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OPINIONS
OF
WELL-KNOWN ASSYRIAN SCHOLARS
ON
'CHALDEAN & INDIAN VEDAS'

( Letter from Dr. A. H. Sayee)

Queen's College,
Oxford
August 14th, 1919.
Dear Sir,
Very many thanks for your Essay on' Chaldean and Indian
Vedas', which has interested me greatly. Your as ociation of
Taimata and Uruga/d with Tiamat and Urugalla is very attractive.
With the latter word it would also be possible to compare the
Sumerian usugal ' the great monster ' or ' serpent '.
The discovery of the existence of an Indo-European language,
not of the Iranian but of a purely Indian type, in Asia Minor in
the 15th Century B. C. has opened up new vistas in philology.
When Asia. Minor can be properly excavated it is probable that
very important discoveries in this direction are awaiting us.
At any rate it is already clear that the language of Asia Minor
and of the Eastern branch of the Indo-European family influenced
one another from a very early period, and it is probable that
Sumerian also was similarly influenced before the Sumerians
descended into Dabylonia and founded the civilization of that
country. So we may expect to find much borrowing on both
sides.
Believe me to be,
Yours very truly,
A. H. SAYCE,
To
Dr. B. G. TILAK,
Hira Lodge,
60, Talbot Road,
Bayswater,
London. W.