Description |
xxiv, 540 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm. |
Note |
Catalog of an exhibition being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 8 to Aug. 17, 2003. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-523) and index. |
Contents |
Uruk and the formation of the city / Hans J. Nissen -- Art of the early city-states / Donald P. Hansen -- Proto-Elamite period / Holly Pittman -- Fara / Joachim Marzahn -- Excavations in the Diyala region / Karen L. Wilson -- Stone sculpture production / Jean-Francois de Laperouse -- Nippur / Jean M. Evans -- Tello (ancient Girsu) / Beatrice Andre-Salvini -- Metalworking techniques / Jean-Francois de Laperouse -- Al Ubaid / Paul Collins. |
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Kish / Paul Collins -- Royal tombs of Ur / Julian Reade -- Tomb of Puabi / Paul Collins -- Great Death Pit at Ur / Julian Reade -- Mari and the Syro-Mesopotamian world / Jean-Claude Margueron -- Treasure of Ur from Mari / Nadja Cholidis -- Ebla and the early urbanization of Syria / Paolo Matthiae -- Tell Umm el-Marra / Glenn M. Schwartz -- Tell Banat / Anne Porter, Thomas McClellan -- Art of the Akkadian Dynasty / Donald P. Hansen -- Lost-wax casting / Jean-Francois de Laperouse. |
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Tell Mozan (ancient Urkesh) / Giorgio Buccellati, Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati -- Tell Brak in the Akkadian period / Jean M. Evans -- Art and interconnections in the third millennium B.C. / Joan Aruz -- Egypt and the Near East in the third millennium B.C. / James P. Allen -- Aegean and western Anatolia : social forms and cultural relationships / Claus Reinholdt -- Early Bronze Age jewelry hoard from Kolonna, Aigina / Claus Reinholdt -- Troy / Eleni Drakaki -- Poliochni and the civilization of the northeastern Aegean / Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki. |
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Central Anatolian plateau : the tombs of Alaca Hoyuk / Oscar White Muscarella -- North Caucasus / Elena Izbitser -- Maikop (Oshad) Kurgan / Yuri Piotrovsky -- Novosvobodnaya / Yuri Piotrovsky -- Susa : beyond the Zagros Mountains / Paul Collins -- Gulf : Dilmun and Magan / D.T. Potts -- Copper alloys and metal sources / Jean-Francois de Laperouse -- Tell Abraq / Paul Collins -- Island of Tarut / Paul Collins -- "Intercultural style" carved chlorite objects / Joan Aruz -- Pathways across Eurasia / Maurizio Tosi, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. |
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Altyn-depe / Yuri Piotrovsky -- Gonur-depe / Elisabetta Valtz Fino -- Indus civilization / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer -- Baluchistan / Paul Collins -- Cities of the Indus Valley / Paul Collins -- Beads of the Indus Valley / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer -- Approaching the divine : Mesopotamia art at the end of the third millennium B.C. / Jean M. Evans -- Rediscovery of Gudea statuary in the Hellenistic period / Beatrice Andre-Salvini -- Earliest scholastic tradition / Piotr Michalowski -- Uruk and the world of Gilgamesh / Beate Salje. |
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Mesopotamian legacy : origins of the Genesis tradition / Ira Spar. |
Subject |
Art, Ancient -- Exhibitions.
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Cities and towns, Ancient -- Exhibitions.
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Added Author |
Aruz, Joan.
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Wallenfels, Ronald.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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ISBN |
1588390438 (hc.) |
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1588390446 (pbk.) |
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0300098839 (Yale) |
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