[312]. East India House Inscription, Col. III., ll. 48–50.
[313]. Ibid., Col. VIII., ll. 5–9.
[314]. Ibid., Col. IX., ll. 9–16.
[315]. Grotefend Cylinder, Col. I., ll. 36–38.
[316]. East India House Inscr., col. II., ll. 48–50.
[317]. See Layard’s Nineveh and Babylon (Am. ed.), p. 424; Perrot and Chipiez’s Hist. of Art in Chald. and Assy., I., 366–392; Rawlinson’s Herodotus, Bk. II., Chap. 99, 125; Sayce’s Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, p. 96; Mariette Bey’s Monuments of Upper Egypt, p. 79 f.; Bunsen’s Egypt’s Place in Universal History, II., 378–386; Rawlinson’s History of Ancient Egypt, I., 188–194; Réville’s Religions of Mexico and Peru, pp. 41 f., 179 f., Ellis’s Polynesian Researches, II., 207.
[318]. Rawlinson’s Herodotus, Bk. I., Chap. 181–183.
[319]. The word “sullam,” here translated “ladder,” is a derivative from “salal,” “to raise up in a pile, to exalt by heaping up as in the construction of a mound or highway.” Comp. Isa. 57 : 14; 62 : 10; Jer. 50 : 26. See Bush’s Notes on Genesis, in loco.
[320]. Gen. 28 : 10–22.
[321]. See Maspero’s Dawn of Civilization, pp. 691–696, with citation of authorities at foot of p. 693, and note at p. 695.