James B. Nies

James Buchanan Nies (22 November 1856 - 1922) was an American episcopal minister and Assyriologist.[1] He was president of the American Oriental Society in 1921.[2]

James B. Nies

Selected publications

Articles

"Notes on a Cross Jordan Trip Made October 23rd to November 7th, 1899", Palestine Exploration Quarterly, Vol. 33 (1901), No. 4, pp. 362–368.
"The Opportunity of the American School of Archaeology in Palestine", Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1901), pp. 31–37.
"The Boomerang in Ancient Babylonia", American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 16, No. 1 (January–March 1914), pp. 26–32.
"A Net Cylinder of Entemena", Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 36 (1916), pp. 137–139.

Books

Historical, Religious and Economic Texts and Antiquities. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1920. (With Clarence E. Keiser)
Ur Dynasty Tablets. Texts chiefly from Tello and Drehem written during the reigns of Dungi, Bur-Sin, Gimil-Sin, and Ibi-Sin &c. J.C. Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1920.

References

"REV. DR. JAMES B. NIES, ORIENT ALIST, DEAD; Former Brooklyn Pastor Was in Jerusalem Erecting His American School Building". The New York Times. 1922-06-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
Clay, Albert T. (October 1922). "In Memoriam James Buchanan Nies". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 7: 1–3. doi:10.1086/BASOR1355223. ISSN 0003-097X.

Further reading

Keiser, C. E. (1918) Letters and contracts from Erech written in the neo-Babylonian period. Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Vol. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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