Mesopotamia
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La Boccale in Oro Dalla Tomba Reale III a Nimrud: Un Caso di Studio (British Archaeological Reports International Series) [Paperback]
Alessandra Cellerino (Author)
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ISBN: 9781407315430
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2817
The extraordinary side-spouted gold jug hereby presented and discussed was found in the Royal Tomb III discovered under room 57 in the North-West Palace at Nimrud. The gold jug was, with other astonishing grave goods probably belonging to Hamâ (an... .... Learn More -
Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum (Volume 4): Cylinder Seals [Hardback]
Edith Porada (Author); Dominique Collon (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780714111308
Published by : British Museum Press
Volume: 4
Where the Egyptians have wall paintings, the ancient Near East has cylinder seals as the main source of illustrative material, covering a range of subject matter and periods not covered by relief sculptures. The seals are particularly attractive, ... .... Learn More -
The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire [Hardback]
John MacGinnis (Editor); Dick Wicke (Editor); Tina Greenfield (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781902937748
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
The Assyrian empire was in its day the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Building on the expansion of the Middle Assyrian state in the late second millennium BC, the opening centuries of the first millennium witnessed a resurgence which led... .... Learn More -
A City from the Dawn of History: Erbil in the Cuneiform Sources [Paperback]
John MacGinnis (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782977971
Published by : Oxbow Books
The city of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on the rich alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of the Zagros mountains in a strategic position which made it a natural gateway bet... .... Learn More -
Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History: Methodology and Practice [Hardback]
Heather D. Baker (Editor); Michael Jursa (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782977582
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers ... .... Learn More -
Failaka / Dilmun: Volume 4 -- The Stone Vessels [Hardback]
Anne Hilton (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9788788415803
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: Jutland Archaeological Society Publications
Excavations carried out by the Danish Moesgaard Museum on the island of Failaka in Kuwait in 1958-1963 produced a large collection of stone vessel fragments which have ever since puzzled scholars. The settlements excavated on Failaka, Tell F3 and ... .... Learn More -
Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) VII, 1 and 2 [Hardback]
Georgina Hermann (Author); Stuart Laidlaw (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9780903472296
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Volume: 7
The Lost Art of the Phoenicians Fifty years have passed since the British School of Archaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from the soil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally thousands were found, many of which have already been published inIvories f... .... Learn More -
Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends [Hardback]
Heather D. Baker (Editor); Eleanor Robson (Editor); Gabor Zolyomi (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780903472289
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase zà-mí-zu dug-ga-àm 'Your praise is sweet' is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature... .... Learn More -
Challenging Climate Change [Paperback]
Arne Wossink (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9789088900310
Published by : Sidestone Press
Throughout history, climate change has been an important driving force behind human behaviour. This archaeological study seeks to understand the complex interrelations between that behaviour and climatic fluctuations, focussing on how climate ... .... Learn More -
Nippur V: The Area WF Sounding: The Early Dynastic to Akkadian Transition [Hardback]
Augusta McMahon (Author); McGuire Gibson (Author); David Reese (Author); Pamela Vandiver (Author)
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ISBN: 9781885923387
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
The excavation of area WF in the eighteenth and nineteenth seasons at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) was aimed specifically at delineating the transition between the Early Dynastic and Akkadian periods, and this goal has been realised. Augusta McMahon ... .... Learn More
