Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-610) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Historical Perspective: -- Introduction: the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East -- The Prehistoric Foundations of Eastern Civilization. Neolithic Village: the Experiment of Agricultural and Pastoral Life. Experiment of Civilization -- Birth of Historical Civilizations. Sumarian Model. Urban Revolution in Sumer and Elam -- Early Dynastic Period and the Beginnings of History. Beginnings of Writing and the Beginnings of Nations. Empire of Agade. Neo-sumerian Period -- Second Millennium: the Center Shifts. Amorites and Mitannians. Birth of Babylon. Amorite Syria. Colonization of Antolia. Mitannian World. Kassites in Babylon. Assyrian Awakening. Elam. First Iranians -- First Millennium: Toward the Universal Empire. Dark Centuries: the Arrival of the Aramaeans. Assyrian Art of the Ninth Century. East in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries: the Peak of Assyrian Power. Countries of the Levant. Phrygia and Urartu. Civilizations of Western Iran. Medes. Elamites and Persians. Apogee of Assyrian Art. Last Empire of Babylonia
Pt. 2. Image as Document: -- Documentary Photographs. Sculpture and Decorative Arts. Seals and Seal Imprints -- Identification of the Photographs -- Pt. 3. Principal Sites of Ancient Near Eastern Art -- Pt. 4. Reconstructions -- Pt. 5. Lexicon: Images of Gods and Goddesses. List of Gods and Goddesses. Kings and Sovereigns. Historical Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
