The Amherst Tablets, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Amherst Tablets, Vol. 1: Being an Account of the Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F. S. A. At Didlington Hall, Norfolk, Texts of the Period Extending to and Including the Reign of Bûr-Sin (About 2500 B. C.)As the present collection shows, the language of Babylonia at the earliest period was non-semitic, and is generally called Sumerian, or, better, sumero-akkadian. It appears to be closely allied to certain turko-tataric and also Mongolian dialects, and was agglutinative.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.