Bøger af Irene Bald Romano

"The Hellenistic inscription and Roman marble portrait head of Alexander the Great that are the subjects of this monograph were discovered by the Palestine Expedition of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, hereafter "Penn Museum") in 1925 as part of excavations that were conducted from 1921 to 1933 at Beth Shean in the British Mandate for Palestine with a permit from the Mandatory Department of Antiquities. The Beth Shean excavation was focused on the very important Bronze Age-Early Iron Age levels of the tell and the site's biblical connections, and not especially on its Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, or Islamic periods"--

"The Guide illuminates ancient societies by explaining and contextualizing the way objects were created and used, focusing on a few overarching themes. Brief essays touch on everyday life, language, commerce and trade, religion, and death and burial among the Etruscans and Romans, and the legacy of the classical world in Western culture.