Bismaya - Recovering the Lost City of Adab

This monograph presents this large and significant corpus of unpublished material and includes analyses of stratigraphy, architecture, sculpture, cylinder seals, metalwork, and pottery, and discussions of chronology, the succession of the first kings of Adab, and administrative practices during the third millennium B.C.

Summary

This monograph presents this large and significant corpus of unpublished material and includes analyses of stratigraphy, architecture, sculpture, cylinder seals, metalwork, and pottery, and discussions of chronology, the succession of the first kings of Adab, and administrative practices during the third millennium B.C.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Lauinger, Monica Louise Phillips, Benjamin Studevent-Hickman, Karen Wilson
• Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2012
• EAN: 9781885923639
• ISBN: 978-1-885923-63-9
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 305 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 1880 g
• Series: Oriental Institute Publications; Oriental Institute Publication; Oriental Institute Publications
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity