Leonard William King
Leonard William King, F.S.A. (8 Desember 1869 – 20 Agustus 1919) adalah seorang arkeolog dan Asiriolog Inggris yang dididik di Rugby School dan King's College, Cambridge.[1] Ia mengumpulkan sejumlah besar ukiran batu di Timur Dekat, mengajar arkeologi Asyur dan Babel di King's College selama beberapa tahun, dan menerbitkan sejumlah besar karya tentang subyek-subyek tersebut. Ia juga dikenal karena menerjemahkan karya-karya kuno seperti Kode Hammurabi.
Karya
sunting- Leonard William King (1898). First steps in Assyrian: a book for beginners; being a series of historical, mythological, religious, magical, epistolary and other texts printed in cuneiform characters with interlinear transliteration and translation and a sketch of Assyrian grammar, sign-list and vocabulary. Kegan Paul Trench, Trb̈ner. hlm. 399. Diakses tanggal 2011-07-05.
- Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, 3 vols. (1898–1900)[2]
- Encyclopaedia Biblica (contributor) (1903)
- Babylonian Religion and Mythology. (1903)
- Egypt and Western Asia in the light of Recent Discoveries (1907)
- Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings (1907) - vol1 - vol2
- Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition (Schweich Lecture for 1916)
- The seven tablets of creation : or The Babylonian and Assyrian legends concerning the creation of the world and of mankind. (1902)
- The Code of Hammurabi (translation). (1899)
Catatan
sunting- ^ "King, Leonard William (KN889LW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Review of Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, King of Babylon by L. W. King". The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 92 (2392): 275–276. 31 August 1901.
Referensi
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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "King, Leonard William". Encyclopædia Britannica (edisi ke-12). London & New York.- CDLI Wiki Diarsipkan 2006-08-30 di Wayback Machine.
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