The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... Assyrians , it was strong enough in the next century to resist the assaults of Psammetichus for twenty - nine years . Restored by the Roman Gabinius from the ruins in which it had been left by the Jewish wars , it was presented by ...
... Assyrians , it was strong enough in the next century to resist the assaults of Psammetichus for twenty - nine years . Restored by the Roman Gabinius from the ruins in which it had been left by the Jewish wars , it was presented by ...
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... Assyrian pronunciation Bil ) of the first triad of the Babylonian Pantheon , that is the Bel , as distinct from the Baal , of the Old Testament . This Assy- rian and Babylonian Bel is no mere solar or planetary god , but is represented ...
... Assyrian pronunciation Bil ) of the first triad of the Babylonian Pantheon , that is the Bel , as distinct from the Baal , of the Old Testament . This Assy- rian and Babylonian Bel is no mere solar or planetary god , but is represented ...
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... Assyrian mythology , where we find that the planet Venus was worshipped as the chaste goddess Istar , when she appeared as a morning star , and as the impure Bilit or Beltis , the Mylitta of Herod . ( i . 199 ) , when she was an evening ...
... Assyrian mythology , where we find that the planet Venus was worshipped as the chaste goddess Istar , when she appeared as a morning star , and as the impure Bilit or Beltis , the Mylitta of Herod . ( i . 199 ) , when she was an evening ...
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... Assyrian supremacy . But it suffered severely Indeed Q. Curtius asserts ( v . 1 , 27 ) that even in the most at the ... Assyria , breaking Nineveh was 150 feet high , even in Xenophon's time now and then into fierce revolt under the ...
... Assyrian supremacy . But it suffered severely Indeed Q. Curtius asserts ( v . 1 , 27 ) that even in the most at the ... Assyria , breaking Nineveh was 150 feet high , even in Xenophon's time now and then into fierce revolt under the ...
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... ASSYRIA . Geographically , as well as ethnologically and historically , the whole district en- closed between the two great rivers of Western Asia , the Tigris and Euphrates , forms but one country . The writers of antiquity clearly ...
... ASSYRIA . Geographically , as well as ethnologically and historically , the whole district en- closed between the two great rivers of Western Asia , the Tigris and Euphrates , forms but one country . The writers of antiquity clearly ...
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