Wiseman,D.J. — The Alalakh tablets.

London, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1953. IV,164 pp. 58 b./w. plts (facsimiles). Orig. publisher;'s hardcover binding (blue quarter cloth, gilt lettering on spine, paper covered boards). 4to. - Two corners of cover very sl. worn, otherwise a very good copy. (Occasional publications of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, no. 2). - A fine copy.This rare volume is the second of the series of Occasional Publications designed by the Council of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara to give a fuller account by specialists of particular pieces of research than would be possible in the annual volume ofAnatolian Studies. It deals with the cuneiform tablets discovered by Sir Leonard Woolley in his excavations at Atshana, as interpreted by D. J. Wiseman, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the British Museum.