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Abbreviations

Add.MS.

British Library, Department of Manuscripts, Additional Manuscripts.

C.

British Museum, Central Archives, Minutes of the Trustees’ Standing Committee meetings.

cen

Thompson, Reginald Campbell and R.W. Hutchinson. 1929. A Century of Exploration at Nineveh. London: Luzac & Co.

Layard Papers

British Library, Department of Manuscripts, A.H. Layard’s papers, bound and catalogued as Additional Manuscripts.

Letter Book

British Museum, Central Archives, Letter Books.

LN 1

Add.MS. 39.076, ff. 44–55, Layard’s field notes for his excavations in Sennacherib’s palace in April–June 1847.

LN 1 Plan

Or.Dr. IV, 83, Layard’s fair copy of his site plan of the part of Sennacherib’s palace excavated in April–June 1847.

LN 2A, 2C, 2E

Add.MS. 39.089, vols. A, C, and E include Layard’s field notes and sketch plans for his excavations in Sennacherib’s palace from October 1849–April 1851.

LN 3

Add.MS. 39.077, ff. 75r–79v, Layard’s fair copy of his field notes for his excavations in Sennacherib’s palace from October 1849–April 1851.

Mon.Nin. I

Layard, Austen Henry. 1849. Monuments of Nineveh from Drawings Made on the Spot. London: John Murray.

Mon.Nin. II

Layard, Austen Henry. 1853. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh. London: John Murray.

MS A-D

WA Dept. Archives, copies of cuneiform inscriptions.

MS Plan

WA Dept. Archives, Plans no. 21, Layard’s site plan of the part of Sennacherib’s palace excavated from October 1849–April 1851 (reproduced as Plan 1 at 1:300 scale in the Plans section of this book).

N&B

Layard, Austen Henry. 1853. Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon. London: John Murray.

N&B plan

N&B, facing p. 67 (reproduced as Plan 2 at 1:600 scale in the Plans section of this book).

N&R

Layard, Austen Henry. 1849. Nineveh and Its Remains. 2 vols. London: John Murray.

Officers(’) Reports

British Museum, Central Archives, Officers(’) Reports.

Or.Dr.

British Museum, Middle East Department, Western Asiatic Antiquities Archives, Original Drawings, primarily of Assyrian sculptures.

Orig. Papers

British Museum, Central Archives, Original (Letters and) Papers.

swps

Barnett, Richard David, Erika Bleibtreu, and Geoffrey Turner. 1998. Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh. London: British Museum Press.

WA Dept. Archives

British Museum, Middle East Department, Western Asiatic Antiquities Archives.

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