. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . 123-135, and Essai de Commentaire, pp. 220-223> THE CITIES OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH. 561 were divided into two groups : one in the south, in the neighbourhood of thesea ; the other in a northern direction, in the region where the Euphr;ites andTigris are separated from each other by merely a narrow strip of land. Thesouthern group consisted of seven, of which Eridu lay nearest to the town stood on the left bank of the Euphrates, at a point which is nowcalled A little to the west, on the opposite bank, but at some. THE
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . 123-135, and Essai de Commentaire, pp. 220-223> THE CITIES OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH. 561 were divided into two groups : one in the south, in the neighbourhood of thesea ; the other in a northern direction, in the region where the Euphr;ites andTigris are separated from each other by merely a narrow strip of land. Thesouthern group consisted of seven, of which Eridu lay nearest to the town stood on the left bank of the Euphrates, at a point which is nowcalled A little to the west, on the opposite bank, but at some. THE SOW AND HER LITTER MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH A BED OF HEEDS. distance from the stream, the mound of Mugheîr marks the site of Uru, themost important, if not the oldest, of the southern Lagash occupied the where this idea is developed for the first time), is merely a mythological tradition, from which itwould be wrong to deduce historical conclusions (Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte, p. 101). 1 The majority of the commonly accepted identifications of the ancient names with the modernsites were due to the first Assyriologists—Hincks, Oppert, H. Rawlinson. As these identificationsare scattered among books not easily procured, I confine my references to works iu which Assyrio-logists of the second generation have collected them, and completed tliem by further research,especially to that of Fr. Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies ? and to that of Hommel, GetchichteBabyloniens und Assyriens, pp. 195-231, which contain such information in a couveuient form. 2 Eridu, shorte
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