List of Illustrations
Reading edition
Plate 1
1. Plan of Mugheir ruins (after Taylor)
Plate 2
2. Ruins of Warka (Erech) (after Loftus)
Plate 3
3. Akkerkuf (after Ker Porter) 4. Hamman (after Loftus)
Plate 4
5. Tel-Ede (ditto) 6. Palms (after Oppert)
Plate 5
7. Chaldaean reeds, from an Assyrian sculpture (after Layard)
Plate 6
8. Wild sow and pigs, from Koyunjik (Layard) 9. Ethiopians (after Prichard) 10. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum)
Page 42
Plate 7
10. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum) 11. Chaldaean tablet (after Layard) 12. Signet-cylinder (after Ker Porter)
Page 44
Plate 8
13. Bowariyeh (after Loftus) 14. Mugheir Temple (ditto)
Plate 9
15. Ground-plan of ditto (ditto) 16. Mugheir Temple, restored (by the Author) 17. Terra-cotta cone, actual size (after Loftus)
Plate 10
18. Plan and wall of building patterned with cones (after Loftus) 19. Ground-plan of chambers excavated at Abu-Shahrein (after Taylor)
Plate 11
20. Brick vault at Mugheir (ditto) 21. Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto)
Plate 12
21. Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto) 22. Chaldaean jar-coffin (ditto) 23. Section of drain (ditto)
Plate 13
24. Chaldaean vases of the first period (drawn by the Author from vases in the British Museum) 25. Chaldaean vases, drinking-vessels, and amphora of the second period (ditto) 26. Chaldaean lamps of the second period (ditto)
Plate 14
27. Seal-cylinder on metal axis (drawn and partly restored by the Author) 28. Signet-cylinder of King Urukh (after Ker Porter) 29. Flint knives (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum)
Plate 15
30. Stone hammer, hatchet, adze, and nail (chiefly after Taylor) 31. Chaldaean bronze spear and arrow-heads (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum)
Plate 16
32. Bronze implements (ditto) 33. Flint implement (after Taylor) 34. Ear-rings (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum) 16
Plate 17
35. Leaden pipe and jar (ditto) 36. Bronze bangles (ditto)
Plate 18
37. Senkareh table of squares
Page 66
Plate 19
38. Costumes of Chaldaeans from the cylinders (after Cullimore and Rich) 39. Serpent symbol (after Cullimore) 40. Flaming Sword (ditto) 41. Figure of Nin. the Fish-God (Layard) 42. Nin’s emblem. the Man Bull (ditto) 43. Fish symbols (after Cullimore) 44. Bel-Mer dash (ditto)
Page 81
Page 83
Page 84
Plate 20
45. Nergal’s emblem, the Ilan-Lion (Layard)
Plate 21
46. 47. Clay images of Ishtar (after Cullimore and Layard) 48. Nebo (drawn by the Author from a statue in the British Museum)
Page 99
Page 113—Table of Chaldaean Kings