Inside an ancient Assyrian palace : looking at Austen Henry Layard's reconstruction / Ada Cohen & Steven E. Kangas.

One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria, a land theretofore known only from the Bible, it was published by the mos...

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Main Authors: Cohen, Ada (Author), Kangas, Steven E. (Author)
Other Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, 1817-1894
Other title:Container of (expression): Monuments of Nineveh.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Hanover ; London : Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College ; University Press of New England, [2017]
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