Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East
Biographical note
Oscar White Muscarella Ph.D. (1965), University of Pennsylvania, taught history at The City College of New York (1960-1964) and worked in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1964-2009). He has published over 175 books, articles, and reviews.
Table of contents
Part 1: Sites and Excavations
1. The Tumuli at Sé Girdan: A Preliminary Report
2. The Tumuli at Sé Girdan: Second Report
3. The Chronology and Culture of Sé Girdan: Phase III
4. Qalatgah: An Urartian Site in Northwestern Iran
5. Excavations at Agrab Tepe, Iran
6. The Iron Age at Dinkha Tepe, Iran
7. Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C.
8. The Hasanlu Lion Pins Again
9. The Excavation of Hasanlu: An Archaeological Evaluation
10. The Iranian Iron III Chronology at Muweilah in the Emirate of Sharjah
11. The Location of Ulhu and Uiše in Sargon II’s Eighth Campaign, 714 B.C.
12. Surkh Dum at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Mini-Report
13. Northwest Iran: Bronze Age to Iron Age
14. Jiroft and ‘Jiroft – Aratta’
15. Sargon II’s Eighth Campaign: An Introduction and Overview
16. King Midas’ Tumulus at Gordion
17. The Iron Age Background to the Formation of the Phrygian State
18. The Date of the Destruction of the Early Phrygian Period at Gordion
19. Again Gordion’s Early Phrygian Destruction Date: ca. 715 +/- B.C.
20. Urartian Metal Artifacts: An Archaeological Review
Part 2: Artifacts, Cultures, Forgeries, and Provenience
21. The Archaeological Evidence for Relations between Greece and Iran in the First Millennium B.C.
22. Urartian Bells and Samos
23. King Midas of Phrygia and the Greeks
24. Greek and Oriental Cauldron Attachments: A Review
25. Fibulae Represented on Sculpture
26. Phrygian or Lydian?
27. Fibulae and Chronology, Marlik and Assur
28. Parasols in the Ancient Near East
29. The Pope and the Bitter Fanatic
30. The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
31. The Fifth Column within the Archaeological Realm: The Great Divide
32. Bazaar Archaeology
33. Excavated in the Bazaar: Ashurbanipal’s Beaker
34. Von Bissing’s Memphis Stela: A Product of Cultural Transfer?
35. Gudea or Not Gudea in New York and Detroit: Ancient or Modern?
36 The Veracity of ‘Scientific’ Testing by Conservators
37. ‘Ziwiye’ and Ziwiye: The Forgery of a Provenience
38. Median Art and Medizing Scholarship
39. Modern Constructions of the Oxus Treasures: Forgeries of Provenience and Ancient Culture
40. Excavated and Unexcavated Achaemenian Art
1. The Tumuli at Sé Girdan: A Preliminary Report
2. The Tumuli at Sé Girdan: Second Report
3. The Chronology and Culture of Sé Girdan: Phase III
4. Qalatgah: An Urartian Site in Northwestern Iran
5. Excavations at Agrab Tepe, Iran
6. The Iron Age at Dinkha Tepe, Iran
7. Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C.
8. The Hasanlu Lion Pins Again
9. The Excavation of Hasanlu: An Archaeological Evaluation
10. The Iranian Iron III Chronology at Muweilah in the Emirate of Sharjah
11. The Location of Ulhu and Uiše in Sargon II’s Eighth Campaign, 714 B.C.
12. Surkh Dum at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Mini-Report
13. Northwest Iran: Bronze Age to Iron Age
14. Jiroft and ‘Jiroft – Aratta’
15. Sargon II’s Eighth Campaign: An Introduction and Overview
16. King Midas’ Tumulus at Gordion
17. The Iron Age Background to the Formation of the Phrygian State
18. The Date of the Destruction of the Early Phrygian Period at Gordion
19. Again Gordion’s Early Phrygian Destruction Date: ca. 715 +/- B.C.
20. Urartian Metal Artifacts: An Archaeological Review
Part 2: Artifacts, Cultures, Forgeries, and Provenience
21. The Archaeological Evidence for Relations between Greece and Iran in the First Millennium B.C.
22. Urartian Bells and Samos
23. King Midas of Phrygia and the Greeks
24. Greek and Oriental Cauldron Attachments: A Review
25. Fibulae Represented on Sculpture
26. Phrygian or Lydian?
27. Fibulae and Chronology, Marlik and Assur
28. Parasols in the Ancient Near East
29. The Pope and the Bitter Fanatic
30. The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
31. The Fifth Column within the Archaeological Realm: The Great Divide
32. Bazaar Archaeology
33. Excavated in the Bazaar: Ashurbanipal’s Beaker
34. Von Bissing’s Memphis Stela: A Product of Cultural Transfer?
35. Gudea or Not Gudea in New York and Detroit: Ancient or Modern?
36 The Veracity of ‘Scientific’ Testing by Conservators
37. ‘Ziwiye’ and Ziwiye: The Forgery of a Provenience
38. Median Art and Medizing Scholarship
39. Modern Constructions of the Oxus Treasures: Forgeries of Provenience and Ancient Culture
40. Excavated and Unexcavated Achaemenian Art
€98.00$127.00
This volume presents a series of cultural reactions to successful military public proclamations by various peoples of the ancient Mediterranean world, illustrating points of similarity and diversity, and demonstrating the complex and multifaceted nature of this trans-cultural practice.
€176.00$245.00
In L'art du siège néo-assyrien, Fabrice De Backer offers a synthesis of all the means, machines, people and tactics employed to take or defend a city during the Neo-Assyrian period.
€164.00$228.00
In the Shadow of Bezalel offers new insights and proposals in the areas of Aramaic language, paleography, onomastica and lexicography; ancient Near Eastern legal traditions, Hebrew Bible, and social history of the Persian period.
€164.00$228.00
Wadi Hammeh 27: an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan is an integrated analysis of subsistence strategies, settlement patterns and ritual life in a 14,000-year-old hunter-gatherer settlement located in the east Jordan Valley.
€112.00$156.00
In The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion in Context Merz and Tieleman present an interdisciplinary collection of studies examining an intriguing yet neglected Syriac letter and its historical context.
€188.00$258.00
The Bibliographie Raisonnée zu den Indo-Ariern im Alten Orientt unifies and enlarges four bibliographies on the Indo-Aryans in the ancient Near East compiled by M. Mayrhofer between 1966 and 2006, now covering a time span from 1884 until 2011.
€110.00$151.00
Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares all evidence of ancient Near Eastern prophecy, focusing on the Mari texts. It re-evaluates recent scholarship and concludes that prophecy was a widespread phenomenon integrated into divination in general.
€176.00$245.00
The articles included in this volume honor Bruce Zuckerman’s many contributions to the fields of epigraphy, biblical and Second Temple studies, and modern Judaism in discussions of a wide variety of inscriptional materials, biblical texts, archaeology, lexicography and teaching methodology.
€99.00$135.00
This book presents a paleographic analysis of the Aramaic and Hebrew inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim and their historical background within the historical and political context of Palestine in the Hellenistic period.
€166.00$215.00
This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the culture transfer between Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and Nubia between 300 BC-AD 250. Hellenizing art in Nubia is treated as a Nubian phenomenon expressing Nubian ideas in which only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art were adopted that were ...
- 1 of 7
- ››
No additional information