British Museum
March 11th 1872
My dear Sir
I am sorry to have to confess that I forgot your request being busy at the time I received your note
[cuneiform] I have translated “dark races”
The Assyrian trans equivalent is written
[cuneiform] [cuneiform]
za-al-ma-at ga-ga-da
and,
[cuneiform][cuneiform]
zal-mat qaq-qa-di
here zalmat = [cuneiform]
and qaqqad = [cuneiform]
The variant zal-mat qaq-qa-di is given on one fragmentary copy of this Sargon legend which I have mislaid or I should have sent it to you – perhaps you will be able to make out a better rendering of this than I have given Sir H. Rawlinson long ago pointed out that these forms were equivalent before the Sargon fragments were found
Yours respectfully
George Smith
H. Fox Talbot Esq
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H. Fox Talbot Esq
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Bath