How to Observe in Archaeology eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 106 pages of information about How to Observe in Archaeology.

How to Observe in Archaeology eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 106 pages of information about How to Observe in Archaeology.

Jewellery, forged, 24.

Kassite period, 91. 
Khirbet (khirbah), 68 ff. 
Khorsabad, 92. 
Kohl-pots, 62,78 f. 
Kok tombs, 71 f. 
Kuyunjik, 85, 92.

Laconian pottery, 45. 
Lagash, 88. 
Lamps, Aegean, 37. 
Latin inscriptions in Asia Minor, 53. 
Laws of Antiquities, 7, 95 ff. 
Levelling, 33. 
Licences for acquiring antiquities, 9. 
Lycian inscriptions and monuments, 51. 
Lydian inscriptions, 51.

Ma’abed, Tell el-, 85. 
Mastabas, 78. 
Mapping, 13. 
Mesopotamia, 83 ff. 
Minoan Age. 36; pottery in Palestine, 73. 
‘Minyan’ ware, 37. 
Mortar, bitumen, 84, 90, 92. 
Mosaic, 77, 79. 
Mounds, 14:  see also Tell. 
Muqayyar, Tell, 85. 
Museums, use of, 7 f. 
‘Mycenaean’ Age, 37; pottery in Palestine, 73.

Naksh-i-Rustam, 94. 
Neolithic Age:  see Stone Age. 
Niffer, 90. 
Nimrud, 92. 
Nineveh, 85, 92. 
Numerals, West Semitic, 67.

’Obeid, Tell el-, 85, 88 f. 
Obsidian:  Aegean, 37; Mesopotamian, 85, 88. 
Olive-presses in Palestine, 77. 
Orientalizing Greek antiquities, 41, 44. 
Outfit, 10 f.

Packing of antiquities, 22 f. 
Palestine, 65 ff. 
Papyri, forged, 24. 
Paraffin-wax, 22 f. 
Parthian period in Mesopotamia, 93. 
Pehlevi script, 93 f. 
Persian period:  in Mesopotamia, 92; in Syria, 62. 
Photography, 10 f., 21 f. 
Phrygian inscriptions, 55. 
Pins:  Greek, 40, 44; Hittite, 60, 62; Mesopotamian, 91. 
Place-names, Eastern, 68 f., 83. 
Planning, 14, 16 f. 
Plaster casting, 19 f. 
Pottery, passim; hand-made and wheel-made, 29, 49 f; importance of,
29. 84; packing of, 23. 
Preservation of antiquities, 22 f. 
‘Proto-Corinthian’ pottery, 41. 
Ptolemaic period, 79.

Red-figured Greek pottery, 44. 
Rhodian jar-handles:  in Egypt, 79; in Palestine, 73. 
Rock-cut tombs, 70 f. 
Rock-sculptures in Mesopotamia, 83.

Saites, 79. 
Samarra, 94. 
Sanctuaries:  in Cyprus, 54 f.; in Palestine, 76. 
Sargonid period, 90. 
Sassanian period, 93 f. 
Scarabs:  in Cyprus, 56; in Egypt, 78; in Syria, 62, 64; forged, 24. 
Schools of archaeology, 8, 26 f. 
Sculpture, squeezing of, 18. 
Seals:  Aegean, 37; Hittite, 62; Mesopotamian, 86, 89, 91; Sassanian,
93; Syrian, of Persian period, 64:  see also Cylinders, Scarabs. 
Semitic inscriptions, 62, 65-7, 87. 
Shahrein, Tell Abu, 85, 88, 90. 
Shuruppak, 88. 
Sinjerli, 59, 62. 
Sites, identification of, 68. 
Societies, archaeological, 8, 26 f. 
Squeezing, 17 ff. 
Stone Age, 29 ff.; in Asia Minor, 48; in Cyprus, 56; in Greece, 35
f.; in Mesopotamia, 84 f., 88; in Palestine, 76; in Syria, 59 f. 
Sumerian period, 88 ff. 
Susa, 85. 
Syria, Central and North, 59ff.

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