Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

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Society of Biblical Archæology, 1879

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Page 12 - Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
Page 12 - And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones : thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
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Page 58 - Jerusalem Explored; being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with upwards of One Hundred Illustrations, consisting of Views, Ground-plans, and Sections. By Dr. Ermete Pierotti, Doctor of Mathematics, Architect-Engineer to His Excellency Soorraya Pasha of Jerusalem, and Architect of the Holy Land.
Page 124 - Observations connected with Astronomy and Ancient History, sacred and profane, on the Ruins of Babylon, as recently visited and described by Claudius James Rich, Esq.
Page 76 - ... the future the monuments in question must be spoken of as Hittite, and not Hamathite. The various inscriptions known were then referred to, and the sculptures noticed by Texier, Hamilton, and Perrot in different parts of Asia Minor were considered. These bear some resemblance to Egyptian art on the one side, and still more to Assyrian art on the other, but yet have a very marked and peculiar character of their own. What made the matter the more interesting, was...
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Page 59 - TOUM maketh thy bones firm ; his good north-wind is for thy nostril ; he giveth thee the daily aliments ; hi? beverages are not lacking to thee. Thy flesh liveth by the purification which thy son maketh thee in thy retreat. The Resident of the West hath established thy person among the sages of the divine lower region ; he giveth stability to thy body among those who repose, and causeth thy soul not to distance itself from thee. Is1s, divine mother, offereth thee her breast, and thou hast, by her,...
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