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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    including Xenophon. They subsequently moved further northwest.: 207  Archibald Sayce suggested that Daiaeni was named after an eponymous founder, Diaus...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • the pantheon residing or convening on the summit of high mountains. Archibald Sayce (1913) argues for a parallelism of the "stellar theology" of Babylon...
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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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    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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    origins of Chinese civilization were supported by the Assyriologist Archibald Sayce in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. They impressed the public...
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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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    Goodchild, Philip. Difference in Philosophy of Religion, 2003. Page 153. Archibald Sayce, Introduction to the Science of Language. p. 28, 1880. "The Beginnings...
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  • Flinders Petrie James Quibell Annie Quibell George Andrew Reisner Archibald Sayce Arthur Weigall Herbert E. Winlock Leonard Woolley Lord and Lady Allenby...
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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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    Henry Hart Milman, Salomon Munk, Francis William Newman, Ernest Renan, Archibald Sayce, George Adam Smith, Bernhard Stade Biblical history of Abraham and...
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