[724] Isa. lvii, 8: "Thou didst love their bed, the yad thou sawest." The renderings in the English Revised Version are not possible.
[725] Lucian, op. cit., 28, cf. 16.
[726] The Aramean Atargatis, properly Attar-Ate, is substantially identical with Ashtart and Ishtar.
[727] Lucian, De Syria Dea, 15.
[728] J. P. Peters, Nippur, Index, s.v. Phallic symbols; Bliss and Macalister, Excavations in Palestine, p. 136; Macalister, Bible Side-lights, p. 72 f.
[729] These objects (Hebrew masseba) are denounced by the prophets because they were connected with the Canaanite non-Yahwistic worship. The same thing is true of the sacred wooden post (the ashera) that stood by shrines; Deut. xvi, 21 f., etc.
[730] Roscher, Lexikon, s.v. Priapos. Diodorus Siculus, iv, 6, mentions also Ithyphallos and Tychon.
[731] Roscher, Lexikon.
[732] S. Seligmann, Der böse Bück und Verwandtes, ii, 191 ff.
[733] Diodorus Siculus, i, 88.