The conference in Manchester in 1992 which this book came out of was organised to raise the profile of the study of mortuary remains in the Ancient Near East. Thirty papers from the conference are published here, covering a wide variety of regions and periods, from Epipalaeolithic to modern. Many different aspects are examined: physical anthropology, burial goods, social structure, ethoarchaeology, etc. This volume has a wide relevance not only to the areas specifically addressed, but also in the interpretation of burial remains and the evolution of society.

Final report of Danish excavations on the northern wall surrounding a city of the 3rd-2nd millenia BC and an Islamic fortress in Bahrain. The following volumes will detail the results of excavations at different parts of the walls and in the central part of the settlement. The excavations finished in 1978. Generous sponsorship by the Carlsberg Foundation has allowed the production of this elegant volume.

A collection of unpublished papers by Alan Hall, a leading authority on the history and epigraphy of classical Asia Minor, supported by contributions by scholars associated with him. Subjects include the indigenous names of Asia Minor, the festivals of Oenoanda, inscriptions and the topgraphy of Lycia, Phyrgia and Pisidia.

The three sites discussed in this volume provide a series of overlapping sequences that flesh out the cultural developments in East-Central Anatolia during most, if not all, of the third millennium BC. The ceramic evidence, forming the greater part of the material remains, is generously illustrated.

This well-illustrated guide to Yemeni pottery, its techniques and its social context is based upon the British Museeum's Littlewood Collection, `the finest collection of 20th-century Yemeni pottery outside Yemen itself'.

Volume four in the British School of Archaeology in Iraq's study of the city of Abu Salabikh. Volume Four is a two-volume set, with the first book containing the text and the second book containing the plates.

Tille Hoyuk was excavated between 1979 and 1990 by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara as part of the Turkish Lower Euphrates Rescue Project. The site revealed important remains of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages, and of the Achaemenid, and Hellenistic periods, as well as a Medieval phase. Between the 12th and 15th centuries the prehistoric mound was occupied by the fortified residence of a local chieftain. This volume contains a discussion of the methodology and stratigraphy of the excavation, followed by catalogues of the pottery, metal objects and coins.

A study on the chronology of the sculpture, primarily large-scale, of the Parthian Empire. The catalogue describes individual sculptural monuments and enumerates results and proposals of previous research. The text volume attempts to date the monuments according to their style and other criteria (such as iconographical traits, historical identifications or the contents of accompanying inscriptions and technical details). The study deals with sculptures from the central part of the Parthian Empire, defined as the area from around the Euphrates in the west (including a few monuments from Edesa and ancient Armenia) to the eastern frontiers of Iran, and from the Persian Gulf in the south to Parthyene, the southern part of Soviet Turkmenistan, in the north. However, some ivory reliefs found at Olbia and normally included in studies on Parthian art are also treated here.

This third report of the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum is devoted to study of the terrace on which the Maussolleion was built. Seventy five trenches were dug in gardens and orchards to examine the extent and nature of the perimeter revetment and its facing wall, the surfacing of the terrace platform, and the foundation of the building that stood at its entrance, at the centre of the east side. Also included is a transcript of G M A Biliotti's diary recording excavations on behalf of the British Museum at the site of the Mausoleum in 1865 (with transcripts of inscriptions) and an account of the early history of marginally drafted masonry.

How should one read aloud the Book of Job or the Hebrew Psalter? This is the question answered by this concise guide to the analysis and correct vocalisation of Hebrew poetry. As the author states in the foreword, this is not by any means a comprehensive guide to the rich symbolism, or the different literary genres, that make up Hebrew literature; "Its subject is restricted to what can be irreverently described as the mechanics of biblical poetry".

Presented in both Czech and English this book commemorates work by the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Egypt between 1958 and 1988. The topics covered are: The international UNESCO campaign to save the monuments of Nubia; work at the Mastaba of Ptahshepses at Abusir; work in the South Field at Abusir; an overview of Czech Egyptological Expeditions and a bibliography of Czech Egyptological publications.

A report on the excavation of an Uruk period mound dug as part of the Hamrin Dam rescue project in East Iraq. It includes sections on the archaeology, finds, animal bones and flints.

The third and final Sippar volume catalogues some 12,000 Babylonian tablets acquired by the British Museum between 1882 and 1895. The tablets, which are catalogued by date, include a large number of Old Babylonian examples.

This was a rescue project in the basin of the Qadisiyya Dam recently completed at Haditha. Qal'at 'Ana is an island in the stream of the Euphrates, the site of the ancient and medieval city of 'Ana, since the 17th century downgraded to a village and palm-gardens, while the town moved to the right bank. 'Ana, on the Middle Euphrates some 150 km below the modern Iraqi-Syrian border, a very beautiful place, was the centre of an autonomous governorate under the Assyrians, a border fortress under the Parthians, Romans and Sasanians, and a caravan town and bedouin centre under Islam.

Sixth in the series publishing the whole collection of Babylonian and Sumerian cuneiform tablets in the British Museum. In this volume over 10,000 Babylonian tablets acquired by the Museum in 1882 are described. The majority come from the archives of the Shamash temple at Sippar, and are dated to the Neo-Babylonian dynasties (625-331 BC).

Composition is so vast that no single book -- let alone a slender volume like this one -- can cover it exhaustively. The principles and views presented here are representative of a variety of approaches to visual design: some are concerned exclusively with form; others with the psychology of form; and still others with ideological properties thought to be inherent in particular choices of visual pattern.