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Document number: 8952
Date: 24 Feb 1865
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: NORRIS Edwin
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc 21430 [envelope only]
Last updated: 10th June 2013

Foreign Office
24 Feb 1865

Dr Sir

I have made on the other side a copy of the little Inscription, I cannot say that I understand it all, You may be more successful.

Thanks for your paper which I have run through, and must say that I think your identification probable; it is at all events very ingenious and curious.

My dictionary is copied out fair to the end of k: but I am more and more dissatisfied with it, as I have so many words uncertain. As I give all the rapprochements that I find, it will be useful perhaps for a more lucky guesser.

The 2d volume is all printed, and only wants for a Table of Contents, which is to be description.

I am dear Sir Yours faithfully
Edwin Norris

 [cuneiform text in 13 lines, each line numbered]

H Fox Talbot E
&c &c

[notes added to bottom of both pages, beginning after the cuneiform lines, and verso of a page, in Talbot’s hand, in pencil]

K)? error for Cuneiform text shat? no see note to l.12

N) [illegible deletion] thou shalt not speak as thy ancestors never spoke. (100)

O)alik inni, [illegible deletion] part of the name. Come to me! yes.

100) Cuneiform text Sam? for Sha ma, id quod, that wch

101)not write to me. 108) not say to me.

102) baritu (father) u darat-sa, & his wife – Yes –

103) this god Tsir is named on tablet, as Uduk bit khire[?], spirit of hearsu[?]. Tsir-enirat, Tsir etarat, Tsir has heard me ęçň

104) rabat, Eldest daughter. Exoratus fuit. Sch. like Ismi Bel.

105)marat. Lady? mar. dominus – marat daughter. dannat eldest.

106) proby dannat, great –

107) atti thou? or grandmother? fem. of alta. of Cuneiform text father. 108 over

108) “Thou art marat dannat the great Lady?” name of the Queen?.

Atti marat dannat, may h. bn the first words of some prayer to Ishtar. good

Norris treats of this line p. 273

[envelope - annotated in ink by WHFT:] Norris letter to the Princess.
H. Fox Talbot Esq.
58 Great Stuart Street
Edinburgh.

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