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Some Notes on Modern Babylonia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

R. Campbell Thompson
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The following paper is based on notes which I made during my three years of war service in Mesopotamia (1915–18) and a year (1904–5) at Mosul, and I venture to publish them in the hope that such piecemeal may be of use to those interested in comparing ancient Assyria with modern Mesopotamia.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , April 1923 , pp. 233 - 242
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1923

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page 235 note 1 I noticed instances of sloping roofs at Sulman Pak (Ctesiphon). Conical beehive huts are to be found east of Aleppo.

page 236 note 1 I am giving a fuller description of them in a forthcoming book on Mythology, and will therefore not repeat it here.

page 237 note 1 See my Pilgrim's Scrip, p. 258.

page 238 note 1 Tripoli : for a picture see frontispiece of my Pilgrim's Scrip.

page 240 note 1 These pots do not appear to retain any strikingly Assyrian shape. The sculptures show occasionally the pots in use, but except for the simple cup (Layard, Monuments, i, 5, etc., where, however, it may be of precious metal) little seems to survive. Besides, it is not always easy to be sure whether the pots are foreign booty or not.

page 240 note 2 I see that I have omitted the hinged lid. See Pl. IV, 15.

page 241 note 1 Mythology.