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Oppenheim, Max von (Dr. Baron); Wheeler, Gerald (trans.).
Tell Halaf A New Culture in Oldest Mesopotamia.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, London and New York;
Date of Publication: 1933
Stock Code: 15491
First edition. Octavo, pp., xvi, [2], 337, [1] blank, plus colour-tinted photographic frontispiece, 3 colour-tinted plates, 54 half-tones plates, and 23 maps, illustrations and figures within text, as called for. Publisher’s brown buckram; titled in gilt to spine; Mesopotamian vignette stamped in black to upper board; white end-papers. Ex-library stamps (including withdrawn stamp) of St. Augustine’s Library, Canterbury, to front end-papers only. Partially rubbed ex-library call number inscribed to spine; minor scuffs to spine; binding otherwise strong and square, the corners sharp. Internally clean and in good order. A very good or better ex-library copy. An account of the excavation of Tell Halaf, by the German archaeologist who led the team that rediscovered the site in 1911-13. Tell Halaf is a neolithic site of the Halaf culture. The photographs show the numerous artefacts uncovered at the site, as well as scenes taken during the excavations. £60.00