Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum : The Captive Spirit. Volumes I-II

by: Sherratt, S.

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Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum
The Captive Spirit
Susan Sherratt
Amongst the best and most representative collections of Bronze Age Cycladic art outside Greece
The first comprehensive, fully illustrated account of the contents of this internationally significant collection

Description
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, contains one of the best and most representative collections of Bronze Age Cycladic art outside Greece. Much of this was acquired by purchase or gift in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the interest of Sir Arthur Evans, the eminent archaeologist, at that time Keeper of the Museum. The first comprehensive, fully illustrated account of the contents of this internationally significant collection, it includes results from new scientific and technical examinations of these outstanding works of art of marble, metal, stone, clay, and shell. In addition to over 30 marble figurines it includes such unique items as metal models of the longboats which played an important part in the life of the islanders of the Greek Cyclades before the invention of the sail. Publication of this book has been made possible through the generosity of the Mortimer and Teresa Sackler Foundation.

Table of Contents
Introduction to the Ashmolean Cycladic Collection
The Prehistoric Cyclades: An Introduction
Catalogue
Associated groups
Stone axes, axe-pestles, and chisels
Copper and bronze weapons and tools
Silver objects
Lead objects
Marble and stone vessels and bowls
Marble figurines
Obsidian and other stone tools, implements, and beads
Shell objects
Terracotta loomweights and spindle whorls
Terracotta figurines
Sealstones
Pottery
Cycladica from Crete
Dubitanda
Objects whose whereabouts are unknown
Concordances
Museum Numbers; Provenance or Alleged Provenance; Donors/Vendors, Purchasers, and Previous Owners

Author Information
Susan Sherratt, Sackler Research Fellow, Worcester College and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 

Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum : The Captive Spirit. Volumes I-II

by: Sherratt, S.

• ISBN-13: 9780199513741 / 978-0-19-951374-1
• ISBN-03: 0199513740 / 0-19-951374-0
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001

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