The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . It isnot favorable to legibility; and the patience of cuneiformscholars has been severely tried by a mode of writing whichsacrifices everything to the desire of crowding the greatest pos-sible quantity of words into the smallest possible space. Inone respect, however, facility of reading is consulted, for theinscriptions on the cylinders are not carried on in continuouslines round all the sides, but are w
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . It isnot favorable to legibility; and the patience of cuneiformscholars has been severely tried by a mode of writing whichsacrifices everything to the desire of crowding the greatest pos-sible quantity of words into the smallest possible space. Inone respect, however, facility of reading is consulted, for theinscriptions on the cylinders are not carried on in continuouslines round all the sides, but are written in columns, each col-umn occupying a side. The lines are thus tolerably short;and the whole of a sentence is brought before the eye at slabs and cylinders, the written memorials of As-syria comprise inscribed buUs and lions, stone obelisks, clay tab-lets, bricks, and engraved seals. The seals generally resemblethose of the Chaldaeans, which have been already described;«but are somewhat more elaborate, and more varied in theircharacter. [PI. XXXIX., Fig. 2.] They do not very often ex-hibit any writing; but occasionally they are inscribed with Vol Fig . Plate XLVII. No. I.—Assyrian Altar (?),from u bas-relief,
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