Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

This sad news was sent out on Agade:

Yigal Levin

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