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Title Art of the first cities : the third millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus / edited by Joan Aruz with Ronald Wallenfels.

Imprint New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven Yale University Press, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Oversize Stacks  711.4093 Ar75 2003    ---  Available
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mesopotamian legacy : origins of the Genesis tradition / Ira Spar.
Subject Art, Ancient -- Exhibitions.
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Aruz, Joan.
Wallenfels, Ronald.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN 1588390438 (hc.)
1588390446 (pbk.)
0300098839 (Yale)

 
    
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