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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
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The son of an Italian historian, Paul-Emile Botta (1802-70) served
France as a diplomat and archaeologist. While posted as consul to
Mosul in Ottoman Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), he excavated
several sites, becoming in 1843 the first archaeologist to uncover
an Assyrian palace at Khorsabad, where Sargon II had ruled in the
eighth century BCE. As nobody could yet read the cuneiform
inscriptions, Botta thought he had discovered Nineveh, and an
enthused French government financed the recording and collecting of
numerous artefacts. Many of the marvellous sculptures were put on
display in the Louvre. Botta devoted himself to studying the
inscriptions, and this 1848 publication, a contribution towards the
later deciphering of the Akkadian language, presents a tentative
catalogue of cuneiform characters that appear to be used
interchangeably. Of related interest, Henry Rawlinson's Commentary
on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and Assyria (1850) is
also reissued in this series.
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