Nadia Aït Saïd-Ghanem

ANTIQUITIES DEALERS IN BAGHDAD AND CUNEIFORM TABLETS FROM KISH IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

When Kish began to be excavated by the French archaeologist Henri de Genouillac in 1912, cuneiform tablets from Tell Uhaimir had already been in circulation on the antiquities market since 1910. Offers made by dealers in Baghdad and Paris in this period indicate that the site was...