. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments ... ■£££ >t«l)S a bt; c 9 M « o-^ >,3 -o «_,« %*-•£ gS 3 5 ««« _r-~ S^ al 5 ~ (Ill?-. .hx m _- CL u ^) C 5^1-en-- °5^ 5iOS.,b£: 2f*J1§|!l#4l! ■ocr 1 ?, u«JS«c ^c * .•n^5T|£ J5 Mca£.2_,*0 S5ST3i20 «TJ i « u ■3 *• m 3 a! £ ££2 f-Sc ° 0)° 3 - ^c^cc:«^i2l;H£^ T3C! 52TI E.«a£3fl d~ Sr-H£ °£ => D3 H &S^-3 m ^ M«iJ 3 3 .UM5r 35) o2 « o „ w j, 5 4,^.2 3 ? ? ^. Plate LL—WORSHIP OF THE SUN-GOD. From a stone Tablet in the British Museum, recording the restoration of the Temple of the Sun-God at Sippara, near Babylon, by N
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