacocks, AD 801-1000; Figure 15. Middle East and Asia, map showing some sites mentioned in the text |
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Figure 16. Fatimid domestic vessels, early 11 centuryFigure 17. Europe, map showing some sites mentioned in the text; Figure 18. Beaded-rim bowl from Norway, 5 to 7 century AD; Figure 19. Deer hunt engraved on the lock-plate of a late Roman casket, Bonn; Figure 20. Rhine/Meuse area, map showing some sites mentioned in the text; Figure 21. Russian rivers, map showing some sites mentioned in the text; Figure 22. Comparative lengths of brass bars, left to right, Ma'den Iafen, Myrvälde, Kamanget, Hedeby, des Jarres; Figure 23. Northern Africa, map showing some sites mentioned in the text |
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Figure 24. Koi Gourrey figurines: above, hornbill centre, female crocodile; below, male crocodile; The Sacred and the Salesmen; Chapter 4; Figure 25. Ewer, Western Iran, c.1220-40; right, detail showing a musician; Figure 26. South-East Asia and India, map showing some sites mentioned in the text; Figure 27. Diagram showing Indian and Chinese distillation retorts; Figure 28. Golden Hall temple, Wudang Mountain, China, 1416; Figure 29. Brass market stall, Champeaux market, Paris, 1403-4; Figure 30. Wool cards in use; Figure 31. A batteur at work, after a woodcut by Jost Amman, 1568 |
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Figure 32. Europe, map showing some sites mentioned in the textFigure 33. Peter Vischer the elder with his hammer, St Sebald tomb, Nuremberg; Figure 34. Brass figure of Theodoric by Peter Vischer the younger, c.1519; Figure 35. Veneto-Saracenic style ewer, c.1500; Brass candlestick inlaid with gold, silver and a black substance, 1340s. The side shown is thought to depict Tashi Khatun, Mongolian regent and mother of Sheik Abu Ishak of Shiraz. She is being offered fruit and a book. Inv. 47632. © Museum of Islamic Art; Age of Discovery; Chapter 5 |
| Summary |
Brass from the Past follows the evolution of brass from its earliest forms around 2500 BC through to industrialised production in the eighteenth century, telling the story in the context of the people, economies, cultures, trade and technologies that have themselves defined the alloy and its spread around the world |
| Notes |
Figure 36. Asia, map showing some sites mentioned in the text |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Brasswork -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Brasswork
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781789691573 |
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1789691575 |
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