| Show AN OLD LETTER A remarkable letter written sup 2600 2500 years ago by an assyrian princess has baa according to the baltimore Sun SUD been beon translated by copher jouston and published by the johr job hopkins hopkine university the letter was inscribed in cual cuni form characters on a tablet of baked clay and although ut of a private character is extremely interesting both on account of its ita high antiquity and add for the light it on mente and etiquette at i that remote period of human history bi etory the tablet lb supposed to have been written shortly before the destruction of nineveh and the overthrow of the assyrian empire the royal lady who probably dictated it was princess a granddaughter of the famous the translation of the letter il message of the kings daughter to ashhur sharr bharrat letter r t thou dost not properly address thy letter sent to me nor use the title to me befitting thy station people might say Is she the slater sister of erat the eldest aldest daughter of ashur etil alani the great king the mighty mighty king king of hosts king of asa syria but thou art only the daughter of the in law of the wife of eldest son eon of ung of As assyria AaBy syris ria I 1 it is plain enough that the in 11 dig nation of the princess bad ia won aroused by the breach i ip of eti etiquette on 00 the part of some lay friend of the he haughty beauty mud and that thatchie thin thie called forth th the e y rebuke condensed in the last t the translator tran alator i 1 11 flers era the fol baag explanatory remarks remar bg kF it if the lad v arsbur bharrat addressed t the princess as aa sister biser without being so go ahe he certainly committed a grosa gros b breach ro of etiquette and was guilty of a an bence which richly merited a re even if she ahe were actually her beier it la its doubtful whether she could t jve 0 0 addressed addre saed the eldest daughter of the family we find a prince peaking king of his bis father as the king my 1 11 but never as my father and among private individuals except in the Z of near relatives it was the anvari atlo able rule to address each person by bis big proper w title with the addition of the lord |
