. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ém. de la Fondation Piot, vol. i. pp. 7-20. - Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a stone in the Louvre (Sarzec, Découvertes, pl. 1 bis, No. 2). 3 For details as to the deities worshipped at Lagash, see Amiaud, Sirpurla, pp. 15-19. * I understand patesi to mean the same as ropait in Egyptian (cf. pp. 70, 71). The kingsused it as the Pharaohs used the title ropait : it was with them au affectation of antiquity. 5 Scheil, Notes dÉpigraphie et dArcliéologie Assyriennes, in the Recueil, vol. xviii. p. 63. s Heuzey and Thureau-Dangin, Le Cône historique d E


. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ém. de la Fondation Piot, vol. i. pp. 7-20. - Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a stone in the Louvre (Sarzec, Découvertes, pl. 1 bis, No. 2). 3 For details as to the deities worshipped at Lagash, see Amiaud, Sirpurla, pp. 15-19. * I understand patesi to mean the same as ropait in Egyptian (cf. pp. 70, 71). The kingsused it as the Pharaohs used the title ropait : it was with them au affectation of antiquity. 5 Scheil, Notes dÉpigraphie et dArcliéologie Assyriennes, in the Recueil, vol. xviii. p. 63. s Heuzey and Thureau-Dangin, Le Cône historique d Entéména, iu the Comptes rendus delAcadémie des Inscriptions, 189G, pp. 594, 596, and in the Bévue dAssyriologie, vol. iv. No. 2. refuges in case of attack. It had as its arms, or totem, a double-headed eaglestanding on a lion passant, or on two demi-lions placed back to Itschief god was called Ningirsu, that is, the lord of Girsu, where his temple stood :his companion Bau, and his associates Ninagal, Innanna and Ninsia, were the. ■FRAGMENT OF A BAS-RELIEF BY URNINA, KING OF LAGASH. a more powerful king, the King of Uruk or of UENINA AND ID1N0IBANAGIN. G 05 dug the canal which supplied the town of Nina with A few generationslater we find the ruling authority in the hands of a certain Urninâ, whose fatherNinigaldun and grandfather Gurshar received no titles—a fact which proves that


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