The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . which are known by the name of Mugheir, or the bitumened.^ Here, on a dead flat, broken onlyby a few sand-hills, are traces of a considerable town,consisting chiefly of a series of low mounds, disposedin an oval shape, the largest diameter of which runsfrom north to south, and measures somewhat morethan half a mile. The chief building is a temple, ^ In three out of these four cases,the similarity of the name forms asufficient ground for the ident
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . which are known by the name of Mugheir, or the bitumened.^ Here, on a dead flat, broken onlyby a few sand-hills, are traces of a considerable town,consisting chiefly of a series of low mounds, disposedin an oval shape, the largest diameter of which runsfrom north to south, and measures somewhat morethan half a mile. The chief building is a temple, ^ In three out of these four cases,the similarity of the name forms asufficient ground for the identifica-tion. In the fourth case the chiefground of identification is a statementin the Talmud that Nopher was thesite of the Calneh of Nimrod. Sippara is the Scriptiiral Sephar-vaim. The Hebrew term has adual ending, because there were two Sipparas, one on either side of theriver. ^ Sir H. Eawlinson, in the Journalof the Geographical Society, p. 185. 2 Mr. Taylor, in the Journal ofthe Asiatic Society, vol. xv. p. H. Eawlinson prefers the deri-vation of Ihn-qir, the mother ofbitumen. Chap. L CHIEF CITIES—TTR, NOW MUGHEIR. 21. --^^: //V / / % ^ ^ * ^v WW III< < , I I 5 I 1 I 1 W W
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