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The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria (Archaeology, Culture, and Society)
The Graven Image Representation in Babylonia and Assyria - Archaeology, Culture, and Society
Author: Zainab Bahrani
Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation--both in writing and in visual images--was thought to participate in the world and to have an effect upon it in natural, magical, and s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812236484
ISBN-10: 0812236483
Publication Date: 6/23/2003
Pages: 256
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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