Religions of the ancient world, including Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome . hemesh, which is found in two of thenative inscriptions. Abed-Shemesh means servant of Shemesh, asObadiah means servantof Jehovah, and Ab-dallah servant of Allah ;and is as unmistakableevidence of the worship ofShemesh by the people whoemployed it as the parallelnames are of the worship,respectively, of Jehovahand Allah by Jews andMohammedans. The sun-worship of the Phceni-cianB seems to have been accompanied by a use of sun-images,^ of which we have perhaps a speci-men in
Religions of the ancient world, including Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome . hemesh, which is found in two of thenative inscriptions. Abed-Shemesh means servant of Shemesh, asObadiah means servantof Jehovah, and Ab-dallah servant of Allah ;and is as unmistakableevidence of the worship ofShemesh by the people whoemployed it as the parallelnames are of the worship,respectively, of Jehovahand Allah by Jews andMohammedans. The sun-worship of the Phceni-cianB seems to have been accompanied by a use of sun-images,^ of which we have perhaps a speci-men in the accompanying figure, which occurs ona votive table found in Numidia,* although thetablet itself is dedicated to Baal. There was alsoconnected with it a dedication to the sun-godof chariots and horses, to which a quasi-divine 1 The Authors Herodotus, vol. i. pp. 631-634. sfTesenius, Script. Phoen. Mon. pi. 9, 3 This is given in the margin of 2 Chron. xiv. 5 and xxxiv. 4,as the proper translation of Miammanim, vrhich seem certainlyto have been images of some kind or other. ?iGesenius, Script. Phcen. Mon. pi. THE SUN. THE RELIGION OF THE PHCENICIANS. 1G7 character attached/ so that certain persons weretrom their birth consecrated to the sacred horses,and given by their parents the name of Abed^Susim, servant of the horses, as we find by anmscnption from Cypms.^ It may be suspectedthat the Hadad or Hadar of the Syrians was avariant name of Shamas, perhaps connected ^ithachr, glorious, and if so, T^dth the Sepharvitegod, Adi-ammelech. ^ Adodus, according toPhilo Bybhus, was in a certain sense king(w^/^A-) of the gods. These latter considerations make it doubtfulwhether the Moloch or Molech, who was thechief divmity of the Ammonites,^ and of whoseworship by the Phoenicians there are certainindications,^ is to be .dewed as a separate andsubstantive god, or as a form of some other, as ofShamas, or of Baal, or of Melkarth, or even ofEl. Molech meaning simply king is a termthat
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