The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History, Religion, Commerce, Law, Art, and Literature, Volume 10 |
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Adad Akkad Akkadian ancient animals Anshar appears Ashur Ashurbanapal Babylon Babylonia and Assyria Babylonian-Assyrian Bismya Borsippa British Museum bronze Cassite centre century character chief Class clay cult cuneiform decipherment Découvertes en Chaldée deity demons designation district divine documents dynasty Eannatum Elam Elamitic Enlil Eridu Euphrates Euphrates Valley excavations father further Gilgamesh goddess gods Hammurapi head heaven Hittite incantation indication inscriptions Ishtar Jastrow king Kish Lagash land large number Layard lord Lugalzaggisi Manishtusu mankind Marduk ments monuments mounds Nabu nature Nimrud Nineveh Ningirsu Ninib Nippur official palace pantheon patesi period Persian Plate priests Rawlinson reign Religion Babyloniens represented royal rulers Sargon script sculptured seal Semitic Shamash shekels signs Sippar slave specimens stone Sumer Sumerian sun-god symbol tablet Telloh temple texts thee thou Thureau-Dangin Tiamat tion Umma Uruk Urukagina Utnapishtim votive word
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Page 328 - Break up the house, build a ship, Abandon your property, seek life ! Throw aside your possession and preserve life ! Bring into the ship seed of all living things...
Page 329 - All that I had I loaded on her. All that I had of silver I loaded on her. All that I had of gold I loaded on her. All that I had of living beings of all kinds I loaded on her. I brought to the ship all my family and household ; Cattle of the field, beasts of the field, all the workmen I brought on board.
Page 329 - After the lady Ishtar had gone down into the land of no return, The bull did not mount the cow, the ass approached not the she-ass, To the maid in the street, no man drew near, The man slept in his apartment, The maid slept by herself.
Page 43 - Ideen über die Politik, den Verkehr und den Handel der vornehmsten Völker der alten Welt, Göttingen 1793-1796; 218041812; M815.
Page 124 - ... one of the most important as well as one of the most legitimate sources of his power.
Page 328 - I will reveal to thee, Gilgamesh, a secret story, And the decision of the gods I will tell thee. The city of Shuruppak,8 a city which thou knowest, The one that lies on the Euphrates, That city was old, and the gods thereof Induced the great gods to bring a cyclone over it ; It was planned by their father Anu, By their counselor, the warrior Enlil, By their herald Ninib, By their leader En-nugi.
Page 344 - What, however, seems good to oneself, to a god is displeasing, What is spurned by oneself finds favor with a god; Who is there that can grasp the will of the gods in heaven ? The plan of a god full of power (?) — who can understand it?
Page 329 - The gods are terrified at the cyclone, they flee and mount to the heaven of Anu ; the gods crouch like dogs in an. enclosure. Ishtar cries aloud like one in birth throes, the mistress of the gods howls aloud : 'That day...
Page 343 - My eyeballs he obscured, bolting them as with a lock; My ears he bolted, like those of a deaf person. A king — I have been changed into a slave, As a madman my companions maltreat me. Send me help from the pit dug for me! At the cry of my lament, open a hole for him, 3 By day — deep sighs, at night — weeping, The month — cries, the year — distress.
Page 178 - In the case of collapse of a defective building, the architect is to be put to death if the owner is killed by the accident ; and the architect's son if the son of the owner loses his life.