Excavations at Anshan (Tal-e Malyan)
Excavations at Anshan (Tal-e Malyan)

Author: Elizabeth Carter

Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology

Published: 1996-01-29

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780924171222

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This volume provides us with the first detailed view of the functioning of the Middle Elamite Empire outside Susiana. The excavation encompassed a segment of a larger building that must have served as a focus for the servants of the Elamite state in Anshan. Even though the function of the excavated area changed over time—from monumental building (level IV), to ceramic production area (level IIIB), to domestic structure (level IIIA)—the strong cultural ties to the lowlands continued until level IIIA was abandoned. Malyan Excavation Reports, II

Forgotten Empire
Forgotten Empire

Author: Béatrice André-Salvini

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0520247310

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A richly-illustrated and important book that traces the rise and fall of one of the ancient world's largest and richest empires.

Early Urban Life in the Land of Anshan
Early Urban Life in the Land of Anshan

Author: William M. Sumner

Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology

Published: 2003-05-27

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781931707459

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This book provides summary data on the archaeological excavations of Banesh Period (ca. 3400-2600 B.C.) levels in Operation ABC at Tal-e Malyan, site of the Elamite royal city of Anshan. These levels cover the critical centuries when complex urban life evolved in Mesopotamia and Iran. Sumner describes and illustrates a wide variety of finds—pottery vessels, stone and metal artifacts, shell and mineral ornaments, proto-Elamite clay tablets, cylinder seals and clay sealings, raw materials, and production by-products. He discusses these finds in terms of production, usage, and stylistic variation, and he includes either technical analyses contributed by specialists in flint technology, metallurgy, sea shells, and glyptic or summaries of analyses published by specialists in zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, materials science, and epigraphy. Contributors: John Alden, P. Nicholas Kardulias, Annette Ericksen, Samuel K. Nash, Vincent Pigott, Holly Pittman, David Reese, Harry C. Rogers, Massimo Vidale. Malyan Excavation Reports, Volume III University Museum Monograph, 117

Bronze and Iron
Bronze and Iron

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 0870995251

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This volume catalogues more than six hundred bronze and iron objects in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each is illustrated and discussed in terms of its formal and stylistic aspects, cultural background, function, and chronology. Bibliographic citations present comparative material relevant to each object. - Book jacket.

Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist Collection
Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist Collection

Author: Joost Kist

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9004496327

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Not only their function in Ancient Near Eastern daily life makes stamp and cylinder seals an important subject of study, but also their outstanding aesthetic beauty. The examples of stamp and cylinder seals catalogued and described in the present volume are part of the collection of Ancient Near Eastern glyptic art acquired by the Kist family during the last century. The collection consists of hundreds of seals ranging from the fourth millennium Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods up to the Achaemenid period of the first millennium B.C. The majority of the artifacts are published here for the first time, making the volume into a unique and essential resource for Ancient Near Eastern scholars and art historians.

Old Babylonian Public Buildings in the Diyala Region
Old Babylonian Public Buildings in the Diyala Region

Author: H. D. Hill

Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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Part I: Excavations at Ischali (Harolf D Hill and Thorkild Jacobsen); Part II: Kafjah Mounds B, C and D (Pinhas Delougaz). The ninth published volume of twelve, presenting the whole work off the Oriental Institute's Iraq Expedition in the Diyala region. This volume focuses on Ishchali (usually identified as ancient Neribtum), which belonged to the independent kingdom of Eshnunna. The bulk of the report is devoted to the Kititum Temple.

The Early Iron Age in the Pusht-i Kuh, Luristan
The Early Iron Age in the Pusht-i Kuh, Luristan

Author: B. Overlaet

Publisher: Peeters

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13:

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Final report and study of the Early Iron Age (Iron Age I - II) graveyards which were excavated by the Belgian Archaeological Expedition in Luristan (West-Iran) between 1965 and 1979. The book consists of three main sections. The first part is a general introduction to the archaeological research in Luristan. It includes a survey of all the excavations in Luristan that provided information on the Iron Age. The second part is a study of the Pusht-i Kuh graveyards, the tombs and their gravegoods. It results in the proposal of a refined chronology for the Pusht-i Kuh region in the period between 1300-1250 B.C. and 800/750 B.C. The third part provides the full excavation data on the 11 graveyards under discussion. A general introduction to each graveyard is followed by the presentation of the different tombs with their burialgoods. These are presented in both line drawings and photographs.