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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

PREFACE
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184.
[7] Book I.( "Clio"), secs.

95, 102, 178-200.
[8] An instructive instance is furnished by the mention of a mystic personage, "Homoroka," which now turns out to be--as Professor J.H.
Wright has shown--a corruption of Marduk.

(See _Zeitschrift fuer Assyriologie_, x.

71-74.) [9] The excavations are still being continued, thanks to the generosity of some public-spirited citizens of Philadelphia.
[10] The parties concerned rolled their cylinders over the clay tablet recording a legal or commercial transaction.
[11] Besides those at Persepolis, a large tri-lingual inscription was found at Behistun, near the city of Kirmenshah, in Persia, which, containing some ninety proper names, enabled Sir Henry Rawlinson definitely to establish a basis for the decipherment of the Mesopotamian inscriptions.
[12] The best account is to be found in Hommel's _Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens_, pp.

58-134.


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