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Bismaya
Lauinger, Jacob; Phillips, Monica Louise; Studevent-Hickman, Benjamin; Wilson, Karen
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Description for Bismaya
Paperback. Num Pages: 194 pages, 47 figures, 113 plates, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 305 x 236 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1882.
An expedition from the University of Chicago excavated the site of Bismaya (ancient Adab) from December 24, 1903, until late June 1905. The excavations were directed first by Edgar J. Banks and then, briefly, by Victor S. Persons. Over 1,000 artifacts, many of them early cuneiform documents, were sent to Chicago, where they are now housed in the Oriental Institute Museum The results of the Bismaya excavations were never properly published, and most of the material was never published at all. Banks wrote a lively and highly readable popular account, Bismya, or the Lost City of Adab, that appeared in ... Read more
An expedition from the University of Chicago excavated the site of Bismaya (ancient Adab) from December 24, 1903, until late June 1905. The excavations were directed first by Edgar J. Banks and then, briefly, by Victor S. Persons. Over 1,000 artifacts, many of them early cuneiform documents, were sent to Chicago, where they are now housed in the Oriental Institute Museum The results of the Bismaya excavations were never properly published, and most of the material was never published at all. Banks wrote a lively and highly readable popular account, Bismya, or the Lost City of Adab, that appeared in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago United States
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781885923639
SKU
V9781885923639
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