Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . chantments were exhibited by a class of men, in the form of bowls of terra cotta,of which he exhumed specimens, which bear inscriptions in an ancient, mixed, andpartly inexplicable character. Several of these ancient divining-bowls were disinterred])y him among the ruins of Babylon, and deposited, on his return, in the Britishmuseum, where the inscriptions h
Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . chantments were exhibited by a class of men, in the form of bowls of terra cotta,of which he exhumed specimens, which bear inscriptions in an ancient, mixed, andpartly inexplicable character. Several of these ancient divining-bowls were disinterred])y him among the ruins of Babylon, and deposited, on his return, in the Britishmuseum, where the inscriptions have been, essentially, interpreted. The following cut of one of these antique vessels will present the subject more fullyto the eye. (Layard, p. 513.) To show the state of mans intellectual idiosyncraciesat the period of its Chaldfjean phasis, the interpretation of the inscription of bowl No. 1,is added, as given by the learned and ingenious Mr. Thomas Ellis, of the manuscriptdepartment of the British Museum. The letters, so far as they have been deciphered,appear to be an admixture of the Syriac and Palmyrine. Discoveriea among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, N. Y., Tutnam, 1853; 1 vol., 8vo., p. G86, with plates. AND MAGIC. 493. Antique Sorcerers Bowl, from the Ruins of Babylon. Diameter, 6 inches; depth, 3 inches. The deciphered inscription reads thus : — This is a bill of divorce to the devil, and to ... , and to Satan, and to Nerig, andto Zachiah, and to Abitur of the mountain, and to ... , and to the night-monsters,commanding them to cease from Beheran in Batnaiun, and from the country of thenorth, and from all who are tormented by them therein. Behold, I make the counselsof these devils of no effect, and annul the power of the ruler of the night-monsters(Liluth). I conjure you all, monsters . . both male and female, to go forth. I con-jure you and ... by the sceptre of the powerful one, who has power over the devils,and power over the night-monsters, to quit these ha
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