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- ↑ Thorkild Jacobsen, was professor of Assyriology at Harvard (Boston Globe. Boston, MA: May 6, 1993)
- ↑ Thorkild Jacobsen, Scholar, Wrote of Cuneiform (New York Times. May 5, 1993)
- ↑ Thorkild Jacobsen. 1968, Near Eastern Studies (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation) "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-11-02.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
