THE SEVEN GREAT MONARCHIES
OF THE ANCIENT EASTERN WORLD; OR, THE HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND ANTIQUITIES OF CHALDAEA, ASSYRIA BABYLON, MEDIA, PERSIA, PARTHIA, AND SASSANIAN, OR NEW PERSIAN EMPIRE. BY GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A., CAMDEN PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES.
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CONTENTS
[ PREFACE TO FIVE GREAT MONARCHIES. ]
[ PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. ]
[ PREFACE TO THE SIXTH MONARCHY. ]
[ PREFACE TO SEVENTH MONARCHY. ]
[CHAPTER I.] GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTRY
[CHAPTER II.] CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS
[CHAPTER III.] THE PEOPLE
[CHAPTER IV.] LANGUAGE AND WRITING
[CHAPTER V.] ARTS AND SCIENCES
[CHAPTER VI.] MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
[CHAPTER VII.] RELIGION
[CHAPTER VIII.] HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY
List of Illustrations
1. Plan of Mugheir ruins (after Taylor)
2. Ruins of Warka (Erech) (after Loftus)
3. Akkerkuf (after Ker Porter)
4. Hamman (after Loftus)5. Tel-Ede (ditto)
6. Palms (after Oppert)7. Chaldaean reeds, from an Assyrian sculpture (after Layard)
8. Wild sow and pigs, from Koyunjik (Layard)
9. Ethiopians (after Prichard)
10. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum)
10. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum)
11. Chaldaean tablet (after Layard)
12. Signet-cylinder (after Ker Porter)
13. Bowariyeh (after Loftus)
14. Mugheir Temple (ditto)15. Ground-plan of ditto (ditto)
16. Mugheir Temple, restored (by the Author)
17. Terra-cotta cone, actual size (after Loftus)18. Plan and wall of building patterned with cones (after Loftus)
19. Ground-plan of chambers excavated at Abu-Shahrein (after Taylor)20. Brick vault at Mugheir (ditto)
21. Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto)21. Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto)
22. Chaldaean jar-coffin (ditto)
23. Section of drain (ditto)24. Chaldaean vases of the first period (drawn by the Author from vases in the
British Museum)
25. Chaldaean vases, drinking-vessels, and amphora of the second period (ditto)
26. Chaldaean lamps of the second period (ditto)27. Seal-cylinder on metal axis (drawn and partly restored by the Author)
28. Signet-cylinder of King Urukh (after Ker Porter)
29. Flint knives (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum)30. Stone hammer, hatchet, adze, and nail (chiefly after Taylor)
31. Chaldaean bronze spear and arrow-heads
(drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum)32. Bronze implements (ditto)
33. Flint implement (after Taylor)
34. Ear-rings (drawn by the Author from the originals
in the British Museum) 1635. Leaden pipe and jar (ditto)
36. Bronze bangles (ditto)37. Senkareh table of squares
38. Costumes of Chaldaeans from the cylinders (after Cullimore and Rich)
39. Serpent symbol (after Cullimore)
40. Flaming Sword (ditto)
41. Figure of Nin. the Fish-God (Layard)
42. Nin’s emblem. the Man Bull (ditto)
43. Fish symbols (after Cullimore)
44. Bel-Mer dash (ditto)
45. Nergal’s emblem, the Ilan-Lion (Layard)
46. 47. Clay images of Ishtar (after Cullimore and Layard)
48. Nebo (drawn by the Author from a statue in the British Museum)