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See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
SMITH, See also:GEORGE (184o-1876) , See also:English Assyriologist, was See also:born on the 26th of See also:March 184o at See also:Chelsea, See also:London. His See also:father was a working See also:man, and at fourteen the boy was apprenticed to Messrs Bradbury and See also:Evans to learn See also:bank-See also:note See also:engraving. He had already shown a keen See also:interest in the explorations of See also:Layard and See also:Rawlinson, and during the next few years he devoted all his spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to studying the See also:cuneiform See also:inscriptions at the See also:British Museum. His earnestness attracted the See also:attention of See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Rawlinson, who permitted him the use of his See also:room at the museum and placed the many casts and squeezes of the inscriptions at his disposal. Smith was thus enabled to make his first See also:discovery (the date of the See also:payment of the See also:tribute by See also:Jehu to Shalmanezer). and Sir Henry suggested to the trustees of the Museum that he should be associated with himself in the preparation of the third See also:volume of Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western See also:Asia. Accordingly, in 1867, Smith was appointed assistant in the Assyriology See also:department, and the earliest of his successes was the discovery of two inscriptions, one fixing the date of the See also:total See also:eclipse of the See also:sun in the See also:month Sivan in May 763 B.C., and the other the date of an invasion of Babylonia by the Elamites in 2280 B.C. In 1871 he published See also:Annals of See also:Assur-bani-See also:pal, transliterated and translated, and communicated to the newly-founded Society of Biblical See also:Archaeology a See also:paper on " The See also:Early See also:History of Babylonia," and an See also:account of his decipherment of the
Cypriote inscriptions. In 1872 Smith achieved See also:world-wide fame by his See also:translation of the Chaldaean account of the See also:Deluge, which was read before the Society of Biblical Archaeology on the 3rd of See also:December. In the following See also:January Sir See also:Edwin See also:Arnold, the editor of the Daily See also:Telegraph, arranged with Smith that he should go to See also:Nineveh at the expense of that See also:journal, and carry out excavations with a view to finding the missing fragments of the Deluge See also:story. This See also:journey resulted not only in the discovery of the missing tablets, but of fragments which recorded the See also:succession and duration of the Babylonian dynasties. In 1874 Smith again See also:left See also:England for Nineveh, this time at the expense of the Museum, and continued his excavations at Kouyunjik. An account of his See also:work is given in See also:Assyrian Discoveries, published early in 1875. The See also:rest of the See also:year was spent in fixing together and translating the fragments See also:relating to the Creation, the results of which work were embodied in The Chaldaean Account of See also:Genesis. In. March 1876 the trustees of the British Museum despatched Smith once more to excavate the rest of Assur-banipal's library. At Ikisji, a small See also:village about 6o m. N.E. of See also:Aleppo, he was prostrated by See also:fever, and finally died at Aleppo on the 19th of See also:August. He left a wife and See also:children, on whose behalf a public subscription was made.
End of Article: SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
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