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Document number: 5475
Date: 26 Apr 1877
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: CROFTON Denis
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

8 Mountjoy Sqre North Dublin

Apr 26 1877

Sir

Would you kindly let me know whether you have ever published any translation or Analysis of the "Standard Inscription" from the "North West "palace" Nimroud and if so where it is to be found

The inscription is the 1st in Layards folio, vol of the Assyrian Cuneiform Inscriptions London 1851 and a is alluded to in his "Nineveh and its remains" and begins <cuneiform> &c.

There is a slab of it here which I am engaged on – but after "Hekal assur narir pal" there seems some intricacy and obscurity

I have not seen any thing by your on this in the Asiatic Journal – but possibly there might be elsewhere

I must apologise as a stranger for taking this liberty and if you would kindly let me have a line in reply it would confer a great favour upon

yr faithful servt

Denis Crofton