The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions
By: by A. H. Sayce. Published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.
Contributors: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee.
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. S. Gorham
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Cuneiform writing; Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian; Assyria -- Antiquities
Notes: "The first six chapters ... embody the Rhind lectures in archæology which I delivered at Edinburgh in October 1906. The seventh chapter appeared as an article in the Contemporary review for August 1905."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: I. The decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions.; title: II. The archæological materials; the excavations at Susa and the origin of bronze.; title: III. The Sumerians.; title: IV. The relation of Babylonian to Egyptian civilization.; title: V. Babylonia and Palestine.; title: Vi. Asia Minor.; title: VII. Canaan in the century before the exodus.  Index.