Identifier: historyofbabylon00kinguoft (find matches)
Title: A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919
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Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ablynot till the period of the later Assyrian empire thatbronze was so plentiful that it could have been usedin sufficient quantity for buckets on an endless chain.There seems reason to believe that Sennacherib himself ^ At Hit on the Euphrates are some of the largest water-wheels in Mesopo-tamia, a line of them being built across one portion of the river. AGE OF HAMMURABI 175 introduced an innovation when he employed metal inthe construction of the machines that supplied water tohis palace ; ^ and we may infer that even in the Neo-Babylonian period a contrivance of that sort was stilla royal luxury, and that the farmer continued to usethe more primitive machines, sanctioned by immemorialusage, which he could make with his own hands. The manner in which the agricultural implementsemployed in early Babylonia have survived to thepresent day is well illustrated by their form of plough,which closely resembles that still in use in parts ofSyria. We have no representation of the plough of r
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Pig. 40. the old babylonia^; form of plough in use. The drawing is taken from seal-impressions on a tablet of the Kassite period. (After Clay.) the First Babylonian Dynasty, but this was doubtlessthe same as that of the Kassite period, of which a veryinteresting representation has recently been recovered.On a tablet found at Nippur and dated in the fourthyear of Xazi-Maruttash, are several impressions of acylinder-seal engraved with a representation of threemen ploughing.^ The plough is drawn by two humpedbulls, or zebu, who are being driven by one of the men,while another holds the two handles of the plough andguides it. The third man has a bag of seed-corn slung 1 Cf. Cun. Texts in the Brit. Mus.,» XXVI., p. 26. ^ See Fig. 40, and cf. Clay, Documents from the Temple Archives ofNippur, in the Museum Publications of the Univ. of Pennsylvania,Vol. II., No. 2 (1912), p. 65, from which the drawing has been taken. 176 HISTORY OF BABYLON over his shoulders and is in the act of feeding see

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