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Hilprecht: "Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania;" "Recent Research in Bible Lands." Perrot and Chipiez: "History of Art in Antiquity." J.P. Peters: "Nippur." R.W. Rogers: "History of Babylonia and Assyria." F. Lenormant: "Students' Manual of the Ancient History of the East;" "The Beginnings of History."
It may be that the drainage system so highly developed at Knossos and Hagia Triada found its first suggestion in the terra-cotta drain-pipes discovered at Niffur by Hilprecht, though it is by no means obvious that copying should be necessary in such a matter.
For a further account of the financial side of the temple establishments, see Peiser's excellent remarks in his Babylonische Verträge des Berliner Museums, pp. xvii-xxix. Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 2, p. 24. Nine magnificent diorite statues of Gudea were found by De Sarzec at Telloh. Ashes the trace of sacrifices were also found on the altar.
One Saturday night in March, 1893, Professor Hilprecht had wearied himself with puzzling over these two fragments, which were supposed to be broken pieces of finger-rings.
Herr H. V. Hilprecht is Professor of Assyriology in the University of Pennsylvania. That university had despatched an expedition to explore the ruins of Babylon, and sketches of the objects discovered had been sent home. Among these were drawings of two small fragments of agate, inscribed with characters.
We are in a position now to institute this comparison for a period which is certainly some centuries earlier than Gudea. The date of the reign of Lugal-zaggisi, king of Uruk, who has been several times referred to in a previous chapter, is fixed by Hilprecht at c. 4500 B.C., but it is doubtful whether so high an age will be accepted by scholars.
who is called 'the mistress of Uruk. The importance of Erech in the early history of Babylonia is emphasized by the inscriptions from Nippur, recently published by Dr. Hilprecht. It is natural, therefore, to find several deities of a purely local type commemorated by kings who belong to this region. The goddess Umu is not heard of again.
But, in the drawings, the fragments were of different colours, so that a student working on the drawings would not guess them to be parts of one cylinder. Professor Hilprecht, however, examined the two actual fragments in the Imperial Museum at Constantinople. They lay in two distinct cases, but, when put together, fitted.
Described in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée, pp. 216, 217. For other specimens, see ib. pp. 106, 171; and see also Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 2. p. 39, note. Inscription D, col. iii, 1-12. See Winckler's note, Keils Bibl. 3, 2, p. 16. IR. 54, col. iii. l. 10. Ib. 55, col. iv. l. 1, 2. IIR. 61. no. 2, obverse.
We divide into classes industrial and sets social and give Pride free rein to vaunt herself, knowing that the hour will surely come when not even a Hilprecht can distinguish between the prince's ashes and the pauper's dust can e'en so much as say, "This cold dead earth, o'er which lizards crawl and from which springs the poisonous worm and noxious weed, once lived and loved."
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