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THE BURIED CITIES OF ANCIENT EGYPT.
69
Daughter;" and I do not doubt that the invincible Assyri-
an wrought his uttermost vengeance upon the " remnant of
Judah."
Nor must we forget the additional testimony of three
clay cylinders of Nebuchadnezzar, inscribed in cuneiform
characters, and now in the National Egyptian Museum.
Some seven or eight years ago these cylinders were sold to
Professor Maspero by an Arab who found them, as we have
every reason to believe, upon this very spot; and such cylin-
ders were precisely the memorials which Nebuchadnezzar
would have left buried beneath the spot where he spread
his pavilion, and planted his royal standard, in the hour of
victory.
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69
Daughter;" and I do not doubt that the invincible Assyri-
an wrought his uttermost vengeance upon the " remnant of
Judah."
Nor must we forget the additional testimony of three
clay cylinders of Nebuchadnezzar, inscribed in cuneiform
characters, and now in the National Egyptian Museum.
Some seven or eight years ago these cylinders were sold to
Professor Maspero by an Arab who found them, as we have
every reason to believe, upon this very spot; and such cylin-
ders were precisely the memorials which Nebuchadnezzar
would have left buried beneath the spot where he spread
his pavilion, and planted his royal standard, in the hour of
victory.
t ■ ■■■..... ■ —n~
*4
:a T^Si
'' '■'
wS'r:
Q
!©K»
->_>-
gM^^^ L'T'^-g^Z^S m: nA
f^^_
POTTKIIV I.N THE CELLAR OF HOUSE OF BAKAKHIU.