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GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/12
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Extract from a letter addressed by Major Rawlinson, 27 April 1847
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- 27th Apr 1847 (Creation)
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2 pages handwritten
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'Extract from a letter addressed by Major Rawlinson to Mr Norris, dated Baghdad, 27 April 1847' in which he writes of Dr Hincks' discovery of the numerals of cuneiform of which he has no doubt that Hincks is right. He continues to write of the information he has been able to interpret from the inscriptions and his deciphering of some of the symbols.
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- English
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- Rawlinson Sir Henry Creswicke 1810-1895 (Subject)