From Berlin to Bagdad and Babylon

by J. A. Zahm

[501] Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, Vol. II, p. 365 (by Robert Ker Porter, London, 1822).

[502] Op. cit., p. 317. The Jews of Babylonia call the tower of Birs-Nimrud “Nebuchadnezzar’s prison,” for what reason is not clear.

[503] The Old Testament in the Light of Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, p. 138 (by T. G. Prinches, London, 1908).

[504] Observations Connected with the Astronomy and Ancient History, Sacred and Profane, on the Ruins of Babylon, p. 2 (by T. Maurice, London, 1816).

[505] Ibid., Vol. II, p. 336.

[506] Cf. Expedition de Mesopotamie, Vol. I, Lib. I (Paris, 1863).

[507] See also Die Tempel von Babylon and Borsippa, p. 59 (by Dr. Koldewey, Leipsic, 1911), that speaks of Oppert’s verkehrter Stadtplan von Babylon and who declares that Borsippa, as an independent city, bore the same relation to Babylon as does Charlottenburg to Berlin.

[508] The History of Herodotus, Bk. I, 178, 179.

[509] Library, Lib. II, Chap. VII.

[510] Rich, op. cit., p. 43.