[1261] De Sarzec, Découvertes en Chaldée, pl. 3.
[1262] On the stele of vultures, the dead are naked.
[1263] Book I, § 195.
[1265] Such sacrifices are pictured on the stele of vultures.
[1266] IIIR. 43, col. iv. l. 20; Belser, Beiträge zur Assyriologie, ll. 175, 18; Pinches, Babylonian Texts, p. 18.
[1267] For this custom see Trumbull, The Threshold Covenant, p. 25; Peters' Nippur, ii. 202, 203.
[1268] Recently, Scheil has discovered some private dwellings at Abu-Habba, which will be described in his forthcoming volume on his explorations at that place. See also Peters' Nippur, ii. 200, 201.
[1269] Peters' Nippur, ii. 220.
[1270] See p. [597]. The date of the monument is prior to Sargon; i.e., earlier than 3800 B.C.