Transactions of the Second Session of the International Congress of Orientalists: Held in London in September, 1874Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas Trübner & Company, 1876 - 456 pages |
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... evidence of the cuneiform records of these people goes far to confirm the high antiquity traditionally handed down of the astro- nomical observations of the Chaldeans . If that branch of the subject is at present incomplete , at all ...
... evidence of the cuneiform records of these people goes far to confirm the high antiquity traditionally handed down of the astro- nomical observations of the Chaldeans . If that branch of the subject is at present incomplete , at all ...
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... evidence is yet required to determine which of the two empires is the older . As far as an opinion can be formed from archæological considerations , there is a greater weight of evidence in favour of gradual development in Babylonia ...
... evidence is yet required to determine which of the two empires is the older . As far as an opinion can be formed from archæological considerations , there is a greater weight of evidence in favour of gradual development in Babylonia ...
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... evidence can only be obtained by a very large and laborious induction - as a more substantial advance in Assyriology than the discovery of a new dynasty of Kings or the complete ex- planation of the whole series of astronomical tables ...
... evidence can only be obtained by a very large and laborious induction - as a more substantial advance in Assyriology than the discovery of a new dynasty of Kings or the complete ex- planation of the whole series of astronomical tables ...
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... evidence goes , the latter would be older than the former . " This conjecture then vanishes , and leaves us apparently but one other way of treating the case , viz . to arrange these -ku forms not in a line , but in a circle , and to ...
... evidence goes , the latter would be older than the former . " This conjecture then vanishes , and leaves us apparently but one other way of treating the case , viz . to arrange these -ku forms not in a line , but in a circle , and to ...
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... evidence of the extremities that drove these fugitives from death or slavery into a tract deadly to all but those inured to it for ages , is furnished by the name of Awalias , applied collectively to the " broken tribes " of the Tarai ...
... evidence of the extremities that drove these fugitives from death or slavery into a tract deadly to all but those inured to it for ages , is furnished by the name of Awalias , applied collectively to the " broken tribes " of the Tarai ...
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