Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character from Assyrian Monuments

by Austen Henry Layard

Publisher:

Harrison and Sons

, 1851

Overview

This valuable resource collects cuneiform tablet inscriptions as transcribed by Austin Henry Layard during his travels through Assyria. Including a table of variants, Layard’s detailed work is an essential resource for anyone studying cuneiform writing.

Key Features

• Collects cuneiform tablet inscriptions
• Includes a table of variants
• Provides essential information for anyone studying cuneiform

Product Details

• Title: Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character from Assyrian Monuments
• Author: Austen Henry Layard
• Publisher: Harrison and Sons
• Publication Date: 1851
• Pages: 102
• Resource Type: Topical
• Topic: Bible Backgrounds

About Austen Henry Layard

Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) was born in Paris, but he traveled often in his youth. He was educated in Italy, England, Switzerland, and France. After spending six years working for his uncle’s law firm, he left to travel and explore the Middle East. After his first successful excavations at Kuyunjik and Nimrud, Layard continued his archeological explorations at the ruins of Babylon and the mounds of southern Mesopotamia. (Many of the specimens that he found make up a large part of the British Museum’s collection of Assyrian antiquities.) Layard then returned to England, where he took up a life of politics, serving as under-secretary for foreign affairs and ambassador at Constantinople. Layard retired in Italy, where he continued to write about Italian art and penned the popular account of his earliest travels, Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia.