. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. gardensformed one of the greatest ornaments of Babylon. The lines GG arethe remains of one of the Avails. About six miles to the ofBabylon AA-as Borsippa, represented by Birs-Xirnrud, Avhere a mound ofa pyramidal form, built up in a series of seven stages to a height of153 feet, is croAAmed by the remains of the temple of Xebo : it was 2 The construction of these walls was commonly attributed to Semiramis :—0777] TT^arv Tel\o<;Acr(;baATa) Sijcraaa Se/xtpa/xt? e/x/SacrtAevei.—TheoCR. Idy
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. gardensformed one of the greatest ornaments of Babylon. The lines GG arethe remains of one of the Avails. About six miles to the ofBabylon AA-as Borsippa, represented by Birs-Xirnrud, Avhere a mound ofa pyramidal form, built up in a series of seven stages to a height of153 feet, is croAAmed by the remains of the temple of Xebo : it was 2 The construction of these walls was commonly attributed to Semiramis :—0777] TT^arv Tel\o<;Acr(;baATa) Sijcraaa Se/xtpa/xt? e/x/SacrtAevei.—TheoCR. Idyl. xvi. 99. uhi dicitur altamCoctilibus maris cinxisse Semiramis urbem.—Ov. Ifet. iv. statuit Babylona Semiramis nrbem, Lt solidum cocto tolleret ag-gere opus ;Et duo in adversum misit per mcenia currus, Ne possp-^.t tacto stringere ab axe et Euphraten medium, quam condidit, arci, Jussit et imperio surgere Bactra caput.—Propert. iii. 11, 21. 214 BABYLOXIA. Book II. erected by Xebuchadnezzar, and has been erroneously identified vdththe Tower of Babel {Gen. xi. 4).. View of the Kasr, or ancient Palace of Xebuchadnezzar. The early history of Babylon is involved in much obscurity: it wasnot the original capital of the country, and its existence is not carriedback by historical evidence to a period anterior to the 15th when it is noticed in an Egyptian inscription. The earliest noticein the Bible occurs in the reign of Hezekiah, 712. At that time itwas ruled by its own king ; but generally speaking it was subject tothe kings of Xineveh during the period of Assyrian ascendancy. Afterthe fall of Xineveh it rose to be the head of a mighty empire, and and adorned by Xebuchadnezzar. It was taken by 538, who regula]ly resided there for a certain period of the year:the fortifications were destroyed by Darius Hystaspis, and the templeof Belus by Xerxes. Babylon retained its position until the time ofAlexander the Great
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