Catalogue raisonne des sceaux cylindres et intailles / Marie-Louise Vollenweider.

By: Contributor(s): Language: French Publication details: Genéve : [Musee d'art et d'histoire de Geneve] c1967- 1983.Description: 3 v. in 4 : illus. ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 38053018202
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • CD5020.S92 V65 1967
Contents:
Vol. 1. Preface -- Introduction -- Catalogue : Cylindre de la période d'Uruk -- Sceaux iraniens du IVe millanaire av. J.-C. -- Sceaux et cylindres de la période de Djemdet Nasr -- Cylindres présargoniques -- Cylindres de la periode d'Accad -- Cylindres postaccadiens et la IIIe dynastie d'Ur -- Cylindres de la Ire dynastie de Babylone -- Cylindres de la période cassite -- Cylindresdes regions peripheriques -- Cylindres mitanniens -- Cylindres et sceaux de la fin de la periode cassite et de l'epoque neo-assyrienne -- Cylindres et sceaux neo-babyloniens -- Cylindres et sceaux achemenides -- Sceaux parthes et sassanides -- Sceaux de l'Anatolie et du nord de la Syrie -- Cylindres hittites et Syriens -- Sceaux du nord de la Syrie et scarabees pheniciens -- Sceaux et cylindres chypriotes -- Intailles et bagues grecques -- Scarabées etrusques -- Vol. 2. Les portraits, les masques de theatre, les symboles politiques (2 v.) -- Vol. 3. La collection du reverend Dr. V.E.G. Kenna et d'autres acquisitions et dons recents.
Summary: Musee d'Art et d'Histoire de Geneve, 1967. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Includes original jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed & toned. Correspondence related to the original purchase of this volume directly from the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire de Geneve, with a photocopy of the original check for 141 Swiss Francs, dated 1976. 1967 Large Hardcover. 217 pp., with plates following text. The first of three volumes. A catalogue raisonne of cylinders seals, with 95 pages of black & white photographic plates. These cylinder seals were an ancient tool used to create intaglio prints, and were originally invented circa 3500 BC, and are known to be linked to the invention of cuneiform writing on clay tablets in Mesopotamia. These seals are quite collectible as artifacts of early printed languages, and relics of various ancient cultures.
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Books Books Hollanda Araştırma Enstitüsü Kütüphanesi / Netherlands Institute in Turkey Library CD5020.S92, V65 1967 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Not For Loan 448

Label mounted on cover, v. 1 : Supplied by Worldwide Books, New York.

Vol. 2-3 published by P. von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein.

At head of title " Musee d'art et d'histoire de Geneve"

Vol. 2-3, have title : Catalogue raisonne des sceaux, cylindres, intailles et camees.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.

Vol. 1. Preface -- Introduction -- Catalogue : Cylindre de la période d'Uruk -- Sceaux iraniens du IVe millanaire av. J.-C. -- Sceaux et cylindres de la période de Djemdet Nasr -- Cylindres présargoniques -- Cylindres de la periode d'Accad -- Cylindres postaccadiens et la IIIe dynastie d'Ur -- Cylindres de la Ire dynastie de Babylone -- Cylindres de la période cassite -- Cylindresdes regions peripheriques -- Cylindres mitanniens -- Cylindres et sceaux de la fin de la periode cassite et de l'epoque neo-assyrienne -- Cylindres et sceaux neo-babyloniens -- Cylindres et sceaux achemenides -- Sceaux parthes et sassanides -- Sceaux de l'Anatolie et du nord de la Syrie -- Cylindres hittites et Syriens -- Sceaux du nord de la Syrie et scarabees pheniciens -- Sceaux et cylindres chypriotes -- Intailles et bagues grecques -- Scarabées etrusques -- Vol. 2. Les portraits, les masques de theatre, les symboles politiques (2 v.) -- Vol. 3. La collection du reverend Dr. V.E.G. Kenna et d'autres acquisitions et dons recents.

Musee d'Art et d'Histoire de Geneve, 1967. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Includes original jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed & toned. Correspondence related to the original purchase of this volume directly from the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire de Geneve, with a photocopy of the original check for 141 Swiss Francs, dated 1976. 1967 Large Hardcover. 217 pp., with plates following text. The first of three volumes. A catalogue raisonne of cylinders seals, with 95 pages of black & white photographic plates. These cylinder seals were an ancient tool used to create intaglio prints, and were originally invented circa 3500 BC, and are known to be linked to the invention of cuneiform writing on clay tablets in Mesopotamia. These seals are quite collectible as artifacts of early printed languages, and relics of various ancient cultures.

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