R Campbell Thompson

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ID3644590
NAMER Campbell Thompson
GIVEN NAMESR Campbell
FAMILY NAMEThompson
SIGNATURETHOMPSON R C
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR52
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1905
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
H-INDEX2

  • Seventeenth-century English and colonial sex ratios

    R Thompson, R Campbell ThompsonARTICLEPopulation Studies1974Cited by: 2References: 16

    An important but largely neglected demographic factor in the growing social differences between England and her North American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries may well have been the sex ratio. The hypothesis in Herbert Muller's pioneering ‘Sex Composition and Correlated Culture Patterns’ is tested against the findings of later research by colonialist scholars, and factors affecting the sex ratio for Stuart England are also ex…

  • A Selection from the Cuneiform Historical Texts from Nineveh (1927-32)

    R Campbell ThompsonARTICLEIraq1940

    The following article contains new material from the historical texts found at Nineveh during the excavations which I carried on with Messrs. Hutchinson, Hamilton, and Mallowan during the seasons 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, on behalf of the British Museum. These were financed in the main by Sir Charles Hyde, Bt., but part of the remainder of the funds was provided from the bequest of Miss Gertrude Bell, from the Percy Sladen Fund, from my College, Me…

  • ÚKurangu and Úlal(l)angu as Possibly 'Rice' and 'Indigo' in Cuneiform

    R Campbell ThompsonARTICLEIraq1939

    In certain Assyrian botanical vocabularies there is a group devoted to a series of plant-names many of which begin with ŠE ‘corn’ and GÛ ‘vetch’ (C.T. xiv. 31, K. 8846, r. 1-8: 32, K. 4588, ii, 2–10; S. Smith, C.T. xxxvii. B.M. No. 108860, pl. 29, 11. 35-50). These contain such words as üuṭṭatu ‘barley’, ükibatu ‘wheat’, üšu’ ‘emmer’, ükiššenu ‘vetch’, üḫalluru ‘lathyrus’, üduḫnu ‘millet’, with their Sumerian equivalents.

  • The Assyrian Kisal as the Origin of the Carat-Weight

    R Campbell Thompson, Ross C ThompsonARTICLEIraq1938

    The carat-weight, approximately 3 grains, has by tradition been derived from the seeds in the pod of the Ceratonia siliqua L., the carob, Arabic ḫarrūb or ḫurnūb. The word comes from the Greek κεράτιον, which is both the seed of the carob, and the equivalent of the Latin siliqua, carat, and κεράτιον in its turn is derived from κἑρας, a horn, from the crescent-shaped pods of the tree. These pods have been traditionally called St. John's Bread, hav…

  • Father Eric Norman Bromley Burrows, S.J

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1938

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  • An Assyrian Parallel to an Incident in the Story of Semiramis. Fragments of Stone Reliefs and Inscriptions Found at Nineveh

    R Campbell ThompsonARTICLEIraq1937

    The Quyunjiq letter No. 81–2–4, 65 (Harper, Ass.-Bab. Letters, No. 473) has attracted no little comment from scholars, some of whom (Waterman, Royal Corresp. I, No. 473, III, 173; and Olmstead, Hist, of Assyria, 341) consider that it relates to what happened after the death of Sennacherib. It is, however, I venture to think, far from being properly understood; that it describes a rebellion is obvious, but I suggest from internal evidence that it …

  • A New Record of an Assyrian Earthquake

    R Campbell ThompsonARTICLEIraq1937

  • Assyrian Prescriptions for Diseases of the Feet

    Open AccessR Campbell Thompson, Ross C ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1937

    If a man is sick of a swelling, the colour of his sickness being black, thou shalt [pound] (and) strain the tops (juice) of oleander (?), mix in fine-ground flour, mash in rose-water (I), bind on; (or) tops (juice) of tamarisk

  • Professor Stephen Herbert Langdon

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1937

    By the death of Professor Langdon Oxford has suffered a grave loss, and another link with the second generation of the pioneers of Assyriology is broken. By a fair reckoning he should have had at least two lustres more of vigorous research in front of him, probably the most valuable decade of his whole life, and his loss becomes thereby the greater tragedy for science

  • Assyrian Prescriptions for Diseases of the Feet

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1937

    The following are translations from the cuneiform texts of the seventh century b.c. (from Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh) which deal with diseases of the feet and legs. The tablets are published in my Assyrian Medical Texts , and the translations are given here with various duplicates from elsewhere. Some have already been put before scholars by Ebeling ( Archivf. Gesch. d. Medizin , xiii, xiv, and Keilschrifttexte Medidnischen Inhalts ), but …

  • A Middle-Babylonian Chemical Text

    C J Gadd, R Campbell ThompsonARTICLEIraq1936

    The strange document here published by permission of the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum is written with evident care on a perfectly preserved tablet of baked clay measuring in., now numbered 120960. It was acquired from a vendor who seemed to have trustworthy information that it was found at or near Tall ‘Umar, the site of Seleucia on the Tigris, before the beginning of the American excavations there, which is a…

  • Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge 1857–1934

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology1935

  • Fouilles De Telloh

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEAntiquity1935

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  • The Buildings on Quyunjiq, the Larger Mound of Nineveh

    R Campbell ThompsonARTICLEIraq1934

  • An Assyrian Chemist's Vade-mecum

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1934

    I Append some suggested explanations for some of the receipts in an Assyrian text, of which several recensions exist, which may be considered as a vade-mecum for chemists. These recensions are:— A. K. 274 + 5986 ( CT. . xiv, 42, cols, iii–iv) + 4163 (ib., cols, i–ii–iii, a new join) + 8764 (col. iv, copied afresh, a new join); the lower part of this tablet is K. 4140, B (ib., 42–3, cols, i–ii) + 14077 (ib., 33, joining col. iii, a new join)

  • Dr. Theophilus Goldridge Pinches

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1934

    With the death of Dr. Pinches we lose another link in the chain of Assyriology with the pioneers who elucidated the problems in this form of Oriental research. It was as a boy of 19, in 1875, that Pinches first took up cuneiform, by which time the groundwork had been settled. Rawlinson had read the Behistun inscription, the three languages written in cuneiform, Persian, Susian, and Babylonian, were now an open book; the great test made by four of…

  • On the Assyrian words for “whetstone” and “corundum”

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1934

    CT . xiv, 17, 1–2, and 15,1–2, and Matouš, Lex. Taf. , No. 88, 2, 46–7, give the equivalences tak KALAG.GA, tak(alu) KA. ŠAL.LA , and aban ki-su-si as all equal to tak sû

  • On Some Assyrian Minerals

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1933

    Consider the following passages from vocabularies:— (1) CT. xiv, 3, K. 4325, iv–vi, 11. 18–25: ib. 5, K. 4368, iv–vi, 11. 8–16; and for col, iv, presumably 81–7–27, 147 (Meissner, Suppt. , pl. 27):— (2) CT. xiv, 14, K. 4396, 11. 10–13, dup. ib., S. 995, rev. 4–7

  • An Aramaic Inscription on a Piece of Black painted Ware from Nineveh

    Open AccessR Campbell Thompson, R W HamiltonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1932

    While excavating at the side of the foundations of the Temple of Ishtar in some Parthian houses on Kouyunjik in 1930–1, we found a quantity of black-painted pottery, to all appearances of an early date, of the same kind as appeared in 1927 and 1929, when Mr. Hutchinson was in charge of the pottery. This painted ware, while reminiscent of the well-known ware from Susa and Babylonia, has a distinct type of its own, and we are still in doubt about i…

  • The Epic of Gilgamish. Text, Translation, and Notes

    G R Driver, R Campbell ThompsonARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology1931

  • Assyrian Prescriptions for Diseases of the Ears

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1931

    The following translations are from the texts in my Assyrian Medical Texts for sick men suffering from ear-trouble. No. 80. AM . 34, 4 (K. 2422) + 37, 2 (K. 7096 + 9059 + 11916 + 16434) + 35, 4 (K. 10787) + 4, 7 (81–7–27, 61, already translated as a fragment, No. 14, PRSM . 1924, 15); AM . 33, 1, and 34, 1 (K. 3215 + 3666 + 8109 + 10453) + 36, 1 (K. 3696 + 7221 + 10767 + 11788) + 12, 2 (K. 10019) + 34, 5 (S. 379); AM . 97, 6 (K. 3486); AM . 38, 4…

  • VII.— The Excavations on the Temple of Nadû at Nineveh

    Open AccessR Campbell Thompson, R W HutchinsonARTICLEArchaeologia1929

    The present article gives the account of the excavation of the Temple of Nabû in Kouyunjik, the larger mound of Nineveh, under British Museum auspices. A brief description has already been given in our A Century of Exploration at Nineveh (Luzac, 1929, referred to herein as CEN ), and so we shall avoid repetition so far as is consistent with due description. Besides the excavation of this temple, our digging revealed the first chambers of a palace…

  • (1) On Kur.Gi.Ḫu Kurkû = The Crane; (2) Šikkû = “Cat”; (3) Kamunu = “ Red Worms ”

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1929

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  • Assyrian Prescriptions for the “Hand of a Ghost”

    Open AccessR Campbell ThompsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1929

    The following translations are from the texts in my Assyrian Medical Texts for sick men suffering from diseases brought about by the “hand of a ghost”

  • A Century of Exploration at Nineveh

    R Campbell Thompson, R W HutchinsonARTICLEGeographical Journal1929Cited by: 3