Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum

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A catalog, from two exhibitions on the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that describes and illustrates the British Museum’s strange choice of Assyrian carved reliefs from the palaces of the Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh in northern Mesopotamia, which date from the 9th to the 7th centuries B.C. A large number of small objects supply a broader picture of existence in Assyria. Contains 224 illustrations, 200 in colour. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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