Tell Halaf : a new culture in oldest Mesopotamia / Baron Max von Oppenheim ; [translated by Gerald Wheeler].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oppenheim, Max, Freiherr von, 1860-1946.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Gorgias classic archaeological reprints ; 1.

Gorgias classic archaeological reprints. 1935-4401 ; 1

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Art, Ancient.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Ḥalaf, Tall (Syria)--Antiquities.

Ḥalaf, Tall (Syria).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Syria--Ḥalaf, Tall.

Art, Ancient--Syria--Ḥalaf, Tall.

Syria.

Physical Description:

xvi, 337 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2009.

Summary:

The site of Tell Halaf was located by Baron von Oppenheim while on a mission to survey the land for the Baghdad Railway. The Baron returned some years later to excavate the mound, and this monograph is his considered statement of the site's importance. Setting the stage with a narrative of the discovery of the tell, von Oppenheim proceeds to describe the structures, monumental statuary and smaller objects recovered from the dig. Lavishly illustrated with over 85 illustrations and maps, this volume contains a storehouse of knowledge on ancient Syria, at that time part of the cultural continuum of Mesopotamia.

Notes:

Facsimile reprint. Originally published: London ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.

"The present English edition is a translation from the German edition which was published by F.A. Brockhaus at Leipzig in 1931 under the title Der Tell Halaf, eine neue kultur im ältesten Mesopotamien. In the English text, however, additions have been made in some places."--Foreword to the English ed.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1593336330

9781593336332

OCLC:

171554133