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L. W. King
fl. 1901–1923
Museum staff member and scholar, active 1901–1923.
Life and work
- 1910Cited as author of A History of Sumer and Akkad (1910); bibliographic reference only.
- UndatedOf the Egyptian and Assyrian Department of the British Museum; in A History of Sumer and Akkad he argued that the supposed conquest of Cyprus by Sargon was a scribal error and that Cypriot cylinder seals are later than had been thought.
- UndatedThanked by Hall for hints and suggestions; associated with the Egyptian and Assyrian Department of the British Museum.
- UndatedCited for his views on the cult of Ishtar, a point of Near Eastern religion bearing on Minoan figurine interpretation; no Cypriot object or site tied to him here.
- UndatedConfirmed the author's criticism of the original theory of a Naram-Sin expedition to Cyprus in Sumer and Akkad.
Lindsay Drummond .london, The Ancient History Of The Near East (1913)
- UndatedArgued in 'A history of Sumer and Akkad' that the supposed Sargon conquest of Cyprus was a scribal error and that Cypriot cylinder seals are later than thought.
Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique (quatrieme Serie Tome.18) (1911)
- UndatedPublished the new Sennacherib cylinder inscription in Cuneiform Texts, with translation and commentary.
Hall,h.r, The Ancient History Of The Near East Ed.6th (1923)
- UndatedCited as having confirmed Hall's criticism that the supposed Cyprus expedition of Sargon is unfounded, in Sumer and Akkad.
- UndatedCited as having confirmed the author's criticism of the theory of a Naram-Sin expedition to Cyprus, in Sumer and Akkad.
- UndatedAuthor of A history of Sumer and Akkad, cited as arguing that the supposed conquest of Cyprus by Sargon rests on a scribal error and that Cypriot cylinders are later than thought.
- UndatedCited as a good authority who assumed the Omens regarding Sargon's western expeditions are in error.
- UndatedOf the Egyptian and Assyrian Department, British Museum, thanked for hints and suggestions to the author.
H. R. Hall, The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age (1901), p. xii
- UndatedPublished the first Assyrian inscription mentioning a Cilician campaign of Sennacherib, several years after Winckler's edition.
- UndatedConfirmed the author's criticism of the Sargon-Cyprus theory in Sumer and Akkad; mentioned only as a scholar's work, not tied to Cypriot finds.
Mentioned in
3 mentionsSources
- 1.Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930, The oldest civilization of Greece : studies of the Mycenaean age (1901).
- 2.Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930, The oldest civilization of Greece: studies of the Mycenaean age (1901).
- 3.Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941, The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos (1921).
- 4.Lindsay Drummond .london, The Ancient History Of The Near East (1913).
- 5.Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique (quatrieme Serie Tome.18) (1911).
- 6.Hall,h.r, The Ancient History Of The Near East Ed.6th (1923).
- 7.Hall H.r, Ancient History Of The Near East (1913).
- 8.H. R. Hall, The Ancient History Of The Near East (1913).
- 9.Revue Archeologique July-December 1911: Vol 18 (1911).
- 10.Keane,a.h., Man Past And Present (1920).
- 11.Adcock F.e., Cambridge Ancient History (1928).
- 12.H. R. Hall, The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age (1901).
- 13.Peyton Randolph Helm, "Greeks" in the Neo-Assyrian Levant and "Assyria" in Early Greek Writers (1980).
- 14.The Ancient History of the Near East (2015).
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