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Table of Contents. List of Illustrations (In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers]clicking on an image will bring up a larger version of that image.) Index:A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Z Footnotes Some typographical errors have been corrected;a list follows the text. (etext transcriber's note)

MANUAL
OF
ORIENTAL ANTIQUITIES

INCLUDING THE
Architecture, Sculpture, and Industrial Arts
OF
CHALDÆA, ASSYRIA, PERSIA, SYRIA, JUDÆA,
PHŒNICIA, AND CARTHAGE.

BY
ERNEST   BABELON,
Librarian of the Department of Medals and Antiques in theBibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

NEW EDITION,
WITH A CHAPTER ON THE RECENT DISCOVERIES AT SUSA.

With Two Hundred and Fifty-five Illustrations.

NEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS
LONDON: H. GREVEL AND CO.,
1906.

Printed and bound by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury,England.

PREFACE.

THE domain which we are about to traverse in this little work embracesall the civilisations of the ancient East except that of Egypt. Itincludes the Chaldæans, the Assyrians, the Persians before Alexander,the Hittites of Syria, Cappadocia, and Asia Minor, the Jews, thePhœnicians, and even Cyprus, ending with the Carthaginians and theircolonies. So vast a field, which, in the monumental work of MM. G.Perrot and C. Chipiez, occupies four volumes, can only be explored herein a summary manner, and the author claims no more than to have writtena modest abridgment. It must not be supposed, however, in spite of thediversity and remoteness from one another of the peoples that we havejust enumerated, that the subject lacks cohesion and unity. If thereader will have the goodness to follow us to the conclusion, he willbe, on the contrary, struck by the perfect homogeneity of the book andthe connection of all its parts. The picture, so to speak, contains manyfigures, but all concur in a common action, and the spectator gra

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