RARE comprehensive monograph on the Islamic ceramic art of Susa - an ancient city of the Proto-Elamite, Elamite, First Persian Empire, Seleucid, and Parthian empires of Iran, and one of the most important cities of the Ancient Near East, excavated under the direction of an eminent specialist in ancient Persia, the Russian-born French archeologist - Roman Ghirshman (1895-1979), together with his wife Tania Ghirshman. The pottery found at the various levels enabled a stratigraphy to be developed for Susa. The author of this monograph is Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, the Mayer professor of Islamic art and archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a renowned scholar of Islamic material culture. 340x280mm. 313 pages & 69 full-page b&w plates. Beige quarter-cloth board Hardcover. Black lettering on front cover and spine. Cover and spine yellowing, age-stained and slightly stained. Cover corners, front cover upper edge and spine edges bumped. Front cover bottom edge slightly bumped. Pages 55-62 bottom corner wrinkled. Page 61/62 upper corner creased.