{"product_id":"the-adventure-of-the-illustrious-scholar-papers-presented-to-oscar-white-muscarella-9789004361706","title":"The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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 Hattıan Royal Tombs of Alaca Höyük   Aykut Çınaroğlu 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 Çilingiroğlu 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210747044183,"sku":"9789004361706","price":232.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-adventure-of-the-illustrious-scholar-papers-presented-to-oscar-white-muscarella-9789004361706","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}