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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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