The Physicality of the Other: Masks from the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean

by Angelika Berlejung

This volume comprises the conference proceedings of the international and interdisciplinary conference held in Leipzig from November 9 to 11, 2015. Scholars from different research areas present masks from Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Greece, mainly from the third to the first millennium BCE. The masks are analyzed from archaeological, iconographical, anthropological, philological, and theological perspectives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161555139
• ISBN13: 9783161555138
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.8" x 9.5"