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Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE.(Book review)

MARIAN H. FELDMAN

Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 278 pp.; 18 color ills., 77 b/w. $60.00

Marian Feldman's copiously illustrated, exquisitely produced monograph Diplomacy by Design investigates a small, carefully selected corpus of prestige artifacts from the eastern Mediterranean world, all dated to the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1400-1200 BCE). Feldman situates these objects, which feature complex pictorial representations and a common vocabulary of hybrid imagery, in the realm of diplomatic reciprocity and gift exchange among the "Great Kings" of the ...

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