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 . er names of kings, be-longing evidently to the same series,®^ which are too obscureor too illegible for transliteration. And there may, of course,have been many others of whom no traces remain, or of Avhomnone have been as yet found. On the other hand, it may beobserved, that the number of the early Chaldeean kings re-ported by Polyhistor ^^ is preposterous. If sixty-eight con-secutive monarchs held the C
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 . er names of kings, be-longing evidently to the same series,®^ which are too obscureor too illegible for transliteration. And there may, of course,have been many others of whom no traces remain, or of Avhomnone have been as yet found. On the other hand, it may beobserved, that the number of the early Chaldeean kings re-ported by Polyhistor ^^ is preposterous. If sixty-eight con-secutive monarchs held the Chaldsean throne between and 1546, they must have reigned on an average, lessthan eleven years apiece. Nay, if fortj^-nine ruled 2004 and 1546, covering a space of little more thanfour centuries and a half—which is what Berosus is made toassert—these later monarchs cannot even have reigned so longas ten years each, an average which may be pronouncedquite impossible in a settled monarchy such as the probability would seem to be that Berosus has been misre-ported, his numbers having suffered corruption during their Vol. I Fig. Plate J^v^i ?±d
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