Bronze and iron :  ancient Near Eastern artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / 
Oscar White Muscarella. 
 - New York :  The Museum,  c1988. 
 - 501 p., [1] folded leaf of plates :  ill. ;  29 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: p. 460-480. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0870995251 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>^^^88021667^ 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Catalogs.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bronze age--Middle East<br/>Iron age--Middle East.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Antiquities--Catalogs.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Catalogs<br/>Catalogs.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS56  / .M48 1988 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>730/.0939/407401471