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In their persons alone would the scientific knowledge required for such work be combined with the power to accomplish those sacred rites which gave to the commencement of a new building the character of a contract between man and his deity. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 17, 18. LAYARD, Discoveries, plan 2, p. 123. OPPERT, Expédition scientifique de Mésopotamie, vol. i. p. 273.
The cases with the objects despatched by the Babylonian mission, that is by MM. Fresnel, Oppert, and Thomas, were included in the same disaster. But for this the Assyrian collections of the Louvre would be less inferior than they are to those of the British Museum. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 253. PLACE, Ninive, vol. ii. p. 253.
But the students of the inscriptions had another, and, if we accept the theories of MM. Oppert and François Lenormant, a better-founded, surprise in store for us.
He was the first of a second generation who, following Rawlinson and Oppert, decipherers as well as explorers, were able to read as they found.
Burnouf has brought to light the ancient Zend language, Sir Henry Rawlinson and Oppert have by their magnificent works opened up new methods of research, Max Muller and Pictet in their turn by availing themselves of the most diverse materials have done much to make known to us the Aryan race, the great educator, if I may so speak, of modern nations.
A little higher up, where Sargon recounts the founding of the palace, occurs a phrase which M. Oppert translates: "The people threw their amulets." What Sargon meant by this the excavations of M. Place have shown.
There is much that speaks in favor of this theory, much that may more easily be accounted for by it, than by the opposite one, which was originally proposed by the distinguished Nestor of cuneiform studies, Jules Oppert, and which is with some modifications still held by the majority of scholars. The question is one which cannot be answered by an appeal to philology alone.
"Yes," I remarked, "your story is a very good one; but what part did this particular man, now at Fusan, take in the marauding scheme?" "Oh, that I do not exactly know in fact, no one knows more than this, that he was one of the eight Europeans who accompanied Oppert.
As soon as it is reached no greater depth need be attempted; all attention is then given to driving lateral trenches in every direction. See HERODOTUS, i. 181-184; and DIODORUS, ii. 9. By such means M. OPPERT arrives at a height of 250 Babylonian feet, or about 262 feet English for the monument now represented by the mound in the neighbourhood of Babylon known as Birs-Nimroud.
As spadeful after spadeful of earth was removed by the shaking hands of the frightened coolies, shouts, hisses, and oaths went up from the maddened crowd, but Oppert and the French abbé, half scared as they were, still pined for the hidden treasure, and encouraged the grave-diggers with promises of rewards as well as with the invigorating butt-ends of their rifles.
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