From Scribble to Cartoon Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collection
November 2023
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Chapter
Conste tegen Conste: Drawings as Independent Artworks in the Southern Netherlands
October 2023
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Chapter
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From Scribble to Cartoon: Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collections
drawing
Breaking with tradition
April 2023
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Chapter
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A Picture of Poetry: The Artist's Books of Dia Al-Azzawi
SBTMR
German Design Drawings Explored
March 2023
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Internet publication
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drawings, German, art
Making London porcelain—a multidisciplinary project connecting local communities with the technological and innovation histories of london’s early porcelain manufacturers
February 2023
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Journal article
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Heritage
<p>This collaborative multidisciplinary pilot project involving the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the Ashmolean Museum, and Newham Borough of London, examined the composition of a selection of eighteenth-century porcelain objects by two of London’s first porcelain manufacturers, Bow and Chelsea. As the first science-based public engagement project to be piloted by the V&A, it succeeded in bringing together young Londoners and their communities to investigate local histories of scientific and artistic innovation through the analysis and remaking of eighteenth-century porcelain. Scientific object analysis informed activities with local sixth-form students, revealing the intimate link between art and science, and showcasing the V&A Science Lab as a national hub for heritage science. Public outreach activities, including an exhibition at Stratford Library and workshops for Newham Heritage Month also provided hands-on learning, including curatorial and object-handling experience, and the embodied practices of remaking. Ultimately, this project stimulated new ways of engaging with ceramics collections and explored how the creativity and ingenuity of eighteenth-century ceramics pioneers can provide inspiration for the next generation of makers.</p>
english porcelain, public engagement, Bow, scientific analysis, FFR, Chelsea, ceramic heritage
Ancient Silver Coin from Knossos showing the Labyrinth
February 2023
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Chapter
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Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality Labyrinth
Art
Hieronymus Cock's The Cretan Labyrinth
January 2023
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Chapter
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Labyrinth: Knossos, myth and reality
SBTMR
Roman Provincial Coinage Vol. IV. The Antonine Period. From the Accession of Antoninus Pius to the Death of Commodus (AD 138 – 192). Part 2: The Roman Province of Asia
January 2023
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Book
Sufi amulets and talismans
January 2023
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Chapter
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Sufi Material Culture
This chapter introduces a few types of amulets and talismans produced by Ṣūfīs or appealing to Ṣūfī saints for help and protection. Particular attention is given to a number of paper talismans produced between the eleventh/seventeenth and thirteenth/nineteenth centuries and containing a range of holy texts, diagrams, and sacred images.
<p>Dia al-Azzawi (b. Baghdad, 1939) is
considered one of the Arab world’s most
influential living artists. Best-known for large
colourful paintings, his work embraces many
other media and draws on the visual heritage
of Iraq to reflect contemporary struggles and
collective concerns.</p>
<p>Azzawi spent his formative years in Baghdad,
immersed in its effervescent art scene and
actively shaping the direction of mid-century
Iraqi modernism. In 1969 he founded the
group known as ‘Towards a New Vision’ and
co-authored its manifesto, which called for
an exploration of the past to forge a relevant
artistic language for the present.</p>
<p>After moving to London in 1976, Iraq’s
cultural heritage acquired a fresh meaning,
prompting him to rediscover traditions like
Islamic illustrated manuscripts and to engage
with other creative practices. Poetry became
an inherent part of his work, providing not
only a creative stimulus but also a storehouse
of visual associations. This interest also gave
rise to a distinctive genre called dafatir
(Arabic plural for ‘notebooks’), where texts
and images merge to create a wholly new
form of artistic expression.</p>
<p>This exhibition, the first UK solo exhibition
dedicated to Dia al-Azzawi, celebrates
dafatir as a way into the practice and
inspiration of this influential modern master.</p>
modern and contemporary art, middle eastern art
Material characterisation of William Burges’ Great Bookcase within the disruption of a global pandemic
December 2022
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Journal article
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Studies in Conservation
<p>This contribution presents the results of a technical investigation on the pigments of William Burges’ <em>Great Bookcase</em> (1859–62), preserved at the Ashmolean Museum. It is the first thorough material investigation of a remarkable piece of Gothic Revival painted furniture, notably an artwork by Burges, whose work has so far received little attention from a technical point of view. This study was developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, which significantly affected the planned research activities since the investigation relied extensively on collaborations with institutions within and beyond the University of Oxford. The disruption caused by the lockdown and other restrictions went far beyond any prediction and led us to redefine the project’s outcome and methodology ‘on the fly’ while maintaining its overall vision. However, thanks to the timeliness of a substantial research grant received from the Capability for Collection Fund (CapCo, Art and Humanities Research Council), we could ultimately turn this research into a unique opportunity to test the potential of recently acquired instruments, namely the Opus Apollo infrared camera and the Bruker CRONO XRF mapping spectrometer. Therefore, besides reporting on the findings, this contribution outlines the strategy adopted and assesses the new equipment’s capability for the non-invasive analysis of complex polychromies.</p>
FFR
Investigating the organic residues from the corrosion of a caccabus from Pompeii
December 2022
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Journal article
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Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
4302 Heritage, Archive and Museum Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Museum Secrets
December 2022
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Chapter
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Museum Secrets: Hidden Stories Ashmolehb Museum Secrets
This book contains the highlights. These are stories you won't find on the labels. These are stories of the human experiences hidden in the Museum's cases and frames.
Félicien Rops's La dame au cochon
October 2022
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Journal article
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Ashmolean Magazine
Negative muons reveal the economic chaos of Rome’s AD 68/9 Civil Wars
September 2022
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Journal article
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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
During the AD 68/9 Civil Wars, Galba, Otho, Vitellius and then Vespasian fought for — and gained — control of the Roman Empire. Our textual sources suggest that this was a period of serious and sustained disruption. However, existing analyses of gold coinages produced in AD 68/9 show only a minor reduction in the purity of the gold coinage. Using X-ray fluorescence, we identify a number of heavily debased gold coins issued during the AD 68/9 Civil Wars, and many slightly debased coins issued in their immediate aftermath. We then confirm the interior composition of these coins totally non-destructively using muonic X-ray emission spectroscopy, thus eliminating hypothetical problems of ‘surface enrichment’ or compositional differences between ‘surface’ and ‘core’. Here we show that heavily debased Civil War gold coinages were indeed produced; that copper was used to debase Roman gold coins during this time, c. 185 years earlier than first shown; and that slightly debased gold coins were regularly issued in the years immediately after the Civil Wars. The metallurgical evidence from the gold coinage now allows us to show that the AD 68/9 Civil Wars caused significant and sustained disruption to the Roman economic system. More broadly, we have shown that muonic X-ray emission spectroscopy is a powerful tool for generating important archaeological conclusions from high-value cultural heritage objects that simply cannot be destructively analysed, but need to have their interior compositions sampled.
The non-numismatic objects of the Watlington hoard
The Watlington hoard: coinage, kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880
June 2022
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Book
<p>Presenting the complete publication of the objects and coins in the Watlington Hoard, the authors discuss its wider implications for our understanding of hoarding in late 9th-century southern Britain, interactions between the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia, and the movements of the Viking Great Army after the Battle of Edington in 878.</p>
<p><i>The Watlington Hoard</i> was discovered in southern Oxfordshire in 2015 by a metal-detectorist, and acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2017. A nationally-important find of coinage and metalwork, and the first major Viking-Age hoard from the county, it dates from the late 870s, a fundamental and tumultuous period in Britain’s history. The contents of the hoard include a highly significant collection of over 200 silver pennies, mostly of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, and Ceolwulf II, king of Mercia, transforming our understanding of the coinage in this period, and 23 silver and gold pieces of contemporary metalwork much of which was derived from Scandinavia.</p>
<p>Presenting the complete publication of the objects and coins in the Watlington Hoard – including an important re-assessment of the coinage of the late 870s – the authors discuss its wider implications for our understanding of hoarding in late 9th-century southern Britain, interactions between the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia, and the movements of the Viking Great Army after the Battle of Edington in 878. The book also relates another side to the hoard’s story, beginning with its discovery and excavation, charting its path through the conservation work and acquisition by the Ashmolean Museum to the public outreach projects which ran alongside the scholarly research into the hoard.</p>
antiques & collectibles
Why Didn’t Sculptors Draw?
June 2022
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Chapter
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Creating Sculpture: The Drawings and Models of Renaissance Sculptors
Public-engagement with the Watlington Hoard: nationally important archaeology for all
June 2022
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Chapter
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The Watlington Hoard Coinage, Kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880
The book also relates another side to the hoard's story, beginning with its discovery and excavation, charting its path through the conservation work and acquisition by the Ashmolean Museum to the public outreach projects which ran ...
Review: Renaissance Children: Art and Education at the Habsburg Court (1480-1530)
June 2022
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Journal article
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Print Quarterly
ASPECTS OF ROMAN COIN HOARDS - (J.) Mairat, (A.) Wilson, (C.) Howgego (edd.) Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World. Pp. xviii + 350, figs, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Cased, £90, US$115. ISBN: 978-0-19-886638-1.
May 2022
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Edited book
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Manisha Gera Baswani: Postcards from Home - 1947 and the Partition of India
May 2022
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Exhibition
Manisha Gera Baswani was born in 1967 in India to parents of pre-partition India. Her childhood was embellished with stories of her parents reminiscing, with nostalgia and pain, their ‘home’ in present day Pakistan. Forced to flee overnight, they left everything, including deep friendships, nurtured through generations, never to return. Postcards from Home is Baswani’s homage to her parents’ memories of home.
Based in New Delhi, Baswani is a multidisciplinary artist, who started using the camera as an additional instrument to capture moments midway through her painterly journey. This project comprises postcards of 47 artists from India and Pakistan, all having a shared history with the Partition of India in 1947. Each postcard carries an image of a contemporary artist photographed by Baswani, while the reverse carries a poignant memory of that artist reminiscing the ‘home’ lost.
The display invites audiences to visual and textual frames of nostalgia, to revive a shared connection of a common history, with the South Asian diaspora that arrived in Britain before, during, and after 1947. The audience is encouraged to take home postcards, retrieving cards out of dispensers as well as the installation display boxes in the gallery.
A stable isotope perspective on archaeological agricultural variability and Neolithic experimentation in India
April 2022
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Journal article
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Journal of Archaeological Science
Agriculture has been crucial in sustaining human populations in South Asia across dramatically variable environments for millennia. Until recently, however, the origins of this mode of subsistence in India have been discussed in terms of population migration and crop introduction, with limited focus on how agricultural packages were formulated and utilised in local contexts. Here, we report the first measurements of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values in well-preserved charred crop remains from sites spanning the Neolithic/Chalcolithic to the Early Historic in two very different environmental zones: tropical East India and the semi-arid Deccan. The results show that this approach offers direct insight into prehistoric crop management under contrasting environmental constraints. Our preliminary results plausibly suggest that early farmers in India experimented with and made strategic use of water and manure resources in accordance with specific crop requirements and under varying environmental constraints. We suggest that the development of modern crop isotope baselines across India, and the application of this methodology to archaeological assemblages, has the potential to yield detailed insight into agroecology in India's past.
stable isotope analysis, urbanism, India, rice agriculture, heritage and archaeology, archaeology
Coins of the Iceni
March 2022
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Other
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Ashmolean Magazine
Across northern East Anglia in the Late Iron Age (c.100 BC–AD 50) lived a community who minted ornately designed coins in gold and silver.
Ali Kazim: Suspended in Time
February 2022
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Exhibition
2022 marks the 75th anniversary of the creation of Pakistan and the Ashmolean is proud to host a solo exhibition for one of Pakistan’s leading contemporary artists, Ali Kazim (b. 1979).
Curated by Mallica Kumbera Landrus, the exhibition Ali Kazim: Suspended in Time includes recent work from 2019–21, alongside objects from the Ashmolean’s collections which have inspired Kazim. The exhibition will be the culmination of his year as Oxford University’s first South Asian Artist-in-Residence.
Ali Kazim was trained at the National College of Arts, Lahore and at the Slade School, London and returned to Lahore where he is now Assistant Professor. He has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions across the world and his work is held in major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the V&A.
For this exhibition, Ali Kazim has created an extraordinary body of work which offers a profound engagement with the Ashmolean’s collections and the art and history of the Indian subcontinent.
Displaying People
February 2022
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Media
Ashmolean Podcast Fingerprints - episode on a journey with 200 clay figures from India, displayed alongside a human zoo at the Colonial and India Exhibition of 1886, and later used to teach young British colonial officers at Oxford’s Indian Institute.
Ali Kazim: suspended in time
February 2022
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Book
In 2019 Ali Kazim, one of the most exciting contemporary artists working in Pakistan today, became the first South Asian artist-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum. Drawing inspiration from the objects in the Eastern Art collections, and their contextual history, he saw his time in the Museum as an opportunity to reimagine the objects in his own work and practise. Thus, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue will focus mainly on Kazim’s engagement with the Ashmolean collections and the works created between 2019 and 2021. Widely exhibited and collected internationally (including the British Museum, V&A, Metropolitan Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, etc.), Kazim lives and works in Pakistan. The exhibition and book provide the Museum an opportunity to engage wider diverse audiences, while also presenting the works of a contemporary multidisciplinary artist who reflects and draws strength from the Ashmolean collections.
SBTMR
The Conference of the Birds and its artistic legacy
February 2022
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Chapter
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Ali Kazim: Suspended in Time
SBTMR
The Thirty Pieces of Silver. Coin Relics in Medieval and Modern Europe
January 2022
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle
Animals from the Hierakonpolis main deposit
December 2021
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Journal article
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Nekhen News
Ashmolean object in focus: pottery lion
December 2021
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Other
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Nekhen News
British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800
November 2021
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Chapter
The earliest surviving engraved music plates?
November 2021
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Chapter
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British Music, Musicians and Institutions, C. 1630-1800: Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone
Samuel Amsler’s Portrait of Karl Philipp Fohr
October 2021
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Journal article
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Ashmolean Magazine
Tokyo: art and photography
August 2021
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Book
<p>This book is a celebration of Tokyo: one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities. Beautifully illustrated and richly detailed, this publication looks at a city which has undergone constant destruction and renewal over its 400-year history and tells the stories of the people who have made Tokyo so famous with their boundless drive for the new and innovative - from samurai to avantgarde artists today.</p>
<p>Artistic highlights include Kano school paintings, the iconic woodblock prints of Hiroshige, Tokyo Pop Art Posters, the photography of Moriyama Daido and Ninagawa Mika, manga, film and contemporary art.</p>
</p>Co-edited by Japanese art specialists and curators Lena Fritsch and Clare Pollard from Oxford University, this accessible volume features 28 texts by international experts of Japanese culture, as well as original statements by influential artists.</p>
SBTMR
Iron Age Coins in Britain: a digital typology
July 2021
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Other
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PAST: the Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society
A coin hoard from Ayasuluk and the arrival of silver gigliati from Mediterranean Europe in early fourteenth-century western Anatolia
June 2021
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Journal article
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Anatolian Studies
In 1972 a hoard of eight fine silver coins was discovered in or near the baptistery of the basilica of St. John in Ayasuluk. It is now conserved at the Ephesus Archaeological Museum in Selçuk. The coins were minted in southern France, southern Italy, and on the island of Rhodes, between ca. 1303 and 1319 or perhaps a little later. Accordingly, a concealment
date of ca. 1320 or a bit later is proposed. While the currency which they represent (the gigliato) is well known from other finds of the area, the present hoard is relatively early and from a particularly significant location. This currency found great success in commercial contexts in the eastern Aegean and western Anatolia during the period ca. 1325 – ca. 1370. By contrast, this study reveals two initial phases in the establishment and further dissemination of the gigliato in a concentrated part of western Anatolia, one in 1304 and another before and after ca. 1317. On both occasions the Catalans were instrumental in shaping these processes: initially as conquerors on behalf of the Byzantine emperors; and then, from their new base in Greece, as allies of the Aydınoğulları rulers of Ayasuluk. Additionally, it is proposed that this new gigliato currency might have been minted at Rhodes from the summer of 1319, after which it rapidly reached the Ephesus area in a military context.
FFR
Aegean legacies: Greek island embroideries from the Ashmolean Museum
April 2021
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Book
Embroideries from the Greek islands dazzle with their bright colours and charming motifs. This publication reveals little-known pieces from the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, newly photographed and published here for the first time. The embroideries include fragments of pillowcases, bed valances, tents and curtains, as well as items of dress. As with all collections of textiles, the story of the Ashmolean holdings is chiefly about their makers and their ingenuity. Once forming the bulk of bridal trousseaux, Greek embroidered textiles were produced and maintained by young and old women for themselves and the house using locally produced materials. A mark of their worth and a platform for self-expression, embroidered textiles also helped Greek women to negotiate their place in the community, signalling status and affiliation.
SBTMR
Building a house for repentance: the monochrome passion cycle of San Nicolò del Boschetto
February 2021
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Chapter
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Medieval Temporalities: The Experience of Time in Medieval Europe
Ashmolean object in focus: the Scorpion mace-head
February 2021
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Journal article
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Nekhen News
FFR
New evidence for the medieval material culture of Chalcis (Negroponte): pottery, coins and coin containers (13th-14th centuries)
January 2021
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Conference paper
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12th Congress AIECM3 On Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics. Proceedings
This paper is a preliminary study of five refuse pits excavated in Chalcis (Euboea, Greece), which included large amounts of pottery, 54 diagnostic coins and more than 35 ceramic moneyboxes of the Lombard/Venetian period. The coins relate to certain instances in the history of Chalcis (and in fact of south-central Greece in general) and include a hoard of 37 rare coins of William of Villehardouin. The pottery reflects the economic and commercial growth of the city, the vitality of its ceramic workshops, as well as the availability to the local consumers of wares of various origins, qualities and values.
方力鈞作品中的人像與水墨 Portraiture and ink in the work of Fang Lijun
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
A large, undated paper talisman belonging to the Nasser D. Khalili Collection was among the most enigmatic objects on display in the exhibition Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural (Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, 20 October 2016–15 January 2017). Although unusual, this object is not unique and belongs to a group of documents attested in the late Ottoman world that share several features. First, they are all in the same medium, paper, available in various formats. Second, they all show signs of wear and tear, which are not simply a mark of their age or their support’s fragility but also reflect various forms of physical interaction—from touching, rubbing, and, possibly, kissing, to folding and rolling for storage purposes and easy carrying. Third, they all exhibit an impressive variety of imprinted motifs, featuring texts, images, and diagrams, whose content ranges from the devotional to the magical. The purpose of this article is to establish the context of production of the Khalili talisman through a detailed analysis of its material qualities and content. The broad nature of the texts and images available on it ultimately provides the opportunity to reflect on the limited usefulness of clear-cut categories (e.g., sacred/profane, orthodox/heterodox, religious/folkloric, and Sunni/Shiʿi) when trying to understand and position Islamic material evidence connected to occult practices.
SBTMR
Introduction
November 2020
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Chapter
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Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice
FFR
Islamicate occult sciences in theory and practice
November 2020
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Edited book
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture. Its aim is not only to showcase the range of pioneering work that is currently being done in these areas, but also to provide a model for closer interaction amongst the disciplines constituting this burgeoning field of study. Furthermore, the book provides the rare opportunity to bridge the gap on an institutional level by bringing the academic and curatorial spheres into dialogue.
Coinage and money in medieval Greece 1200-1430
October 2020
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Book
Coinage and Money in Medieval Greece 1200-1430, by Julian Baker, is a monetary history of medieval Thessaly, mainland Greece and the Peloponnese, Epiros, and adjacent islands. The central focus of the book is the record of coin finds and coin types, which this study presents in a fully developed political, socio-economic, military, and archaeological/topographical context.
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In medieval Greece there is a strong symbiosis between monetary and historical developments. The general level of documentation is also vastly superior to the preceding middle Byzantine period. Volume Two presents and evaluates these data. Volume One offers analyses on major historical themes, which demonstrate that the monetary sources can hold narratives in their own rights, complementing and at times contradicting the established accounts.
SBTMR
Élisabeth Sonrel's Les rameaux
October 2020
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Journal article
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Ashmolean Magazine
Object, Story, Wonder with the Ashmolean Museum
October 2020
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Media
Thebes at the time of the Catalans a deposit between the Ismenion Hill and the Elektra Gate
October 2020
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Journal article
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Hesperia
A bothros excavated in 2011 in the Thebes parking area revealed large quantities of late-13th- to mid-14th-century a.d. domestic waste, including glazed table wares, coarse wares, a small coin hoard, and other everyday objects, highlighting aspects of economic activities, domestic life, and waste management in Thebes at this time. The assemblage also offers a rare glimpse of Thebes amid significant political change: the Catalan takeover of the city and the wider area of central Greece in a.d. 1311. Both the richness of the bothros's material and its location outside the city walls argue against canonical notions of the abandonment of Thebes and economic stagnation caused by the Catalan occupation.
FFR
Artefacts
September 2020
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Chapter
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Faxton: Excavations in a deserted Northamptonshire village 1966-68
Fear, matter and miracles: personal protection and coping with disasters through material culture c1200-1600
September 2020
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Chapter
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Waiting for the End of the World? New perspectives on natural disasters in medieval Europe
Medieval archaeology, Emotion, Matter, Saints, Corpus Christi, Disasters
The Faxton Finds Revisted
September 2020
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Chapter
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Faxton Excavations in a deserted Northamptonshire village 1966–68
Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Material culture, Deserted Medieval Settlement
Dark materials: Pre-Columbian black lithic carvings from St Vincent and the wider Caribbean
August 2020
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Journal article
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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
A small number of pre-Columbian black lithic carvings have been found at archaeological sites across the Caribbean, as well as in parts of neighbouring mainland South America. The identity of the material used to create these artefacts is often unknown, but suggestions include lignite, wood, petrified wood, manja(c)k, jet (or ‘jet-like’ materials) and hardened asphalt. These identifications are often historical and lacking any scientific basis, and as such can be unreliable. However, identification of the material has the potential to inform on the source of the carving and thereby pre-Columbian trade routes within the circum-Caribbean region. Four analytical techniques (reflectance microscopy, FTIR, Py-GC/MS, x-ray fluorescence) were applied to samples taken from two carvings found on St Vincent and five comparative materials. Both artefacts were found to be most likely carved from cannel coal, indicating that they originated in South America (where cannel coal is found extensively in locations in Colombia and Venezuela), as the material is not found within the Caribbean region.
Chapter 6. X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and related techniques
June 2020
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Chapter
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Conservation Research in Libraries
The Ashmolean in Egypt
June 2020
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Journal article
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Ashmolean Magazine
FFR
Love and hope: emotions, dress accessories and a plough in later medieval Britain, c. AD 1250–1500
May 2020
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Journal article
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Antiquity
Human emotion is of interest across a wide range of disciplines, but in the field of archaeology it has received attention only very recently. This article contributes to the archaeology of emotion through a focus on later medieval objects in Britain. It identifies ‘emotants’ within the archaeological record, defined as evidence that can communicate, create or intensify emotion(s). By exploring emotants in the form of inscribed later medieval finger rings and brooches, and an iron plough coulter, the author aims to introduce a neologism that can be employed to advance this challenging yet untapped field of study.
Empowered by experiential Egyptology and object-based learning
May 2020
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Chapter
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Student Empowerment: Reflections of Teachers and Students in Higher Education
SBTMR
Cai Guo-Qiang Materials Without Boundaries
April 2020
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Book
First catalog to cover the range of materials used by Cai Guo-Qiang, from gunpowder and paint on canvas, porcelain and silk Covers the artist's entire career to date Accompanies an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum concluding on 19 April ...
Review of: "Andrei Gandila, 'Cultural Encounters on Byzantium’s Northern Frontier, c. AD 500–700: Coins, Artifacts and History.' Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix, 376; 15 black-and-w...
March 2020
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Journal article
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Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
FFR
The composition and technology of polychrome enamels on Chinese ruby‐backed plates identified through nondestructive micro‐X‐ray fluorescence
March 2020
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Journal article
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X-Ray Spectrometry
This research presents non‐destructive analyses of Chinese enamelled copper and porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels. This study utilises two key, high‐value art works with complex enamelling in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) to elucidate the composition and technology of objects with ruby‐backed decoration. These plates date from early Qing dynasty and are associated with the Yongzheng (1723–1735) and early Qianlong (1735–1796) periods. The goal of this research is to investigate the hypothesis that ruby‐backed plates in these two mediums are decorated with the same enamels and possibly manufactured in mutual enamelling workshops, which is a current topic of debate among scholars. Ten different enamel colours and the gilding on each plate were analysed and evaluated with micro‐X‐ray fluorescence to study the opacifiers and pigments. The results show that the enamels on these two works utilise the same opacifier and the consistent pigments in the white, ruby, pink, green, yellow, turquoise green, and blue enamels. Compositional differences were identified in the underdrawings, purple enamels, and gilding. The results demonstrate that Chinese painted enamels and overglazes on porcelain share mutual technology in most, but not all, of the polychrome decoration, which impacts upon our knowledge of technological organisation in the manufacture of these objects. Micro‐X‐ray fluorescence has been shown to be an effective and robust technique for the nondestructive study of decorative surfaces in these two material types.
FFR
Hierakonpolis
December 2019
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Internet publication
Hierakonpolis (ancient Nekhen and modern Kom el Ahmar) is a major site of the Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic Period.
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A collection of tapestry cartoons at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
November 2019
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Conference paper
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Le Martyre de saint Paul : Renaissance d’un chef-d’œuvre de papier: Études autour de la restauration d'un carton de tapisserie du XVIe siècle
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford holds twenty-one fragments of full-sized tapestry cartoons. They were presented to the University of Oxford in 1846 as part of a larger group following a public appeal to acquire Italian drawings from the collection of the British portrait painter Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830). Lawrence had amassed an unrivalled collection of Old Master drawings, including the largest and most important group of Raphael drawings in the world, which is now also at the Ashmolean. Eighteen of the cartoon fragments are preparatory studies for the twelve tapestries of the Scuola Nuova series in the Vatican. The Ashmolean fragments are taken from the full-sized cartoons for the Massacre of the Innocents, the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, the Presentation in the Temple, the Resurrection of Christ and the Ascension of Christ. Three of the fragments, however, cannot be traced to the Scuola Nuova tapestries. These fragments have previously been attributed to a variety of artists, including the Flemish artist Pieter de Kempeneer. This paper will delve deeper into the authorship and the provenance of this astonishing group of cartoon fragments. They will be presented as part of a group of other fragments from the same cartoons, for instance at Christ Church (University of Oxford), the National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh), the British Museum and the Foundling Hospital (London).
Jonge Rembrandt
November 2019
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Edited book
SBTMR
Rembrandt's early works on paper
November 2019
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Chapter
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Young Rembrandt
drawings, SBTMR, prints, Rembrandt
Young Rembrandt
November 2019
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Edited book
Young Rembrandt concentrates on the first ten years of the career of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). Born in Leiden, he trained there with Isaac van Swanenburg and in Amsterdam with Pieter Lastman. After a short stay in Amsterdam he returned to Leiden and set up a studio where he began his extraordinary career, painting scenes from the Bible and classical mythology and history, as well as a handful of genre scenes and portraits. His progress is remarkable: from the earliest hesitant paintings of the Five Senses in about 1624 to the wonderfully assured Jeremiah of 1630 it is almost possible to trace his development and his increasing fluency and self-confidence from month to month and certainly from year to year. Published to accompany exhibitions at the Lakenhal, Leiden from November 2019 to February 2020, then at the Ashmolean Museum from February to June 2020.
prints, SBTMR, Rembrandt, drawings
Tradition, Modernity and National Identity: Celadon Production at the Makuzu Ceramic Workshop 1870–1916
October 2019
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Chapter
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Ceramics and Modernity in Japan
The Meiji era (1868–1912) was a time of momentous change for the Japanese ceramic industry. One of the most successful ceramic workshops of the period was the Makuzu studio, established in Yokohama in 1870 by Miyagawa Kōzan I (1842–1916) to manufacture ceramics for the foreign market. Studies of the Makuzu workshop have focused mainly on its interactions with the West. Yet by the time of Kōzan’s death in 1916, the workshop was more admired for its refined Japanese- and Chinese-style ceramics aimed at the domestic market than for its export wares. Kōzan himself was particularly proud of his celadon works, which he considered “his life’s achievement.” Celadon was produced at the Makuzu workshop for most of its history but represented different creative approaches at different times. By considering the studio’s ongoing relationship with celadon—and with Asian ceramic traditions in general—this essay attempts to illuminate the changing priorities of Japanese potters over the course of the Meiji era and thereby to gain a deeper understanding of Japan’s wider efforts to reposition itself within the hierarchy of nations, both western and Asian, as part of the country’s drive towards modernity.
ceramics, modernity, Japan
Cai Guo-Qiang
October 2019
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Book
Cai Guo-Qiang is a leading contemporary artist born in China and resident in New York since 1995. He is renowned for his work with gunpowder, both in spectacular firework events and as an art material.
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: Gunpowder Art, held at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, from 25 October 2019 to 19 April 2020.
Professor Shelagh Vainker, Curator of Chinese Art, Ashmolean Museum, says: ‘Cai Guo-Qiang stands apart from his contemporaries in China and in the west as an artist engaging with the world through gunpowder, in explosion events, spectacles and works in more traditional media (such as silk, porcelain, canvas and paper). It is a privilege for the Ashmolean to present the range and energy of his work within the context of the University collections.
Cai Guo-Qiang, gunpowder, contemporary art, China
'The illusion of an authentic experience': a luster bowl in the Ashmolean Museum
October 2019
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Journal article
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Muqarnas
In 2014 the Ashmolean Museum conserved and examined one of the largest and most handsome ceramic vessels in its renowned Islamic art collection. An accomplished example of early thirteenth-century Persian lusterware from the bequest of Sir Alan Barlow, the salver had an unusually deformed profile and uneven wear that pointed at a number of past interventions. Some of these had already been uncovered in 2008 when the object was prepared for reinstallation in the revamped Ashmolean. However, it was only when analyzed by a team of inhouse specialists and scientists from Cranfield University and the Research Laboratory for Archaeology at the University of Oxford, that the extraordinary nature of its “restoration” could be assessed. This article presents the results of this collaborative effort and contributes important evidence to the thorny issue of the faking and forging of Islamic ceramics in the early twentiethc century, when collecting Islamic decorative arts was at its peak.
Khalil Rabenou, Kashan, Islamic ceramics, forgeries, lusterware, Ashmolean Museum, UV examination, XRF, Sir Alan Barlow, fakes, SEM-EDX analysis
Revisiting a plate in the Ashmolean Museum: a new interpretation
March 2019
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Journal article
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Greek Art in Motion: studies in honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th Birthday
<br/>Set prominently on display in the ‘Heroes and Myths’ case in the Ashmolean Museum’s Greece gallery, plate AN1934.333 has been published numerous times but almost only ever in passing. Previously, there was some disagreement regarding the subject matter. Is the scene depicting the Capture of the Keryneian Deer or is it a Struggle for the Hind? The caption in the display case prefers the former interpretation but the general consensus seems to favour the latter. The different narrative composition used for scenes of the Capture is different from that for the plate. Yet, the composition on the Oxford plate is equally different from that of the Struggles.<br/>This present paper will examine the conventional compositions and cast of characters used for scenes related to the Hind and Tripod Struggles and compare them with the ambiguous scene and cast members on the plate. This paper will also take a closer look at Attic black-figure plates and examine their uses based on the contexts in which they were found. My aim is to determine whether the scene on the plate may not more appropriately be classified as a scene of everyday life, perhaps one related to cult activity and initiation rites.
FFR
A visit with the real Painted Tomb
February 2019
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Other
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Nekhen News
Ashmolean object in focus: the 'Two-Dog' palette
February 2019
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Other
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Nekhen News
Conserving the Pepi 'Stela'
February 2019
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Other
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Nekhen News
FFR
Preserving the Painted Tomb
February 2019
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Other
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Nekhen News
FFR
The Moon in Islamic Portable Arts
February 2019
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Chapter
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The Moon: A Voyage Through Time
A reassessment of Wood's 1871 Artemision hoard of fourteenth-century coins
January 2019
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Chapter
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Ephesos from Late Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages
Ashmolean object in focus: the Narmer mace-head
January 2019
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Other
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Nekhen News
Gerald Reitlinger's Chinese Porcelain
January 2019
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Chapter
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Anthony Powell Conference 2018
Human statuettes from the Hierakonpolis ‘Main Deposit’
January 2019
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Other
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Nekhen News
Hyperspectral data for various Oxford University Collections
January 2019
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Dataset
Hyperspectral cubes in ENVI format, stored on discrete password-protected server within the Bodleian Libraries. In order to access the data, please contact one of the creators directly.
Roman Provincial Coinage Online
January 2019
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Dataset
The aim of the Roman Provincial Coinage project is to produce a standard typology of the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire from its beginning in 44 BC to its end in AD 296/7. There are both published volumes and the online database. Roman Provincial Coinage Online was originally launched in 2006 and since then its functionality has been updated in 2015 and 2019. Data are now added continuously. Not all periods and areas are yet covered equally, but in April 2020 the database already contained information on over 58,500 types based on more than 279,000 individual coins.
Coins
Application of gamma-ray spectrometry in discovering the granitic monument of King Pepi I: A case study from Hierakonpolis, Aswan, Egypt
November 2018
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Journal article
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Pure and Applied Geophysics
The current survey aimed to relocate the so-called granitic ‘stela’ inscribed for King Pepi I. The monument was originally discovered in 1897–1898 by British Egyptologists excavating on an ancient mound located in the floodplain at the archaeological site of Hierakonpolis (modern Kom el-Ahmar) in the Aswan Governorate of Egypt. The original excavators were unable to remove it owing to its great weight and the monument was therefore left at the site. It remained partly exposed until 1989, when it was reburied to provide some protection from seasonal fluctuations in the water table. The exact location of the ‘stela’ was then lost, as the site is situated in the centre of the modern village of Kom el-Gemuwia and is covered with halfa grass and other debris. As part of a new project to conserve and record this historic monument and other stone relics on this water-logged site by the Hierakonpolis Expedition of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK, a geophysical approach was used to establish their current locations. A detailed gamma-ray spectrometry survey was conducted across the area suggested by the archeologists. The measurements were analyzed and plotted in the form of maps, which were helpful in selecting certain locations for examination. The results of limited field excavations confirmed that the localized high-thorium-concentration anomalies were mainly related to the presence of the buried granite block. These results suggest that this method could be useful in the detection of granitic monuments at similar sites.
granitic monuments, gamma-ray spectrometry, King Pepi I, principle component analysis, radioactive dose rate
Plum blossom and green willow: Japanese surimono poetry prints from the Ashmolean Museum
October 2018
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Book
SBTMR
A symbolist Drawing by Armand Rassenfosse
October 2018
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Journal article
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Ashmolean Magazine
Sensation: Rembrandt's First Paintings
September 2018
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Journal article
The Arts of China
August 2018
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Book
Sixth edition of a best-selling survey of Chinese art standard as textbook in US universities and internationally. The text was largely revised by Michael Sullivan before his death in 2013. Completed with additional chapter and introduction, and additional editing and seeing through press, by Shelagh Vainker
Islamic occultism and the museum
July 2018
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Journal article
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International Journal of Islamic Architecture
The exhibition Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural, held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 20 October 2016 and 15 January 2017, provided the opportunity to reconsider some of the parameters employed in largescale Islamic art exhibitions. The subject of the show – select divinatory and amuletic practices, itself a break from more conventional themes – was explored by adopting a more inclusive and critical approach, drawing evidence from a wide social spectrum and transcending classifications of ‘ethnographic material’ and ‘fine art’. Attention was also given to daily practice, creating a fresh vantage point to reflect on the role and forms of devotion and broader notions of belief. While presenting practices and evidence that many might deem marginal (and that have certainly been marginalized over time), the exhibition ultimately offered a new analytical lens to challenge hierarchies of higher and lower culture, as well as sanctioned versus heterodox religious practices that continue to structure museum presentations and inform public perception of Islamic culture. By exploring the difficulties, achievements, and shortcomings of the project, and by incorporating insights from audience evaluations and impact questionnaires, this article reflects on the range of factors that shape today’s presentations of Islamic art and culture in the museum, as well as on the unprecedented challenges faced by specialists of Islam in western institutions at this critical historical moment. Furthermore, by considering the exhibition in the context of the current, revitalized museological interest in religions, it offers a contribution to the broader debate about religious objects in secular institutions and the need to reconcile multiple views and expectations.
Islam, exhibitions, amulets and talismans, museums, sensitivities, divination
Zaraka: The Coins
May 2018
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Chapter
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Cistercian Monastery of Zaraka, Greece
SBTMR
Ancient Sudan in the Ashmolean Museum
April 2018
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Chapter
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Ibrahim El-Salahi: a Sudanese artist in Oxford
Ibrahim El-Salahi: a Sudanese artist in Oxford
April 2018
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Exhibition
Chiaroscuro woodcut: A memento mori
April 2018
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Journal article
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Ashmolean Magazine
FFR
牛津阿什莫林博物馆里的中国艺术 Chinese Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
March 2018
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Journal article
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博物館評論 Museum Review
Cat. 73: Portrait de l'imam 'Ali entoure de ses fils Hasan et Husayn; Cat. 116: Boite a miroir; Cat. 117: Rustam combattant le roi du Hamavaran; Cat. 152: Service a cafe a decor astrologique; Cat. 161: Kard; Cat. 245: Pl...
March 2018
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Chapter
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L'empire des roses: Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art persan du xixe siecle
A Comparison of Change Blindness in Real-World and On-Screen Viewing of Museum Artefacts.
February 2018
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Journal article
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Frontiers in psychology
Change blindness is a phenomenon of visual perception that occurs when a stimulus undergoes a change without this being noticed by its observer. To date, the effect has been produced by changing images displayed on screen as well as changing people and objects in an individual's environment. In this experiment, we combine these two approaches to directly compare the levels of change blindness produced in real-world vs. on-screen viewing of museum artefacts. In the real-world viewing condition, one group of participants viewed a series of pairs of similar but slightly different artefacts across eye saccades, while in the on-screen viewing condition, a second group of participants viewed the same artefacts across camera pans on video captured from a head-mounted camera worn by the first set of participants. We present three main findings. First, that change blindness does occur in a museum setting when similar ancient artefacts are viewed briefly one after another in both real-world and on-screen viewing conditions. We discuss this finding in relation to the notion that visual perceptual performance may be enhanced within museums. Second, we found that there was no statistically significant difference between the mean levels of change blindness produced in real-world and on-screen viewing conditions (real-world 42.62%, on-screen 47.35%, X2 = 1.626, p > 0.05 1 d.f.). We discuss possible implications of these results for understanding change blindness, such as the role of binocular vs. monocular vision and that of head and eye movements, as well as reflecting on the evolution of change detection systems, and the impact of the experimental design itself on our results. Third, we combined the data from both viewing conditions to identify groups of artefacts that were independently associated with high and low levels of change blindness, and show that change detection rates were influenced mainly by bottom-up factors, including the visible area and contrast of changes. Finally, we discuss the limitations of this experiment and look to future directions for research into museum perception, change blindness, real-world and on-screen comparisons, and the role of bottom-up and top-down factors in the perception of change.
Dressing the Body
February 2018
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Chapter
<p>This chapter presents the archaeological evidence of dress from later medieval Britain. It includes the often fragmentary textile and leather remains of clothing and shoes, and the dress accessories worn with them. Excavated finds from different types of sites are considered, and the numerous chance finds recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Accessories such as rings, brooches, buckles, badges, and rosaries, made of base or precious metals, gemstones, or other natural materials, were valued for more than their monetary worth. They had the ability to hold memories and beliefs, convey messages, and protect and display identities. Their role in everyday life makes them suitable for inclusion in future studies on the ‘archaeology of emotion’. The article also highlights the relatively slow development of medieval archaeologists’ interest in apparel, and the need for further work that encompasses a range of sources.</p>
The reformed Byzantine silver based currencies (ca. 1372-1379) in the light of the hoards from the Belgrade Gate
January 2018
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Journal article
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Dumbarton Oaks Papers
A Comparison of Change Blindness and the Visual Perception of Museum Artefacts in Real-World and On-Screen Scenarios
January 2018
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Chapter
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Exploring Transdisciplinarity in Art and Sciences
46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4608 Human-Centred Computing, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision, Eye
Coin circulation in fourteenth-century Thrace and Constantinople according to the evidence of the hoards
January 2018
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Chapter
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International Congress on the History of Money and Numismatics in the Mediterranean World
Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project
January 2018
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Dataset
The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project is a joint initiative of the Ashmolean Museum and the Oxford Roman Economy Project. It intends to fill a major lacuna in the digital coverage of coin hoards from antiquity. It aims to collect information about hoards of all coinages in use in the Roman Empire between approximately 30 BC and AD 400. Imperial Coinage forms the main focus of the project, but Iron Age and Roman Provincial coinages in circulation within this period are also included to give a complete picture of the monetary systems of both the West and the East. In 2019 the scope of the Project was extended to include hoards of Roman coins from outside the Empire. The intention of the Project is to provide the foundations for a systematic Empire-wide study of hoarding and to promote the integration of numismatic data into broader research on the Roman Economy.
Coneys, Coneygarths and Cunnies: the Rabbit and Great Households, c.1080–1600
January 2018
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Chapter
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The Elite Household in England, 1100-1550. Proceedings of the 2016 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies (XXVIII)
Rabbit, fur, warren, status, religion, sex
Exploring Transdisciplinarity in Art and Sciences
January 2018
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Chapter
Medieval European Coinage. With a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 12. Italy (I) (Northern Italy)
January 2018
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Journal article
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MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Standing female figure with crossed arms
January 2018
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Chapter
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Idols: the power of images
Taille de guepe et barbe fleurant l'ambroise: Les portraits de Fath 'Ali Shah
January 2018
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Chapter
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L'Empire des roses: Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art persan du xixe siecle
Lo splendore orientale: la collezione Wurts di arte asiatica
December 2017
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Chapter
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Voglia d'Italia: Il collezionismo internazionale nella Roma del Vittoriano
An exploration of the Japanese objects in the collections of Rome-based American collectors George and Henriette Wurts, within the context of the Japanese art collecting in Italy in the late 19th century. Accompanied by detailed catalogue entries of ten objects from the collection.
SBTMR
Ashmolean object in focus: limestone statue of King Khasekhem
November 2017
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Other
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Nekhen News
Identifying eighteenth century pigments at the Bodleian library using in situ Raman spectroscopy, XRF and hyperspectral imaging
October 2017
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Journal article
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Heritage Science
There are multiple challenges in analysing pigments in historic watercolour paintings on paper, and typically non-invasive, in situ methods are required. Recent developments in portable analytical instrumentation have made this more accessible to heritage institutions, but many commercial systems are not optimised for the specific requirements of manuscripts and works on paper. This paper describes the successful use of Raman spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) and hyperspectral imaging to identify and map watercolour pigments used by the eighteenth century botanical illustrator, Ferdinand Bauer, and demystify the unusual colour code system found in his sketches. The value, delicate nature and large size of these paintings necessitated the use of using in situ, non-contact methods of analysis. A portable, bespoke Raman spectrometer specifically designed for analysing pigments from works on paper was used together with a bespoke portable Fibre optic reflectance spectrometer, portable X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometer and a hyperspectral imaging sensor. The results demonstrate that although there is a significant compromise between achieving good Raman spectroscopic results from artists’ pigments and using sufficiently low laser power densities so as not to cause damage to the pigments, good results could be obtained with this portable system, particularly when combined with XRF, fibre optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS) and hyperspectral imaging. Eight pigments were identified unequivocally from 125 watercolour paintings analysed, suggesting that Bauer used a more traditional and more limited palette than previously considered, and that his palette changed significantly in his later paintings. Similar pigments identified by the authors on colour chart that was discovered in 1999 in Madrid and attributed to Bauer, add weight to the attribution of this chart to Bauer. The data provides a much deeper insight into Bauer’s colour annotations, and how he was able to achieve such an impressive degree of colour fidelity in his work.
Ger Luijten, Peter Schatborn and Arthur K. Wheelock (eds.), ‘Drawings for paintings in the age of Rembrandt’, Washington and Paris, 2016
June 2017
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Journal article
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Burlington Magazine
Hans Bol's 'Emblemata Evangelica'
June 2017
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Journal article
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Print Quarterly
Review
Non-destructive technical investigation of tin glazed ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum
June 2017
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Chapter
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Italian Maiolica and Europe Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum
-A book dedicated to a unique collection of Italian Maiolica, rated as one of greatest in the world This book is the culmination of nearly thirty years' work in caring for, studying, and developing the collections in this Museum by Timothy ...
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of porcelain: Background paper
May 2017
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Journal article
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ANALYTICAL METHODS
The height of denier tournois minting in Greece (1289-1313) according to new archaeometric data
March 2017
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Journal article
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Annual of the British School at Athens
Scientific analysis of coloured grounds and enamel decoration on Worcester porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum
February 2017
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Chapter
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The Marshall Collection of Worcester Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum
-This is the first complete catalogue of the Marshall Collection of Worcester Porcelain to ever be published This catalogue describes what is probably the most encyclopedic collection of early colored Worcester porcelain in existence.
Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
February 2017
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Chapter
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Modern Chinese Painting & Europe New Perceptions, Artists Encounters and the Formation of Collections
This book presents essays by curators and experts who explore early encounters, friendships and exchanges between artists and scholars in China and Europe, including Zhang Daqian s famous visit with Picasso.
‘Best’ gowns, kerchiefs and pantofles: gifts of apparel in the north east of England in the 16th century
January 2017
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Chapter
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Dress and Society Contributions from Archaeology
Archaeology, Dress, Bequests, North East England, Wills
Masters of metalpoint in northern Europe
January 2017
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Chapter
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Metalpoint Drawings in Northern Europe Technical Examination and Analysis
SBTMR
Der Gigliato-Schatzfund aus der Ausgrabung der Berliner Museen in Milet (1903), verborgen um 1370/74
January 2017
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Journal article
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Numismatische Zeitschrift
Im Accessionsjournal des Münzkabinetts der Königlichen Museen zu Berlin sind im Jahre 1903 unter den laufenden Nummern 494-501 durch den damaligen Kabinettsdirektor Julius Menadier 127 Münzen, sämtlichst Gigliati, inventarisiert worden mit der Bemerkung: „Überwiesen durch Herrn Direktor Wiegand aus den Ausgrabungen von Milet“. Wie aus den noch unpublizierten Grabungsberichten hervorgeht, wurden diese Münzen innerhalb der von Theodor Wiegand, Direktor der Antikensammlung der Berliner Museen, geleiteten Ausgrabung der Königlichen Museen am 7. Februar 1903 in einem Topf im Gewölbe des obersten Umgangs des Theaters gefunden. Der Fundort liegt vermutlich noch innerhalb der Südmauer des mittelalterlichen Kastells der Stadt, das nördlich in das Theater hineingebaut wurde.
Introduction
January 2017
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Chapter
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Rembrandt lightening the darkness
Shozo Michikawa Ceramic Art
January 2017
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Book
This book accompanies an exhibition, which will tour between venues: Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA (US), 3rd to 24th June 2017; Erskine, Hall & Coe, London (UK), 11th October. to 2nd November 2017.
Ceramic sculpture, Japanese
"Dytikos Mesaion sti Peloponniso"
January 2017
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Conference paper
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Proceedings of the sixth scientific meeting of the Friends of the Numismatic Museum Argos, May 26–29, 2011
"Medieval coins from the area of Limnes in the Argolid"
January 2017
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Conference paper
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Proceedings of the sixth scientific meeting of the Friends of the Numismatic Museum Argos, May 26–29, 2011
‘Happy clappers’: new ivory wands from ancient Nekhen
December 2016
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Other
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Nekhen News
Egypt, Egyptology, Hierakonpolis, Ritual
Spinning yarns: the archaeological evidence for hand spinning and its social implications, c AD 1200-1500
November 2016
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Journal article
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Medieval Archaeology
This paper examines the archaeological evidence for hand spinning in medieval Britain from c 1200 to c 1500. Ceramic, stone and baked clay spindle whorls have dominated the excavated finds, but a new corpus of lead alloy spindle whorls, recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Scottish Treasure Trove, is presented here. Analysis of the metal whorls’ distribution, manufacture, dating and decoration is provided, illuminating the wide social and economic contexts in which they were used. From memento mori of pious spinners to sexually potent objects representative of lubricious gossips, the ubiquitous spindle whorl was a universal tool that had a powerful agency. The artefacts are small finds embodying daily life but also tie into the wider national economy of the High and Late Middle Ages.
Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural
October 2016
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Exhibition
Showcasing over a hundred spectacular objects from Morocco to China, POWER AND PROTECTION is the first major exhibition to explore the supernatural in the art of the Islamic world. Within Islamic societies, people of all backgrounds have engaged in fascinating and sometimes controversial practices such as the casting of horoscopes and the interpretation of omens. POWER AND PROTECTION includes objects and works of art from the 12th to the 20th centuries which have been used as sources of guidance and protection in both the private sphere and in dramatic events such as battles and royal births. Amongst the displays are dream-books, talismanic clothing and jewel-encrusted amulets. This is an unmissable chance to see works of breathtaking quality and astonishing scale,many of which have never before been seen in public.
Review: The power of prints, the legacy of William M Ivins and A Hyatt Mayor, exhibition catalogue The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Archaeology New York
The first major examination of Anthony van Dyck's work as a portraitist and an essential resource on this aspect of his illustrious career This landmark volume is a comprehensive survey of the portrait drawings, paintings, and prints of ...
The use of goldpoint and silverpoint in the fifteenth century
February 2016
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Chapter
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An Eyckian Crucifixion Explored: Ten Essays On A Drawing
SBTMR
Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain: A Multilingual Sourcebook
January 2016
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Journal article
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Textile History
4702 Cultural Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4302 Heritage, Archive and Museum Studies, 4303 Historical Studies, 47 Language, Communication and Culture
Laconian Pottery
January 2016
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Chapter
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Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt
SBTMR, Article
Liu Dan: New Landscapes and Old Masters
January 2016
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Book
Published to coincide with a solo exhibition of the work by Liu Dan (b.1953), to be displayed in the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Gallery for Chinese Painting at the Ashmolean.
Parish Churches, Colonisation and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Portuguese Goa
January 2016
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Chapter
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Parish Churches in the Early Modern World
Architecture
Power and Protection Islamic Art and the Supernatural
January 2016
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Book
Power and Protection is an innovative, beautifully illustrated account of the link between artistic production and divinatory practices in pre-modern and early modern Islamic societies An exhibition of the same title will be displayed at ...
The Entombment
January 2016
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Chapter
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El Bosco
"Sacred Words, Sacred Power: Qur'anic and Pious Phrases as Sources of Healing and Protection"
January 2016
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Chapter
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Power and Protection Islamic Art and the Supernatural
Spanning from Morocco to China and the 12th to the 20th century, the books, vessels, garments and jewellery showcased in Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural present divinatory and talismanic arts as intellectual resources ...
Hierakonpolis in Oxford
December 2015
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Other
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Nekhen News
Egypt, Egyptology, Hierakonpolis, Ashmolean Museum
The circulation of the gold coinage of Vespasian struck in the East
October 2015
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Chapter
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Studies in Ancient Coinage in Honour of Andrew Burnett
SBTMR
Metalpoint drawing in the Low Countries
June 2015
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Journal article
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CODART
Metalpoint drawings in the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
May 2015
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Chapter
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Drawing in Silver and Gold: From Leonardo to Jasper Johns
Works drawn from the British Museum's superb collection of metalpoint drawings sit alongside major loans from European and American museums as well as private collections, including four sheets by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection...
art, SBTMR
Curator’s Choice: Hercules Segers’ Landscape with the Pine Branch’
May 2015
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Journal article
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The British Museum Magazine
Reflections on Modern Japanese Sculpture
May 2015
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Journal article
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A Study of Modern Japanese Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture 72
Revisiting the beginnings of tin-opacified Islamic glazes
May 2015
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Journal article
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Journal of Archaeological Science
4302 Heritage, Archive and Museum Studies, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Dibujar en plata y oro: Hendrick Goltzius fue un avezado expert en la tecnica de la punta metalica’
April 2015
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Journal article
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Tendencias del Mercado del Arte
Exhibition Review: "Qalam: The Art of Beautiful Writing", Birmingham Museums and Art Galleries, Birmingham, UK, November 2, 2013-January 26, 2014
March 2015
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Journal article
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International Journal of Islamic Architecture
Richard Verdi, ‘Rembrandt’s themes: Life into art’; New Haven and London, 2014
March 2015
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Journal article
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The British Museum Magazine
An Early Fragment; The Amajur Qur'an; A New-Style Qur'an; A Refined New-Style Folio; An Andalusian Page; A muhaqqaq Page with Translation and hadith; A Refurbished Turkman Leaf; An Indian Qur'an
January 2015
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Chapter
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Qur'ans: Books of Divine Encounter
Bengal and Modernity: Early 20th century art in India
January 2015
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Book
Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2nd March - 1st June 2015.
Corinthian Pottery
January 2015
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Chapter
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Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt, (British Museum Online Research Catalogue, 2015)
SBTMR
Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities. Cypriote Antiquities in Reading. The Ure Museum at the University of Reading and the Reading Museum
January 2015
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Book
Crusader Coinages 2002-2013
January 2015
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Chapter
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SURVEY OF NUMISMATIC RESEARCH 2008-2013
Fang Zhaoling A Centenary Exhibition
January 2015
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Book
The works of the remarkable artist, Fang Zhaoling, who died in 2006 at age 92, are found in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, which was gifted with more than 40 of her works from her family, the University of Oregon museum, where she ...
Art
Hiroshige: Landscape, Cityscape
January 2015
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Book
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) is one of the best known of all Japanese woodblock print designers. He is best known for his landscape prints, which are among the most frequently reproduced of all Japanese works of art. Hiroshige’s landscapes were hugely successful both in Japan and also in the West, where their unusual compositions, humorous depictions of people involved in everyday activities and in particular their masterly expression of weather, light and season, were enormously influential on many leading artists.
Aimed at a general audience, this book illustrates over sixty Hiroshige landscape prints in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum and explores their historical background. It gives a concise introduction to Hiroshige’s life and career within the context of Japan’s booming woodblock print industry in nineteenth-century Japan and explores the development of the landscape print as a new genre in this period. It also gives an insight into the process and techniques of traditional Japanese woodblock print-making.
Money and currency in medieval Greece
January 2015
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Chapter
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Brill's Companions to European History
Yoshida Hiroshi: A Japanese artist in India: Woodblock prints from the Lahiri Collection
January 2015
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Book
In 1930, the Japanese artist Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950) spent several months travelling in India and Southeast Asia. After his return to Japan he produced a series of 32 woodblock prints inspired by his travels. A leading figure in the ‘shin-hanga’ (new print) movement, which contributed to the renewal of Japanese printmaking after the end of the Meiji era (1912), Yoshida first trained in the Western oil painting tradition. Using traditional Japanese printing techniques but remaining closely involved with all stages of the print process unlike earlier ukiyo-e artists, he produced sophisticated prints with a translucent quality reminiscent of watercolours. The prints of iconic Indian views, reminiscent of watercolour paintings, demonstrate his technical sophistication and, his fascination with depicting light, water, its reflections and movement. The book, which accompanied an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum in June 2015, illustrates the entire series, drawn almost entirely from the collection of Avijit and Chobi Lahiri. It discusses the works within the context of the changing world of Japanese prints in the early twentieth century, travelling artists’ depictions of India and the woodblock printmaking techniques involved, with contributions from the collector, Professor Avijit Lahiri and from Yoshida’s grandson, the print artist Yoshida Tsukasa.
Christopher White and Jane Shoaf Turner, ‘Dutch & Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum’, London, 2014
November 2014
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Journal article
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The Arts Newspaper
Conservation Studies
September 2014
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The Gresham Ship Project. A 16th-Century Merchantman Wrecked in the Princes Channel, Thames Estuary. Volume II: Contents and Context
Dominant Powers
September 2014
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Journal article
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The British Museum Magazine
Pesticide residues on the Cook-Voyage Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
September 2014
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Conference paper
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ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference
Eighteen objects from the Cook-voyage collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, were analysed for selected pesticide residues, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), followed by analysis with a handheld x-ray fluorescence (HH-XRF) unit. The intention was to discover what pesticides had been used on the collections to better inform conservation decision making. The results showed that the collection had been treated with a range of organic and inorganic pesticides. The analytical methods applied proved to be complementary, with XRF used as an initial qualitative screen for the detection of elements found in inorganic pesticides, and ICP-MS and GC-MS providing data for elements in inorganic and targeted organic pesticides respectively. The results of the analytical methods could not be directly compared due to the large number of variables present in the methodology.
Pots and People: Greek trade and votive rituals at Naukratis
August 2014
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Chapter
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Thonis-Heracleion in Context: The Maritime Economy of the Egyptian Late Period: D. Robinson and F. Goddio (eds), Thonis-Heracleion in Context: The Maritime Economy of the Egyptian Late Period, Oxford Centre for Maritime Ar...
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Trans-Cultural Temples: Identity and Practice in Goa
August 2014
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Chapter
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In the Shadow of the Golden Age: Art and Identity in Asia from Gandhara to the Modern Age
Art
Discovering Tutankhamun
July 2014
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Book
This book tells the story of the search for Tutankhamun's tomb and its discovery using Howard Carter's original excavation records that were deposited in the archives of the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford.
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Sculptures from Kerala: Form and Performance
March 2014
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Chapter
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A Passionate Eye: Textiles, Paintings and Sculptures from the Bharany Collections
Temples in Kerala offer a living tradition of the subcontinent's ancient use of wood as a material for building. The focus is on a small selection of religious sculptures and relief panels including some polychrome sculptures associated with the performance arts such as Kathakali and Kutiyattam which have an originality that separates this form of visual art in Kerala from the rest of India. Together they reflect a layered complexity in collecting in that the group includes decorative objects which were used in the construction of sacred buildings as well as those created for sale to individuals. A number of them were created during the colonial period and may have been specifically made for sale to foreign visitors and collectors. Though lack of documentation limits the potential for research and interpretation the objects stand as testament to an individual's passion and sensibility.
Art
A tooled coin and a forgery of the 'Koinon of the Thirteen Cities'
January 2014
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Chapter
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First International Congress of the Anatolian Monetary History and Numismatics, 25-28 February 2013, Antalya. Proceedings
Chian Pottery
January 2014
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Chapter
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Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt, (British Museum Online Research Catalogue, 2014)
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Coin circulation in late medieval Thrace according to the evidence from Edirne archaeological museum
Coins of the late medieval period from excavations at Ainos (Enez) in Thrace
December 2013
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle
Trinkets and Charms The Use, Meaning and Significance of Dress Accessories, Ad 1300-1700
September 2013
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Book
Gold signet rings, jet pendants or simple lace ends all dress accessories were highly significant and meaningful objects used in everyday life in later medieval Britain.
History
Landscape Landscript
May 2013
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Book
Xu Bing is an international artist known for participating in exhibitions in Africa, America, Australia and Europe.
Art
A Lacquered Imari Porcelain Garniture from Althorp
January 2013
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Journal article
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Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society
Coinage and the Roman Economy in the Antonine Period: the view from Egypt’
January 2013
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Internet publication
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Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art
January 2013
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Book
Images of Desire: On the Erotic and the Sensuous in Islamic Art
January 2013
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Chapter
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Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art
Post-Roman Europe
January 2013
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Chapter
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World archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization
Archaeology. Y, Archeology N, Archeology, Pitt Rivers Museum Archaeological collections. Y, Pitt Rivers Museum. Y, University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum N
The monetization of Temperate Europe
January 2013
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles of Meiji Japan
November 2012
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Book
This book is a pioneering study of Japanese ornamental textiles made for the foreign market during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These exquisite embroideries, resist-dyed silks and velvets, tapestries and appliquéd works were an important feature of the Western fascination with all things Japanese at that time, winning numerous accolades at international fairs and being used to decorate homes across Europe and the United States, yet since then they have been largely forgotten. This book celebrates these remarkable and undervalued textiles, discussing their production techniques, iconography, patronage and trade, and demonstrating how Kyoto craftsmen created a modern art form by adapting their traditional skills to Western tastes. Written for both specialist and general audiences.
X-ray fluorescence applied to overglaze enamel decoration on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century porcelain from central Europe
August 2012
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Journal article
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Studies in Conservation
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
CHARACTERIZATION OF 18TH‐CENTURY MEISSEN PORCELAIN USING SEM–EDS*
June 2012
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Journal article
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Archaeometry
4301 Archaeology, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, Generic health relevance
Picturing Evil: Images of Divs and the Reception of the Shahnama
May 2012
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Chapter
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Shahnama Studies II
This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi 's Shahnama or Book of Kings, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands.
On the Monstrous in the Islamic Visual Tradition
April 2012
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Chapter
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies.
Body, Mind & Spirit
In situ analysis of ancient glass: 17 th century painted glass from Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and Roman glass vessels
April 2012
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Journal article
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Glass Technology: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part A
Handheld x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (HH-XRF) was successfully used to distinguish panes of 17 th century, high lime, low alkali (HLLA) glass from later restoration pieces within an in situ window in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. In addition the non-destructive analysis was able to differentiate between the work of two 17 th century artists within the same window. The varying compositions of glass present in the window represent the turbulent history of the cathedral glass, and the changing attitudes towards painted glass windows. Following the success of this work, a second study was undertaken to attempt to calibrate the HH-XRF for the analysis of Roman glass from museum and private collections. The results of the second study were disappointing; while the HH-XRF results of the standards compared well with the chemistry, the results of Roman glasses did not. This paper compares the two studies and addresses some of the reasons why the analyses of 17 th century HLLA glass was so successful, yet the analyses of Roman glass was unsuccessful. There is much potential for the use of HH-XRF within the correct research framework, but more work needs to be completed before this non-destructive technique can reliably replace destructive analyses.
Fu Baoshi in Chongqing: Some Paintings in European Collections
January 2012
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Chapter
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Annales du muse national des arts asiatiques Guimet et u muse Cernuschi, Cahiers de l’Ecole francaise s’Extreme-Orient
Northern Song Lacquer
January 2012
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Chapter
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中国漆器研讨会论文集 (Proceedings of Conference on Ancient Chinese Lacquer)
Looking at colour on post-antique sculpture
December 2011
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Journal article
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Journal of Art Historiography
<p style="text-align:justify;"> Review of: Circumlitio. The Polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture. Proceedings of the Johann David Passavant Colloquium, 10-12 December 2008. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Max Hollein, eds. Liebighaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 2010 </p>
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An extraordinary collection in the keeper's office
December 2011
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Journal article
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Print Quarterly
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Excavations at HK29A. Report on the 2008 season of the Hierakonpolis expedition
December 2011
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Journal article
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Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte
Egypt, Egyptology, Predynastic, Hierakonpolis
Statue of King Khasekhem
December 2011
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Chapter
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Before the pyramids: the origins of Egyptian civilization
Egypt, Egyptology, Predynastic, Hierakonpolis
Unveiling ancient Egypt and Sudan
December 2011
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Journal article
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Ashmolean Magazine
Galleries for Ancient Egypt and Sudan
November 2011
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Exhibition
Egypt, Sudan, Egyptology, Ashmolean Museum
Pentecost: The Master of the Regensburg Hosteinsfrevel
October 2011
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Chapter
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Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials Methods Meanings
Diplomacy and Gift-Giving at the Court of Fath ‘Ali Shah
July 2011
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Chapter
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Gifts of the Sultan
The Japanese Collections at the Ashmolean Museum
June 2011
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Journal article
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Arts of Asia
The New Galleries of Chinese Art
June 2011
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Journal article
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Arts of Asia
Defying the Predictable: Donatello and the Discomfiture of Vasari
January 2011
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Chapter
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Una Insalata Di Più Erbe A Festschrift for Patricia Lee Rubin
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Roman coins: classical tradition
January 2011
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Chapter
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Mougins Museum of Classical Art
Una Insalata Di Più Erbe: A Festschrift for Patricia Lee Rubin
January 2011
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Book
Art, Italian
13 papers from the colloquium, The Book of the Dead – Recent research and new perspectives, held at the British Museum on 21st to 22nd July 2009
December 2010
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Other
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan
Egypt, Egyptology, Book of the Dead
A medieval treasure of Corinth in the National Library
December 2010
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Journal article
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Travaux et Memoires
Light of the Sufis
June 2010
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Book
Light of the Sufis introduces the complex and multilayered topic of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, by concentrating on its expression in the visual arts and offers new insights into the integrative and fluid nature of the Sufi experience ...
Religion
Introduction
March 2010
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Other
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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY
A Folio from a Timurid Historical Manuscript in the Princeton Art Museum
January 2010
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Journal article
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Record of the Princeton Art Museum
The Tel ‘Akko hoard of Venetian torneselli
January 2010
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Journal article
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Israel Numismatic Research
A hoard of 28 Venetian torneselli covering the period 1365-1400, found near the city of ‘Akko, provides an opportunity to review the monetary relations between Latin Greece and the later medieval Levant.
The Wizard of Ōta: Miyagawa Kōzan through Western eyes
January 2010
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Chapter
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「 世界に愛されたやきもの真葛焼―初代宮川香山作品集」[Makuzu Ware: Universally popular ceramics. Collected works of Miyagawa Kozan I]
Un trésor médiéval de Corinthe à la Bibliothèque nationale
January 2010
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Journal article
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Mélanges C. Morrisson
Art and nature: Studies in medieval art and architecture
December 2009
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Book
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11 papers submitted for publication in the Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, held at the British Museum on 27th July to 1st August 2008
December 2009
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Other
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan
Egypt, Egyptology, Predynastic, Early Dynastic
Money Gallery and numismatic displays in 25 other galleries
November 2009
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Exhibition
Artefacts, archaeology and daily life
January 2009
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Chapter
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Caldecote: the development and desertion of a Hertfordshire village
Artefacts, Archaeology and Daily Life
January 2009
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Chapter
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Caldecote The Development and Desertion of a Hertfordshire Village
Further considerations on the numismatics of Catalan Greece in the light of the Athens Roman Agora (Lytsika) 1891 hoards
January 2009
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Journal article
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Κερμάτια φιλίας. Τιμητικός τόμος για τον Ιωάννη Τουράτσογλου
The subject of this article is two coin hiars from the Roman Agora in Athens, wich were excavated in the late
ninteenth century. The voncealments of both hoards date to the first half of the fourteenth century and allow
the authors to focus on particular aspects of Catalan rule and presence in the city. The South Italian carlino
coinage and its succesors (the gigliato / pierreale) describe the position of Athens within theAragonese economic
and political zystem, which was centred on Iberia and Sicily. The Venetian soldino coinage is testimony to the
Catalan Duchy.
Goa: The Rome of the Orient
January 2009
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Chapter
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Baroque, 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence
Netherlandish and German Polychrome Sculpture
January 2009
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Chapter
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Gothic Art in the Gilded Age Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection
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Owning Ceramics in the Northern Song Dynasty: Thoughts on Who and How
January 2009
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Journal article
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Transactions of the oriental Ceramic Society
Some numismatic approaches to quantifying the Roman Economy
January 2009
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Chapter
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Quantifying the Roman Economy
The Gresham Ship, Thames Estuary: Conservation of an Elizabethan Shipwreck Assemblage
January 2009
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Other
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English Heritage Research Department Reports
<p style="text-align:justify;">This report covers the investigation, conservation and analysis of concretions, tin-alloys, ceramics, glass and small wood finds from a 16th century armed Tudor merchantman, the Gresham Ship, Thames Estuary.</p>
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Η αρχαία ιστορία μέσα από τα νομίσματα
January 2009
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Book
Egypt’s Origins in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
December 2008
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Other
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Nekhen News
Egypt, Egyptology, Hierakonpolis, Ashmolean Museum
Return to the Temple Part II
December 2008
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Other
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Nekhen News
Egypt, Egyptology, Predynastic, Hierakonpolis
The revetted mound at Hierakonpolis and early kingship: a re-interpretation
December 2008
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Conference paper
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Egypt at its Origins 2. Proceedings of the International Conference "Origin of the State: Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Toulouse, 5th–8th September 2005
Egypt, Egyptology, Predynastic, Early Dynastic, Hierakonpolis, Main Deposit
Ladies Hunting: A Late Medieval Decorated Mirror Case from Shapwick, Somerset
September 2008
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Journal article
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The Antiquaries Journal
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Abstracts of papers presented at the Third International Colloquium on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, The British Museum, London, Sunday 27th July–Friday 1st August 2008
July 2008
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Book
Egypt, Egyptology, Predynastic, Early Dynastic, Prehistory
Chinese silk: A cultural history
February 2008
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Journal article
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Art History
Ceramic Consumption in Northern Sung China: the case of the educated urbanites
January 2008
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Chapter
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开创典籍：北宋的艺术与文化研究讨会论文集 Conference on Founding Paradigms: Papers on the Art and Culture of the Northern Sung Dynasty
Medieval Clarentza. The coins 1999-2004, with additional medieval coin finds from the nomos of Elis
January 2008
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle
ARCHAEOLOGICAL activities at the medieval city of Clarentza in Elis (western
Peloponnese) during the years 1999 to 2004 have produced a good quantity of coins.
Their analysis provides an opportunity to discuss some of their fi nd contexts.1 We
have also decided to present the medieval coin fi nds from the remainder of the modern
nomos of Elis, which are in the process of being systematically gathered at the new
storage facilities in the castle of Chloumoutzi, where some of this material will in
due course be permanently exhibited.2 These coins comprise four new hoards, which
can be compared to four other hoards which are already known from the existing
numismatic literature. The three categories of fi nds: coins from the site of Clarentza,
other stray and excavation materials from the nomos, and hoards, are presented in
three appendices at the end of this article. Maps of Clarentza and Elis respectively
identify the locations discussed (Maps 1 and 2). The analysis of coin finds in Section
1 will be followed by a discussion of the archaeological and topographical parameters
in which these finds were made (Section 2).
Two thirteenth-century hoards and some site finds from Argos
December 2007
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle
(Re-)Making Beauneveu: The Scholarly Construction of a ‘Great Artist’
September 2007
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Chapter
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"No Equal in Any Land" André Beauneveu : Artist to the Courts of France and Flanders
This chapter examines the historiography of André Beauneveu and his co-option into the national art histories of nineteenth and twentieth century Belgium, England and France.
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Digest of Documents
September 2007
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Chapter
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No Equal in Any Land: André Beauneveu, Artist to the Courts of France and Flanders
Any attempt to reconstruct the life of André Beauneveu is reliant on a series of documents largely discovered in the course of nineteenth-century archival research and published in many different contexts over the past hundred and fifty years. This material is collected here in date order so as to make possible a full overview of Beauneveu’s career.
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The twin stelae of Suty and Hor
September 2007
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Chapter
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The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt: Essays in Honor of David B. O'Connor
Egypt, Egyptology
Resurrecting Horus and Pepi
December 2006
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Other
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Nekhen News
Egypt, Egyptology, Hierakonpolis
Review of D. Wengrow, The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, 10,000–2650 BC (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006)
December 2006
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Journal article
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Antiquity
Egypt, Egyptology, Predynastic, Early Dynastic, Prehistory
When is a tomb not a tomb?
December 2006
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Other
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Nekhen News
Egypt, Egyptology, Predynastic, Hierakonpolis
Whose Perspective? Andrea del Castagno, Paolo Uccello and the Patron's Point of View
December 2006
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Journal article
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Immediations
The manner in which mathematical perspective was deployed in Florentine painting during the second quarter of the quattrocento both clarifies and confuses our idea of how this innovation was viewed. Presented with a system in which the creation of convincing space was an attainable object, painters nevertheless continued to produce work in which perspective was not slavishly constructed but subtly skewed, manipulated and adjusted. Paolo Uccello's panels of The Battle of San Romano and Andrea del Castagno's Last Supper and Passion frescoes at Sant' Apollonia exemplify this, sharing the quirk of serially exploiting and abandoning perspective and consequently of assembling worlds marked by deliberate spatial ambiguity. This article examines how these artists, celebrated for their skill as perspectivists, subordinated mathematical precision to other compositional and didactic ends, and discusses their patronally-driven reasons for doing so.
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A coinage for late Byzantine Morea under Manuel II Palaiologos (1391-1425)
January 2006
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Journal article
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Revue numismatique
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Portuguese Goa – Taking Ownership with Architecture
January 2006
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Chapter
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Vanamala
The Potential for Image Analysis in Numismatics
May 2005
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Chapter
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Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World
<p>The systematic study of coinage at the level of individually engraved die revolutionized numismatics; however the laborious nature of such work has severely limited its application. Die studies are important for attribution and chronology as well as for quantification. Exhaustive study on coinage reveals great evidences particularly in economic history. This chapter discusses the potential posed by image analysis and photography on the field of numismatics. It discusses the principal technique challenges, with a view to stimulating discussion as to the best way forward.</p>
The Chronological Development of Roman Provincial Coin Iconography
May 2005
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Chapter
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Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces
4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4301 Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies
Review article of David Roxburgh, The Persian Album, 1400-1600: From Dispersal to Collection
January 2005
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Journal article
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Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli
Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces
January 2005
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Book
Coins have been described as ‘the most deliberate of all symbols of public identity’, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing an authoritative and richly-illustrated volume, which ranges over the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300. The subject is approached through surveys of the broad geographical and chronological structure of the evidence, through chapters which focus on ways of expressing identity, and through regional studies which place the numismatic evidence in local context.
Roman provincial coinage is a remarkably rich resource - comprising up to a hundred thousand coin types, from well in excess of five hundred cities - much of which is only now becoming readily available through the publication of the Roman Provincial Coinage series. The relatively even survival of the material from all places and periods in which it was produced contrasts markedly with the patchy nature of the literary, epigraphic, sculptural and other archaeological evidence, and offers a unique opportunity for comparative work.
Identity has been a major focus of research in recent decades, and the advent of the Euro has inevitably drawn attention to money in this context. There is thus considerable interest in the opportunity to explore through coinage the assertion of local, regional, and imperial identities in a multicultural and multilingual world with overarching political and military structures.
Roman provincial coinage
Istoria antica prin monede
January 2005
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Book
Roman Provincial Coinage IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192); Part 4: Egypt
Vijayanagara Art: A Political and Historical Metaphor
January 2003
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Journal article
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Sagar Volume 10, University of Texas at Austin
La storia antica attraverso le monete
January 2002
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Book
Antiques & Collectibles
The denarii of Septimius Severus and the mobility of Roman coin: a reply
January 2002
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle
Geld in der antiken Welt was Münzen über Geschichte verraten
January 2000
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Book
Archaeology in Greece 1997-98
November 1998
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Journal article
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Archaeological Reports
Interview with Morgan Professor, Elizabeth Stone
January 1998
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Journal article
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Parnassus Volume 4, University of Louisville
Sikkelerin Isiginda Eskicag Tarihi
January 1998
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Book
The Coins
January 1998
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Chapter
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Romano-British Roadside Settlement at Wilcote, Oxfordshire II, Excavations 1993-96
Ancient History from Coins
January 1995
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Book
Coins are a rich source of information for the ancient historian; yet too often historians are uneasy about using them as evidence because of the special problems attached to their interpretation. Ancient History from Coins demystifies this specialized subject and introduces students to the techniques, methods, problems and advantages of using coins in the study of ancient history.
The book shows through numerous examples how the character, patterns and behaviour of coinage bear on major historical themes. Covering the period from the invention of coinage (c. 600 BC) until the reign of Diocletian, this study examines topics ranging from state finance and economic history to imperial domination and political propaganda.
Ancient History Coins
The circulation of silver coins, models of the Roman economy, and crisis in the third century A.D.: some numismatic evidence
January 1995
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Chapter
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Coin Finds and Coin Use in the Roman World
Coin circulation and the integration of the Roman economy
January 1994
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Archaeology
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Coins
January 1993
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Chapter
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The Romano-British Settlement at Wilcote, Oxfordshire I. Excavations 1990-2
The Supply and Use of Money in the Roman World 200 B.C. to A.D. 300*
November 1992
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Journal article
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The Journal of Roman Studies
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Membury, Wiltshire
January 1992
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Chapter
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Coin Hoards from Roman Britain
Why did ancient states strike coins?
January 1990
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle
Numismatics
After the colt has bolted: a review of Amandry on Roman Corinth
January 1989
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle
Roman Empire: Greek and provincial issues
January 1986
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Chapter
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A Survey of Numismatic Research 1978-84
Greek Imperial Countermarks. Studies in the Provincial Coinage of the Roman Empire
January 1985
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Book
Countermarks are stamps applied to coins after they were struck, and which provide valuable evidence about the behaviour of coinage. The book, which is the first catalogue of countermarks on Roman provincial coins, covers the eastern half of the Roman Empire over the three centuries following 30 BC. It describes over 850 different groups of countermarks on a number of coins approaching 10,000. The catalogue is accompanied by a brief commentary. Five chapters elucidate and employ this material. Chapter I discusses the countermarks from the numismatic point of view (who applied them, when, and why?). The next three chapters are concerned with the value of countermarks as historical evidence. Chapter 2 examines the countermarks applied by the army and the part which Roman provincial coinage played in military finance. Chapter 3 uses the patterns of coin circulation derived from countermarks as evidence for the movement of people. Chapter 4 presents information about the metrology of the coins and examines the relevance of the decline in weight standards to our understanding of the economic climate. Finally, Chapter 5 describes the function of the coinage and sets it in its social, economic and political context.
Numismatics, Greek
Greek legends and Roman types: a Neronian enigma
January 1985
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Journal article
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Schweizer Münzblatter
The relationship of the issar to the denar in rabbinic literature
January 1984
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Journal article
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Israel Numismatic Journal
The XII Fulminata: countermarks, emblems and movements under Trajan and Hadrian
January 1983
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Chapter
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Armies and Frontiers in Roman and Byzantine Anatolia
The behaviour and function of Greek Imperial Countermarks
March 1982
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Chapter
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Proceedings of the International Numismatic Convention on Greek Imperials
Coinage and military finance: the imperial bronze coinage of the Augustan east
January 1982
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle
Ionian magistrates: Caracalla or Elagabalus?
January 1981
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle
A LATE THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ‘HOARD’ OF ASPRA OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AT TREBIZOND IN BRUSSELS AND OXFORD (‘PONTUS 1960S’) BRÜKSEL VE OXFORD’DA YER ALAN BİR ON ÜÇÜNCÜ YÜZYIL SONUNA AİT BİZANS İMPARATORLUĞ...
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Kairos
Anaia: The Latin and Non-imperial Byzantine-style Coins
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Kuşadası, Kadıkalesi/Anaia sikke ve muhurleri / Coins and seals from the excavations of Kuşadası, Kadıkalesi/Anaia
Presents and discusses 17 coins found during excavations of Ege University at the coastal site and Anaia near Ephesos
Archaeologies of coinage
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Materialising the Roman Empire
SBTMR
Bengal and Modernity: Early 20th century art in India
Exhibition
England 400 - 1600 gallery
Exhibition
Medieval archaeology, Anglo-Saxon, Early Modern
Hindu or Christian Icon: A Case Study’
Conference paper
Historical and Political Metaphor in the art of Vijayanagara
Conference paper
Historical and Political Metaphor in the art of Vijayanagara
Conference paper
M F Husain: Early Works 1950s-1970s
Exhibition
Rembrandt?: Cooperative technical examinations of Rembrandt’s Tronies
Conference paper
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Art Matters
Sharing and Reshaping Collective Memories in Portuguese Goa
This book looks at Song ceramics - one of the high points in China's cultural production - in terms of their role in Song society at a time of widespread economic change and technological innovation. Following an introduction surveying the exceptional quality and range of wares, separate chapters deal with production (technology, industrial scale and environmental issues); circulation (Japan to Africa, and within China, along with the people engaged in it); consumption by the general populace; consumption among writers and officials; use in temples and palaces; collecting since AD1100. Older and more recent books on Song ceramics deal only with kiln production, types and later collecting. This book will be the first to consider ceramics as part of the wider context of the Song dynasty and alongside recent advances in scholarship on Song economics, urban life and social change.
Ceramics, Song Dynasty, China
Space, Politics and Power: Religious Architecture in Portuguese Goa
Conference paper
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Volume V. Ashmolean Museum Oxford. Part X: Ionia
Book
A catalogue of the 2150 ancient pre-imperial Greek coins from Ionia in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Text and plates are interleaved, so that the description of each coin, which includes physical details, comparanda, provenance information and accession number, is opposite its photographs. Multiple indices complete the volume.
The Ashmolean Story
Exhibition
Elias Ashmole, Tradescants, history of collecting, Ashmolean's founding collection, archaeology, natural history
The Portuguese Legacy in Goa
Conference paper
Tradition Trauma Transformation: Representations of Women
Exhibition
Trans-cultural Temples: Identity and Practice in Goa
