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Document number: 8567
Date: 20 May 1862
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: NORRIS Edwin
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 22133
Last updated: 4th June 2013

6, Michael’s Grove
20 May, 1862.

Dear Sir

We are still in the dark in so many matters appertaining to Assyrian readings that I would not press my opinion on any point, but I am not satisfied that amma can be separated from a verb, and could mean “away”. I admit that the few cases I have found since receiving your note, <1> appear to be in your favour, as the verbs are generally verbs of motion. The examples in [illegible] Pul seems to me insufficient, and would read: “I carried away, and also” had it been Cuneiform sign instead of Cuneiform sign the case would have been different. What do you say of [nusatbamma?], i.20 of [Senkerch?] cylinder and usdibamma, E. I. H. ii.6.

erubamma, in Taylor’s Senacherib [sic] iv.76 is a verb of motion I admit.

What is surihòimamma in E I H.. i.69.

see also huselamma, in the old [Br.?] illus series pl 38. l 17. though I admit this may be read huseluma. See also E. I. H. i.69, ii.6, 39 iii.37.50?

I have only time to intimate these, my work at Foreign Office takes up too much of my time to allow entering into particulars: if I wait till I have time, I shall never reply to your note

I think you agree that Cuneiform sign after a verb means “and,” as in “ibusu ma la usaklila,” “he made and did not finish”, and so in a hundred instances: now it seems to me that in verbs ending with u a following ma would induce an assimilation of the v in the u[.?] u is =av [sic] and am. uma would therefore be amma, or perhaps avva. All this should be more methodically displayed if I had leisure, but my official labours take up all my regular time, and I have only odd moments for Assyrian.

Yours very truly
Edwin Norris

H. Fox Talbot, Esq.
&c &c &c

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esqr
Millburn Tower,
Edinburgh


Notes:

1. Letter not located.

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