 | 1848 - 592 pages
...against it. Set the camp also against it round about." The method in Assyria of keeping records was upon bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. Numerous bricks bearing inscriptions were found among the ruins. And as further illustrative, the first... | |
 | Paul Émile Botta - 1850 - 250 pages
...contain a tenth part of the vocables used in the inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia." Major KAWLINSON afterwards mentioned several " circumstances which...To this * Layard's "Nineveh," Vol. II., page 185. primitive custom of writing on hard substances the Old Testament frequently refers. Josephus* informs... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1852 - 548 pages
...and to place * Ezek. hi. 14-21. f " The most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylonia was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. The characters appear to have been formed by an instrument, or may sometimes have been stamped. The... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1859 - 940 pages
...of Europe. - The most common mode," says Mr. Layard, " of keepins records in Assvria and Babylonia was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. The characters appear to have been formed by an instrument, or may sometimes have been stamped. The... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - 1861 - 752 pages
...and other tiles, of which he says, " The most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylon was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed;" — this impression must not be mistaken for the application of a stamp ; it is effected by the use... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1862 - 610 pages
...— REV. S. S. WILSON'S Maltii. " The most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylonia was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. The characters appear to have been formed by an instrument, or may sometimes have been stamped. The... | |
 | 1864 - 494 pages
...and other tiles, of which he says, " The most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylon was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed;" — this impression must not be mistaken for the application of a stamp ; it is effected by the use... | |
 | Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1865 - 488 pages
...the common mode of keeping records of national and historical events was by stamping the words upon bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. Mr. Layard, in the course of his excavations at Nineveh, found many specimens of these records, most... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1849 - 604 pages
...appear to have been employed. ' But the most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylonia was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. The characters appear to have been formed by an instrument, or may sometimes have been stamped. The... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1872 - 1318 pages
...specimens, and Mr. Layard declares that " the most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylon was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed." European public museums and private collections contain many of these curiosities of the first steps... | |
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The most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylonia was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed. 
