Mesopotamian Art in Cylinder Seals of The Pierpont Morgan Library

Porada, Edith

New York: 1947. Softcover. Black illustrated wraps with tan lettering on front cover, VI, 81 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Good (overall wear to wraps, covers loose, spine chipped and worn, pages with text and illustrations are clear with light age toning). Item #177133

Scarce! "The present book is intended as a short introduction to the subject of cylinder seals. The illustrations on which the discussion is based consist of outstanding examples from the 1,128 pieces in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library. This collection is the largest in the United States and ranks among the most important in the world. It covers all the significatn styles of Mesopotamian engraving from the end of the fourth millennium to the fourth century B.C. and most of the styles of other countries of the ancient Near East. The collection was formedby the late J. Pierpont Morgan between the years 1880 and 1910" -Preface. Contents include: Preface, Introcution, Bibliographical Note, Orientation Map, Outline of the Development of Mesopotamian Seal-Engraving, Cylinders of the Uruk Period, Cylinders of the Jemdet Nasr Period, Cylinders fo the Early Dynastic Age, Cylinders of the Akkad Period, Cylinders of the Post-Akkad period, Cylinders of the Third Dynasty of Ur, Cylinders of the Isin-Larsa Period, Cylinders of the First Dynasty of Babylon, Kassite Cylinders, Mitannian Cylinders, Middle Assyrian Cylinders, Cylinders of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Neo-Babylonian Cylinders, Achaemenid Cylinders, Cylinders of the Various Derivate Styles, Syrian Cylinders, Palestinian Cylinders, Hittite Cylinders, Cypriote Cylinders.