Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of ArtThis volume catalogues more than six hundred bronze and iron objects in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each is illustrated and discussed in terms of its formal and stylistic aspects, cultural background, function, and chronology. Bibliographic citations present comparative material relevant to each object. - Book jacket. |
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Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum ... Oscar White Muscarella No preview available - 2012 |
Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum ... Oscar White Muscarella No preview available - 1989 |
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Achaemenian Akok Amiet Anatolia ancient archaeological Assyrian attributed Barnett base Bittel blade Boğazköy bracelets bull Calmeyer 1969a cast century B.C. cheekpieces chronology Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift curved daggers decorated depicted derive Dinkha disk Dyson eighth Elamite fibulae figure figurines finials fragment Ghirshman Godard Gordion Hamadan handle Hasanlu head height hilt horns horse horse bits ibex Iran Iranian iron known Kültepe length lion loop Luristan bronzes Marlik Metropolitan Museum millennium B.C. Moorey motif Muscarella Muscarella 1981b neck Negahban Nimrud Nippur objects openwork Özgüç parallels Pasargadae Period IV Purchase Phrygian piece plaque ples Porada Potratz PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS probably protome provenience rings Rogers Fund scholars second millennium seventh century shape Shulgi Sialk socket stray Stronach stylistic stylized suggest Surkh Dum Susa swords tang Tepe Tepe Hissar tion Tomb unexcavated Urartian Urartu vanden Berghe vessel Waele