Assyrian discoveries; an account of explorations and discoveries on the site of Nineveh, during 1873 and 1874. By George Smith ...

6 FORMERI EXCA VATIONS
eluding the tablet containing the synchronous history
of Assyria and Babylonia. Next after Sir Henry
Rawlinson comes Dr. Hincks, a successful student
both of the. Egyptian and Assyrian, and on some
points the close rival of Sir Henry Rawlinson. Each
of the other scholars has contributed his share to
the discoveries which have been made from time to
time; these are so numerous that it would take too
long to do justice to them here, but the accounts of
previous explorations and discoveries will be found
in the following works:Botta. Monument de Ninive, Paris, five vols.,
1849-50; Mdmoire sur l'Ecriture Cundiforme Assyrienne, Paris, 1849.
Layard. Nineveh and its Remains, London, 1851;
Nineveh and Babylon, London, 1853; Monuments
of Nineveh, London, 1851; second series, 1853;
Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character, London,
1851.
Loftus. Travels in Chaldea and Susiana, London,
1856.
Place. Ninive et l'Assyrie, Paris, 1870.
Grotefend. Zur Erlauter. d. babylon. Keilschrift,
1840; Bemerkungen zur Inschrift eines Thongefaisses
mit niniv. Keilgchrift, GQttingen, 1850-1; Die Tributverzeichniss d. Obelisken aus Nimrud, Gottingen,
1852; Erldiuter. der babyl. Keilinschrift aus Behistun,
G6ttingen, 1853; Erlauter. zweier Ausschr. Nebukadnezar's in babyl. Keilschr., Gittingen, 1854, and
some minor papers.