Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xii, 142 pages : illustrations, map; 21 cm

Series statement

1. Major issues in history

Uniform title

1. Major issues in history (John Wiley & Sons)

Subject

1. Sumerians
2. 15.51 Antiquity
3. Aufsatzsammlung
4. Soemeriërs
5. Sumer
6. Sumer > Antiquities

Contents

1. First phase: Philology -- On the language and mode of writing of the ancient Assyrians / E. Hincks -- On the relation between the newly discovered Accadian language and the Indo-European, Semitic, and Egyptian languages / E. Hincks -- Sumerian studies / J. Oppert -- Critical observations on the supposed Turanians of Babylonia / J. Halévy -- "Correspondence" / J. Oppert and J. Halévy -- Sumero-Accadian question / C. Johnston -- Sumerian or cryptography / T.G. Pinches -- Tiele and the Sumerian question / J. Halévy -- Second phase: Archaeology -- History of Sumer and Akkad / L.W. King -- Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria / M. Jastrow -- Sumerians / C.L. Woolley -- Beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia / E.A. Speiser -- Third phase: new approaches and a rationalization -- Sumerian problem reviewed / E.A. Speiser -- New light on the early history of the Ancient Near East / S.N. Kramer -- Ur and Eridu; the prehistory / J. Oates -- Ancient Iraq / G. Roux.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. A collection of extracts with connective commentary by the editor.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 141-142.