Ur Excavations, Volume II: The Royal Cemetery, Ancient Mesopotamia, 1934, VG

Woolley, C. Leonard, E. R. Burrows, Arthur Keith, L. LeGrain, and H. J. Plenderleith. Ur Excavations, Volume II: The Royal Cemetery: A Report on the Predynastic and Sargonid Graves Excavated Between 1926 and 1931 (London: n. p., 1934).

English, Very Good, HC, 4to, 13" x 10 1/2," xiii, 274 plates.

Very Good beige paper-covered boards backed with red-brown cloth. Black lettering on spine. Covers have light rubbing, slight age toning or darkening, slight wear to extremities, cocking toward the fore-edge, very faint smell of chimney (not cigarette) smoke, else clean and intact, binding tight. Pages have light age toning and a former owner's brief inscription in black ink on front free endpaper, else pristine and intact. Principally full-page plates, 274 in total, most in black-and-white, a few in color. One folding plate in back (Plate 274). 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 II which focuses on the the Royal Cemetery at the Ur excavations. Special emphasis on the Predynastic and Sargonid graves that were excavated between 1926 and 1931. This volume credits the author as C. Leonard Woolley with chapters by E. R. Burrows, Arthur Keith, L. LeGrain, and H. J. Plenderleith. However, the texts aforementioned may be part of another volume and are not included herein. Part of the series, Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia. "Published for the Trustees of the two museums by the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York."