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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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ed inconnection with thedata furnished by thecuneiform inscriptions.Herodotus speaks of atemple and of an eight-storied tower sacred toBel, and many scholarssuggested that the tow-er referred to was notin the city of Babylon,but on the western sideof the Euphrates.Nebuchadnezzar, how-ever, in his inscriptionsexpressly refers to agreat tower which hebuilt in Babylon withinthe sacred area of E-sa-gila, and now that the latter has beenfound there is no longer any occasionto doubt that the tower likewise stood tothe south of the palace. Of the templeitself, a portion of a large court with fiveadjoining rooms has been laid bare, andthe positions of various gates and en-trances determined. A large quantity ofsmall objects has also been found in thetemple proper, consisting of varieties ofseal cylinders, Egyptian scarabs, weightsin the shape of small ducks, clay cylin-ders with inscriptions, fragments ofstatues, and other ornaments. * Book i., sections 181-3. OF 814 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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Adad, the Storm-God Of objects of special interest, thereare two oblong pieces of lapis lazuli, onwhich are carved with great skill thepictures of two gods who are of vastimportance in the Babylonian pan-theon. One of these is Adad, the godof thunder and storm, who is repre-sented with the lightning in both hands,while an inscription of a few lines ac-companying the design reveals the nameof the god, and also tells us that theobject itself was presented as a homageto Marduk by Esarhaddon (680-668 B.C.),the King of Assyria and son of Sennach-erib, who destroyed Babylon. To atonefor what his father did, Esarhaddon be-gan to reconstruct the city, and thislittle monument is an interesting testi-mony to his devotion to both Adad andMarduk. The other object shows a mag-nificent figure of none other than Mar-duk himself, in all his dignity, clothedin handsome brocaded garments, andholding in his left hand a ring and staff,which were his symbols as the sun-god.He stands over the waters which

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