from the cuneiform inscriptions. iv. George Smith (1840-1876) was an English Assyrologist, apprentice engraver, but self-taught in cuneiform in the corridors of the British Museum. ... published in "Cuneiform Inscriptions," vol. The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic. George Smith, an Assyrologist who taught himself the Babylonian cuneiform while working in the British Museum, presents his analysis of a series of Babylonian myths and legends. Just over 140 years ago, one of those locals, a regular lunchtime visitor, was a man called George Smith. by george smith, formerly of the department of oriental antiquities, british museum, author of “history of assurbanipal,” “assyrian discoveries,” etc.
GEORGE SMITH (1840-1876), English Assyriologist, was born on the 26th of March 1840 at Chelsea, London. In 1872 an Englishman named George Smith discovered a cuneiform tablet that told a familiar story — man meets god; god warns about a looming, epic, humanity-killing flood; man builds giant ship, fills it with animals and family members, and then survives the rising waters.
From his youth, he was fascinated with Assyrian culture and history. George Smith’s most popular book is The Chaldean Account of Genesis. a new edition, thoroughly revised and corrected (with additions), by a. h. sayce, deputy-professor of comparative philology in the university of oxford. A blunt reed called a stylus is used to impress wedge-shaped writing onto wet clay and the tablet is allowed to cure either by baking outside in the sun or being fired in a kiln. George Smith had spent the last several years studying the astonishing findings of Austen Henry Layard and Hormuzd Rassam when they stumbled upon the Library of Ashurbanipal while digging up the ancient city of Nineveh in Persia. His father was a working man, and at fourteen the boy was apprenticed to Messrs Bradbury and Evans to learn bank-note engraving. March 26 is the birthday of early Assyriologist George Smith, born this day in 1840.
The great literary works of Mesopotamia such as the Atrahasis, The Descent of Inanna, The Myth of Etana, The Enuma Elish and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh were all written in cuneiform and were completely unknown until the mid 19th century CE, when men like George Smith, the Reverend Edward Hincks (l. 1792-1866 CE), Jules Oppert (l. 1825-1905 CE), and Henry … Smith, the British cuneiform expert, ... George Smith was wrong in attributing the difference in nomenclature to the fact that the Hebrews were an inland people while the Babylonians were a maritime people, so the former had an ark, while the latter had a ship. The Flood Tablet is a ceramic tablet (made of clay) written in cuneiform.
The Chaldean Account of Genesis, by George Smith, [1876], at sacred-texts.com. George Smith has 16 books on Goodreads with 751 ratings.