Arquivo RCT - Papers of Reginald Campbell Thompson

These papers were given to John Nicholas Postgate former professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge by Reginald Campbell Thompson's daughter in 1966. He then donated them to the Royal Asiatic Society on 30 August 2024. The donation included one additional notebook entitled ‘Catalogue of Assyrian Letters, etc’, which had been originally catalogued as RCT/6, but was later re-catalogued as SC65. The original sequence of numbering is maintained.

A set of five notebooks entitled:

• “Assyrian Inscriptions R. C. Thompson, 1894”
• “Algeria 1901”
• “Kodak Sinaiticus or Grads and Ghouls, 1902”
• “Tripoli 1903” and “A year in Nineveh, 1904–1905”
• Newspaper cuttings and assortments of notes and letters

Two printed pamphlets entitled:

• “A list of words and phrases in the Basrah Dialect of Arabic”
• “On traces of an indefinite article in Assyrian”

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More details about the related material below can be found on the RAS Library catalogue: https://ras.koha-ptfs.co.uk/

• Assyrian Medical Prescriptions Against Simmatu 'Poison'
• Assyrian Prescriptions for Treating Bruises or Swellings
• A Dictionary of Assyrian Botany
• A Dictionary of Assyrian Chemistry and Geology
• The Assyrian Herbal: A Monograph on the Assyrian Vegetable Drugs
• On the Chemistry of the Ancient Assyrians
• A Century of Exploration at Nineveh
• A Catalogue of the Late Babylonian Tablets in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
• The Prisms of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal Found at Nineveh, 1927-28
• Assyrian Medical Texts from the Originals in the British Museum
• The Epic of Gilgamish: A New Translation from a Collation of the Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum Rendered Literally into English Hexameters
• A New Decipherment of the Hittite Hieroglyphics
• The Epic of Gilgamish: Text, Transliteration and Notes
• The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great, on the Rock of Behistûn in Persia
• Photographic documentation of the excavation at Nineveh [Glass Slide.08]
• Photographs of the 1918 excavation at Abu Shahrain [Glass Slide.10]
• Photographs documenting Reginald Campbell Thompson's travels and service in WWI [Glass Slide.11]
• A film of his excavations in Iraq - digital version can be found at https://royalasiaticsociety.org/film-footage-of-excavations-in-iraq/.