Essays on Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, in honor of Charles Kyrle Wilkinson
Softcover
1983 · New York
by Harper, Prudence O. and Holly Pittman
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983. Softcover. VG (Slightly aged overall, with pages tanning lightly.). Maroon paper wraps, 93 pp., BW illus. A collection of six illustrated essays, assembled in honor of Charles Kyrle Wilkinson (1897-1986), long-time curator of Near Eastern art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Essays are: The Program of the Throneroom of Assurnasirpal II / Irene J. Winter ; Magic and Ritual in the Northwest Palace Reliefs / Barbara PArker Mallowan ; Balawat: Recent Excavations and a New Gate / Joan Oates ; Assyrian Palace Reliefs: Finished and Unfinished Business / Samuel M. Paley ; Hasanlu Horse Trappings and Assyrian Reliefs / Maude de Schauensee and Robert H. Dyson, Jr. ; Return to Kotah / Stuart Cary Welch. (Inventory #: 156199)