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LEADER: 02566cam a22003134a 4500
001 2004023525
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005 20120321100035.0
008 041005s2005 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0810958724 (hc : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm56672169
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050 00 $aDS79.76$b.L66 2005
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245 04 $aThe looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad :$bthe lost legacy of ancient Mesopotamia /$cedited by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bHarry N. Abrams, Publishers,$c2005.
300 $axiii, 242 p. :$bcol. ill., col. maps ;$c27 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / William R. Polk -- Theft of time / Angela H.M. Schuster -- Erasing the past: looting of archaeological sites in Southern Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton -- A short history of the Iraq National Museum Usam / Ghaidan and Anna Paolini -- A museum is born / Lamia al-Gailani Werr -- Iraq in the beginning / Ralph Soleki -- Dawn of civilization / Harriet Crawford -- Small treasures of the Iraq Museum / Fiorella Ippolitoni Strika -- The lion hunt stele / Diana McDonald -- The Warka vase / Diana McDonald -- From village to empire: the rise of Sumer and Akkad / Paul Collins -- Akkadian victory stele / Diana McDonald -- Akkadian head of a king / Diana McDonald -- The birth of writing, the dawn of literature / Robert D. Biggs -- Cylinder seal impression / Diana McDonald -- Babylonians and Assyrians / Julian Reade -- Assyrian ivory lioness from Nimrud / Diana McDonald -- From the Kassite temple of Karaindash / Diana McDonald -- In the wake of Alexander /Elisabetta Valtz Fino -- Alexander the Great coin /Diana McDonald -- The coming of Islam / Alastair E. Northedge -- Baghdad through the ages / Vincenzo Strika -- The ravages of war and the challenge of reconstruction / Selma al-Radi -- The recovery of the Nimrud gold / Diana McDonald -- The fall of Babylon / Zainab Bahrani -- Epilogue / Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster -- References and resources / Barbara A. Porter.
610 20 $aMatḥaf al-ʻIrāqī.
650 0 $aIraq War, 2003-2011$xDestruction and pillage.
650 0 $aArchaeological thefts$zIraq.
651 0 $aIraq$xAntiquities.
700 1 $aPolk, Milbry.
700 1 $aSchuster, Angela M. H.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023525.html