Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-07-12

know from their numerous iiiecfibttnha
found at Tello by M. de Sarxac. were il,
constant communication with Ervnf
by sea and through the Hinaitic nerin.
sula. It was from this region that
they obtained the hard diorite and
porphyry for their statues and dour
sockets. The statue of Gudea. seated
and holding the plan for q temple ON
his knees, is most Egyptian IN charac-
ter, the attitude resembling that OF
statues of Khafra and Menkara: more
over, the scale engraved upon the tab
let gives the Egyptian and not the
Chaldean cubit. Indeed, as Mr.. Bos-
cawen has pointed out. the statue Of
Gudea, the architect, with the plan on
his knees, bears most striking resem-
blance to the Egyptian figures OF I'M
hotep, the Egyptian god OF mathemat-
les, who may be regarded as another
form of Phtah. the architect"
In the face OF this evidence from
Nippur we may have to reconsider the
question of Chaldean influence on
Egypt, and, indeed, possibly reverse
the old theory. The tower rests upon
a massive platform of crude brick.
Excavations conducted below this re-
vealed the existence of second pave
nent of much finer construction, being
built Of kiln-burn bricks of great size
the dimensions being fifty centimetres,
square and Of great thickness. Nearly the
whole Of these bricks were inscribed,
and bore the stamps Of Sargon /. and
Naram-Sin, his son, and its date, there
fore, is just a thousand years prior to
the buildings of Ur-Gur-namely, B. c..
$500. From the Inscriptions of both
these kings we know that they both
built large portions of an older temple
Of Multi, for the bricks bear the in
scription Builder of the temple Of
Mullil," and dedicated number Of
vases to the temple inscribed with their
legends. These buildings have been
entirely removed, and the surface Of
the vast platform levelled for the re-
ception of the edifices of Ur-Gur.
Directly to the southeast of the great
tower and close to the great rampant
MIR. Haynes discovered a chamber lin
long. S.54m wide, and $50 high. AS
here was no doorway. 1t was evidently
vault entered from above. Its floor
ested upon the platform of Naram-
N. d
tween the two strata. The inscribed
bricks proved it to have been built by
Ur-Gur. What was it's purpose was
explained by the discovery of second
chamber of the same kind Immediately
below it. In this second chamber
prick stamp of Sargon was found i'm
oedded, and broken stamps and some
Few tablets were found in the room.
rhe explanation is now easy. Round
he walls ran a narrow shelf, on Whlch
;ome tablets and brick stamps were
'ound. The chambers were the archive
.hambers of the temple; the smaller
me that of Sargon, which had been
partly restored by Ur-Gur. while the
;econd was that of the king, built up
% the level of his own pavement. 1t Is
lear that at some time between the
ime of Ur-Gur, B. C. $500. and the rise
# the Kassite dynasty, B. C. 220o, the
lrchiye chamber had been broken into
ind large numbers of objects carried
Lway and the rest broken ana scat
cred. There can be little doubt that
his disaster took place during the ter
ible Elamite invasion in B. c. 22s5,
when all the principal temples were
,illaged and their treasures carried to
he Elamite capital.
Mr.. HAYNES. encouraged by the success
If his work in the upper stratum, pro
-eeded to eXcavate to reach the virgin
soil. which he did at the depth OF 9.Zon.,
passing through the debris OF ruined
auiglings. accommodations of broken pot
terry and fragments of inscribed stone
objects and weh-cons tructeu ui%iAs sf y.
,hese remains prove the existence OF al
east two temples below the pavement OF
Naram-Sin, which at the most RAPID rate
i debris accumulation cannot De as
signed to a later date than between SIX
md seven thousand years before the
. .hristian era. This lowest stratum has
oeen much disturbed and the buildlngS
,illaged; still. sufficient remains TO reVeal
o us earlier phases of Babyonian CIVIL
Zation than we have ever seen.
over twenty-siX thousand tablets, as
VEN as numerous inscribed fragments OF
vases and stelae, have been recoVereu
rom this site 1t is therefore clear we
ave no lack of material: 1t must oe re.
nenpbered as we have already salo, tna,
The record chambers of both Sargon ana
iTr-Ciur were sacked by the Elamite IN
ya.1ers of Kuuur- Nakhunte In b. L. 2Zso
md this will account for SO rev lnscripeu
~ecords being found in the lowest strata.
That however, there had been NUMEROUS us
records of the pre-Sargon period wnlch
aad been removed to the treasury OF Sar-
ron. and subsequently to that OF Ur-Gur'
: shown by most important find. Un-
Ter a pavement of Ur-Niap, a KING OF tne
dynasty of Ur-Gur. were found quahtl,
ties-some hundreds-of broken vases anu
,ther objects that had been votive onsr-
inys to the shrines of Mullil from the
earliest times.
Among these were some OF the most
archaic type, even more pictorial thah
hose discovered by NJ. De Sarzec al
Teilo Among these was large STONE
boulder inscribed with a linear inscrip-
zion of a king named Lugal-kigub- Nidu-
du. Upon this we find a second indorse-
ment by Sargon. written years after III
arrow headed characters. Here we nave
a manifest proof of the priority OF TINS
monarch to Sargon. Among these broken
Fragments purposely destroyed, were the
fragments Of over hundred vases dedl-
Gated by king named Lugal-zaggi-sf TO
the temple. -
From these texts Professor Hilprecht.
almost at the loss of his eyesight, has
constructed a complete text of one nun
dred and thirty-two lines written IN 4
most archaic character. fragments OF
similar vases were found beneath the
SarIgonide pavement. The most concIu-
siye proof, however, is afforded by the ex-
animation of these Inscriptions along
with the earliest monuments from Tello,
where they are found to form complete
historical series relating to affairs or
which no mention Is found, either in the
time of Sargon or after. All of these re-
cords relate to series of primitive wars.
and form certainly, whatever tnelr age