Rendering the Political Aesthetic: Political Legitimacy in Urartian Representations of the Built Environment

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-163

  Smith, Adam T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1006/jaar.1999.0348     Document Type: Article

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