TY  - BOOK
AU  - Muscarella,Oscar White
ED  - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
TI  - Bronze and iron: ancient Near Eastern artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
SN  - 0870995251
AV  - DS56 .M48 1988
U1  - 730/.0939/407401471 19
PY  - 1988///
CY  - New York
PB  - The Museum
KW  - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Catalogs
KW  - Bronze age
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Iron age
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 460-480; I. Iran. Northwest Iran, excavated objects ; Northwest Iran, general objects ; Northeast Iran, excavated objects ; Luristan ; Tepe Nush-i Jan, excavated objects ; Achaemenian objects ; Elamite, general Iranian, and Parthian and Sasanian objects -- II. Mesopotamia. Excavated objects ; General objects -- III. South Arabia. General objects -- IV Levant. Excavated objects ; General objects -- V. Near East. General objects -- VI. Anatolia -- VII. Caucasus. General objects -- VIII. Miscellaneous objects
N2  - 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
ER  -