● Ifyalembwa fya bena Babiloni.

Ni finshi? Fipaapatu ifyalekanalekana apalembwa ifintu ifyacindama ifyalecitika mu Babiloni.²

Finshi abasoma balandapo? Uwasoma sana ifyalembwa fya cuneiform, R. H. Sack atile ifi fyalembwa tafilanda pali fyonse ifyacindama ifyacitike kale.b Alembele ukuti bakalemba we lyashi lya kale bafwile “ukufwailisha ifyebo na fimbi . . . pa kuti beshibe bwino bwino ifyacitike kale.”

Finshi ifyalembwa filanga? Mu fyalembwa fya bena Babiloni, balishamo ifyebo fimo.³ (Belengeni akabokoshi akali pe samba.) Ici kuti calenga twaipusha ukuti, Bushe kuti twacetekela ifyo bakalemba wa lyashi balanda nga ca kutila mu fyalembwa umo balefumya ifyebo, tamwalembwa ifishinka fyonse?

[Akabokoshi na Charti pe bula 23]

(Nga mulefwaya ukumona ifi, moneni muli magazini)

IFYALEMBWA FYA BENA BABILONI—TAMWABA IFYEBO FYONSE

Mu fyalembwa fya bena Babiloni mwalembwa fye ilyashi lya fyacitike mu myaka 35 iya Buteko bwa Babiloni Ubwalenga Bubili ubo batunganya ukuti bwaliko pa myaka 88.

◻IMYAKA BASHALEMBELE IFYALECITIKA

◼IMYAKA BALEMBELE IFYALECITIKA

BM 21901 BM 21946 BM 35382

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Nabopolassar Nebukadnesari II Amel-Marduk Nabonidus

Neriglissar Labashi-Marduk

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BM 25127 BM 22047 BM 25124

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BM 21901 and BM 35382: Photograph taken by courtesy of the British Museum; BM 21946: Copyright British Museum; BM 22047, 25124, 25127: © The Trustees of the British Museum