Excerpt from 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 For the convenience of the beginner all the Babylonian texts included in this volume have been transcribed into the Assyrian character. It is of the greatest importance for him to become master of the so-called Ninevite script as soon as possible for almost every work found in Ashur-bani-pal's Royal Library at Nineveh is written in it. His Babylonian studies should begin when he is able to read the ordinary Assyrian character with ease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.