History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria in the Light of ...
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria in the Light of ...
Leonard William King, Harry Reginald Hall
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But whichever of these views might be adopted, it was clear that Lugal- zaggisi was a great conqueror, and had achieved the right to assume the high-sounding title of lugal kalamaj '* king of the world/' In these circumstances it was of the first importance for the study of primitive Chal- daean history and chronology to ascertain approximately the period at which Lugalzaggisi reigned. Digitized by Google TRADITIONS CONFIRMED 185 The evidence on which such a question could be provisionally sett...led was of the vaguest and most un- certain character, but such as it was it had to sufl&ce, in the absence of more reliable data. In settling aU problems connected with early Chaldaean chronology, the starting-point was, and in fact still is, the period of Sargon I, King of Agade, inasmuch as the date of his reign is settled, according to the reckoning of the scribes of Nabonidus, as about 3800 b. c. It is true that this date has been called in question, and ingenious suggestions for amending it have been made by some writers, while others have rejected it altogether, holding that it merely represented a guess on the part of the late Babylonians and could be safely ignored in the chronological schemes which they brought forward.
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