Author: Richard L. Zettler
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780924171543
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time--jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Author: Richard L. Zettler
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780924171543
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time--jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780924171543
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time--jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Author: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780924171550
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780924171550
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Author: Amy Rebecca Gansell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Sumerian
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Sumerian
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Royal City of Susa
Author: Musée du Louvre
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996517
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A rich production followed of objects for daily use, ritual, and luxury living, finely carved in various materials or fashioned of clay. Monumental sculpture was made in stone or bronze, and dramatic friezes were composed of brilliantly glazed bricks. Among the discoveries are tiny, intricately carved cylinder seals and splendid jewelry. Clay balls marked with symbols offer fascinating testimony to the very beginnings of writing; clay tablets from later periods bearing inscriptions in cuneiform record political history, literature, business transactions, and mathematical calculations. A very important group of finds from Susa is made up of objects brought back as booty from conquests in Mesopotamia. These works, many of them the royal monuments of Akkadian and Babylonian monarchs - for instance, the great stele of Naram-Sin - are among the best known of all objects from the ancient Near East.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996517
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A rich production followed of objects for daily use, ritual, and luxury living, finely carved in various materials or fashioned of clay. Monumental sculpture was made in stone or bronze, and dramatic friezes were composed of brilliantly glazed bricks. Among the discoveries are tiny, intricately carved cylinder seals and splendid jewelry. Clay balls marked with symbols offer fascinating testimony to the very beginnings of writing; clay tablets from later periods bearing inscriptions in cuneiform record political history, literature, business transactions, and mathematical calculations. A very important group of finds from Susa is made up of objects brought back as booty from conquests in Mesopotamia. These works, many of them the royal monuments of Akkadian and Babylonian monarchs - for instance, the great stele of Naram-Sin - are among the best known of all objects from the ancient Near East.
The Sumerians
Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
Discovering the Royal Tombs at Ur
Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological expeditions
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Traces the planning and execution of the 1922 archaeological expedition to Ur in southern Iraq and the discovery of the tombs and the ancient city.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological expeditions
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Traces the planning and execution of the 1922 archaeological expedition to Ur in southern Iraq and the discovery of the tombs and the ancient city.
The Royal Tombs of Ur of the Chaldees
Author: University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Sumerians
Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566196666
Category : Sumerians
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566196666
Category : Sumerians
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
Art of the First Cities
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588390438
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 8 to Aug. 17, 2003.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588390438
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 8 to Aug. 17, 2003.
The Royal Tombs of Ur of the Chaldees
Author: C. Leonard Woolley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Udmurtii͡a (Russia)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Udmurtii͡a (Russia)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description