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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  25. 
  Lid 
  of 
  the 
  Sarcophagus 
  of 
  Sebaksi. 
  Original 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum, 
  London. 
  In 
  Egyptian 
  inscriptions 
  occurs 
  the 
  name 
  Se- 
  

   baksi 
  as 
  that 
  of 
  an 
  Egyptian 
  priest 
  who 
  lived 
  about 
  700 
  B. 
  C. 
  

   Height, 
  7 
  feet 
  4 
  inches 
  (pi. 
  23). 
  

  

  26. 
  Human-headed 
  Winged 
  Bull. 
  The 
  original, 
  of 
  yellow 
  lime- 
  

   stone, 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  was 
  found 
  by 
  Sir 
  Austen 
  H. 
  

   Layard 
  in 
  1846, 
  at 
  Kuyunjik, 
  on 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  ancient 
  Nineveh, 
  and 
  

   is 
  supposed 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  Asurnazirpal, 
  who 
  reigned 
  

   884-860 
  B. 
  C. 
  Dimensions, 
  11 
  by 
  9 
  feet. 
  The 
  winged 
  bulls, 
  like 
  the 
  

   winged 
  lions, 
  guarded 
  the 
  entrances 
  to 
  the 
  temples 
  and 
  the 
  palaces 
  

   of 
  the 
  Assyrian 
  monarchs, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  protect 
  the 
  coining 
  and 
  going 
  

   of 
  the 
  King. 
  They 
  were 
  called 
  " 
  the 
  bulls 
  of 
  heaven," 
  and 
  were 
  

   supposed 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  by 
  Anu, 
  the 
  god 
  of 
  heaven. 
  

  

  27. 
  Stele 
  of 
  Sargon 
  II. 
  Cast 
  from 
  the 
  limestone 
  original 
  in 
  the 
  

   Museum, 
  Berlin, 
  Germany. 
  It 
  was 
  discovered 
  at 
  Larnaka, 
  in 
  Cyprus, 
  

   the 
  site 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  Kition, 
  by 
  Prof. 
  L. 
  Ross, 
  in 
  1845. 
  Height, 
  

   7 
  feet; 
  width, 
  27 
  inches; 
  thickness, 
  14 
  inches. 
  The 
  Stele 
  is 
  a 
  

   monument 
  of 
  Sargon 
  II, 
  King 
  of 
  Assyria, 
  722-705 
  B. 
  C, 
  and 
  of 
  

   Babylonia, 
  709-705 
  B. 
  C. 
  After 
  Sargon 
  had 
  captured 
  Babylonia, 
  

   Cyprus, 
  called 
  in 
  the 
  inscription 
  latnan, 
  sent 
  the 
  Assyrian 
  king 
  

   presents, 
  and 
  in 
  return 
  he 
  gave 
  this 
  image 
  of 
  himself. 
  The 
  in- 
  

   scription 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  archaic 
  Assyrian 
  script, 
  which 
  Sargon 
  adopted 
  

   after 
  he 
  became 
  king 
  of 
  Babylonia. 
  Sargon 
  was 
  the 
  father 
  of 
  

   Sennacherib, 
  grandfather 
  of 
  Esarhaddon, 
  and 
  great-grandfather 
  of 
  

   Ashurbanipal, 
  the 
  Sardanapalus 
  of 
  Greek 
  writers. 
  He 
  captured 
  

   Samaria, 
  completing 
  the 
  destruction 
  of 
  the 
  kingdom 
  of 
  Israel, 
  which 
  

   his 
  predecessor, 
  Shalmaneser, 
  had 
  begun. 
  According 
  to 
  the 
  inscrip- 
  

   tions, 
  Sargon 
  led 
  27,280 
  Israelites 
  into 
  captivity, 
  and 
  transplanted 
  

   in 
  their 
  country 
  colonists 
  from 
  Babylon, 
  Kutha, 
  Awwa, 
  Hamath, 
  

   and 
  Sepharvaim 
  (II 
  Kings, 
  xvii, 
  24). 
  He 
  is 
  mentioned 
  once 
  in 
  the 
  

   Bible 
  (Isaiah 
  xx, 
  1), 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  campaign 
  against 
  

   Philistia: 
  "In 
  the 
  year 
  that 
  Tartan 
  (commander 
  in 
  chief) 
  came 
  

   into 
  Ashdod, 
  when 
  Sargon, 
  King 
  of 
  Assyria, 
  sent 
  him, 
  and 
  fought 
  

   against 
  Ashdod 
  and 
  captured 
  it." 
  That 
  event 
  took 
  place 
  in 
  711 
  B. 
  C. 
  

  

  28. 
  Statue 
  of 
  the 
  God 
  Hadad, 
  with 
  inscription 
  in 
  the 
  old 
  Ara- 
  

   maean 
  dialect. 
  Cast 
  from 
  the 
  original 
  of 
  dolorite, 
  found 
  at 
  Gertchin, 
  

   near 
  Senjirti, 
  northern 
  Syria, 
  and 
  at 
  present 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  

   Berlin, 
  Germany. 
  Height, 
  10 
  feet 
  5 
  inches. 
  

  

  This 
  statue 
  was 
  erected 
  by 
  Panammu, 
  son 
  of 
  Karul, 
  king 
  of 
  Ja'di, 
  

   in 
  northern 
  Syria, 
  in 
  the 
  8th 
  century 
  B. 
  C, 
  to 
  the 
  gods 
  El, 
  Eeshef, 
  

   Rakubel, 
  Shemesh, 
  and 
  above 
  all 
  to 
  Hadad. 
  Hadad 
  was 
  the 
  name 
  

   of 
  the 
  Supreme 
  Syrian 
  deity, 
  the 
  Baal, 
  or 
  Sun-god, 
  whose 
  worship 
  

   extended 
  from 
  Carchemish, 
  the 
  ancient 
  Hittite 
  capital 
  in 
  Syria, 
  to 
  

   Edom 
  and 
  Palestine. 
  Many 
  Edomite 
  and 
  Syrian 
  kings 
  bore 
  the 
  

  

  