The Cyrus Cylinder and ancient Persia: a new beginning for the Middle East
London
British Museum
c2013
144 p.: ill. )chiefly col.(, maps; 28 cm
English translation of the Cyrus Cylinder text: p. 42-43
"This book is published to accompany the touring exhibition, "The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia" at Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 9 March-28 April 2013; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 3 May-14 June 2013; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 20 June-4 August 2013; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 9 August-22 September 2013; and J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Los Angeles, 2 October-2 December 2013."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references )p. 142-144(
John Curtis; with an introductory essay by Neil MacGregor and a translation of the Cyrus Cylinder by Irving Finkel.
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، Cyrus King of Persia, -925 B.C.
Exhibitions ، Art, Achaemenid
Exhibitions ، Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
Exhibitions ، Iran - Antiquities
Exhibitions ، Iran - History - To 046
Exhibitions ، Iran - Civilization - To 046
، Iran - Civilization - To 046
، Iran - History - To 046
DSR
217
.
C87
2013
NO
6491-
Curtis, John
AU
AU MacGregor, Neil 1946-
AU Finkel, Irving L
CO Arthur M. Sackler Gallery )Smithsonian Institution(