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English: "A sirrush, not enameled." "In the Babylonian pantheon of Nebuchandnezzar's time, Marduk occupied a very prominent position. To him belonged Esagila, the principal temple of Babylon, and to him Nebuchandnezzar consecrated the Procession Street and the Ishtar Gate itself. His animal, the sirrush, frequently appears on carvings of this period, such as the seals and boundary stones. This 'dragon of Babylon' was the far-famed animal of Babylon, and fits in admirably with the well-known story in the Apocrypha of Bel and the Dragon. One may easily surmise that the priests of Esagila kept some reptile, probably an arval, which is found in this neighborhood, and exhibited it in the semi-darkness of a temple chamber as a living sirrush. In this case there would be small cause for wonder the creature did not survive the concoction of hair and bitumen administered to it by Daniel."
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Source The Excavations at Babylon (1914)
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Robert Koldewey  (1855–1925)  wikidata:Q60700
 
Robert Koldewey
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Robert Johann Koldewey
Description German archaeologist, architectural historian, architect and assyriologist
Date of birth/death 10 September 1855 Edit this at Wikidata 4 February 1925 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Blankenburg am Harz Berlin
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Camera location32° 32′ 11″ N, 44° 25′ 15″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Robert Koldewey. The Excavations at Babylon. Translated by Agnes S. Johns. With 255 Illustrations and Plans. St. Martin's Street, London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

Fig. 32, p. 47.

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