Show t at e 4 t BIBLICAL aado ACCOUNT S fruit P of r th 11 american i in tho the s 1 at X ff affer r N nuna una london during buring them the last few years year thi the of archaeological e exploration x plo in babelonia babylonia Baby lonia lias I 1 las been ban aim almost 0 g t entirely confined to the labors of the american expedition who nave have been engaged vii for several i MI years tears in the systematic ex cx of the great mound ial W central Baby babelonia Babylon lonia la the sue rite of the th e ancient city of and to the partially resumed Ld work ork of ofal IL de marzec at tello the ancient abash T the i discoveries made by these eipl explorers orm hav have e lwi been bof of great importance but they chiefly related to the earliest days of the Chal chaldean dead empl empire re as far back as bofo before rethe the christian era em important ast as hesp isco verles are a as 3 furnishing us na with the material by which to study the dawn of civilization in chaldea there has always been a desire that we should obtain some inscribed records possible historical I 1 inscriptions of the period of the new babylonian Babylon lah empire B 0 I 1 especially of the reigns of zer 11 II and Nabo with the exception of the babylonian chronicle of the reign of the latter monarch and a few 1 historical I notices in hs his cylinder inscriptions we have but lit little tle indication of the existence of historical records nc A discovery dle diE covery of the greatest im aueLl been made by rather father schell who has for some time been exploring in babelonia babylonia Baby lonia in the he mound one of the principal heaps of ruins ruing in the center of babylon he has discovered a long inscription of Nabo the tast last of the babylonian kings B B C which con contains tans a niam mass of history and other data winch will be of the greatest value to students of this important period of babylonian Babylo blan history the monument in question Is a small stella of the upper part of which Is broken inscribed with eleven columns of writing and which appears to have been erected early in the kings rel reign agn it resembles I 1 in n some gome measure the celebrated cel leb rated india house inscription of 7 ar but Is much more full of historical historic xa matter ater its value may bo be estimated when it misstated Is st bated stated that it contains a record of the war of revenge conducted by the babylonians ion a us and alid hilles allies against as assyria the destruction of the city of in B 0 an account ot of the election and coronation of us in 13 C 5 and the wonderful dream in which ir appeared to him as well as an account of the restoration of the temple of the moon of god tit at knar khar ran accompanied by a chronological record which enables us to fix the e date it ol 01 the so iso called invasion there is also a valuable reference to the murder of by his son in tebet B C the account of the dream Is incomplete but it is most important as showing the implicit bellef belief which these babylonian kings had in portents by dreams drea ms and it a also a remarkable h able confirmation of cf the statements sLite ments of daniel aniel D in regard to the dreams of there are miny other oilier liters referred to in the inscription which are anre of the great interest especially the portion po rt ion relating to the apportionment portion ment of the temple revenues |