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The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions

Title: The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions / by A. H. Sayce ; published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.
Author: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933.
Publication: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : E. S. Gorham, 1908.

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee.

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220 pages : plates (including frontispiece, 2 maps); 22 cm

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"The first six chapters ... embody the Rhind lectures in archæology which I delivered at Edinburgh in October 1906. The seventh chapter appeared as an article in the Contemporary review for August 1905."--Pref.

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Contents.--Preface.--I. The decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions.--II. The archæological materials; the excavations at Susa and the origin of bronze.--III. The Sumerians.--IV. The relation of Babylonian to Egyptian civilization.--V. Babylonia and Palestine.--VI. Asia Minor.--VII. Canaan in the century before the exodus. Index.

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