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HISTORY OF EGYPT

CHALDEA, SYRIA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA



By G. MASPERO,

Honorable Doctor of Civil Laws, and Fellow of Queen's College,
Oxford; Member of the Institute and Professor at the College of France



Edited by A. H. SAYCE,
Professor of Assyriology, Oxford

Translated by M. L. McCLURE,
Member of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund



CONTAINING OVER TWELVE HUNDRED COLORED PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS



Volume VIII.



LONDON
THE GROLIER SOCIETY
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Frontispiece
Arab Family at Dinner


Titlepage





CONTENTS

CHAPTER I—SENNACHERIB (705-681 B.C.)

CHAPTER II—THE POWER OF ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH;
     ESARHADDON AND ASSUR-BANI-PAL

CHAPTER III—THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDÆAN EMPIRE






List of Special Illustrations and Color Plates

Esneh—principal Abyssinian Trading Village

Sennacherib Receiving the Submissions of The Jews

The Fleet of Sennacherib on The Nar-marratum

Assyrian Bas-reliefs at Bavian

Great Assyrian Stele at BaviaÎt.

Transport of a Winged Bull on A Sledge.

The Column of Taharqa, at Karnak

Mural Decorations from the Grottoes

A Lion Issuing from Its Cage

The Battle of Tulliz

Khumb-nigash Proclaimed King

The Head of Thumman Sent to Nineveh

Two Elamite Chiefs Flayed Alive

Prayer in the Desert After Painting by Gerome

Illustrated Manuscript in Heiroglyphics

Chieck Beled—Gizeh Museum

Decorations on the Wrappings of a Mummy.

The Façade of The Great Temple Of Abu-simbel

Prisoners Under Torture Having Their Tongues Torn Out

A King Putting out the Eyes of A Prisoner

A People Carried Away Into Captivity







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