Identifier: archaeologyofcun00sayc (find matches)
Title: The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee
Subjects: Cuneiform writing Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian Assyria -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge New York : E. S. Gorham
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e onyx stone of one of whichis stated in an inscription to have come from Magan ; (3) theextraordinary likeness in the delineation of animal forms, whichextends to conventional details like the two concentric curvesartificially arranged so as to allow the two corners of the profileto be visible at the same time ; (4) the use of a razor and thecustom of completely shaving the face, and even the skull; and(5) the ceremonial form of libation by means of a vase ofpeculiar shape, with a long curved spout and without a handle.This libation vase was practically the same in both countries, inspite of its peculiar and somewhat complicated form. Of laterintroduction into Egypt was the inscribed cone of terra-cotta,which was of early Babylonian origin, but is not met with inEgypt before the age of the Twelfth dynasty. At any rate, thefirst specimens of it hitherto found there were discovered bymyself at Ed-Der, opposite Esna, in 1905 (Annates du Servicedes Antiquites de PEgypt, 1905, pp. 164-5).
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(To face p. 135. CHAPTER V BABYLONIA AND PALESTINE A very few years ago Palestine was stillarchaeologically an unknown land. Its history subse-quent to the Israelitish conquest could be gatheredfrom the Old Testament, and Egyptian papyri of theage of the Nineteenth dynasty had told us somethingabout its condition immediately prior to that event.Thanks to the Palestine Exploration Fund,the countryhad been carefully surveyed, and the monumentsstill existing on its surface had been noted andregistered. But the earlier history of the people, theirraces and origin, their social and religious life, andtheir relation to the rest of the world, were still ablank. Of the Canaan invaded by the children ofIsrael we knew nothing from an archaeological pointof view, and very little even of the Palestine that wasgoverned by Israelitish judges and Jewish kings. The veil has at last been lifted which so long layover the face of Palestine. Cuneiform texts have cometo clear up its civil history, while t

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