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Document number: 07373
Date: 11 Mar 1857
Recipient: PHILLIPPS Thomas
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Bodleian Library, Oxford
Collection number: MS. Phillipps-Robinson e.361 ff 9-10
Last updated: 20th March 2010

Lacock March 11/57

Dear Sir

I have received from Williams & Norgate <1> a second copy of Grotefend's facsimile of your Babylonn Cylinder <2> – I shall have great pleasure in offering it for your acceptance, but as I think it possible you may have already received a copy, I write first to enquire before sending it

and remain Yours very Truly
H.F. Talbot

I have completed a translation of the Cylinder of Tiglath Pileser the first, which is in the British Museum. <3> It is a very curious document belonging to the remote age of 1120 before Christ, in short contemporaneous with the siege of Troy (of which event I need hardly say it makes no mention)

But though silent on that subject, it enlarges on many curious things hitherto unknown –

Sir T. Phillipps

Notes:

1. Publishers & booksellers, London.

2. Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Erläuterung zweier Ausschreiben des Königes Nebukadnezar in einfacher babylonischer Keilschrift mit einigen Zugabenp (Göttingen, 1856).

3. WHFT's translation was eventually incorporated into Inscription of the Tiglath Pileser I, King of Assyria, B.C. 1150, as translated by Sir Henry Rawlinson, Fox Talbot, Esq., Dr. Hincks, and Dr. Oppert (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1857).