The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ed by Quatrepages-Hamy, Crania Ethnica, pp. 152, 166, has been proved, in the course ofM. Dieulafoys expedition to the Susian plains and the ancient provinces of Elam, by the researchesof Fr. Houssay, Les Races humaines de la Perse, pp. 28-45, 48; cf. Diedlafoy, LAcropole de Suse,pp. 7, 8, 10, 11, 27-33, 30, 37. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bas-relief of Sargon II. in the Louvre. v-^ dh AN ANCIENT SUSIAN OP NEGEITIU THE PEOPLES AND THE CITIES OF EL AM. 33 for instance, if it is permissible to use a vague term employed by th
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ed by Quatrepages-Hamy, Crania Ethnica, pp. 152, 166, has been proved, in the course ofM. Dieulafoys expedition to the Susian plains and the ancient provinces of Elam, by the researchesof Fr. Houssay, Les Races humaines de la Perse, pp. 28-45, 48; cf. Diedlafoy, LAcropole de Suse,pp. 7, 8, 10, 11, 27-33, 30, 37. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bas-relief of Sargon II. in the Louvre. v-^ dh AN ANCIENT SUSIAN OP NEGEITIU THE PEOPLES AND THE CITIES OF EL AM. 33 for instance, if it is permissible to use a vague term employed by the Ancients.^ Semites of the same stock as those of Chaldcea pushed forward as far as the east bank of the Tigris, and settling mainly among the marshes led a precarious life by fishing and pillaging.^ The country ij of the plain was called Anziin, or Anshan,^ - and the mountain region Numma, or Ilamma, the high lands : these two names were subsequently used to denote the whole country, and Ilamma has sur- • ,, vived in the Hebrew word Elam.^ Susa, the. NATIVE OP MIXED XEfiKITIC RACE FliOJI SUSIANA. most important and flourishing town in thekingdom, was situated between the Ulai andthe Ididi, some twenty-five or thirty miles from the nearest of the mountain 1 This last-mentioneil people is, by some authors, for reasons which, so far, Ciin Iiardly be con-sidered conclusive, connected with the so-called Sumerian race, which we find settled in ChaldiSii(cf. Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, pp. 550, 551). They are said to have been the first to employhorses and chariots in warfare (Billerbeck, Susa, p. 24). = From the earliest times we meet beyond the Tigris with names like that of Durilu (cf Maspero,Dawn of Civilization, p. 598), a fact which proves the existence of races speaking a Semitic dialect inthe countries under the suzerainty of the King of Elam: in the last days of the Chaldajan empire they hadassumed such importance that the Hebrews made out Elam to be one of the sous of
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