TY - BOOK AU - Curtis,John ED - British Museum. TI - Bronzeworking centres of western Asia c.1000-539 B.C. SN - 0710302746 AV - DS56 .B76 1988 PY - 1988/// CY - London, New York, New York, NY, USA PB - Kegan Paul International in association with the British Museum, distributed by Routledge, Chapman & Hall KW - Bronzes, Ancient KW - Middle East KW - Congresses KW - Antiquities KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - fast KW - History N1 - Papers derived from a colloquium held in the British Museum, July 1986; Includes bibliographies; Bronzeworking centers of Western Asia c. 1000-539 BC : problems & perspectives / P.R.S. Moorey -- Background to the Luristan Bronzes / O.W. Muscarella -- Northwest Iran as a bronzeworking centre: the view from Hasanlu / M. de Schauensee -- Iron age in Guilan : proposal for a chronology / E. Haerinck -- Bronzeworking centres in Central Asia, c. 1000-539 BC / K.R. Maxwell-Hyslop -- Assyria as a bronzeworking centre in the Late Assyrian period / J.E. Curtis -- Neo-Assyrian textual evidence for bronzeworking centres / S. Dalley -- Further notes on Assyrian bronzworking / C.B.F. Walker -- Bronze objects from Babylonia / E.A. Braun-Holzinger -- Textual evidence for bronze in Babylonia in the Early Iron Age, 1000-539 BC / J.A. Brinckman -- Urartu as a bronzeworking centre / U. Seidl -- Background to the Phrygian bronze industry / O.W. Muscarella -- North Syria as a bronzeworking centre in the early first millennium BC: luxury commodities at home & abroad / I.J. Winter -- Phoenicia as a bronzeworking centre in the Iron Age / G. Falsone -- Role of the Sea Peoples in the bronze industry of Palestine/Transjordan in the late bronze-early iron transition / J.N. Tubb -- Evidence of bronzeworking in the West Semitic texts / T.C. Mitchell -- Oman: a bronze-producing centre during the 1st half of the 1st millennium BC / G. Weisgerber -- Egypt as a bronzeworking centre (1000-359 BC) / M.A. Leahy -- Evidence of scientific analysis: a case study of the Nimrud bowls / M.J. Hughes, J.R.S. Lang, M.N. Leese, J.E. Curtis -- Problems & possibilities for provenancing bronzes by chemical composition, with special reference to Western Asia & the Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age / P.T. Craddock, A.R. Gumlia-Mair ER -