ASSYRIA

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CONTENTS

Preface
Chapter I
A FORGOTTEN CIVILISATION
THE LAND AND RACES OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA
Chapter II
KINGDOMS RISE AND FALL
Chapter III
LIFE AT AN AMORITE COURT
Chapter IV
THE SCRIBE IN BABYLONIAN SOCIETY
Chapter V
RUNNING AN EMPIRE
Chapter VI
ANCIENT CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIES
Chapter VII
LAW
Chapter VIII
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S BABYLON
Chapter IX
RELIGION
Footnotes

Preface

THE way of life with which this book deals flourished for 2000 years of the most formative period of human history, and it would require far more than the space available even touch upon every significant aspect of this subject. I have there,-e had to confine myself to a more modest task. What I have empted has been to give an introduction to the subject by a sketch Babylonian and Assyrian life at a few key-points, seen in the context of the historical setting.
I need hardly point out to my professional colleagues that this ok is not written for them; therefore, if, in using the original sources, I have chosen, for the sake of English idiom, to translate a singular by a plural, or to alter a tense, I trust they will not turn and rend me. My main purpose will be served if I succeed in convincing some of my readers, amongst the many now interested in ancient world, that Babylonian and Assyrian civilisation is not wholly alien to our own.
Although I have been able in many cases to suggest sources for illustrations, the credit and responsibility for the final selection and treatment of the illustrations belong, not to me as author, but to the talented artist, Mrs H. Fairfield, and to Mr P. Kemmis Betty.
H. W. F. SAGGS