Luxury and Legitimation: Royal Collecting in Ancient by Allison Karmel Thomason

By Allison Karmel Thomason

using a number of historic resources, together with cuneiform texts, photographs and archaeological reveals, luxurious and Legitimation explores how the accumulating of luxurious gadgets contributed to the formation of royal identification in a single of the world's oldest civilizations, historic Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Allison Thomason makes an important and well timed contribution to the themes of amassing and fabric tradition experiences by means of bringing a brand new realizing to the political, cultural and social associations of an enormous pre-Classical, non-Western civilization.

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