AMILLA The Quest for Excellence Studies Presented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration of His 75th Birthday Prehistory Monographs 1st Edition by Robert Koehl ISBN 978-1931534734 1931534734

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ISBN 10: 1931534734

ISBN 13: 978-1931534734

Author: Robert B. Koehl

Contributions by 34 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Guenter Kopcke who is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Articles pertain to various topics on the ancient art, architecture, and archaeology of the greater Eastern Mediterranean region: from Pre-Dynastic Egypt to the Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia, Cyprus and the Near East, and Etruscan Italy.

Table of contents: 

Part I. Perceiving Ancient Art
1 Ancient Egyptian Art: Image and Response – Dorothea Arnold
2 The Belvedere Apollo: On the Perception of an Ancient Work of Art after Antiquity – Annalis Leibundgut
3 “Silence et fureur”: The Pythia in Berlin and in the Paris Opera – Michael Maaß

Part II. Aegean Bronze Age
4 The Larnakes from the Hagios Charalambos Ossuary – Philip P. Betancourt
5 From Representational to Narrative Art in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades – Christos G. Doumas
6 From Vase Painting to Wall Painting: The Lilies Jug from Akrotiri, Thera – Andreas G. Vlachopoulos
7 The Crocus Gatherer’s Costume Revisited – Bernice R. Jones
8 Architectural Design, Bioclimate, and Palaces: The Loom, the Warp, and the Weft – Stella Chrysoulaki
9 A New Reconstruction of the South House at Knossos – Jane F. Lloyd
10 Cult Object—Image—Emblem: A Life-Sized Stone Bull’s Head from the Juktas Peak Sanctuary – Alexandra Karetsou and Robert B. Koehl
11 Animated Art of the Minoan Renaissance – J. Alexander MacGillivray
12 Realities of Power: The Minoan Thalassocracy in Historical Perspective – Malcolm H. Wiener

Part III. Egyptian, Anatolian, and East Mediterranean Bronze Age
13 Figural Representations from the Pre-Dynastic Cemetery at Naga El-Hai and the Origins of Egyptian Style – Rita Freed
14 Kerma in Nubia, the Last Mystery: The Political and Social Dynamics of an Early Nilotic State – David O’Connor
15 The Origins of the West Anatolian Early Bronze Age – Jak Yakar
16 An Early Anatolian Ivory Chair: The Pratt Ivories in The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Elizabeth Simpson
17 A Plaster Encased Multiple Burial at Alalakh: Cist Tomb 3017 – K. Aslıhan Yener
18 Red Lustrous Wheelmade and Coarse-Ware Spindle Bottles from Ashkelon – Celia J. Bergoffen
19 Cypriot Bronzework and Images of Power – Joan Aruz

Appendix: Technical Note – Deborah Schorsch

Part IV. Iron Age Greece, Western Asia, and the Near East
20 The Meaning of the Greek Cemetery from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age – Anthony M. Snodgrass
21 “Old Country” Ethnonyms in “New Countries” of the “Sea Peoples” Diaspora – Itamar Singer†
22 Phoenician Clay Figurines Recovered from the Sea in the Hecht Museum Collection – Ephraim Stern
23 The Hasanlu Lovers – Oscar White Muscarella

Part V. Archaic and Classical Greece, Italy, and Western Asia
24 Ships in Pre-Classical Asia Minor – Olaf Höckmann
25 Apollo and Herakles at Naukratis in the Archaic Period – Ursula Höckmann
26 The Career of Mnesikles – James McCredie
27 The Classical Marble Pyxis and Dexilla’s Dedication – Jasper Gaunt
28 Helen’s Birth: Iconography on a Calyx Krater from Acanthus – Katerina Romiopoulou
29 Observations on “La Stanca,” the Neo-Attic Weary Maenad – Beryl Barr-Sharrar
30 Some Notes on the Metropolitan Museum’s Pagenstecher Lekythos – Joan R. Mertens
31 What Role for Etruscans? – Larissa Bonfante
32 The Genesis of the Etruscan Round Throne – Irma Wehgartner

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