Miscellaneous
INVERNIZZI A., 1992, Dal Tigri all'Eufrate.
Vol. I Sumeri e accadi . Vol. II Babilonesi e assiri, (Fondo studi Parini-Chirio, Studi e materiali
di archeologia, 5-6), Firenze, Le Lettere, p. 422 e 384.
The Author illustrates
in two volumes the birth and development of the Mesopotamian civilization
from prehistory, that is the period of gatherers and hunters, down to
the Neo-Babylonian period, dealing with the most important documents
of art architecture and handicraft brought to light by the excavations.
INVERNIZZI A., 1998, Ai piedi dell'Ararat.
Artaxata e l'Armenia ellenistico-romana (Fondo Parini Chirio), Firenze, Le Lettere, p. XXIX-166.
The historic and
cultural centrality of Armenia between the Mediterranean and Asia in
the Hellenistic and Roman periods is clearly stressed by the contributions
to this volume, which deal with a number of the most characteristic
aspects of the culture of Armenia and bring into the foreground the
results of the excavations at Artaxata, one of the main Armenian capitals
of the period.
INVERNIZZI A., 1999, Sculture di metallo
da Nisa. Cultura greca e cultura iranica in Partia (Acta Iranica: encyclopédie permanente
des Etudes Iraniennes, Textes et mémoires, 21), Teheran-Liege,
ed. Peeters.
The volume contains the detailed study of the small metal
sculptures found in the Square House at Old Nisa in Parthia (now in Turkmenistan)
by the Soviet Expedition in the years after World War II. These objects
point to an exceptionally wide range of iconographic and stylistic influences,
from the Hellenistic culture to that of the Iranian countries and the
world of the Eurasiatic steppes. They also offer precious evidence to
the religious sentiments and the royal concepts of the Arsacids.
GULLINI G., 1964, Architettura Iranica dagli
Achemenidi ai Sasanidi. Il “Palazzo” di Kuh-i Kwagia (Seistan),
Torino, Giulio Einaudi Editore, pp. 497, figure colori e b/n nel testo.
The
volume illustrates the research carried out in the architectural compound
of Kuh-i Khwaja, in Iranian Sistan, which attest to the diffusion of
the common Achaemenian culture also in the following periods. In particular,
the application of the principles of the vaults without building supports
in coherence with the universal use of the mud brick; and the precedence
of the eastern regions of Iran in the invention of a central layout that
the Sasanian architecture will bring to meet with the properly Roman
architectural tradition. The analysis is supported by the discussion
of several other monuments showing very original solutions connected
with the influence of a Hellenistic architectural language.
INVERNIZZI A. (a c. di), 2005, AMBROGIO BEMBO, Viaggio
e Giornale per parte dell’Asia (1671-1675), Cesmeo, Torino.
The young Venetian noble Ambrogio Bembo, who travelled in Syria, Mesopotamia, Iran and India, wrote a travel report the manuscript of which is preserved in the James Ford Bell Library of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Bembo’s report is important for his impressions and descriptions of European colonial life in those regions, and particularly for his most careful description of the Bisutun and Taq-i Bustran antiquities. The volume contains the text, edited with rich notes and comments, and 80 plates with the views by Joseph Guillaume Grelot, especially important for the archaeological subjects.
R. PARAPETTI (ed.), Iraq Museum 2008, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Fondazione Banca Nazionale delle Comunicazioni, Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino.
This brochure was published when renovation works at the Iraq Museum, planned by arch. Roberto Parapetti for the Centro Scavi di Torino and concerning the Assyrian gallery, the Islamic gallery and the main courtyard, were carried out. It includes the texts of the educational panels that will be exhibited in the main courtyard