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Diorite   /dˈaɪərˌaɪt/   Listen
Diorite

noun
1.
A granular crystalline intrusive rock.





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... at Susa, Persia, in December and January, 1901-2, by M. de Morgan's French excavating expedition. The monument on which the laws are inscribed, a stele of black diorite nearly eight feet high, has been fully described by Assyriologists, and the inscription transcribed. It has been completely translated by Dr. Hugo Winckler, whose translation (in Die Gesetze Hammurabis, Band IV, Heft 4, of Der Alte Orient) furnishes the basis of the version herewith ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various


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