@article{1384045,
      recid = {1384045},
      author = {Simpson, Elizabeth, and Muscarella, Oscar White,},
      title = {The adventure of the illustrious scholar : papers  presented to Oscar White Muscarella /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1,049 pages).},
      abstract = {The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented  to Oscar White Muscarella, edited by Elizabeth Simpson, is  a Festschrift celebrating the career of one of the foremost  archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Oscar Muscarella  is a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a  formidable scholar who has excavated at sites in Turkey,  Iran, and the United States. He has published eight books  and nearly 200 articles, excavation reports, and reviews on  topics ranging from the arts of antiquity and the  importance of connoisseurship, to the difficulties of  dating and the problems of forgeries, the looting of  ancient sites, and the antiquities trade. The forty-seven  contributors are experts in the areas of Muscarella's  interests and are major scholars in their fields. This  volume constitutes an unusual, important, and timely  addition to the archaeological and art historical  literature.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1384045},
}