TALBOT8392

Nov. 9 – 63
Millburn tower Edinburgh ¹

D^r Sir

I have the pleasure to send you two more of my Assyrⁿ translations – One of them is the inscription of Khammurbi who I think was contemporary with Tiglath Pileser I and therefore lived about 1120 B.C. Only two Assyrian inscriptions are known of the Proto-Chaldæan Kings, they are therefore very important – Especially as they prove evidently that that language was not only fully formed at that ancient period, but was nearly identically written in Babylonia & Assyria, in short that there were not two dialects of it, but the same prevailed both in the North & South.

I have found a notice in the inscriptions, unfortunately very obscure, that there was an eclipse of the sun in the first year of Esarhaddon – Is such eclipse otherwise known? and as none but great ones were likely to be noticed in those times, is it likely to be of any chronological use? no month or day being given, and the date of his accession being uncertain.

Believe me Yours vy Truly
H. F. Talbot

Rev^d D^r Hincks