Terra-cottas...

by Shear, Theodore Leslie

Publisher: The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis in [Cambridge, England]

Written in English

Published: 1926 Downloads: 780

Subjects:

Terra-cotta sculpture -- Turkey -- Sardis (Extinct city)

Edition Notes

Classifications
Other titles	Architectural terra-cottas.
Statement	by Theodore Leslie Shear.
Series	Sardis. Publications of the American Society for the Excavation of Sardis -- vol. X
LC Classifications	DS156.S3 A6 vol. 10
The Physical Object
Pagination	v.
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL22981471M
LC Control Number	35000621

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