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They wrote on clay : the Babylonian tablets speak today
- Title
- They wrote on clay : the Babylonian tablets speak today / by Edward Chiera ; edited by George G. Cameron.
- Author
- Chiera, Edward, 1885-1933
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press
- ©1938.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 29702.252 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Cameron, George G. (George Glenn), 1905-1979
- Description
- xv, 234, [1] p. front., illus.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entertainingly available to laymen. More remarkable, Chiera had extraordinary gifts to equal to his desire. They Wrote on Clay combines fascinatingly the fruits of sound and painstaking archeology with the natural-born storyteller's art. As transmitted by Chiera, the message of the recently discovered Babylonian clay tablets becomes an absorbing excursion into the common life of a vanished civilization. Few will read They Wrote on Clay without becoming infected with something of Chiera's love for the rich archeological lore of the ancient Near East.
- Series Statement
- Phoenix books, P2
- Subject
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Iraq
- Akkadian language > Texts
- Archaeology
- Cuneiform inscriptions
- Clay tablets
- Archaeology
- archaeology
- 15.75 history of Asia
- 18.70 Semitic languages and/or literature
- Cuneiform inscriptions
- Clay tablets
- Akkadian language
- Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Babylonians
- Microéconomie
- Politique économique
- Iraq > Antiquities
- Mesopotamia
- Iraq
- Mesopotamia
- Iraq > History > To 634
- Genre/Form
- Texts
- Note
- Map on lining-papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Provenance (note)
- WHS shelf-list has no date of acquisition or name of vendor.
- Contents
- The treasure hunt -- Books everlasting -- The mound of seven cities -- The dawn of understanding -- Ancient ABC's -- The world of business -- The business of religion -- King's tales -- Priest's tales -- Babel and Bible -- The search for truth -- The philosopher's stone -- The Three R's -- A people's resurrection -- Arts and the man -- Leaves from a diplomat's diary -- On to Greece and Rome -- West and East.
- ISBN
- 0226104257
- 9780226104256
- LCCN
- 38027631
- 38027631 //r852
- OCLC
- ocm00258748
- 258748
- SCSB-190889
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library