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The Edward Hincks bicentenary lectures / edited by Kevin J. Cathcart.

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The Edward Hincks bicentenary lectures / edited by Kevin J. Cathcart.
Publication
Dublin : Dept. of Near Eastern Languages, University College Dublin, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Cathcart, Kevin J.
  • Hincks, Edward, 1792-1866.
  • University College, Dublin. Department of Near Eastern Languages.
Description
ix, 227 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., port., plans; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Hincks, Edward, 1792-1866
  • Middle East > History > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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  • committed to retain
Contents
Edward Hincks, 1792-1866 / Kevin J. Cathcart -- Edward Hincks's decipherment of Mesopotamian cuneiform / Peter T. Daniels -- Edward Hincks and the progress of Egyptology / John Ray -- The decipherment of alphabetic scripts / John F. Healy -- The development of Syriac studies / Sebastian Brock -- From manuscripts to the computer / Manfred Kropp -- The beginnings of Wissenschaft des Judenthums / Michael Maher -- Irish and British contributions to Arabic and Islamic studies since 1800 / C. Edmund Bosworth -- Scholarly enquiries into Islamic art and architecture in the nineteenth century / Stephen Vernoit -- The enchorial language of Egypt / Edward Hincks.
ISBN
1898473153
LCCN
^^^96202078^
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Harvard Library