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In the Tell of the Fruit-house M. de Sarzec had already discovered numbers of monuments dating from the earlier periods of Sumerian history before the conquest and consolidation of Babylonia under Sargon of Agade, and had excavated a primitive terrace built by the early king Ur-Ninâ. Both on and around this large mound Capt.
D, col. li. 13; G, col. ii. ll. 1-8; iii. 4 seq. See Gen. xxiv. 53. Semit. Völker, p. 382. See Jensen, Keils Bibl. 3, 1, 28, note 2. The first signifies 'to make, the third means "good, favorable," but the second, upon which so much depends, is not clear. Amiaud reads tum instead of sig. De Sarzec, pl. 7, col. i. 12. Hibbert Lectures, p. 104. Inscr. D, col. iv. ll. 7, 8.
Such an event would have been regretted by all those who are interested in the early history of the East, for, in spite of the treasures found by M. de Sarzec in the course of his various campaigns, it was obvious that the site was far from being exhausted, and that the tells as yet unexplored contained inscriptions and antiquities extending back to the very earliest periods of Sumerian history.
Thus in the time of Sargon of Agade, about 3800 B.C., an extensive system of royal convoys was established between the principal cities. At Telloh the late M. de Sarzec came across numbers of lumps of clay bearing the seal impressions of Sargon and of his son Narâm-Sin, which had been used as seals and labels upon packages sent from Agade to Shirpurla.
Decoratively they seem allied to the cones of Warka, but the religious formulæ they bear connects them rather with the cones found by M. de Sarzec at Tello, which bear commemorative inscriptions. To these we shall return at a later page. LOFTUS, Travels and Researches, pp. 190, 191 LAYARD, Discoveries, p. 607.
If, for instance, the foundations of all walls were systematically cleared, we should be enabled to restore with absolute certainty the plans of the buildings to which they belonged. To the monuments discovered by the English explorers we must now add a find made by M. de Sarzec at Tello, of which, however, full details have yet to be furnished.
Both for the first and for the second periods we now have a large number of lists of offerings made to the temples of Babylonia and of thousands of miscellaneous legal documents. De Sarzec found a number of such documents at Telloh some years ago, and quite recently some thirty thousand tablets of the temple archives have come to light.
At Lagash De Sarzec found, besides cones, a large number of copper statuettes of gods and goddesses and of animals, chiefly bulls, all terminating in a sharp point or attached to a cone-shaped object. Others again are clearly human figures, either male personages holding the cone in their hands, or females holding baskets on their heads, the customary attitude of making an offering.
These two great cylinders of baked clay were discovered by the late M. de Sarzec so long ago as the year 1877, during the first period of his diggings at Telloh, and, although the general nature of their contents has long been recognized, no complete translation of the texts inscribed upon them had been published until a few months ago.
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.
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