Botta, Paul Émile, Assyriologist, born at Turin, son of the preceding; when consul at Mosul, in 1843, discovered the ruins of Nineveh; made further explorations, published in the “Memoire de l'Ecriture Cunéiform Assyrienne” and “Monuments de Ninive” (1802‒1870).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Botta, Carlo Giuseppe * Böttger