Greece and Babylon

by Lewis Richard Farnell

^[184.1] Zimmern, K.A.T.³, p. 497.

^[184.2] King, op. cit., pp. 88-91; Zimmern, op. cit., p. 498 (b).

^[185.1] Ad Ov. Metam., 1, 34 (the authenticity of the Lactantius passage is doubted; vide Bapp in Roscher’s Lexikon, iii. p. 3044).

^[185.2] The first is specially Babylonian, the second in Esarhaddon’s inscriptions (vide Jastrow, op. cit., pp. 248, 249).

^[185.3] “La Trinité Carthaginoise” in Gazette Archéol., 1879-1880.

^[185.4] Evans, in Hell. Journ., 1901, p. 140.

^[186.1] Vide, however, Zimmern, K.A.T.³, p. 419, who tries to derive the Christian Trinity ultimately from Babylon.

^[186.2] Vide Roscher, Lexikon, iii. p. 67, s.v. “Nebo.”

^[187.1] Vide Cults, v. p. 431.

^[187.2] Vide op. cit., vol. iii. pp. 284-285.