Ur Excavations, Vol. III: Archaic Seal Impressions, Ancient Mesopotamia, 1936, VG

LeGrain, L., Leonard Woolley (Introductory Note). Ur Excavations, Volume III: Archaic Seal Impressions (London: n. p., 1936).

English, Very Good, HC, 4to, 13" x 9 1/2," 50 pp. including Appendix and Bibliography, + 58 plates.

ISBN: N/A

Very Good beige paper-covered boards backed with red-brown cloth. Black lettering on spine. Covers have light rubbing, slight age toning or darkening, and slight wear to extremities, else clean and intact, binding tight. Pages have light age toning and a few brief former owners' inscriptions or marks on front and back endpapers, else pristine and intact. 58 full-page black-and-white plates in the back. Beautiful scholarly monograph about the archaeological excavations at Ur, a Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia. Ur is located in present-day Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq. This is Volume III which focuses on the archaic seal impressions at the Ur excavations. Introductory Note is followed by Chapters I-III which are respectively titled as follows: "The Archaic Seal Impressions," "Analysis of Decorative Motives," and "Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings." Appendix, Bibliography, and Plates are in the back. Part of the series, Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, to Mesopotamia. "Published for the Trustees of the two museums by the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York."