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It seems to have given its name to the city of Niffer, called Calneh in the translation of the Septuagint, from kal-ana, which is translated the “fort of Ana;” or according to the Maya, the prison of Ana, KAL being prison, or the prison of thy mother. the supposed wife of Ana, has no peculiar characteristics. Her name is only, says our author, the feminine form of the masculine, Ana.
The most ancient, apparently, are those towards the south, at Warka, Senkereh, Mugheir, and Niffer; and here, in the neighborhood of the sea, which then probably reached inland as far as Suk-es-Sheioukh, there is sufficient reason to place the primitive seat of Chaldaean power. The capital of the whole region was at first Ur or Hur, but afterwards became Nipur, and finally Babel or Babylon.
"Her life!" exclaimed David "I wadna gie ane o' my grey hairs for her life, if her gude name be gane And yet," said he, relenting and retracting as he spoke, "I wad make the niffer, Mr.
"Her life!" exclaimed David "I wadna gie ane o' my grey hairs for her life, if her gude name be gane And yet," said he, relenting and retracting as he spoke, "I wad make the niffer, Mr.
It is just niffer for niffer. Aweel, neighbour, what is it that ye want some monopoly, I reckon? Or it may be a grant of kirk-lands and teinds, or a knighthood, or the like? Ye maun be reasonable, unless ye propose to advance more money for our present occasions."
The excavations conducted at these places, especially at Niffer, Senkereh, Warka, and Mugheir, were eminently successful.
We may pass on, then, to the site from which our new material has been obtained the ancient city of Nippur, in central Babylonia. Though the place has been deserted for at least nine hundred years, its ancient name still lingers on in local tradition, and to this day Niffer or Nuffar is the name the Arabs give the mounds which cover its extensive ruins.
Hardly had the critic pronounced Sargon of Akkad to be a creature of myth, when at Niffer and Telloh monuments both of himself and of his son were brought to light, which, as in the case of Menes, proved that this "creature of myth" lived in an age of advanced culture and in the full blaze of history.
"Maybe no, sister," said Effie. "But ye are angry because I love Robertson How can I help loving him, that loves me better than body and soul baith? Here he put his life in a niffer, to break the prison to let me out; and sure am I, had it stude wi' him as it stands wi' you" Here she paused and was silent. "O, if it stude wi' me to save ye wi' risk of my life!" said Jeanie.
At Niffer, in the north of Babylonia, the American excavators have found an even larger number of tablets, some of which go back to the age of Sargon of Akkad, or 6000 years ago, while fresh tablets come pouring into the museums of Europe and America from other libraries found by the Arabs at Bersippa and Babylon, at Sippara and Larsa.
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