. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . se such as men havesince known it. As in Egypt, the world was a kind of enclosed chamber 1 Tablet IV., 11. 99-106; cf. Satce, The Assyrian Story of the Creation, in the Records of the Past,2nd series, vol. i. pp. 139, 140 ; Jensen, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 284-287, and Delitzsch,Das Babrjlonische Weltschopfungsepos, pp. 10G, 107. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bas-relief at Koyunjik (Layard, The Monuments of Nineveh,2nd series, pi. 12, No. 2 ; cf. Place, Ninive et VAssyrie, pl. 44,,u a). Behind the Icufa may be seena fisherman seated
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . se such as men havesince known it. As in Egypt, the world was a kind of enclosed chamber 1 Tablet IV., 11. 99-106; cf. Satce, The Assyrian Story of the Creation, in the Records of the Past,2nd series, vol. i. pp. 139, 140 ; Jensen, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 284-287, and Delitzsch,Das Babrjlonische Weltschopfungsepos, pp. 10G, 107. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bas-relief at Koyunjik (Layard, The Monuments of Nineveh,2nd series, pi. 12, No. 2 ; cf. Place, Ninive et VAssyrie, pl. 44,,u a). Behind the Icufa may be seena fisherman seated astride on an inflated skin with his fish-basket attached to his neck. 3 Tablet IV., 11. 12G-136; cf. Sayce, The Assyrian Story of the Creation, in the Records of (he Past,2nd series, vol. i. pp. 141, 142 ; Jensen, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 276-289 ; and Delitzsch,Das Babylonische Weltscliopfungsepos, pp. 107-108. The story of the separation of Tiâmat into halvesfilled the end of Tablet IV. (cf. Jensen, Die Kosmologie, pp. 283, 289).. balanced on the bosom of the eternal The earth, which forms thelower part of it, or floor, is something like an overturned boat in appearance,and hollow underneath, not like one of the narrow skiffs in use among otherraces, but a kufa, or kind of semicircular boat such as the tribes of the LowerEuphrates have made use of from earliest antiquity down to our own earth rises gradually from the extremities to the centre, like a greatmountain, of which the snow-region, where the Euphrates finds its source,approximately marks the It was at first supposed to be divided intoseven zones, placed one on the top of the other along its sides, like the storiesof a temple ;4 later on it was divided into four houses, each of which, like the houses of Egypt, corresponded with one of the four cardinal points, and was 1 The description of the Egyptian world will be found on p. 16 of the present work. So far theonly systematic
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