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Excerpt from Lectures on Babylonia and PalestineAt the end in the few pages left by the publisher at my disposal, I have added the text, translation and commentary of some interesting and hitherto unedited documents. They have all been read with Father Scheil, professor of Assyriology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. I am indebted to him for much help, especially for information in epigraphy in which department he has few equals. It is a great ...

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Excerpt from Sumerian Epic of Paradise, the Flood and the Fall of ManIn the autumn of 1912 the author copied, among about fifty others, a triangular fragment of a tablet in the Nippur collection in the Museum. This fragment, which had been numbered 456i, can be distinguished clearly in the right upper corner of the obverse and right lower corner of the reverse of the restored tablet shown in Plates V and VI which show the tablet in its natural...

Excerpt from Sumerian Grammatical Texts, Vol. 12When the whole land of Sumer and Akkad was united, and Babylon was a new capital for a new race, the religious signifi cance of Sumer survived, and dead Sumerian language was used exclusively for all sort of religious compositions and records. Previous to the usurpations of Marduk of Babylon, and his satellite Nabu, the Semite Akkadians could boast onlya great sanctuary of the sun god of Sippar. ...

Excerpt from Babyloniaca: Etudes De Philologie Assyro-BabylonienneOf the liturgy called bit rimki or a house of washing n We have fortunately one long prayer and fragments of two others. The last one of the section is addressed to Tasmetum the spouse ofnebo. This same prayer was used in another3 liturgy, quite different from the liturgy of the bit rimbi the only difference is that the prayer, when used in the bit rimki liturgy, has an insertio...

Excerpt from Building Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, Vol. 1: Nabopolassar and NebuchadnezzarThis volume represents the first attempt to apply the rules of literary criticism to the compositions of the Neo Babylonian school of scribes. A critical examination of these sources is imperative, for Ass'yriologists have hitherto used these important documents without regard to their comparative value or their historical order. The history...

Excerpt from Building Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, Vol. 1: Nabopolassar and NebuchadnezzarThis volume represents the first attempt to apply the rules of literary criticism to the compositions of the Neo Babylonian school of scribes. A critical examination of these sources is imperative, for Ass'yriologists have hitherto used these important documents without regard to their comparative value or their historical order. The history...

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Excerpt from Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms The material collected and edited in this book comprehends nearly all the temple liturgy of the official Babylonian and Assyrian religion yet published. By temple liturgy I mean services of public praise and penance. A sharp division must be made between public services and private services, a distinction which was observed by the Babylonians themselves. Religious literature in Babylonia originated ...

Excerpt from Tammuz and Ishtar: A Monograph Upon Babylonian Religion and Theology, Containing Extensive Extracts From the Tammuz Liturgies and All of the Arbela Oracles Der Babylom'scbe Golf Tamfiz, Abhandlungen der Philologisch Historischen Klasse der Konig. Sachsischen Gesellschaft, vol. Xxvii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a...