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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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The
inscription
ran
thus,
the
missing
fragment
being
restored,
"by
analogy
from
many
similar
inscriptions":--
TO
THE
GOD
NIBIB,
CHILD
OF
THE
GOD
BEL,
HIS
LORD
KURIGALZU,
PONTIFEX
OF
THE
GOD
BEL
HAS
PRESENTED
IT.
But,
in
the
drawings,
the
fragments
were
of
different
colours,
so
that
a
student
working
on
the
drawings
would
not
guess
them
to
be
parts
of
one
cylinder.
Professor
Hilprecht,
however,
examined
the
two
actual
fragments
in
the
Imperial
Museum
at
Constantinople.
They
lay
in
two
distinct
cases,
but,
when
put
together,
fitted.
When
cut
asunder
of
old,
in
Babylon,
the
white
vein
of
the
stone
showed
on
one
fragment,
the
grey
surface
on
the
other.
Professor
Romaine
Newbold,
who
publishes
this
dream,
explains
that
the
professor
had
unconsciously
reasoned
out
his
facts,
the
difference
of
colour
in
the
two
pieces
of
agate
disappearing
in
the
dream.
The
professor
had
heard
from
Dr.
Peters
of
the
expedition,
that
a
room
had
been
discovered
with
fragments
of
a
wooden
box
and
chips
of
agate
and
lapis
lazuli.
The
sleeping
mind
"combined
its
information,"
reasoned
rightly
from
it,
and
threw
its
own
conclusions
into
a
dramatic
form,
receiving
the
information
from
the
lips
of
a
priest
of
Nippur.
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