. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . RAJIMANARMED WITH AN 1 Rawlinson, TP. A. Insc, vol. iv. pi. 28, No. 2, 11. 12-15; cf. Fit. Lenormant, Les PremièresCivilisations, vol. ii. p. 192, and Satoe, The Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, p. 500. 1 Tiglath-pileser I., conqueror of the Kumani, made one of these swords, which he calls acopper lightning flash, and he dedicated it, as a trophy of his victory, in a chapel built on the ruiusof one of the vanquished cities (Prism of Tiglath-pileser 1., col. vi. 11. 15-21). 3 Cf. the curse pronounced by Tiglath-pileser I. at the end of
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . RAJIMANARMED WITH AN 1 Rawlinson, TP. A. Insc, vol. iv. pi. 28, No. 2, 11. 12-15; cf. Fit. Lenormant, Les PremièresCivilisations, vol. ii. p. 192, and Satoe, The Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, p. 500. 1 Tiglath-pileser I., conqueror of the Kumani, made one of these swords, which he calls acopper lightning flash, and he dedicated it, as a trophy of his victory, in a chapel built on the ruiusof one of the vanquished cities (Prism of Tiglath-pileser 1., col. vi. 11. 15-21). 3 Cf. the curse pronounced by Tiglath-pileser I. at the end of his Prism (col. viii. 11. 83-88), inthe name of Ramman, worshipped in the royal city of Ashshur. 4 The character of Ramman was fully defined in the works of the early Assyriologists (H. Raw-mnson, On the Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians, pp. 497-500 ; Fr. Lenormant, Essai decommentaire sur Bérose, pp. 93-95). 5 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a sketch by Loftus, Travels and Researches in Clialdxa andSusiana, p. 258. The original, a smal
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