[554] 1 Kings, vii, 15-22; Ezek. xl, 49.
[555] Perrot and Chipiez, Histoire de l'art, vol. iii; cf. Pletschmann, Phönizier, p. 203 ff.; Rawlinson, Phœnicia, p. 338.
[556] Cf. below, § 399 ff.
[557] W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, 2d ed., p. 487 ff.
[558] Strabo, iii, 5, 5.
[559] Those of Solomon's temple are described as being 27 feet in height, and without stairways. Cf. the structures connected with the Hierapolis temple (Lucian, De Syria Dea, 28).
[560] Desire for height appears also in the Egyptian pyramid and the Babylonian ziggurat, but both these had means of ascent to the higher levels. Cf. below, § 1085.
[561] Maspero, Egyptian Archæology, p. 100 ff.
[562] The movement from aniconic to anthropomorphic forms is seen in the image of the Ephesian Artemis, the upper half human, the lower half a pillar (Roscher, Lexikon, i, 1, cols. 588, 595).
[563] Examples in Tylor's Primitive Culture, 2d ed., ii, 170 f.; cf. his Early History of Mankind, chap. vi.