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A biography of David Franks, an American Jewish merchant in Philadelphia during the colonial period and the War for Independence. A supplier to the British army since the French and Indian War, Franks, though acquitted of treason, was forced out of Pennsylvania.
Papers in Honor of Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub
This volume emerges from a session honoring Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub held during the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Atlanta, Georgia and includes expanded versions of many of the papers presented in that session. By gathering in Atlanta, and by participating in this volume, the contributors honor ......
The Legacy: Historic Landmarks that Influenced the Art of Cyprus. Late Bronze Age to A.D. 1600
Overview of Cypriot history from Antiquity to AD 1600 presented originally in a series of lectures delivered at Ball University. Contributors are: Cyprus from Earliest Times to AD 1600 (John Koumoulides); The art of Cyprus at the end of the Late Bronze Age (Vassos Karageorghis); Art and architecture in Byzantine Cyprus (Terence Mullaly); Gothic ......
Old Babylonian Texts in the Schoyen Collection Part One: Selected Letters
This volume presents a selection of 216 Old Babylonian letters as a first installment of the Schøyen Collection’s holdings of these documents. To these have been added five letters now in another private collection, making 221 in total. The letters are edited in transliteration and translation; the cuneiform is presented mostly in ......
Sumerian Administrative and Legal Documents ca. 2900-2200 BC in the Schoyen Collection
Contains transliterations, translations, photos, and commentary for 521 cuneiform documents mainly from the Early Dynastic IIIb and Early Sargonic periods in the Schoyen collection.
Assyrian Archival Texts in the Schoyen Collection and Other Documents from North Mesopotamia and Syria
Texts: Old Assyrian (Hertel), Middle Assyrian (Llop-Raduà ), Neo-Assyrian (Radner), N. Babylonian (George), Ugaritic (van Soldt). Photograph, transliteration, translation and commentary on economic documents and letters from ancient Assyria, Babylonia, and Ugarit.
