Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete
A scholarly periodical on Assyriology, issued in 1886 in Leipzig by O. Schulze for the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, a German society of orientalists. One plate reproduces a cuneiform-marked clay or papyrus fragment in black ink on a dark ground, and the other shows a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie in a studio portrait; a designer might take from them the stark contrast of dense marks against a plain field and the formal, documentary feel of early academic photography.
