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Records of the Past, 2nd series, Vol. II

ed. by A. H. Sayce

[1888]


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Sargon asserts that he was preceded by 330 Assyrian kings.--p. 205

Records of the Past 2:2 has more Egyptian material than the first, including the Inscription of Uni, the Adventures of Sinuhit, and the Legend of the Expulsion of the Hyksos. Also of interest on the Egyptian side are some of the Tel El-Amarna letters, Babylonian cuneiform tablets found in Upper Egypt, copies of correspondence between Amenophis III and rulers throughout the ancient Near East. From Mesopotamia comes the brutal Inscription of Assur-natsir-pal, the Moabite Stone and an Akkadian Hymn to the Setting Sun, plus detailed king lists and chronologies. If you are curious about Assyrian, but found cuneiform off-putting, the Specimens of Assyrian Correspondence has complete transliterations of three short texts in the footnotes. Even the most mundane of these inscriptions are bejeweled with the names of gods and goddesses, some of them little-known local deities. Another very interesting entry in this series.--J.B. Hare, October 14, 2008.


Title Page
Preface
Contents
Hebrew Transliteration

I. Inscription of Uni (of the Sixth Dynasty)

Introduction
Translation

II. The Adventures of Sinuhit (of the Twelfth Dynasty)

Introduction
Text

III. The Legend of the Expulsion of the Hyksos

Introduction
Text

IV. The Stele of Thothmes IV (of the Eighteenth Dynasty)

Introduction
Text

V. Tablets of Tel El-Amarna Relating to Palestine in the Century Before the Exodus

Introduction
No. I
No. II
No. III
No. IV
No. V
No. VI

VI. The Inscriptions of Telloh

Introduction
Inscriptions of Ur-Bau
VII. Inscriptions of Gudea
VIII. Inscriptions of Ur-nin-girsu
IX. Inscription of Nam-maghâni
X. Inscription of Ghala-lamma
XI. Inscriptions of Dungi, King of Ur

VII. The Assyrian Chronological Canon

Introduction
Text
The Assyrian Chronicle

VIII. The Standard Inscription of Assur-natsir-pal

Introduction
Text

IX. Specimens of Assyrian Correspondence

Introduction
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3

X. Akkadian Hymn to the Setting Sun

Introduction
Text

XI. The Moabite Stone

Introduction
Text

 

Table of the Egyptian Dynasties
List of Kings of Assyria
Egyptian Calendar