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Abstract The British Assyriologist Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) was a Francophile, as his autobiography shows. His passive correspondence, preserved in Oxford and still largely unpublished, confirms this. It includes letters from such …

Abstract The correspondence of Jules Oppert preserved at the Institut de France does not form a single unit, but is made up of several batches of letters received by his correspondents, notably Jules Mohl (1800-1876), Félicien de Saulcy (1807-1880), …

Abstract Among the papers of Goettingen orientalist Paul de Lagarde, a considerable number of letters exchanged with Jules Oppert have been preserved. In their exchanges, which cover the period from 1875 to 1890, the two scholars, who share a certain - …

Abstract Jules Oppert's participation in the May 25, 1857 session of the Royal Asiatic Society , in the deciphering of the prism of Tiglath-phalazar I , an Assyrian document, made him one of the official decipherers of Assyrian. Like all pioneers of …

Abstract Jules Oppert's name is associated above all with the sites of Khorsabad and Babylon, due to his participation from 1851 to 1855 in the "scientific and artistic expedition to Mesopotamia and Media" led by Fulgence Fresnel. Yet the texts of Nineveh …

Abstract In 1846 Edward Hincks announced that he had made a beginning in the decipherment of Akkadian. Between 1846 and 1849 he established that many signs have more than one reading or represent more than one sound, several signs can be pronounced the …

Abstract In the autumn of 1851, when Victor Place was in charge of resuming Paul-Emile Botta's excavations in Khorsabad, the French government decided to send a major scientific expedition to Mesopotamia. Headed by Fulgence Fresnel, former French consul …

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