Opium Art and Truffle Texts in the Aegean and Ancient Near East

From the third millennium BC on, the opium poppy was exploited by the civilizations of the Aegean and Near East. While the terms for it in the ancient languages of the region are still unknown, the distinctive features of the harvest-ready seed pod would seem to find reflection in numerous works of...

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Published in:Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization
Main Author: Karen Polinger Foster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2023-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.journals.akademicka.pl/saac/article/view/5738