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Middle East Archaeology: The James Bryce Memorial Lecture, Oxford, 1949
Text of a lecture given at Somerville College, 12 May 1949. Paperback. 46 pages. Minor signs of age, otherwise in good clean condition. Cat No 5023
Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire: Report on the Excavations on the Site of the Abbatial Buildings, 1929-30
A report of important and extensive excavations in the grounds of the abbey establishing the true extent of the abbey foundations compared to the present-day truncated building. Small finds are noted, including a medieval inscribed coffin lid.
Select Exhibition of Sir John and Lady Beazley’s Gifts to the Ashmolean Museum 1912 – 1966
Marking the large donation of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities bequeathed to the Museum, this exhibition showcased a selection of some of Sir John’s finest artefacts, focussing predominantly on his collection of Attic black-figure and Attic red-figure vases which, as Professor of Classical A
Indo-Sumerian: A New Approach to the Problems of the Indus Script
An intellectual thesis suggesting a strong link between the Indus scripts found on third millennium seals excavated at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa and the contemporaneous scripts of Mesopotamian Sumer with particular reference to the Indus numeral signs, and the signs for grain and silver, all of wh
The Micali Painter and His Followers
This book presents the first full stylistic study of the painter named after Guiseppe Micali (1769-1844), who recognized the hoard of vases discussed in this book as being the work of one man.
The Story Of Nefrekepta From A Demotic Papyrus. Put Into Verse
The story of Nefrekepta, the priest Setne and the Book of Thoth derived from a translation of the Demotic by Francis Griffith and renderd into verse by Gilbert Muarray with a coloured frontis by Florence Kingsford. Hardback. 48 pages on laid paper. Slight signs of wear to boards.