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Title: The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fallows, Samuel, 1835-1922 Zenos, Andrew C. (Andrew Constantinides), 1855-1942, joint ed Willett, Herbert L. (Herbert Lockwood), 1864-1944, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Chicago : The Howard-Severance company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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An Assyrian Book.(From the original in the British Museum). (5) Cylinder. The second valuable discoveryI made at Koyunjik was a perfect ten-sided terra-cotta cylinder, with 1,300 lines of fine inscriptions detailing the conquests of Assur-bani-pal. It wasby a mere chance that this unique historical rec-ord was discovered, because, generally speaking,Sir Henry Layard and I did not think it necessaryto waste our time and money in digging thick,solid brick walls to no purpose. But I was askedby the overseer superintending the work in thepalace of Assur-bani-pal if he should remove asmall remnant of brick wall, which was left indigging out two chambers, or leave it to be cov-ered with rubbish which came out of the excava-tions. On seeing that its removal would not en-tail much expense I ordered it to be pulled down,and I was glad to find that the little labor andexpense had gained us that most valuable recordof Assyrian history. It was found built insidethe solid brick wall. There were fo

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