RARE collection of essays published on the occasion of the sixty-fifth birthday of Hayim Tadmor (born Frumstein, 1923-2005) - a leading Israeli Assyriologist known for his groundbreaking book on the Assyrian royal inscriptions of king Tiglath-pileser III, known as particularly difficult to decipher. 245x175mm. 347 pages. Brown cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt front cover and spine. Jacket rubbed and slightly dirty. Jacket edges/corners wrinkled. Cover upper corners and spine edges bumped. Text block edges and pages slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare Festschrift dedicated to one of the leading 20th-cenutry Assyriologists, with papers by the leading historians of the ancient Near East, is in good condition.