Author:Archibald Henry Sayce

Archibald Henry Sayce
(1845–1933)

Archibald Henry Sayce

Works

• Assyrian Grammar for Comparative Purposes (1872)
• Principles of Comparative Philology (1874)
• Babylonian Literature (1877)
• Introduction to the Science of Language (1879) Vol 1. (transcription project)
• 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)
• Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians (1887), his Hibbert lectures
• The Hittites (1889) (transcription project)
• 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]
• Assyria. Its princes, priests, and people
• Fresh light from the ancient monuments

Contributions to Littel's Living Age

• "George Smith" in Littell's Living Age, 131 (1687) (1876)
• "The Phœnicians in Greece" in Littell's Living Age, 140 (1805) (1879)
• "Sign-Language among the American Indians" in Littell's Living Age, 146 (1884) (1880)

Contributions to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

• "Assur (city)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Assur-Bani-Pal," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Babylon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Babylonia and Assyria," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Belshazzar," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Berossus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Caria," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ecbatana," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Elam," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Esar-haddon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Grammar," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Gyges," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm von," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Kassites," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Laodicea," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lycia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lydia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Persepolis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Sardanapalus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sargon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sennacherib," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Shalmaneser," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sippara," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Susa (Elam)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Contributions to Folk-Lore

• "On Babylonian Folk-lore" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 1 (1883), pp. 16–22.
• "Cairene Folklore" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 7 (1889), pp. 191–195.
• "Cairene Folk-Lore" in Folk-Lore, 7 (1896)
• "Cairene Folk-Lore" in Folk-Lore, 11 (1900)
• "Cairene Folk-Lore" in Folk-Lore, 17 (1906)
• "Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore" in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 173–203

Lectures

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

Works about Sayce

• "Sayce, Archibald Henry, D.Litt, LL.D., etc.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Sayce, Archibald Henry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)