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 . inary worship of thegods was conducted. The sculptures are for the most partmonuments erected by kings; and when these have a religiouscharacter, they represent the performance by the kings oftheir own religious duties, from which little can be concludedas to the religious observances of the people. The kings seemto have united the priestly with the regal character; and inthe religious scenes representing
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 . inary worship of thegods was conducted. The sculptures are for the most partmonuments erected by kings; and when these have a religiouscharacter, they represent the performance by the kings oftheir own religious duties, from which little can be concludedas to the religious observances of the people. The kings seemto have united the priestly with the regal character; and inthe religious scenes representing their acts of woiship, nopriest ever intervenes between them and the god, or appearsto assume any but a very subordinate position. The king him-self stands and worships in close proximity to the holy tree;with his own hand he pours libations; and it is not unlikelythat he was entitled with his own arm to sacrifice victims.^^But we can scarcely suppose that the people had these privi-leges. Sacerdotal ideas have prevailed in almost all Orientalmonarchies, and it is notorious that they had a strong holdupon the neighboring and nearly connected kingdom of Baby- Vol I. Fig. 1 Plate Foot Arcliera of the lightest equip-ment. (Time of Sennacherib.) Fig. 2.
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