The Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures

570 Pages·2000·177.619 MB·English

by  Oscar White Muscarella

r ....................................
................................i l f i l l i |
i
.. I l l
■ i
I
—

*
The Lie Became Great
l'he Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
m
_____________________
.
Studies in the Art and Archaeology of Antiquity
Vol. I
T h e Lie B e c a m e G reat
The Forgery o f A n c ie n t N e a r E astern C u ltu res
Oscar W h ite Muscarella
SIYX
PUBLICATIONS
GRONINGEN
2000
'
Copyright © 2 0 0 0 O scar White M uscarella
Copyright © 2 0 0 0 STYX Publications, Groningen
ISBN 90 5693 041 9
ISSN 1568—4229
STYX Publications
Postbus 2659
9704 CR GRONINGEN
TH E NETH ERLA ND S
Tel. # 3 1 (0)50-5717502
Fax. # 3 1 (0)50-5733325
E-mail: [email protected]
I dedicate this work to - among others - Andrew Carnegie, for his libraries; Miss Jones,
my first and best librarian; and the best and most genuine of friends, Clio, Nellie Dog,
Lacy, and Charlie Cat.
I also wish to thank those individuals who in a variety of ways helped me to accomplish the
goals I gave myself. Several curators and others connected to various museums and collections
have been cooperative in supplying me with information and with photographs. Among them
are: Anne Adams, Margaret Beers, P. Bol, Elie Borowsky, Adriana Calinescu, Annie Caubet,
Bernard Davezac, Rene Dreyfus, Robert Cohon, Sidney M. Goldstein, Mary Gruel, Ann C.
Gunter, Adrienne Jeske, E. Klengel, Arielle Kozloff, Kristen Lenaburg, Glenn Markoe, A. Miller,
P. R. S. Moorey, Otto Nelson, James Romano, William Jay Rathbun, J. Riederer, Irene Roughton,
Kevin Smith, Ann Ternbach, Nancy Thomas, Sarah Wentworth, Patricia J. Whitesides, Karen L.
Wilson, Richard Zettler, Stephen Zwim.
Others, mostly dear friends, gave me moral support and encouragement when I experienced
despair over scholarly behavior, or the vastness of the problems encountered, or publication
problems, and so forth. These include Daphne Achilles, Laurie Schneider Adams, Ann Guinan,
Stephen J. Hyman, Donna Seldin Janis, Ulrike Low, Grace Freed Muscarella, Lily Natijehashem,
and Elizabeth Simpson.
/
/
✓
7