Bronze and iron : ancient Near Eastern artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Authors:Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Oscar White Muscarella

Summary:This 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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Genre:Katalog

Physical Description:501 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm

ISBN:

9780870995255, 0870995251

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:18192431

Subjects:

Alter Orient

Antiquities

Âge du bronze Moyen-Orient

Âge du fer Moyen-Orient

Bronze age

Bronze age Middle East

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Catalogs

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Catalogues

Middle East

Middle East Antiquities

Middle East Antiquities Catalogs

Moyen-Orient Antiquités Catalogues

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Bronze and iron.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

644019511

Contents:

I. Iran. Northwest Iran, excavated objects ; Northwest Iran, general objects ; Northeast Iran, excavated objects ; Luristan ; Tepe Nush-i Jan, excavated objects ; Achaemenian objects ; Elamite, general Iranian, and Parthian and Sasanian objects

II. Mesopotamia. Excavated objects ; General objects

III. South Arabia. General objects

IV Levant. Excavated objects ; General objects

V. Near East. General objects

VI. Anatolia

VII. Caucasus. General objects

VIII. Miscellaneous objects