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Ur of the Chaldees
| Author | : Leonard Woolley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2012-06 |
| Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
| ISBN | : 9780987675927 |
And Terah took Abram . . . and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees.' The city Abraham left behind him - a city with good claims to being the oldest in the world - was rediscovered in 1854 by the then British Consul at Basra. But not until the end of World War I was serious excavation undertaken there. The results were so encouraging that four years later a joint British-American expedition, directed by the author of this book, worked on the site. The story of their discoveries made during years of work and covering the successive cities which were built on the site from days far beyond the flood until Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, is here told, and the daily life of the peoples who lived through more than four millennia beside the Euphrates recreated in word and picture.
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
| Author | : University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| Publisher | : UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780924171550 |
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Ur
| Author | : Harriet Crawford |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 155 |
| Release | : 2015-02-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1472531698 |
The ancient Mesoptamian city of Ur was a Sumerian city state which flourished as a centre of trade and civilisation between 2800–2000 BCE. However, in the recent past it suffered from the disastrous Gulf war and from neglect. It still remains a potent symbol for people of all faiths and will have an important role to play in the future. This account of Ur's past looks at both the ancient city and its evolution over centuries, and its archaeological interpretation in more recent times. From the 19th century explorers and their identification of the site of Mukayyar as the Biblical city of Ur, the study proceeds to look in detail at the archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his key discoveries during the 1920s and 30s. Using the findings as a framework and utilising the latest evidence from environmental, historical and archaeological studies, the volume explores the site's past in chronological order from the Ubaid period in the 5th millennium to the death of Alexander. It looks in detail at the architectural remains: the sacred buildings, royal graves and also the private housing which provides a unique record of life 4000 years ago. The volume also describes the part played by Ur in the Gulf war and discusses the problems raised for archaeologists in the war's aftermath.
The Sumerians
| Author | : Leonard Woolley |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1965 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780393002928 |
Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture
| Author | : Jean M. Evans |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2012-10-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1139789422 |
This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues of human figures carved in an abstract style have survived. Chronicling the intellectual history of ancient Near Eastern art history and archaeology at the intersection of sculpture and aesthetics, this book argues that the early modern reception of Sumer still influences ideas about these sculptures. Engaging also with the archaeology of the Early Dynastic temple, the book ultimately considers what a stone statue of a human figure has signified, both in modern times and in antiquity.
The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions
| Author | : A. H. Sayce |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2022-08-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
"The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions" by A. H. Sayce Sayce became interested in Middle Eastern languages and scripts while still a teenager. Old Persian and Akkadian cuneiform had recently been deciphered at the time and the world was interested in learning more about them. Sayce's book offered an easily-digestible guide.
They Wrote on Clay
| Author | : Edward Chiera |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2015-03-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107486653 |
Originally published in 1939, this book contains an assessment of the historical evidence provided by ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets. The text is accompanied by a number of photographs of the tablets, as well as of important archaeological sites and Babylonian artefacts. Chiera's enthusiasm for his subject is clear, as the text is accessibly written and contains many Babylonian legends and assesses their relationship to biblical texts. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Assyriology and the ancient Middle East.
