first edition
1892 · London
by Bezold, Carl; E.A. Wallis Budge
London: Printed By the Trustees, 1892. First Edition. Quarto. xciv, 157 pages, 24 leaves of plates. A very rare book with the Akkadian text. In the autumn of 1887, the Amarna Archive was discovered. This led to new understanding of the proto-canaanitish influence on early Semitic languages. The work of Bezold, the Assyriologist scholar and Budge, the Egyptologist and Semitic scholar combined to make this the essential starting place for Akkadian (and early allied semitic languages). In this, the first edition of the Amarna letters in the British Museum (BB 1892) scholars realized these letters and dispatches were key to proto-canaanitish vocabulary and (truncated)