Identifier: historyofbaby01roge (find matches)
Title: A history of Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rogers, Robert William
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Publisher: New York : Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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smaterial was accessible to Tychsen and to Mun-ter, but they had not known how to use it withbest effect. There is a gift for deciphering, asthere is a gift of tongues. But not only fromthis work of Duperron and Burnouf was therenew material; valuable hints might be had fromthe discoveries of de Sacy concerning the in-scriptions of Sassanian kings. The style inwhich the Sassanian kings wrote their inscrip-tions was very probably copied from the stylein which the older Achsemenides had written.That wTas not certain, but as a hypothesis uponwhich to work it might prove useful. 60 HISTOEY OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA In this we have shown what the material was,what the problem, and what the essays made forits solution, and now there was a call for a manable to practice a method by which all that ex-isted of fact or of hypothesis could be broughtto bear, and the successful result be achieved.But even while the preliminary work was goingon the genius who should achieve the result waspreparing.
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