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Title: The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee
Subjects: Cuneiform writing Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian Assyria -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge New York : E. S. Gorham
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y been excavatingfor the British Museum in Assyria, will have donesomething to retrieve the archaeological good name ofour British excavators in the East. M. de Sarzecsexcavations at Tello in Southern Babylonia were alsoconducted with some consideration for archaeologicalmethod, at all events on the architectural side, and inthe capable hands of M. Heuzey the works of art foundthere have been made to yield valuable results.Moreover, the history of Tello may be said to be com-prised in a single epoch of archaic Babylonia, and allobjects discovered on the site may consequently beregarded as belonging to one age and phase of Baby-lonian civilization. Of the American excavations atNiffer it is difficult to speak at present. The workthere has been careful and patient, and has extendedover a long series of years. The architectural factshave been accurately recorded, at all events in thecase of the great temple of Bel, and about the sequenceof the inscribed monuments there is little room for
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THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS 41 doubt. But accusations of carelessness have latelybeen brought by the excavators one against the other,and when we find the sharpest critic among themunable to substantiate his own account of the dis-covery of a library and implicitly endorsing theassignment of a Parthian palace to the Mykenaean age, it is impossible to put much faith in their descrip-tions of archaeological details. Some years ago theGermans explored a cemetery at El-Hibba with con-siderable care and thoroughness, and thus revealed tous pretty much all we know at present about Baby-lonian funereal customs; yet here again too littleattention was paid to the pottery, and the actual dateof the cemetery is still uncertain. It may belong tothe Babylonian period, but it may also not be olderthan the Persian or even Parthian age. The Germans are once more working in the landsof the Euphrates and Tigris, but in Babylonia theirlabours have been mainly confined to the Babylon ofNebuchadrezzar, w

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