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Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. III

By A. H. Sayce

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Table of Contents

 

 

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I.The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep: The Oldest Book in the World. By M. Philippe Virey                 1

II.The Daughter of the Prince of Bakhtan, and the Spirit that Possessed her.

    By Professor G. Maspero, Member of the Institute                                                                 36

III.Hymn to the Nile. By M. Paul Guieysse                                                                                   46

IV.Letters to Egypt from Babylonia, Assyria, and Syria, in the

     Fifteenth Century B.C. By the Editor                                                                                       55

V.Ancient Babylonian Agricultural Precepts. By Mr. G. Bertin                                                      91

VI.The India House Inscription of Nebuchadrezzar The Great. By the Rev. C. J. Ball                 102

VII.Contract-Tablets Relating to Belshazzar. By the Editor                                                           124