. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . 11. 107-124) ; he carried away at the same time as prisoners to Assyria the Elamitegods and their priests (Rawlinson, Cun. Ins. W. As., vol. v. pi. 6,11. 30-47). 4 Cf. what is said above of the part played by Shamash as god of justice, p. 658 of this fragment of bilingual inscription of the time of Khammurabi, of which Amiaxjd has attwo differenttimes made a special study, Une inscription bilingue de Eammourabi, roi de Babylone, in the Becueilde Travaux, vol. i. pp. 181-190, and Inscription bilingue de Hammourabi, in the Bevue dAssyriol
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . 11. 107-124) ; he carried away at the same time as prisoners to Assyria the Elamitegods and their priests (Rawlinson, Cun. Ins. W. As., vol. v. pi. 6,11. 30-47). 4 Cf. what is said above of the part played by Shamash as god of justice, p. 658 of this fragment of bilingual inscription of the time of Khammurabi, of which Amiaxjd has attwo differenttimes made a special study, Une inscription bilingue de Eammourabi, roi de Babylone, in the Becueilde Travaux, vol. i. pp. 181-190, and Inscription bilingue de Hammourabi, in the Bevue dAssyriologie,vol. ii. pp. 4-19 (cf. Jensen, Inschriften ans der Begierungszeit Hammurab?s, in the EeilschriftliclieBibliothelc, vol. iii1. pp. 110-117), shows how the kings referred to the gods and took them as theirmodels in everything relating to conduct. The sacerdotal character of the Assyro-Babyloniansovereigns has been strongly insisted on by Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte, pp. 491, 492. TEE QUEENS AND TEE WOMEN OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. 707. THE E1XQ UltXINA BEARING THE * breast, the loin-cloth about their waist, advancing foremost in the rank, carry-ing the heavily laden kufa, or reed basket, as if they were ordinary slaves ;and, as a fact, they had for the moment put aside their sovereignty andwere merely temple servants, or slaves appearing before their divine masterto do his bidding, and disguising themselves for the nonce in the garb The wives ofthe sovereign do not seemto have been investedwith that semi-sacredcharacter which led theEgyptian women to beassociated twith the de-votions of the man, andmade them indispensableauxiliaries in all religiousceremonies;2 they did not,moreover, occupy that im-portant position side byside with the man whichthe Egyptian law assigned to the queens of the Pharaohs. Whereas the monuments on the banks of theNile reveal to us princesses sharing the throne of their husbands, whom theyembrace with a gesture of frank
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