Speiser, E. A. (Ephraim Avigdor), 1902-1965
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m086Excavations at Tepe Gawra
Excavations at Tepe GawraBook 1950
- Summary
- Ephraim Avigdor Speiser was a Polish-born American Assyriologist and translator of the Torah. He discovered the ancient site of Tepe Gawra in 1927 and supervised its excavation between 1931 and 1938. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][3][4][5]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1902 [2]
- 1902-01-24 [5]
- Birth Place
- Skalat (auj. Ukraine) [3]
- Skalat [5]
- Died
- 1965 [2]
- 1965-06-15 [5]
- Death Place
- Elkins Park, Penn. [3]
- Pennsylvania [5]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [5]
- archaeologist [5]
- translator [5]
- Bible translator [5]
- assyriologist [5]
- Employer
- University of Pennsylvania [5]
- Work Place
- Philadelphia, Pa. [2]
- Educated at
- Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [5]
- University of Pennsylvania [5]
- Country of Education
- United States [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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