Glass and glassmaking in ancient Mesopotamia : an edition of the Cuneiform texts which contain instructions for glassmakers with a catalogue of surviving objects / [by] A. Leo Oppenheim, Robert H. Brill, Dan Barag, Axel von Saldern.

Title: 
Glass and glassmaking in ancient Mesopotamia : an edition of the Cuneiform texts which contain instructions for glassmakers with a catalogue of surviving objects / [by] A. Leo Oppenheim, Robert H. Brill, Dan Barag, Axel von Saldern.

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Author/Artist: 
Oppenheim, A. Leo, 1904-1974. Cuneiform texts.
Publisher: 
Corning, N.Y. : The Corning Museum of Glass, 1970.
Description: 
viii, 242 p., 20 β. of plates : fold. map, tables ; 28 cm.
Other Authors: 
Brill, Robert H. Chemical interpretation of the texts.
Barag, Dan. Mesopotamian core formed glass vessels.
Saldern, Axel von, 1923-2012. Other Mespotamian glass vessels.
Format of Material: 
Books
Microform
Subjects: 
Glassware, Ancient Mesopotamia.
Akkadian language Texts.
Glass manufacture To 1800.
Glass manufacture Mesopotamia.
Core-forming Mesopotamia. YKM
Bib ID: 
27367
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Location: 
Secured Stacks
Call Number: 
NK5107.3.O62
Location: 
Microforms
Call Number: 
F-965
Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
NK5107.3.O62
Location: 
Digital Book
Call Number: 
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Notes: 
Reference list E : Corning Museum of Glass publications, in: Brill, Robert H. Chemical analyses of early glasses, E-33
Brill chapter also available online in the Science Research database, full text.
P. 105-128 digitized by OCLC Digitization Services in 2008. Text-searchable .pdf created from digital file.
f-965, 5 sheets; hard copy in library NK5107.3.O62.
Contents: 
The cuneiform texts / A. Leo Oppenheim --
The chemical interpretation of the texts / Robert H. Brill --
Mespotamian core-formed glass vessels (1500-500 B.C.) / Dan Barag --
Other Mesopotamian glass vessels (1500-600 B.C.) . Axel von Saldern.

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMoG objects: 63.1.29, p. 168, #5 (fig. 77) -- 59.1.65, p. 169, #8 (fig. 80) -- 55.1.64, p. 199 (not ill.) -- 62.1.22, p. 226, #48 (fig. 44) -- 55.1.66, p. 228, #55 (fig. 50).