Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art

A revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context

This innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objects—a Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among them—in the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Essays by 13 authors written with t...