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Luxury and Legitimation: Royal Collecting in Ancient Mesopotamia

Luxury and Legitimation: Royal Collecting in Ancient Mesopotamia

Hardcover

Series: Perspectives on Collecting

General SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0754602389
ISBN13: 9780754602385
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 28 2005
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Utilizing a variety of ancient sources, including cuneiform texts, images and archaeological finds, Luxury and Legitimation explores how the collecting of luxury objects contributed to the formation of royal identity in one of the world's oldest civilizations, ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Allison Thomason makes a significant and timely contribution to the subjects of collecting and material culture studies by bringing a new understanding to the political, cultural and social institutions of an important pre-Classical, non-Western civilization.

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