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Markoe's book provides a useful compilation of the bronze and silver bowls, commonly called Phoenician, which have been discovered at many sites since 1849, when a hoard containing comparable bowls (discussed at length in this book) was unearthed at Nimrud. The corpus includes bowls from Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Rhodes, Sicily, Italy, Anatolia, Iran, and Israel, as well as unprovenanced examples. The book is subdivided into 11 chapters (roughly five-eighths of the text) and a lengthy catalogue (three-eighths). Almost every bowl is illustrated with a photograph or line drawing, or both. Three chapters focus on Cyprus (The Phoenicians and Cyprus, Narrative and Adaptation in Cypro-Phoenician Art, and Cypro-Phoenician Glyptic). The other chapters are concerned with topics relevant to all the bowls (Introduction, Technique, Format, Iconography, Inscriptions, Archaeology, Phoenician Influence Abroad, Chronology.) Arguing against a tendency on the part of his predecessors to dismiss Phoenician engraving as an "indiscriminate hodgepodge of symbols and motifs culled from different sources" (p. 1), Markoe instead successfully illustrates that what identifies these bowls as "Phoenician," in add

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Author

Jere M. Wickens; Robin Osborne

Published

1987

Language

PT

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)