Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete
A scholarly periodical of Assyriology issued in Leipzig in 1886 by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, written for specialists in ancient Near Eastern languages and history. Its plates show cuneiform signs in tabulated columns, a page of drawn ancient symbols, and carved reliefs with sculpted heads from archaeological finds. A designer might take from them the rigid grid of wedge-shaped marks, the crisp black-on-white line drawing, and the weathered texture of ancient stone relief.
