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The Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions
Contributor(s): Sayce, Archibald Henry (Author)

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 ISBN: 1108082394     ISBN-13: 9781108082396
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections
- Social Science | Archaeology
- History | Civilization
Dewey: 935
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.73 lbs) 258 pages
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Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) became interested in Middle Eastern languages and scripts while still a teenager. Old Persian and Akkadian cuneiform had recently been deciphered, and popular enthusiasm for these discoveries was running high when Sayce began his academic career at Oxford in 1869. In this 1907 work, based on lectures delivered in Edinburgh in the previous year, he considers the state of archaeological knowledge of Babylonia and Assyria, which he describes as 'miserably deficient', and in particular the paradox of a huge number of cuneiform tablets in various languages drawn from many sites at which the original excavation had not provided an adequate context. Beginning with the history of the decipherment of cuneiform, Sayce goes on to describe what the tablets reveal of political and trade interactions among the different nations of the Near East and Asia Minor, and the relevance of these discoveries to Old Testament studies.
 
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