A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and A... - 9781108077477

A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and AssyriaIncluding Readings of the Inscription on the Nimrud Obelisk, and a Brief Notice of the Ancient Kings of Nineveh and Babylon\nAuthor(s): Henry Creswicke Rawlinson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108077477, 978-1108077477\nSynopsis\nThis publication released to a wider audience the work on Assyrian inscriptions of Sir Henry Rawlinson [tel], who had begun his career in the East India Company in Persia and Afghanistan, where his exceptional linguistic skills were recognised. He had been studying the monumental, trilingual (in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian) Behistun inscription of Darius the Great since 1836, and, building on the earlier research of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, delivered a summary of his progress in decipherment to the Royal Asiatic Society early in 1850. He intended to follow it up with a longer book, but was .