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Identifier: archaeologyofcun00sayc (find matches)
Title: The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee
Subjects: Cuneiform writing Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian Assyria -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge New York : E. S. Gorham
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determinatives, which indicate proper names andthe like, and the ideographs, which are fairly plentiful,the general sense of many of the inscriptions could bemade out; but beyond that it seemed impossible togo. Lenormant, indeed, following Hincks, showedthat the suffix -bi denoted the first person singular ofthe verb, and indicated Georgian as possibly a relatedlanguage; but in the hands of other would-bedecipherers, like Robert and Mordtmann, there wasretrogression instead of advance. So matters remained until 1882, when StanislasGuyard pointed out the parallelism between a formulawhich occurs at the end of many Vannic inscriptionsand the imprecatory formula of the Assyrian texts.I had already been struck by the same fact, and wasat the time preparing a Memoir on the deciphermentand translation of the inscriptions, which shortly after-wards appeared in the Journal of the Royal AsiaticSociety. In this I had made use of Layards copies,which had never been published ; other copies also,
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