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Contents 6 Preface and Acknowledgements 8 Abbreviations 9 List of Illustrations and Photo Credits 10 Notes on the Contributors 12 Museum Archetypes and Collecting: An Overview of the Public, Private, and Virtual Collections of the Ancient World 16 Chapter 1 Towards the Museum: Perceiving the Art of “Others” in the Ancient Near East 34 Chapter 2 Greek Temple Treasures and the Invention of Collecting 39 Chapter 3 Collecting the Past, Creating the Future: Art Displays in the Hellenistic Mediterranean 48 Chapter 4 Hellenistic Court Collecting from Alexandros to the Attalids 60 Chapter 5 Poetic Depictions of Ancient Dactyliothecae 69 Chapter 6 The Culture of Collecting in Roma: Between Politics and Administration 87 Chapter 7 Archetypes of Collecting in the Roman World: Antiquarianism, Gift Exchange, Identity and Time-Space as Parameters of Value 93 Chapter 8 Verres, Cicero and Other Collectors in Late Republican Rome 106 Chapter 9 Collectables, Antiques and Sumptuary Trends in Ancient Roma: A Look around the Dining Halls of the Late Republic and Early Empire 117 Chapter 10 Private Art Galleries in Roma: Literary and Archaeological Evidence 124 Chapter 11 Temple Inventory and Fictive Pi
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