Chapter VIII: History and Chronology

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Plate 1 1. Plan of Mugheir ruins (after Taylor)

Plate 2 2. Ruins of Warka (Erech) (after Loftus)

Plate 3 3. Akkerkuf (after Ker Porter) 4. Hamman (after Loftus)

Plate 4 5. Tel-Ede (ditto) 6. Palms (after Oppert)

Plate 5 7. Chaldaean reeds, from an Assyrian sculpture (after Layard)

Plate 6 8. Wild sow and pigs, from Koyunjik (Layard) 9. Ethiopians (after Prichard) 10. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum)

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Plate 7 10. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum) 11. Chaldaean tablet (after Layard) 12. Signet-cylinder (after Ker Porter)

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Plate 8 13. Bowariyeh (after Loftus) 14. Mugheir Temple (ditto)

Plate 9 15. Ground-plan of ditto (ditto) 16. Mugheir Temple, restored (by the Author) 17. Terra-cotta cone, actual size (after Loftus)

Plate 10 18. Plan and wall of building patterned with cones (after Loftus) 19. Ground-plan of chambers excavated at Abu-Shahrein (after Taylor)

Plate 11 20. Brick vault at Mugheir (ditto) 21. Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto)

Plate 12 21. Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto) 22. Chaldaean jar-coffin (ditto) 23. Section of drain (ditto)

Plate 13 24. Chaldaean vases of the first period (drawn by the Author from vases in the British Museum) 25. Chaldaean vases, drinking-vessels, and amphora of the second period (ditto) 26. Chaldaean lamps of the second period (ditto)

Plate 14 27. Seal-cylinder on metal axis (drawn and partly restored by the Author) 28. Signet-cylinder of King Urukh (after Ker Porter) 29. Flint knives (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum)

Plate 15 30. Stone hammer, hatchet, adze, and nail (chiefly after Taylor) 31. Chaldaean bronze spear and arrow-heads (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum)

Plate 16 32. Bronze implements (ditto) 33. Flint implement (after Taylor) 34. Ear-rings (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum) 16

Plate 17 35. Leaden pipe and jar (ditto) 36. Bronze bangles (ditto)

Plate 18 37. Senkareh table of squares

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Plate 19 38. Costumes of Chaldaeans from the cylinders (after Cullimore and Rich) 39. Serpent symbol (after Cullimore) 40. Flaming Sword (ditto) 41. Figure of Nin. the Fish-God (Layard) 42. Nin's emblem. the Man Bull (ditto) 43. Fish symbols (after Cullimore) 44. Bel-Mer dash (ditto)

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Plate 20 45. Nergal's emblem, the Ilan-Lion (Layard)

Plate 21 46. 47. Clay images of Ishtar (after Cullimore and Layard) 48. Nebo (drawn by the Author from a statue in the British Museum)

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Assyria THE SECOND MONARCHY CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY

CHAPTER II. CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS

CHAPTER III. THE PEOPLE

CHAPTER IV. THE CAPITAL

CHAPTER V. LANGUAGE AND WRITING

CHAPTER VI. ARCHITECTURE AND OTHER ARTS

CHAPTER VII. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

CHAPTER VIII. RELIGION

CHAPTER IX. CHRONOLOGY AND HISTORY

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