ABSTRACT

First published in 1988, the present volume contains the texts of papers read at a three-day Colloquium on bronzeworking centres in Western Asia from 1000 BC until the beginning of the Achaemenian period in 539 BC, which was held in the British Museum in July 1986. Each paper has been revised in the light of the discussion which followed it. The Colloquium was organized by Dr J E Curtis on behalf of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities and forms the first in a series which it is hoped will be held annually.

chapter |8 pages

Urartu as a Bronzeworking Centre

chapter |11 pages

Problems and Possibilities for Provenancing Bronzes by Chemical Composition

with special reference to Western Asia and the Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age

chapter |14 pages

Concluding Remarks