Mémoire sur l'écriture cunéiforme assyrienne / Paul-Émile Botta.

The son of an Italian historian, Paul-Émile Botta (1802-70) served France as a diplomat and archaeologist. While posted as consul to Mosul in Ottoman Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), he excavated several sites, becoming in 1843 the first archaeologist to uncover an Assyrian palace at Khorsabad, where...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author:	Botta, Paul-Emile (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	French Akkadian
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:	Cambridge library collection.
Subjects:	Cuneiform writing.