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Document number: 8580
Date: 17 Jul 1862
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: NORRIS Edwin
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 22154
Last updated: 4th June 2013

Foreign office
17 July, 1862

Dear Sir

I believe Cuneiform sign of Bellino’s Sennacharib cylinder at beginning to be [mudninnú?]  like Cuneiform sign of E I H. i.18. of the Senkirch cylinder i.2. of the Babylonian Cyl. i.11. Also Cuneiform sign of Taylors Sennacharib i.32 to be the same as Cuneiform sign both [muttabfilat?]  . Mudninnú of course the participle of Unident. I might find more examples but I am very busy over some long German State papers that will not allow me to look at Assyrian for some days.– I don’t think the above afford ‘a proof,’ we can only expect probability, and probabilities accumulate and become proofs. Certainly Cuneiform sign is not Cuneiform sign. I do not think Cuneiform sign is known either as to reading or version, but tenisit I am satisfied means mankind. I do not think kalati ever occurs, but am of opinion that it always forms part of following word. But I am not sure.

Please excuse this brief scrawl.

Yours faithfully
Edwin Norris

H F. Talbot Esq
&c &c &c

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq
Millburn Tower
Edinburgh

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