Jeanny Vorys Canby
Biographic Data
| ID | 1144747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanny Vorys Canby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanny Vorys |
| FAMILY NAME | Canby |
| SIGNATURE | CANBY J V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
More on the "Ur-Nammu" Stela
It was gratifying to see a review of my work on a famous Mesopotamian monument of the late third millennium B.C. in a journal usually concerned with ancient Mesopotamian written documents.' Irene Winter's skepticism about my reconstruction of what has been known as the Ur-Nammu stela for seventy-five years, however, was wide-ranging and calls for a reply. Apparently she only skimmed the book. Otherwise she would have learned that most of the brok…
A Figurine from Urkesh: A "Darling" from Troy to Mesopotamia
It was a pleasure to accept the Buccellatis' invitation to publish the upper half of a flat, lead figure of a woman found at Urkesh and return to an old interest of mine. I once surmised that such objects were used by merchants in the metals trade as “cash” when travelling from Mesopotamia to Anatolia. The Urkesh piece is defectively cast, and the ridge above the eyeballs and the edge of the chin give the face a misleading, cheerful expression. F…
Anatolia, ancient
The "Ur-Nammu" Stela
Falconry (Hawking) in Hittite Lands
Ancient Anatolia: Aspects of Change and Cultural Development, Essays in Honor of Machteld J. Mellink
Phoenician Bronze and Silver Bowls from Cyprus and the Mediterranean
The "Stelenreihen" at Assur, Tell Halaf, and Maṣṣēbôt
In 1912 Macalister published the 100-foot long line of enormous, rough uninscribed standing stones at Gezer in Palestine. The next year, Andrae published the strange, double row of stelae, some rough, some uninscribed, mostly very large, which he had found at Assur. The similarity between the two installations was immediately noted and for over sixty years the Stelenreihen at Assur have been cited in the many discussions of the maṣṣēbôt of Palest…
The Ancient Near East in the Walters Art Gallery
The Walters Gallery Cappadocian Tablet and the Sphinx in Anatolia in the Second Millennium B. C
Sumerian Art. Illustrated by Objects from Ur and Al-Ubaid
Decorated Garments in Ashurnasirpal's Sculpture
To judge from the reliefs in the palace of Ashurnasirpal at Nimrud, elaborately patterned clothes were very much in vogue in 9th century B.C. Assyria. Even soldiers in battle may wear gaily decorated skirts. The patterns consist mostly of floral or geometric designs on the order of those first seen on royal garments on post-Kassite kudurrus. Since such patterns are brightly coloured in the wall paintings at Til Barsip or on the enamelled bricks a…
Some Hittite Figurines in the Aegean
New Egyptian Jewelry at the Walters Art Gallery
In December 1966, the Walters Art Gallery bought four small Egyptian gold pieces from a group of Egyptian jewelry, which had been collected in Egypt by a business man from New York named Suydam. The objects had been in storage for some 30 years and are thought to have been collected in Egypt considerably before that time. The following brief notes on the pieces are offered in the hope that they may prove of some interest to Egyptologist. I have a…
Early Bronze 'Trinket' Moulds
Six or seven years ago a tourist bought a small carved ‘Hittite stone’ in Izmir as an attractive souvenir. Returning to Washington she read that I had been on Hittite excavations and asked me to look at her curio. One maybe grateful for her layman's interest, for her piece, which turned out to be one half of an ancient trinket mould, sheds an interesting light on trade between Anatolia and Mesopotamia at the end of the Third Millennium B.C.
Tell Halaf IV: Die Kleinfunde aus historischer Zeit . By Barthel Hrouda
Tell Halaf IV: Die Kleinfunde aus historischer Zeit . By Barthel Hrouda
Early Bronze 'Trinket' Moulds
Six or seven years ago a tourist bought a small carved ‘Hittite stone’ in Izmir as an attractive souvenir. Returning to Washington she read that I had been on Hittite excavations and asked me to look at her curio. One maybe grateful for her layman's interest, for her piece, which turned out to be one half of an ancient trinket mould, sheds an interesting light on trade between Anatolia and Mesopotamia at the end of the Third Millennium B.C.
New Egyptian Jewelry at the Walters Art Gallery
In December 1966, the Walters Art Gallery bought four small Egyptian gold pieces from a group of Egyptian jewelry, which had been collected in Egypt by a business man from New York named Suydam. The objects had been in storage for some 30 years and are thought to have been collected in Egypt considerably before that time. The following brief notes on the pieces are offered in the hope that they may prove of some interest to Egyptologist. I have a…
Some Hittite Figurines in the Aegean
Decorated Garments in Ashurnasirpal's Sculpture
To judge from the reliefs in the palace of Ashurnasirpal at Nimrud, elaborately patterned clothes were very much in vogue in 9th century B.C. Assyria. Even soldiers in battle may wear gaily decorated skirts. The patterns consist mostly of floral or geometric designs on the order of those first seen on royal garments on post-Kassite kudurrus. Since such patterns are brightly coloured in the wall paintings at Til Barsip or on the enamelled bricks a…
Sumerian Art. Illustrated by Objects from Ur and Al-Ubaid
The Walters Gallery Cappadocian Tablet and the Sphinx in Anatolia in the Second Millennium B. C
The "Stelenreihen" at Assur, Tell Halaf, and Maṣṣēbôt
In 1912 Macalister published the 100-foot long line of enormous, rough uninscribed standing stones at Gezer in Palestine. The next year, Andrae published the strange, double row of stelae, some rough, some uninscribed, mostly very large, which he had found at Assur. The similarity between the two installations was immediately noted and for over sixty years the Stelenreihen at Assur have been cited in the many discussions of the maṣṣēbôt of Palest…
The Ancient Near East in the Walters Art Gallery
Phoenician Bronze and Silver Bowls from Cyprus and the Mediterranean
Ancient Anatolia: Aspects of Change and Cultural Development, Essays in Honor of Machteld J. Mellink
Falconry (Hawking) in Hittite Lands
A Figurine from Urkesh: A "Darling" from Troy to Mesopotamia
It was a pleasure to accept the Buccellatis' invitation to publish the upper half of a flat, lead figure of a woman found at Urkesh and return to an old interest of mine. I once surmised that such objects were used by merchants in the metals trade as “cash” when travelling from Mesopotamia to Anatolia. The Urkesh piece is defectively cast, and the ridge above the eyeballs and the edge of the chin give the face a misleading, cheerful expression. F…
Anatolia, ancient
The "Ur-Nammu" Stela
More on the "Ur-Nammu" Stela
It was gratifying to see a review of my work on a famous Mesopotamian monument of the late third millennium B.C. in a journal usually concerned with ancient Mesopotamian written documents.' Irene Winter's skepticism about my reconstruction of what has been known as the Ur-Nammu stela for seventy-five years, however, was wide-ranging and calls for a reply. Apparently she only skimmed the book. Otherwise she would have learned that most of the brok…
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