E Douglas Van Buren

Biographic Data

ID1090585
NAMEE Douglas Van Buren
GIVEN NAMESE Douglas
FAMILY NAMEVan Buren
SIGNATUREVAN BUREN E D
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR19
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1918
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
H-INDEX1

  • New Evidence concerning an Eye-Divinity

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEIraq1955

    The study of ancient religious beliefs is beset with difficulties because we do not know with absolute certainty what the peoples who inhabited the Near East in very ancient times really intended to convey by the designs they depicted. That those designs were not merely decorative but had a special symbolic or apotropaic value seems to be beyond question. In consequence of this ignorance of ours there is a tendency to accept explanations which se…

  • Akkadian Stepped Altars

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLENumen1954

  • Places of Sacrifice ('Opferstätten')

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEIraq1952

    It was not only in temples and upon tables of offerings that sacrifices were performed in early times in Mesopotamia, for certain detached areas were hallowed, and in them sacrifices were offered, constantly repeated on precisely the same spot. The ritual directions for the preparation for these ceremonies must have been both explicit and stringent, for the evidence reveals a scrupulous adherence to every detail, perpetually repeated every time t…

  • A Cylinder Seal with a History

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEJournal of Cuneiform Studies1951

  • Amulets, Symbols, or Idols?

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEIraq1950

    During his excavations of the successive cities of Troy, Schliemann uncovered a few clay pots adorned in relief with a crudely moulded human face, presumably female, which might have been thought to be in the tradition of the vase decorated in relief and painting with a female face from Hassuna and the pots with moulded faces from Kish. Professor Frankfort, however, in his most interesting article Ishtar in Troy, proposes quite a different deriva…

  • Cylindres et Cachets Orientaux Conservés dans les Collections Suisses. Volume 1, 1 ère partie. Mésopotamie

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1950

  • An Additional Note on the Hair Whirl

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1950Cited by: 1

  • The Cylinder Seals from Brak

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEIraq1949

    The cylinder seals and seal impressions from Brak have an importance out of proportion to the quality of their workmanship. All the circumstances of their discovery are scrupulously recorded, a great help in determining the approximate date of each piece, and a sure guaranty against any suspicion of forgery. They may not all be of outstanding artistic merit, but a few seem to be unique in the choice of subjects reptesented, and almost every one o…

  • Fish-Offerings in Ancient Mesopotamia

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEIraq1948

    The seas which wash the shores of Mesopotamia, the great rivers and the lakes of that land abound in fish of many different kinds, so that fish form an important article of diet of the modern inhabitants as well as of that of their forerunners in very remote times. Therefore it is not strange that fish appear among the decorative motives on painted ceramic pottery, were engraved in stereotyped rows on cylinder seals of the Jamdat Nasr epoch, or w…

  • Archaic Mosaic Wall Decoration

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEArtibus Asiae1946

  • A Collection of Cylinder Seals in the Biblioteca Vaticana

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1942

  • The Rosette in Mesopotamian Art

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…1939

  • A Gaming-Board from Tall Halaf

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEIraq1937

    Any one who has visited the Tall Ḫalaf Museum knows that the excavation s carried out by Max, Freiherr von Oppenheim, have produced a rich variety of material which would all repay detailed study. It is to the generosity of Baron von Oppenheim that I am indebted for permission to publish the object which is here discussed.It is of white marble, height 14·5 cm., greatest width 7·7 cm., thickness 4 cm. (Plate VI, 1). One half is almost square in sh…

  • The God Ningizzida

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEIraq1934

    The craving for divine protection is so deeply inherent in human nature that a primitive society cannot long exist without creating for itself a god or gods, to whom are attributed the powers necessary for the preservation of mankind. Most of the great divine beings of the Babylonian pantheon were originally gods of the city-states, whose functions were multiplied according to the needs of their worshippers, until they became strongly marked pers…

  • Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria

    W F Albright, E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1931

  • Sardis

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1926

  • Archaeologists in Antiquity

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEFolklore1925Cited by: 2

  • Terracotta Revetments from Etruria

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1919

  • Terracotta Arulae

    E Douglas Van BurenARTICLEMemoirs of the American Academy…1918