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Treasures of the Holy Land : ancient art from the Israel Museum.

Title
Treasures of the Holy Land : ancient art from the Israel Museum.
Publication
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, ©1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem)
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Description
280 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Summary
The art and history of the Holy Land are presented here by distinguished members of the curatorial staff of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. A series of essays examines this land's rich complexity from prehistory through the Islamic conquest of A.D. 640, and almost two hundred works of art are discussed in texts that explore their cultural, historical, religious, and aesthetic significance. Maps, site photographs, and comparative illustrations add to the reader's appreciation of a land whose great intellectual force continues to mold today's world.
Subject
  • Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem) > Exhibitions
  • Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem)
  • Muzeon Yiśraʾel
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) > Catalogs
  • Geschichte Anfänge-100
  • Art, Ancient > Palestine > Exhibitions
  • Antiquities
  • Art, Ancient
  • Kunst
  • Ausstellung
  • Altertümer
  • Art, Ancient > Eretz Israel
  • Art museums > Israel > Jerusalem
  • Palestine > Antiquities > Exhibitions
  • Middle East > Palestine
  • Palästina
  • Eretz Israel > Antiquities
  • New York (N.Y.)
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 25, 1986 to Jan. 4, 1987; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Apr. 9, 1987 to July 5, 1987, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 31, 1987 to Jan. 17, 1988.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 200.
Contents
Prehistory -- The Natufian culture -- Neolithic period. Figurines from Horvat Minha -- Chalcolithic period. Ivories from Beersheba ; Vessels from Gilat ; Ossuaries from Azor ; The Judaean desert treasure -- Canaanite period/Bronze Age. Sculptures from Hazor ; Ivories from Lachish ; Jewelry from Tell el-Ajjul -- Israelite period/Iron Age. Ivories from Megiddo ; Zoomorphic bowls ; Ivories from Samaria ; Pottery masks from Akhziv ; Ancient Hebrew script -- Persian period -- Late Second Temple period and period of the Mishna and the Talmud. The city of Jerusalem ; Burial customs in Jerusalem ; Ancient coins ; Ancient glass ; Tomb group from Mishmar Haemek -- The Dead Sea Scrolls.
ISBN
  • 0870994700
  • 9780870994708
  • 0870994719
  • 9780870994715
  • 0810916924
  • 9780810916920
LCCN
86221369
OCLC
  • ocm15252711
  • 15252711
  • SCSB-14422467
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library