• Thumbnail for Archibald Sayce
    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...
    48 KB (4,207 words) - 08:40, 12 September 2024
  • Sayce is a surname, and may refer to: Archibald Sayce (1846–1933), British linguist and Assyriologist Conrad Sayce, Australian architect and author Lynda...
    335 bytes (82 words) - 09:04, 20 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Architecture of Mesopotamia
    representation of buildings, and texts on building practices. According to Archibald Sayce, the primitive pictographs of the Uruk period era suggest that "Stone...
    39 KB (4,992 words) - 19:42, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sodom and Gomorrah
    ISBN 9781316347850. Sayce, A. H. 'The Overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (Accadian Account)' Records of the Past XI 115. Archibald Sayce (1887). The Hibbert...
    53 KB (6,752 words) - 03:05, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lilith
    demons lili have no etymological relation to Akkadian lilu, "evening". Archibald Sayce (1882)[page needed] considered that the Hebrew and the earlier Akkadian...
    99 KB (13,065 words) - 02:44, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Babylon
    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...
    98 KB (10,968 words) - 03:05, 24 September 2024
  • He is usually identified with the Assyrian kings Shalmaneser II (by Archibald Sayce) or IV (by François Lenormant). Eberhard Schrader argued that rather...
    1 KB (147 words) - 12:58, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abydos graffiti
    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...
    7 KB (714 words) - 18:01, 29 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for George Smith (Assyriologist)
    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...
    12 KB (1,301 words) - 06:29, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dance of the Seven Veils
    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...
    15 KB (1,953 words) - 14:54, 6 September 2024