On Art in the Ancient Near East Volume I: Of the First Millennium BCE
- ISBN-10
- 9047425847
- ISBN-13
- 9789047425847
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 654
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-11-10
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Author
- Irene Winter
Description
This volume of collected essays brings together for the first time the range of Winter’s pioneering studies related to Neo-Assyrian relief sculpture and seals, Phoenician and Syrian ivory and bronze production, and inter-polity connections across the various cultures of first millennium B.C.E. from the Aegean to Iran.
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