Identifier: historyofbabylon00kinguoft (find matches)
Title: A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919
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Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n period, ^ It was not merely as booty, but iu order to gain their favour, that Sin-idinnam and his amiy carried off certain Elamite goddesses to their own land^conveying them carefully as in their shrines ; and on the restoration of theimages to Elam the goddesses themselves returned thither (cf. Letters ofHammurabi/ III., pp. 6 ff.). It was in the same spii-it that Nebuchadnezzar I.gave sanctuary to the refugee priests from Elam, and introduced their godRia into Babylon (see above, p. 253 f.). - See above, pp. 221 f., 240. ^ Agum-kakrimes recovery of the images of Marduk and Sarpanitum isan instance in point (see above, pp. 210, 218). But perhaps the most strikingexample is Ashur bani-pals recovery of Nanas image from Susa, which hadbeen carried off from Erech sixteen hundred and thirty-five years before (seeabove, p. 113). He probably found her installed in her Susian shrine, perhapswithin the temple of Shushinak, the national god. Fig. 69.figuee of deity in SHBINE. (After Layard.)
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DIVINE E.MBLE.MS ON A CHARTER OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR I.Brit. Mus., No. CULTURAL INFLUENCE 297 and Nabonidus offence in the eyes of the priesthoodwas simply that he ignored the feehng. Historicalevidence thus suggests that the astral aspect of divinityin Babylonia was not an original feature of its religioussystem, and that it was never adopted to the exclusionof more primitive ideas. A similar result follows if we examine the relationof a Babylonian deity to his sculptured emblem, bymeans of which his authority or presence could incertain circumstances be secured or indicated. Theorigin of such emblems was not astrological, nor is itto be sought in liver-augury: they were not deri\edfrom fancied resemblances to animals or objects, pre-sented either by constellations in heaven, or by mark-ings on the liver of a victim. It is clear that they arosein the first instance from the characters or attributesassumed by the gods in the mythology; their transfer-ence to constellations was a secondary

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