Hormuzd Rassam

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Hormuzd Rassam was an Iraqi explorer known for excavating Nineveh.

Photograph of Hormuzd Rassam, Reclined
Sketch of Hormuzd Rassam
Hormuzd Rassam as Ottoman Subject (c. 1851)
Artifact K.3375 (p. 34b)
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Source record No.File:Hormuzd.Rassam.reclined.jpgMediumColor photographMaterialUnknownOrientationPartial frontalImage datec. 1854CreatorPhilip Henry DelamotteSource notes"Description: Mr. Hormuzd Rassam vide Layard's Nineveh", a portrait study of Hormuzd Rassam."
Source record No.File:Hormuzd Rassam.jpgMediumPrint sketchMaterialUnknownOrientationPartial frontalImage date1852CreatorJohn Philip Newman (1826-1899)Source notes"Description: Hormuzd Rassam (1826-1910) war Assistent von Austen Henry Layard und machte Ende 1852 eigene Ausgrabungen unter Aufsicht von Sir Henry Rawlinson in Assyrien und später in Babylonien. Er war mit Newman bekannt." John Philip Newman, The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Nineveh from sea to sea: a thousand miles on horseback (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1876), 366.
Source record No.Fig. 1MediumPaintingMaterialUnknownOrientationPartial frontalImage datec. 1851 (late)CreatorF.C. Cooper [?]Source notesReade, "Hormuzd Rassam," 40, fig. 1. "Hormuzd Rassam as an Ottoman subject, probably painted by F.C. Cooper."
Source record No.p. 34bMediumBlack and white photographMaterialN/AOrientationCroppedImage date1897CreatorHormuzd RassamSource notesRassam, ALN, 34b. "Clay tablet from the library of Assur-Bani-Pal, King of Assyria (668-626 B.C.), at Nineveh, it contains the Assyrian account of the deluge."; the depicted artifact was holds the catalog number K.3375 and is at the British Museum as of July 2020."

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person Full name Hormuzd Rassam
cake Date of birth January 1, 1826
event_busy Date of death September 16, 1910

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Asshur and the Land of Nimrod
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1897
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January 1, 1826—September 16, 1910

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  1. Reade, "Hormuzd Rassam," 39. [See also n. 2 on the same page for more sources.]Visit"... into which, in 1826, Hormuzd Rassam was born."
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British Museum. K.3375 / Gilgamesh Tablet XI, 600-699 BCE. Middle East Department, Nineveh Gallery, Table-case A [G55/dc8], K.3375, London, United Kingdom, the British Museum.
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Budge, Ernest A. T. The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh, With an Account of the Royal Libraries of Ninevah. London, England: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1920.
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Julian Reade. "Hormuzd Rassam and his Discoveries." Iraq 55 (1993): 39–62.
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Rassam, Hormuzd. Asshur and the Land of Nimrod: Being an Account of the Discoveries Made in the Ancient Ruins of Nineveh, Asshur, Sepharvaim, Calah, Babylon, Borsippa, Cuthah, and Van, Including a Narrative of Different Journeys in Mesopotamia, Assyria, Asia Minor, and Koordistan. New York, NY: Eaton & Mains, 1897.
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