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Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum

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This catalogue makes to be had more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels kept within the British Museum. Most of them were excavated at Nineveh and other major sites in northern Iraq and Syria, and are presented here for the first time. They vary in date from prehistory down to the Persian and Hellenistic periods; the bulk belong within the eighth and seventh centuries, when the Near East under Assyrian rule grew more and more cosmopolitan. The collection includes luxury items made for palaces and temples, continuously bearing royal inscriptions, but even so many perfume-jars, mortars and other vessels for practical use. The catalogue comprises extensive information on material culture, art, technology, economic relationships, and social and non secular practices, and can be utilized by historians, archaeologists, philologists and anthropologists alike.

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