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Author Stern, Wilma Olch

Title Kenchreai, eastern port of Corinth : results of investigations by the University of Chicago and Indiana University for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. VI, Ivory, bone, and related wood finds / by Wilma Olch Stern and Danae Hadjilazaro Thimme ; drawing by Martha Breen and Roxana Docsan
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series Kenchreai, eastern port of Corinth, 1874-5431 ; 6
Kenchreai. Eastern Port of Corinth, 6
Contents List of Figures; List of Plates; Abbreviations and Bibliography; Preface; I. Introduction to the Site and Circumstances of Excavation; II. Nature of the Materials and the Craftsmanship of Late Roman Ivory, Bone, and Wood; III. Catalogue and Analysis of Figurative Relief Plaques and Veneer Panels; IV. Catalogue and Analysis of Decorative Plaques and Veneer; V. Catalogue and Analysis of Ivory, Bone, and Wood Architectural Elements; VI. Catalogue and Analysis of Wood Furniture and Related Veneers; VII. Furniture Reconstructions, Provenance, Dating, Setting, and Function
Appendix 1. Catalogue of Miscellaneous Wood FragmentsAppendix 2. Catalogue of Miscellaneous Plain Veneer Fragments; Appendix 3. Conservation; Appendix 4. Was Ivory Molded or Formed into Large Sheets in Antiquity?; Appendix 5. Concordances and List of Ivory and Bone Objects (Plates); PLATES; General Index
Summary Hundreds of decorated ivory and bone fragments from furniture and parts from at least three crossed-leg chairs, survived under seawater in an apsidal room at Kenchreai, the Eastern port of ancient Corinth. This book discusses the excavated remains that provide an important addition to our knowledge of the artistic production of late Roman Egypt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Kekhriai
HISTORY -- Ancient.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
SUBJECT Kekhriai (Greece) -- Antiquities
Greece -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057037
Subject Greece
Greece -- Kekhriai
Form Electronic book
Author Thimme, Danae Hadjilazaro
Breen, Martha, 1954-
Docsan, Roxana
University of Chicago.
Indiana University, Bloomington.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 9789047421160
9047421167
1281926426
9781281926425
9786611926427
6611926429