[See -(O)LOGY.] The study of the language, history and antiquities of Assyria. Assyriological, a., pertaining to Assyriology. Assyriologist, Assyriologue, a student of Assyriology.
1865. Reader, 4 March, 250/3. The Institute bestowed its last biennial prize upon an Assyriologist.
1828. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVII. 157. The cognate grounds of Egyptology and Assyriology.
1881. N. Y. Nation, XXXII. 405. In an article … upon English Assyriological studies.
1884. Plumptre, in O. T. Comm., IV. 415. Mr. Sayce, M. Oppert, and the other Assyriologists.
1880. Cheyne, Isaiah, II. 161. Mr. George Smith, the Assyriologue.
