Author:Leonard William King

Leonard William King
(1869–1919)

Works

Original

• Babylonian magic and sorcery (1896)
• First steps in Assyrian (1898)
• Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi (1898)
• Babylonian religion and mythology (1899)
• Assyrian language: easy lessons in the cuneiform inscriptions (1901)
• The seven tablets of creation: or The Babylonian and Assyrian legends concerning the creation of the world and of mankind (1902) (transcription project)
• Egypt and Western Asia in the light of Recent Discoveries (1907)
• Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings (1907)
• A history of Sumer and Akkad (1910)
• A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest (1915)
• Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition (1918)
• "Layard, Austen Henry," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.

Translations

• The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistûn in Persia (1907), with R. C. Thompson
• Codex Hammurabi (1910)

Contributions to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

• "Babylonia and Assyria," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (section on Chronological Systems)
• "Nippur," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (The Deluge Fragment)

Works about King

• "Death notice: Dr. Leonard W. King," in The Times (1919)
• "Obituary: Dr. Leonard W. King. A Famous Antiquary," in The Times (1919)
• "Dr. Leonard King — To the Editor of The Times," in The Times (1919)