| Description |
1 online resource (297 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
Getty Publications virtual library.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Amber and the ancient world -- Jewelry: never just jewelry -- Amber magic? -- What is amber? -- Where is amber found? -- The properties of amber -- Ancient names for amber -- Color and other optical characteristics: ancient perception and reception -- Ancient literary sources on the origins of amber -- Amber and forgery -- The ancient transport of amber -- Literary sources on the use of amber -- Amber medicine, amber amulets -- The bronze age -- Early iron age and the orientalizing period -- The archaic and afterward -- The working of amber: ancient evidence and modern analysis -- The production of ancient figured amber objects -- Catalogue -- Technical essay: analysis of selected ambers from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum / Jeff Maish, Herant Khanjian, and Michael Schilling |
| Summary |
"This catalogue provides a general introduction to amber in the ancient world followed by detailed catalogue entries for fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the J. Paul Getty Museum. The volume concludes with technical notes about scientific investigations of these objects and Baltic amber"--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
History of the arts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
J. Paul Getty Museum -- Catalogs
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J. Paul Getty Museum. |
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Amber art objects -- Catalogs
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Art objects, Ancient -- Catalogs
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Art objects, Etruscan -- Catalogs
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Art objects -- California -- Los Angeles -- Catalogs
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ART / General
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Amber art objects.
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Art objects.
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Art objects, Ancient.
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Art objects, Etruscan.
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California -- Los Angeles.
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| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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Collection catalogs.
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Collection catalogs.
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Catalogues de collection.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Causey, Faya, author.
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Maish, Jeffrey, contributor.
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Khanjian, Herant, contributor.
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Schilling, Michael (Michael Roy), contributor.
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| LC no. |
2019981057 |
| ISBN |
9781606066355 |
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1606066358 |
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9781606060513 |
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1606060511 |
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