Beyond iconography: Meaning-making in late bronze age eastern mediterranean visual and material culture

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 337-351

  Feldman, Marian H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CHO9781139028387.025     Document Type: Chapter

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