Cuneiform Inscriptions: Chaldean, Babylonian and Assyrian Collections Contained in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

H. W. Johns, C.

9781332008216: Cuneiform Inscriptions: Chaldean, Babylonian and Assyrian Collections Contained in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan (Classic Reprint)

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HE people of Mesopotamia, who occupied the basin of the two great rivers Euphrates and Tigris, very early attained a civiliza tion, which has had a wider influence on mankind than anything previous to the invention of printing and the revival of Greek learning.

Echoes of its far distant renown were heard in the classics and both Assyria and Babylon loom large on the political horizon of Israel and Judah in the Bible. These ancient empires had passed away, and so long ago that the visitor to the ruins of Babylon or Nineveh was con tent to muse over past greatness and reconstruct from scattered and mythical traditions a dim picture of their glory. Had some spirit whispered that their history and even every-day doings would one day be known again a modern scholar would have smiled in unbelief. All written memorials, if indeed such ancient and barbarous peoples could write, must long have perished. Papyrus or parchment frays out or decays, paper was not invented, and here is a widely different climate from the dust-dry soil or rainless sky of Egypt. Yet it has been even so, not only have wall sculptures been uncovered in the places of an cient kings, depicting their battles, hunting, and even domestic scenes, but more wonderful still the most intimate details of private life, the laws, literature, history, religion, science and arts, are all fully de scribed in innumerable documents often little the worse for having been thousands of years buried beneath the soil.

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It is quite true that American enterprise has been notable in the fields of material progress, and our distinction, and often our primacy, has been acknowledged in other lands. But it has been often asserted that in the fields of scholarship we have fallen far behind; that we have not only been compelled to go to the Universities of Europe for the higher education of our youth, but that our older scholars have failed to reach the distinction of those of other lands. This is too largely true, yet not wholly so. Certainly it has been true in those lines of study which require material for research not to be had in this country. The editing of classical manuscripts must be done in lands where they are to be found in libraries or monasteries. Until very lately the study of the rich treasures excavated in the valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris, which have given an entirely new view of primitive history and mythology, has required residence near the museums where these treasures are gathered, and it has been only brief and tantalizing vacations which American scholars could give to their inspection. The same is true of the study of the monuments of Egypt.

But we now have a body of younger scholars who are eager to pursue the study of Assyriology, and have made their first essay at original research in the British Museum or the Louvre. Only within a few years have they found any material whatever for study in this country. I think the first small collection of tablets and seal cylinders was brought by me from Babylonia when in charge of the Wolfe Expedition in 1885; and not long after they became the nucleus for a desired collection in the Metropolitan Museum.

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