Item Griffith MSS 3.6 - Hand-copies of Demotic, Coptic and Greek texts by Sayce

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Griffith MSS 3.6

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Hand-copies of Demotic, Coptic and Greek texts by Sayce

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Two pages in envelope containing Griffith MSS 3.6, 8, 9 and 11

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Sayce, (Revd) Archibald Henry
(1845-1933)

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British Assyriologist. Born, Shirehampton 1845. Died, Bath 1933. Educated at Grosvenor College, Bath, then Queen's College, Oxford. Hibbert Lecturer, 1887. Gifford Lecturer, 1900-2. Professor of Assyriology, 1891-1919. Rhind Lecturer, 1906. Huxley Lecturer, 1906. D.Litt. LL.D. DD. Specialised in Carian and Hittite languages, as well as Assyrian and West Asian archaeology and philology. Also worked in Egypt copying inscriptions, etc.

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