| 1848 - 592 pages
...against it. Set the camp also against it round about." The method in Assyria of keeping records was upon bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. Numerous bricks bearing inscriptions were found among the ruins. And as further illustrative, the first... | |
| Paul Emile Botta - Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian - 1850 - 132 pages
...contain a tenth part of the vocables used in the inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia." Major RAWLINSON afterwards mentioned several " circumstances which...To this * Layard's "Nineveh," Vol. II., page 185. PREFACE. XI primitive custom of writing on hard substances the Old Testament frequently refers. Josephus*... | |
| Paul Emile Botta - Akkadian language - 1850 - 264 pages
...contain a tenth part of the vocables used in the inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia." Major RAWLINSON afterwards mentioned several "circumstances which...baked after the inscription was impressed."* To this * bayard's "Nineveh," Vol. II., page 185. primitive custom of writing on hard substances the Old Testament... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1852 - 548 pages
...and to place * Ezek. hi. 14-21. f " The most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylonia was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. The characters appear to have been formed by an instrument, or may sometimes have been stamped. The... | |
| Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 940 pages
...of Europe. - The most common mode," says Mr. Layard, " of keepins records in Assvria and Babylonia was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. The characters appear to have been formed by an instrument, or may sometimes have been stamped. The... | |
| William Turner Coggeshall - Gas manufacture and works - 1861 - 752 pages
...and other tiles, of which he says, " The most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylon was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed;" — this impression must not be mistaken for the application of a stamp ; it is effected by the use... | |
| Mary Fawler Maude - 1862 - 610 pages
...— REV. S. S. WILSON'S Maltii. " The most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylonia was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. The characters appear to have been formed by an instrument, or may sometimes have been stamped. The... | |
| Gas-lighting - 1864 - 494 pages
...and other tiles, of which he says, " The most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylon was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed;" — this impression must not be mistaken for the application of a stamp ; it is effected by the use... | |
| Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1865 - 488 pages
...the common mode of keeping records of national and historical events was by stamping the words upon bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. Mr. Layard, in the course of his excavations at Nineveh, found many specimens of these records, most... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1849 - 604 pages
...appear to have been employed. ' But the most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylonia was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. The characters appear to have been formed by an instrument, or may sometimes have been stamped. The... | |
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