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rope nets borne by two men. These threshing floors were circular level plots of land, near the field, or in the vicinity of the granary; and,

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wheat are represented as growing in the same field, but the doura is the taller of the two. It was not reaped, but was pulled up by the roots by men, and s

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in Pharaoh's cup, and the baker having got a stone into the royal bread, so that Pharaoh thought they were conspiring against his life. We know they were put in prison with Joseph, and related their dreams to him. The dream of the Opheh, or chief baker, was that he 'had three white baskets on his head, an

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bronze bands of the great gates of Balawat are recorded the warlike doings of Shalmaneser II. in detail. In almost every camp that is represented are men depicted as preparing bread against the return

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f antiquities. He experienced some difficulty from the villagers of Balawat, as the mound had been used by them for some years as a burial ground, and their scruples having been overcome,

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ch remain in Babylonia bear witness to an advanced civilisation; these are constructed of masonry, which slanted up to the hei

s wheat, or barley, moistened with water, kneaded in a bowl,