Rassam, Hormuzd, Assyriologist, born at Mosul; assisted Layard in his explorations at Nineveh, and was subsequently, under support from Britain, engaged in further explorations both there and elsewhere; being sent on a mission to Abyssinia, was put in prison and only released after the defeat of Theodore; (b. 1826).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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