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          id: 17150
      author: Hammurabi, King of Babylonia
       title: The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242
        date: None
       words: 17961
      flesch: 75
     summary: but father's property equally, 167. of bride and maid share equally, if latter acknowledged as sons in father's lifetime, former having preference, 170. otherwise, children of maid do not share, 171. of slave woman and free father are free, 171. of slave man and free mother are free, 175. If a man has taken on hire an unreclaimed field for three years to open out, and has left it aside, has not opened the field, in the fourth year he shall break it up with hoes, he shall hoe it, and harrow it, and return to the owner of the field, and he shall measure out ten _GUR_ of corn _per GAN_. section 45.
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 2030
      author: King, L. W. (Leonard William)
       title: Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition
        date: None
       words: 65295
      flesch: 64
     summary: I suggested the restoration _ki-rib �(a-ma-mi)_, in the midst of heaven, as possible, since the traces of the first sign in the last word of the line seemed to be those of the Neo-Babylonian form of _�a_. Other Hittite-Aramaean and Phoenician monuments, as yet undocumented with literary records, exhibit a strange but not unpleasing mixture of foreign _motifs_, such as we see on the stele from Amrith(1) in the inland district of Arvad.
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        item: #3 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.
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sure; surface; susiana; symbols; system; tablet; taste; taylor; tell; temple; terms; terra; texts; thanks; thebes; thick; thickness; things; thomas; thought; tigris; tiles; timber; time; tints; title; tombs; towers; town; trace; traditions; translation; traveller; travels; trees; triangular; tribes; true; turn; type; understood; units; unknown; upper; use; valley; value; varied; variety; vases; vast; vault; vertical; view; villages; visible; vol; volutes; walls; want; warka; water; way; wedge; western; white; wide; width; winged; wood; wooden; words; work; workmen; world; worship; writers; writing; years; yellow
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        item: #4 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: author; b.c; british; chaldaean; chapter; climate; ditto; history; iii; museum; page; phoenicia; plate; productions; religion; vii
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        item: #5 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.
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