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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAffej ancient appears Arabs architecture Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad bank Bedouin bricks Busrah Buwariyya camp canal centre Cha'b Chaldsean channel character clay coffin Colonel Williams colour columns course cuneiform cuneiform records cylinder Daniel desert discovered discovery distance Dizful earth edifice encampment Euphrates excavations feet fragments frequently governor Greek Hillah horses inches inscriptions journey Karun keffieh Kerbella Kerkhah Khan king labours length likewise Madan marshes miles Mohammerah mound Mugeyer Muntefik Nebuchadnezzar Niffar Nimrud Nineveh occurred original ornamented Ovannes palace Parthian party Pasha Persepolis Persian plain platform relics remarkable river round Royal Asiatic Society ruins Sassanian sculptures Shaour Shat-el-Kahr Sheikh shew Shush Shushan side Sifr Sinkara Sir Henry Rawlinson south-east spear stream summit surface Susa Susiana tablets Tellag temple tent thick Tigris tion tomb trench tribe Turkish Tuweyba unbaked vases vault walls Warka whole workmen Wuswas Xerxes Popular passagesPage 159 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Page 33 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts. Page 340 - Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them. Page 284 - Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice. Page 426 - And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. Page 373 - Where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple, to silver rings, and pillars of marble : the beds were , of gdld and silver, upon a pavement of red and blue, and white, and black marble. Page 53 - And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers... Page 103 - But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians : so we dwell at Jerusalem. Page 10 - His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him'. Page 166 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarLa Construction des ziggurats sous la troisième dynastie d'UrMartin Sauvage - 1998 - Iraq Bibliographic information
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