The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad : the lost legacy of ancient Mesopotamia / ed. by Milbry Polk, Angela M. H. Schuster.
Yer Numarası
A.VII/6571
ISBN
0810958724 (hardcover)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
Fiziksel Niteleme
xiii, 242 s. : res. (çoğu rnk.), hrt. ; 26 cm.
Genel Not
“A book Laboratory book”-T.p. verso.
İndeks s. 238-242.
İndeks s. 238-242.
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction / William R. Polk 5
Theft of Time / Angela M. H. Schuster 10
Erasing the Past: Looting of Archaeological Sites in Southern Iraq / Micah Garen,
Marie-Hélène Carleton 15
A Short History of the Iraq National Museum / Usam Ghaidan, Anna Paolini 20
Chapter I: A Museum is Born / Lamia Al-Gailani Werr 27
Chapter II: In the Beginning / Ralph Solecki 34
Chapter III: Dawn of Civilization / Harriet Crawford 50
Chapter IV: Small Treasures of the Iraq Museum / Fiorella Ippolitoni Strika 67
The Lion Hunt Stela / Diana McDonald 78
The Warka Vase / Diana McDonald 80
Chapter V From Village to Empire : The Rise of Sumer and Akkad / Paul Collins 82
Akkadian Victory Stela / Diana McDonald 100
Akkadian Head of a King / Diana McDonald 102
Chapter VI: The Birth of Writing, the Dawn of Literature / Robert D. Biggs 105
Cylinder Seal Impression / Diana McDonald 122
Chapter VII: Babylonians and Assyrians / Julian Reade 124
Assyrian Ivory Lioness from Nimrud / Diana McDonald 142
From the Kassite Temple of Karaindash / Diana McDonald 144
Chapter VIII: In the Wake of Alexander the Great / Elisabetta Valtz Fino 147
Alexander the Great Coin / Diana McDonald 172
Chapter IX: The Coming of Islam / Alastair E. Northedge 174
Chapter X: Baghdad Through the Ages / Vincenzo Strika 193
Chapter XL The Ravages of War and the Challenge of Reconstruction / Selma Al-Radi 207
The Recovery of the Nimrud Gold / Diana McDonald 212
The Fall of Babylon / Zainab Bahrani 214
Epilogue / Milbry Polk, Angela M. H. Schuster 217
Selected References and Resources / Barbara A. Porter 219
About the Authors 228
