. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. XII.] FALL OF BABYLON. 305. f LcWwTiJ. ?-xJT-K/-i^- gal, the idol of the men of Cuth, had the form of a cock.*On a cyhnder in the British Museum there is a subject almost similar. A priest, :— . wearing the sacn- \J^-\j^t^.- ficial dress, stands at a table, before an altar bearing a crescent, and a smaller altar on which stands a cock. It would appear, therefore, that this bird was either worshipped ~ bv the Babvloni- Cylinder in the British Museum. ans, or by some neighbouring nation; or
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. XII.] FALL OF BABYLON. 305. f LcWwTiJ. ?-xJT-K/-i^- gal, the idol of the men of Cuth, had the form of a cock.*On a cyhnder in the British Museum there is a subject almost similar. A priest, :— . wearing the sacn- \J^-\j^t^.- ficial dress, stands at a table, before an altar bearing a crescent, and a smaller altar on which stands a cock. It would appear, therefore, that this bird was either worshipped ~ bv the Babvloni- Cylinder in the British Museum. ans, or by some neighbouring nation; or that it was sacri-ficed, as in Greece, on the celebration of certain The vast trade that rendered Babylon the gathering-placeof men from all parts of the known world, and supplied herwith luxuries from the remotest climes, had the effect of cor-rupting the manners of her people, and producing thatgeneral profligacy and those effeminate customs whichmainly contributed to her fall. The description given byHerodotus of the state of the population of the city whenunder the dominion of the Persian kings, is
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