Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Sites and Excavations -- Chapter One. The Tumuli at Se Girdan: A Preliminary Report -- Chapter Two. The Tumuli at Se Girdan: Second Report -- Chapter Three. The Chronology and Culture of Se Girdan: Phase III -- Chapter Four. Qalatgah: An Urartian Site in Northwestern Iran -- Chapter Five. Excavations at Agrab Tepe, Iran -- Chapter Six. The Iron Age at Dinkha Tepe, Iran -- Chapter Seven. Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century BC -- Chapter Eight. The Hasanlu Lion Pins Again -- Chapter Nine. The Excavation of Hasanlu: An Archaeological Evaluation -- Chapter Ten. The Iranian Iron III Chronology at Muweilah in the Emirate of Sharjah -- Chapter Eleven. The Location of Ulhu and Uishe in Sargon II's Eighth Campaign, 714 BC -- Chapter Twelve. Surkh Dum at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: a Mini-Report -- Chapter Thirteen. North-Western Iran: Bronze Age to Iron Age -- Chapter Fourteen. Jiroft and "Jiroft-Aratta": A Review Article of Yousef Madjidzadeh, Jiroft: The Earliest Oriental Civilization -- Chapter Fifteen. Sargon II's 8th Campaign: An Introduction and Overview -- Chapter Sixteen. Near East Invited Review: King Midas' Tumulus at Gordion -- Chapter Seventeen. The Iron Age Background to the Formation of the Phrygian State -- Chapter Eighteen. The Date of the Destruction of the Early Phrygian Period at Gordion -- Chapter Nineteen. Again Gordion's Early Phrygian Destruction Date: ca. +/- 700 BC -- Chapter Twenty. Urartian Metal Artifacts: An Archaeological Review -- PART TWO. ARTIFACTS, CULTURES, FORGERIES, AND PROVENIENCE -- Chapter Twenty-One. The Archaeological Evidence for Relations between Greece and Iran in the First Millennium BC -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Urartian Bells and Samos -- Chapter Twenty-Three. King Midas of Phrygia and the Greeks.

Chapter Twenty-Four. Greek and Oriental Cauldron Attachments: A Review -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Fibulae Represented on Sculpture -- Chapter Twenty-Six. Phrygian or Lydian? -- Chapter Twenty-Seven. Fibulae and Chronology, Marlik and Assur -- Chapter Twenty-Eight. Parasols in the Ancient Near East -- Chapter Twenty-Nine. The Pope and the Bitter Fanatic -- Chapter Thirty. The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures -- Chapter Thirty-One. The Fifth Column within the Archaeological Realm: The Great Divide -- Chapter Thirty-Two. Bazaar Archaeology (Plate 34 a.b) -- Chapter Thirty-Three. Excavated in the Bazaar: Ashurbanipal's Beaker -- Chapter Thirty-Four. Von Bissing's Memphis Stela: A Product of Cultural Transfer? -- Chapter Thirty-Five. Gudea or not Gudea in New York and Detroit: Ancient or Modern? -- Chapter Thirty-Six. The Veracity of "Scientific" Testing by Conservators -- Chapter Thirty-Seven. "Ziwiye" and Ziwiye: The Forgery of a Provenience -- Chapter Thirty-Eight. Median Art and Medizing Scholarship -- Chapter Thirty-Nine. Museum Constructions of the Oxus Treasures: Forgeries of Provenience and Ancient Culture -- Chapter Forty. Excavated and Unexcavated Achaemenian Art.

Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East follows the evolution of Oscar White Muscarella's scholarly work and interests and is divided into several categories of interrelated fields.

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