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their own. Ourkam is the Menes of Chaldaea,and his date is put long before that Susian conquest of which wehave spoken above. The seals of Ourkam (see Fig. 3) andof his son Ilgi^ have been found. The name of the latter occursalmost as often as that of his father among the ruins of SouthernChalda;a.… … Fig. 3.—Seal of Ourliam. Ur, on the right bank of the Euphrates and near its ancient mouth,seems to have been the first capital of the country and its chiefcommercial centre in those early times. The premiership of Babylonas a holy city and seat of royalty cannot have been establisheduntil much…
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