Ebla Archaeological Enigma by Bermant Chaim Weitzman Michael (15 results)

Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ but has sun fading to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Previous owner's bookplate on first endpaper otherwise Fine in a Near Fine jacket. 1st Edition. 244pp 8vo.

Condition: Good. 1979. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear. Minor edge wear to dustwrapper, yellowing of pages but otherwise good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1979. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear. Minor edge wear to dustwrapper, yellowing of pages but otherwise good. . . . .

relié. Condition: occasion. En anglais, XI + 244 pages Bon état avec sa jaquette. 15 x 22.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. x, [1], 244 pp., b/w photographs, chronological table, index, endpaper maps, original cloth in clipped jacket, copy in mint condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. brown hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. bottom corners bumped. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ / near fine cond. sunfading to spine, couple of 1cm edge tears, missing pea size piece on rear, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPuGB1979 & nap). endpaper maps. xi+244p. 31 glossy b&w photo illustrations. chronological table. notes. index. archaeology. ancient history. middle east history. mesopotamia. history of syria.~ In the inter~war years archaeologists working on sites in the Near East kept stumbling upon references to a city of Ebla which, it was suggested, was a major centre of civilization going back to the third millenium BC, but there was no clear indication as to its actual location. Paulo Matthiae, a young graduate in Near Eastern studies, was convinced from his research that it was in northern Syria, and the chance discovery of a bronze~age urn in a field near Aleppo confirmed his belief. In 1964 he brought together a team of archaeologists and technicians to test his theories, and finally in 1968 they came upon an inscription confirming that this was indeed Ebla. Further excavations revealed that it was a city of considerable size and affluence, but the character of its society and its place in history were all subjects of speculation until the discovery in 1974 of the royal archive, a library of some twenty~thousand tablets written in cuneiform. It was evidently a new language and when Professor Pettinato, a philologist attached to the expedition, revealed its secrets, he found that it also represented a lost civilization. In this fascinating book, Chaim Bermant and Michael Weitzman describe Matthiae's initial discovery, show how Pettinato managed to decipher the new language, compare the Ebla excavations to others in the area, and assess its significance both to the history of the ancient Near East and to our understanding of the Bible. With sixteen pages of photographs.

Hardback. Sl. Scuffed Dustjacket. Good.

Hardback. Sl. Scuffed Dustjacket. Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback in Jacket. PENCIL LINES IN SOME MARGINS. Clean & tight. JACKET HAS A MINOR LOSS. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 16:18.

Hardback. Scuffed Dustjacket. Signed Copy Both Authors.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Book Club Associates. Hardback. Slight shelf wear to top and bottom edge of spine of D/J. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. Contents: List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Preface. What's In a Name? Setting the Scene. The Things That You're Liable to Read.Cuneiform Without Tears. Tell Mardikh. Eureka! The Merchant State. Who Killed Ebla? The Connection. Chronological Table. Notes. Index. Illustrated. 244 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

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