item: #1 of 5
          id: 12248
      author: Walton, O. F., Mrs.
       title: The King's Cup-Bearer
        date: None
       words: 50405
      flesch: 80
     summary: Bodily strength then is beyond the reach of many men; weak they were born, weak they live, and weak they will die, nothing will alter or improve them. 'They were counted faithful,' and as faithful men they could be thoroughly depended upon.
    keywords: children; city; cry; day; days; gate; god; good; hand; holy; jerusalem; jews; king; life; like; lord; man; master; men; nehemiah; people; place; prayer; round; sabbath; sanballat; sin; strength; temple; thy; time; wall; words; work; world
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 28072
      author: Perrot, Georges
       title: A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
        date: None
       words: 131327
      flesch: 70
     summary: _ vol. _ vol.
    keywords: architecture; arrangement; art; assyrian; babylon; bas; base; brick; british; bronze; buildings; case; chaldæa; character; city; civilization; columns; country; course; day; decoration; discoveries; doubt; egypt; feet; fig; figures; find; form; fragments; general; gods; great; hand; height; history; i. p.; illustration; inches; inscriptions; khorsabad; kind; king; layard; left; life; light; loftus; m. place; man; material; means; mesopotamia; monuments; museum; nimroud; nineveh; ninive; palaces; people; place; plan; point; question; relief; remains; royal; ruins; second; section; square; stone; system; temple; time; upper; use; vault; vol; walls; work
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 28871
      author: Rawlinson, George
       title: The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Asian World A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions
        date: None
       words: 1118
      flesch: 83
     summary: CHAPTER I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTRY CHAPTER II. CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS CHAPTER III. Nebo (drawn by the Author from a statue in the British Museum) Page 99 Page 113�Table of Chaldaean Kings Assyria THE SECOND MONARCHY CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY CHAPTER II. CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS CHAPTER III.
    keywords: chapter; ditto; page; phoenicia; plate
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 37411
      author: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
       title: A Primer of Assyriology
        date: None
       words: 22232
      flesch: 64
     summary: The religions of Babylonia and Assyria--Differences between Babylonian and Assyrian religion--Sumerian religion Shamanistic-- Two centres of Babylonian religion--Semitic influence--The goddess Istar--Bel-Merodach--Other deities--Sacred books and ritual--The Priests--The Temples--Astro-theology--Sacrifices and offerings--The Sabbath--Monotheistic tendency--The future life--Cosmology 80 CHAPTER V BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE Aids to the reading of the texts--The libraries--Varieties of literature--The texts autotypes--Astronomy--Mathematics--Medicine and law--History and mythology--The Chaldaean epic and the Deluge--Epic of the Creation 95 CHAPTER VI SOCIAL LIFE The Contract-tablets--Married Life--Burial--Slavery--Lowness of Wages--Property--Taxes--Prices--Usury--The Army--Navy--The Bureaucracy 109 APPENDIX Assyrian Measures of Length--Measures of Capacity--Measures of Weight and Coinage--The Months of the Year 118 Babylonian Kings--Assyrian Kings--High Priests of Assur--Kings of Assyria 120 Synchronisms between Assyrian and Biblical History 125 The Principal Deities of Babylonia and Assyria 126 A PRIMER OF ASSYRIOLOGY CHAPTER I THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE Geography.--The civilizations of Babylonia and Assyria grew up on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. Hincks also discovered the name of Nebuchadrezzar in the Babylonian inscriptions, and by the further discovery that an inscription brought from Babylon by Sir Robert Ker-Porter, which was written in the complicated characters of early Babylonia, was a duplicate of one in the 'Neo-Babylonian' characters of the Achaemenian era, he made it possible to read the oldest forms of Babylonian script.
    keywords: assur; assyrian; b.c; babylonia; bel; characters; country; cuneiform; decipherment; dynasty; empire; god; inscriptions; king; language; later; merodach; names; nineveh; pal; pileser; religion; sargon; semitic; sennacherib; son; texts; tiglath; time; years
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 6559
      author: Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)
       title: Assyrian Historiography: A Source Study
        date: None
       words: 24043
      flesch: 76
     summary: Sargon_, II. 44; 1. 186 ff.; _ [Footnote: Scheil, _Annales de Tukulti Ninip_ II, 1909; cf.
    keywords: account; annals; ashur; assyrian; budge; date; document; edition; expedition; footnote; history; iii; inscriptions; king; reign; sargon; smith; source; tablet; winckler; year
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