Assyrian language : easy lessons in the cuneiform inscriptions / by L.W. King.

  • Leonard William King
Date:
1901
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Credit: Assyrian language : easy lessons in the cuneiform inscriptions / by L.W. King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Messrs. Regan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., beg to announce that they have still in stock a limited number of copies of the work “First Steps in Assyrian” by Mr. L. W. King, which appeared in 1898. Price of the Work, 15s. The book contains a large series of cuneiform texts, represent- ing the main divisions of Babylonian and Assyrian literature. They comprise examples of historical, mythological, religious, magical, epistolary, and other documents, and in selecting them care has been taken to include those which are of importance from a historical point of view. The principal Babylonian and Assyrian legends, including the Babylonian versions of the Creation and the Deluge, are also given at length. The texts are printed in cuneiform characters and are furnished with interlinear trans- literations and translations, and a full Vocabulary. They thus furnish the beginner with a mass of material for philological study, while at the same time they enable him to acquaint himself at first hand with the most interesting and important literary compositions which the Babylonians and Assyrians have left us. The following is a list of the contents of the work:— Part I. Grammar, List of cuneiform signs, etc. (pp. i-cxxxix). Part II. Texts with interlinear transliteration and translation, among which may be mentioned: The names and titles of early Babylonian and Assyrian kings; historical inscriptions of Hammurabi, Ramman-nirari I, Tiglat.h- Pileser I and Ashur-nasir-pal; the endowment of the Temple of the Sun-god, from the Tablet of Sippar; the siege of Damascus by Shalmaneser II and the tribute of Jehu, king of Israel, 842 B. C.; Tiglath-Pileser III and Uzziah king of Judah; the tribute of Menahem king of Samaria, 738 B. C.; a*
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