Volume XIX / Number 3

1928

Vol. XIX / No. 3

By: L. Legrain

Old Sumerian Art

IT is a pure joy for a weary archaeologist to plunge into a study of Oriental art—the oldest known Mesopotamian […]

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Vol. XIX / No. 3

By: Edith H. Dohan

Three Greek Grave Monuments

IN Greek thought as in Christian, it was held an act of virtue to bury the dead, or rather, since […]

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Vol. XIX / No. 3

By: Helen E. Fernald

The T. Broom Belfield Collection of Japanese Netsuké

FOR flights of pure fun and fancy there is no field of art more prolific than that of the Japanese […]

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Vol. XIX / No. 3

By: Cornelia H. Dam

An Egyptian Kursi

DURING the year 1923 the MUSEUM added to its Arabic collection an exceptionally fine kursi, or table, of brass inlaid […]

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Vol. XIX / No. 3

By: J. Alden Mason

Some Unusual Spearthrowers of Ancient America

THE spearthrower is one of the most remarkable of the inventions of primitive man and for that reason has ever […]

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