Bismaya : recovering the lost city of Adab /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilson, Karen L.
Other Authors:	Lauinger, Jacob
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, Ill. : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2012.
Series:	University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications ; v. 138.
Subjects:	Excavations (Archaeology) > Iraq > Adab (Extinct city) Banks, Edgar James, > 1866-1945. Adab (Extinct city) Bismaya (Iraq) > Antiquities.

Description
Item Description:	"The University of Chicago conducted excavations at the site of Bismaya (ancient Adab) in southern Iraq from December 24, 1903, until late June 1905. The work was first directed by a young American Assyriologist, Edgar James Banks, then by Victor S. Persons, an architect who had originally gone to to the Near East to assist Banks"--Preface.
Physical Description:	xxx, 194 pages, 113 pages of plates (some color, some with letterpress descriptions on verso) : illustrations, map, portrait ; 31 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxx, pages 189-190) and index.
ISBN:	9781885923639 1885923635
ISSN:	0069-3367 ;