Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene Kantor Oriental Civilization

Description: Trade PB. 4to. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 1989. 393 pgs. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Contents: Tepe Chenchi: An Important Settlement Near Khorsabad ( G. Algaze ); Re-Examination of a Cult-and-Art Object from Beth Yerah ( R. Amiran ); Notes on the Style and Iconography of the Chalcolithic Hoard from Nahal Mishmar ( P. Beck ); A Recut Old Babylonian Seal with a Sumerian Prayer of the Kassite Period ( R. D. Biggs ); Comments on Small Finds and Items of Artistic Significance from Tell Hadidi and Nearby Sites in the Euphrates Valley, Syria ( R. H. Dornemann ); Village Potters in Early Bronze Age Palestine: A Case Study ( D. Esse ); Dämonen ohne Stammbaum: Zu einigen mesopotamischen Amuletten aus dem Kunsthandel ( W. Farber ); Hittite kursa 'Hunting Bag' ( H. G. Gueterbock ); God or Worshipper ( Th. Jacobsen ); A Royal Head from Luxor ( J. H. Johnson and D. Whitcomb ); A New Third Millennium Sculpture from Mozan ( M. Kelly-Buccellati ); An Early Industrial Proto-Urban Center on the Central Plateau of Iran: Tepe Ghabristan ( Y. Majidzadeh ); A Monster Mirrored ( H. P. Martin ); The Chronology and Ceramic Assemblages of Alalakh ( T. L. McClellan ); Crown Window Panes: Constantinian or Justinian? ( C. Meyer ); Mosaic, Glass, and Frit Vessels from Marlik ( E. O. Negahban ); Problems of Late Assyrian Reliefs ( E. Porada ); The Judean Desert Treasure from Nahal Mishmar: A Chalcolithic Traders' Hoard? ( M. Tadmor ); Urartian Bronzes Formerly in the Oriental Institute Museum ( M. van Loon ); Carved Bones from Corinth ( E. Vermeule ); Some Foreign Personal Names and Loan-Words from the Deir el-Medineh Ostraca ( W. A. Ward ); An Early Pottery Jar with Incised Decoration from Egypt ( B. B. Williams ); North Syrian Ivories and Tell Halaf Reliefs: The Impact of Luxury Goods upon 'Major' Arts ( I. J. Winter ); Ancient Egypt and the Red Sea Trade: The Case for Obsidian in the Predynastic and Archaic Periods ( J. Zarins ); Pottery Profiles Reconstructed from Jar Sealings in the Lower Seal Impression Strata ( SIS 8-4 ) at Ur: New Evidence for Dating ( R. L. Zettler ). Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene Kantor Oriental Civilization Description Up For Sale Today is Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene J. Kantor by Albert Leonard and Bruce B. Williams Trade PB. 4to. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 1989. 393 pgs. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Contents: Tepe Chenchi: An Important Settlement Near Khorsabad ( G. Algaze ); Re-Examination of a Cult-and-Art Object from Beth Yerah ( R. Amiran ); Notes on the Style and Iconography of the Chalcolithic Hoard from Nahal Mishmar ( P. Beck ); A Recut Old Babylonian Seal with a Sumerian Prayer of the Kassite Period ( R. D. Biggs ); Comments on Small Finds and Items of Artistic Significance from Tell Hadidi and Nearby Sites in the Euphrates Valley, Syria ( R. H. Dornemann ); Village Potters in Early Bronze Age Palestine: A Case Study ( D. Esse ); Dämonen ohne Stammbaum: Zu einigen mesopotamischen Amuletten aus dem Kunsthandel ( W. Farber ); Hittite kursa 'Hunting Bag' ( H. G. Gueterbock ); God or Worshipper ( Th. Jacobsen ); A Royal Head from Luxor ( J. H. Johnson and D. Whitcomb ); A New Third Millennium Sculpture from Mozan ( M. Kelly-Buccellati ); An Early Industrial Proto-Urban Center on the Central Plateau of Iran: Tepe Ghabristan ( Y. Majidzadeh ); A Monster Mirrored ( H. P. Martin ); The Chronology and Ceramic Assemblages of Alalakh ( T. L. McClellan ); Crown Window Panes: Constantinian or Justinian? ( C. Meyer ); Mosaic, Glass, and Frit Vessels from Marlik ( E. O. Negahban ); Problems of Late Assyrian Reliefs ( E. Porada ); The Judean Desert Treasure from Nahal Mishmar: A Chalcolithic Traders' Hoard? ( M. Tadmor ); Urartian Bronzes Formerly in the Oriental Institute Museum ( M. van Loon ); Carved Bones from Corinth ( E. Vermeule ); Some Foreign Personal Names and Loan-Words from the Deir el-Medineh Ostraca ( W. A. Ward ); An Early Pottery Jar with Incised Decoration from Egypt ( B. B. Williams ); North Syrian Ivories and Tell Halaf Reliefs: The Impact of Luxury Goods upon 'Major' Arts ( I. J. Winter ); Ancient Egypt and the Red Sea Trade: The Case for Obsidian in the Predynastic and Archaic Periods ( J. Zarins ); Pottery Profiles Reconstructed from Jar Sealings in the Lower Seal Impression Strata ( SIS 8-4 ) at Ur: New Evidence for Dating ( R. L. Zettler ). 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