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↑ Up one levelExtract from a letter from Major Rawlinson, 7 December 1846
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GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/6
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0.75 page handwritten
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- 7th Dec 1846 (Creation)
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Name of creator
_Rawlinson_
_Henry Creswicke_
_1810-1895_
Biographical history
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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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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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 Assyrian is a connecting link and that old Egyptian may aid in deciphering. He is waiting for mail to come from Syria and hopes there will be something from Norris on the Babylonian excavations.
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- English
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