Description

Mélanges d'histoire et de philologie orientale (Studies in oriental history and philology), published in Paris around 1854, is a celebratory volume honoring the 60-year career of French Orientalist Étienne Marc Quatremère (1782‒1857). The volume includes Quatremère’s essays on the Phoenicians, the Biblical Ophir, King Darius of Persia and King Balthasar of Babylon, and Arab science, as well as studies of Jerusalem and the Jordan River. The essays reflect the author’s erudition and his wide-ranging interests in the ancient and modern Near East, its history and languages ...