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$13.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States It has gone missing, part of the looting that has taken place across Iraq since the ouster of Saddam Hussein. They serve as reminders of magnificent ancient ... moreart that may be lost forever. More than fifty experts in the field have contributed entries on individual works of art and essays covering a wide range of subjects.
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$11.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States With them was a rich and impressive collection of gold and silver objects dating back to the fifth and fourth centuries BC. From the banks of the River ... moreOxus, the entire hoard was, in due course, bequeathed to the British Museum.
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$13.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States It has gone missing, part of the looting that has taken place across Iraq since the ouster of Saddam Hussein. They serve as reminders of magnificent ancient ... moreart that may be lost forever. More than fifty experts in the field have contributed entries on individual works of art and essays covering a wide range of subjects.
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$12.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States Styles and iconography were transmitted to sites such as Mari and Ebla in northern Syria as well as to Iran and as far as Arabia. Nippur by Jean M. Evans. ... moreArbela’s (modern Erbil) strategic location between the great Assyrian cities to the west and south, and the Zagros Mountains to the east, placed it at the heart of the ancient Near East’s most important cities and empires.
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$8.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States It was an age when the setting of a gem or the molding of a goblet was a matter that would occupy a grave potentate to the exclusion of affairs of state. ... moreThe rich and varied pendants are splendid examples of the renaissance jeweler’s art.
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$11.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States He was Guest Curator at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison for the exhibition on the Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, which toured the ... moreU.S. in 1998-1999. He has also been co-curator of the “Tana-Bana: Warp and Weft - The Woven soul of Pakistan”, exhibition with Noorjehan Bilgrami and J. M. Kenoyer, at the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, February, 2003, and at the Mingeikan Museum, Tokyo, April-May 2004.
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$9.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States In the case of the zoomorphic variety the heads are, as it were, adorsed relative to one another, each having been turned around 180° to face the hoop ... morein a pose that is often said to be ‘hoop-swallowing’.
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$9.99 Shipping Condition: New Location: Lummi Island, United States With a technical glossary, extensive bibliography, map, and chronological table, this is a landmark publication. Although faience was made of common materials, ... moreespecially quartz sand grains or crushed quartz pebbles, it nevertheless took on the splendor of gold or semiprecious gems.
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$7.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Publisher: Dallas Museum of Art (1997). Pages: 150. Major types of Greek and Etruscan jewelry from the seventh to the first centuries B.C. are well represented, ... morealong with a few Roman imperial works.
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$4.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States As with many societies, ancient Roman accessorizing varied along boundaries of gender and age, in addition to social standing. One choker-style necklace, ... moretwo bracelets, and multiple rings would be worn at once.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The author demonstrates how the symbolism of dynastic power plays a central role in the interpretation of each object and in understanding the assemblage ... moreas a whole. The pectoral is gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which were presented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Greek and Roman Jewellery(68 ... morePlates in Full Colour) by Filippo Coarelli. DESCRIPTION: Hardcover w/dustjacket(157 pages- 68 full color plates) Hamlyn/Cameo(1970) The history and jewelry wearing customs of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Sixty-Eight incredible color plates of ancient Greek and Roman Jewelry. Coffee Table Quality Reference(albeit small 8½*5½ inches) A fabulous reference! You’ll be thankful 100 times to have this book at your fingertips. The history and customs described are fascinating. The color pictures stunning. CONDITION: Hardcover w/dustjacket. Lightly browsed hardcover w/dustjacket. Pages are pristine; unblemished. Clean, crisp, unmutilated, bound very tightly, and unmarked. The book appears to have only been flipped through once or twice, and is"like new" except the top surface of closed page edges is slightly tanned and freckled(dust dinge/age spotting) however this is not only very faint, but also visible only when the pages are closed, not to individual pages, only to the mass of closed page edges) Otherwise exceptionally clean and exceptionally good condition. PLEASE SEE IMAGES BELOW FOR SAMPLE PAGES FROM INSIDE OF BOOK. This is a wonderful. High quality book originally produced in the U.K. and Italy in English for distribution world wide. The full color plates are simply magnificent, and the images are of the most fabulous gold jewelry ever produced and uncovered from ancient Greece and Rome. It is a wonderful reference for those interested in the history of jewelry, and wonderful pictures for whose who just want to admire the incredible gold jewelry of these grand empires. There are pictures of many pieces which I have never seen before, except in pricey museum catalogs. Still a wonderful reference despite being originally produced in 1966, it is divided into five sections: The Geometric and Orientalising Periods; Archaic Greece and Etruria; The Cla
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$11.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States [Book News]. The Nile valley empire was as large as it had been since the New Kingdom. His successor, Tanutamun, also made a failed attempt to regain ... moreEgypt for Nubia. He successfully defeated Necho, the native Egyptian puppet ruler installed by Ashurbanipal, taking Thebes in the process.
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$11.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States With them was a rich and impressive collection of gold and silver objects dating back to the fifth and fourth centuries BC. From the banks of the River ... moreOxus, the entire hoard was, in due course, bequeathed to the British Museum.
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$10.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States With a technical glossary, extensive bibliography, map, and chronological table, this is a landmark publication. Although faience was made of common materials, ... moreespecially quartz sand grains or crushed quartz pebbles, it nevertheless took on the splendor of gold or semiprecious gems.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The pectoral is gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, car-nelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which ... morewere presented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$13.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Styles and iconography were transmitted to sites such as Mari and Ebla in northern Syria as well as to Iran and as far as Arabia. It has gone missing, ... morepart of the looting that has taken place across Iraq since the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
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