Abstract
THE classification of objects was a favourite pursuit of Assyrian scribes, as is shown by the long lists preserved in Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh. Such texts were generally bilingual, that is, both the ancient Sumerian and the later Babylonian names are given, and sometimes explanations are appended. Stones, earths and metals naturally take their place in these lists, and in the accumulation of miscellaneous texts in cuneiform writing now published there is much scattered information about these materials.
A Dictionary of Assyrian Chemistry and Geology
By Dr. K. Campbell Thompson. Pp. xlviii + 266. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1936.) 21s. net.
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A Dictionary of Assyrian Chemistry and Geology. Nature 138, 1035–1036 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381035b0
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