The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . al Asiatique, 1883, vol. xx. pp. 231-244 : Jensen, Inschriften atts der Begierungszeit Hammu-rabis, in tbe Keiiinschriftliche Bibliotheh, vol. iii. pp. 106-109. The ordinary reading of tbe nameof the town in wbich Khammurabi built this temple is Zarilab or Zerlab (cf. Maspero. Dawn ofCivilization, p. 562); a text mentioned by Zimmern {Einige Bemerkungen zu den BabylonischenKOnigsinschriften, in tbe Zeiischrift fiir Assyriologie, vol. ii. p. 97) seems, however, to indicate Hallabias being the proper reading, and this has been adopted by
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . al Asiatique, 1883, vol. xx. pp. 231-244 : Jensen, Inschriften atts der Begierungszeit Hammu-rabis, in tbe Keiiinschriftliche Bibliotheh, vol. iii. pp. 106-109. The ordinary reading of tbe nameof the town in wbich Khammurabi built this temple is Zarilab or Zerlab (cf. Maspero. Dawn ofCivilization, p. 562); a text mentioned by Zimmern {Einige Bemerkungen zu den BabylonischenKOnigsinschriften, in tbe Zeiischrift fiir Assyriologie, vol. ii. p. 97) seems, however, to indicate Hallabias being the proper reading, and this has been adopted by Jensen. The town ought in that case tobe sought for in the neighbourhood of Sippara. Brick from Senkereh in the British Museum, Eawlinson, Cun. Itis. W. As., vol. i. pi. 4, 2; cf. Oppert, Expedition en M^fopotamie, vol. i. p. 257; Menant, Inscriptions de Hammourabi,pp. 68-71; Fr. Lenormant, Etudes Accadiennes, vol. ii. pp. 355, 356; Jensen, Inschriften aus derBegierungszeit Hammurabis, in tbe Keilintchriftliche Bibliotheh, vol. iii. pp. 110, KEAMMVRABI REGULATES TEE SYSTEM OF CANALIZATION. 43 he could count on their gratitude in securing for him the peoples obedience,and thus prevent the outbreak of a revolt. He had, indeed, before hima difficult task iu attempting to allay the ills which had been growingduring centuries of civil discord and foreign conquest. The irrigationof the country demanded constant attention, and fromearliest times its sovereigns had directed the workwith real solicitude; but owing to the breakingup of the country into small states, their respec-tive resources could not be combined iu suchgeneral operations as were needed for controllingthe inundations and effectually remedying the excessor the scarcity of water. Kliammurabi witnessed thedamage done to the whole province of Umliyash byone of those terrible floods which still sometimes ravagethe regions of the Lower Tigris,^ and possibly it may havebeen to prevent the recurrence of such a dis
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