Polydactylism in the Ancient World

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Richard D. Barnett died on July 29, 1986. This article has been adapted from an unfinished scholarly paper published posthumously in the Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society (volume 6, 1986–1987) and is published here with the permission of Mrs. Barbara Barnett. (The annual Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society publishes lectures given to the Society by leading archaeologists working in Israel, and articles of original research. The annual subscription price is $24. To subscribe, write to: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, 3 St. John’s Wood Road, London NW8 ORB, England.) In Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov there is a […]

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Footnotes

see Alan R. Millard, “King Og’s Iron Bed—Fact or Fancy?” BR 06:02.

Dr. Barnett’s paper in Ancient Anatolia (endnote 3) indicates a total of 81 known figures, seven of which are polydactylous.

See Leroy Aarons, “The Dayan Saga—The Man and His Archaeological Collection,” BAR 08:05.

Endnotes

Eric Leichty, The Omen Series Sðumma Izbu (Texts from Cuneiform Sources VI) (Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Austin, 1970), p. 59.

H.-V. Herrmann, Die Kessel der orientalisierenden Zeit (Olympische Forschungen VI) (Berlin: Walter de Grüyter, 1966).

Richard D. Barnett, “Sirens and Rephaim,” in Ancient Anatolia: Essays in Honor of Machteld J. Mellinck, ed. J. V. Canby et al. (Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1986), pp. 112–120.