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SHAMASH THE SUN-GOD. (From the Sun Temple at Sippar.)

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CHALDEA

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE RISE OF ASSYRIA

(TREATED AS A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDYOF ANCIENT HISTORY)

BY

ZÉNAÏDE A. RAGOZIN

MEMBER OF THE "SOCIÉTÉ ETHNOLOGIQUE" OF PARIS; OF THE "AMERICANORIENTAL SOCIETY"; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE "ATHÉNÉEORIENTAL" OF PARIS; AUTHOR OF "ASSYRIA," "MEDIA," ETC.

"He (Carlyle) says it is part of his creed that history ispoetry, could we tell it right."—Emerson.

FOURTH EDITION

London

T. FISHER UNWIN

PATERNOSTER SQUARE

NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

MDCCCXCIII

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TO THE MEMBERS OF

THE CLASS,

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF MANY HAPPY HOURS, THIS VOLUME AND THE FOLLOWINGONES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY THEIR FRIEND.

The Author.

Idlewild Plantation,

San Antonio.

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CLASSIFIED CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.