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Barnsbury. N.
SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
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ASSYRIAN AND EGYPTIAN TRANSLATIONS
16th Decr 1873.
Dear Sir
Many thanks for your paper <1> which will help us nicely over the difficulty with the Journal. I am obliged to delay publication for a fortnight but that will not matter much now
The Records of the past <2> are all ready for for issue when Sir Henry Rawlinson <3> shall send his revise of the Behistun text. Unfortunately Mr Cull <4> lent me the text of 1846 to print, and I have had great trouble and loss of time in getting it revised. The vol will be out however by the end of the year.
The Warden of the Standards (Mr Chisholm)<5> has been weighing the Assyrian Weights, Ducks & lions, at the B.M.<6> and finds that they all appear to be based on a decimal system with a unit very close to that adopted in the Metric System
Dear Sir Yours faly
W. R. Cooper
H Fox Talbot. Esq. FRS.
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H. Fox. Talbot. Eq. FRS
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Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. WHFT, ‘On the Religious Belief of the Assyrians, Part IV’ (Read 2 December 1873). Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (London), v. 2, part 2, December 1873, pp. 346–352.
2. Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons).
3. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist, provided the first Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun (1846–1851). [See Doc. No: 09218].
4. Member of the Society of Biblical Archaeology.