Leonard William King, F.S.A. (8 Desember 1869 – 20 Agustus 1919) adalah seorang arkeolog dan Asiriolog Inggris yang dididik di Rugby School dan King's College, Cambridge. Ia mengumpulkan sejumlah besar ukiran batu di Timur Dekat, mengajar arkeologi Asyur dan Babel di King's College selama beberapa tahun, dan menerbitkan sejumlah besar karya tentang subyek-subyek tersebut. Ia juga dikenal karena menerjemahkan karya-karya kuno seperti Kode Hammurabi.
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- Leonard William King (1898). First steps in Assyrian: a book for beginners; being a series of historical, mythological, religious, magical, epistolary and other texts printed in cuneiform characters with interlinear transliteration and translation and a sketch of Assyrian grammar, sign-list and vocabulary. Kegan Paul Trench, Trb̈ner. hlm. 399. Diakses tanggal 2011-07-05.
- Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, 3 vols. (1898–1900)
- Encyclopaedia Biblica (contributor) (1903)
- Babylonian Religion and Mythology. (1903)
- Egypt and Western Asia in the light of Recent Discoveries (1907)
- Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings (1907) - vol1 - vol2
- Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition (Schweich Lecture for 1916)
- The seven tablets of creation : or The Babylonian and Assyrian legends concerning the creation of the world and of mankind. (1902)
- The Code of Hammurabi (translation). (1899)
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- "King, Leonard William (KN889LW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- "Review of Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, King of Babylon by L. W. King". The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 92 (2392): 275–276. 31 August 1901.
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- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "King, Leonard William". Encyclopædia Britannica (edisi ke-12). London & New York.
- CDLI Wiki 2006-08-30 di Wayback Machine.
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