The dawn of civilization- Egypt and Chaldaea (1897) (14577447057)

Identifier: dawnofcivilizati01masp (find matches)
Title: The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: Civilization
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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resent them, are arranged in an apparent orbitaround these—such as the Scorpion, the Bird,the Dog, the Thunderbolt of Eamman, the mace,the horned monsters, half hidden by the templesthey guard, and the enormous Dragon who em-braces in his folds,half the entire firmament. Ifever, in the course of days, any one of thebrothers, children, family, men or women, slaves orservants of the house, or any governor or functionarywhatsoever, arises and intends to steal this field, andremove this landmark, either to make a gift of it toa god, or to assign it to a competitor, or to appropriate it to himself ; if hemodifies the area of it, the limits and the landmark; if he divides it intoportions, and if he says: The field has no owner, since there has been nodonation of it ; —if, from dread of the terrible imprecations which protect thisstele and this field, he sends a fool, a deaf or blind person, a wicked wretch, anidiot, a stranger, or an ignorant one, and should cause this stele to be taken
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THE MICHAUX STOKE.2 1 The most ancient specimen of these landmarks is the Michaux Stone, of which Oppert wasthe first to recognize the nature and value ( Les Mesures de longueur chez les Chaldéens, in the BulletinArchéologique de lAthenseum Français, 1856, pp. 33-36) ; the generic name was kudurru, kuturru,which may be translated raised stone. The number of them at the present time is considerable.The translation of several will be found in Oppebt-Menant, Documents juridiques de lAssyrie et de laChaldée, pp. 81-138 ; and in Belsee, Babylonische Kudurru-Inschriften, in the Beitriige zur Assyriologie,vol. ii. pp. 111-203. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin; cf. Millin, Monuments inédits, vol. i. pis. vii., ix. The original isin the medal cabinet of the Bibliothèque Nationale (Chabouillet, Catalogue général, p. 109,No. 702). THE CULTURE OF TEE LAND. 763 away,1 and should throw it into the water, cover it with dust, mutilate it byscratching it with a stone, burn it in the fire and destroy i