Vorderasiatische Museen: Gestern, Heute, Morgen; Berlin, Paris, London, New York, Eine Standortsbestimmung: Kolloquium aus Anlass des Einhundertjahrigen Bestehens des Vorderasiatischen Museums Berlin am 7. Mai 1999.

• Author: Beckman, Gary
• Position: Brief Article - Book Review

Edited by BEATE SALJE. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2001. Pp. 137, illus. 34.80 [euro].

This handsome volume presents the texts of lectures (in German and English) delivered at a conference held in Berlin in May 1999 to celebrate the centenary of the appointment of Friedrich Delitzsch as director of the ancient Near Eastern section of the Prussian royal museums, an event considered the founding of today's Vorderasiatisches Museum. In these contributions, representatives of the most important European and American museums with significant holdings from the lands of cuneiform culture (Berlin, Louvre, British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art) outline the history of their collections. In addition, Berlin archaeologists review the major German excavations that have yielded objects for the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Assur, Babylon, Uruk, Habuba Kabira, Tall Knedig) and Joachim Marzahn sketches the development of the...