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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tuary of Ra, and tliere contemplated the god face to face. The rite wasprobably repeated annually (Lehmann, Scliamaschschumuhin, pp. 51, 53; Wincklek, Studien undBeiirdge, in the Zeitschrift filr Assyriologie, vol. ii. pp. 303, 304, and Untersuchungen zur Allorienta-Uscher Geschichte, p. 85), at the time of the Zakmuku, that is, tlie New Year festival. - Cf. Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, p. 597. According to Nabonidos and his contemporaries,Sargon and Narainsin were kings of Babylon (Eawlinson, Oun. Ins. W. As., vol. i. pi. G9, col. ii.pp. 29, 30). This region, which comprises the second and third zones into which the country lying betweenthe Tigris and Euphrates may be divided, has been admirably depicted by Oliviek, Voyage dansIEmpire Othoman, VEgypte, la Perse, vol. ii. pp. 419-422 ; we are indebted to modern travellers forprecise details, but not any of them has studied the country with the method and power ofgeneralisation displayed by Olivier. THE EnPHllATES AND MESOPOTAMIA. 25
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TUE I;ANK.S or the EUIUKATES at zuleileii. in the two cliffs, or where they recede from the river, a series of shadufstakes possession of the bank, and every inch of the soil is brought undercultivation.^ The aspect of the country remains unchanged as far as theembouchure of the Khabur; but there a black alluvial soil replaces thesaliferous clay, and if only the water were to remain on the land in suffi-cient quantity, the country would be unrivalled in the world for the abundanceand variety of its crops. The fields, which are regularly sown in the neigh-bourhood of the small towns, yield magnificent harvests of wheat and barley :while in the prairie-land beyond the cultivated ground the grass grows so highthat it comes up to the horses girths. In some places the meadows are socovered with varieties of flowers, growing in dense masses, that the effectproduced is that of a variegated carpet; dogs sent in among them in searchof game, emerge covered with red, blue, and yellow pollen.* Th

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