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Ancient world 302 The Aegean and the Orient in the second millennium: proceedings of the 50th anniversary symposium, Cincinnati, 18-20 April 1997. Edited by Eric H Cline and Diane Harris-Cline.Liège, Belgique: Université de Liège, Histoire de l'art et archéologie de la Grèce antique; Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin, Program in Aegean scripts and prehistory, 1998, xxvii, 363 p., 33 p. of plates, illus. Large, heavy volume, good quality paper, good to very good condition, very slight bow in cover due to the weight of the page block. $65.00
1-3. First expansion of Aegean commerce in the Middle Bronze Age; 4-7. Second phase of Aegean relations with the East in the late Bronze I-II periods; 8-10. Late Helladic III commerce and its effect upon the art of the Near East;11-12. The Near East and the Aegean in the late Bronze Age, Pt. I; 13-15. The Near East and the Aegean in the late Bronze Age, Pt. II; 16-18. Iconography, trade, and the sea;19. Keynote address; 20-23. Influences East and… Read More

Ancient world 1461 Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten and Nefertiti. [Catalog of an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences]. New York: Brooklyn Museum in association with the Viking Press, 1973, 231p, bib, index, illus. (part col.). Good copy in dust jacket. $13.50

Description: Akkadian bfac BOHL, Franz M. Th. Akkadian Chrestomathy, Volume I: Selected Cuneiform Texts. With assistance of Madelon L. Verstunen, copyist. Leiden, Holland: Nederlandsch Archaeologisch-Philologisch Insitituut, 1947. Paperback. Good, solid condition. There is some minor fraying to spine which has been repaired. Larger volume about 10"x 12". Paperback. Book Condition: Good. Series: Nederlandsch Archaeologisch-Philologisch Insitituut, I checked but could find no reference to a second volume.

Ancient world 604Erim, Kenan T. Aphrodisias: city of Venus Aphrodite. Introduction by John Julius Norwich. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1986, 200p, bib, index, illus. (some col.). Good clean tight copy in dust jacket. Larger volume, 9" x 12". $25.00

Ancient world 944O'Callaghan, Roger Timothy, 1912- Aram Naharaim; a contribution to the history of Upper Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C. With an appendix on Indo-Aryan names [from Mitanni, Nuzu and Syro-Palestinian documents] by P.-E. Dumont. (Analecta orientalia; commentationes scientificae de rebus Orientis antiqui, 26). Roma: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1948, xv, 164 p. index, bib, 38 plates (incl. plans) 3 fold. col. maps. Paperbound. Larger volume, clean, tight no marks. Very good. $45.00

Ancient world 2479 Renfrew, Colin, 1937-Archaeology and language: the puzzle of Indo-European origins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988, ©1987, xiv, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; notes, bib, index. Very good in very good dust jacket. $12.50 Box A 62
Contents: Preface: What song the sirens sang -- The Indo-European problem in outline -- Archaeology and the Indo-Europeans -- Lost languages and forgotten scripts: The Indo-European languages, old and new -- Homelands in question -- Language and language change -- Language, population and social organization: A processual approach -- Early language dispersals in Europe -- The early Indo-Iranian languages and their origins -- Ethnogenesis: Who were the Celts? -- Indo-European mythologies -- Archaeology and Indo-European origins: An assessment.

IH 1070 Archaeological inventory of County Cavan. Compiled by Patrick F. O'Donovan.Dublin: Published by the Stationery Office, 1995, x, 296 pages, plates, illus, index, maps. Larger, heavier volume, very slightly out of square, some minor staining to top paper edge (coffee/Coke?), else good copy in dust jacket. $45.00

Ancient world 402 Bender, Barbara. The Archaeology of Brittany, Normandy and the Channel Islands. An introduction and guide. London: Faber & Faber, 1986, 254p, bib, index, illus. Fine in dust jacket. $15.00

Ancient world 618 (Excavations at Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria, II.). Holland, Thomas A. Archaeology of the Bronze Age, Hellenistic, and Roman remains at an ancient town on the Euphrates River. Two volumes. Excavations at Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria. Volume 2, Part 1: Text/Excavations at Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria. Volume 2, Part 2: Figures and Plates. With contributions by Martha Goodway and Michael Roaf. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2006, xlix, 620p, bib, index, illus, maps; xxviii, 340 plates, some photographic, maps. Three folded plates in pocket of Part 2. (University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications; v. 125). New copies in dust jacket. Very large and heavy volumes: each volume measures 9 ¼" x 12" x 2". $55.00

Ancient world 1324 Tomlinson, R. A. (Richard Allan). Argos and the Argolid: from the end of the Bronze Age to the Roman occupation. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. xiv, 289 p, notes, bib, index, illus. Very good copy in dust jacket. The dust jacket has a few small tears. Other than the signature of the previous owner, a distinguished classics scholar, the book is clean, tight, with no marks. $18.50

Gaelic488 Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments. Vol. 4, Iona. Edinburgh: The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1982. xvi, 296 pages, [7] folded pages of plates: illus., maps(some col.), plans (some colored), bib, index. Folio, 29cm. Squarish, hardcover, very good copy, couple of small smudges. Dust jacket is in good shape, had a few small tear which have been repaired with Scotch Tape (naturally). Uncommon. $75.00
Includes these chapters: Prehistoric Monuments; Ecclesiastical Monuments, including: Early Christian Monastery/Abbey/Nunnery/Funerary Monuments, Crosses and other Carved Stones; St. Oran's Chapel; Domestic Architecture; / Townships and Shielings; Industrial Monument, Miscellaneous.

Ancient world 361 Artifact and assemblage: the finds from a regional survey of the southern Argolid, Greece. Volume I: The Prehistoric & Early Iron Age Pottery & the Lithic Artifacts. Edited by Curtis Runnels, Daniel Pullen, and Susan Langdon. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1995, ix, 476p, bib, index, figures. Good to very good copy, large and heavy book. Volume I only. $12.50
Contents: D.J. Pullen "The Pottery of the Neolithic, Early Helladic I, & Early Helladic II Periods"; G.G. Nordquist "The Pottery of the Early Helladic III & Middle Helladic Periods"; P.A. Mountjoy "The Pottery of the Late Helladic Period"; S. Langdon "The Pottery of the Early Iron Age & Geometric Periods"; P.N. Kardulias & C. Runnels "The Lithic Artifacts & Other… Read More

Ancient world 987 (Assyria). Parrot, André, 1901-1980. Assur. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée. [Paris]:Gallimard, [1969], xii, 426 p, bib, index, illustrations (some color), folded maps. Revised and enlarged edition. A large and heavy book. (8 3/4" x 11" x 1 1/2", 5 pounds). Good copy in dust jacket. Book is in French. $25.00

Ancient world 806Knell, Heiner. Athen im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr., eine Stadt verändert ihr Gesicht : archäologisch-kulturgeschichtliche Betrachtungen. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000.219 p, glossary, index, ill., maps. Very good, clean, tight copy, no marks. The spine may be just very slightly sun-faded compared to the covers. Signature of well-known classics professor on front free endpaper. $55.00

Ancient World 1135Camp, John M., 1946- The Athenian Agora: excavations in the heart of classical Athens. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986, 231p, bib, index, illus. Good to very good in dust jacket. $10.00

Ancient world 809Kroll, John H. Athenian bronze allotment plates. (Loeb classical monographs). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972, xv, 352 p. illus, 318 figures, index. Good, clean, tight copy. Signature of former classics professor on front free endpaper. $10.00

Ancient world 986Parlama, Liana and Nicholas Stampolidis. Athens: The City Beneath the City. Antiquities from the Metropolitan Railway Excavations. Athens, Greece/New York: N.P. Goulandris Foundation, Museum of Cycladic Art, Harry N. Abrams, 2001, 413 pages, bib, illustrated with 500 plates in full color, diagrams and charts. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "The City Beneath the City" held at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 29 February 2000 to 31 December 2001. Filled with lavish full-color photos that show the finds that were uncovered during the construction of the Athens Metroplitan Railway, including the Kerameikos cemetery and beneath modern-day Syntagma Square. Includes articles and essays, a chronological chart, and bibliography. Large, heavy volume. Very good to fine in dust jacket. $35.00

Ancient world 1331(Babylon). Ungnad, Arthur, b. 1879. Babylonian letters of the Hammurapi period. Series: University of Pennsylvania. University Museum. Publications of the Babylonian Section, v. 7. Philadelphia: University Museum, 1915, 50 p. plus 104 plates. Original 1915 edition, not a reprint. Paperback. Good to very good copy. $20.00

Ancient world 1177Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890. Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in Troja in den Jahren 1871 bis 1873: mit Abbildungen und textbezogenen Tafeln aus dem "Atlas trojanischer Alterthümer." München und Zurich: Artemis-Verlag, 1990, xxviii, 312p, illustrations, plates, index. Nice copy in like dust jacket. $20.00

Ancient world 342 Arav, Rami and Richard A Freund (eds). Bethsaida: a city by the North shore of the Sea of Galilee. Volume Two: Bethsaida excavations project. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 1999, xx, 463p, bib, index, illus. There is also a CD-ROM of maps 1-10 in sealed plastic wrappers. The book is almost like new except that there are some very faint spots on top paper edge (caused by mist). $18.50