139.

16 (p. 72). Ibid., Vol. V., p. 16.

17 (p. 72). Quoted in Records of the Past, Vol. III., p. 143, from the
Translations of the Society of Biblical Archeology, vol. II., p. 58.

18 (p. 73). Records of the Past, vol. L, p. 131.

19 (p. 73). Ibid., vol. V., p. 171.

20 (p. 74). Ibid., vol. V., p. 169.

21 (p. 74). Joachim Menant, La Bibliotheque du Palais de Ninive, Paris,
1880.

22 (p. 76). Code of Khamurabi. This famous inscription is on a block of
black diorite nearly eight feet in height. It was discovered at Susa by
the French expedition under M. de Morgan, in December, 1902. We quote
the translation given in The Historians' History of the World, edited by
Henry Smith Williams, London and New York, 1904, Vol. I, p. 510.

23 (p. 77). The Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus, p. 519.

24 (p. 82). George S. Goodspeed, Ph.D., History of the Babylonians and
Assyrians, New York, 1902.

25 (p. 82). George Rawlinson, Great Oriental Monarchies, (second
edition, London, 1871), Vol. III., pp. 75 ff.

Of the books mentioned above, that of Hommel is particularly full in
reference to culture development; Goodspeed's small volume gives an
excellent condensed account; the original documents as translated in
the various volumes of Records of the Past are full of interest; and
Menant's little book is altogether admirable. The work of excavation
is still going on in old Babylonia, and newly discovered texts add
from time to time to our knowledge, but A. H. Layard's Nineveh and its
Remains (London, 1849) still has importance as a record of the most
important early discoveries. The general histories of Antiquity of
Duncker, Lenormant, Maspero, and Meyer give full treatment of Babylonian
and Assyrian development. Special histories of Babylonia and Assyria,
in addition to these named above, are Tiele's Babylonisch-Assyrische
Geschichte (Zwei Tiele, Gotha, 1886-1888); Winckler's Geschichte
Babyloniens und Assyriens (Berlin, 1885-1888), and Rogers' History of
Babylonia and Assyria, New York and London, 1900, the last of which,
however, deals almost exclusively with political history. Certain phases
of science, particularly with reference to chronology and cosmology, are
treated by Edward Meyer (Geschichte des Alterthum, Vol. I., Stuttgart,
1884), and by P. Jensen (Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, Strassburg,
1890), but no comprehensive specific treatment of the subject in its
entirety has yet been attempted.

CHAPTER IV