Chapter I: Front Matter

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By-Paths of Bible Knowledge. VII.

ASSYRIA ITS PRINCES, PRIESTS, AND PEOPLE.

by

A. H. SAYCE, M.A.

Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford, Hon. LL.D. Dublin, etc.

Author of 'Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments,' 'An Introduction to Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther,' etc.

London: The Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row, 65, St. Paul's Churchyard, and 164, Piccadilly. 1885.

CONTENTS.
PAGE

List of Illustations 6

Preface 7

Chronological Table of the Kings of Assyria 17

Table of Biblical Dates according to
Assyrian Monuments 19

I. The Country and People 21

II. Assyrian History 27

III. Assyrian Religion 55

IV. Art, Literature, and Science 86

V. Manners and Customs; Trade and Government 122

Appendix 146

Index 153

Index of Scripture References 166

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
Monolith of Shalmaneser II. (from the original in the
British Museum) Frontispiece

Assur-bani-pal and his Queen. (from the original in the
British Museum) 49

Nergal. (from the original in the British Museum) 65

Fragment now in the British Museum showing primitive
Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform Characters side by side. 93

An Assyrian Book. (from the original in the British
Museum) 99

Part of an Assyrian Cylinder containing Hezekiah's
Name. (from the original in the British Museum) 104

Assyrian King in his Chariot. 125

Siege of a City. 127