Greece and Babylon

by Lewis Richard Farnell

^[123.2] Vide Langdon, Transactions of Congress of History of Religions, vol. i. p. 251.

^[123.3] Keilinschr. Bibl., iii. 1, p. 97.

^[123.4] Vide Frazer’s paragraph on the divine character of Semitic kings in Adonis, Attis, Osiris², pp. 12-13.

^[123.5] Lagrange, Études sur les religions sémitiques, p. 492.

^[123.6] Op. cit., p. 481.

^[124.1] C. I. Sem. 1, 1, 1 (cf. “Die Phönizischen Inschriften,” by Freiherr von Landau, in Der Alte Orient, 1907, p. 13).

^[124.2] Ezek. xxix. 2, 9; quoted by Frazer, supra.

^[124.3] The same figure which I interpret as the priest-king occurs in other religious scenes of Hittite sculpture; the type might often have been used for the priest pure and simple, as Dr. Frazer would always interpret it (vide op. cit., pp. 103-108).

^[125.1] Op. cit., pp. 57-58.

^[125.2] Strab., p. 535.