Author: Herzfeld, Ernst E.:

Title: Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston.

Publication: New York: Hacker Art Books, 1988.

Description: Folio, pp. [x], 363, [iii] + numerous leaves at rear containing 131 black and white plates showing artefacts, friezes, sculptures etc. Further illustrations in the text. Handsome olive green pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine. A few light scratches to rear board, near fine.

First published in 1941. From Herzfeld's Preface: 'This book is a presentation, in somewhat modified form, of the Lowell Lectures delivered in Boston during October and November, 1936. In the original series of eight lectures, which gave an historical account of Iranian archaeology, the first two dealt with the prehistoric period of Iran, i.e., its stone, copper and bronze ages; the third, with the period of transition after the immigration of the Aryan tribes into the highlands; the fourth and fifth, with the architecture and sculpture of the Achaemenian Empire; the sixth, with the period of Hellenistic influence during the Seleucid and Arsacid ages; and the last two, with the rich flowering of Iranian art, especially sculpture, during the Sasanian era. [?] the publication of recent excavations has afforded material that better illustrates theories here advanced than that used in the lectures. These changes have chiefly affected the first two lectures on Iranian prehistory; and since this section has therefore required considerable reshaping, the author has seen no objection to widening the scope and introducing collateral material, particularly where the limitations of time during the lectures had permitted only an introductory discussion.'

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Reference Number: [55096]

Price: £175

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