Search Results: votive and historical texts from babylonia by stephens ferris j

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 3/4"). xvi, [2], 45, [3]pp (Text), 46 leaves (Plates). Modern 3/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Since the publication of Albert T. Clay's "Miscellanous Inscriptions in the Yale Babylonian Collection, as volume one of this series, in 1915, the number of votive and historical Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions at Yale has steadily increased. These pieces have been acquired by purchase from antiquity dealers throughout the periods of curatorship of the late Professor Clay, the late Dr. Grice, the late Professor Dougherty, and (since 1933) the writer. Part of the hitherto unpublished acquisitions are new texts, and part are duplicates of already published texts, with more or less variation from the published readings. It is the purpose of this volume to present all unpublished texts of the Yale Babylonian Collection, whether new or duplicate, belonging to the… Read More

Yale University Press, New Haven / H. Milford, Oxford University Press, London, , 1937. Hardcover. Good. 4to, hardcover. Quarter cloth w/ paper-covered boards, no dj. Ex-Waverly Press bookplate. Small chips at board corners & lower spine; water-stain along edge of cover w/ pale 1/2-inch stains around margins of opening & closing pgs., not affecting text, no warping; otherwise good condition, plates clean, binding tight. 45 p. of text + xlvi pgs. of b&w plates (10 pgs. or photographic reproductions).