Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. IV

Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. IV
ed. by A. H. Sayce

Includes a Hymn to Osiris, the Synchronous History of Assyria and Babylonia, various conquest stelae of Shalmaneser II, Babylonian Votive inscriptions, and much more.

This installment of the Records of the Past includes numerous historical stelae, extremely valuable for the study of ancient geography and history. The place names in these records of conquest by such figures as Shalmaneser II and Assur-Natsir-Pal range over the ancient Near East as far afield as Armenia.

The latest discovery of interest to the student of the Old Testament has been announced from Berlin. Among the tablets from Tel el-Amarna which have been acquired for the Museum at Berlin, five are found to have been despatches sent from the king or governor of Jerusalem to the kings of Egypt. I had already recognised the name of Uru’salim or "Jerusalem" in a tablet now in Cairo (Academy, 19th April 1890, p. 273); the tablets at Berlin give us further and unexpected information in regard to the later capital of the Judæan kingdom. In the fifteenth century before our era Jerusalem was governed by a certain Abdi-dhaba, or Ebed-tob as his name would have been written in Hebrew; and it is his letters which have just been deciphered by the German Assyriologists.

The Official Life of an Egyptian Officer
Hymn to Osiris
The Synchronous History of Assyria and Babylonia
Inscriptions of Shalmaneser II
The Monolith Inscription of Shalmaneser II
The Inscription of Shalmaneser II
A Votive Inscription of Assur-Natsir-Pal
Inscription of Rimmon-Nirari III
Votive Inscriptions
Babylonian Contract-Tablets with Historical References
The Dedication of Three Babylonians to the Service of the Sun-God at Sippara
The Great Inscription of Argistis on the Rock of Van
Monolith Inscription of Argistis, King of Van