[7] See Petrie, The Palace of Apries, London, 1909.

[8] See Petrie, Hyksos and the Israelite Cities, p. 191, ff.

[9] See Annals of Archæology and Anthropology, VII, Liverpool, 1914, pp. 1-10.

[10] So called from the name of the mountain on which it is written.

[11] First published by Hilprecht, Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, Vol. XX, No. 47; cf. p. 46.

[12] See Poebel, Historical and Grammatical Texts, Philadelphia, 1914, Nos. 2-5, and Historical Texts, Philadelphia, 1914, pp. 73-140.

[13] It is the prevailing view of scholars that Arabia was the cradle-land of the Semites. The reasons for this view as well as a résumé of other views will be found in G. A. Barton’s Sketch of Semitic Origins, Social and Religious, New York, 1902, Chapter I.

[14] In Gen. 10:11 it is by implication said that the city was founded by Nimrod.

[15] For a discussion of the reasons for the view here stated, and a presentation of other views, see Part II, [p. 374], ff.

[16] The Chaldæans were a Semitic people who came into the marsh-lands of southern Babylonia from Arabia. We can first detect their presence in Babylonia about 1000 B. C.