Prehistoric Mersin. Yümük Tepe in Southern Turkey
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xvii (i), 271pp., xxxiii plates, 1 folding map. Original grass green cloth with gilt lettering ruling and publisher's device on spine. Color frontispiece. The Neilson expedition in Cilicia.
"... I formed the impression that the fertile plain of Cilicia in southern Turkey, shut off as it was by the great ranges of Taurus from the Anatolian plateau and by bold Amanus from the northern Syria while open to the Mediterranean Sea, seemed designed by nature for a history of its own... In the course of this preliminary campaign we first examined numerous mounds in the wide plain between the Jeihan and Seihan rivers (so named after two of the Rivers of Paradise in Arab legend), and northwards as far as Kozan or Sis, after which we worked gradually westward." (Introduction).
Profusely illustrated with in-text line drawings of artifacts, maps and plans as well as thirty-three plates at rear, depicting various sites, including artifacts and one folding map showing Turkey, neighboring countries and Egypt. Contains list of illustrations, list of plates and abbreviations at front. First thirty pages with inked notes in margins and underling, one pencil note in margin of page 238. Binding with light wear. Very good + condition. Item #50942
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