Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . esse Tarshish et Cetis (Cetliim).—W. F. A. * Very little is known as to the locality peopled by the descendants of the CushiteDedan. It is supposed that they settled in southern Arabia, near the Persian Gulf;but the existence in that quarter of a place called Dadan or Dadena is the chief gi-oimdfor this conclusion. The Rev. Charles Forster has, however, shewn in his HistoricalGeography of Arabia, that con-elative testimony is given of this opi
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . esse Tarshish et Cetis (Cetliim).—W. F. A. * Very little is known as to the locality peopled by the descendants of the CushiteDedan. It is supposed that they settled in southern Arabia, near the Persian Gulf;but the existence in that quarter of a place called Dadan or Dadena is the chief gi-oimdfor this conclusion. The Rev. Charles Forster has, however, shewn in his HistoricalGeography of Arabia, that con-elative testimony is given of this opinion by the juxta-position of kindred names (vol. i. pp. 38, 63). With regard to the descendants of theCushite Sheba, there seems no reason to doubt that their ultimate settlement was inEthiopia; while the descendants of Sheba, son of Joktan, peopled Yemen in the distinction between the African Sabseans and Arabian Sabasans; but therewere also Badwin or wandering Shebans (Job i. 15) and Chaldean Sabseans, or,more properly, Tsabians, particularly described by Mr. Rich and the Rev. Mr. Wolff.—W. F. A. 14 CILICIA AND ITS the learned historian does not proceed to say; but in another passage welearn from hini that the Egyptians, in the reign of Ptolemy Philadel-phns, 284, obtained the statue of the god Serapisfrom Sinope in Pontus; and although the epoch when\vr^i:itian priests attributed the origin of theirnation to the Phi-ijgicms, close neighbours of the Cili-cians, we may conclude that a great similarity existedin the worship and religious ceremonies of the tAvocountries. This siibject is more particularly illus-trated in that part of the work which refers to thenewly-discovered teira-cottas, among which have beenfound heads of Horus and other deities of the Egyptian pantheon, as alsothe god Osiris, represente
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