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The spade will tell us. Or was it still further east, in the highlands of Persia, that men first learned how to write and record history? We cannot go back so far in the history of Babylonia Professor Hilprecht dares to carry us seven thousand years before Christ that we do not find its kings fighting against Elam.
Peters' Nippur, ii. 77, 133. So, e.g., Peters' Nippur, ii. 237, 238, 378, 379. De Sarzec, Découvertes en Chaldée, pls. 1 bis and 28. The opinion has been advanced that the personage who holds the cone-shaped object is the fire-god turning the fire drill, but this is highly improbable. Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 239. Peters' Nippur ii. 376, and Hilprecht, Cuneiform Texts, ix. pl. 12.
It has been suggested that since the statues of Telloh are those of the priest-kings, only the priestly classes shaved their hair off. See an interesting discussion of the question by Professor Hommel, "Arabia according to the Latest Discoveries and Researches." Sunday School Times, 1895, nos. 41 and 43. See Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 16-18.
Hilprecht followed her lord, "and satisfied myself in the midnight hour as to the outcome of his most interesting dream". The professor, however, says that he awoke, told his wife the dream, and verified it next day. Both statements are correct. The inscription ran thus, the missing fragment being restored, "by analogy from many similar inscriptions":
Science has amply demonstrated the existence of man upon the earth long before the psychozoic era of the Biblical cosmogony; but Prof. Hilprecht is the first to demonstrate the high antiquity of his civilization. To the average man this will appear neither more interesting nor profitable than a two-headed calf or petrified corpse; but to the philosophic mind it affords much food for reflection.
This touch appears to have been added by the Hebrew writer. Nebuchadnezzar is but a disguise for Antiochus Epiphanes. VR. 33, col. ii. l. 22-col. iii. l. 12. VR. 61, col. vi. ll. 1-13. Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 1, pl. 23, no. 62. In the museum at Copenhagen. Described by Knudtzon in the Zeits. f. Assyr., xil. 255. Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte, p. 287.
So, a king of Kish, whose name is read Alu-usharshid by Professor Hilprecht, brings costly vases of marble and limestone from Elam and offers them to Bel as a token of victory; and this at a period even earlier than Sargon.
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