Eleanor Robson
Eleanor Robson is a Reader in Ancient Middle Eastern Science in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
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Bel and the Dragons: Deciphering Cuneiform after Decipherment
Eleanor Robson
Description: William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography
William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography
TO Assyriologists William Henry Fox Talbot is best known as the man who instigated the “decipherment event” of 1857, which led to widespread acceptance that cuneiform script really could be read. Assyriologists know little, if anything, of his...
Author
Eleanor Robson
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2013 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.193-218
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00251.009
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21239
Chapter subject tags:Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877Cuneiform tabletsPhotography--Great Britain--HistoryPhotography--History--19th century