Transactions of the Society of Biblical ArchaeologyList of members in each volume. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Akkad ancient Arabic Arch Asia Minor Assurbanipal Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Balawat Boghaz Keui Borsippa British Museum Brugsch bull Carchemish character chief Christian column copy Cyrus Denkm discovery Egypt Egyptian Ephesus Euphrates excavations Eyuk feet figure fragment gate given gives goddess gods Hamath hieroglyphics Hittite ideograph inscription j'ai Josephus ka-priest Kadesh Kilikia king Kypriote land Lepsius Ligne lord marble Mariette mentioned monument Mossul mound Nabonidus Nahr-el-Kelb Nebuchadnezzar original Orontes palace passage phonetic complement Phtah Plate portion priests prince PROF qu'il Rameses Rameses II Ramsès reign represented Road rock Rougé royal Sayce says scribe sculptures seems Semitic Sennacherib side Smith's statue stèle stone syllabary Syria tablet Taharqa temple thou tion tomb unto upper wall word workmen Zion
Popular passages
Page 310 - ... the valley was very deep, and its bottom could not be seen, if you looked from above into the depth, this farther vastly high elevation of the cloister stood upon that height, insomuch, that if any one looked down from the top of the battlements, or down both those altitudes, he would be giddy, while his sight could not reach to such an immense depth.
Page 300 - THEN Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
Page 334 - O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Page 469 - CECIL H. GREEN LIBRARY STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305-6004 (650) 723-1493 grncirc@sulmoil.stanford.edu All books are subject to recall. DATE DUE...
Page 248 - ... delineate the muscles. The feet are shod with boots which have the ends turned up, the head is usually covered with the so-called Phrygian cap, and a spear is often placed in one hand. A modification of the winged solar disk of Assyria is not unusual, and at Eyuk we find a representation of a double-headed eagle, which seems the prototype of the Seljukian eagle of later days. At Eyuk also we have two sphinxes, which, though modelled on an Egyptian model, differ profoundly from the Egyptian type,...
Page 281 - ... of the engraver, or out of that affectation of antiquity and love of variety which caused the cuneiform characters in the so-called hieratic writing of Nineveh to be modified at the pleasure of the scribe. The age of Sargon would agree well with historical probabilities. It was in his time that Assyrian culture first gained a permanent footing in the west, while the overthrow of Carchemish and the last relics of Hittite power in BC 717 would naturally lead to the disuse of the Hittite mode of...
Page 248 - At Boghaz Keui, the female deities wear mural crowns, from which we may infer the Hittite origin of this decoration of the Ephesian Artemis. The mural crown seems to have been a specially Hittite invention. On the other hand, the general character of the sculptures at Boghaz Keui, where some of the deities, for instance, are represented as standing upon animals, shows its dependence not on Assyrian, but on early Babylonian art.
Page 281 - Tar - rik - tim - me 6ar mat Er - me - e Tarrik-timme king of the country of Erme. The forms of the characters refer us to the age of Sargon. The last character has the archaising form found, for instance, on the stele of that monarch discovered in Kypros, the ideograph used to denote
Page 394 - The Girgashites are conjectured to have been a large family of the Hivites, as they are omitted in nine out of the ten places in which the nations or families of Canaan are mentioned, while in the tenth they are mentioned and the Hivites omitted. They are supposed to have been settled in that part of the country which lay to the east of the Lake of Gennesareth. (vi) The Amorites, or
Page 322 - In passing this way, we observed in the sides of the rock above us, several tables of figures carved, which seemed to promise something of antiquity ; to be satisfied of which, some of us clambered up to the place, and found there some signs as if the old way had gone in that region before Antoninus cut the other more convenient passage a little lower. In several places hereabouts, we saw strange antique figures of men, carved in the natural rock, in mezzo- relievo, and in bigness equal to the life.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology Volume 7 of Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) |
| Author | Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) |
| Publisher | Published at the Office of the Society., 1882 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |