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 . Sling(Koyiinjik).. Foot Archef of the Heavy Equipment, JJelts and head-dr(^s of a foot archer of the•with Attendant. (Time of Sennacherib.) third class. (Time of Sennacheiib.) en. VIII.] Siy, THE MOON-GOB.—SIIAMA8. 351 built a temple at Khorsabad,^ and to whom he assigned thesecond place among the tutelary deities of his cit}.*^ The Assyrian monarchs appear to have had a ciu-ious be-lief in the special an
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 . Sling(Koyiinjik).. Foot Archef of the Heavy Equipment, JJelts and head-dr(^s of a foot archer of the•with Attendant. (Time of Sennacherib.) third class. (Time of Sennacheiib.) en. VIII.] Siy, THE MOON-GOB.—SIIAMA8. 351 built a temple at Khorsabad,^ and to whom he assigned thesecond place among the tutelary deities of his cit}.*^ The Assyrian monarchs appear to have had a ciu-ious be-lief in the special antiquity of the Moon-god. When theywished to mark a very remote period, they the expres-sion from the origin of the god Sin. This is perhaps atrace of the ancient connection of Assyria with Babylonia,where the earliest capital, Ur, was under the Moon-gods pro-tection, and the most primeval temple was dedicated to hishonor. *- Only two temples are known to have been erected to Sin inAssyria. One is that already mentioned as dedicated bySargon at Bit-Sargina (Khorsabad) to the Sun and ^loon inconjunction. The other was at Calah, and in that Sin had noassociate. SHAMAS. Shamas, the Sun-god, though
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