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...Prof. Frothingham delivered the third of the series of lectures on Assyrian Archaeology. The beginning of Babylonian art can be traced to the earliest historical period of Babylon, about 4000 B. C. From that period on we possess inscriptions for nearly every century from colossal temples and statues. Northern Babylonia was the first art centre, but in the third milennium Ur, in Southern Babylonia became the centre. There came a third period when the North was again the seat of artisti life, which gradually declined in vigor up to the capture of Babylon by the Assyrians. There was again...
...Archaeology and Art: Babylonia and Assyria. - Historical sketch from Sargon I. to Nabonidus. The great art-centres and their historical relation; Erech, Ur, Sippar, Nippur, Babilu, Borsippa, Kutha, Larsa, Zirpurla, etc. Their great temples, sculpture and decoration. Characteristics of this art: was it in part Shemitic? Metal-work, especially bronze: enamelling: cylinders. Correspondence of types of Egyptian sculpture of early dynastics with some Babylonian sculpture, especially that of the recent discoveries at Tel-Loh. Distinctive marks of Babylonian and Assyrian art. Secular character of the latter. History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Ninevah and Calah...
...were the Romans of Asia. Their monarch was the representative of their God. He did not isolate himself from the people as oriental governors generally did. The home of the races from which the Assyrians are descended, was between the Tigris and the Euphrates. The greater part was called Babylonia; Assyria was situated further north near the sources of the Tigris...
...Chief results of these discoveries as regards the reconstruction of the history of the East before the Persian rule. Sketch of the gradual expansion of early Babylonian civilization, of the various states of Northern and Southern Babylonia, and of the rise of Assyria...
Ethnography. What were the races of Babylonia? Was the non-Shemitic population Turanian or Cushite? Which race worshiped natural forces, and employed magic? Which race developed an elaborate mythology? How did the religion of the Assyrians differ from this latter...