They wrote on clay : the Babylonian tablets speak today

Title
  1. They wrote on clay : the Babylonian tablets speak today / by Edward Chiera ; edited by George G. Cameron.
Published by
  1. Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press
  2. ©1938.
Author
  1. Chiera, Edward, 1885-1933

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Additional authors
  1. Cameron, George G. (George Glenn), 1905-1979
Description
  1. xv, 234, [1] p. front., illus.; 20 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Phoenix books, P2
Subject
  1. Excavations (Archaeology) > Iraq
  2. Akkadian language > Texts
  3. Archaeology
  4. Cuneiform inscriptions
  5. Clay tablets
  6. Archaeology
  7. archaeology
  8. 15.75 history of Asia
  9. 18.70 Semitic languages and/or literature
  10. Cuneiform inscriptions
  11. Clay tablets
  12. Akkadian language
  13. Antiquities
  14. Excavations (Archaeology)
  15. Babylonians
  16. Microéconomie
  17. Politique économique
  18. Iraq > Antiquities
  19. Mesopotamia
  20. Iraq
  21. Mesopotamia
  22. Iraq > History > To 634
Genre/Form
  1. Texts
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Map on lining-papers.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Provenance (note)
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