To Illustrate the Monuments: Essays on Archaeology Presented to Stuart Piggott on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday
- ISBN-10
- 0500011494
- ISBN-13
- 9780500011492
- Category
- Archaeology
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1976-01-01
- Author
- J. V. S. Megaw
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