B.M. <1>
May 8th 62.
My dear Sir
I have just found the Urzana Cylinder in Layard,<2> he says that it is in the museum at the Hague – My authority for saying it belonged to Sir W. Ouneley is Cullimore,<3> who first says it belongs to us and then gives it to Sir W. With regard to the mace head I feel nearly certain it does not belong to "Salmasar", as Rawlinson <4> calls the king you mention – for the only remains of the king are one or two bricks, which are inscribed with rather peculiarly formed characters, and were found, I believe, solely, at Kileh-Shergat – while this mace head was discovered at Koyunjik and is written in ordinary Assyrian characters –
This is a copy –
[two line cuneiform inscription]
The last character I cannot quite make out –
Believe me Yours very truly
William H. Coxe.
[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esqre.
Millburn Tower
Edinburgh-
Notes:
1. British Museum, London.
2. Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894), English diplomat, traveller, and cuneiform scholar.
3. Sir William Ouseley (1767-1842), English orientalist. Isaac Cullimore (1791–1852), Irish Egyptologist.
4. Sir Henry Creswick Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810-1895), orientalist.