Letter from Dr. Hincks, in reply to Colonel Rawlinson's Note on the Successor of Sennacherib
Year: 1854
Type: article
Abstract: examples, Nabunit naming himself on his bricks and cylinders indiffe-; rently >->-| *~1^f ^» or *-*-Y H & *~^"f ^""Hf" ^E-^T' '• or *->~y HHf -^"flf" J^J-» an( * *^e *^r ee several and equivalent • forms occurring not unfrequently in the course-of the same inscription I do not pretend at present to explain how it happens thai -^•77 JAI has the phonetic power of nit, but the fact is undoubted, and Dr. Hincks therefore must abandon all his readings of Nabu-binỹ uchur, Shamsi bin, Ben-Hadad, Assur-yuchura-bal, together with his three sons of Esar-Haddon, and a number of other historical illustra-* tions, which he has recently delivered "ex cathedra," with the same ,; confidence that characterizes his announcement of genuine readings, * and which are thus calculated to mislead enquiry, and to retard the progress of discovery.The only single addition which I have to make to my sketch of Assyrian history, as published in the Athen&um of March, 1854, is, that in the S. E. palace at Nimrud many relics have been recently found of the son of Asshur-bani-pal, whom I name provisionally A sshur-emit-ili, 1 and that under this king, who reigned probably from B.C. 045 to 625, must therefore be placed both the Scythian inroad and the destruction of Nineveh by the Medes.
Authors: E Norris, Edw. Hincks
Language: English
Topic: Ancient Near East History
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2140488368