APPENDIX 



CHAPTER III 



SCIENCE OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA 



1 (p. 57). The Medes. Some difference of opinion exists 

 among historians as to the exact ethnic relations of the con- 

 querors; the precise date of the fall of Nineveh is also in 

 doubt. 



2 (p- 57)- Darius. The familiar Hebrew narrative ascribes 

 the first Persian conquest of Babylon to Darius, but inscrip- 

 tions of Cyrus and of Nabonidus, the Babylonian king, make 

 it certain that Cyrus was the real conqueror. These inscrip- 

 tions are preserved on cylinders of baked clay, of the type 

 made familiar by the excavation of the past fifty years, and 

 they are invaluable historical documents. 



8 (p. 58). Berosus. The fragments of Berosus have been 

 translated by I. P. Cory, and included in his Ancient Frag- 

 ments of Phoenician, Chaldean, Egyptian, and Other Writers, 

 London, 1826, second edition, 1832. 



4 (p. 58). Chaldean learning. Recent writers reserve the 

 name Chaldean for the later period of Babylonian history 

 the time when the Greeks came in contact with the Mesopo- 

 tamians in contradistinction to the earlier periods which 

 are revealed to us by the archaeological records. 



6 (p. 59). King Sargon of Agade. The date given for this 

 early king must not be accepted as absolute ; but it is probably 

 approximately correct. 



8 (p. 59). Nippur. See the account of the early expedi- 

 tions as recorded by the director, Dr. John P. Peters, Nippur, 

 or explorations and adventures, etc., New York and London, 

 1897- 



7 . (p. 62). Fritz Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assy- 

 riens, Berlin, 1885. 



8 (p. 63). R. Campbell Thompson, Reports of the Magicians 

 and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon, London, 1900, p. xix. 



9 (p. 64). George Smith, The Assyrian Canon, p. 21. 



10 (p. 64). Thompson, op. cit., p. xix. 



11 (p- 65). Thompson, op. cit., p. 2. 



12 (p. 67). Thompson, op. cit., p. xvi. 



13 (p. 68). Sextus Empiricus, author of Adversus Mathe- 

 maticos, lived about 200 A.D. 



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