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Document number: 5153
Date: 05 Sep 1856
Recipient: HINCKS Edward
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Griffith Institute Archive Sackler Library Oxford
Collection number: 504
Last updated: 24th December 2012

Lacock
Sept. 5. 1856

Dr Sir

I thank you for pointing out that Rapikhi is ¥Ñ¥á¥õ¥å¥é¥á, and not Heliopolis of Egypt - This clears up a very important point, and explains why the King of Gaza took a prominent part of in the battle, Rapheri being I believe close to Gaza. You may very possibly also be right with respect to the name of Hanno, a decidedly Ph©«nician name, and therefore suitable for a king of Gaza.

Is the lithograph of Grotefend<1>to which you refer, a loose sheet or published in any work, and under what title?

With respect to your argument, that if the Assyrians had meant to transcribe the name of Canaan they would not have overlooked the Ain, I think that is not so certain. In the very important name of Baal, the Chaldeans omitted the Ain and wrote simple [unidentified language] -

I remain Dr Sir very Truly yours
H. F. Talbot

Notes:

1.Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775-1853), archaeologist and philologist.

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