Irving L Finkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irving L Finkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irving L |
| FAMILY NAME | Finkel |
| SIGNATURE | FINKEL I L |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thinking outside the Box
The stimulus for this article has been the reworking of displays within the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Wing at the British Museum. The need for a cohesive narrative led us to look hard at objects that have reposed in the museum's collections since the 19th century and, in particular, to “reopen” the case of the Sun-God Tablet and the Cruciform Monument. It turned out that most of the long-cherished assumptions about these objects failed to withs…
On Some Inscribed Babylonian Alabastra
Demand for scents, spices and comparable products from India and further east was a major incentive for the naval expeditions which led, after 1497 AD, to the creation of European empires in the Orient. There was the same demand in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, to which these goods travelled through the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf. People in Egypt and Babylonia in the classical period were both middlemen and consumers, and this paper…
Game Boards and Other Incised Graffiti at Persepolis
The purpose of this short note is to draw attention to what are evidently two game boards which have been crudely engraved on stonework at Persepolis. They are to be found on the flat surfaces at the bottom of two of the window openings in the central section of the so-called Harem. The windows are in the wall between the main hall of the Harem, which is now a museum, and the portico on the south side of the courtyard
Sumerian Gods and Their Representations
True Light on the Urim and Thummim
Tablets for Lord Amherst
In the years around the turn of the present century, relying on the contacts and expertise of Theophilus Goldridge Pinches, Lord William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835–1909), put together what came to be one of the most wide-ranging and important collections of cuneiform tablets to have been assembled in private hands in this country. Since the publication of Volume 1 of The Amherst Tablets in 1908 by Pinches, followed…
Assyrian Hieroglyphs
In Black and White
Article In Black and White: Remarks on the Assur Psephomancy Ritual was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 85, issue 2)
On TDP Tablets XXIX and XXXI, and the Nature of SA.GIG
Breve note a propos de 2 tablettes du babylonien recent de la serie des augures medicales (SA.GIG)
Inscriptions from Tell Brak 1985
Three cuneiform inscriptions, two on clay and one on stone, were discovered during the 1985 season of excavations at Tell Brak, and each is published in the present note.No. 9 (TB 7037); see Fig. 1No. 1 is a fragment of an unbaked Old Akkadian administrative document, a thin flake from near the right edge of what is probably the reverse. It measures 2·7 × 2·4 × 0·4 cm (at maximum), and is evidently a ration list or something similar. Each entry i…
An Issue of Weights from the Reign of Amar-Sin
On the Series of Sidu
Inscriptions from Tell Brak 1984
The 1984 season of excavations at Tell Brak numbered among its discoveries the eight inscriptions that form the subject of the present note. Prior to the 1984 season a small group of mostly fragmentary Old Akkadian inscriptions was recovered during the course of the three pre-war seasons conducted at the site by M. E. L. Mallowan, while an inscribed seal impression dating to the same period and a Late Uruk numerical tablet were found during the 1…
A Neo-Assyrian Inventory Tablet of Unknown Provenance
Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Economic Texts from the Sippar Collection of the British Museum
The Dream of Kurigalzu and the Tablet of Sins
A rather choice cuneiform fragment from the British Museum forms the subject of the present note, viz. BM 47749 = 81-11-3, 454, here copied as Fig. 1. The composition may be conveniently classed in the “historical-literary” genre, or more specifically, in the “historical epic” genre, although at present no more than one-quarter of the original tablet is available. It is with much pleasure that I dedicate this study to the distinguished sometime K…
Four Errant Ur III Receipts
Texts and Fragments
Bilingual Chronicle Fragments
Thinking outside the Box
The stimulus for this article has been the reworking of displays within the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Wing at the British Museum. The need for a cohesive narrative led us to look hard at objects that have reposed in the museum's collections since the 19th century and, in particular, to “reopen” the case of the Sun-God Tablet and the Cruciform Monument. It turned out that most of the long-cherished assumptions about these objects failed to withs…
Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Economic Texts from the Sippar Collection of the British Museum
Bilingual Chronicle Fragments
Bilingual Chronicle Fragments
The Dream of Kurigalzu and the Tablet of Sins
A rather choice cuneiform fragment from the British Museum forms the subject of the present note, viz. BM 47749 = 81-11-3, 454, here copied as Fig. 1. The composition may be conveniently classed in the “historical-literary” genre, or more specifically, in the “historical epic” genre, although at present no more than one-quarter of the original tablet is available. It is with much pleasure that I dedicate this study to the distinguished sometime K…
Four Errant Ur III Receipts
Texts and Fragments
A Neo-Assyrian Inventory Tablet of Unknown Provenance
Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Economic Texts from the Sippar Collection of the British Museum
Inscriptions from Tell Brak 1984
The 1984 season of excavations at Tell Brak numbered among its discoveries the eight inscriptions that form the subject of the present note. Prior to the 1984 season a small group of mostly fragmentary Old Akkadian inscriptions was recovered during the course of the three pre-war seasons conducted at the site by M. E. L. Mallowan, while an inscribed seal impression dating to the same period and a Late Uruk numerical tablet were found during the 1…
On the Series of Sidu
An Issue of Weights from the Reign of Amar-Sin
Inscriptions from Tell Brak 1985
Three cuneiform inscriptions, two on clay and one on stone, were discovered during the 1985 season of excavations at Tell Brak, and each is published in the present note.No. 9 (TB 7037); see Fig. 1No. 1 is a fragment of an unbaked Old Akkadian administrative document, a thin flake from near the right edge of what is probably the reverse. It measures 2·7 × 2·4 × 0·4 cm (at maximum), and is evidently a ration list or something similar. Each entry i…
On TDP Tablets XXIX and XXXI, and the Nature of SA.GIG
Breve note a propos de 2 tablettes du babylonien recent de la serie des augures medicales (SA.GIG)
In Black and White
Article In Black and White: Remarks on the Assur Psephomancy Ritual was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 85, issue 2)
Tablets for Lord Amherst
In the years around the turn of the present century, relying on the contacts and expertise of Theophilus Goldridge Pinches, Lord William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835–1909), put together what came to be one of the most wide-ranging and important collections of cuneiform tablets to have been assembled in private hands in this country. Since the publication of Volume 1 of The Amherst Tablets in 1908 by Pinches, followed…
Assyrian Hieroglyphs
True Light on the Urim and Thummim
Game Boards and Other Incised Graffiti at Persepolis
The purpose of this short note is to draw attention to what are evidently two game boards which have been crudely engraved on stonework at Persepolis. They are to be found on the flat surfaces at the bottom of two of the window openings in the central section of the so-called Harem. The windows are in the wall between the main hall of the Harem, which is now a museum, and the portico on the south side of the courtyard
Sumerian Gods and Their Representations
On Some Inscribed Babylonian Alabastra
Demand for scents, spices and comparable products from India and further east was a major incentive for the naval expeditions which led, after 1497 AD, to the creation of European empires in the Orient. There was the same demand in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, to which these goods travelled through the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf. People in Egypt and Babylonia in the classical period were both middlemen and consumers, and this paper…
Thinking outside the Box
The stimulus for this article has been the reworking of displays within the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Wing at the British Museum. The need for a cohesive narrative led us to look hard at objects that have reposed in the museum's collections since the 19th century and, in particular, to “reopen” the case of the Sun-God Tablet and the Cruciform Monument. It turned out that most of the long-cherished assumptions about these objects failed to withs…
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