The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assyriologist \As*syr`i*ol"o*gist\, n. One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian arch[ae]ology.
Wiktionary
n. A person who studies ancient Assyria.
Usage examples of "assyriologist".
Without being an Assyriologist himself, it was impossible for him to be acquainted with that portion of the evidence on certain disputed questions which is only to be found in still unpublished or untranslated inscriptions.
Hommel, the Assyriologist, who is inclined to derive Egyptian civilization entirely from the Babylonian.
In that same year Akhmatova went to live with an eminent Assyriologist V.
Shileyko, a brilliant Assyriologist, but a few years later they were separated.
Many Assyriologists undoubtedly resented this extraordinary experiment and felt they had been grossly duped.
Even the most conservative Assyriologists had to admit that some of the newly discovered stone fragments dated back to 4000 and 3000 b.
And after emotion had done its considerable worst to Michelis' scrawl, the facsimile reducer had squeezed it all down onto a single piece of tissue for missile mail, so that only a man who knew the handwriting as well as Assyriologists know cuneiform could have deciphered the remaining ant tracks at all.