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HISTORY OF EGYPT

CHALDEA, SYRIA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA



By G. MASPERO,

Honorable Doctor of Civil Laws, and Fellow of Queen's College,
Oxford; Member of the Institute and Professor at the College of France



Edited by A. H. SAYCE,
Professor of Assyriology, Oxford

Translated by M. L. McCLURE,
Member of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund



CONTAINING OVER TWELVE HUNDRED COLORED PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS



Volume VII.



LONDON
THE GROLIER SOCIETY
PUBLISHERS



Frontispiece
Slumber Song—After painting bv P. Grot. Johann


Titlepage





CONTENTS

CHAPTER I—THE ASSYRIAN REVIVAL AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SYRIA

CHAPTER II—TIGLATH-PILESER III. AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE ASSYRIAN

CHAPTER III—SARGON OF ASSYRIA (722-705 B.C.)






List of Special Images and Color Plates

No. 1. Enameled Brick (nimrod). No. 2. Fragment Of Mural Painting (nimrod).

Temple of Khaldis at Muzazir

Sacrifice Offered by Shalmaneser III.

Costumes Found in the Fifth Tomb

Prayer at Sunset

Tiglath-pileser III. In his State Chariot

Picture in the Hall of The Harps In The Fifth Tomb

Manuscript on Papyrus in Hieroglyphics

The Sword Dance

IaubÎdi of Hamath Being Flayed Alive.

Taking of the City Of KishÎsim by The Assyrians

Bird's Eye View of Sargon's Palace At Dur-sharrukîn




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