Dossier RAS GOV7/6 - Extract from a letter from Major Rawlinson, 7 December 1846

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GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/6

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Extract from a letter from Major Rawlinson, 7 December 1846

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  • 7th Dec 1846 (Création/Production)

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0.75 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 from Major Rawlinson to Mr (Edwin) Norris, dated Baghdad, 7 December 1846' in which he writes of his discovered inscriptions that their language is different to Babylonian though written in Babylonian characters. He thinks Assyrianread more

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