Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East ― June 9-13, 2014, University of Basel: Travelling Images - Transfer and Transformation of Visual Ideas;

The first of three volumes documenting the Congress covers traveling images--the transfer and transformation of visual ideas; dealing with the past: finds, booty, gifts, spoils, heirlooms; and collections at risk: sustainable strategies for managing Near Eastern archaeological collections. The 43 papers consider such aspects as exchanges of identity in prehistoric Anatolian figurines, the iconography of mudbrick production and construction throughout the Mediterranean: Egypt and the Near East, the influence of early architectural reconstruction drawings on Near Eastern archaeology, and quantifying the problems and counting the costs of Near Eastern archaeological collections: five case studies. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)