Toumba Tou Skourou: A Bronze Age Potter’s Quarter on Morphou Bay in Cyprus - Hardcover

Vermeule, Emily; Wolsky, Florence Z.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674896351 ISBN 13: 9780674896352

Publisher: Harvard University – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – Cyprus Expedition, 1991

Synopsis

This sumptuous publication of the archaeological excavation in northwest Cyprus (1971–1973) is sponsored by Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The authors present the site, its objects, and its chronological and historical significance against the wider background of Cypriote archaeology, casting new light on the problems of Cypriote pottery classification and the links between Cyprus and the Aegean world, especially Crete. Descriptions of the Mound and Tombs and the catalogues of their contents are supplemented by essays on individual classes of objects.

The book is lavishly illustrated with detailed diagrams and nearly 2,000 photographs and drawings to help the reader understand this active industrial area and its changes through successive generations from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age. An appendix of technical analyses, an inventory of the finds, a list of published references to the excavation, and a bibliography complete the documentation.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book contains the findings of the team of Harvard University doctors, as a result of the excavation of the small unconventional site long concealed under a sand dune, and named Toumba tou Skourou, which is located in the Republic of Cyprus.

About the Author:

Emily Vermeule was Zemurray-Stone Radcliffe Professor at Harvard University and author of Greece in the Bronze Age and Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – Cyprus Expedition
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0674896351
• ISBN 13: 9780674896352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 640