The Art of the Ancient Near East
by Seton Lloyd
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Covers the art of Egypt, Sumer, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Assyria, Babylon, and Persia.Tags
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Seton Lloyd was the first Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and subsequently Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the University of London. His many books include Foundations in the Dust, Early Anatolia, and The Art of the Ancient Near East.
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- Canonical title
- The Art of the Ancient Near East
- Original publication date
- 1961
- Important places
- Near East
- First words
- This story of a momentous sequel to the genesis of mankind may be thought of as resembling a Nativity play.
Introduction: In a world of equivocal values, art is an acceptable reality and its contemplation one of the greater privileges of our heredity. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The Iranian accomplishment in fact lies mainly in the sculptured reliefs with which these architects, preferring to ornament the external approaches to their buildings rather than the internal wall-faces, enlivened their propylae and porticoes (Ill. 249) and in the glazed-brick friezes and the elaborately decorative columns with their twin-bull capitals.
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