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Cuneiform / by Finkel, Irving L.,author.(CARDINAL)645467; Taylor, J.(Jonathan),author.(CARDINAL)787608;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105) and index.
Subjects: Cuneiform writing.; Cuneiform inscriptions.; Cuneiform tablets.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about 2250 B.C. : Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections and erasures, with map, frontispiece and photograph of text / by Hammurabi,King of Babylonia.(CARDINAL)125457; Harper, Robert Francis,1864-1914.(CARDINAL)226203;
Subjects: Cuneiform inscriptions.; Law; Law.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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They wrote on clay : the Babylonian tablets speak today / by Chiera, Edward,1885-1933.(CARDINAL)834838; Cameron, George G.(George Glenn),1905-1979,editor.(CARDINAL)829246;
Subjects: Cuneiform inscriptions.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about 2250 B.C. Autographed text, transliteration, translation / by Hammurabi,King of Babylonia.(CARDINAL)125457; Harper, Robert Francis,1864-1914.(CARDINAL)226203;
Subjects: Law; Cuneiform inscriptions.; Old State Library Collection.; Law.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Mesopotamian Riddle [sound recording] : An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing. by Hammer, Joshueauthor.; Matthew Lloyd Davies narrator.;
Davies, Matthew Lloyd A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. It was one of history's great vanishing acts. Around 3,400 BCE--as humans were gathering in complex urban settlements--a scribe in the mud-walled city-state of Uruk picked up a reed stylus to press tiny symbols into clay. For three millennia, wedge shape cuneiform script would record the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the great Mesopotamian kingdoms of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylon and of Persia's mighty Achaemenid Empire, along with precious minutiae about everyday life in the cradle of civilization. And then...the meaning of the characters was lost. London, 1857. In an era obsessed with human progress, mysterious palaces emerging from the desert sands had captured the Victorian public's imagination. Yet Europe's best swashbuckling archaeologist, a suave British military officer turned diplomat, and a cloistered Irish rector, all vying for glory in a race to decipher this script that would enable them to peek farther back into human history than ever before. From the ruins of Persepolis to lawless outposts of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, The Mesopotamian Riddle whisks you on a wild adventure through the golden age of archaeology in an epic quest to understand our past.
Subjects: Audiobooks ; Informational works ; Cuneiform writing ; Cuneiform inscriptions ; Assyriology--history ; Adventurers & explorers ;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Empires of the plain : Henry Rawlinson and the lost languages of Babylon / by Adkins, Lesley.(CARDINAL)281614;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-402) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Rawlinson, Henry, Sir, 1810-1895.; Assyriologists; Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.; Old Persian inscriptions.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Mesopotamian riddle [sound recording] : an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing / by Hammer, Joshua,1957-author.(CARDINAL)657207; Davies, Matthew Lloyd,narrator.;
Read by Matthew Lloyd Davies."It was one of history's great vanishing acts. As early as 3500 BCE, scribes in the mud-walled city-state of Sumer used a reed stylus to press tiny wedge-shaped symbols into clay. For three thousand years, the script chronicled the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the grand kingdoms of Mesopotamia - Assyria, Babylon, the mighty Achaemenid Empire - along with precious minutia about everyday life so long ago. But as the palaces of these once great kingdoms sank beneath the desert sands, the meaning of these characters was lost. London, 1857. Colossal sculptures of winged bulls and alabaster bas-reliefs depicting cities under siege and vassals bearing tributes to Biblical kings lined the halls of the British Museum. In the Victorian era's obsession with the triumph of human progress, the mysterious kingdoms of ancient Mesopotamia - the very cradle of civilization - had captured the public imagination. Yet Europe's best philologists struggled to decipher the strange characters. Cuneiform seemed to have thousands of symbols - with some scholars claiming each could be pronounced in up to eight, nine, even ten different ways. Others insisted they'd cracked the code and deciphered inscriptions that corresponded precisely to the Old Testament - proving the veracity of the Word of God. Was it all a hoax? A delusion? A rollicking adventure through the golden age of archaeology, The Writing on the Wall tracks the decades-long race to decipher the oldest script in the world. It's the story of a swashbuckling young archeologist, a suave British military officer, and a curmudgeonly Irish rector, all vying for glory - from the ruins of Persepolis to the opulence of Ottoman-era Baghdad - in a quest to unearth the relics of lost civilizations and unlock the secrets of humanity's past"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Cuneiform writing.; Cuneiform inscriptions.; Assyriology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Mesopotamian riddle : an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing / by Hammer, Joshua,1957-author.(CARDINAL)657207;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-358) and index."It was one of history's great vanishing acts. As early as 3500 BCE, scribes in the mud-walled city-state of Sumer used a reed stylus to press tiny wedge-shaped symbols into clay. For three thousand years, the script chronicled the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the grand kingdoms of Mesopotamia - Assyria, Babylon, the mighty Achaemenid Empire - along with precious minutia about everyday life so long ago. But as the palaces of these once great kingdoms sank beneath the desert sands, the meaning of these characters was lost. London, 1857. Colossal sculptures of winged bulls and alabaster bas-reliefs depicting cities under siege and vassals bearing tributes to Biblical kings lined the halls of the British Museum. In the Victorian era's obsession with the triumph of human progress, the mysterious kingdoms of ancient Mesopotamia - the very cradle of civilization - had captured the public imagination. Yet Europe's best philologists struggled to decipher the strange characters. Cuneiform seemed to have thousands of symbols - with some scholars claiming each could be pronounced in up to eight, nine, even ten different ways. Others insisted they'd cracked the code and deciphered inscriptions that corresponded precisely to the Old Testament - proving the veracity of the Word of God. Was it all a hoax? A delusion? A rollicking adventure through the golden age of archaeology, The Writing on the Wall tracks the decades-long race to decipher the oldest script in the world. It's the story of a swashbuckling young archeologist, a suave British military officer, and a curmudgeonly Irish rector, all vying for glory - from the ruins of Persepolis to the opulence of Ottoman-era Baghdad - in a quest to unearth the relics of lost civilizations and unlock the secrets of humanity's past"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Biographies.; Cuneiform writing.; Cuneiform inscriptions.; Assyriology;
Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 27
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Babylonian And Assyrian Literature : comprising the epic of Izdubar, hymns, tablets, and cuneiform inscriptions / by Hamilton, Leonidas Le Cenci,translator.(CARDINAL)884244; Wilson, Epiphanius,1845-1916writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)124366;
With this is bound: Armenian literature. New York [1901].Ishtar and Izdubar / translated by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton -- Cuneiform inscriptions / translated by various Babylonian and Assyrian scholars.
Subjects: Assyro-Babylonian literature; English literature;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The stone that spoke : and other clues to the decipherment of lost languages. by Frimmer, Steven.(CARDINAL)159399;
Bibliography: pages 184-185.Describes the discoveries of and efforts to decipher long forgotten languages and relates how the interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, Assyrian cuneiform, and the Linear "B" of the Minoans opened important doors to these ancient civilizations.
Subjects: Inscriptions.; Inscriptions; Inscriptions;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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