An Elementary Grammar, with full Syllabary and Progressive Reading Book of the Assyrian Language in the Cuneiform type. Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (Sep. 1845 - Feb. 1933), was born in Shirehampton, Bristol, to a family of Shropshire descent. As a child, was reading Homer in Greek at ten. He attended The Queen's College, Oxford, becoming a fellow in 1869.was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919. He was a contributor to articles in his field, in the 9th, 10th and 11th editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica. this is a workbook to learn how to speak ancient assyrian. learn to speak and read cuneiform.