H W F Saggs

Biographic Data

ID698628
NAMEH W F Saggs
GIVEN NAMESH W F
FAMILY NAMESaggs
SIGNATURESAGGS H W F
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad de Londres
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
H-INDEX1

  • Babylonians

    Mark W Chavalas, H W F SaggsARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1997

  • Civilization before Greece and Rome

    Andrew Ramage, H W F SaggsARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • Civilization before Greece and Rome

    Tom B Jones, Tom Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1991

  • Civilization before Greece and Rome

    Marvin A Powell, H W F SaggsARTICLEThe American Historical Review1990Cited by: 2

  • The Land of Kirruri

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1980

  • Historical Texts and Fragments of Sargon II of Assyria. 1. The "Aššur Charter"

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1975

    In 1958 A. L. Oppenheim, in discussion with C. J. Gadd, whose assistant at the School of Oriental and African Studies I then was, kindly suggested that I should undertake a new edition of the historical texts of Sargon II; subsequently Professor Oppenheim sent me some notes (not copies) by Dr. Geers on Sargon texts. I undertook a considerable amount of work on this project, copying all unpublished fragments of relevant texts which I could discove…

  • The Nimrud Letters, 1952

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1974

  • Neo-Babylonian Fragments from Harran

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1969

    The occasion of the seventy-fifth birthday of Professor Emeritus C. J. Gadd provides a welcome opportunity to add a humble footnote to one of the pages of his life's work. In 1958 Professor Gadd published his model edition of the Harran inscriptions of Nabonidus, discovered in 1956 by the late Professor D. S. Rice whilst examining the ruined Great Mosque at Harran. Professor Gadd agreed with Rice and others that the find-place of the three stelae…

  • The Tell al Rimah Tablets, 1965

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1968

    During the 1965 season of excavation at Tell al Rimah, Middle Assyrian tablets and fragments amounting to 115 registration numbers were discovered. Of those included, however, almost half are minor fragments which, entered in the excavation catalogue in view of the possibility of their supplying joins, have no independent value as epigraphic material. A number of joins have been made subsequently, and the tablets and larger fragments bearing suff…

  • The Nimrud Letters, 1952

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1966

    It is appropriate that the eleven letters here published, mostly concerned with imperial and military administration in the Assyrian Empire, should be dedicated to my teacher Professor Sidney Smith on the occasion of his seventy-seventh birthday, since to him I owe both the origin of my interest in this subject, and also invaluable assistance in my initial steps towards the interpretation of letters of this collection.This publication, like that …

  • The Nimrud Letters, 1952

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1965

    Most of the Nimrud letters bearing important identifiable historical allusions have now been published. There still remain, however, about a hundred further documents, of which the letters of the present selection are amongst the best preserved. All the letters here published are from those which fell to the share of the British School of Archaeology at the division of the Nimrud tablets, and it has therefore been possible in every case to collat…

  • Assyrian Warfare in the Sargonid Period

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1963

    The primary question about Assyrian warfare in the Sargonid period, the constitution of the army, was long ago settled in its broader aspects by Manitius in two able articles of which the conclusions, as far as they go, stand largely unchallenged. Manitius showed that numerically the greater part of the grand army of Assyria was composed of levies raised from the provinces, under the control of the provincial governors, but that there was also a …

  • The Nimrud Letters, 1952

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1963

    The six letters here edited, four of them substantially complete, are amongst the hitherto unpublished tablets found at Nimrud in 1952. The legibility of these letters, first copied by me in Baghdad in 1954, has been much improved by the skilled treatment they have received at the hands of Mr. C. A. Bateman of the British Museum; in one case the extensive improvement in legibility rendered it advisable to make a completely new copy, and on other …

  • Ur of the Chaldees. A Problem of Identification

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1960

    The question of the geographical position of the biblical “Ur of the Chaldees” is one that has recurred from time to time within the last century since H. C. Rawlinson in 1850 first provided assyriological evidence to cast doubt upon the traditional and commonly accepted identification of the city with the site of Urfa. The basic facts and arguments have been restated many times: to recapitulate for the benefit of the non-specialist it may be sai…

  • An Unaddressed Old Babylonian Letter

    H W F SaggsARTICLEJournal of Cuneiform Studies1960References: 2

  • The Nimrud Letters, 1952

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1959

    The principle governing the selection of the sixteen letters here published is that all illustrate some aspect of Assyrian administrative practice. Unfortunately the tablets represented in this group are, generally speaking, amongst the worst-preserved of the whole collection; this is an almost inevitable result of the method of publication so far followed, since, at least in the case of the longer letters, any better-preserved specimen is likely…

  • The Nimrud Letters, 1952

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1958

    Amongst the letters of the archive discovered at Nimrud in 1952 are a number referring to events on the northern and north-eastern frontiers of Assyria, principally during the reign of Sargon. Ten of these letters are here published: a few others exist which, though having references to the same area, are in too damaged a condition to be placed in a reasonably assured historico-geographical setting, and these it is proposed to incorporate in subs…

  • The Nimrud Letters, 1952

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1956

  • The Nimrud Letters, 1952

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1955

    In 1952 the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, in the course of its excavations at Nimrud, found, in the chamber known as ZT 4, a collection of over three hundred Assyrian clay tablets. Dr. C. J. Gadd at once recognized that the greater part of the collection consisted of letters from a royal archive, and that they were closely similar in nature to those in the British Museum collection published by Harper. The tablets as found were unbaked a…

  • The Nimrud Letters, 1952

    H W F SaggsARTICLEIraq1955

    The twelve letters here published have been selected on a geographical basis, the common feature being that they all appear to be concerned with the regions west of Assyria. The evidence is against all the letters of this group relating to the events of the same campaign, or even of the same reign, although it is possible to show correlations between certain letters of the group.To only two letters can a precise date be certainly assigned. For so…