Jean-Vincent Scheil [SEP] place of death
Jean-Vincent Scheil
Father Jean-Vincent Scheil (born 10 June 1858, Kœnigsmacker – died 21 September 1940, Paris) was a French Dominican scholar and Assyriologist. He is credited as the discoverer of the Code of Hammurabi in Persia. In 1911 he came into possession of the Scheil dynastic tablet and first translated it.
After being ordained in 1887, he took courses in Egyptology and Assyriology at the "École des Hautes Études", and was a student at the Collège de France, where he was a
Scheil dynastic tablet
The Scheil dynastic tablet or Kish Tablet is an ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform text containing a variant form of the "Sumerian King List".
Discovery.
The tablet came into possession of the Assyriologist Jean-Vincent Scheil in 1911, having bought it from a private collection in France. The tablet when purchased was reported to have been unearthed from Kish. Scheil translated the tablet in 1911, followed by another translation in 1934. The tablet dates to the early 2nd millennium BC.