Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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CUNEIFORM WRITING
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(Fig. 21, 1 and 22, 3) was discovered, to see how often it anticipated and in some respects even went beyond the much later Mosaic legislation. Fig. 23 shows a beautiful sculptured tablet of the Babylonian "middle ages."
DIZA
CHAP 32 AGFETC GOM ATERINBED
REXESA
CHEC
SEKG HOR
Hote
420
64
1287
Fig. 22
1, Cylinder-seal of a king of Ur (24th23rd century B.C.). 2, Cylinder-seal of the Persian king Darius, probably Darius the Great, 521-485 8.c., in three languages, Persian, Elamite and Babylonian. 3. Detail of Hammurabi's Code of Laws. 4. A "Tell el-'Amarna letter"; letter written by Abdi-khiba, ruler of Jerusalem, fourteenth century B.c.
