Aruz. Art of the First Cities

Today's free book is Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus edited by Joan Aruz (2003). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Table of Contents

Cities of the South
Uruk and the Formation of the City
Art of the Early City-States
The Proto-Elamite Period
Fara
Excavations in the Diyala Region
Stone Sculpture Production
Nippur
Tello (Ancient Girsu)
Metalworking Techniques
Al Ubaid
Kish
The Royal Tombs of Ur
The Tomb of Puabi
The Great Death Pit at Ur

Cities of the North
Mari and the Syro-Mesopotamian World
The Treasure of Ur from Mari
Ebla and the Early Urbanization of Syria
Tell Umm el-Marra
Tell Banat

The First Great Empire
Art of the Akkadian Empire
Lost-Wax Casting
Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh)
Tell Brak in the Akkadian Period

From the Mediterranean to the Indus
Art and Interconnections in the Third Millennium B.C.
Egypt and the Near East in the Third Millennium B.C.
The Aegean and Western Anatolia: Social Forms and Cultural Relationships
The Early Bronze Age Jewelry Hoard from Kolonna, Aigina
Troy
Poliochni and the Civilization of the Northeastern Aegean
The Central Anatolian Plateau: The Tombs of Alaca Höyük
The North Caucasus
The Naikop (Oshad) Kurgan
Novosvobodnaya
Susa: Beyond the Zagros Mountains
The Gulf: Dilmun and Magan
Copper Alloys and Metal Sources
Tell Abraq
The Island of Tarut
"Intercultural Style" Carved Chlorite Objects
Pathways Across Eurasia
Altyn-depe
Gonur-depe
The Indus Civilization
Baluchistan
Cities of the Indus Valley

The Dynasties of Lagash and Ur
Approaching the Divine: Mesopotamian Art at the End of the Third Millennium B.C.
The Rediscovery of Gudea Statuary in the Hellenistic Period

Literature and Legacy
The Earliest Scholastic Tradition
Uruk and the World of Gilgamesh
The Mesopotamian Legacy: Origins of the Genesis Tradition