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Découvertes en Chaldée Publié par les soins de Léon Heuzey ... avec le concours de Arthur Amiaud et Fçois Thureau-Dangin pour la partie épigraphique, sous les auspices du Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts

Paris
Ernest Leroux
1884/1912

2 vol. in folio (45 x 32 cm), [6], 464 pp, illustrations dans le texte; LX, 12 pp, ill. dans le texte, 4 plans, 92 héliogravures h.t. en plus. couleurs (n° 22 en fac-sim.). Demi veau brun à nerfs d'époque (lég. frot.)

Ernest Choquin de Sarzec (1832-1901) was a French archaeologist, to whom is attributed the discovery of the civilization of ancient Sumer. He was in the French diplomatic service; on being transferred to Basra in 1872 as a vice-consul, he became interested in the excavations at Ur, started by the British diplomat J. E. Taylor. In 1877, he began a dig at Telloh (the ancient Girsu, as it transpired, rather than Lagash as once supposed). The ancient Babylonian site, in present-day Iraq in the southern delta lowlands, had been drawn to his attention by local dealers in antiquities. During the 1880s he succeeded in finding evidence of the reign of Gudea. He continued to work on the site until 1901

Travel Archeology

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