. Babel and Bible;. Fig. 7. Seal of Sargon I. (Third or fourth millennium B. C.) a genuine treasure of the British Museum. Here is thestate seal of one of the oldest known Babylonian rulers,Shargani-shar-ali, or Sargon I., who flourished in thethird, or possibly the fourth, millennium before Christ 10 BABEL AND BIBLE. (Fig. 7). This king, as the legend rnns, knew not hisown father, the latter having met his death prior to thebirth of his son; and since the fathers brother cared not. ElamiteBabylonian merchant Fig- Jew of Lachish Racial Types. IsraeliteArab horseman for the widowed mother, grea
. Babel and Bible;. Fig. 7. Seal of Sargon I. (Third or fourth millennium B. C.) a genuine treasure of the British Museum. Here is thestate seal of one of the oldest known Babylonian rulers,Shargani-shar-ali, or Sargon I., who flourished in thethird, or possibly the fourth, millennium before Christ 10 BABEL AND BIBLE. (Fig. 7). This king, as the legend rnns, knew not hisown father, the latter having met his death prior to thebirth of his son; and since the fathers brother cared not. ElamiteBabylonian merchant Fig- Jew of Lachish Racial Types. IsraeliteArab horseman for the widowed mother, great affliction attended the sonsentrance into this world; we read: In Azupiran, on BABEL AND BIBLE. 11 the banks of the Euphrates, she bore me in concealment;she placed me in a box of reeds, sealed my door withpitch, and cast me upon the river, which conveyed me onits waves to Akki, the water-carrier. He took me up inthe kindness of his heart, reared me as his own child,made me his gardener. Then Ishtar, the daughter of theKing of Heaven, showed fondness for me and made meking over men. And not only kings and generals, but also entire na-tions, have been brought to life again by these discov-eries. If we compare the various types of nationalityengraved on the monuments of Assyrian art, and, takingfor example two types that we know, here scrutinise thepicture of a Jew of Lachish (Fig. 8), and here the repre-sentation of an Israelite of the time of Jehu, we are notlikely to be w
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