TY  - BOOK
AU  - Causey,Faya
AU  - Schilling,Michael
AU  - Khanjian,Herant
AU  - Maish,Jeffrey
ED  - J. Paul Getty Museum,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum
SN  - 9781606066355
AV  - NK6000 .J3 2019
U1  - 709.0109794/94 23
KW  - J. Paul Getty Museum
KW  - Catalogs
KW  - Art objects
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Art objects, Etruscan
KW  - Art objects, Ancient
KW  - Amber art objects
KW  - Collection catalogs
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction -- Amber and the ancient world -- Jewelry: never just jewelry -- Amber magic? -- What is amber? -- Where is amber found? -- The properties of amber -- Ancient names for amber -- Color and other optical characteristics: ancient perception and reception -- Ancient literary sources on the origins of amber -- Amber and forgery -- The ancient transport of amber -- Literary sources on the use of amber -- Amber medicine, amber amulets -- The bronze age -- Early iron age and the orientalizing period -- The archaic and afterward -- The working of amber: ancient evidence and modern analysis -- The production of ancient figured amber objects -- Catalogue -- Technical essay: analysis of selected ambers from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum / Jeff Maish, Herant Khanjian, and Michael Schilling; Open Access
N2  - "This catalogue provides a general introduction to amber in the ancient world followed by detailed catalogue entries for fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the J. Paul Getty Museum. The volume concludes with technical notes about scientific investigations of these objects and Baltic amber"--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/74938/
ER  -