The art and architecture of the ancient Orient
By: Henri Frankfort
Series: The Pelican history of art -- Z7; Pelican history of art -- Z7.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1955
Place of publication: Baltimore, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Asian Architecture; Asian Art
Description: Part one: Mesopotamia. Part two: The peripheral regions: Asia minor and the Hittites, The Levant in the second millenium B.C., Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria, The art of ancient Persia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270).
Table of contents: title: The Emergence of Sumerian art: the protoliterate period (circa 3500-3000 B.C.); title: The Akkadian period (2340-2180 B.C.); title: The Neo-Sumerian period (2125-2025 B.C.) and the period of Isin, Larsa, and Babylon (2025-1594 B.C.); title: The art of the Kassite dynasty (circa 1600-1100 B.C.); title: The beginnings of Assyrian art (circa 1350-1000 B.C.); title: The late Assyrian period (circa 1000-612 B.C.); title: The Neo-Babylonian period (circa 612-539 B.C.); title: Asia minor and the Hitties; title: The Levant in the second millennium B.C.; title: Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria: North Syrian art (850-650 B.C.); title: The art of ancient Persia.