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Nishapur: pottery of the early Islamic period

The city of Nishapur, located in eastern Iran, was a place of political importance in medieval times and a flourishing center of art, crafts, and trade. This publication studies the pottery found at the site at Nishapur excavated by the Iranian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum in 1935-40 and again in 1947. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website
Print Book, English, [1973]
Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn, [New York], [1973]
xlii, 374 pages illustrations (some color) 32 cm
9780870990762, 0870990764
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