VERMEULE Emily D.T. & WOLSKY Florence Z., “TOUMBA TOU SKOUROU: A Bronze Age Potters Quarter on Morphou Bay in Cyprus”, The Harvard University - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cyprus Expedition, 1990. In big 4o, p. xxxix, 442, 183 plates+2 gatefold plans. Frontispiece photograph. The authors present the site, its objects, and its chronological and historical significance against the wider background of Cypriote archaeology, casting new light on the problems of Cypriote pottery classification and the links between Cyprus and the Aegean world, especially Crete. Descriptions of the Mound and Tombs and the catalogues of their contents are supplemented by essays on individual classes of objects.

The book is lavishly illustrated with detailed diagrams and nearly 2,000 photographs and drawings to help the reader understand this active industrial area and its changes through successive generations from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age. An appendix of technical analyses, an inventory of the finds, a list of published references to the excavation, and a bibliography complete the documentation.

Hardcover, gilt title and spine lettering, blue cloth with minor wear. Excellent condition inbside. Scarce.