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Book Description
- Title:
- Light from the East, or the Witness of the Monuments. An Introduction to the Study of Biblical Archaeology
- Authors:
- Charles James Ball [1851-1924]
- Publication Year:
- 1899
- Location:
- London
- Publisher:
- Eyre and Spottiswoode
- Pages:
- 256
- Subjects:
- Archaeology, Ancient Ner East
- Copyright Holder:
- Public domain
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Passages of Scripture Referred to
Mesopotamian Document Which Illustrate Genesis
- Babylonian Epic of Creation
- Another Babylonian Account of the Creation
- Ancient Babylonian Map of the World
- Babylonian and Assyrian Seals
- Assyrian Sacred Trees with Cherubic Figures
- Assyrian Cherubic Figures
- The Chaldean Story of the Flood and the Chaldean Noah
- An Archaic Babylonian Seal, Representing the Chaldean Noah
- Fragment of Another Babylonian Account of the Flood
- The Babylonian Legend of Gilgamesh-Nimrod
- An Inscribed Limestone Tablet From Sippara (Abu Habbah)
- Head of a Mace or Sceptre Inscribed with the Name of Sargon I.
- Seal Of Ilu-Ishtar (?)
- Inscribed Statue of Gudea, King of Chaldea
- The Old Sumerian Inscription Known as Gudea B
- Bronze Statuette of a God Or Pontiff-King
- Fragments of Assyrian Clay Tablets, Inscribed with Early Hieroglyphics
Forms of Cuneiform Characters
- Ur of the Chaldees, and Inscribed Bricks From its Site
- Portrait of Hammurabi, or Amraphel, King of Shinar
- Inscribed Cylinder of Arioch (?), King of Ellasar
- Sumerian and Semitic-Babylonian Inscription
- Obverse of an Unbaked Clay Fragment in the British Museum
- Inscription of Ku-du-ur-Ma-bu-ug (Kudur-Mabug), on Bricks from the Foundations
of the Buildings of the South of the Great Mound of Muqayyar
- Inscription of Ha-am-mu-ra-bi (Hammurabi), on a Slab of Limestone in the
British Museum
- Tablet of Assur-Nasir-pal I., King of Assyria
- Asiatics in Egypt
- A Family of the Aamu of N. Arabia Going Down into Egypt, Depicted in the Tombs at Beni-Hassan in Upper Egypt, About Midway Between Memphis and Thebes
- Funerary Stele of Aunef The Hyksos or Shepherd Kings
- Monumental Names and Titles of the Pharaohs of Scripture
- Egypt and Syria
- Chu-En-Aten, or Akhu-en-Aten (Amenophis IV., King of Egypt, 18th Dynasty), the Heretical or Reforming Pharaoh
- The Tell El-Amarna Correspondence
- The Pharoahs in Syria
- The Hittites
- A Hittite Portrait
- Amun of Thebes
- Ruins of Thebes
- Great Hall of Temple of Amun, at Karnak
- Seti I. Fighting Against the Asiatics
- Colossus of Rameses II.
- Great Hittite Campaign of Rameses II. (The Battle of Kadesh.)
- A Letter in the Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Writing
- Rameses II., The Pharaoh of the Oppression
- Israel in Egypt—Scenes from Egyptian Life
- Pithom, The Store-City: Egyptian Granaries
- Brick-Making in Egypt by Foreign Captives Under Taskmasters
- Brick of Rameses II. and Egyptian Statuaries
- Captives Dragging a Colossus in Egypt
- Transport of an Assyrian Colossus
- Egyptian Musicians and Dancers
- Funeral Processions of the Egyptians
- Richly Decorated Mummy-Case
- Anubis, The Egyptian Hermes, Tending a Mummy on its Bier
- The Soul Reanimating the Bodv in the Tomb
- "After Death The Judgment"
- The Goddess of the Sacred Fig-Sycamore Tree Presenting Fruit and Drink to a Deceased Pair
- The Exodus
- Portrait Statue of Meneptah II., The Pharaoh of the Exodus
- Syenite Stele of Amenophis III., With Added Inscription of Meneptah II., Mentioning the Israelites
- Shishak or Shashank L., The Invader of Judah in the Time of Rehoboam
- Sword of Kammanu-Nirari I., King of Assyria
- Old Testament Ethnography
- Ancient Chaldeans or Accadians (Better Sumerians)
- Typical Heads of The Nations of Canaan and the Adjacent Countries
- The So-Called Monuments of the Hittites
- Rock Sculpture of A Local Baal, A God of Cord and Wine, With Supposed Hittite Inscriptions
- The Bilingual ("Hittite" and Assyrian) Boss of Tarkondemos
- Terra-Cotta Seals and Seal-Impressions
- Stone Lion from Marash With "Hittite" Inscription
- Babylonian Boundary Stones or Landmarks
- The Religion of Babylon and Assyria, as Illustrated by the Seal-Engravings A Stone Tablet Pourtraying the Worship of the Sun-God, and Bearing an Inscription of Nabu-apla-Iddina, King of Babylon
- Seal of Arad-Nabium
- Assyrian Warfare and Military Engines
- Assur-Nasir-Pal II. Besieging A "Fenced City," and, for Comparison, Rameses and His Three Sons Besieging a City
- Limestone Monolith of Assur-Nasir-Pal II., King of Assyria
- Royal Hunting Scenes
- The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II., King of Assyria
- Scenes From the Black Obelisk
- Inscribed Statue of Nebo, The Babylonian God of Letters
- Tiglath-Pileser II. (III.)
- Official Records of Tiglath-Pileser II.
- Old Babylonian Seal of Sin-Iqisha, Who Was Probably a Priest or Scribe
- The Old Aramean Inscription of Panammu
- Broken Cylinder of Sargon II., King of Assyria
- Sennacherib
- Record of the Invasion of Judah and the Siege of Jerusalem
- The Storming of Lachish in Judah, With Sennacherib Receiving the Spoils and Captives
- Mound of Tell El-Hesy, The Site of the Ancient Lachish
- Phoenician Ships in the Service of Sennacherib
- Monolith with Sculptured Portrait of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria
- Assur-Bani-Pal, King of Assyria
- Assur-Bani-Pal and His Queen Banqueting in the Garden
- Ancient Monuments of the Period of the Captivity of Judah
- India House Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II. (The Great), King of Babylon
- Cylinder With Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II. (The Great)
- Cameo Portrait of Nebuchadnezzar II.
- Inscription from the Four Clay Cylinders of Nabium-Na-id or Nabonidus, Mentioning the King's Son Belu-Sharra-usur, or Belshazzar
- Inscription on a Clay Cylinder of Nabonidus Note on the Date of Hammurabi, The Amraphel of Gen. 14
- Inscription of Nabonidus
- Head of a Sceptre from Babylon
- Annals of Nabonidus
- Birs Nimrud. The Ruins of E-Zidda, The Great Temple of Nebo at Barsib or Borsippa
- Sculptured Stele, with Portrait of Cyrus
- Inscription of the Broken Cylinder of Cyrus
- The Tomb of Cyrus at Meshed-Murghab
- Darius, King of Persia
- A Babylonian Deed of Sale, Dated in the Third Year of Darius
- Monumental Names of Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian Kings Mentioned in the Old Testament
- The Phoenicio-Hebrew Alphabet, Showing its Origin from the Old Linear and Primarily Pictorial Script of Shumir or Shinar, Rather than from the Egyptian Hieratic Character
- The Baal Lebanon Inscription
- The Moabite Stone
- The Siloam Inscription
- Phoenician Monuments
- Limestone Stele of Jahaumelech, King of Gebal. (Byblus)
- Inscription on The Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II., King of the Zidonians
- Bilingual Inscription, Phoenician and Cypriote
- The Sacrificial Tablet of Marseilles
- The Rosetta Stone
- The Bilingual Inscription of Canopus
- A list of Proper Names in the Old and New Testaments
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