The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . eser, the latter ofwhich occurs four times in our list. Va-rious explanations have been given of thename stialiiiaiiescr (see Athenanim, No1809, p. •-H, note; Oppert, Expeditionscientifl(iue, vol. il. p. 352); but none issatisfactoiy. 2 SarKon, Adraminelech, and here some doubt attaches to onename. If we read Sanasar for Sharezer,the name will be a religious one. , they either contain t
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . eser, the latter ofwhich occurs four times in our list. Va-rious explanations have been given of thename stialiiiaiiescr (see Athenanim, No1809, p. •-H, note; Oppert, Expeditionscientifl(iue, vol. il. p. 352); but none issatisfactoiy. 2 SarKon, Adraminelech, and here some doubt attaches to onename. If we read Sanasar for Sharezer,the name will be a religious one. , they either contain the nameNin, or the common designation of thegod, Pal-Zira. This is th(! name which be<^ngiven as , a name composed ofthree elements, each one of which is ofmicertain sound, while the second andthird are of micertain meaning. *?• Sir H. Rawlinson has collected a nearly a tlioussind Assyrian two-thirds of them have the nameof a god for their dominant (element. An-shur and Nebo hold the foremost place,and are of about eijual frequency. Theother divine names occur much less oftentlian , and no one of them has anyparticular A MAP OF MEDIA
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