Brief Reference-List of Authorities by Chapters

[The letter a is reserved for Editorial Matter]

Chapter I. Land and People

b G. Weber, Allgemeine Weltgeschichte.

c Eduard Meyer, Geschichte des Alterthums.

d F. Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens.

e R. W. Rogers, History of Babylonia and Assyria.

f J. P. Peters, Nippur.

Chapter II. Old Babylonian History

b Hugo Radau, Early Babylonian History down to the IVth Dynasty of Ur.

c A. H. Sayce, from the article “Babylonia and Assyria,” in the New Volumes of the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

d E. A. T. W. Budge, Babylonian Life and History.

Chapter III. The Rise of Assyria

b H. Winckler, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens.

c Eduard Meyer, Geschichte des Alterthums.

d E. Babelon, Histoire de l’Orient.

e C. P. Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte.

Chapter IV. Four Generations of Assyrian Greatness

b C. P. Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte.

c Herodotus, The History of Herodotus (translated from the Greek by William Beloe).

g E. A. T. W. Budge, Annals of Shalmaneser II, Sennacherib, and Asshurbanipal.

Chapter V. The Decline and Fall of Assyria

b R. W. Rogers, History of Babylonia and Assyria.

c C. P. Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte.

Chapter VI. Renascence and Fall of Babylon

b F. Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens.

Chapter VII. Manners and Customs of Babylonia-Assyria

b A. H. Layard, Nineveh and its Remains.

c Herodotus, The History of Herodotus (translated from the Greek by William Beloe).

d Strabo, The Geography of Strabo (translated from the Greek by J. Falconer and H. C. Hamilton).

e A. H. L. Heeren, Historical Researches into the Politics, Intercourse, and Trade of the Principal Nations of Antiquity (Asiatic Nations).

f Joachim Menant, La Bibliothèque du Palais de Ninive.

Chapter VIII. The Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians

b Joachim Menant, La Bibliothèque du Palais de Ninive.

c L. W. King, Babylonian Religion and Mythology.

h P. Jensen, Cosmologie der Babylonier.

i H. Gunkel, Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit.

j L. W. King, Seven Tablets of Creation.

m Eberhard Schrader, Die Keilinschriften und Das Alte Testament, 3rd edition.

n A. Jeremias, Izdubar Nimrod.

o C. P. Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte.

Chapter IX. Babylonian and Assyrian Culture

b A. H. Layard, Nineveh and its Remains.

c Henry Smith Williams, “The Influence of Modern Research on the Scope of World History,” Prefatory Essay in Volume III of the New Volumes of the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

d Diodorus Siculus, The Historical Library (translated from the Greek by G. Booth).

e Eduard Meyer, Geschichte des Alterthums.

f Edward Hincks, from an article “On the Assyrio-Babylonian Measures of Time,” in Volume XXIV of the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1874.

g Joachim Menant, La Bibliothèque du Palais de Ninive.

h C. P. Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte.

i G. Nagel, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie, Vol. IV.

j M. Montgomery, Briefe aus der Zeit Hammurabis.

k C. Johnston, in the “Epistolary Literature of the Assyrians and Babylonians” in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. XVIII.

l Friedrich Delitzsch, article “Beiträge zur Erklärung der babylonisch-assyrischen Brieflitteratur” in Beiträge zur Assyriologie, Vol. I.

m F. Lenormant, Histoire ancienne de l’Orient.

Appendix A. Classical Traditions

b Isaac Preston Cory, Ancient Fragments.

c Diodorus Siculus. The Historical Library, (translated from the Greek by G. Booth).

d Claudius Ælianus, The Variable History of Ælianus (translated from the Greek by A. Fleming).

Appendix B. Excavations in Mesopotamia and Their Results

b A. H. Layard, Nineveh and its Remains.

c F. Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens.

d R. W. Rogers, History of Babylonia and Assyria.

j Henry Smith Williams, The History of the Art of Writing.