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'''Archibald Henry Sayce''' {{Small|[[Fellows of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|FRAS]]}} (25 September 1845{{snd}}4 February 1933) was a pioneer British [[Assyriology|Assyriologist]] and [[linguistics|linguist]], who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the [[University of Oxford]] from 1891 to 1919.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100443899 "Archibald Henry Sayce"], ''The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church'', oxfordreference.com. Retrieved on 17 April 2017.</ref> He was able to write in at least twenty ancient and modern languages,<ref name="ODNB"/> and was known for his emphasis on the importance of archaeological and monumental evidence in linguistic research.<ref name ="PEQobit">{{cite journal
 | title = The Late Dr. Archibald Henry Sayce, 1845-1933
 | journal = Palestine Exploration Quarterly 
 | volume = 65
 | issue = 2
 | date = 1933
 | pages = 59–61
 | doi = 10.1179/peq.1933.65.2.59
 }}</ref> He was a contributor to articles in the 9th, 10th and 11th editions of the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''.<ref name="1902en">[http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/contributors.html Important Contributors to the ''Britannica'', 9th and 10th Editions], 1902encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 17 April 2017.</ref>

== Life ==
Sayce was born in [[Shirehampton]], near [[Bristol]], on 25 September 1845.<ref name = "ODNB">{{cite encyclopedia
 | last1 = Gunn
 | first1 = Battiscombe
 | title = Sayce, Archibald Henry (1845–1933)
 | encyclopedia = [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]
 | year = 2004
 | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/35965
 }}</ref> Although the start of his education was delayed due to ill health he had suffered since birth, Sayce was a quick learner. When his first tutor was appointed in 1855, he was already reading works in [[Latin]] and [[Ancient Greek]].<ref name="Remini">{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Reminiscences
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Macmillan & Co
 | year = 1923
 | url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.536227/
 |access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref> He began his formal education at Grosvenor College shortly after his family moved to [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] in 1858.<ref name ="Remini"/> By the age of 18, he had already taught himself to read some [[Ancient Egyptian]], [[Sanskrit]] and [[Hebrew]] and had become interested in [[cuneiform]].<ref name="Langdon">{{cite journal
 | last1 = Langdon
 | first1 = S
 | title = Archibald Henry Sayce as Assyriologist 
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | issue = 2
 | date = 1933
 | volume = 65
 | pages = 499–503
 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
 | jstor = 25194830
 | doi = 10.1017/S0035869X00075493
 | doi-access = free
 }}</ref><ref name ="Remini"/> He published his first academic paper, ''Cuneiform inscriptions of Van'' in 1865.<ref>{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Cuneiform inscriptions of Van
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | volume = XIV
 | issue = 3
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | date = 1865
 | url = https://archive.org/details/cuneiforminscrip00sayc/page/n10/mode/2up
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}</ref>

In 1865 he became a classical scholar at [[The Queen's College, Oxford]].<ref name ="Griffth">{{cite web
 | url = http://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/archibald-henry-sayce
 | title = Archibald Henry Sayce
 | date = 2015
 | publisher = [[Griffith Institute]]
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}</ref> While a student at Oxford, Sayce became friends with [[Max Müller]], [[John Rhys]], [[John Ruskin]] and [[Henry Acland]].<ref name ="Remini"/> Due to his poor health, Sayce spent time away from Oxford, and carried out his studies at home and on visits to the [[Pyrenees]] and [[Switzerland]].<ref name ="Remini"/> Sayce achieved a first-class in Classical Moderations (Greek and Latin) in 1866 and in Literae Humaniores (Philosophy and Ancient History) in 1868,<ref>'Oxford University Calendar 1895', Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1895: 184, 309.</ref> and was elected to a vacant Fellowship in the same year.<ref name ="Remini"/>

In 1869, Sayce was appointed a lecturer at Queen's College.<ref name ="Griffth"/> He was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1870.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection: A. H. Sayce letters {{!}} ArchivesSpace Public Interface |url=https://archives.libraries.emory.edu/repositories/2/resources/4241 |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Pitts Special Collections and Archives, [[Emory University]]}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=The Aryan Moment: Racialising Religion in the Nineteenth Century |date=2006 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/forging-of-races/aryan-moment-racialising-religion-in-the-nineteenth-century/92FE5BA49E986E9BDE300D1540F64F7F |work=The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000 |pages=168–202 |editor-last=Kidd |editor-first=Colin |access-date=2024-01-09 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511817854.006 |isbn=978-0-521-79324-7|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Ongoing problems with his sight almost led to the end of his Oxford career and Sayce spent much of his time travelling Europe. It was only from 1874, when he came under the supervision of ophthalmologist [[Richard Liebreich]], that Sayce was able to continue his academic career.<ref name ="Remini"/> In the same year he was appointed as the university's representative in the [[Old Testament Revision Company]].<ref name ="Remini"/> Sayce also began to deliver lectures to the [[Nineveh]] Society of Biblical Archaeology and contributed to ''[[The Times]]'' and the New York ''[[The Independent (New York City)|Independent]]''.<ref name = "Gifford">{{Citation
 | last1 = Addison
 | first1 = Sam
 | title = Archibald Henry Sayce
 | date = 18 August 2014
 | publisher = Gifford Lectures
 | url = https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/archibald-henry-sayce
 | access-date = 2020-04-17}}</ref> In 1876 Sayce was appointed the Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology, a role shared with the continuing Professor, [[Max Müller]], who wanted to reduce his duties.<ref name = "Gifford"/><ref name ="Remini"/>

From 1872, Sayce spent most of his summers travelling for his health and in search of new texts.<ref name = "ODNB"/><ref name ="Budge"/> In 1879 he resigned from his tutorship at Oxford to dedicate his time to his research and exploring the near East.<ref name = "Gifford"/><ref name ="Remini"/> In 1881, Sayce was one of the first scholars to examine the [[Siloam Inscription]], which he described in the [[Palestine Exploration Fund]] Quarterly.<ref>A.H. Sayce, "The Inscription at the Pool of Siloam," ''Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement'' 13.2 (April 1881): ([[editio princeps]]), p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystatem00unkngoog#page/n105/mode/1up 69–73]</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Sayce|first=A.H.|title=Records of the Past (New Series)|volume=1 |date=1888|publisher=S. Bagster and sons|location=London |pages=168–175 |language=en |oclc=490361528}}</ref> Sayce resigned his professorship in 1890 and briefly moved to Egypt, where he was instrumental in the reopening of the [[Egyptian Museum|Museum of Cairo]] in 1891.<ref name = "Gifford"/> In 1891, Sayce returned to Oxford to become the university's first Professor of Assyriology.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/history-faculty-1
 | title = History of the Faculty
 | last = Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford
 | access-date = 2020-05-15
 }}</ref><ref name = "Gifford"/>

Lectures were his favourite vehicle for publication, and he published his [[Hibbert Lectures]] on Babylonian religion in 1887.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Sayce, Rev. Archibald Henry|journal=Who's Who|year=1913|page=1782|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3453201;view=1up;seq=1816}}</ref> Sayce was also the Gifford Lecturer, 1900–1902; and Rhind Lecturer, 1906.<ref name = "Gifford"/>

Sayce was a founding member of the [[Society of Biblical Archaeology]],<ref name ="Remini"/> which he presided from 1898 until it was absorbed into the [[Royal Asiatic Society]] in 1919.<ref name = "ODNB"/><ref name ="FLGriffith">{{cite journal
 | last1 =  Griffith
 | first1 = Francis Llewellyn
 | title = Professor A. H. Sayce
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | issue = 2
 | date = 1933
 | volume = 65
 | pages =  497–499
 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
 | doi = 10.1017/S0035869X00075481
 | author1-link = Francis Llewellyn Griffith
 | doi-access = free
 }}</ref> He was also an active member of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1874 and a founding member of the [[Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies]].<ref name ="FLGriffith"/><ref name ="ODNB"/>

After his retirement in 1915, Sayce continued to write and spent his time in Edinburgh, Oxford and Egypt.<ref name = "Gifford"/> By the end of his life, Sayce was considered{{by whom|date=January 2025}} to be an amateur rather than a specialist and was criticized{{by whom|date=January 2025}} for his lack of intellectual penetration and outdated opposition to the work of continental orientalists.<ref name ="ODNB"/> In 1923, he published ''Reminiscences'', an account of his life and his numerous travels.<ref name ="Remini"/> At the time of his death he was working on a translation of inscriptions discovered at [[Ugaritic texts|Ras Shamra]].<ref name="Langdon"/> Sayce died on 4 February 1933 in Bath.<ref name = "Gifford"/>

==Research==

===Sumerian and Akkadian languages===
Sayce's early research examined [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] languages. His article ''An Accadian Seal'' (1870), includes the discovery of many of the linguistic  principles of Sumerian.<ref name="Langdon"/> Sayce's ''An Assyrian grammar for comparative purposes'' (1872), drew attention from established Assyriologists to the 'new' language.<ref name ="Budge">{{cite book
 | last1 = Budge
 | first1 = E A Wallis
 | title = Rise and Progress of Assyriology
 | date = 1925
 | location = London
 | url = https://archive.org/details/RiseAndProgressOfAssyriologyByEAWallisBudge/page/n1/mode/2up}}</ref> In 1874, Sayce published his paper, ''The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians'', one of the first articles to translate [[Babylonian astronomy|astronomical cuneiform texts]].<ref>{{cite book
 | last1 = Baigent
 | first1 = Michael 
 | title = Astrology in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Science of Omens and the Knowledge of the Heavens
 | publisher = Simon and Schuster
 | isbn = 978-1591432227
 | date = 2015
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vFgoDwAAQBAJ&q=editions:ISBN1591432227}}</ref>

===Science of language===
Sayce is also seen by some as one of founding fathers of the 'Reform Movement' in linguistic research at the end of the 19th century.<ref>{{cite book
 | last1 = Jespersen
 | first1 = Otto
 | title = How to teach a foreign language
 | publisher = The Macmillan co.
 | date = 1904
 | location = London
 | pages = 3
 | url = https://archive.org/stream/howtoteachforeig00jespuoft?ref=ol#page/2/mode/2up/search/sayce}}</ref> His two notable works, ''Introduction  to the Science of Language'' (1879), and ''The Principles of Comparative Philology'' (1880), introduced audiences to the changing continental linguistic trends in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref>{{cite journal
 | last1 = Boyd H. Davis 1 
 | first1 = Boyd H
 | title = Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933)  
 | journal = Historiographia Linguistica
 | volume = 5
 | issue = 3
 | date = 1978
 | pages = 339–345 
 | doi = 10.1075/hl.5.3.19dav
 }}</ref> The books challenged the current thinking in comparative philology and the importance of what Sayce termed the principle of [[analogy]].<ref name="Remini"/>

===Hittite language===
In the late 1870s, Sayce moved away from his Sumerian studies and concentrated upon [[Indo-European languages]].<ref name="Langdon"/> He theorized that the ''pseudo-sesostris'' rock carvings in Asia Minor, such as the [[Karabel relief]] which had been historically attributed to the Egyptians,<ref>{{Citation
 | first1 = Stephanie 
 | last1 = Dalley
 | editor-last = Derow
 | editor-first = Peter
 | editor2-last =  Parker
 | editor2-first = Robert
 | contribution = 'Why did not Herodotus mention the Hanging Gardens' of Babylon?
 | year = 2003
 | title = Herodotus and His World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest
 | pages = 174
 | place = Oxford
 | publisher = Oxford University Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 | url = https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodotus/herodotus-on-sesostris-reliefs/
 | title = Herodotus on Sesostris' Reliefs
 | date = 2003
 | publisher = Livius.org
 | access-date = 2020-05-21}}</ref> were actually created by another pre-Greek culture.<ref name ="Remini"/> In 1876 he speculated that the [[Hieroglyphic Luwian|hieroglyphs]] in inscriptions discovered at [[Hamath]] in Syria, were not related to [[Assyrian cuneiform|Assyrian]] or [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|Egyptian]] scripts but came from another culture he identified as the [[Hittites]].<ref>{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = On the Hamathmite Inscriptions
 | journal = Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 
 | volume = 5
 | date = 1877
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/transactions05soci/page/22 22]–32
 | url =  https://archive.org/details/transactions05soci
 }}</ref> In 1879, Sayce further theorized that reliefs and inscriptions at Karabel, [[İvriz relief|İvriz]], {{ill|Bulgarmaden|de|Felsinschrift von Bulgarmaden}}, [[Carchemish]], [[Alaca Höyük]], and [[Yazilikaya]] were created by the Hittites.<ref>{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = The Origins of Early Art in Asia Minor
 | journal = The Academy
 | volume = 36
 | date = 1879
 | pages = 124
 | url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.d0002863710&view=1up&seq=144
 }}</ref> His hypothesis was confirmed when he visited some of the sites on a tour of the Near East in the same year.<ref name ="Remini"/> On his return to England, Sayce presented a lecture to the  [[Society of Biblical Archaeology]] in London, where he announced that the Hittites where a much more influential culture than previously thought with their own art and language.<ref>{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Monuments of the Hittites
 | journal = Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 
 | volume = 7
 | date = 1882
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/transactions07soci/page/248 248]–293
 | url =  https://archive.org/details/transactions07soci
 }}</ref> Sayce concluded that the Hittite hieroglyphic system was predominantly a [[syllabary]], that is, its symbols stood for a phonetic syllable. There were too many different signs for a system, that was alphabetical and yet there were too few for it to be a set of ideographs. That very sign standing for the divinity had appeared on the stones of Hamath and other places, always in the form of a prefix of an indecipherable group of hieroglyphics naming the deities. This led Sayce to conclude that by finding the name of one of these deities with the help of another language endowed with similar pronunciation, one might analyse the conversion of the aforesaid name in Hittite hieroglyphics. Also, he stated that the keys to be obtained through that process might in turn be applied to other parts of a Hittite inscription where the same sign were to occur.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}

Sayce dreamed of finding a Hittite ''[[Rosetta Stone]]'' to help with his research.<ref name ="Tarkondemos">{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Bilingual Hittite and Cuneiform Inscriptions at Tarkondemos 
 | journal = Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 
 | volume = 7
 | date = 1882
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/transactions07soci/page/294 294]–308
 | url =  https://archive.org/details/transactions07soci
 }}</ref> Sayce attempted to translate a short Hittite hieroglyphic inscription found with a cuneiform text on a silver disk featuring a representation of the Hittite king, [[Kingdom of Mira|Tarkondemos]].<ref>Now held in the [[Walters Art Museum]] (57.1512 ). {{cite web
 | url = https://art.thewalters.org/detail/5130/seal-of-tarkummuwa-king-of-mera/
 | title = Seal of Tarkasnawa, King of Mira
 | last = Walters Art Museum
 | access-date =2020-05-23
 }}</ref><ref name="Tarkondemos"/> He and [[William Wright (missionary)|William Wright]] also identified the ruins at [[Boğazkale|Boghazkoy]] with [[Hattusa]], the capital of a Hittite Empire that stretched from the [[Aegean Sea]] to the banks of the [[Euphrates]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Trevor|last1=Bryce|author-link=Trevor R. Bryce|title=Life and Society in the Hittite World|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordmoralskept00libg|url-access=limited|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2002|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordmoralskept00libg/page/n17 3]|isbn=978-0-19-924170-5}}</ref>

Sayce published his research on the Hittites in ''The Hittites: The Story of a Forgotten Empire'' in 1888.<ref>*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Hittites : the story of a forgotten Empire
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = [[Religious Tract Society]]
 | series = By-Paths of Biblical Knowledge
 | volume = XII
 | year = 1888}}</ref> Sayce produced many studies on the Hittites and their language, but they were criticised by fellow scholars as his work did not apply [[Historical criticism]], and his attempts to decipher the Hittite hieroglyphics were also unsuccessful.<ref name="ODNB"/>

===Egyptology===
From the early 1880s, Sayce spent most of his winters in Egypt due to his poor health, and became interested in the archaeology of the region.<ref name="Remini"/> Sayce was friends with [[Flinders Petrie]] and worked on cuneiform inscriptions discovered by Petrie at [[Amarna|Tel el Amarna]].<ref>{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | contribution = The Cuneiform Tablets 
 | year = 1894
 | title = Tell el Amarna
 | editor-last = Petrie
 | editor-first = W M Flinders
 | pages = 34–37
 | place = London
 | publisher = Methuen & co
 | url = https://archive.org/details/tellelamarna00petr/page/34/}}</ref>
He worked at [[Eileithyiaspolis|El Kab]] in Egypt with [[Somers Clarke]] in the 1900s. In his seasonal winter digs in Egypt he always hired a well-furnished boat on the [[Nile]] to accommodate his travelling library, which also enabled him to offer tea to visiting Egyptologists like the young American [[James Henry Breasted]] and his wife.<ref>{{Citation
 | last = Abt
 | first = Jeffery
 | title = American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = University of Chicago Press
 | year = 2012
 | page = 44}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
===Books===
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Fresh light from the ancient monuments : a sketch of the most striking confirmations of the Bible, from recent discoveries in Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, Asia Minor
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = [[Religious Tract Society]]
 | series = [[By-paths of Bible Knowledge]]
 | volume = III
 | year = 1865
 | url = https://archive.org/details/freshlightfroman00sayc
 |access-date=2020-04-17}} ({{Citation | title = 2nd Edition | year = 1884 | publisher = Religious Tract Society | url = https://archive.org/details/freshlightfroma01saycgoog|access-date=2020-04-17}})({{Citation | title = 7th Edition | year = 1892 | url = https://archive.org/details/freshlightfroman92sayc|access-date=2020-04-17}})
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The origin of Semitic civilisation, chiefly upon philological evidence
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Harrison & Sons
 | year = 1872
 | url = https://archive.org/details/originsemiticci00saycgoog
 |access-date=2020-04-17
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = An Assyrian grammar for comparative purposes
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Trübner & Co
 | year = 1872
 | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_WWAUAAAAYAAJ
 |access-date=2020-04-17
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The principles of comparative philology
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Trübner & Co
 | year = 1874
 | url = https://archive.org/details/principlescompa06saycgoog
 |access-date=2020-04-17}} ({{Citation |title = 4th Edition  | year = 1893 | publisher = Scribner | url = https://archive.org/details/cu31924026441729 |access-date=2020-04-17}})
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Archaic classics. An elementary grammar; with full syllabary and progressive reading book, of the Assyrian language, in the cuneiform type
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Samuel Bagster
 | year = 1875
 | url = https://archive.org/details/anelementarygra00saycgoog/page/n15/mode/2up
 |access-date=2020-04-17
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = A lecture on the study of comparative philology delivered November 13, 1876
 | place = Oxford, United Kingdom
 | publisher = James Parker & Co
 | year = 1876
 | url = https://archive.org/details/lectureonstudyof00sayc
 |access-date=2020-04-17
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Lectures upon the Assyrian language, and syllabary: delivered to the students of the archaic classes
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Samuel Bagster
 | year = 1876
 | url = https://archive.org/details/lecturesuponassy00saycrich
 |access-date=2020-04-17
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Babylonian literature : lectures delivered at the Royal institution
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Samuel Bagster
 | year = 1877
 | url = https://archive.org/details/b24857464/
 |access-date=2020-04-17
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = An elementary grammar: with full syllabary and progressive reading book, of the Assyrian language, in the cuneiform type
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Samuel Bagster
 | year = 1877
 | url = https://archive.org/details/elementarygramma00sayc
 |access-date=2020-04-17
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Introduction to the science of language
 | journal = Nature
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = C Kegan & Paul
 | year = 1880
 | volume = 22
 | issue = 551
 | pages = 49–52
 | doi = 10.1038/022049a0
 | bibcode = 1880Natur..22...49K
 | s2cid = 4108560
 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1710060
 }} ({{Citation | title = Volume I| year = 1880| url = https://archive.org/details/introductiontosc01saycuoft}}, {{Citation | title = Volume II| year = 1880 | edition = 1st |url = https://archive.org/details/introductiontosc02saycuoft
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}), ({{Citation | title = Volume I| year = 1883| publisher = K. Paul, Trench & Co.| url = https://archive.org/details/introductiontos04saycgoog}}, {{Citation | title = Volume II |edition = 2nd |date= 1883 |publisher = K. Paul, Trench & Co. |url = https://archive.org/details/introductiontos06saycgoog |access-date=2020-04-17}}), ({{Citation | title = Volume I| year = 1890| url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96293}}, {{Citation | title = Volume II |edition = 3rd |date= 1890 |url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.94345 |access-date=2020-04-17}}),({{Citation | title = Volume I| url = https://archive.org/details/introductiontos00saycgoog | edition = 4th |date= 1900|access-date=2020-04-17}})
*{{Citation
 | last1 = Appleton
 | last2 = Sayce
 | title = Dr Appleton : his life and literary relics
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Trübner & Co
 | year = 1881
 | url = https://archive.org/details/drappleton00appluoft
 |access-date=2020-04-17
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The ancient empires of the east; Herodotos I-III
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Macmillan & Co
 | year = 1881
 | url = https://archive.org/details/ancientempireso00hero
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The monuments of the Hittites. And The bilingual Hittite and cuneiform inscription of Tarkondêmos
 | year = 1881
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ws8OAAAAQAAJ
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Assyria : its princes, priests, and people
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = [[Religious Tract Society]]
 | series = By-Paths of Biblical Knowledge
 | volume = VII
 | year = 1885
 | url = https://archive.org/details/assyriaitsprince00saycuoft
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = An introduction to the books of Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = [[Religious Tract Society]]
 | year = 1885}} ({{Citation |title = 3rd Edition | year = 1889 | url = https://archive.org/details/introductiontobo00saycrich |access-date=2020-04-17}})
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the religion of the ancient Babylonians
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Williams & Norgate
 | series = The [[Hibbert Lectures]]
 | year = 1887
 | url = https://archive.org/details/lecturesonorigi00sayc
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | editor-last = Sayce
 | title = Records of the past : being English translations of the ancient monuments of Egypt and Western Asia
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Samuel Bagster
 | year = 1889}} ({{Citation | title = Volume I |year = 1889|url = https://archive.org/details/recordsofpastbei01sayc}},{{Citation | title = Volume II |year = 1889|url = https://archive.org/details/recordsofpastbei02sayc}}{{Citation | title = Volume III |year = 1889|url = https://archive.org/details/recordsofpastbei03sayc}}, {{Citation | title = Volume IV |year = 1889|url = https://archive.org/details/recordsofpastbei04sayc}}, {{Citation | title = Volume V |year = 1889 |url = https://archive.org/details/recordsofpastbei05sayc |access-date=2020-04-17}})
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The life and times of Isaiah : as illustrated by contemporary monuments
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = [[Religious Tract Society]]
 | series = By-Paths of Biblical Knowledge
 | volume = XIII
 | year = 1889
 | url = https://archive.org/details/timesisaiah00saycuoft
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Hittites : the story of a forgotten Empire
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = [[Religious Tract Society]]
 | series = By-Paths of Biblical Knowledge
 | volume = XII
 | year = 1890
 | url = https://archive.org/details/hittitesstoryoff00saycuoft
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The races of the Old Testament
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = [[Religious Tract Society]]
 | series = By-Paths of Biblical Knowledge
 | volume = XVI
 | year = 1891
 | url = https://archive.org/details/theracesoftheold00saycuoft
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Social Life Among the Assyrians and Babylonians
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = [[Religious Tract Society]]
 | series = By-Paths of Biblical Knowledge
 | volume = XVIII
 | year = 1893
 | url = https://archive.org/details/sociallifeamong00saycgoog/page/n7/mode/2up
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The "higher criticism" and the verdict of the monuments
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Society for Promoting Christina Knowledge
 | year = 1894
 | url = https://archive.org/details/highercriticism00saycgoog
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = A primer of Assyriology
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = The Religious Tract Society 
 | series = Present Day Primers
 | year = 1894
 | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JoQoAAAAYAAJ
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Patriarchal Palestine
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
 | year = 1895
 | url = https://archive.org/details/patriarchalpale00saycgoog
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Rivington, Percical & Co.
 | year = 1895
 | url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38843
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The early history of the Hebrews
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Rivingtons
 | year = 1897
 | url = https://archive.org/details/earlyhistoryofhe00saycuoft
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = SERVICE & PATON
 | year = 1899
 | url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12976
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = John C. Nimmo
 | year = 1900
 | url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25080
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The religions of ancient Egypt and Babylonia; the Gifford lectures on the ancient Egyptian and Babylonian conception of the divine delivered in Aberdeen
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = T & T Clark
 | year = 1902
 | url = https://archive.org/details/religionsofancie00saycuoft
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
 | year = 1907
 | url = https://archive.org/details/archologycuneif00commgoog
 |access-date=2020-04-17}}, ({{citation | title = 2nd edition (revised) | year = 1908 | url = https://archive.org/details/archaeologyofcun00sayc}})
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Reminiscences
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Macmillan & Co
 | year = 1923
 | url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.536227/
 |access-date=2020-04-18}}

===Articles===
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Cuneiform inscriptions of Van
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | volume = XIV
 | issue = 3
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | date = 1865
 | url = https://archive.org/details/cuneiforminscrip00sayc/page/n10/mode/2up
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = An Accadian Seal 
 | journal = The Journal of Philology
 | volume = 3
 | date = 1871
 | pages = 1–50
 | hdl = 2027/mdp.39015039346922 
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Accadian numerals
 | journal = Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
 | volume = 27
 | issue = 4
 | date = 1873
 | pages = 696–702
 | jstor = 43360719 
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | editor-last = [[Ernest de Bunsen|von Bunsen]]
 | contribution = Preface
 | url = https://archive.org/details/chronologybible00saycgoog/
 | title= The Chronology of the Bible Connected with Contemporaneous Events in the History of Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians
 | year = 1874
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = Longmans, Green & Co
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Astronomy of the Babylonians
 | journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]
 | volume = 12
 | issue = 3
 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
 | date = 1875
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1038_012489a0/page/n0 489]–491
 | doi = 10.1038/012489a0
 | bibcode = 1875Natur..12..489S
 | url = https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1038_012489a0
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 | doi-access = free
 }}
* {{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | editor-last = Pattison
 | contribution = The results of the Examination-System at Oxford
 | title = Essays on the endowment of research
 | year = 1876
 | pages = 124–148
 | place = London
 | publisher = Henry S King & Co
 | url = https://archive.org/details/essaysonendowmen00patt}}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Dual of the Assyrian Perfect
 | journal = Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
 | volume = 30
 | issue = 2
 | date = 1876
 | pages = 310–312
 | jstor = 43366250
 }}
* {{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Jelly Fish Theory of Language
 | journal = [[The Contemporary Review]]
 | volume = 27
 | issue = April
 | date = 1876
 | pages = 713–723
 | url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000525129
 | access-date = 2020-05-20 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Tenses of the Assyrian Verb
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | volume = 9
 | issue = 1
 | pages = 22–58
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | date = 1877
 | doi = 10.1017/S0035869X00016762
 | jstor = 25207739
 | s2cid = 164115616
 }}
* {{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = On the Hamathmite Inscriptions
 | journal = Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 
 | volume = 5
 | date = 1877
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/transactions05soci/page/22 22]–32
 | url =  https://archive.org/details/transactions05soci
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = The Art of Prehistoric Greece
 | journal = The Academy
 | volume = 13
 | date = 1878
 | pages = 195–197
 | url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006791517
 }}
* {{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Phoenician of Ancient Greece
 | journal = [[The Contemporary Review]]
 | volume = 34
 | issue = December
 | date = 1878
 | pages = 60–76
 | url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.74700739&view=1up&seq=9
 | access-date = 2020-05-20 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last2 = Sayce
 | last1 = Bosanquet
 | title = Preliminary Paper on the Babylonian Astronomy
 | journal = [[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]]
 | volume = 39
 | issue = 8
 | publisher = [[Royal Astronomical Society]]
 | date = 1879
 | pages = 454–461
 | doi = 10.1093/mnras/39.8.454a
 | author1-link = Robert Carr Bosanquet
 | doi-access = free
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Accadian Phonology
 | journal = [[Transactions of the Philological Society]]
 | volume = 17
 | issue = 1
 | date = 1879
 | pages = 123–142
 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-968X.1879.tb01071.x
 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1844989
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = The Origins of Early Art in Asia Minor
 | journal = The Academy
 | volume = 36
 | date = 1879
 | pages = 124
 | url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.d0002863710&view=1up&seq=144
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last2 = Sayce
 | last1 = Bosanquet
 | title = Babylonian Astronomy
 | journal = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
 | volume = 40
 | issue = 9
 | publisher = Royal Astronomical Society
 | date = 1880
 | pages = 565–578
 | doi = 10.1093/mnras/40.9.565
 | doi-access = free
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = Notes from Journeys in the Troad and Lydia 
 | journal = The Journal of Hellenic Studies
 | volume = 1
 | date = 1880
 | pages = 75–93
 | doi = 10.2307/623615
 | jstor = 623615 
 | s2cid = 162988348 
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | editor-last = [[Heinrich Schliemann|Schliemann]]
 | editor-first = Heinrich
 | contribution = Inscriptions found at [[Hisarlik, Canakkale|Hissarlik]]
 | title = Ilios; the city and country of the Trojans
 | year = 1880
 | pages = 691–705
 | place = New York
 | publisher = Harper & Brothers
 | url = https://archive.org/details/ilioscitycountry00schl_0
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last2 = Sayce
 | last1 = Ramsay
 | title = On Some Pamphylian Inscriptions
 | journal = The Journal of Hellenic Studies
 | volume = 1
 | date = 1880
 | pages = 242–259
 | jstor = 623623 
 | doi = 10.2307/623623
 | s2cid = 162368873
 | author1-link = William Mitchell Ramsay
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Van, Deciphered and Translated 
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | volume = 14
 | issue = 4
 | pages = 377–732
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | date = 1882
 | doi = 10.1017/S0035869X00018335
 | jstor = 25196936 
 | s2cid = 162467267 
 }}
* {{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Monuments of the Hittites
 | journal = Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 
 | volume = 7
 | date = 1882
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/transactions07soci/page/248 248]–293
 | url =  https://archive.org/details/transactions07soci
 }}
* {{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Bilingual Hittite and Cuneiform Inscriptions at Tarkondemos 
 | journal = Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 
 | volume = 7
 | date = 1882
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/transactions07soci/page/294 294]–308
 | url =  https://archive.org/details/transactions07soci
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | editor-last = [[Heinrich Schliemann|Schliemann]]
 | contribution = Preface
 | title = Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy
 | year = 1884
 | place = London
 | publisher = John Murray
 | url = https://archive.org/details/trojaresults00schl
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = Balaam's Prophecy (Numbers XXIV, 17-24) and the God Sheth
 | journal = Hebraica
 | volume = 4
 | issue = 1
 | publisher = The University of Chicago Press
 | date = 1887
 | pages = 1–6
 | jstor = 527147 
 | doi = 10.1086/368977
 | doi-access = 
 }}
* {{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Origin of the Augment
 | journal = [[Transactions of the Philological Society]]
 | volume = 20
 | issue = 1
 | date = 1887
 | pages = 652–655
 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-968X.1887.tb00117.x
 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/2353435
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = The White Race of Palestine
 | journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]
 | volume = 38
 | issue = 979
 | publisher = The University of Chicago Press
 | date = 1888
 | pages = 321–322
 | doi = 10.1038/038321a0
 | bibcode = 1888Natur..38..321S
 | doi-access = free
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | editor-last = [[Flinders Petrie|Petrie]]
 | contribution = Chapter 5: The Papyri 
 | title = Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsinoe
 | year = 1889
 | place = London
 | publisher = Field & Tuer
 | url = https://archive.org/details/hawarabiahmuand00saycgoog
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = Polytheism in Primitive Israel
 | journal = The Jewish Quarterly Review
 | volume = 2
 | issue = 1
 | publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press
 | date = 1889
 | pages = 321–322
 | jstor = 1450128 
 | doi = 10.2307/1450128
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = Ancient Arabia
 | journal = Science
 | volume = 14
 | issue = 358
 | publisher = American Association for the Advancement of Science
 | date = 1889
 | pages = 406–408
 | jstor = 1764098  
 | doi = 10.1126/science.ns-14.358.406
 | pmid = 17800293
 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/2478393
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | contribution = The Witness of Ancient Monuments to the Old Testament Scriptures
 | title = Historical evidences of the Old Testament
 | year = 1890
 | pages = 5–56
 | place = New York
 | publisher = [[American Tract Society]]
 | url = https://archive.org/details/historicaleviden00saycrich
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = Jewish Tax-Gatherers at Thebes in the Age of the Ptolemies
 | journal = The Jewish Quarterly Review
 | volume = 2
 | issue = 4
 | publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press
 | date = 1890
 | pages = 400–405
 | jstor = 1450164   
 | doi = 10.2307/1450164 
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last1 = Sayce
 | title = Blessed Be Abram of the Most High God.
 | journal = Hebraica
 | volume = 6
 | issue = 4
 | publisher = The University of Chicago Press
 | date = 1890
 | pages = 312–314
 | jstor = 527547  
 | doi = 10.1086/369101
 | doi-access = free
 }}
*{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | editor-last = [[Flinders Petrie|Petrie]]
 | contribution = Chapter 9: The Greek Papyri 
 | title = Illahun, Kahun and Gurob : 1889-1890
 | year = 1891
 | place = London
 | publisher = David Nutt
 | url = https://archive.org/details/cu31924086199514
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = Modern Name of Ur of the Chaldees 
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | issue = July
 | pages = 479
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | date = 1891
 | jstor = 25197062
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The New Bilingual Hittite Inscription
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | issue = April
 | pages = 369–370
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | date = 1892
 | jstor = 25197094
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Van. Part IV
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | issue = Jan
 | pages = 1–39
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | date = 1893
 | jstor = 25197129
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Sayce
 | title = The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Van. Part V
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | issue = Oct
 | pages = 691–732
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | date = 1894
 | jstor = 25197227
 }}

Sayce also wrote a number of articles in the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 9th edition (1875–89) and 10th edition (1902-03), including on [[Babylon]], [[Babylonia]] and [[Assyria]], and [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]];<ref name="1902en" />  [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]] (1911), including on Assur (city), Assur-Bani-Pal, Babylon, Babylonia and Assyria, Belshazzar, Berossus, Caria, Ecbatana, Elam, Esar-haddon, Grammar, Gyges, Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt, Kassites, Laodicea, Lycia, Lydia, Persepolis (in part), Sardanapalus, Sargon, Sennacherib, Shalmaneser, Sippara, and Susa.<ref>[[:s:Author:Archibald Henry Sayce|Wikisource author Archibald Henry Sayce]]</ref>

===Editorials===
* {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | author-link = George Smith (Assyriologist)
 | editor-last = Sayce
 | title = History of Sennacherib: Translated from the Cuneiform Inscriptions
 | year = 1878
 | place = London
 | publisher = Williams & Norgate
 | url = https://archive.org/details/historysennache00smitgoog
 | access-date = 2020-04-17}}
* {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | editor-last = Sayce
 | title = The Chaldean account of Genesis
 | year = 1880
 | place = London
 | publisher = Sampson Lowe, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
 | url = https://archive.org/details/chaldeanaccounto00smituoft
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}
* {{Citation
 | last = Vaux
 | author-link = William Sandys Wright Vaux
 | editor-last = Sayce
 | title = Persia from the earliest period to the Arab conquest
 | year = 1893
 | place = London
 | publisher = [[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]]
 | url = https://archive.org/details/persiafromearlie00vauxiala
 | access-date = 2020-04-17}}
* {{Citation
 | last = Maspero
 | author-link = Gaston Maspero
 | editor-last = Sayce
 | title = The dawn of civilization : Egypt and Chaldæa
 | year = 1894
 | place = London
 | publisher = [[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]]
 | url = https://archive.org/details/dawnofcivilizati00masp_1
 | access-date = 2020-04-17}}

==Primary sources==
* A collection of letters by Sayce are held in the Emory University Archives (Manuscript Collection No. 264).<ref>{{Citation
 | last = Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
 | title = A. H. Sayce letters, 1876-1918 
 | date = 26 August 2014 
 | publisher = Emory University
 | url = http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/gk6wv
 | access-date = 2020-04-17}}</ref>
* A collection of Sayce's notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints are held by the [[Griffith Institute]] (Collection Sayce MSS)<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/sayce-reverend-archibald-henry
 | title = Collection Sayce MSS - Archibald Henry Sayce Collection
 | publisher = [[Griffith Institute]] Archive
 | access-date = 2020-04-17}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Archibald Henry Sayce}}
* {{cite journal
 | last1 =  Griffith
 | first1 = Francis Llewellyn
 | title = Professor A. H. Sayce
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | issue = 2
 | date = 1933
 | volume = 65
 | pages =  497–499
 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
 | doi = 10.1017/S0035869X00075481
 | author1-link = Francis Llewellyn Griffith
 | doi-access = free
 }}
* {{cite journal
 | last1 = Langdon
 | first1 = Stephen Herbert
 | title = Archibald Henry Sayce as Assyriologist 
 | journal = The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
 | issue = 2
 | date = 1933
 | volume = 65
 | pages = 499–503
 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
 | jstor = 25194830
 | doi = 10.1017/S0035869X00075493
 | author1-link = Stephen Herbert Langdon
 | doi-access = free
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | title = The Late Dr. Archibald Henry Sayce, 1845-1933
 | journal = Palestine Exploration Quarterly 
 | volume = 65
 | issue = 2
 | date = 1933
 | pages = 59–61
 | doi = 10.1179/peq.1933.65.2.59
 }}
* {{cite journal
 | last1 = Boyd H. Davis 1 
 | first1 = Boyd H
 | title = Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933)  
 | journal = Historiographia Linguistica
 | volume = 5
 | issue = 3
 | date = 1978
 | pages = 339–345 
 | doi = 10.1075/hl.5.3.19dav
 }}
* {{cite encyclopedia
 | last1 = Gunn
 | first1 = Battiscombe
 | title = Sayce, Archibald Henry (1845–1933)
 | encyclopedia = [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]
 | year = 2004
 | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/35965
 }}
* {{Citation
 | last1 = Addison
 | first1 = Sam
 | title = Archibald Henry Sayce
 | date = 18 August 2014
 | publisher = Gifford Lectures
 | url = https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/archibald-henry-sayce
 | access-date = 2020-04-17}}
*{{cite web
 | url = http://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/archibald-henry-sayce
 | title = Archibald Henry Sayce
 | date = 2015
 | publisher = [[Griffith Institute]]
 | access-date = 2020-04-17 }}

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