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| Author | : Richard L. Zettler |
| Publisher | : UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780924171543 |
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.
| 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.
| Author | : Amy Rebecca Gansell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 8 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Art, Sumerian |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Musée du Louvre |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0870996517 |
A rich production followed of objects for daily use, ritual, and luxury living, finely carved in various materials or fashioned of clay. Monumental sculpture was made in stone or bronze, and dramatic friezes were composed of brilliantly glazed bricks. Among the discoveries are tiny, intricately carved cylinder seals and splendid jewelry. Clay balls marked with symbols offer fascinating testimony to the very beginnings of writing; clay tablets from later periods bearing inscriptions in cuneiform record political history, literature, business transactions, and mathematical calculations. A very important group of finds from Susa is made up of objects brought back as booty from conquests in Mesopotamia. These works, many of them the royal monuments of Akkadian and Babylonian monarchs - for instance, the great stele of Naram-Sin - are among the best known of all objects from the ancient Near East.
| 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.
| Author | : Leonard Woolley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Sumerians |
| ISBN | : 9781566196666 |
Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
| Author | : Leonard Woolley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 1934 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Colin Renfrew |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 469 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107082730 |
This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.
| Author | : Leonard Woolley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Archaeological expeditions |
| ISBN | : |
Traces the planning and execution of the 1922 archaeological expedition to Ur in southern Iraq and the discovery of the tombs and the ancient city.
| Author | : Harriet Crawford |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 155 |
| Release | : 2015-02-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1472522192 |
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.
