ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGK

Sir Henry Rawlinson.....Frontispiece

Photogravure from an engraving

The Tower of Babel.........Ix

Fac-simile   of  a   miniature  in  a  manuscript of the  fourteenth
century in the National Library at Munich

Assault of a City by Tiglath-Pileser II (III) ...     54

A sculptured slab from the ruins of his palace at Nimrud, the
ancient Calah

The Eastern World in the Middle of the Reign of

Ashurbanipal.........196

Babylonian Account of the Creation      .      .      .      .284
Bilingual tablet from Ab6-Habbah, the ancient Sippara

Monolith with Sculptured Portrait of Esarhaddon .   418