A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and Assyria: Including Readings of the Inscription on the Nimrud Obelisk, and a Brief Notice … (Cambridge Library Collection – Archaeology)

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This publication released to a much wider target market the work on Assyrian inscriptions of Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810-95), who had begun his career within the East India Company in Persia and Afghanistan, where his exceptional linguistic skills were recognised. He had been studying the monumental, trilingual (in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian) Behistun inscription of Darius the Great since 1836, and, building on the in advance research of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, delivered a summary of his progress in decipherment to the Royal Asiatic Society early in 1850. He intended to follow it up with a longer book, but used to be anxious to achieve credit for primacy (which used to be questioned on the time and still continues to be controversial), and so published this short work in March 1850. It states Rawlinson’s theories, and offers a linguistic and archaeological background to his work, at the side of his interpretation of king lists and other inscriptions.

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