Archibald Henry Sayce FRAS (25 September 1845 – 4 February 1933) was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology...
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Sayce is a surname, and may refer to: Archibald Sayce (1846–1933), British linguist and Assyriologist Conrad Sayce, Australian architect and author Lynda...
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demons lili have no etymological relation to Akkadian lilu, "evening". Archibald Sayce (1882)[page needed] considered that the Hebrew and the earlier Akkadian...
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ISBN 9781316347850. Sayce, A. H. 'The Overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (Accadian Account)' Records of the Past XI 115. Archibald Sayce (1887). The Hibbert...
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representation of buildings, and texts on building practices. According to Archibald Sayce, the primitive pictographs of the Uruk period era suggest that "Stone...
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indicating that the previous signs are to be understood as a place name. Archibald Sayce, writing in the 1870s, postulated that the Semitic name was a loan-translation...
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taken place in Meroë, possibly through bloomeries and blast furnaces. Archibald Sayce reportedly referred to it as "the Birmingham of Africa", because of...
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through her travels. In addition, her friend Florence Sayce's Egyptologist uncle, Archibald Sayce, and her father excavated a Cistercian abbey adjoining...
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He is usually identified with the Assyrian kings Shalmaneser II (by Archibald Sayce) or IV (by François Lenormant). Eberhard Schrader argued that rather...
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Abydos graffiti (section Sayce)
son Hartwig published an interpretation of 61 inscriptions noted by Archibald Sayce on a visit in 1883. A small amount of further graffiti was published...
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Tribe of Issachar Joshua 19:10–16 Peake's Commentary on the Bible Archibald Sayce [Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, the terms Issachar and Zebulun in Peninei Halakha...
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Indus." In the next issue, a week later, the British Assyriologist Archibald Sayce was able to point to very similar seals found in Bronze Age levels...
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inhabiting areas around Mount Seir in Canaan (Genesis 36:2,5). According to Archibald Sayce (1915), the Horites have been identified with references in Egyptian...
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inscription was unreadable at first due to the deposits, Professor Archibald Sayce was the first to make a tentative reading, and later the text was cleaned...
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necessary for them to take lessons from the Celestial Empire." In 1875, Archibald Sayce voiced concern over the prevalence of competitive examinations, which...
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Vuza, who gave their names to the nearby Yauza River. According to Archibald Sayce, Meshech can be identified with Muska, a name appearing in Assyrian...
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had rudimentary knowledge of Akkadian, which he had learned from Archibald Sayce's 1872 Assyrian Grammar for Comparative Purposes. Hamilton's book relied...
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as tells, are found throughout the ancient Near East. According to Archibald Sayce, the primitive pictograms of the early Sumerian (i.e. Uruk) era suggest...
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scholars have linked the name to the term "smith". According to Archibald Henry Sayce, the name Kenite is identical to an Aramaic word meaning a smith...
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the descent of the goddess by his acquaintance with Oxford professor Archibald Sayce, who lectured and published an English translation of this text. Wilde's...
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published in The Chaldaean Account of Genesis (1880, co-written with Archibald Sayce). In March 1876, the trustees of the British Museum sent Smith once...
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half of the 19th century revealed the scale of the Hittite kingdom, Archibald Sayce asserted that, rather than being compared to Judah, the Anatolian civilization...
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Harry A. Hoffner Johannes Friedrich Alwin Kloekhorst Craig Melchert Archibald Sayce Edgar Howard Sturtevant Henri Wittmann Hoffner & Melchert (2008), p...
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including Xenophon. They subsequently moved further northwest.: 207 Archibald Sayce suggested that Daiaeni was named after an eponymous founder, Diaus...
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based on a mistranslation of the Cypriot script. British Assyriologist Archibald Sayce attempted to read the translation utilizing more recent advancements...
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of the building was damaged beyond repair. The Oxford Assyriologist Archibald Sayce, recalling a visit to Stanford in 1917, wrote that "the rooms of its...
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253, 261, 646; Jensen, Assyr.-Babyl. Mythen und Epen, 1900, p. 453; Archibald Sayce, l.c. pp. 441, 450, 463; Lenormant, l.c. pp. 48–51. Sarah Iles Johnston...
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build such collections.[citation needed] In 1900, the Assyriologist Archibald Sayce said to Budge: What a revolution you have effected in the Oriental...
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containing refutations to Smith's translations. Refuters included Archibald Sayce, Flinders Petrie, James Henry Breasted, Arthur Cruttenden Mace (refutation...
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Rutter (1889–1944)[citation needed] John Charles Ryle (1816–1900) Archibald Sayce (1845-1933) Jimmy Savile (1926–2011) John Liston Byam Shaw (1872–1919)...
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