The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Hemingway, Sean - 2004-06-25

University of California Press, 2004-07-08. Hardcover. Good. 0.8700 10.0000 6.9300.

Book in Very Good condition, pages clean and tight, light shelfwear. Dust jacket in Very Good condition with light edgewear.

University of California Press, 2004. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x0x10. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a very good binding, no marks or notations. First Edition, First Printing.

USA: University of California Press, 2004-06-24. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x1x10.

University of California Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0520233085 . Book is fine. DJ flap not sitting flat. ; Anyone who visits the National Archaeological Museum in Athens will vividly recall its centrepiece, the Horse and Jockey bronzes that were recovered in pieces from the sea off Artemision in 1928 and 1936. Bronze sculptures were popular throughout the Hellenistic world, the most famous being the Colossus of Rhodes, but very few survive today and the majority of those that do come from shipwrecks. The Horse and Jockey is one of the best to survive and forms the focus of this well-illustrated and informative study. Combining `a technical, stylistic, and iconographic examination of the bronzes with a careful assessment of the archaeological, epigraphic, literary, and iconographic evidence for horse racing', the volume discusses the rescue of the bronzes off northern Euboia, their initial condition and restoration before describing and analysing each part… Read More

University of California Press, 2004. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

University of California Press, 2004-12-31. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!