[[266]] Herodotus, book i, 181-3 (Rawlinson's translation).
[[267]] History of Sumer and Akkad, L.W. King, p. 37.
[[268]] Herodotus, book i, 196 (Rawlinson's translation).
[[269]] Home Life of the Highlanders (Dr. Cameron Gillies on Medical Knowledge,) pp. 85 et seq. Glasgow, 1911.
[[270]] Translations by R.C. Thompson in The Devils and Spirits of Babylon, vol. i, pp. lxiii et seq.
[[271]] Bridges which lead to graveyards.
Chapter XI. The Golden Age of Babylonia
Abstract
Rise of the Sun God--Amorites and Elamites struggle for Ascendancy--The Conquering Ancestors of Hammurabi--Sumerian Cities Destroyed--Widespread Race Movements--Phoenician Migration from Persian Gulf--Wanderings of Abraham and Lot--Biblical References to Hittites and Amorites--Battles of Four Kings with Five--Amraphel, Arioch, and Tidal--Hammurabi's Brilliant Reign--Elamite Power Stamped Out--Babylon's Great General and Statesman--The Growth of Commerce, Agriculture, and Education--An Ancient School--Business and Private Correspondence--A Love Letter--Postal System--Hammurabi's Successors--The Earliest Kassites--The Sealand Dynasty--Hittite Raid on Babylon and Hyksos Invasion of Egypt.
Sun worship came into prominence in its most fully developed form during the obscure period which followed the decline of the Dynasty of Isin. This was probably due to the changed political conditions which brought about the ascendancy for a time of Larsa, the seat of the Sumerian sun cult, and of Sippar, the seat of the Akkadian sun cult. Larsa was selected as the capital of the Elamite conquerors, while their rivals, the Amorites, appear to have first established their power at Sippar.