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Morgantina, Sicily
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Morgantina, Sicily
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the worked bone and ivory objects 459 B.C. to the first century A.D.
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Jacob
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Cynthia M.
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Cynthia Jacob
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St. Clair Harvey
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Archer St. Clair Harvey
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Kenfield
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John
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John Kenfield
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Woodhouse-Beyer
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Katherine
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Katherine Woodhouse-Beyer
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Bell, III
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Malcolm
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Malcolm Bell, III
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2012
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2012-05
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2012
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The purpose of this dissertation is to prepare a publishable catalog of more than six hundred unpublished worked bone and ivory artifacts unearthed in successive archeological excavations of the second city of Morgantina, Sicily, beginning in 1955 and continuing until the present time. To accomplish this, it was necessary to examine all these bone and ivory objects, to assess them in terms of relationship to the larger Greek koine of the Mediterranean basin, to categorize and describe them in detail, and to photograph them. Morgantina, an inland Greek colony dating from the second quarter of the sixth century B.C., flowered after destruction by fire in 459 B.C. at the hands of an indigenous leader, Ducetius, and continued to flourish during the Hellenistic era. The city was captured in 211 B.C., during the Roman invasion and conquest of Syracuse. The city survived in diminished form from 211 B.C. to the mid-first century A.D. Most of the bone and ivory objects cannot be dated more closely than the period 459 B.C., the date of the destruction by fire, to the first century A.D., when the city disappeared. The Morgantina artifacts which are the subject to of this dissertation consist largely of items for daily use, such as utensils for personal grooming and jewelry for personal adornment, implements for writing, tools for a variety of purposes, handles, hinges and other structural and decorative components for furniture, game pieces, and miscellaneous pieces of uncertain application. From study of these objects, one can conclude that all conform substantially to similar worked bone and ivory objects found throughout the wide geographical area constituting the Greek world prior to the first century A.D. The Morgantina objects evidence strong connections to that Greek world, even with locales which could be considered far-flung geographically and temporally. They do not, however, demonstrate the cultural flowering which other categories of artifacts from the city reflect.
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Art History
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xi, 249 p. ill., maps
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Ph.D.
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by Cynthia M. Jacob
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Morgantina (Extinct city)
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Extinct cities--Italy--Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Morgantina (Extinct city)
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Ivories--Italy--Morgantina (Extinct city)
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Bone carving--Italy--Morgantina (Extinct city)
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Art objects--Italy--Morgantina (Extinct city)
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doi:10.7282/T3PZ57S2
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ETD doctoral
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Jacob
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Cynthia
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2012-04-05 14:59:41
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2013-02-28
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after February 28, 2013.
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