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Description: On Some Fragments of the Chaldean Account of the Creation

TitleOn Some Fragments of the Chaldean Account of the Creation

Creator nameSmith, George

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1876

Object typeBook/Manuscript

MaterialsLithograph

LocationYale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut

SubjectsCuneiform tabletsAssyriology

StatusTransactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 4", 1876, plate 5

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Bel and the Dragons: Deciphering Cuneiform after Decipherment

Eleanor Robson

William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography

TO Assyriologists William Henry Fox Talbot is best known as the man who instigated the “decipherment event” of 1857, which led to widespread acceptance that cuneiform script really could be read. Assyriologists know little, if anything, of his...

Author

Eleanor Robson

PublisherYale Center for British Art

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.193-218

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00251.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21239&redirecttoanchor=65265

Chapter subject tags:Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877Cuneiform tabletsPhotography--Great Britain--HistoryPhotography--History--19th century

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