La collezione anatolica del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze

The book describes all Near Eastern materials arrived to the National Archaeological Museum of Florence through acquisitions and gifts and is composed by three sections devoted to different themes and geographical areas. The Anatolian collection comprises findings in Hacilar and Yortan styles and pots of Western Anatolian origin acquired in the course of the 20th century and encompassing a large time span, from the Prehistory to the Early Bronze Age period. The Mesopotamian collection includes different objects: a Neo-Assyrian relief, probably from Nineveh, several terracotta figurines dated back to the late third – early second millennium BC, a stone mace head, dated back to the Early Dynastic period and two stone weights. The Iranian collection includes some fragments and painted vessels from Susa, dated back to the late fifth millennium BC, and two Islamic bronze lamps. Finally, the glyptic includes both cylinder and stamp seals, mostly from Mesopotamia, spanning from the fourth millennium BC down to the Sasanian period (III-VII centuries AD) and represents one of the most remarkable collection of this kind in Italy.