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9780300098839

Art of the First Cities; The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300098839

  • ISBN10:

    0300098839

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2003-06-10
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $75.00

Summary

One of the most important and creative periods in the history of art occurred at the time of city states of the Sumerians, the citadel of Troy and the royal tombs at Ur.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Contributors to the Catalogue
Lenders to the Exhibition
Chronology
Map
Note to the Reader
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus
Uruk and the Formation of the City
Art of the Early City-States
The Proto-Elamite Period
Fara
Excavations in the Diyala Region
Stone Sculpture Production
Nippur
Tello (Ancient Girsu)
Metalworking Techniques
Al Ubaid
Kish
The Royal Tombs of Ur
The Tomb of Puabi
The Great Death Pit at Ur
Mari and the Syro-Mesopotamian World
The Treasure of Ur from Mari
Ebla and the Early Urbanization of Syria
Tell Umm el-Marra
Tell Banat
Art of the Akkadian Dynasty
Lost-Wax Casting
Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh)
Tell Brak in the Akkadian Period
Art and Interconnections in the Third Millennium B.C.
Egypt and the Near East in the Third Millennium B.C.
The Aegean and Western Anatolia: Social Forms and Cultural Relationships
The Early Bronze Age Jewelry Hoard from Kolonna, Aigina
Troy
Poliochni and the Civilization of the Northeastern Aegean
The Central Anatolian Plateau: The Tombs of Alaca Hoyuk
The North Caucasus
The Maikop (Oshad) Kurgan
Novosvobodnaya
Susa: Beyond the Zagros Mountains
The Gulf: Dilmun and Magan
Copper Alloys and Metal Sources
Tell Abraq
The Island of Tarut
"Intercultural Style" Carved Chlorite Objects
Pathways across Eurasia
Altyn-depe
Gonur-depe
The Indus Civilization
Baluchistan
Cities of the Indus Valley
Beads of the Indus Valley
Approaching the Divine: Mesopotamian Art at the End of the Third Millennium B.C.
The Rediscovery of Gudea Statuary in the Hellenistic Period
The Earliest Scholastic Tradition
Uruk and the World of Gilgamesh
The Mesopotamian Legacy: Origins of the Genesis Tradition
Problems of Third-Millennium-B.C. Chronology
Bibliography
Index
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