Nippur: Or, Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates, المجلد 1G. P. Putnam's sons, 1897 |
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Affech Akerkuf Aleppo Anah Anbar ancient antiquities Arabs Babylon Babylonia Baghdad Bedry Berdi Bismya bitumen bluffs boat Borsippa bricks building built called camp canal caravan Constantinople crossed Ctesiphon Deir dervishes desert Dhahar Diwanieh east encampment Euphrates excavations expedition explored feet Feluja Government Grand Vizier gypsum Haditha Hajji half Hamdy Bey Harper Haynes Hillah hills Hilprecht horses hour houses huts inscription island Jimjimeh Kaimakam Kal'at Khabor khan later liras Mekota Midhat Pasha miles morning mound Mudir muleteers Museum Mutessarif Nahr Nebuchadrezzar Niffer night Nimrud Nippur Noorian o'clock palace parasangs Pasha passed Persian piastres plain plateau pottery Public Instruction reached Rehabah river road ruins schoeni seemed Sheikh side soldiers stone stream Sultan tablets tent Thapsacus Tigris tion Tiphsah told tomb took tower town Turkish valley village walls zaptieh Zerghul ziaret ziggurat
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الصفحة 192 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
الصفحة 347 - The best book on this subject that has yet been published, . . . for the reason that, as a record of facts, it is unusually full, and because it is the first comprehensive work in which, discarding all the old and worn-out nostrums about the existence on this continent of an extinct civilization, we are brought face to face with conclusions that are based upon a careful comparison of architectural and other prehistoric remains with the arts and industries, the manners and customs of ' the only people,...
الصفحة 139 - The bitumen used in the work was brought to Babylon from the Is, a small stream which flows into the Euphrates at the point where the city of the same name stands, eight days
الصفحة vi - We found that Nippur was a great and flourishing city, and its temple, the temple of Bel, the religious centre of the dominant people of the world at a period as much prior to the time of Abraham as the time of Abraham is prior to our own day. We discovered written records no less than six thousand years old, and proved that writing and civilisation were then by no means in their infancy.
الصفحة 136 - Directly behind the town are two springs within thirty feet of one another, from one of which flows hot water, black with bitumen, while the other discharges intermittently bitumen, or, after a rainstorm, bitumen and cold water.
الصفحة 273 - ART. 13. The antiquities discovered without permit are confiscated, and if the excavator has already disposed of them he will pay their value. ART. 14. The antiquities which may be discovered by accident in digging the foundations of a building, or of a wall, or of a sewer shall be divided in equal parts between the owner of...
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الصفحة 139 - ... springs throwing out abundantly a kind of black substance, like unto tar and pitch, which serveth all the countries thereabouts to make staunch their barks and boats, every one of which springs maketh a noise like a smith's forge in puffing and blowing out the matter, which never ceaseth night nor day, and the noise is heard a mile off, swallowing up all weighty things that come upon it. The Moors call it
الصفحة 276 - ART. 32. The granting of the official permission to export antiquities into foreign countries, though reserved to the ministry of public instruction with the consent of the director of the museum, is subject to the following conditions...
الصفحة 348 - With maps and plans. 8vo ...... $2.50 " Gaston Boisser is a refreshing writer with whom to travel He gives us ideas and improves our knowledge, while improving his own, and adds to the treasures of his memory what can be gained by direct contract with events and even with ruins ; . . . particularly interesting and valuable are the notes to be found in his archaeological rambles.