[[494]] Cited by Professor Burrows in The Discoveries in Crete, p. 134.

[[495]] Like the Egyptian Horus, Nebo had many phases: he was connected with the sun and moon, the planet Mercury, water and crops; he was young and yet old--a mystical god.

[[496]] Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, pp. 94 et seq.

[[497]] Babylonian Magic and Sorcery, L.W. King, pp. 6-7 and 26-7.

[[498]] 2 Kings, xiii, 3.

[[499]] 2 Kings, xiii, 14-25.

[[500]] 3 Kings, xiii, 5, 6.

[[501]] The masses of the Urartian folk appear to have been of Hatti stock--"broad heads", like their descendants, the modern Armenians.

[[502]] It is uncertain whether this city or Kullani in north Syria it the Biblical Calno. Isaiah, x, 9.

Chapter XIX. Assyria's Age of Splendour