. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . identi-fication with the Accad of Genesis x. 10 (cf. G. Smith, Assyrian Discoveries, p. 225, note 1) and withthe Akkad of native tradition. This opinion has been generally abandoned by Assyriologists (, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, 2nd edit., p. 73 ; Lehmann, Schamaschschu-muMnKonig von Babylonien, p. 73), and Agane has not yet found a site. Was it only a name for Babylon? Sippara of Shamash and Sippara of Anunit are usually identified with the Sepharvaim of the TRIBES BORDERING ON CHALD2EA. 568 ■Chaldcean civilizat
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . identi-fication with the Accad of Genesis x. 10 (cf. G. Smith, Assyrian Discoveries, p. 225, note 1) and withthe Akkad of native tradition. This opinion has been generally abandoned by Assyriologists (, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, 2nd edit., p. 73 ; Lehmann, Schamaschschu-muMnKonig von Babylonien, p. 73), and Agane has not yet found a site. Was it only a name for Babylon? Sippara of Shamash and Sippara of Anunit are usually identified with the Sepharvaim of the TRIBES BORDERING ON CHALD2EA. 568 ■Chaldcean civilization was confined almost entirely to the two banks of theLower Euphrates : except at its northern boundary, it did not reach the Tigris,and did not cross this river. Separated from the rest of the world—on the eastby the marshes which border the river in its lower course, on the north by thebadly watered and sparsely inhabited table-land of Mesopotamia, on the westby the Arabian desert—it was able to develop its civilization, as Egypt had. done, in an isolated area, and to follow out its destiny in peace. The onlypoint from which it might anticipate serious danger was on the east, whencethe Kashshi and the Elamites, organized into military states, incessantlyharassed it year after year by their attacks. The Kashshi were scarcelybetter than half-civilized mountain hordes, but the Elamites were advanced incivilization, and their capital, Susa, vied with the richest cities of the Euphrates,Uru and Babylon, in antiquity and magnificence. There was nothing seriousto fear from the Guti, on the branch of the Tigris to the north-east, or fromthe Shuti to the north of these ; they were merely marauding tribes, and, howevertroublesome they might be to their neighbours in their devastating incursions,they could not compromise the existence of the country, or bring it into Bible (2 Kings xvii. 24,31), but the identification lias been rejected by Halévy, Notes Assyriologiques,in Zeits
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