This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...towards the central one, in an upright position, standards surmounted by the crescent moon with the sun's disc within. All three men have long ringlets, and the two flanking figures are horned, suggesting some connection with the similar figures whose lower parts are those of bulls, which are found in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...towards the central one, in an upright position, standards surmounted by the crescent moon with the sun's disc within. All three men have long ringlets, and the two flanking figures are horned, suggesting some connection with the similar figures whose lower parts are those of bulls, which are found in many designs on Babylonian cylinders. As the animals drawing the chariot in the de Clercq example have short tails, it is possible that they are not intended for horses. In front of them, high and low in the design, are two birds, perhaps intended for fowls rushing from the danger of the oncoming vehicle. No. 286 is a smaller cylinder, the design on which shows the chariot, charioteer, four horses, and some emblems, which last probably take the place of the two rows of figures behind the chariot. The work in the case of this last example is rougher than the others, the horses being represented by thick and thin lines, and their proportions suggesting rather dachshunds than the animals generally used to draw chariots. It is not improbable that the carriage is the chariot of the Sungod, the goats being those of Tammuz as the god of the rising and the setting sun, and typifying the light fleecy clouds illuminated with his rays, as the Babylonian inscriptions imply. They would in that case be the parallels of the flocks of Helios in Greek mythology. 14a. Contract about a Deposit of Silrer A baked clay tablet, perfect, inscribed with 19 lines of writing--7 on the obverse, 10 on the reverse and edge below, and 2 on the left-hand edge. This document was found in 14b when it was opened, and measures 375 mm. high by 401 wide, and 16-2 mm. thick. The colour is a cold reddish grey. Obverse. Sussan ma-na kaspi 1/3 of a mana of silver za-ru-ba-ani...
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Add this copy of Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, Volume 1 to cart. $57.12, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
