The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-16

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esse.mserence end the position OF the walls
nd cIsade. are clearly marked BY mounos
End commandments OF Debris. Like mos,
| RabvlonIau edifces, the buildings AZ hve
uuhba arc buiIt with the angles 10 tue car
"Irhe cttodeI occupies toe southern part
- ,ha e.nifpfe. aud It's highest point was on
| tho southwest face, which was once on .uo
ssaaLs ~ 4 broad canal or a branch OF the
Funhrates the bed OF which Is now repre-
sented bv the dry channel OF the kutn-
wsnIveh canal. In the interior OF the cur
| acc an interesting pair Of rooms were e's-
| covered and cleared OF debyts by TIC loI-
| tunate explorers, and 1t Is IRON
RECORDS FOUND IN THESE HAMMERS
,h., we have been able to ascertain the
name OF the city and the nature OF tne 49,
&C. uhase tuins ARE buried beneath the
mounds n Abu Hubba. In excavating q
trench. following a wall in the central por,
lion ~ fine mound, q doorway was iounu
leodino iuto a large gallery or chamber iVV
feet In length and about 30 feet IN "iutu.
In this chamber were the remains OF o large
briek altar nearly 30 feet square, ana eVl'
DENLY The great sacrifice altar OF tue temple
In me wall OF this chamber a door was
tound leading into a smaller room,
yhicl. from its construction and position,
NJ Rassam considered TO be the record
cbamher of the edi6ce. In bis explorations
At Bsllawat, which we fully described some
time since, Mr.. Rassam found the memorial
records OF The great temple OF inc Assyrian
war god placed In a stone clst ana Ourieu
near the altar. The scarcity OF stoue I'D
Rabylonia caused the builders OF the tenn
niles at Abu Hubba 10 inclcse the recoru, IN
a cist made Of terra-c0tta and TO bury lnls
beneath the floor OF the chamber. Inc
shaft sunk by the excayatois employee
by Mr.. Rasssm brought these pre-
cious records TO fight, and from them we
are able 10 ascertain the name OF the cry
and temple whose ruins have been dlscoV-
cred. The first three lines Of the largest OF
the foundation records bring Oh specnia.
| tive thoughts 10 a focus and centre our
minds on the traditions Of one Of the most
ancient cities of Cbaldea: TO tie sun
God. the great lord, dwelling In Pit.Parra,
which Is within the city OF Sippara.
Here. then, we have restored 10 us
the ruins and records OF 4 city whose
traditions go back to the days be-
fore the Flood, when pious XiSuthrns, by
order OF his god, buried In the city OF
Sippara of the Sun the history OF the be-
ginning, progress, and tue end OF all things
antedtluyian. And now we recover, TWEEN
ty.seyen centuries after they were buried,
the records Of the pious rest0rer OF tins an
Gent temple. Such a discovery rs this AZ
most makes us inclined to dig on in hopes
Of finding the most ancient records buried
there by the Chaldean Moab.
"There are many points OF history raised
by this inscription, but 1t Will suffice 10 say
that from the earliest days Of Babylonian
history the city OF Sippara Of the sun was
a prominent centre OF social and religious
life. The excavations, therefore, at Abu
Hubba have restored to us the runs OF the
great temple OF the sun.gOd, the House oil
Light i'm the Chaldean Hcllopolis. The
monuments reveal TO US the fact that there
was a second city Of Sippara, whose
ruins are probably marked by the mounds
of Deyr, and which was dedicated to the
goddess Anat or Aunt, and tue two
cities OF Sippara may be identified win
the cities Of Sepharyaim, mentioned by the
Hebrew writers Of the Second Book OF
Kings. This discovery is greatly enhanced
by the further discoveries made by Mr. Ris-
sam in another grave mound OF Chaldca.
The excavations which the explorer made
ia the mounds OF Hubl Ibrakecm, some
ten miles east Of Babylon, have restored
records which prove that beneath these
ruins were the remains OF the temples and
palaces of the city OF Cutha, one OF the
great theological centres OF B%abylonia.
In the southern portion OF the larger OF the
two mounds at Uubl Ibraheem, Mr.. Rss-
sam found extensive remains OF buildings,
chambers, and corridors, and the inscribed
bricks and tablets recovered point TO these
| edifces as being the remains OF the great
Temple OF Nergal and his c)nsort L1z,
| which was restored 10y the great temple
builder Nebuchaduezzar. To the biblical
scholar the discoveries Of these cities,
%Sepharyaim and Cutha, is a great gain; Tor
from them were brought the men OF
| Sepharyaim and the men OF Cutba, who were
placed in Samaria by the Assyrian con-
dueror Saigon q Kings, xvii, "a 81. The
descendants OF these worShippefs OF AdraH-
melech and Anammelech and Nergal, the
god Of Cutba, are now TO be iound III
the small w%hite-rObed congregation VINO
gather around the High-Priest 1akuD IN
the synagogue at Nablus. The traveller
who visits these lost remnants OF the seed
OF Israel may carry his thoughts far back
beyond the days Of the captivity, into the
azure Of the past, 10 the days when u C an
cestors OF these men made the courts OF Bit
Para echo with hymns OF praise to the sun,
the lord Of light and golden rays The
above is the record OF an explorers snort
| clmpaign amid The buried cities Of Chaldea,
and the results are such as to lead US TO
hone for richer discoveries in the future
from the land where centre all the tradi-
lions Of the history and religion OF Western
| Asia