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Acknowledgments

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Salisbury and Yale (Karen Polinger Foster)

Orientalism's Lonely Years: The Case of Edward Salisbury (Suzanne Marchand)

Edward Salisbury and A. I. Silvestre de Sacy (Benjamin R. Foster)

Assyriological Peripheries: Early Mesopotamian Studies in Scandinavia (Gojko Barmamovic)

Between Microphilology, Academic Politics, and the Aryan Jesus: Paul Haupt, Hermann Hilprecht, and the Birth of American Assyriology (Eckart Frahm)



Appendix I: Salisbury's Letter of Appointment

Appendix II: Salisbury's Seals, 160 Years Later: Two Neo-Assyrian Cylinders from AOS to YBC (Agnete Wisti Lassen)

Notes on Contributors

 

About the Author

Karen Polinger Foster is Lecturer of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations, and History of Art at Yale

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