Description

Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in brick red cloth and publisher’s dust-jacket. Brand new copy. [xxiii, 524 pages: illustrations (chiefly color), color maps. “Describes the extraordinary art created in the second millennium BC for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean. This book discusses the history of the period and the artistic creativity fostered by interaction among the powers of the ancient Near East, both great and small.” [bibliographic information and summary taken from isbn entry in WorldCat]. Published as a Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 18, 2008-Mar. 15, 2009. Printing date unknown as book is still in factory shrink wrap. Large, very heavy book. media mail only unless prior arrangements made.