The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad : the lost legacy of ancient Mesopotamia
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Polk, Milbry
Schuster, Angela M. H. |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York, NY :
Harry N. Abrams,
2005.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiii, 242 p. : ill. (mostly col.), maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0810958724 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Bagdad |
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Table of contents |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / William R. Polk
- The illicit trade in looted antiquities / Angela H.M. Schuster
- Smuggling and looting in Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton
- A short history of the Iraq National Museum Usam / Ghaidan and Anna Paolini
- A museum is born / Lamia al-Gailani Werr
- Shanidar, Iraq in the beginning / Ralph and Rose Soleki, Anagnostis Agelarakis
- Dawn of civilization / Harriet Crawford
- The small treasures of the Iraq Museum / Fiorella Ippolitoni Strika
- The lion hunt stele / Diana McDonald
- The Warka vase / Diana McDonald
- From village to empire: the rise of Sumer and Akkad / Paul Collins
- Akkadian victory stele / Diana McDonald
- Akkadian head of a king / Diana McDonald
- The birth of writing, the dawn of literature / Robert D. Biggs
- Cylinder seal impression / Diana McDonald
- Babylonians and Assyrians / Julian Reade
- Assyrian ivory lioness from Nimrud / Diana McDonald
- Decoration from the Kassite temple of Karaindash from Uruk / Diana McDonald
- In the wake of Alexander: Parthians and Sassanians /Elisabetta Valtz Fino
- Alexander coin /Diana McDonald
- The coming of Islam / Alastair E. Northedge
- Baghdad through the ages / Vincenzo Strika
- The ravages of war and the challenge of reconstruction / Selma al-Radi
- The recovery of the Nimrud gold / Diana McDonald
- Epilogue / Angela M.H. Schuster and Milbry Polk
- The gods and goddesses of ancient Mesopotamia
- References and resources / Barbara A. Porter
- About the authors.
