Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum /
"This catalogue provides a general introduction to amber in the ancient world followed by detailed catalogue entries for fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the J. Paul Getty Museum. The volume concludes with technical notes about scientific investigations of these objects...
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Los Angeles :
The J. Paul Getty Museum,
[2019]
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| মালা: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
- Introduction
- Amber and the ancient world
- Jewelry: never just jewelry
- Amber magic?
- What is amber?
- Where is amber found?
- The properties of amber
- Ancient names for amber
- Color and other optical characteristics: ancient perception and reception
- Ancient literary sources on the origins of amber
- Amber and forgery
- The ancient transport of amber
- Literary sources on the use of amber
- Amber medicine, amber amulets
- The bronze age
- Early iron age and the orientalizing period
- The archaic and afterward
- The working of amber: ancient evidence and modern analysis
- The production of ancient figured amber objects
- Catalogue
- Technical essay: analysis of selected ambers from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum / Jeff Maish, Herant Khanjian, and Michael Schilling.