The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions / by A. H. Sayce ; published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933.

Contributor:

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuneiform writing.

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.

Assyria--Antiquities.

Assyria.

Physical Description:

220 pages : plates (including frontispiece, 2 maps) ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition, revised.

Place of Publication:

London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : E. S. Gorham, 1908.

Contents:

Contents.

Preface.

I. The decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions.

II. The archæological materials; the excavations at Susa and the origin of bronze.

III. The Sumerians.

IV. The relation of Babylonian to Egyptian civilizatio

Babylonia and Palestine.

VI. Asia Minor.

VII. Canaan in the century before the exodus. Index. +

Notes:

"The first six chapters ... embody the Rhind lectures in archæology which I delivered at Edinburgh in October 1906. The seventh chapter appeared as an article in the Contemporary review for August 1905."--Pref.

OCLC:

3412444