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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.
That we are able to criticize the theories of the Assyrians as to the origin and forms of the early characters is in the main due to M. de Sarzec's labours, from whose excavations many thousands of inscriptions of the Sumerians have been recovered.
VR. 61, col. iv. ll. 33, 34. IR. 7, no. ix. Heuzey in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 209. Several examples occur in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée. See also Ward, Proc. Amer. Oriental Soc., May, 1888, p. xxix, and Peters' Nippur, ii. pl. 2. Wellhausen, Reste Arabischen Heidenthums, p. 106. Grotefend Cylinder, col. li. ll. 36-39.
Unfortunately, De Sarzec's excavations at Lagash at the point of the mound in question were interrupted, but he gives reasons for believing that other columns existed near the two large ones found by him. There is, therefore, every reason to conclude that at Lagash, as at Nippur and no doubt elsewhere, the two columns belonged to a great gateway leading into a large court of columns.
Opposite each the scribe has drawn a picture of the object from which he imagined it was derived. Photograph by Messrs. Mansell & Co. The announcement which was made in 1902, that the French government had appointed Capt. Gaston Cros as the late M. de Sarzec's successor, was therefore received with general satisfaction. The fact that Capt.
The main results of M. de Sarzec's diggings at Telloh have already been described by M. Maspero in his history, and therefore we need not go over them again, but will here confine ourselves to the results which have been obtained from recent excavations at Telloh and at other sites in Western Asia.
In the case of so important a structure, the number of altars was naturally more numerous. See Heuzey's note in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 65. See pp. 109 seq. See p. 106. Recueil des Travaux, etc., xvii. 39. See pp. 140 seq. See p. 110. Nebuchadnezzar, IR. 65, col. i. ll. 34, 35. This is to be concluded from Nebuchadnezzar, ib. l. 32.
The great terraces erected at such a vast expenditure of labour were not undertaken merely to escape the mosquitoes; we may take M. de Sarzec's words, however, as a proof that at Sirtella as in all the towns of Lower Chaldæa, the remains of a building with several stories or stages are to be recognized.
M. de Sarzec refers us in his paper to a plan which has not yet been laid before the Academy. We regret very much that its publication should have been so long delayed, as we have been prevented from making as much use as we should have wished of M. de Sarzec's architectural discoveries.
That the columns at Nippur were erected in accordance with recognized custom follows from De Sarzec's discovery of two enormous round columns within the sacred quarter of Lagash. In the light of Peters' excavations, the significance of the columns at Lagash becomes clear.
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