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The art and architecture of the ancient Orient / Henri Frankfort.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale University Press Pelican history of artPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1996?]Copyright date: ©1970Description: 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300053312
  • 9780300053319
  • 0300064705
  • 9780300064704
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.3 20
LOC classification:
  • N5345 .F7 1996
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Map of Ancient Near East -- Pt. 1. Mesopotamia -- 1. The Emergence of Sumerian Art: The Protoliterate Period (circa 3500-3000 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Applied Sculpture and Relief -- Sculpture in the Round -- Commemorative Relief -- Cylinder Seals -- 2. The Early Dynastic Period (circa 3000-2340 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Sculpture in the Round -- Engraving and Relief -- Glyptic Art -- 3. The Akkadian Period (2340-2180 B.C.) -- 4. The Neo-Sumerian Period (2125-2025 B.C.) and the Period of Isin, Larsa, and Babylon (2025-1594 B.C.) -- Lagash -- The Third Dynasty of Ur -- The Isin-Larsa Period -- Hammurabi of Babylon -- 5. The Art of the Kassite Dynasty (circa 1600-1100 B.C.) -- 6. The Beginnings of Assyrian Art (circa 1350-1000 B.C.) -- 7. The Late Assyrian Period (circa 1000-612 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Sculpture in the Round -- Relief and Painting -- Applied Arts -- 8. The Neo-Babylonian Period (circa 612-539 B.C.) -- Pt. 2. The Peripheral Regions -- 9. Asia Minor and the Hittites -- Anatolia up to the Middle of the Second Millennium B.C. -- The Hittite Empire (circa 1400-1200 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- 10. The Levant in the Second Millennium B.C. -- Egyptian Predominance (2000-1800 B.C.) and Babylonian Penetration (1800-1700 B.C.) -- The Mitannian Era (circa 1450-1360 B.C.) -- The Hittite and Ramessid Era (1360-1150 B.C.) -- 11. Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria: North Syrian Art (850-650 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Phoenician and Syrian Art -- Ivories -- Metalwork -- 12. The Art of Ancient Persia -- The Luristan Bronzes -- Achaemenian Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Supplementary Notes -- Additional Bibliography and Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
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Originally published: Harmondsworth, Eng. : Penguin Books, 1970, in series: The Pelican history of art ; PZ7).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-436) and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Map of Ancient Near East -- Pt. 1. Mesopotamia -- 1. The Emergence of Sumerian Art: The Protoliterate Period (circa 3500-3000 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Applied Sculpture and Relief -- Sculpture in the Round -- Commemorative Relief -- Cylinder Seals -- 2. The Early Dynastic Period (circa 3000-2340 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Sculpture in the Round -- Engraving and Relief -- Glyptic Art -- 3. The Akkadian Period (2340-2180 B.C.) -- 4. The Neo-Sumerian Period (2125-2025 B.C.) and the Period of Isin, Larsa, and Babylon (2025-1594 B.C.) -- Lagash -- The Third Dynasty of Ur -- The Isin-Larsa Period -- Hammurabi of Babylon -- 5. The Art of the Kassite Dynasty (circa 1600-1100 B.C.) -- 6. The Beginnings of Assyrian Art (circa 1350-1000 B.C.) -- 7. The Late Assyrian Period (circa 1000-612 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Sculpture in the Round -- Relief and Painting -- Applied Arts -- 8. The Neo-Babylonian Period (circa 612-539 B.C.) -- Pt. 2. The Peripheral Regions -- 9. Asia Minor and the Hittites -- Anatolia up to the Middle of the Second Millennium B.C. -- The Hittite Empire (circa 1400-1200 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- 10. The Levant in the Second Millennium B.C. -- Egyptian Predominance (2000-1800 B.C.) and Babylonian Penetration (1800-1700 B.C.) -- The Mitannian Era (circa 1450-1360 B.C.) -- The Hittite and Ramessid Era (1360-1150 B.C.) -- 11. Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria: North Syrian Art (850-650 B.C.) -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Phoenician and Syrian Art -- Ivories -- Metalwork -- 12. The Art of Ancient Persia -- The Luristan Bronzes -- Achaemenian Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Supplementary Notes -- Additional Bibliography and Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Index.

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