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* The children were compile y R posslble
quite impartially in Sumenan o practically nonexistent

from their appearance st whichPhad lived together for

dress, to distrngmdr di interinarried. But there

centuries in the city a

THE ZIGGURAT OF UR, AS IT APPEARED AT THE TIME OF ABRAHAM

(AFTER WOOLLEY). IT IS ABOUT 70 FEET HIGH AND CAN BE CLIMBED

BY THREE CONVERGING STAIRCASES.

were a few children among them, taller and leaner than the rest,

who spoke Sumerian only haltingly and whose Semitic, even,
was full of gutterals, which the other children joyously and rib-

aldly did their best to imitate. Though bom in Ur, these chil­

dren did not quite belong. They were second-generation immi­

grants, sons of the newcomers from the west, the Amorites.

It is not improbable that one of the boys playing on the

ziggurat steps in the nineteen twenties b.c. was Abram, the son of

er And his play would not be disturbed by any consciousness

a e, any knowledge that he was to be regarded down the