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  • From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>, <biblical-studies AT yahoogroups.com>, <neareasternarchaeology AT yahoogroups.com>, <archaeology2 AT yahoogroups.com>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] SAD NEWS: H.W.F. Saggs
  • Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 23:43:44 +0200

This sad news was sent out on Agade:

Yigal Levin

>From Joan Porter MacIver <TheBSAI AT aol.com>:
===============================================

We have just been informed by the family of Professor H.W.F. Saggs that he
has died. They wish us to inform his collegues and friends that a funeral
service will take place at the Long Melford Parish Church (Suffolk) at 2.30
p.m.
on Wednesday, September 7th. Any donations you wish to make, should go to
the St Nicholas Hospice c/o WA Deacon Funeral Services, Norman Way,
Lavenham,
Suffolk, CO10 9PY. The Council of the School extends its deepest sympathy
to
the family on behalf of the School. Kindly pass on this information to any
friends and colleagues of Harry Saggs.

In 2001 the BSAI published H. W. F. Saggs' last publication The Nimrud
Letters, 1952, (Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud Vol. V). In 1952 in one wing of
the NW Palace at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Max Mallowan excavated an archive
room
containing royal correspondence from the reigns of Tiglath-Pileser III and
Sargon II of Assyria. Subjects include Assyrian military activity in
Babylonia
and on the northern frontier, royal building projects, events on the
Phoencian
seaboard, and relations with King Midas of Phrygia. Professor Saggs
published
one hundred and five of these texts in our journal Iraq between 1955 and
1974; this publication was the final comprehensive edition of all the 243
letters and fragments.




  • [b-hebrew] SAD NEWS: H.W.F. Saggs, Yigal Levin, 09/03/2005

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