Chaldean magic : its origin and development / translated from the French ; with considerable additions by the author, and notes by the editor. By François Lenormant.

  • François Lenormant
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[1877]
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Credit: Chaldean magic : its origin and development / translated from the French ; with considerable additions by the author, and notes by the editor. By François Lenormant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it is probable that this language was not peculiar to the Accadians, at least' not originally ; the increasing probability that the names Sumirians and Accadians did not express the distinction between the Semitic or Kushito-Semitic race and the Turanian or Altaic race. This latter point now renders useless all discussions about the choice between the appellations Sumerian or Accadian for the idiom which must have be- longed both to the Sumirians and Accadians. [77]