. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . cit., pp. 373, 374, 377, 378) the firstversion would date back beyond the XXth century, to the reign of Khammurabi ; according toJensen (Die Kosmologie der Babi/lonier, pp. 319, 320), beyond the XXX century before our era. 2 Sayce (The Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, pp. 378-391-393) thinks that the myth originatedat , on the shores of the Persian Gulf, and afterwards received its present form at Babylon,where the local schools of theology adapted it to the god Merodach. 3 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an Assyrian bas-relief from Nimrû
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . cit., pp. 373, 374, 377, 378) the firstversion would date back beyond the XXth century, to the reign of Khammurabi ; according toJensen (Die Kosmologie der Babi/lonier, pp. 319, 320), beyond the XXX century before our era. 2 Sayce (The Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, pp. 378-391-393) thinks that the myth originatedat , on the shores of the Persian Gulf, and afterwards received its present form at Babylon,where the local schools of theology adapted it to the god Merodach. 3 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an Assyrian bas-relief from Nimrûd (Layaiïd, The Monumentsof Nineveh, 2nd series, pi. 6, No. 1). 1 The tablets in which it is preserved for us come partly from the library of Assurbanipal atNineveh, partly from that of the temple of Nebo at Borsippa ; these latter are more recent than theothers, and seem to have been written during the period of the Persian supremacy (Sayce, TheAssyrian Story of the Creation, in the Records of the Past, 2nd series, vol. i. p. 142, note 3).. 548 ANCIENT CEALB2EA. the dry laud on a low, marshy, alluvial soil, flooded annually by the riverswhich traverse it, devastated at long intervals by tidal waves of extra-ordinary The Euphrates and the Tigris cannot be regarded asmysterious streams like the Nile, whose source so long defied exploration thatpeople were tempted to place it beyond the regions inhabited by former rise in Armenia, on the slopes of the Niphates, one of the chainsof mountains which lie between the Black Sea and Mesopotamia, and theonly range which at certain points reaches the line of eternal snow. At firstthey flow parallel to one another, the Euphrates from east to west as far asMalatiyeh, the Tigris from the west towards the east in the direction ofAssyria. Beyond Malatiyeh, the Euphrates bends abruptly to the south-west,and makes its way across the Taurus as though desirous of reaching the Medi-terranean by the shortest route,3 but it soon
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