. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ennes, pp. 133,134. * It follows from the inscriptions of Gudea that the cedars and other building timber requiredfor the temples came from the Amanus (Statue B, col. v. 1. 28, et seq. ; Amiattd, The Inscriptions ofTelloh, in the Records of the Past, 2nd series, vol. ii. p. 79), and the length of the beams proves thatthey must have come by water, in the form of rafts. The mountains of Phoenicia, the Lebanon andAnti-Lebanon, furnished the various kinds of stone employed for the facing of the walls, or for theframework of the doors (id., col. vi.
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ennes, pp. 133,134. * It follows from the inscriptions of Gudea that the cedars and other building timber requiredfor the temples came from the Amanus (Statue B, col. v. 1. 28, et seq. ; Amiattd, The Inscriptions ofTelloh, in the Records of the Past, 2nd series, vol. ii. p. 79), and the length of the beams proves thatthey must have come by water, in the form of rafts. The mountains of Phoenicia, the Lebanon andAnti-Lebanon, furnished the various kinds of stone employed for the facing of the walls, or for theframework of the doors (id., col. vi. 11. 5-20 ; cf. Heuzey-Sarîîkc, Découvertes, pp. ). 3 If the mountains of Tilla (Amiaud, Inscriptions of Telloh, in the Records of the Fast, 2nd series,vol. ii. p. 80, note 1) may be placed near the town of Tela, or the mountains which separate theUpper Tigris from the Middle Euphrates, it was by means of the Shatt-el-Haî that the timber ofthis region mentioned on Statue B of Gudea, col. v. 1. 53, et acq., must have been brought MARITIME COMMERCE OF URU. 615 traded with the ports on its coast. Eridu, the only city which could havebarred their access to the sea, was a town given up to religion, and existedonly for its temples and its It was not long before it fell underthe influence of its powerful neighbour, becoming the first port of call forvessels proceeding up the Euphrates. In the time of the Greeks and Komans
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