Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2321000831> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 46 of
46
with 100 items per page.
- W2321000831 endingPage "39" @default.
- W2321000831 startingPage "39" @default.
- W2321000831 abstract "About 1965 I gave a lift to an old villager somewhere near Shergat in northern Iraq. Hearing that I was English, he said that he remembered the English and produced, instead of some casual polite remark, the very specific comment: “they were just people, they introduced fair courts.” It was, though he could hardly have known it, a reference to the remarkable work of Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter, who in the early days of the Mandate founded Iraq's School of Law and re-established the machinery of justice, drafting a great deal of the necessary legislation himself and creating a system which in principle still exists. He was one of those British officials whose services in Iraq are indeed memorable, and it is a great honour for me to be giving the eighth Bonham-Carter Memorial Lecture today. We in the small archaeological world, however, think of Sir Edgar especially as a leading spirit in the establishment of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, first chairman of the Executive Committee, and husband of course of Lady Bonham-Carter who is still one of the School's best friends. So I thought it appropriate that I should devote this lecture to another man who also, in his own way, bridged two cultures (Figs. 1, 2) and who was in fact the first Iraqi archaeologist, with great achievements and discoveries to his credit. Yet Hormuzd Rassam, instead of being crowned with the honours that were his due, ended his life in disappointment and relative obscurity. His reputation has never fully recovered from the malicious attacks made upon it in his lifetime, and from the failure then to acknowledge his contribution to our knowledge of ancient Iraq. His reputation as an archaeologist in particular has suffered from the vastly improved archaeological techniques which were developed in Iraq a generation after he himself had left the field. He is condemned for not recording and publishing his excavations properly, and for being a treasure-hunter rather than a seeker after truth, when such criticisms might more reasonably be directed" @default.
- W2321000831 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W2321000831 creator A5050216258 @default.
- W2321000831 date "1993-01-01" @default.
- W2321000831 modified "2023-10-14" @default.
- W2321000831 title "Hormuzd Rassam and His Discoveries" @default.
- W2321000831 cites W1966488599 @default.
- W2321000831 cites W1968668739 @default.
- W2321000831 cites W2134043116 @default.
- W2321000831 cites W3205569565 @default.
- W2321000831 doi "https://doi.org/10.2307/4200366" @default.
- W2321000831 hasPublicationYear "1993" @default.
- W2321000831 type Work @default.
- W2321000831 sameAs 2321000831 @default.
- W2321000831 citedByCount "13" @default.
- W2321000831 countsByYear W23210008312014 @default.
- W2321000831 countsByYear W23210008312015 @default.
- W2321000831 countsByYear W23210008312016 @default.
- W2321000831 countsByYear W23210008312017 @default.
- W2321000831 countsByYear W23210008312018 @default.
- W2321000831 countsByYear W23210008312020 @default.
- W2321000831 countsByYear W23210008312022 @default.
- W2321000831 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W2321000831 hasAuthorship W2321000831A5050216258 @default.
- W2321000831 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
- W2321000831 hasConceptScore W2321000831C142362112 @default.
- W2321000831 hasLocation W23210008311 @default.
- W2321000831 hasOpenAccess W2321000831 @default.
- W2321000831 hasPrimaryLocation W23210008311 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W1531601525 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W2748952813 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W2758277628 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W2899084033 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W2935909890 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W2948807893 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W3173606202 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W3183948672 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W2778153218 @default.
- W2321000831 hasRelatedWork W3110381201 @default.
- W2321000831 hasVolume "55" @default.
- W2321000831 isParatext "false" @default.
- W2321000831 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W2321000831 magId "2321000831" @default.
- W2321000831 workType "article" @default.