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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur Richard L. Zettler
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Richard L. Zettler
Showcases over 230 objects excavated from the Sumerian city of Ur in the 1930s by Sir Leonard Woolley. Details gold jewelry, engraved seal stones, statuettes, musical instruments, and vessels. The history of Ur and the excavations is included, and art historians discuss the historical significance and motifs on the artifacts.
Marc Notes: Incl. bibl.; Exhib. cat.; Cloth avail. @ $49.95
Contributor Bio: Horne, Lee Lee horne is a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She is author of Village Spaces: Settlement and Society in Northeastern Iran. Contributor Bio: University of Pennsylvania Bengt Ankarloo is Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden. Stuart Clark is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea. Contributor Bio: White, Donald Donald White grew up on the coast of North Carolina with his mother and father, an older and a younger sister. He has a degree in Information Systems, having graduated with honors. Later, he moved to Durham and is now employed at a software company in Raleigh. He is an avid reader of classical and modern literature. The following works are also available: Lady Killer, The Face in the Mirror, Vengeance and Valor, The Hound, the Hallowed collection, The Visions of Sandy Brown and The Monster. Contributor Bio: Pittman, Holly Holly Pittman (Ph. D. Columbia University) is Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches art and archaeology of Mesopotamia and the Iranian Plateau. She also serves as Curator in the Near East Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Previously she served as a curator in the Ancient Near Eastern Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has written extensively on the art and culture of the Bronze Age in the Middle East and has participated in excavations in Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran where she currently works. Her research investigates works of art as media through which patterns of thought, cultural development, as well as historical interactions of ancient cultures of the Near East are reconstructed.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780924171550 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Museum of Arc |
| Pages | 220 |
| Dimensions | 280 × 219 × 18 mm · 1 kg |
| Editor | Horne, Lee |
| Editor | Zettler, Richard L. |