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But whether Babylonian astrotheology was not really primitive or whether it went back to the pre-Semitic period we do not yet know.

From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

Were the pre-Semitic Elamites originally speakers of an agglutinative language, like the Sumerians and present-day Basques, who were conquered in prehistoric times by a people of Aryan speech?

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

Like the other great sanctuaries of Babylonia the temple had been founded in pre-Semitic times, and the future Babylon grew up around it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

Sumerian laws found in the phrase-books That laws were already enacted in the pre-Semitic or Sumerian days we may regard as certain.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

A bilingual vocabulary, however, gives a Sumerian word for this article of dress, which may therefore have been occasionally adopted in pre-Semitic days.

From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)