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Titles with full-text online

A quick survey of the currently available titles relating to antiquity yields the following:

Age of Spirituality: A Symposium
Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., with contributions by Hans-Georg Beck, Beat Brenk, Peter R. L. Brown, George M. A. Hanfmann, Ernst Kitzinger, Richard Krautheimer, Arnaldo Momigliano, Ihor Šev�enko, Massey H. Shepherd, Jr., and Kurt Weitzmann
(1980)  Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century
Weitzmann, Kurt, ed.
(1979)
Along the Ancient Silk Routes: Central Asian Art from the West Berlin State Museums
Härtel, Herbert, and Marianne Yaldiz
(1982) Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Karageorghis, Vassos, in collaboration with Joan R. Mertens and Marice E. Rose
(2000)  Ancient Art in Miniature: Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky
Pittman, Holly
(1987)  Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hearn, Maxwell K.
(1987)  Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy
Fischer, Henry George
(1988)  Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography
Caminos, Ricardo Augusto, and Henry George Fischer
(1987)  Ancient Egyptian Representations of Turtles
Fischer, Henry G.
(1968) Ancient Peruvian Ceramics: The Nathan Cummings Collection
Sawyer, Alan R.
(1966)  Ancient Peruvian Mantles, 300 B.C.–A.D. 200
Frame, Mary
(1995)
The Art of Ancient Egypt: A Resource for Educators
Watts, Edith W.
(1998)
The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection
Jones, Julie, ed.
(1985)
Art of the Ancient Near East: A Resource for Educators
Benzel, Kim, Sarah B. Graff, Yelena Rakic, and Edith W. Watts
(2010)
Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley
Pittman, Holly
(1984)
Assyrian Origins: Discoveries at Ashur on the Tigris: Antiquities in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
Harper, Prudence O., Evelyn Klengel-Brandt, Joan Aruz, and Kim Benzel
(1995) Assyrian Reliefs and Ivories in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Palace Reliefs of Assurnasirpal II and Ivory Carvings from Nimrud
Crawford, Vaughn E., Prudence O. Harper, and Holly Pittman, with an essay by Dorothea Seelye Franck
(1980)  Attic Black-Figured Neck-Amphorae, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Fascicule 4
Moore, Mary B., and Dietrich von Bothmer
(1976)    
Before Cortés: Sculpture of Middle America
Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy, and John F. Scott
(1971)
Before the Roses and Nightingales: Excavations at Quasr-i Abu Nasr, Old Shiraz
Whitcomb, Donald S.
(1985)
Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Muscarella, Oscar White
(1988)
  China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 A.D.
Watt, James C. Y., An Jiayao, Angela F. Howard, Boris I. Marshak, Su Bai, and Zhao Feng, with contributions by Prudence O. Harper, et al.
(2004) Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume I: Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C.
Spar, Ira, ed.
(1988)  Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume II: Literary and Scholastic Texts of the First Millennium B.C.
Spar, Ira, and W. G. Lambert
(2005)  Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume III: Private Archive Texts from the First Millennium B.C.
Spar, Ira, and Eva von Dassow, with contributions by J. N. Postgate and Linda B. Bregstein
(2001)
Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids
Allen, James P., Susan Allen, Julie Anderson, Dieter Arnold, Dorothea Arnold, Nadine Cherpion, Élisabeth David, Nicolas Grimal, Krzysztof Grzymski, Zahi Hawass, Marsha Hill, Peter Jánosi, Sophie Labée-Toutée, Audran Labrousse, Jean-Philippe Lauer, Jean Leclant, Peter Der Manuelian, N. B. Millet, Adela Oppenheim, Diana Craig Patch, Elena Pischikova, Patricia Rigault, Catharine H. Roehrig, Dietrich Wildung, and Christiane Ziegler
(1999) Egyptian Stone Vessels: Khian through Tuthmosis IV
Lilyquist, Christine, with contributions by Edward W. Castle
(1995)  Egyptian Titles of the Middle Kingdom: A Supplement to Wm. Ward's Index
Fischer, Henry George
(1985)  Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection of Facsimiles
Hill, Marsha, and Charles K. Wilkinson
(1983)
Essays on Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in Honor of Charles Kyrle Wilkinson
Harper, Prudence O., and Holly Pittman, eds.
(1983)
The Flame and the Lotus: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Kronos Collections
Lerner, Martin
(1984)
From Attila to Charlemagne: Arts of the Early Medieval Period in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brown, Katharine Reynolds, Dafydd Kidd, and Charles T. Little, eds., with essays by William D. Wixom, Katherine Reynolds Brown, Françoise Vallet, Elke Nieveler, Andrew Oliver, Barbara Deppert-Lippitz, Horst Böhme, Volker Bierbrauer, Inciser Gürçay Damm, Wilfried Menghin, Lidia Paroli, Otto Prinz von Hessen, Éva Garam, Csanád Bálint, Gisela Ripoll López, Birgit Arrhenius, Max Martin, Patrick Périn, Vera I. Evison, John Hines, Helmut Roth, Jan Peder Lamm, and Victor H. Elbern
(2000)
Gifts for the Gods: Images from Ancient Egyptian Temples
Hill, Marsha, and Deborah Schorsch, eds.
(2007)
The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261
Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom, eds., with essays by Speros P. Vryonis, Jr., Thomas F. Mathews, Jeffrey C. Anderson, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Henry Maguire, Robert G. Ousterhout, Ioli Kalavrezou, Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Helen C. Evans, Olenka Z. Pevny, Joseph D. Alchermes, S. Peter Cowe, Thelma K. Thomas, Jaroslav Folda, Priscilla Soucek, and William D. Wixom
(1997)
The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from The Peoples Republic of China
Fong, Wen, ed., Robert W. Bagley, Jenny F. So, and Maxwell K. Hearn
(1980) Greek Art From Prehistoric to Classical: A Resource for Educators
Norris, Michael, Carlos Picón, Joan Mertens, Elizabeth Milleker, Seán Hemingway, and Christopher Lightfoot
(2000)  Greek Art of the Aegean Islands
Von Bothmer, Dietrich, and Joan R. Mertens
(1979)  Greek Vase Painting
Von Bothmer, Dietrich
(1987) Guide to Provincial Roman and Barbarian Metalwork and Jewelry in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brown, Katharine Reynolds
(1981)
Guide to the Collections: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Crawford, Vaughn Emerson, Prudence Oliver Harper, Oscar White Muscarella, and Beatrice Elizabeth Bodenstein
(1966)
In the Presence of Kings: Royal Treasures from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nickel, Helmut
(1967)
Inscribed Hadra Vases in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cook, Brian F.
(1966)


Jade in Ancient Costa Rica
Jones, Julie, ed., with Juan Vincente Guerrero M., Mark Miller Graham, Michael J. Snarskis, and Zulay Soto Méndez
(1998)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, Greece and Rome
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduction by Joan R. Mertens
(1987) Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition
Arnold, Dieter, with an appendix by James P. Allen
(2008)  
Migration Art, A.D. 300–800
Brown, Katharine Reynolds
(1995)
The New York Obelisk, or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here
D'Alton, Martina
(1993)
Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections
Bunker, Emma C., with contributions by James C. Y. Watt and Zhixin Sun
(2002)
The Orientation of Hieroglyphs. Part 1, Reversals
Fischer, Henry George
(1977) The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I
Arnold, Dieter, with contributions by Dorothea Arnold and Felix Arnold, and an appendix by Cheryl Haldane
(1992)  
The Pyramid of Senwosret I
Arnold, Dieter, with contributions by Dorothea Arnold and an appendix by Peter F. Dorman
(1988)
Re-Used Blocks from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht
Goedicke, Hans
(1971) Roman Art: A Resource for Educators
Thompson, Nancy L., Felicia Blum, Michael Norris, and Edith Watts
(2007)
Roman Sarcophagi in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
McCann, Anna Marguerite
(1978) Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre
Harper, Prudence O., Joan Aruz, and Françoise Tallon, eds.
(1992)  
The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt
Arnold, Dorothea, Lyn Green, and James Allen
(1999) Sasanian Stamp Seals in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brunner, Christopher J.
(1978)  
The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom
Hayes, William C.
(1978)  
The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675–1080 B.C.)
Hayes, William C.
(1978) Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period. Vol. 1, Royal Imagery
Harper, Prudence O., and Pieter Meyers
(1981)
Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art
Bower, Virginia, and Robert L. Thorp
(1982)
Studies in Early Egyptian Glass
Lilyquist, C., and R. H. Brill, with M. T. Wypyski and contributions by H. Shirahata, R. J. Koestler, and R. D. Vocke, Jr.
(1993) The Tomb of 'Ip at El Saff
Fischer, Henry George
(1996)  
The Tomb of Three Foreign Wives of Tuthmosis III
Lilyquist, Christine, with contributions by James E. Hoch and A. J. Peden
(2003)
Treasures of Early Irish Art, 1500 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
Mitchell, G. Frank, et al., and photography by Lee Boltin
(1977)
Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Leidy, Denise Patry, and Donna Strahan
(2010)

The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West
Milleker, Elizabeth J., Christopher Lightfoot, Melanie Holcomb, Marsha Hill, Jean Evans, Joan Aruz, Denise Patry Leidy, and Julie Jones
(2000)