Ur Excavations. Volume II. The Royal Cemetery. (2 Parts)

Author: Woolley, C. Leonard
Title: Ur Excavations. Volume II. The Royal Cemetery. (2 Parts)
Publication: London, Philadelphia: Published for the Trustees of the Two Museums, London and Philadelphia, 1934
Edition: First edition

Description: Hardcover. Folio. xx, 604pp. text, 3 folding plates; xiii, 274 plates. Original tan wraps with red lettering on covers and spines, protected by modern mylar. Color frontispieces. A report on the Predynastic and Sargonid graves excavated between 1926 and 1931. With chapters by E. R. Burrows, Sir Arthur Keith, L. Legrain and H. J. Plenderleith. Published for the trustees of the two museums by the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. With numerous color plates and plans in volume two.

"This volume is in no sense a final work of history; it aims only at giving as complete a record as possible of the Royal Cemetery. The large number of illustrations has enabled me to reduce verbal descriptions of objects to a minimum, and throughout less emphasis is laid on objects than on the circumstances which give them historic value. Theories have been put forward only where the evidence could not be fairly presented without reference to the conclusions to which it led, and some of that evidence is necessarily of an intangible sort; but the material facts whereby my own views can be checked or others evolved are here adduced in full detail." (Woolley).

Binding with minor wear along edges, lightly rubbed. Some light foxing to edges. Very good+ condition.

Seller ID: 55071

Subject: Social Sciences



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