Военная история / The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre

Название: The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre
Авторы: Prudence Oliver Harper, Joan Aruz
Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 1992
Страниц: 338
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 44 MB

Susa was settled about 4000 B.C. and has yielded striking pottery finds from that prehistoric period. A rich production followed of objects for daily use, ritual, and luxury living, finely carved in various materials or fashioned of clay. Monumental sculpture was made in stone or bronze, and dramatic friezes were composed of brilliantly glazed bricks. Among the discoveries are tiny, intricately carved cylinder seals and splendid jewelry. Clay balls marked with symbols offer fascinating testimony to the very beginnings of writing; clay tablets from later periods bearing inscriptions in cuneiform record political history, literature, business transactions, and mathematical calculations. A very important group of finds from Susa is made up of objects brought back as booty from conquests in Mesopotamia.