Manual of Oriental Antiquities, Including the Architecture, Sculpture, and Industrial Arts of Chaldea, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæa, Phœnecia, and Carthage, new edn., with a chapter on the new discoveries at Susa, with two hundred and fifty-five illustrations
Ernest Babelon [1854-1924]

Book Description

Title:

Manual of Oriental Antiquities, Including the Architecture, Sculpture, and Industrial Arts of Chaldea, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæa, Phœnecia, and Carthage, new edn., with a chapter on the new discoveries at Susa, with two hundred and fifty-five illustrations

Authors:

Ernest Babelon [1854-1924]

Publication Year:

1906

Location:

London

Publisher:

H. Grevel and Co.

Pages:

352

Subjects:

Archaeology, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judea, Phoenecia, Carthage

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Table of Contents

• Preface

1. Chaldæan Art
1. Architecture
2. Statues and Bas-reliefs
3. Minor Sculpture and the Industrial Arts
4. Engraved Seals
2. Assyrian Architecture
1. The Principles of Building
2. Palaces
3. Temples and their Fortifications
3. Assysrain Sculpture and Painting
1. Statues, Stelæ, Obelisks
2. Bas-reliefs
3. Painting and Enamelling
4. The Industrial arts in Assyria
1. Ceramics
2. Metals
3. Wood and Ivory
4. Leather and Textiles
5. Ornaments and Seals
5. Persian Art
1. Civils Architecture
2. Sculpture
3. Painting and Enamelling
4. Religious and Sepcuchral Monuments
5. Engraved Stones and Ornaments
6. The Hittites
1. Hittite Monuments in Syria
2. Hittite Monuments in Cappadocia
3. Hittite Monuments in Asia Minor
7. Jewish Art
1. The Temple of Jerusalem
2. The Decoration and Furniture of the Temple
3. Civil Architecture
4. Tombs
8. The Art of Phœnecia and Cyprus
1. Temples
2. Civil Architecture
3. Tombs
4. Phœnecian Sculpture
5. Cypriote Sculpture
6. Phœnecian and Cypriote Pottery
7. Phœnecian Glass
8. Bronzes and Ornaments
9. Engraved Stones
9. Archæolgical Discoveries at Susa
1. M. de Morgan's Mission in Susiana
2. Chronology of the Ruins accoridng to Recent Discoveries
3. The Principles of Building
4. Stone Sculpture
5. Bronxe Metal-Work
6. Jewellery and the Industrial arts

• Index

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