Grosvenor College, Bath; The Queen's College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline
Assyriology; Linguistics
Institutions
University of Oxford
Archibald Henry SayceFRAS (25 September 1845 – 4 February 1933) was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919.[1] He was able to write in at least twenty ancient and modern languages,[2] and was known for his emphasis on the importance of archaeological and monumental evidence in linguistic research.[3] He was a contributor to articles in the 9th, 10th and 11th editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica.[4]
^"Archibald Henry Sayce", The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, oxfordreference.com. Retrieved on 17 April 2017.
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^"The Late Dr. Archibald Henry Sayce, 1845-1933". Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 65 (2): 59–61. 1933. doi:10.1179/peq.1933.65.2.59.
^Important Contributors to the Britannica, 9th and 10th Editions, 1902encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
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had rudimentary knowledge of Akkadian, which he had learned from ArchibaldSayce's 1872 Assyrian Grammar for Comparative Purposes. Hamilton's book relied...
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through her travels. In addition, her friend Florence Sayce's Egyptologist uncle, ArchibaldSayce; and her father excavated a Cistercian abbey adjoining...
including Xenophon. They subsequently moved further northwest.: 207 ArchibaldSayce suggested that Daiaeni was named after an eponymous founder, Diaus...
Tribe of Issachar Joshua 19:10–16 Peake's Commentary on the Bible ArchibaldSayce [Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, the terms Issachar and Zebulun in Peninei Halakha...
as tells, are found throughout the ancient Near East. According to ArchibaldSayce, the primitive pictograms of the early Sumerian (i.e. Uruk) era suggest...
half of the 19th century revealed the scale of the Hittite kingdom, ArchibaldSayce asserted that, rather than being compared to Judah, the Anatolian civilization...
based on a mistranslation of the Cypriot script. British Assyriologist ArchibaldSayce attempted to read the translation utilizing more recent advancements...
inscription was unreadable at first due to the deposits, Professor ArchibaldSayce was the first to make a tentative reading, and later the text was cleaned...
Harry A. Hoffner Johannes Friedrich Alwin Kloekhorst Craig Melchert ArchibaldSayce Edgar Howard Sturtevant Henri Wittmann Hoffner & Melchert (2008), p...
Indus." In the next issue, a week later, the British Assyriologist ArchibaldSayce was able to point to very similar seals found in Bronze Age levels...
Flinders Petrie James Quibell Annie Quibell George Andrew Reisner ArchibaldSayce Arthur Weigall Herbert E. Winlock Leonard Woolley Lord and Lady Allenby...
Goodchild, Philip. Difference in Philosophy of Religion, 2003. Page 153. ArchibaldSayce, Introduction to the Science of Language. p. 28, 1880. "The Beginnings...
253, 261, 646; Jensen, Assyr.-Babyl. Mythen und Epen, 1900, p. 453; ArchibaldSayce, l.c. pp. 441, 450, 463; Lenormant, l.c. pp. 48–51. Sarah Iles Johnston...
necessary for them to take lessons from the Celestial Empire." In 1875, ArchibaldSayce voiced concern over the prevalence of competitive examinations, which...
the pantheon residing or convening on the summit of high mountains. ArchibaldSayce (1913) argues for a parallelism of the "stellar theology" of Babylon...
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