Ancient Babylonia / by C.H.W. Johns.

  • Claude Hermann Walter Johns
Date:
1913
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Credit: Ancient Babylonia / by C.H.W. Johns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III EARLY RULERS IN BABYLONIA It seems probable that our earliest monuments belong to the kingdoms of the North, where Kish, Opis, Akkad, and possibly Kazallu, struggled for supremacy. We may begin there. The lack of systematic excavations at the sites of these Northern cities prevents any attempt at consecutive history. In fact, the chief witness to the existence of the Northern powers comes from records left by their invasions of the South. It is generally agreed that the most ancient historical record we possess is preserved on three fragments of a vase of dark brown sandstone found at Nippur, below the chambers of the great temple of Ellil, on the S.E. side of the temple tower. This situation and the extremely archaic nature of the characters attest the highest antiquity. We learn that Utug, a patesi of Kish, son of Bazuzu, had dedicated the vase to Zamama to commemorate the conquest of Khamazi. A colossal macehead found at Lagash was dedi- cated by Mesilim, king of Kish, to the city god of Lagash when Lugal-shag-engur was its patesi.
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