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Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum
Searight, Ann; Reade, Julian; Finkel, Irving L.
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hardcover. This catalogue makes available more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels kept in the British Museum. Most of them were excavated at Nineveh and other major sites in northern Iraq and Syria, and are presented here for the first time. Num Pages: 192 pages, 67 illus, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 303 x 211 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1106.
This catalogue makes available more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels kept in the British Museum. Most of them were excavated at Nineveh and other major sites in northern Iraq and Syria, and are presented here for the first time. They range in date from prehistory down to the Persian and Hellenistic periods; the bulk belong in the eighth and seventh centuries, when the Near East under Assyrian rule grew increasingly cosmopolitan. The collection includes luxury items made for palaces and temples, often bearing royal inscriptions, besides many perfume-jars, mortars ... Read more
This catalogue makes available more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels kept in the British Museum. Most of them were excavated at Nineveh and other major sites in northern Iraq and Syria, and are presented here for the first time. They range in date from prehistory down to the Persian and Hellenistic periods; the bulk belong in the eighth and seventh centuries, when the Near East under Assyrian rule grew increasingly cosmopolitan. The collection includes luxury items made for palaces and temples, often bearing royal inscriptions, besides many perfume-jars, mortars ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842173121
SKU
V9781842173121
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About Searight, Ann; Reade, Julian; Finkel, Irving L.
by Ann Searight, Julian Reade and Irving Finkel
Reviews for Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum
...provides a welcome treatment of a poorly known corpus of material... The volume as a whole will certainly be an important point of future reference for many specialists.'
AJA Online Book Reviews AJA Online Book Reviews A. Searight, J. Reade and I. Finkel deserve our deepest gratitude for their excellent work: they have here presented and analysed the material ... Read more
AJA Online Book Reviews AJA Online Book Reviews A. Searight, J. Reade and I. Finkel deserve our deepest gratitude for their excellent work: they have here presented and analysed the material ... Read more