James B. Nies
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James Buchanan Nies (22 November 1856 - 1922) was an American episcopal minister and Assyriologist.[1] He was president of the American Oriental Society in 1921.[2]
Selected publications
[edit]Articles
[edit]- "Notes on a Cross Jordan Trip Made October 23rd to November 7th, 1899", Palestine Exploration Quarterly, Vol. 33 (1901), No. 4, pp. 362–368.
- "The Opportunity of the American School of Archaeology in Palestine", Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1901), pp. 31–37.
- "The Boomerang in Ancient Babylonia", American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 16, No. 1 (January–March 1914), pp. 26–32.
- "A Net Cylinder of Entemena", Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 36 (1916), pp. 137–139.
Books
[edit]- Historical, Religious and Economic Texts and Antiquities. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1920. (With Clarence E. Keiser)
- Ur Dynasty Tablets. Texts chiefly from Tello and Drehem written during the reigns of Dungi, Bur-Sin, Gimil-Sin, and Ibi-Sin &c. J.C. Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1920.
References
[edit]- ^ "REV. DR. JAMES B. NIES, ORIENT ALIST, DEAD; Former Brooklyn Pastor Was in Jerusalem Erecting His American School Building". The New York Times. 1922-06-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ Clay, Albert T. (October 1922). "In Memoriam James Buchanan Nies". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 7: 1–3. doi:10.1086/BASOR1355223. ISSN 0003-097X.
Further reading
[edit]- Keiser, C. E. (1918) Letters and contracts from Erech written in the neo-Babylonian period. Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Vol. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press.
External links
[edit]- https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/publication-series/babylonian-inscriptions-collection-james-b-nies-bin
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedsaid1831.dw011/
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