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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VASE OF SILVER, DEDICATEDTO NINGIRSU, BY ENTENAPATESI OF LAGAS. (Seep. 58. (To face p. 58. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS 59 But now comes a fact which is difficult to explain,so contrary is it to the archaeological evidence. Aswe have seen, no traces of bronze have been found inthe Assyro-Babylonian region before the beginningof the Assyrian age—let us say about B.C. 2000.Nevertheless, by the side of the simple ideographwhich denotes the Sumerian tirudu, copper —er& inSemitic Babylonian—we find a compound ideographsignifying bronze, called zabar in Sumerian, fromwhich the Semites borrowed their siparrn. It is truethat it is a compound ideograph, but it occurs in thecuneiform texts, not only in the era of Gudea (B.C.2700), but even before the age of Sargon of Akkad(B.C. 3800). And an analysis of its earliest form seemsto indicate that it really must have meant bronzefrom the first, and that consequently there was notransference of signification in later days. Literallyit means

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