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Greek coins and their parent cities (1902)

Ward, John, 1832-1912, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : J. Murray · leaf 523

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s themselves, and nothing 3et of their abodes. AsiaMinor and Syria are full of sculptured rocks and slabs, and inscriptions aboundin Hittite (and other lost languages) as well as in Greek and Latin. An Egyptian inscription exists, cut in the rock, by the Dog River nearBeyrout, on which Rameses the… … Sculptured Rocks on the Dog Kiver, near Beyrout. The gi-eat inscription is of Rameses II., about 1260 B.C. The figure is one of Esarhaddon, of Assyria. On the opposiside of the ravine is an inscription of Nebuchadnezzar, about 600 b.c. records to be found to tell us something of these once powerful…

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