Bringing Carthage home the excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859
Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis; the work was funded by the Foreign Office of the Britis...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, U.K. :
Oxbow Books, for the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
University of British Columbia studies in the ancient world ; v. 2. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47052077*spi |
| Sumario: | Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis; the work was funded by the Foreign Office of the British Government. This book recounts for the first time the extraordinary story behind this pioneering enterprise and the political and cultural rivalry between representatives of the colonial powers as they asserted their rights to explore the buried remains of one of the ancient world's greatest citie. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (264 páginas : ilustraciones |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781842176740 9781842176726 |
