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Page 46
It was not therefore found necessary to have recourse to any artificial material like clay tablets or cylinders ' baked afterwards as used in old Babylon . The libraries in old India had books made of birch bark and palm leaves ( ? ) ...
It was not therefore found necessary to have recourse to any artificial material like clay tablets or cylinders ' baked afterwards as used in old Babylon . The libraries in old India had books made of birch bark and palm leaves ( ? ) ...
Page 62
The Semitic people adopted the symbols as taken by the Sumerians , but the rectilinear pictograph of the Chaldĉan changed into a cuniform writing as the material used for writing a 2 а was soft clay written upon with a triangular 62 ...
The Semitic people adopted the symbols as taken by the Sumerians , but the rectilinear pictograph of the Chaldĉan changed into a cuniform writing as the material used for writing a 2 а was soft clay written upon with a triangular 62 ...
Page 63
2 а was soft clay written upon with a triangular - ended stylus and baked afterwards . The original pictures could hardly be recogrized in this wedge shaped writing , which grew simpler in time The Babylonians thus reached the beginning ...
2 а was soft clay written upon with a triangular - ended stylus and baked afterwards . The original pictures could hardly be recogrized in this wedge shaped writing , which grew simpler in time The Babylonians thus reached the beginning ...
Page 118
As the burial of the dead in clay coffins shaped like dish covers , as found in these cairns , was peculiar to the ancient Chaldĉan people , it is thought , and perhaps correctly , that the people buried here were descendants of men ...
As the burial of the dead in clay coffins shaped like dish covers , as found in these cairns , was peculiar to the ancient Chaldĉan people , it is thought , and perhaps correctly , that the people buried here were descendants of men ...
Page 134
... their local habitations , who have no priests to conduct their pājā , and who are not represented by anthropomorphic images or idols , but who are symbolised by little mounds of clay , or by unhewn blocks of stone , or by trees .
... their local habitations , who have no priests to conduct their pājā , and who are not represented by anthropomorphic images or idols , but who are symbolised by little mounds of clay , or by unhewn blocks of stone , or by trees .
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| Title | The Journal of the Bihar Research Society, Volume 8 |
| Author | Bihar Research Society |
| Published | 1922 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2008 |
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