Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum

by Ann Searight, Julian Reade, Irving Finkel

This catalogue makes available more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels kept in the British Museum. Most of them were excavated at Nineveh and other major sites in northern Iraq and Syria, and are presented here for the first time. They range in date from prehistory down to the Persian and Hellenistic periods; the bulk belong in the eighth and seventh centuries, when the Near East under Assyrian rule grew increasingly cosmopolitan. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184217312X
• ISBN13: 9781842173121
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.