A Short History of Assyriology, 1850-1970

Benjamin R. Foster

doi:10.5771/9783963272691

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Edition: 1/2025
Copyright Year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-96327-268-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-96327-269-1
Publisher: Zaphon, Münster
Series: wEdge / Cutting-Edge Research in Cuneiform Studies
Volume: 4
Language: English
Pages: 345
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Preface No access
1. 1. Discovery and Decipherment No access
2. 2. Languages and Texts No access
3. 3. Publications and Periodicals No access
1. 1. Austria No access
  2. France No access
  3. Switzerland No access
  4. Belgium No access
  5. Great Britain No access
  6. Ireland No access
  7. The United States No access
  8. Canada No access
  9. Centers Elsewhere No access
2. 5. Building a Modern Corpus of Cuneiform Texts No access
3. 6. Reference and Teaching Works No access
4. 7. Scientific Excavations and Assyriology No access
5. 8. Rediscovering Sumerian Literature No access
1. 9. Mesopotamian Political, Social, and Economic History No access
2. 10. Mesopotamian Religion No access
3. 11. Cuneiform Culture No access
1. 12. From Colonialism to the First World War and Its Aftermath No access
2. 13. Tempest-Tost: Assyriologists and the Second World War No access
3. 14. The Antiquities Trade No access
4. 1. Russia No access
  2. The Netherlands No access
  3. Italy No access
  4. Czechoslovakia No access
  5. Slovenia No access
  6. Hungary No access
  7. Poland No access
  8. Denmark No access
  9. Finland No access
  10. Norway No access
  11. Sweden No access
  12. Spain No access
  13. Turkey No access
  14. Israel No access
  15. Palestine: The West Bank No access
  16. Iraq No access
  17. South Africa No access
  18. Japan No access
  19. Korea No access
  20. China No access
  21. Other Lands No access
1. 1. The United States No access
  2. Canada No access
  3. Great Britain No access
  4. France and Belgium No access
  5. Germany No access
  6. Austria No access
2. 17. Women in Assyriology No access
Part 6: Conclusion: Changes and Challengesin Assyriology, 1970 and Beyond No access Pages 193 - 202
Appendix I: Babylonian Bindings and CuneiformCovers No access Pages 203 - 214
Appendix II: Gallery No access Pages 215 - 230
Appendix III: Biographies of Assyriologists No access Pages 231 - 248
Bibliography No access Pages 249 - 300
Abbreviations No access Pages 301 - 302
List of Figures and Credits No access Pages 303 - 312
Index of Persons No access Pages 313 - 328
Index of Institutions No access Pages 329 - 333