Author:Archibald Henry Sayce

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Archibald Sayce (1846–1933)

See biography, indexes. British pioneer Assyriologist and linguist. This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "A. H. S."

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Contributions to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 1.2 Lectures 1.2.1 Hibbert Lectures

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• Assyrian Grammar for Comparative Purposes (1872)
• Principles of Comparative Philology (1874)
• George Smith (1876)
• Babylonian Literature (1877)
• The Phœnicians in Greece (1879)
• Introduction to the Science of Language (1879)
• Sign-Language among the American Indians (1880)
• Monuments of the Hittites (1881) [1]
• Herodotus i-ui (1883)
• Ancient Empires of the East (1884)
• Introduction to Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (1885)
• Assyria (1885)
• Hibbert Lectures on Babylonian Religion (1887)
• The Hittites (1889)
• Races of the Old Testament (1891)
• Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments (1894)
• Patriarchal Palestine (1895)
• The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus (1895)
• Early History of the Hebrews (1897)
• Israel and the Surrounding Nations (1898)
• Babylonians and Assyrians (1900)
• Egyptian and Babylonian Religion (1903)
• Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions (1907)
• Patriarchal Palestine[2]

[edit] Contributions to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

• “Babylon,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Babylonia and Assyria,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911. (in part)

[edit] Lectures

[edit] Hibbert Lectures

• Lecture I: Introductory
• Lecture II: Bel-Merodach of Babylon
• Lecture III: The Gods of Babylonia
• Lecture IV: Tammuz and Istar; Prometheus and Totemism
• Lecture V: The Sacred Books of Chaldæa
• Lecture VI: Cosmogonies and Astro-Theology

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1933, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.