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Article: The Iconography of Cylinder seals.(Book review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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The Iconography of Cylinder Seals. Edited by PAUL TAYLOR. Warburg Institute Colloquia, vol. 9. London: WARBURG INSTITUTE; Turin: Nino Aragno Editore, 2006. Pp. xiv + 245, plates. [pounds sterling]40 (paper).
This handsomely produced volume presents a dozen communications delivered at a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in London on October 18-19, 2002, in memory of its former Director Henri Frankfort (1948-1953). The Institute, which grew out of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek of Aby Warburg, is renowned as a center for research into the development and continuities of the iconographical tradition of Western art and thought. Thus a program on the ...