02943cam a22004691a 4500 ocm00258748 OCoLC 20151023231911.0 730515s1938 iluab 000 0 eng 38027631 (OCoLC)258748 (OCoLC)1058834 (OCoLC)318449657 (OCoLC)638832448 DLC eng DLC CHS BAKER LVB YDXCP NRAMU ZZAND EDX CIRBC MLN SHH COF CGU OCLCF eng akk a-iq--- DS69.5 .C5 1938 913.358 DS 69.5 C533t 1938 Chiera, Edward, 1885-1933. 59367 They wrote on clay : the Babylonian tablets speak today / by Edward Chiera ; edited by George G. Cameron. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c1938. xv, 234 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm. Map on lining-papers. 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 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. Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq. 59368 Akkadian language Texts. 59369 Archaeology Mesopotamia. 59370 Fouilles (Arch�eologie) Irak. 59371 Inscriptions cun�eiformes. 59372 Tablettes d'argile. 59373 Akkadian language. fast 59374 Antiquities. fast 59375 Excavations (Archaeology) fast 59376 Iraq Antiquities. 59362 Irak Antiquit�es. 59363 Iraq. fast 59364 Texts. fast 59365 Online version: Chiera, Edward, 1885-1933. They wrote on clay. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c1938 (OCoLC)824796620 Cameron, George G. (George Glenn), 1905-1979. 59366 ddc BK 0 NO HOLDINGS IN ZAAPA - 1482 OTHER HOLDINGS 24132 24132 0 0 ddc 0 0 DAPA DAPA 2014-05-26 0 913.35 CHI APA029598 2014-05-26 1 2014-05-26 BK