. Babel and Bible;. Fig. 57. The SuNGod of Sippar Enthroned in His Holy of Holies. (Lenormant, V., p. 301.) 64 BABEL AND BIBLE. thing that savors of the ugly, the ignoble, or the gro-tesque. The Prophet Ezekiel (chap, i.) in his visions ofhis Lord saw God enter on a living chariot formed of fourwinged creatures with the face of a man, a lion, an ox,and an eagle, and on the heads of these cherubim he saw(x. l) a crystal surface supporting a sapphire throne onwhich God was seated in the likeness of a man, bathed inthe most resplendent Noting carefully these. Fig. 58. Babylonian Cylind
. Babel and Bible;. Fig. 57. The SuNGod of Sippar Enthroned in His Holy of Holies. (Lenormant, V., p. 301.) 64 BABEL AND BIBLE. thing that savors of the ugly, the ignoble, or the gro-tesque. The Prophet Ezekiel (chap, i.) in his visions ofhis Lord saw God enter on a living chariot formed of fourwinged creatures with the face of a man, a lion, an ox,and an eagle, and on the heads of these cherubim he saw(x. l) a crystal surface supporting a sapphire throne onwhich God was seated in the likeness of a man, bathed inthe most resplendent Noting carefully these. Fig. 58. Babylonian Cylinder-Seal with RepresentationResembling the Vision of Ezekiel. details, can we fail to observe the striking resemblancewhich his vision presents to the representation of a godwhich has been found on a very ancient Babylonian cyl-inder-seal (Fig. 58) ? Standing on an odd sort of vessel,the prow and stern of which terminate in seated humanfigures, may be seen two cherubim with their backs toeach other and with their faces, which are human in form, BABEL AND BIBLE. 65 turned to the front. Their attitude leads us to infer thatthere are two corresponding figures at the rear. On theirbacks reposes a surface, and on this surface stands athrone on which the god sits, bearded and clothed in longrobes, with a tiara on his head, and in his right handwhat are apparently a scepter and a ring: and behind thethrone, standing ready to answer his beck and call, is aservitor of the god, who may be likened to the man clothed with linen (Ezekiel ix. 3, and x. 2) that exe-cuted the
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