Bestanddeel RAS GOV7/5 - Extract from a letter addressed to Mr Norris by Major Rawlinson

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GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/5

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Extract from a letter addressed to Mr Norris by Major Rawlinson

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  • 27th Nov 1846 (Vervaardig)

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0.5 page handwritten

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Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, GCB FRS KLS (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist, known for his decipherment of cuneiform inscriptions and therefore sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology.

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'Extract from a letter addressed to Mr(Edwin) Norris by Major Rawlinson, dated Baghdad, 27 November 1846' in which he writes of inscriptions - that he thinks they may be relatively easy to interpret but that the language seems to be a compound of Turkishread more

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  • Engels

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